So fucking much.

We had a good few years where I just didn’t need to think about her anymore. Finally getting rid of her as one of our reps really turned out to be a monkey’s paw situation.

The electorate didn’t shift red. More of their unreliable voters showed up and fewer of our unreliable voters did. That’s it. It’s not like there was a population wide blue shift in 2020 that Trump then countered by being welcoming to Democrats.

People often forget that both 1984 and Brave New World were explicitly set in the UK.

They have Homelander, they don’t get Superman.

Jesus, did none of these dozens of upvoters even click on the link? This is full Protocols of the Elders of Zion antisemitic trash.

“If there was something in them, the Democrats would have released them, but even though there’s nothing in them, I won’t release them.”

In a poll largely pointing to positive results, this one was a big fucking yikes:

Denying alleged gang members living in the U.S. illegally the ability to challenge their deportation in court:

• All U.S. Adults: 50%
• Hispanic Adults: 55%

JFC. “Should due process be cancelable on account of alleged ties?” 50% yes. And slightly more among people who are most likely to be alleged.

People need to get it through their thick skulls that cops at any level are not trustworthy deciders of guilt. The whole reason our system exists with all this process is that the founders knew they’d make false allegations.

I wouldn’t call it nuanced. Many Americans just didn’t really think about how immigrants impact their lives or what the words Trump said would mean in practice. They didn’t have deep thoughts about how things should work and militarized raids are not it, they just kind of didn’t think about it but now they have to and they don’t like it.

“Cygnal serves GOP campaigns, committees, caucuses and center-right public affairs issue efforts with forward-thinking polling, analytics & targeting.”

Vs.

Gallup.

“Cygnal serves GOP campaigns, committees, caucuses and center-right public affairs issue efforts with forward-thinking polling, analytics & targeting.”

It has links to primary sources from the Senate itself, but there are other sources talking about it.

https://newrepublic.com/article/197793/kilmar-abrego-garcia-whistleblower-emails-expose-trump-abuses

I have an active passport, but I don’t know where my birth certificate is. Somewhere in my home. Probably. It’s not a thing that came up in my life much before now, so there wasn’t much reason to care deeply about being able to access it. “Papers please” is oppression, even to people who aren’t in a target class. Not having your paperwork available shouldn’t be a jail able offense.

They also carefully say “target”. They kidnapped 200 people. They were probably just grabbing anyone they thought looked undocumented rather than following a target list.

Free and open source is the only ethical choice to use while serving the oligarchy.

It’s an editorial against the concept, using incongruous words to convey the moral bankruptcy.

I’ve told bosses before they can have either my early hours or my best hours, but not both. There’s so much waste in our work lives trying to fit to some picture of productivity that isn’t actually real. We just play the parts we’re required to while getting nothing done.

Plus the fundamental insanity of saying efficiency is a single monolithic thing that can only be effectively worked on by a single person. The only reason you have that is because the type of coder these people want to abuse is the same type of person who’s bad at designing code. They just keep stumbling on subsuming additional features into the monolith because encapsulation and code design is uninteresting to their reward centers. That’s why multiple people can’t work on it, not because there’s some fundamental inability to effectively partition work during the production of innovative software.

Plurality.

I hadn’t seen the “blog” discussion before. He’s been pig-headed in the past, but that’s inexcusable.