Doug Holland

The Guardian is a bit better than average, but this “exclusive” is the same media bullshit seen everywhere — the pretense that Trump is a serious politician with serious thoughts and a serious agenda. He’s not, and the pretense is preposterous.

Fortunately, this will be the only instance of terrorism inspired by the ongoing war in Iran, he said sarcastically.

If your hopes rely on the Democratic Party, all is already lost.

It’s a chance to bring suffering and perhaps death to the weakest and most vulnerable, so there was little doubt how the Republican Supreme Court would rule.

The article doesn’t quite answer the headline’s question, so I will: Why are they prosecuting non-violent protesters? Because cops are cops, so local cops support ICE, and prosecutors are virtually always on the cops’ side. There is no-one in government who actually believes you have a right to peacefully protest, unless you luck into a judge who still has a soul.

Oh, I’m all the evil.

Gosh, another black woman Trump can’t respect. What are the odds!

The news keeps getting better and better! DHS is largely a useless agency, and eliminating these special privileges for “certain people” will give those people a small reminder of reality for the rest of us.

It’s not an argument, and not to be won.

Trump & the Republicans are currently more powerful than people carrying signs. Thus, it’s pointless for people to protest. Is that your point?

sweet jeebers h christ

Worth looking into, thanks.

Crap. Obviously, I’m gonna gotta stop using archive.today, but it’s the only way around paywalls at numerous sites.

Removepaywalls.com (plural) inserts ads, often for shady operations.

Removepaywall.com (singular) usually works, but it’s tricky sharing the links (i.e., “choose option 2” or “choose option 4”).

Byebyepaywall.com has old, dead options.

Wayback Machine bombs out a lot.

And ghostarchive.org is successful so rarely it’s really a last resort.

Anyone know of any others?

Two weeks of online silence from one of my favorite Lemmy voices.

Hope you’re OK, friend.

When I was young and naïve in my 50s, I thought US cars had safety requirements, and the era of rolling death traps had been beaten back by Ralph Nader. Must’ve been my mistake. Is there nobody in the government looking at safety issues like un-openable doors?