Cry more, evil asshole.
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Get ready for more of this. Among the greatest sins we peons can commit is knowing our rights, knowing the laws and not bowing down to their authority. It makes them big mad. Too bad. So sad.
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Dolphin spring break!
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That would only work if you know their usual hiding place. I hope they might work on a small device that could fit on a collar, so that you can find the animal no matter where it is. Maybe with a sound emitter too, although that would further distress the animal, but could be a lifesaver.
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They did say they’re working on a collar-sized version, thank God!
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I guess I didn’t watch to the end. But they definitely have a proof of concept.
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We are asteroid babies, maybe.
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Nice! Any chance we can coax it to fall on Mar-a-Lago?
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I have a small stack of those cards, in English and Spanish, in my bag right now. We also have internal documents in the library for how to assist patrons should ICE or other fascists show up and demand access to our patrons or circulation records. I’m rather proud of my library (and the American Library Association) for stressing details like “ou have a warrant? Great, let’s see it. Okay, now I’m going to call the director and our legal counsel, you just stay *right here.”
The reminder to staff that anyone can enter into the public areas, as long as they are not disrupting other patrons, but they cannot enter into the staff areas without specific permission or a warrant was also very welcome!
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Do you have a source for those? I would love to have some here!
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That’s how it should be. No checking online, no intermediaries asking for a cut - just cut a check and send people their money.
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Of course! I’ll see what I can find. I think I can get a PDF.
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Are these it? The ILRC isn’t able to fulfill more more orders but maybe @Docosc could get some printed using the template they provide? I doubt the the link to a union print shop that takes orders of 1000 or more would work. Or even just print at home and cut them out.
Lots of languages!
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@Docosc looks like @Kii was faster than me!
The ones I have are just printer paper with the same information, but I checked with the person that gave them to me and can verify that Red Cards is the original source. They also said they’re giving out a lot of them, which make me both proud of my library and our staff, but also gives me a falling sensation in the pit of my stomach.
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Interview on Greg Sargent’s podcast The Daily Blast.
Timothy Noah: The main purpose, I think, of that OMB memo was to assert that the president has the power to impound appropriated funds. Trump was trying to just blunder his way into asserting this power over appropriations that he doesn’t have. It led immediately to all sorts of lawsuits, entirely foreseeable, and Trump withdrew. Trump is, I have argued, not a strong president. He is a weak president. He has authoritarian tendencies, but he’s weak. He’s mentally weak. He is subject vulnerable to all sorts of manipulation by his aides. He tries to do all sorts of contradictory things. He is not competent.
And on the evidence of this particular example, neither are his enablers. Surely, Vought have understood that this memo was going to be challenged immediately in court. He ought to have been able to anticipate that Trump could not tolerate the bad publicity surrounding it so that Trump, even before there was a court judgment, withdrew the memo. These are all signs of a weak presidency, but weakness can cause chaos too. And we’re certainly experiencing a lot of chaos, a lot of fear, and a real degradation of the ability of government to perform its functions.
Sargent: I want to get at your point about weakness and failure here. An interesting thing is how this contrasts with Trump/MAGA propaganda right now. That propaganda is relentlessly pushing the idea that Trump and his allies are ruthlessly forging ahead with his agenda. You see it all over Twitter. All of MAGA’s tweeting immense congratulations to Trump, he’s crushing the libs, he’s doing this, he’s doing that. … The real story here is that they’re actually screwing up already.
–The spending freeze is getting reversed.
–ICE is already leaking like crazy about how Trump’s demand for much higher arrest is going to create major problems.
–The effort to undo birthright citizenship has stopped in court.
I don’t want to be too optimistic here. They’re going to do a lot of damage—already are doing a lot of damage. But clearly what we’re seeing now is that they’re not going to be able to roll over the bureaucracy and our institutions, as easily as they thought, as easily as John Harris thinks, as easily as that credulous New York Times piece portrayed, right?
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This is the kind of thing I want to see more. I want that message in front of everyone, in every news media outlet and all over social media.
Not just for the schadenfreude, the mockery of a narcissistic would-be fascist tyrant, but for the truth of it. The MAGA strongman isn’t strong. The seemingly unstoppable juggernaut is tripping over his own feet.
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