Europe, if you wanna get immediate change, threaten a tax against the whiniest economic cohort who have easy access to the USA president – billionaires.

Buddy you have a FIFA peace prize and Machado’s medal to suck on. Someone needs to change the toddler president’s nappies.

The unredacted use of force document is published by Ken Klippenstein, here:

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-ice-is-okay-with-renee

I’d wait for independent verification but these are serious allegations that should have been investigated decades ago. I wonder if FBI reports/tips are still within the DOJ’s illegally withheld cache of Epstein files.

This is good, because even if has no chance of passing today, they can reuse most or all of the bill text if they can consider abolishing crimes during a left wing Congress and administration we need to do everything possible to bring about in the future.

Tons of amazing reporting coming from Ken lately.

Also that explains to me how quickly DHS and PPB were able to paint Luis Nino-Moncada as a Tren de Aragua conspirator, as it seems there are hundreds of agents looking for any kind of link to brandish people in federal custody as terrorist criminals.

Clearly this is realizing people’s longstanding fears about the US Patriot Act and then going beyond that. I’d imagine the FBI is concerned that these powers aren’t being used “the right way” that there would be public interest in eventually taking those powers away from all government agencies, thanks to DHS’ abuse.

Xitter comments indicate that the PCs should be of sufficient spec to achieve a good sell value. So if it’s not Win 11 compatible then Sofmap can’t price it in hopes to resell them according to the social media responder.

Mamdani’s Election Night Retrospective [Youtube]

More pouty Stephen Miller, please.

Throwing US citizens in jail for days seems to be considered by Brett Kavanaugh as brief questioning where the individuals “may promptly go free after making clear to the immigration officers that they are U. S. citizens or otherwise legally in the United States”. And this sort of stuff doesn’t happen according to Kristi Noem.

The meme of “Valve maintains dominance by doing nothing but waits for competition to trip over itself” is funny but they do put part of the billions they make towards beneficial products for their customers.

• Remote Play (stream your own game from another PC)
• Remote Play Together (can stream a game to friends without a copy of the game and play together)
• Linux, Proton
• Well designed hardware innovations

Not out of the goodness of their heart but to drive sales and foster a customer base willing to return.

GOG and itch do try in their own way so I have bought from them, IMO they are the only competitors making serious efforts to build a mutually benefical gaming ecosystem.

Epic, Microsoft, Ubisoft, EA and the rest are like a trapdoor with a wooden board over it. Tim Sweeney is standing there hoping you won’t think he’s trying to find the right time to swipe the board away and get you to fall in.

Helps when you don’t have billionaire-funded FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt) blasted at you every day.

If Republicans don’t want people suggesting that Charlie Kirk died of Gun Violence Affinity Syndrome, then they all shouldn’t be supportive of Trump’s words here.

It doesn’t have to be that way. On the west coast the Seattle mayor election went to Katie Wilson, a staunch progressive.

Vote Republican if you want someone to represent you that runs away from accountability.

I think that Donald Trump doesn’t need to convince people that he feels their pain, but I think he does need to make the case that Democrats are too weak to fix it.

The GOP pollster/strategist is correct. Democrats cannot rest on their laurels and grin at this news hoping to sail through the midterms. These potentially Democratic voters have to be presented with real solutions to the issues of affordability and getting rid of authoritarianism, and candidates with real conviction to do that.

It’s true that there is plenty of alarmism when it comes to the potential outcomes of this decision, and I’ve uttered my criticism to one such piece shared to Lemmy.

I think this article goes to far doing the same thing but taking the opposite conclusion, that this decision has absolutely no effect on private property holders. The fact I keep returning to that makes this so murky for me is that Musqueam and Tsawwassen also assert competing Aboriginal title rights that appear to be awarded to the Cowichan alliance instead of other nearby bands.

The court made a decision (I won’t accuse them of brashness or extremism as this is after years of deliberation and fact-finding) that awards the Cowichan these rights, which although an analysis I read says it covers only Crown and lower level government owned land, the Aboriginal title system supersedes in some respects the fee simple one, and exists along it or in other ways needs reconcilition in others.

People will naturally have questions and concerns about what this means about private property ownership in the area, just like the appealing Indigenous groups wondering about the effect of this decision on their own treaty claims. Seizures under owners’ noses won’t happen, but it’s like if your house or apartment is now ordered by a court to be part of a Homeowners’ Association that you didn’t sign up for, because of ill guarantees made by the Government a long time ago that you never heard about. It will affect property owners in some way in the process of requiring negotiation to reconcile competing guarantees the Crown has made. Even if nothing on paper changes to Land Title Act entitlements, the fact that Aboriginal title needs to be reconciled does affect what those entitlements are ultimately worth.

Reversing the United States’ slide into authoritarianism will require democracy’s defenders to recognize the twin dangers of complacency and fatalism. On the one hand, underestimating the threat posed to democracy—believing that the Trump administration’s behavior is simply politics as usual—enables authoritarianism by encouraging inaction in the face of systematic abuse of power. On the other hand, overestimating the impact of authoritarianism—believing the country has reached a point of no return—discourages the citizen actions required to defeat autocrats at the ballot box.

This puts succinctly the complex thoughts in my head about the US’s fate. On Lemmy there are arguments where people accuse each other of being fatalistic or apathetic with no in between.

In November 2024 my heart sunk hearing the news of Trump’s win from Canada, I don’t know how Americans were feeling okay with it. Yes it is worse than I expected but I knew at least some bad would happen.

The imbecile needs to use the banner props around him as a secondary teleprompter to remember what he’s there for.

That’s IMO a big part of what’s different between the 7 transition and this one. Last time Microsoft was going around upgrading people’s computers for them, and even if people didn’t want to jump to 10 right away, they allowed Win 7, 8, and 8.1 keys to activate it pretty much whenever. Now with their hardware requirement, they’re official line is telling people without TPM that their hardware is junk when they stop supporting Win 10. That drove people to look for the better alternative Microsoft won’t tell you about.