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Me: It doesn't have a tail so I'm pretty sure it's a hamster.
Tech Support: Okay fine. Right-click the hamster…

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The skin of your laundry pods dissolve in the washing machine, right?

They dissolve into microplastic.
And wastewater treatment systems have no way to filter that out so the microplastics go straight into streams and the ocean.

Just pour your laundry soap out of a box or bottle.

bloomberg.com/news/articles/20?

#uspol 

Nevada has a "None of these candidates" option for their primary.

At 86% tallied so far, the "None of these candidates" position is winning with more than double the next place's count.

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In her latest unhinged rant, Nikki Haley now says "Texas can secede if that's what it's voters want."

Okay, let's do the math on that.

If Texas secedes:
•Texas loses $68.2B in Federal aid
•GOP loses 2 US Senate seats, Dems lose 0
•GOP loses 27 US House seats, Dems lose 11
•Dems win permanent control of US House, US Senate, & White House

MAGAs never think these things through, do they? They don't care about the Constitution or national unity—only uninhibited power.

Vote GOP Out Permanently.

@bblaze

If Republicans had no problem deploying NG troops to Iraq and Afghanistan, then they should have no problem mobilizing them for Federal use. The border is a Federal responsibility, not the state.

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Can #Biden seize control of the #Texas #NationalGuard?

Let's take a look of the powers granted by the
#Constitution.

Biden's authority would come from Article 3, Section 2:
"The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States;"

So where does this -call to service- come from?

All that authority rests with
#Congress. This is from Article 1 Section 8:
"To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;

To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;"

The power to -call to service- rests with Congress. Once Congress has done so,
#POTUS takes over as the Commander-In-Chief.

Be cautious with people advocating otherwise. They're either ignorant, and spreading
#misinformation. Or they are malicious and attempting to #gaslight you with #disinformation.

#SCOTUS #politics #news #PsychologicalPriming #border #FediLaw #LawFedi

RE:
newsie.social/users/GW/statuses/111814718048639685

GW  
Calls Mount for #Biden to Seize Control of #National #Guard as #Abbott Ignores #SCOTUS Ruling Legal experts and members of Congress have started to...

@dalias It's "we need whatever talking point best suits our preferred political party's narrative in order to criticize the other one."

Why are real estate listings allowed to photoshop in actively burning fires in the fireplace if it has been declared decorative and sealed/capped by the homeowner?

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OH HELL YES!

Jon Stewart, who during his 16-year run as host of the Comedy Central program established it as an entertainment and cultural force, will return to host the show each week on Mondays starting February 12, Showtime and MTV Entertainment Studios announced Wednesday.

cnn.com/2024/01/24/entertainme

@GottaLaff
Bastions of "free speech" he wants all he can get, but *constantly* denies it to reporters.

@GottaLaff
I'm sure Baldwin's lawyers will be asking to dismiss it due to the Constitution's double jeopardy clause. With that acquittal, I think the only hope for punishing him is through the civil courts. And that would only be monetary damages.

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That awful feeling when you come home from visiting your young grandson and realise that you didn't give him his nose back before you left.

In 2020:
I ditched Facebook and really didn't feel the desire to replace it.

In 2023:
- I ditched Twitter for Mastodon/Threads/BlueSky.
- I ditched reddit for lemmee

I only keep my old accounts open to prevent impersonation scam, and not much else.

I regret nothing.

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Just remember that even if you were just a drop in the ocean.

You are still the ocean.
#VoteBlue2024

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Let's hope the pattern continues 🤗

““The GOP winner of the Iowa Caucus shouldn’t get too excited. The last four winners failed to win the general election.”

#iowacaucus #trump #dictator #fascism #vote #voteblue #voteblue2024 #elections
#Cartoon by #GaryVarvel for #Counterpoint

#uspol 

🤔 Then why did she find it necessary to change her name to Nikki?

What was the chief reason the Confederate states left the Union, and before you answer it was states rights - states rights specifically to do WHAT?

cnn.com/2024/01/16/politics/ni

@Teri_Kanefield
Perhaps.. some kind of DDOS protection service like Cloudflare offers?
@deborahh

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@DeanObeidallah

“Big Win”

Let's put the #IowaCaucuses in perspective.

-2,083,000 registered voters in Iowa
-718,000 registered Republicans
-102,000 voted
-53,219 voted for Trump
-7.4% of possible GOP votes went to Trump

Although its disappointing that 53K Iowans voted for him, I wouldn't use this as a statement about the general election.

#democracy #Election2024 #VoteBlue #lawfedi

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Today Alice Paul would be 138. The Equal Rights Amendment, which she wrote more than 100 years ago now, remains merely a *proposed* amendment.

138.

100 years.

2024.

#lawfedi @law

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