We’ve all heard the crack, right? “You may not believe in climate change, but your insurance company does.”

Talarico’s big bombshell: Talking about Christianity. The “Christian Nationalists” don’t want him doing that. He’s talking about the wrong kind of Christianity.

“Deep State Censors Texas Christian” would be the headline we need to reach the people who could benefit from his message.

OMG it’s the 1-grit of legend

Huh. I made a big paper map of the metro, because the way it connected to the outdoors was confusing in places. Making that map was pretty fun.

Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador later issued guidance stating the “Everyone Is Welcome Here” poster violated the law. In an opinion published on the attorney general’s website and in an op-ed for Fox News, Labrador described the poster as “DEI messaging disguised as inclusion” that “mask[s] a comprehensive worldview that undermines parental authority over children’s moral development.”

This is an argument that the message is not the message. That the offense lies, not in what the poster says, but in what the poster does not say. This is an accusation of a thought crime.

Labrador argues that the sign is political because of its rainbow colors. You can read his op-ed here.

I wonder if you’d find this video interesting: RC Solar Plane Flight Duration Test

I want to hear some MAGA supporters explain how this sort of attack on society itself is exactly what they wanted when they decided to vote for fascism. I want to hear them explain what kind of future we’re headed for, where gangs of anonymous, unaccountable armed thugs can kidnap anyone, anywhere, giving excuses that the rest of us cannot verify.

This observation deserves all the airplay it can get.

You could get him to keep the secret forever: “Mr. President, it’s my duty to inform you that space aliens are real. But they only want to talk to Obama.”

$15 million for security for just this year? Is he commuting to work on a megayacht? While lounging in a hot tub full of Dom? Snorting exotic substances from the bottoms of expensive hookers?

It’s socialism for the powerful and austerity for everyone else.

And your IP, which ISPs can match to some sort of access point.

My point here is not to say that big companies are better; my point is, relying on the implementation details of software to keep fascism away from you is a losing strategy. The fascists are thinking bigger.

Is the owner of lemmy.zip going to be more likely or less likely than a billion-dollar company to go to court to challenge a bullshit administrative warrant?

If ICE is rounding up anyone who looks Hispanic, ignoring or dismissing their papers, then a new visa isn’t going to help, is it?

This administration is just 97 Karens in a trenchcoat

I’m not a lawyer, but I don’t think I buy that as a comparison.

Revocation of statutory citizenship would presumably come from an act of congress, revoking the citizenship of whole classes of people at once, like “everyone born on an overseas military base” or “everyone born on a US territory.”

In contrast, the administration is going after naturalized (constitutional) citizens in a systematic way. It’s not happening at a scale that has any policy-level meaning in a country as large as this, but it can create fear and uncertainty, a feeling of precariousness.

If you have some citizens with real citizenship and other citizens with provisional, revocable citizenship, then you have created a system, both in theory and in practice, with first-class and second-class citizens.

Yet I have a feeling those of us who really were born here are never going to have a citizenship advantage over the likes of Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Patrick Soon-Shiong, and so on.

The belief in patriarchal hierarchy on the one hand, and the belief that women and children are less-than-human property that exist for the benefit of men on the other, may not be identical beliefs. But they sure go together easily, don’t they?

What if the connection between reactionary MAGA politics and the sexual abuse of children is deeper than we want to admit?

The name for this idea is pedocon theory.

Pedocon theory suggests that this is not an aberration. Pedocon theory suggests that this was the inevitable result of the conservative project, because the conservative project is inherently pedophilic.

– We Need to Talk About Pedocon Theory

I wouldn’t mind reading some background on this, if anyone has a link to share?

If Moderna can figure out how to use mRNA to give you Mar-a-Lago face, mRNA will suddenly be in good graces again.

The National Park Service said in a statement provided to USA TODAY that, with limited exceptions, only the U.S. flag and other authorized flags are permitted on flagpoles managed by the agency. The policy was outlined in a directive the agency issued on Jan. 21. Exemptions can include flags that provide historical context…

Well if the facts aren’t the facts and the truth isn’t the truth I guess the rules get to not be the rules, too.