Oh look, white supremacy is winning (again). What a shit timeline.

I love that they let go of a child pedophile because of the blanket pardon and then tried to argue that it covered his 100,000 pics of child porn. Go Trump!

A normal person would just retire.

I prefer my group of billionaires over their group. The Senate is so outrageously corrupt it is hard the fathom. It was created as a wealthy check on the will of the people. Just let that sink in.

Trumplethinskin and his merry band of murders decides yet again to be judge, jury, and executioner in yet another extrajudicial assassination.

“But but but Venezuela said we could”, has got to be the lamest excuses for a war crime ever.

I mean you are not wrong. I suppose I still believe in the rule of law and I keep thinking that at some point it will start to stick.

Smart move, because you know this administration was just going to do it anyways once the controversy died down.

Trump has been trying to clean up Biden’s mess but he left the economy in shambles. That is what Demonrats do, everytime they get in power they run up the deficit by giving undeserving immigrants hard working American’s paychecks. It takes years to undo this damage and Trump and his crack team are doing everything they can.

Something disconnected and stupid like that.

“There shouldn’t be some sort of untouchables list of people who are immune from enforcement.”

Then why is there?

AI is not even entrenched in our society and it already gets full protection. We have to allow it and no regulations allowed without the federal government saber rattling.

This is beyond ridiculous. This has nothing to do with national security and everything to do with the corporatocracy ruling our lives.

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Did you just hear about the surveillance state? It started back in the 1900’s and it wasn’t until 1978 that is was determined to even need a warrant to do it. This quickly became secret warrants that the public never gets to see.

Even when I was a kid back in the 1980’s project Echelon and Magic Lantern were considered conspiracy theories until decades later Snowden proved it was all true.

I totally get what you are saying but I will reserve the right to judge revolutions based upon who started them and their actual results.

I have often had a thought experiment just what it would take for US citizens to rebel. Things are pretty bleak for a lot of people already. The US government has been waging a slow walk genocide with the War on Drugs since before I was born. Millions of families destroyed.

Clearly gun violence, overdoses, excessive incarceration, systemic sexism/racism, and environmental degredation has taken an incredible toll on the US population. The reality is most people don’t even realize this and probably never will. So I am a bit dubious that there will be any sort of cultural revolution soon.

Now if by revolution you mean the US descending into some sort of techno feudalist/fascist hellscape then I would probably say it looks like we are already here.

Sorry, I am not counting revolutions that amounted to trading one aristocracy for another.

I never said you made that point, I was just talking. I simply don’t believe your revolutions were that revolutionary. I gave an example of a truly revolutionary movement that has amounted to one of the largest wealth gaps in the world.

This is teaching us a bigger lesson, one that so many glaze over.

There have only been a few places in history where the people actually took back control temporarily with Haiti being one of them. Of course now they have one of the most extreme wealth gaps around.

If the history of the world has been a struggle against the ruling class, that struggle has amounted to a wet fart.

You ever checked out Whitehouse.gov? That is not Fox but you could have fooled me reading it. This is the official line people. You can’t escape from Fox by turning it off anymore.

They are not going to be fine because they are no where near deprogramming themselves to a lifetime of garbage, but I do appreciate your hopefulness.

Sorry, not buying this at all. They knew Trump was a fraud and didn’t care. It only got real when they got butt fucked without lube.

Running to the Democratic Party is not going to solve the problem even if it is a slightly saner choice. As long as we openly allow the wealthy to lie and manipulate people en masse there will be no real improvement.

True dat.

My biggest pet peeve in this realm is people thanking God when it was the medical staff that did all the work.

I know dozens of people worked together to save my life but forget all that because I am going to thank my magic sky daddy.

If they tried to ban a VPN outside of the state I would agree with you. Also, the way the law is written you have to know that is what the service is being used for to be criminally liable.

I will admit this could cause a chilling situation where VPNs voluntarily block these sites when a user can be determined to be from this state. I think that is their intention though.

"This section is effective August 1, 2026. Sec. 3. [609.7615] PREDICTION MARKETS. (a) As used in this section, the following terms have the meanings given. (b) “Athletic event” means a sports game, match, or activity, or series of games, matches, activities, or tournaments involving the physical proficiency of one or more players or participants. Athletic event includes horse racing as defined in section 240.01, subdivision 8. © “Esports event” means a competition between individuals or teams using video games in a game, match, contest, or series of games, matches, or contests or a tournament, or by a person or team against a specified measure of performance which is hosted at a physical location or online. (d) “Game of skill” means a game, match, or tournament, or a series of games, matches, and tournaments involving the dexterity or mental skill of one or more players or participants. Game of skill includes an esports event. (e) “Prediction market” means a system that allows consumers to place a wager on the future outcome of a specified event that is not determined or affected by the performance of the parties to the contract, including but not limited to: (1) an athletic event or game of skill, or portions thereof or individual performance statistics therein; (2) any game played with cards, dice, equipment, or any mechanical or electronic device or machine; (3) war, state or national emergencies, natural or human-made disasters, mass shootings, acts of terrorism, or public health crises, or the ancillary effects thereof; (4) any event or events happening to a natural person or group of people; (5) a federal, state, or local election, or the actions or conduct of the federal, state, or local government and the government’s agencies, employees, and officers; (6) legal actions, including but not limited to a civil or criminal suit, grand jury action, jury trial, settlement, plea, or conviction; (7) the death, assassination, or attempted killing of a person or group of persons, or mass casualty events; (8) short-term weather events or conditions; (9) events in popular culture, including but not limited to awards and the date a piece of entertainment will be released; and (10) whether a person will make a particular statement. (f) “Wager” means a contract, including a prediction market contract, whereby the parties to the contract agree to a gain or loss by one to the other of money, property, or benefit. Subd. 2. Prediction markets; hosting prohibited. A person is guilty of a felony if the person, for consideration and as part of a business: (1) creates a prediction market; (2) operates, manages, or controls a platform or system intending that consumers will use the platform or system to make wagers in a prediction market; (3) intentionally facilitates the operation of a prediction market by: (i) identifying or listing events knowing the events will be used by consumers to make wagers; (ii) accepting, holding, or directing the disposition of money or other things of value for the purpose of allowing consumers to make wagers or to settle wagers made by consumers; (iii) determining, administering, or enforcing the terms, pricing, or settlement of wagers made by consumers; (iv) regularly or continuously acting as a counterparty to wagers made by consumers by entering into a wager, offering to enter into a wager, or taking a temporary position in a wager that may be replaced by a different consumer; or (v) setting or adjusting the prices, odds, or terms that apply to wagers entered into by consumers;

(4) provides data, information, or verification services, including the provision of event outcomes, directly to a prediction market knowing that the data, information, or verification services will be used to allow consumers to make wagers or to settle wagers made by consumers in violation of this section; or (5) provides supportive services to a prediction market or consumer knowing that the services will be used to identify a consumer’s location, transfer money, or make or process payments for the purpose of allowing consumers to make wagers or to settle wagers made by consumers in violation of this section.

Subd. 3. Prediction markets; advertising prohibited. Whoever advertises or markets financial or technological products that promote transactions prohibited under this section is guilty of a felony. Subd. 4. Exceptions. Subdivision 2 does not apply to: (1) activities that are not bets under section 609.75, subdivision 3; and (2) contracts authorized and regulated under chapters 59A to 79A."

The way I read it is a VPN provider should block users in this state from connecting to prediction betting sites to be safe.