this is, in a round about way, making a right. Democrats are being disenfranchised in Texas and to make up for it, Republicans are being disenfranchised in California. If you want to complain, fucking ask the Republicans in Texas. They can easily and quickly unfuck this whole situation by making no changes to their districts.

Want to know the test on the whether the Republicans want to play fair? Republicans in California should be scolding their colleagues in Texas for redrawing maps unfairly but instead are blaming Democrats in California.

The Democrats are finally starting to realize you can’t play chess with a child who refuses to acknowledge the rules.

Do you remember what the Trump administration promised to deliver two weeks ago?

That’s why it works.

It’s true in the same way that he had a chat with the president of Puerto Rico.

The political process and how to change it in a meaningful and lasting way without risking tyranny profits of the capital class is almost always the problem.

Ftfy.

The fact that police officers can lie but people can’t shows you the terrible power imbalance in our law enforcement.

Remember: Shut the Fuck Up

I have a very common name. My Starbucks name is Bart.

Honestly, at this point people should use Pornhub.

I point this out every time GOP and ObamaCare and Repeal are mentioned.

Republicans in 2016 fucking RAN on repealing the ACA. It was a full blown blitz. In the final years of Obama, Republican-controlled House and Senate fucking PASSED full repeals of the ACA. Obama, of course, vetoes each one of them. They amounted something like 80+ bills to fully repeal it.

Trump runs on getting rid of “ObAmAcArE!” He wins the White House with, again, a Republican-controlled House and Senate.

Not ONE single bill to repeal the ACA was ever introduced. Famously, Republicans said “TWO WEEKS!” for their plan that never came to fruition.

Republicans know how popular the ACA is. They also knew that Trump would be dumb enough to sign a repeal into law.

This is all performative politics: gaslighting their base so that they will look good in upcoming local elections. Republicans, again, fully control the House and Senate and could repeal the law full-cloth but they don’t. Because they know they’ll get slaughtered in the elections.

The sad (but predictable) thing is that it worked.

Republicans HATE Obamacare. But don’t you dare try to take away their Affordable Care Act Medicaid!!

In case folks aren’t aware, AWS status page is not live. It is a human-driven page that is updated manually.

The fortune 100 company I used to work for would be notified prior to the status page being updated for an issue before the status page is updated.

Do not rely on their status page to tell you there is a problem.

Because police officers have qualified immunity.

This ruling only means something if SCOTUS upholds the arrest and conviction. It’s an improvement, don’t get me wrong, but I’m not holding my breath.

The reason why this administration feels comfortable blatantly lying is because no one is holding them accountable.

The press is just passing this off with “oh look what this shitty person did. No, we didn’t ask any followup questions or get other sources. We moved on.”

Trump’s base certainly doesn’t care about facts.

There is a chrome addon that will “block” anything from AWS with the goal being you get to see how much of the world relies on it.

I’m starting to understand why some companies are starting to exit AWS and back to their own data centers.

“Do Not Split”

Learned about it from this episode of the Team Human podcast

But what is happening in Hong Kong is they come up with a slogan, which is translated as Do Not Split, which is, we know that some people are willing to be confrontational with riot police.

And when they are, that’s going to cost the state in terms of not only resources, but it’s going to cost the state in terms of political capital and support. And we know that there are some people who are not willing to do that. And we are going to abide by the protocol of Do Not Split, which means that we’re not going to criticize them openly, and they’re not going to criticize us openly.

If we’re the pacifists, we’re not going to have them criticize us for being sort of like, I don’t know, limpid or flaccid or not courageous or whatever. And we’re not going to criticize them for being more confrontational. And the thing is that the support is also tacit.

It’s not like they have to come out and tell the media, oh, we approve of our more sort of confrontational colleagues. They just keep quiet. They just keep quiet.

Understanding that a range of tactics is probably going to be necessary. Nobody really knows what’s going to work. But if everybody’s pushing back against a particularly violent state, then everybody’s really on the same side.

Omg seriously! I bet “DNC Party strategists” have told him to get rid of them to “appease the centrists”.

Jfc DNC. When are you going to fucking learn that we WANT progressives?!

I get what you’re going for but this would absolutely wreck privacy. And depending on how those signatures are created, someone could create a virtual camera that would sign images and then we would be back to square one.

I don’t have a better idea though.

Eh…Nixon was pretty petty. There is a direct line from Nixon to Trump.

And remember we got here because the conservatives of Nixon wanted to find a way to control what was truth.

It’s no accident that capital is aligned with fascist. Line must go up.