Don’t forget about his $100MM lawsuit against the DOJ, that is now run by the same people who filed it. No doubt he is at the top of the list for “reparations”.
Fucking insanity.
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Sort of disappointed there isn’t a cartoon in there with JD Vance right in Goldberg’s face shouting “SAY THANK YOU!”
Someone definitely needs to draw that and make it appear in a newspaper’s comment section.
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let’s go for a good story for a change – well, relatively good, so to speak:
So in the Can Fabra public library there is an initiative hailing back from distant 2016 called “Espai America” (american space), to promote cultural exchange between USA and Spain. This is partly funded by the USA government via the US Embassy in Madrid.
Recently they told the library they should shut down any program that promotes diversity etc etc because of course, and threatened to cut the funding.
So our city mayor basically told the embassy to pound sand or…
- Your executive order has no power outside of US
- That this kind of attitude is against the cross-cultural promotion ethos of the program
And - If they cut the funding, we fund it ourselves, skip the US embassy and deal directly with US cities like Boston, NY or LA, that already commited to the inclusiveness of the program.
And today the city mayor appeared again to reiterate that “we are not cutting any part of the currently programmed activities”
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Okay, so in Signal if you want to talk to multiple people you have to create a group and give it a name, for example “JD Vance Humps His Couch.” You then add people from your contacts to the group. If you are a competent user of Signal, you can then restrict the permissions so that only designated admins can add people. If you are an absolute dipshit whose only job qualification is pwning the libs on Twitter, you would create a group about war plans and not know about or activate this functionality.
If you are in a group and are allowed to add members, either because you are an admin or because the admin was raised on lead paint milkshakes, you then must do the following to add someone:
Click on “JD Vance Humps His Couch”
Scroll down to “Add Members.”
Select one or more people from your phone’s contact list.
Click “Update”
Confirm that yes, you want to add that member.This is impossible to do accidentally.
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Then, once you have gone through the multi-step process of adding a member, an announcement appears on the screen for literally everyone in the group to see: “JD Vance Has Added Chairry to the Group.” This sentence is a line in a single-stream text thread and if anyone is reading their messages they cannot miss it. (If they are not reading their messages, one might wonder why they have been included on the chat to begin with.)
At this point, anyone can say in the chat or privately, Hey JD, why are you adding the bedroom-eyed plush chair from Pee-Wee’s Playhouse to our chat about your upholstery problem?
Yet nobody in the war bro chat said a thing about the new member added to the group.
One other thing: Signal is supposedly a secure chat platform, but it is only as secure as whatever else people are doing on their phones. For example, if you send someone a Signal message asking about how to best protect your sensitive man parts against the sharp springs inside the voluptuous crack of your La-Z-Boy, you will later see ads in your browser for La-Z-Boy lube because your browser is spying on the things you do on your phone, even if the tech bros say they are not.
So even if the war bro chat were not full of hires from an affirmative action program for white fascist sycophants who graduated in the top 99% of their class, and they actually practiced basic common sense and literacy in maintaining their war bro chat, it would still be an insecure way of discussing matters of national security.
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That… that was beautiful!
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Thing is, states run elections (as you say), so which states will go along with this, and which won’t? And who is more likely to have a passport already and even have time to go and get their registration cleared in person?
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Excellent point, yes it will certainly impact trans and non-binary folks who are in Red states that comply.
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Kansas is taking measures to limit how/when votes are counted:
https://kansasreflector.com/2025/03/25/kansas-legislature-overrides-governors-veto-of-bill-to-limit-advance-voting/
Senate Bill 4 moves the deadline for counting mail-in ballots to 7 p.m. on Election Day. From 2018 to 2024, the law allowed ballots to be counted if they were postmarked by Election Day and received by the following Friday.
[Governor] Kelly, a Democrat, had vetoed the bill Monday over concerns that the new law would disenfranchise voters. The Secretary of State’s Office earlier this year provided written testimony that showed more than 2,000 ballots from the November 2024 election would have been disqualified by getting rid of the three-day grace period.
The override of a veto requires support from two-thirds of the members of both chambers — 27 out of 40 in the Senate and 84 out of 125 in the House.
The Senate overrode the veto by a 30-10 vote
The House completed the override with an 84-41 vote
Nothing specifically in this bill about ID requirements, but I would not be surprised if there’s a separate bill for that.
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(And also, I gather Goldberg at The Atlantic has just released more of the not-secure war-gaming texts.)
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Yeah, again, the threat is going to be on a state to state level, not nationally, unless congress gets the SAVE act through… and if he’s putting it in an EO, it seems like maybe they think it won’t get through, or if it does, it won’t stand up to judicial scrutiny.
I am not under estimating the threat here, just noting that it might not work out how they think it will.
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Definitely. My point is that there are a non-zero number of states that are trying to be the first in line to lick those boots. I imagine there is a significant overlap between those that love to wave the “State’s Rights” flag and those that are falling over themselves to do this administration’s bidding.
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Yeah, exactly, the red states will very much comply, which means that more red staters are going to be impacted than blue staters. Of course, they hope this will mean fewer Democratic voters in those states, but I don’t know if that’ll work like they think.
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Tulsi just pulled the current litigation involving the text does not allow her to comment on the situation card.
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