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an encrypted messaging app with a handful of people you categorically trust to never tell on you or in any way implicate you in future criminal behavior, not a federated Reddit clone where you have no control over who sees your message, when, on what terms, and with what associated data. like, don’t be stupid—and at the very least, if you must publicly agitate in this way, don’t say this on a place where your words could have ramifications for people who aren’t large corporations and don’t have the money to get roped into legal trouble
it’s fine to believe this is the appropriate remedy but this is not the time and place to write that down, have some basic opsec
(oh, and that doesn’t even touch on Reid Hoffman and George Soros backing Wikler with a fucking PAC for an insider-baseball race like this)
i mean no offense but if we’re worried about the “Democratic establishment” it should probably give people pause that the vast majority of Democratic establishment leadership supported Ben Wikler, while the majority of Ken Martin’s support was from the “grassroots” state party infrastructure:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Democratic_National_Committee_chairmanship_election#Endorsements
Dick Durbin, Senate Minority Whip (2005–2007, 2015–2021, 2025–present) from Illinois (1997–present)[66]
Chuck Schumer, Senate Minority Leader (2017–2021, 2025–present) from New York (1999–present)[69]
Hakeem Jeffries, House Minority Leader (2023–present) from NY-08 (2013–present)[70]
Nancy Pelosi, former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (2007–2011, 2019–2023) from CA-11 (1987–present)[72]
(also, there is literally no ideological difference between most of these people. do you think Ben Wikler for example is pro-DSA? lol)
the book, if you’d like to pick it up
this is not the place to be litigating this.
the tendency to just post bills that have been introduced without context is frustrating; actual reporting on the subject makes it clear this is not going to pass and even other Republican lawmakers are deeply skeptical of its legality and constitutionality (because it’s neither):
House Rep. Jansen Owen, R-Poplarville, vice chairman of the Judiciary B committee (one of two House committees that the bill has been referred to), expressed deep skepticism about Keen’s bill.
“I’m concerned about the constitutionality of some of those provisions,” he told the Mississippi Free Press on Jan. 24.
The Republican lawmaker explained that he had not personally reviewed the bill, but he stressed that determining the legality of immigrants was above the jurisdiction of the state to begin with.
“That’s within the purview of the federal government,” he said, adding he supports local law enforcement referring detainees to federal immigration services. But “the state doesn’t need to get in the business of enforcing federal immigration law,” he concluded.
this is to say nothing of bounty hunters, who would actually enforce the law and have not been consulted on this bill because it’s not serious. the primary value of the bill is earned media stochastic terrorism, which is aided by posting it without this context. (this is an issue with trans-related bills too and has been for years.) please don’t aid in that–contextualizing this stuff is especially important now that organizations and people might need to triage their battles.
Which raises the question: doesn’t killing accessibility programs violate the Americans with Disabilities Act? To my knowledge, the ADA is still very much in force.
most likely: yes, but conservatives largely disapprove of the ADA and think it is an onerous government regulation, so they are in favor of dismantling and gutting it by any means necessary. this should be thought of more as a feature, not a bug
it’s very funny because at the absolute most this maybe saves like, what, two steps in the best case? AI is so bad at this stuff that you have to human-edit it into something that looks good most of the time anyways
take a week off, you were told the issue politely and this is not an acceptable way to respond
the cowardice here is really almost entirely the DEA’s; unfortunately, there is a laborious process that stuff like this is obliged to go through, and the DEA have been dragging their feet on every part of that process almost three years now (which is when the study of rescheduling began). this has even and increasingly been against the recommendations of other government agencies, because apparently we stuff all of our drug conservatives in the agency now
It’s bizarre but many cities are run by folks with no real knowledge of how cities are run, so it makes sense why it happens.
i don’t think this is particularly true–i think a lot of it just boils down to simple, short-term economic math. frankly, a lot of US land area is in an economic death spiral that makes a Walmart much more appealing than trying to maintain the existing local business community. you can’t count on people keeping businesses in the family in the middle of nowhere–but you can safely assume if you bend over enough for Walmart they’ll stick around and employ people. lotta mayors will take that consistency every time
Kind of annoying to have to click the damned link if the text can just be in the body of the post. What, do you work for PC gamer?
no offense but why are you on a link aggregator (and a clone of Reddit in particular) if you’re averse to clicking links? that’s literally the point of this form of social media: emphasis on sharing interesting links from other places, with the expectation that you’ll follow them.
in any case we strongly discourage the practice of copying the entire article because it’s technically copyright infringement, we generally expect people to actually engage with what’s posted instead of drive-by commenting, and it’s just generally bad form to rob writers of attention and click-throughs for their work.
i think contextually this article would make the point that it’s directed at white people considering wearing dreads and not other non-white groups, but yes it is pretty corny to effectively frame black people as the only group that has a cultural tradition of locked hair
i’m sorry but this is not the place to have a meltdown over this. you’re not the center of the universe and not everything is a personal affront to you because it doesn’t frame things in a way you would prefer
this is, respectfully, the goofiest objection i’ve ever seen. stop being so fragile over a headline
unfortunately i do not
we have a big list of them on our resource page; i haven’t gone through and pruned recently, but there are a lot of orgs worthy of the time and money on the list
Now, we have actual data about the impact of the law. The Shift Project took a comprehensive look at the impact that the new law had on California’s fast food industry between April 2024, when the law went into effect, and June 2024. The Shift Project specializes in surveying hourly workers working for large firms. As a result, it has “large samples of covered fast food workers in California as well as comparison workers in other states and in similar industries; and of having detailed measurement of wages, hours, staffing, and other channels of adjustment.”
Despite the dire warnings from the restaurant industry and some media reports, the Shift Project’s study did “not find evidence that employers turned to understaffing or reduced scheduled work hours to offset the increased labor costs.” Instead, “weekly work hours stayed about the same for California fast food workers, and levels of understaffing appeared to ease.” Further, there was “no evidence that wage increases were accompanied by a reduction in fringe benefits… such as health or dental insurance, paid sick time, or retirement benefits.”
that’s for you to figure out and is, respectfully, not my problem or the problem of anyone else’s moderating this instance. you’ve been told what is expected of you; you can take that or leave it.