Do you mean $75 billion?

And you think land lords won’t pass increased property taxes on to their tenants?

I don’t live in NYC so I won’t give an opinion on this but landlords won’t just eat increased taxes.

Trump has the thinnest skin of anyone alive. The comments that Hess made were extremely tame. Any other politician would just ignore his comments and move on but Trump has to be a baby. Only a loser could possibly dislike some of what Trump does; an Olympic-class loser.

This may be more pronounced, but this has been going on for at least 15 years and probably longer. I only say 15 years because that is how long I have been working with satellite imagery that easily shows these boundaries. They show up as obvious lines of light in nighttime visible satellite imagery.

Maine, notorious hotbed for illegal immigration and violence from undocumented immigrants. Definitely an efficient use of valuable ICE resources.

Wait, you mean it has nothing to do with immigration enforcement?

It seems like, while labels are important for communication, they are just unable to capture all of the nuance when it comes to sexuality and gender.

I agree with you that this should be illegal. I expect this was in the terms of service, though. Since we have no laws restricting this kind of bullshit, the company can argue that they’re within their rights.

We need some real legislation around privacy. It’s never going to happen, but it needs to. We need a right to anonymity but that is too scary for advertisers and our police state.

I wonder if courts would uphold the provisions against discharge through bankruptcy after this. Probably but I feel like they shouldn’t.

How the fuck is Kid fucking Rock still relevant in any way? I thought he would have just disappeared into obscurity after the 90s ended. Do some people actually still give this guy their money for some reason?

Edit: How the hell does the “ba with the ba with the bang da bang diggy diggy - diggy said the boogie said up drop the boogie” guy have eleven studio albums? And who the hell are the 5.3M monthly listeners on Spotify? This blows my mind!

I hope the lawyers keep quitting and no one replaces them until this administration has been tossed in the trash. I worry that if lawyers with consciences don’t come back, though, their positions will be filled by sycophants. I also worry that once the Democrats take back over they will be unwilling to fire the new right-wing sycophants.

Even if true, $1B is nothing in the federal budget. The federal goverent spends $1.9T on heath care costs.

The ICE budget is $37.5B. So, if it were true that $1B is being spent on health care for undocumented immigrants, one year of the ice budget could pay for it for nearly 40 years.

Maybe show them this… The supreme court is considering whether to hear a case that could be used to reverse it’s gay marriage decision from 2015.

So, escalation it is, then. I’m guessing this guy was the voice of relative calm and had pushed back on too many times.

They didn’t interpret it that way. They are using its ambiguity to justify weaponization of the DHS.

What are the consequences of a bad threat assessment? Hopefully it just means he’d never need to be close enough to Trump to smell his diapers.

This is stupid. That said, calling for the FCC to regulate Fox isn’t going to happen. They don’t have jurisdiction over cable channels. Find another way to get fox to fire their aspiring mass murderer.

I didn’t realize this was happening. Where can I find out more about this?

So, essentially, one Mexican senator spouted off on Fox News about welcoming US military intervention. This isn’t a widely held position and is just the position of one extremist senator. Is that right?

This depends on how you define success.

Edit: Huh, I thought this was a pretty tame comment. I just mean that donkeys likely have a different idea of “success” than people do. I’m not quite sure why this is being taken so negatively. I just thought the meme was kind of silly and dumb.

As I keep telling people, they’re not upset about it because their media aren’t telling them about things like this, at least not in the same terms.

Overreach? They are sending repair kits to the owners of the pools if they request them. The pool owners aren’t required to do anything and the company whose product played a role in the deaths of nine kids are just sending kits to improve the pool’s safety. This doesn’t sound super onerous for anyone involved.

Also, I’m guessing you don’t have kids if you think that even the most diligent parents can keep tabs on their kids all of the time. I keep a close eye on my toddler, but he certainly is able to get into mischief when I look away for a minute.

I doubt this would happen to me because I do watch extremely closely, but I can’t guarantee that a situation couldn’t come up in which my kid could escape my notice long enough to get into a pool. The numbers of incidents are low because most parents are diligent, but even diligent parents can have lapses.