They definitely are but they’re also the group I’d expect to be most likely to honor a lawful court order even if someone in their chain of command didn’t want them to.

One way we’re a bit lucky even today is that it takes time to train high level law enforcement people (so not ICE) and we’re only 6 months into Trump 2 (ugh).

That is even more the case for the high echelons of career (not appointed) law enforcement like FBI and Marshalls.

There are technically mechanisms for courts to enforce their orders, starting with the US Marshalls, but continuing to judges having the power to deputize anyone to go enforce their orders including with force.

For lots of reasons they’re reluctant to do such things. For most of American history they haven’t needed to, because everyone was working cooperatively and respecting institutions even if they disagreed with the outcomes.

So I’m guessing Trump, MAGA, and a lot of Republicans have mistaken the absence of direct enforcement by the courts for the inability to directly enforce.

We’ll see if some judge or justice gets fed up enough with Republican shenanigans and starts with civil and criminal contempt findings with fines and jail time escalating to issuing warrants and calling up Marshalls or deputizing officers…

At some point I do expect things to go “too far” for the remaining pre-MAGA Republicans to keep going along. I could be mistaken.

can I get a list of these cowardly firms so I know who to never hire…?

We need to do a couple things:

Change about half of our “police” positions to unarmed community support positions (mental health, domestic support, traffic enforcement (no chasing), codes enforcement, etc.)

Increase the pay for all those positions

Then a cop could be a 9-5 that supports a family.

the transition from “actually” free access LLM/GPT to “the cost is your soul” will be really interesting, that’s for sure.

For me it’s just the knowledge that I have around 100 total years on this planet and a limited amount of reach in terms of geography, relationships, etc.

I can’t swing an election by myself, but with me and millions of my closest friends we can. But only if we all pull together. It’s like a paradox but not quite.

But you don’t understand, in 1992 the Democrats won the Presidency with like 40% of the vote on a message of “Republican but with less bigotry,” which proves that Americans love their basic economic message of “fuck you get your own food, shelter, and medical care!”

this is the video that gave me a useful tool for stopping my intrusive thoughts, in case anyone is looking for relief

https://youtu.be/kvtYjdriSpM

(there are tons so I’m sure there might be better ones or ones that work better for other people…)

Well that was nice of them to make a list of who wants to be primaried

The courts have to start finding these people in contempt and deputizing people to go enforce those orders on behalf of the court if law enforcement won’t. The House won’t exercise its duty to be a check on the President. The Senate has barely made a few weak gestures. All that’s left are the courts. Well, and We The People.

didn’t i just see any new sandman season announced though?

I feel like we have to be able to separate artists’ bad behavior from our evaluation of the quality of their work.

Maybe there’s a time limit? Maybe they have to be dead so they can’t benefit from their work being sold.

Are there any non problematic artists/creators from 500 years ago who we nevertheless find their work product valuable to society today? What about science? Especially medicine with all the body snatching.

Neil Gaiman is almost certainly a sex pest based on all the women reporting. So I get not wanting to give him money. He hopefully gets it, too.

I like the suggestion of piracy as an approach…

welcome to the resistance, Marjorie

This is the inauguration all over again. This idiot thinks he has massive support from the people for his garish displays, until it gets close to time that will reveal how broadly hated he actually is, then either he or his team change things up to protect his fragile ego.

I’m very much against conspiracy theories, especially concerning our elections which are administered by many many independent entities. I was very concerned as I watched electronic voting machines - especially without paper trails - become more and more popular over the past 30 years. Even more as the industry consolidated and it came down to a handful of private, for-profit manufacturers.

The thing I’ve read about that is keeping the door of conspiracy open in my mind is the “drop off” rate, which has to do with the number of “President only” ballots, where only the President is chosen, and no down ballot votes are cast.

Apparently Trump’s ballots have an unusually high - like statistically unlikely - drop off. And it’s either only in or mostly in/more pronounced in swing states.

Even Chris Titus picked it up (3 hrs total, sorry)

https://youtu.be/UgIay64Obcs - Part 1 https://youtu.be/t-yr-Mgkhm0 - Part 2

Analysis takes a long time especially if you want it to be able to withstand scrutiny

now telegram is going to insert random information about South African White genocide to every conversation. or it will be in every recommended reply at least.

Deportation is a legal process. These people have not been deported because they have not gone through a legal process.

uhh no. comparing our actual life experience today with the actual life experiences of our parents and grandparents is the only way to know if we’re doing better, the same, or worse.

your argument is the argument of the domestic abuser and the authoritarian government and the rapacious theologian.

“be grateful for what you have” or “it could be worse” is shitty advice.

“The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class”

https://youtu.be/akVL7QY0S8A

Elizabeth Warren a long time ago told us what was coming, and it’s either here or nearly here.

Alright I’m gonna try this hereditary math…

So these kids will have the same dad, making them at least half siblings.

Their moms are sisters making them first cousins.

So what are they like 3/4 siblings…?