@volkris
Yeah, I can only see a few choice people. The federated part of this place seems quite broken. I'm attempting to unfollow and re follow accounts, thinking mastodon doesn't know to share from those accounts because the forwarding doesn't quite work in that manner?
@freemo how are you doing, man? It must be a headache trying to do this move.
@volkris Agreed. I'm missing bits & pieces and the site still calls itself QOTO in a bunch of places.
#QOTO 's rebrand as Clever Libre is finally back up?
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.
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.
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.
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
@dalias It's "we need whatever talking point best suits our preferred political party's narrative in order to criticize the other one."
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.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/24/entertainment/jon-stewart-daily-show?cid=ios_app
@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.
Just remember that even if you were just a drop in the ocean.
You are still the ocean.
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