Nobody Cares: PRS

[Dakota Tebaldi]

PSSST, DUDE YOUR FLY'S OPEN

 

[Veritable Quandry]

My phone is not cooperating with links, but the Ohio Supreme Court just demanded new Congressional maps as well. This ruling may make a significant difference in control of the House in the midterms, with Democrats likely to be competitive in several more districts than the current map and the proposed map.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

 

[Free]

Thread by @JuddLegum on Thread Reader App

@JuddLegum: 1. This will be a thread of Republicans shamelessly exploiting King's legacy by pretending to honor King with a tweet while using their power to oppose everything that King stood for Follow along if inte...…

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[Free]

*sigh*

 

[Free]

Correlation is not...um, something.

 

[Romana]

Well, this backfired bigly:


Up to 123,229 votes now, still the same percentage.Talk about a self -own!

 

[Free]

More "news":


Really, who gives a fuck if the "respectable" Republican punditry class is on your side or not?

BTW , here's a photo of Barro, Brooks, and Rubin at a recent smart people's conference:

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Interesting thread of train burglaries targeting USPS and Amazon packages:

Source says in the midst of record profits, Union Pacific laid off their security force from 50-60 to 8.

Shockedpikachuface.jpg

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Free]

I'm betting there's a number of passive-aggressive ways to write that letter from the perspective of the Cherokee.

 

[bubblesort]

Today is the 35th anniversary of Bud Dwyer's suicide. If you don't know about him: He was a Pennsylvania state treasurer, who shot himself in the head while giving a press conference. It's one of two stories that really shaped the character of my part of the country. I mean, we have had other big stories... the Camp Hill prison riot, the city of Harrisburg going bankrupt, a few other things... but Bud Dwyer and TMI are in a different category of news story, IMHO. Everybody who was here at the time remembers where they were when Bud Dwyer shot himself, just like we also remember when we had to evacuate when TMI nearly went up.

To this day, we still argue over whether the Bud Dwyer suicide 'should' be aired. Nobody who is actually in the media cares about if it is ethical to air it or not, they just care about talking about the ethics of it. The fact is, if this happened today, it absolutely would air, on a 24/7 loop, for days, and then the media would follow that up with a long tail of coverage of how horrible the media is for doing that, without any real self reflection.

For the record, ethically speaking, I'm solidly in the camp of showing the footage on the evening news, even if it does contribute to the rise of trash TV, like the Dwyer incident probably did in 1987. That said, I'm also opposed to empty moralizing about it from hypocrites. I don't care if the talking heads feel bad about showing bad things on the evening news. In a democratic society, I need to know what my elected officials are up to, warts and all.

Here's how our local newspaper remembers Bud Dwyer today. They are still trying to act like they care about ethics:

Budd Dwyer’s suicide becomes media dilemma: To show or not to show photos, video? - pennlive.com

Budd Dwyer’s suicide becomes media dilemma: To show or not to show photos, video? Updated: Jan. 20, 2022, 5:15 a.m. | Published: Jan. 20, 2022, 5:15 a.m. Pennsylvania state treasurer R. Budd Dwyer dur...

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Also, here's a song about Bud Dwyer

 

[WolfEyes]

Fuck you Oklahoma. No wonder my daughter's head is so messed up.

U.S. Supreme Court to weigh limits on its own Oklahoma tribal ruling (msn.com)

The Supreme Court said it would not consider Oklahoma's request that it overturn the McGirt ruling. In its appeal, Oklahoma has asked the justices to rule that non-Native Americans who commit crimes on Native American land against Native Americans should remain under state jurisdiction.

[...]

Oklahoma Attorney General John O'Connor, a Republican, is seeking to limit the scope of the Supreme Court's 2020 ruling that deprived state authorities of jurisdiction over hundreds of cases involving crimes committed on tribal land. The parameters of the decision are still being tested.

If the crime is committed on tribal land, it should be tried by the tribal court. States have no jurisdiction on tribal lands only the Feds do by federal law.

 

[Free]

Unless, OF COURSE, he was a Republican doing that.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Evernote link

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Thread and comments -- the parliamentary Conservative Party is now in complete disarray. The story isn't supposed to be about the Whip's Office -- they're supposed to work quietly and efficiently in the background, not perform pratfalls all over the place.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Thread and comments -- the parliamentary Conservative Party is now in complete disarray. The story isn't supposed to be about the Whip's Office -- they're supposed to work quietly and efficiently in the background, not perform pratfalls all over the place.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

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