Maybe the government is doing massive surveillance on us and that is why we don’t hear about this stuff more often. They might be catching it at the beginning and it doesn’t make the news cycle?
I struggle moderating my tone here because it pisses me off so bad, but from what I know about and have researched I have less than zero faith in the feds, a little faith in our intelligence agencies, and absolutely 100% confidence we are getting slaughtered in whatever weird war this will end up being called
in a nutshell the major issue is that govt surveillance has been outsourced to big tech et al. They dont need a warrant when they can just buy the data that’s for sale commercially - this has been happening for a while. even if the data was collected illegally, you have plausible deniability if you do it that way. the one problem with that is bad actors can also purchase the same data and have just as good if not better technical resources tham we do, especially when it comes to exploiting the american psyche with automated and mass scale propaganda. i hate to be bleak but like I said I’m shocked this doesnt happen more, I suspect some of this are test runs to larger scale violence
and i dont think theyre just catching people before violence happens, because piggies celebrate and brag whenever that happens to justify their funding - just look to the ATF capture of this bomb dude in virginia. if they were doing it they’d say it
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I was there a couple weeks back, stayed in the lower garden district but wandered over to the FQ a couple times. I love visiting NOLA, not sure about living there.
Living more uptown is pretty great as a young professional. Don’t think kids would have been super great.
Couldn’t decide which thread to post in. LOL Law or LOL Media. Help me choose.
Some both-sidesing of John Roberts being a lying right-wing twat. Prolly leaning LOL Law I guess. But porque no los dos?..
Jamie Raskin at least gets quoted later.
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The answer is this one, where it was already posted.
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Yep. LOL Law.
John Roberts is a right-wing turd with just a fake knowledge of judicial independence. And he’s the big boss of the entire US judicial system.
Fuck You John Roberts!
John Roberts want to be respected and doesn’t want you to think the Supreme Court is a bunch of Republicans.
Time is a three-dimensional square
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Man, you know what else puts judicial independence at risk, John???
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Even the WSJ article on that horseshit was like “we’re all looking for the guy who did this.”
The chief justice said nothing about the Supreme Court’s own actions that might have contributed to a diminished public standing, including a string of conservative decisions that independents and Democrats consider partisan rather than principled and a refusal to adopt an enforceable code of conduct despite ethical clouds surrounding some justices’ behavior.
In December, a report by the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Democratic staff found that the “Supreme Court has mired itself in an ethical crisis of its own making by failing to address justices’ ethical misconduct for decades,” citing actions by appointees of both Democratic and Republican presidents but focusing particularly on “lavish gifts” Justice Clarence Thomas and the late Justice Antonin Scalia accepted from billionaires but didn’t report on financial disclosure forms.
Polls have shown a sharp decline in the court’s public approval since 2020, when then-President Donald Trump cemented a conservative supermajority by appointing a third justice. In 2024, the court helped pave the way for Trump’s November re-election in separate cases reversing lower court decisions that could have held him to account for actions related to the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol by his supporters.
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When does a President and the Senate act more “politically” than on the nomination and confirmation of Supreme Court Justices? Everyone in the process see Justices as political pawns. Maybe Roberts should suggest changing that.
I was just reading some random news article and saw a mention of a governor visiting Netanyahu after the Oct. 7 attack. It got me to thinking: I’ve seen stuff like this plenty of times - a state governor visiting another country’s president/prime minister/etc. I find it kind of weird. If I were that national leader, I’d be like, “Who the fuck is this guy?” and remind my assistant to check with me before scheduling visits.
Uh, yeah, thanks for all your support…governor of…Oklahoma or something?
Or when some member of the House visits Ukraine. I’m sure your visit has put the wind beneath Zelenskyy’s wings as he fights off a world super power.
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Haha, I think about this a lot too. Or when a mayor goes over to visit a head of state.
Depends on the state, really.
Governor of California coming to visit? Roll out the red carpet.
Governor of Kentucky coming? Sorry, I have to wash my hair that day.
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Late last night got a message on the software the school uses for everything that was sent to all staff. It’s a lengthy and graphic confession of love from a student to the woman who is the primary disciplinarian. An AI video was attached, that I have not and will not watch, that is apparently porn.
My first high school job in China from 2015-19 was the cushiest job ever and students were well-behaved and brought no stress. Neither did the boss. It wasn’t perfect, but goddamn does it feel like it was in retrospect.
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OK, your company sends the weirdest phishing emails.
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Most Governors and Mayors that go overseas don’t meet the head of state unless the country is pretty darn small. There are plenty of other people who are worth talking to.
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Did the student identify themself?