Just saw this by chance: Donations and Patrons for Lemmy development surged massively on Liberapay in the last weeks!
Don't know what the exact cause was/is for this big surge - but I am glad to see it. No matter what personal problems people may have with the main devs, they are doing great work on the platform.
Also of interest, since this is a good place to plug things, other threadiverse things:
And I couldn't find a way to donate to mbin, in lieu of that:
docs.joinmbin.org/contributing…
EDIT: The creator of mbin gave a link in the comments: melroy.org/donate.html
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Trump DOJ plan would let it indict lawmakers who opposed him with no oversight
According to a bombshell report from the Washington Post, the Department of Justice under Attorney General Pam Bondi is considering a plan that would let federal prosecutors investigate and indict members of Congress unfettered by traditional oversight designed to stop political persecution.
Traditionally, before such an investigation could proceed, a prosecutor would have their case reviewed by the lawyers in the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section. But that would go away under the new proposal.
The report notes that, should the proposal go into effect, "a long-standing provision in the Justice Department’s manual that outlines how investigations of elected officials should be conducted" would be shunted aside and allow possible prosecutions based purely on politics.
Trump DOJ plan would let it indict lawmakers who opposed him with no oversight
According to a bombshell report from the Washington Post, the Department of Justice under Attorney General Pam Bondi is considering a plan that would let federal prosecutors investigate and indict members of Congress unfettered by traditional oversig…Tom Boggioni (Raw Story)
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There's a lot to unpack here, but the title is sensational. So:
1) This doesn't expand any powers the DOJ has
2) This doesn't allow them to just indict whomever they want
3) All the skilled litegators at DOJ have left the building, and only idiots remain.
4) This group they THINK they can disband, cannot be disbanded, and their work cannot stop, so they THINK they are just going to sidestep it and do whatever Plam Blundy wants, but that's not going to happen for a number of reasons:
1) Judges are slapping the DOJ down and admonishing them left and right in court
2) They still need FEDERAL judges to even bring an indictment, WITH EVIDENCE OF A CRIME, in order to get a warrant, and then maybe arrest somebody.
3) Federal Judges absolutely hate having their time wasted, and this DOJ has done nothing but waste their time
4) Judges DO NOT have to keep wasting their time with the DOJ requesting indictments if they continue to prove in court that are acting in bad faith (mala fides). So maybe one or two tries at this, and the DOJ will never allow them to file for this bullshit again.
Blondie thinks she found something to scare people...nah. They can't do shit with this except make themselves look foolish, and get smacked down in court some more.
There are less than 2000 federal judges, the Federalist Society has over 70,000 members. They have the man power and motivation to replace them over night. At which point the law says what the fuck they want it to.
What's stopping them isn't that they lack the resources to seize total control. It's that they lack the resources to maintain control. And they're never going to have them.
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I'm not wasting anymore time explaining the basics of what the constitution is to people who don't feel free to inform themselves and just doomNgloom bullshit in the comments like this.
Absolutely ridiculous.
Ermagosh!! You've totally caught me in a moment, and I absolutely cannot deal with my own inability to prove myself to someone who is too lazy to read about the thing they are trolling about because of their laziness.
BRB I'll go kill myself 😫😭😫
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Do better research and understand more. Stop being willfully ignorant.
Example: what is the US if a rogue politician tries to dissolve the Constitution? It's certainly no longer a union, meaning DC doesn't get anymore money from the states.
Stop being intentionally ignorant, and start reading.
you get a civil war, where that money is up for grabs if you can do enough violence to the other side. with control of the formerly-federal military in the hands of the goon dissolving the piece of paper, ...
idk bro it really just seems like thoughtless cope. try therapy or smth idk
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Lol, you apparently haven't thought about the organization of states, and who really funds this country. Do better.
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mfw i catch unironic "do ur research:" 👩🔬
tyrants hate this one weird trick (what's actually in the constitution will shock you)
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Hey, woa. The new "History makes great leader feel owies" law has been broken. People in uniforms have been dispatched to your location.
Incidentally, your Spotify has been scanned ahead of time and you've been found guilty of having 1938 counts of DEI music.
Also incidentally, you'll get to ride the train line that has just been built! It goes straight to El Salvador.
Adding incident to incidentally, they have brand new showers that don't even use water.
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The world does not owe Trump’s America a living
The world does not owe Trump's America a living
Investors will not wait to be robbed as Republicans prepare their ‘big, beautiful bill’ of Maga tax cutsAmbrose Evans-Pritchard (The Telegraph)
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If Trump wants the world to keep buying his debt, he might be advised to stop punching the world in the face.
I wonder if Trump doesn't understand the importance of fostering good will because he just doesn't have any himself?
Yeah. Apparently his mom didn't really give a shit about him and his siblings and the only way that he could win his Nazi dad's approval was by bullying the others.
To quote : evil is a relay sport when the one who's burned turns to pass the torch
Are we hardwired to fall for autocrats?
Are we hardwired to fall for autocrats?
It’s human nature to trust strongmen, but we’ve also evolved the tools to resist themJonathan R Goodman (The Guardian)
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During desperate times, yes.
Hence why all fascists need a bogeyman.
If we were invaded by aliens and had to fight an epic war, then having the military be in charge would probably increase our odds.
It’s as if humans have an emergency override mode that was critical in the past but some people have figured out they could take advantage of it.
Naturally, the solution is education, so you don’t fall for attempts of power grab, hence the book burning.
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It’s human nature to trust strongmen
not mine
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Our new leader!
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“We” being the collective “us”.
“We” always behaves differently than “I” do. That’s kind of the point.
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The fuck do you mean 'we'?
Just because you fucking suck at judging character doesn't mean I do. The moment someone starts exhibiting fascist behavior, I just assume they're a fascist, not just some billionaire crybaby blaming his asbergers.
I fucking swear when law and order breaks down, I will not consider the media a neutral force.
Eat my entire ass guardian.
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Hardwired? No.
Victims of a decades long plot to erode civic education and demonize critical thinking in order to render a population of stupid voters? Yes.
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More propaganda.. We have never had a more Authoritarian power as the Western 'liberal/Globalist' power. But they apparently have a lot of success convincing uneducated people that THEY are freedom/democracy, while anyone else is 'Dictators' and 'Evil'. Childish and sad..
Trump have the exact same policies as everyone before him - not more, or less 'Authoritarian than all the DEMS that did exactly the same as Trump. All ordinary people should really include some criticism of Liberalism/Globalism, and follow criticism of the Empire known as 'The Empire of Lies' (not without reason).
For those that have started to sense the cracks in the Western Narrative, maybe that Russia and China seem to be fine countries, and are interested in understanding what is happening in the world, start by watching Brian Berletic on Youtube. The rest will follow..
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Israel to allow resumption of humanitarian aid flow into Gaza
Israel to resume entry of ‘basic’ humanitarian aid into Gaza, Netanyahu’s office says – as it happened
Prime minister’s office says Israel will allow some food into Gaza to prevent a ‘hunger crisis’Tom Bryant (The Guardian)
Biden diagnosed with ‘aggressive form’ of prostate cancer
Former President Joe Biden was diagnosed with an “aggressive form” of prostate cancer, according to a statement from his personal office Sunday, and it has spread to his bones.
“Last week, President Joe Biden was seen for a new finding of a prostate nodule after experiencing increasing urinary symptoms. On Friday, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer, characterized by a Gleason score of 9 (Grade Group 5) with metastasis to the bone,” the statement said.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/18/politics/joe-biden-prostate-cancer
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Once it's out that he is getting some kind of hormone-related therapy, the MAGAs will start calling him Trans, saying he was the first Trans president, and the Dems hid it from the world.
They'll insist on talking about it, forcing it to eat up media time and resources that should be investigating HitlerPig's crimes.
The first-person statement (Melania and I) I saw was surprisingly typical of what you'd expect of someone in Washington.
I give it 48 hours before we see something from him and not one of his handlers pretending to be him.
Edit: I'll take a likely-coke-fueled tweet from Don Jr. on Xitter
What I want to know is how did Dr. Jill Biden miss stage five metastatic cancer or is this yet another coverup???
It is possible for a third party to arise in FPTP elections, but it's certainly not common or easy. The UK has a bunch; NZ had a couple before moving to MMP; I think Australia has some.
It usually requires a competent and well-known politician storming out of their party for ideological differences, but being locally popular enough to win their seat as an independent or new party.
AOC might pull it off.
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It would have to be in a single district; attempting multiple would definitely fail.
NZ has had a number of individual electorates where the Greens* won the seat, Labour came second, and National 3rd. With a sufficiently left-wing area and a galvanised base, it's possible.
- Note: NZ greens definitely are not the same as the US Russian plants.
It usually requires a competent and well-known politician storming out of their party for ideological differences, but being locally popular enough to win their seat as an independent or new party.
It also usually causes the party they broke off from to lose higher offices a few times because the two sides of the schism don't have enough power individually to win the bigger contests. Until one of them swallows the other.
The right avoided this by doing their "reform" from within, aka the Tea Party.
The parties do, not the people.
Would you like to remind me what a party primary is, and what effect it has on the nomination process for candidates?
Would you like to remind me what a party primary is
Ever since democrats successfully argued in court that they are under no obligation to follow their own bylaws, a primary is kabuki theater. When we have them at all.
No, no, go on, maybe you can rehash some "2016 rigged!!!" theories about how every poll was wrong (paid off by the SHADOW CABAL of the DNC, of course) and the election was stolen from Bernie.
I mean, you already outright admitted you think primary elections are meaningless and participating in them means nothing.
I mean, you already outright admitted you think primary elections are meaningless and participating in them means nothing.
I mean, the party argued as much in court.
If the Dems would have had a proper primary and campaigned on defined goals instead of nebulous feelings and orange man bad, they could have won.
The weak and poorly defined platform cost them 6 swing states. They pissed off the Amish and the Arabs, which really hurt them in Pennsylvania and Michigan. They didn't campaign for the Latino voters very well, which should have been a slam dunk given the deportation platform Trump had, which impacted the swing states considerably.
The Dems need to seriously rethink their strategy for 2028 or they are going to lose again. 2026 at this point is looking shaky in both directions, so the Dems need to get their shit together immediately if they are going to stop Rep issues progressing into a 2028 victory.
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The people just voted for the old racist guy instead of the younger woman.
Boy you're just going in circles now moving goalposts. Ciao.
Man, I'm usually one of the people on Lemmy who is, at least, defending that the Dems are not the core problem. I'm very vocal that the failure of the 2024 election was fundamentally a failure of the American people, wherein 1/3 of the country voted for fascism and 1/3 said they didn't fucking care.
But we lost by a small margin, and Biden choosing to stay in until it was clear that he could not command the confidence of the party - which was past the point when a primary could have been reasonably held - contributed no small amount to fucking us.
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I dunno man, at the point where internal polling is showing you losing in a total massacre and your response is to double down and insist that you're the best candidate, that's some Greek tragedy level hubris.
And unfortunately, we're the ones who're going to be mourning the consequences.
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I’m not sure lack of a primary was a problem. The last time we had a primary, there were several worthy candidates, including Harris, Warren, Mayor Pete, Klobuchar, and others. Yet, we still ended up with EVERYBODY’S last choice.
Bruh, Harris, Pete, and Klob all consistently polled under Biden as first choices before they dropped out.
Zoo animals: *escape and start attacking people*
Him: How could the zookeepers do this?
You expect the zoo animals to follow their nature, but you also expect the zookeepers to do their job and keep them in their cages. The Democrats have consistently failed to do anything meaningful to fight the Republicans and are more interested in keeping the Democratic party establishment in power than actually beating the Republicans.
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I believe he was trusting his gut at a point where his gut was no longer worth trusting, and everyone around him could see it but he could not. A very harsh example of why there should be age maximums as well as minimums for elected office.
Edit: and I know this is dumb to bring up but I didn’t downvote your original comment. I see there’s a few downvotes there. I really value respectful conversations and try not to downvote people who I disagree with, who aren’t being harmful or hurtful.
People want more, and the problem is that they don't let them until it's too late. All that's left is to wait until 2026 for the congressional elections, and then 2028 for the presidential elections.
But seeing that tariffs are political suicide in the elections, it is likely that in the next elections the Democrats will regain control of Congress and even better if they manage to get a supermajority in the House.
Bruh, you spend all your time carrying water for literal fucking fascists, apologizing for them, and licking their boots. You just made a comment about how it's better now that there's a Republican in the White House.
Accelerationists like you are fascists, no matter how much you swear up and down that you totally vote Dem while peddling every right-wing talking point you can get your hands on.
You just made a comment about how it’s better now that there’s a Republican in the White House.
I made a comment about how the press is willing to admit that netanyahu is committing genocide in Gaza now that a republican is in the white house. I wouldn't call that better.
Accelerationists like you
Guess again. I want democrats to be better. You want everyone to be happy that they're getting worse.
I made a comment about how the press is willing to admit that netanyahu is committing genocide in Gaza now that a republican is in the white house. I wouldn’t call that better.
"It's amazing what having a republican in the white house will do"
Guess again. I want democrats to be better. You want everyone to be happy that they’re getting worse.
Tell me more about how Dems in 2024 were worse than they were in 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, and 2020. Please. Go ahead. Say something that isn't a regurgitation of alt-right talking points fed to gullible performative leftists like you who don't give a single solitary fuck about the lives of marginalized groups.
That is, of course, assuming you are genuine in this, and just don't give a fuck that you're helping fascists if it helps you feel good, rather than being a believer in fascist ideology yourself.
I made a comment about how the press is willing to admit that netanyahu is committing genocide in Gaza now that a republican is in the white house. I wouldn’t call that better.“It’s amazing what having a republican in the white house will do”
I invite everyone reading this to also read the comment that was in reply to.
Here, I'll paste it for you:
Spreading awareness is key. The overton window is shifting massively. Even MSM is starting to cover the genocide without prefacing every sentence with October 7.
I was saying that the press is admitting that it's a genocide now that the president is a republican. Of course you know this, but you're dishonest.
After all, you're calling me a fascist for being to your left on genocide. And cancer, evidently.
I was saying that the press is admitting that it’s a genocide now that the president is a republican. Of course you know this, but you’re dishonest.
I literally called you out as an accelerationist. Or have you forgotten what that word means already? Perhaps your memory is going the route of Trump's.
After all, you’re calling me a fascist for being to your left on genocide. And cancer, evidently.
You supported the election of Trump. You are far to the right of me on the ongoing Israeli genocide, not to mention the ongoing Ukrainian genocide.
Very telling that you can't answer how the Dems were "getting worse", though, typical of the quality of shit you shovel.
Tell me more about how Dems in 2024 were worse than they were in 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, and 2020. Please. Go ahead. Say something that isn’t a regurgitation of alt-right talking points fed to gullible performative leftists like you who don’t give a single solitary fuck about the lives of marginalized groups.
I literally called you out as an accelerationist.
And a fascist and anything you thought would stick.
You supported the election of Trump.
I did not. You assume that about anyone who has any criticism at all of biden before he got cancer and joined your lengthy shit list.
Very telling that you can’t answer how the Dems were “getting worse”, though, typical of the quality of shit you shovel.
in 2009, they were actually willing to pass a minimum wage increase and at least pretended to pursue a public option. Something they haven't done since.
And a fascist and anything you thought would stick.
So now that you acknowledge that you've been called an accelerationist in the past, are you just pretending to not remember what an accelerationist is?
I did not.
lmao
I suppose that would require some small amount of introspection for you to realize, and that's too horrible for you to contemplate.
in 2009, they were actually willing to pass a minimum wage increase
... would you like to remind me what the Harris platform was on the minimum wage? Go on. Remind us all.
and at least pretended to pursue a public option. Something they haven’t done since.
Both Clinton and Biden supported a public option. But hey, anything to spread misinformation in service to suppressing liberal turnout, right? You have fascists that you want to win.
So now that you acknowledge that you’ve been called an accelerationist in the past, are you just pretending to not remember what an accelerationist is?
I'm saying that you will say anything to demonize your left and only your left.
… would you like to remind me what the Harris platform was on the minimum wage? Go on. Remind us all.
And now you're trying to pivot from the actions of democrats to the campaign promises of one democrat.
Both Clinton and Biden supported a public option.
And biden promised to pursue it when in office. Then didn't. It was a lie.
I’m saying that you will say anything to demonize your left and only your left.
lmao
Fascists aren't to my left, and neither are their supporters.
And now you’re trying to pivot from the actions of democrats to the campaign promises of one democrat.
Okay, would you like to remind me what the Dem party platform in 2024 was on the minimum wage? Go on. Remind us all.
And biden promised to pursue it when in office. Then didn’t. It was a lie.
Jesus fucking Christ.
Fascists aren’t to my left, and neither are their supporters.
You scream "fascist" at anyone to your left.
Okay, would you like to remind me what the Dem party platform in 2024 was on the minimum wage? Go on. Remind us all.
A lie, same as it was in 2020.
You scream “fascist” at anyone to your left.
No, I accuse people who materially contribute to the victory of fascists as being fascist supporters, which they are. Sorry that's too complex for you to parse.
A lie, same as it was in 2020.
Oh, okay, so it doesn't actually matter what left positions the Dems ran on, you'd just assert that it was all lies anyway.
What a surprise. This is my shocked face.
No, I accuse people who materially contribute to the victory of fascists as being fascist supporters
And by an astounding coincidence, you identify anyone to your left as "materially contributing to the victory of fascists."
Oh, okay, so it doesn’t actually matter what left positions the Dems ran on, you’d just assert that it was all lies anyway.
I mean, I'm not the one who promised to revisit the public option and then didn't.
This has become a slapfight. I'm out.
And by an astounding coincidence, you identify anyone to your left as “materially contributing to the victory of fascists.”
lmao
Believe it or not, you and the rest of the "Sink the Dems at any cost" brigade are not the entirety of the left. Shocking, I know.
I mean, I’m not the one who promised to revisit the public option and then didn’t.
Wow, why didn't the Dems use their 50-50 'majority' to pass a deeply contentious bill that would have been unable to get all 50 Dems onboard regardless of the compromises involved, yet would need a 60-40 majority to pass???
Of course, if they'd tried, you would have condemned them for trying and wasting time on a meaningless gesture (which would be true) instead of doing real work.
The only thing you care about is making sure "the LIBS" lose and the fascists win. Because if the fascists are in power, you feel heroic when you roleplay as a leftist. The blood of minorities makes for great cosplay makeup, it would seem.
Doing the lords work, my man.
I'm so sick of watching these fascist fucks do their best to replace the empire they don't like with an empire they do like, all the while cosplaying as a modern leftist. These guys are left wing like Stalin was left wing.
Trump could be on deaths door and we'd never know.
If he does die of natural causes in office though you know the reds will claim the "libs" did it.
“Israeli attacks forced the European Hospital, the last hospital in Gaza for cancer treatment, to cease operations, the Health Ministry said on Thursday.”
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Israeli attacks render last Gaza hospital for cancer treatment inoperable
European Hospital in Khan Younis forced to cease operations after Israeli attacks, Health Ministry says - Anadolu Ajansıwww.aa.com.tr
And now we enter that awkward period where we're supposed to show only kindness to someone who's dying, because they're dying, even if they're a horrible fucking person.
Biden's support for genocide handed the presidency to Trump, and between those two things, he's enabled some of the greatest evil I've witnessed in my lifetime.
Fuck you, Biden. You made this world a worse place. The cancer in your ass doesn't make you worthy of respect or undo the giant middle finger you gave to humanity. Your only value was that you weren't Trump; take away that contrast and you're just another evil sack of shit.
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So this guy had cancer his whole presidency and wanted to go for a second term? Imagine he had won and then dies at the first 2 months.
Jesus Christ that's insane. It's like he hated the country or something
There's a video of Gerald Ford talking to a class of middle-schoolers, and one asks if a women will ever become president, and he says that will absolutely happen, but he doesn't think the first woman president will be elected. He felt she would be the VP, and the president would die, and she'd succeed him. After that, he didn't think it would be a problem electing a woman president.
I thought that was a pretty insightful take on the subject, and probably true.
Gun Reform Groups Warn Trump Admin Settlement on Trigger Device 'Paves the Way for Mass Violence'
Gun Reform Groups Warn Trump Admin Settlement on Trigger Device 'Paves the Way for Mass Violence'
Gun violence prevention groups say that the "forced-reset triggers," which allow semiautomatic rifles to fire more quickly, effectively turn rifles into machine guns.eloise-goldsmith (Common Dreams)
In most of the country, anyone without a criminal record can buy a machine gun and doesn't need these trigger devices. Only 13 states have outright bans.
This is such a non-issue, you can convert an AR-15 to fire full auto with a coat hanger or two pieces of metal cut with a hacksaw and a file or a 3d printer. AK, AKS, Mini-14, M14, or M4 carbines can go full auto with only a shoelace. Then there is bump firing, you don't need a special stock to do that, some people accidentally do that just because they don't hold the rifle tight enough.
How about we work on why there is gun crime instead? Reduce the cost of living, increase wages on the bottom 50%, create better opportunities for small businesses, decrease the cost of higher education, promote trades as a career path, lower the cost of housing, increase the supply of low cost housing, improve public transit in urban areas, implement a severe progressive tax without loopholes, and build in-person community instead of allowing digital isolation through harassment.
In other words, why don't we fix literally everything about this country instead of looking at guns?
Machine gun sales are illegal at the federal level except for guns manufactured before Reagan's second term, and they must comply with the 1934 NFA. That law was originally put in place because mobsters were having gang fights with tommy guns in the streets. Evading the law is evading the law.
Look man, I like going to the range, and home defense is fine. But saying we should do nothing on guns specifically and just give up is nuts. Firearms are the single leading cause of death for children and teens in this country: homicide, suicide, accident.
Here's one thing you didn't list: properly funding the ATF and FBI to go after FFL dealers who illegally sell guns to criminals and then claim they were stolen. Those guns are one of the biggest sources of street crime, and I'm sure they wind up in sales to Mexican cartels too, since they're all supplied by America.
Guns are a problem. They're not the only problem, but they're still a problem.
We absolutely need to go after FFLs that allow for guns to make it to the streets.
The biggest cause of firearms deaths is suicide, that can't be addressed by going after guns. You have to address all the other bigger problems. Doing so will also address suicide, mental health, economic prospects, and other causes of drug overdoses, crimes including murder, alcoholism, etc.
You can't address gun violence by going after guns, you need to go after the actual problems and not the symptom.
For those that don't know, forced reset triggers (and the later "super safeties") are quite essentially machine gun conversion devices in all but our narrow techno-legal definition of a machine gun. Much more straightforward to use than bump stocks or crank triggers are. Any sane government would have pulled these off the market immediately and arrested anyone who distributed them. Instead the ATF approved them for sale and then walked it back after the fact, hence this legal battle.
Militia prepper types are basically saying the use case for these is for squad-level fire support, the same way militaries use machine guns. But then they'll gaslight you and say it isn't a machine gun, but also all machine guns should be unregulated.
The law operates on precise definitions.
Obviously the forced-reset trigger has pretty much the same effect as a machine gun and common sense suggests that the two should have the same legal status. They don't though because 26 U.S.C. § 5845(b) defines a machine gun as:
Any weapon which shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily restored to shoot, automatically more than one shot without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger
and a firearm with a forced reset trigger does require a separate actuation of the trigger for each shot. It is the place of the congress, not the ATF to update the law.
One person dead and five injured after car explodes near IVF facility in Palm Springs
Police say explosion outside American Reproductive Centers fertility clinic was ‘an intentional act of violence’
At least one person is dead after a car exploded near a reproductive facility in Palm Springs, California, according to local authorities.
Palm Springs Police spokesperson Mike Villegas told reporters the car explosion was “an intentional act of violence” but the investigation is ongoing.
Officials did not immediately say whether or not the person who died was associated with the car, but a facility official said all of the building’s staff were safe and physically unharmed.
At least also five people were injured in the explosion, ABC7 reported, citing law enforcement sources.
One dead after ‘intentional’ explosion near fertility clinic in Palm Springs
FBI statement describes attack as ‘intentional act of terrorism’, adding that clinic was deliberately targetedMaya Yang (The Guardian)
Additionally, no matter what any government has done so far, people are having less kids and no single country has been able to improve that. So there’s something going on and we don’t know what it is.
It's not a mystery. People can barely afford themselves and kids are expensive as fuck and interfere with having a successful career(especially for women) so they're having less of them.
Did you never learn to read those labels? Add those numbers up real quick. It's way more than 100%
That's your daily nutrition per serving. So a serving of cereal contains 1/4 of the total sugar you should consume in a day.
That sounds suspiciously like they’re avoiding calling it ‘an act of terrorism’… which is even more suspicious being that lighting a Tesla on fire or spray painting a Tesla dealership would immediately be called terrorism, but this hasn’t been. Hmmm.
Edit: the FBI has determined that it was an intentional act of terrorism at this point.
Half a million march to Downing Street to urge Starmer to cut ties with Israel
By Imran Mulla
Published date: 17 May 2025 17:59 BST
"It was organised by the Palestine Solidarity Compaign, Friends of Al-Aqsa, the Muslim Association of Britain, Stop the War, the Palestinian Forum in Britain and other pro-Palestine groups.
Protesters came from around the country, including from Wales and northern England. Stop the War said the demonstration was attended by an estimated 600,000 people, making it the biggest since November 2023."
Half a million march to Downing Street to urge Starmer to cut ties with Israel
An estimated 600,000 people marched through central London to Downing Street on Saturday to commemorate the 77th anniversary of the Nakba.Imran Mulla (Middle East Eye)
Half a million march to Downing Street to urge Starmer to cut ties with Israel
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/30276408
By Imran Mulla
Published date: 17 May 2025 17:59 BST"It was organised by the Palestine Solidarity Compaign, Friends of Al-Aqsa, the Muslim Association of Britain, Stop the War, the Palestinian Forum in Britain and other pro-Palestine groups.
Protesters came from around the country, including from Wales and northern England. Stop the War said the demonstration was attended by an estimated 600,000 people, making it the biggest since November 2023."
Half a million march to Downing Street to urge Starmer to cut ties with Israel
By Imran Mulla
Published date: 17 May 2025 17:59 BST"It was organised by the Palestine Solidarity Compaign, Friends of Al-Aqsa, the Muslim Association of Britain, Stop the War, the Palestinian Forum in Britain and other pro-Palestine groups.
Protesters came from around the country, including from Wales and northern England. Stop the War said the demonstration was attended by an estimated 600,000 people, making it the biggest since November 2023."
Half a million march to Downing Street to urge Starmer to cut ties with Israel
An estimated 600,000 people marched through central London to Downing Street on Saturday to commemorate the 77th anniversary of the Nakba.Imran Mulla (Middle East Eye)
When President Donald Trump and Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred met at the White House last month, they discussed one of the president’s passion projects — reinstating baseball star Pete Rose to make him eligible for the Baseball Hall of Fame.This week, that’s exactly what Manfred did.
When I heard Pete Rose was going to be eligible for the Baseball Hall of Fame my immediate reaction was to joke that "Somehow this is Donald Trump's fault". I didn't think I'd be right.
Never seen anyone so deeply desperate to leave a lasting historical mark on the world. Just like his need to put his name on everything he "owns".
Like a dog running around peeing on everything in sight and mounting what he can't pee on.
Too utterly stupid to understand he already has a lasting mark in history... It's just not a complimentary mark.
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His goal is not success. His goal is notoriety.
He wants his name to be spoken more than Hitler's.
Former President Joe Biden diagnosed with aggressive form of prostate cancer
Former President Joe Biden diagnosed with aggressive form of prostate cancer
Former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, his personal office announced on Sunday.Kelly O'Donnell (NBC News)
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Trump Is Building a Global Gulag for Immigrants Captured by ICE
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/30319832
The U.S. is in talks with 19 nations, including Libya, Kosovo, Rwanda, and Moldova, to accept deportees from other countries.
Nick Turse, Jonah Valdez
May 15 2025, 11:03 a.m.
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He saw a guy on TV that would be perfect for the camp leader:
I hear they are going to call it Camp 13
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Is this Hogan's Heroes? Never seen it, but the idea of a sitcom set in a Nazi POW camp has to be one of the most insane things that was ever approved to be put on TV.
I just looked, it had six seasons. Wild.
Ahem....Stephen Miller is in talks with 19 nations....
Fixed that for you guys. THATS who's running the US.
This land is their land: Trump is selling out the US’s beloved wilderness
This land is their land: Trump is selling out the US’s beloved wilderness
During the McCarthy era’s darkest days, public lands came under attack. History now repeats itself – and this may be the last chance to defend what’s oursGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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This land is their land: Trump is selling out the US~~s beloved wilderness~~
This likelihood makes me more angry than nearly anything else he's done. Unlike most other changes this cruel buffoon has made, selling off our land to private industry is permanent.
Where other people would look upon the majesty of public lands in awe, he only sees a wasted opportunity to make money. This cancer on our society has a voracious black hole where his heart would be. He is incurious, stupid, and utterly devoid of any values.
Do us all a favor and just walk into the ocean until you can't see land.
They've been selling it to the oligarchs for decades.
Dems and Republicans are sides of the same coin: conservatives.
Trump admin permits sale of device that allows standard firearms to fire like machine guns
Trump admin permits sale of device that allows standard firearms to fire like machine guns
The Trump Administration has decided to permit the sale of devices that enable standard firearms to fire like machine guns, a move that gun control groups condemned.Ken Dilanian (NBC News)
Well, crap, I'm not gay, but I'll hold your hand. :) What do want? That's the interesting thing about guns, there is such a VARIETY for different purposes. Self defense, home defense, small/medium/big game hunting are all completely different.
If I'm going to raise my Kinsey scale a point or two for just a moment, there's also the aesthetic to consider. I'm not ashamed to admit I've bought a gun that made me go "Ooooohhh".
For example, when my dad died one of the guns I inherited was this:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_S…
And I'm like "Ok, that's adorable, but in .22 it's useless." Also known to be problematic. Sometimes only one barrel would fire.
But I liked the idea so I bought one of these:
bondarms.com/bond-arms-handgun…
.45LC/.410 shotgun shells
Bond Arms | Ranger II
Our intimidating Ranger II packs a big punch! An extended grip featuring a metal lone star badge insert grabs a hold on a 4.25″ double-barrel chambered to fire up to 3” .410 shot shells and .45 Colt, (also available in .357Mag / .38Spl).www.bondarms.com
OK, that's adorable but in .22 it's useless
I'll tell you what the guy that taught me used to say, " 22 or 50, no one laughs at being held at gunpoint. "
Stopping power is, for the most part a myth. I love 22 because if cheap, it's light, and the guns feel nicer in my hand. My bud uses 9mm glocks because he describes them as the "iPhone of guns" you do you boo, just make sure your Deringer has a trigger guard, that's just good safety.
They are not just inaccurate, they are impossible to shoot accurately.
Go full auto in a stadium and it will pull up and you will shoot the ceiling, or it will pull down and you will shoot the ground and maybe your leg. You might get lucky and it will lurch to the right, you will either fight it to get it back to the center or let it spin you like a top. By the time you have fought the autofire back to center it will have chosen a new direction to pull ... good luck. You will do this 2-3 times and then the clip will be empty.
Life is not a movie or videogame. Autofire really sucks ass unless you are an absolute pro at it and have a great deal of practice.
Those who would put in that much practice with auto fire would be smart enough to realize that 3 shot bursts are way more accurate and waste far less ammo.
I like how you are acting like most of us haven't played an FPS. The biggest difference is that there is no balance nerf between the damage an automatic bullet does and a semiautomatic bullet does. It's certainly leading to more gun deaths in Mexico, where a lot of these weapons are getting exported down to, although it is refreshing to act like school shootings still aren't a thing.
I fully expect for police to have to fear being "suppressive fired" soon enough, there are enough militant groups within the US that will enjoy the news, specially given the number of their members that were pardoned for Jan 6th.
First - the place to shoot is the hard part for many people. Indoor ranges don't allow you to do the kind of practice that you would need to do in order to become proficient with an automatic firearm. Outdoor ranges are quite a drive for most people.
Second, and more important - the fact that people can learn doesn't mean a lot. Most people, including most gun owners, don't. A shockingly large percentage of gun owners don't practice regularly, or at all.
It's not up to the ATF to make laws; congress is supposed to do that.
Also, "sensible" gun control is functionally no different from "sensible" abortion restrictions. If you want to fix gun violence, fix the problems that lead up to it. If you want to stop abortions, it's easier to teach factual sexual health and make sure that everyone has free access to birth control.
No suppressor, no super long mags, no belt feed, no barrel mounted grenade launcher, no incendiary rounds.
What is and what is not legal is funny in the US
Wut?
No, silencers weren't regulated into the NFA by the ATF; congress put them in there, way back in '34. You can read the text of the act here. It's in the very first section:
AN ACTTo provide for the taxation of manufacturers, importers, and dealers in certain firearms and machine guns, to tax the sale or other disposal of such weapons, and to restrict importation and regulate interstate transportation thereof.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of American in Congress assembled, that for the purposes of this Act -
(a) The term "firearm" means a shotgun or rifle having a barrel of less than eighteen inches in length, or any other weapon, except a pistol or revolver, from which a shot is discharged by an explosive if such a weapon is capable of being concealed on the person, or a machine gun, and includes a muffler or silencer for any firearm [emphasis added] whether or not such a firearm is included within the foregoing definition.
It's right there in the text.
Aside from that, the ATF per se didn't even exist prior to '72; before that, it was part of the IRS, rather than an agency within the DoJ, and before the IRS, it was part of the Bureau of Internal Revenue.
RFK Jr’s FDA limits use of Covid vaccine
RFK Jr’s FDA limits use of Covid vaccine
Vaccine expert says health secretary wants to ‘make vaccines less available, more expensive, and more feared’Gustaf Kilander (The Independent)
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I’m confused and feel like this title is misleading:
The Novavax vaccine was previously only allowed to be used in emergencies. Meanwhile, the FDA gave full approval to vaccines by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna in 2022 under the Biden administration. Both companies are producing updated versions of their vaccines for the fall.
It seems to only be for the Novavax vaccine, and it was already restricted, but this article doesn’t say why. Don’t get me wrong, RFK is a fool, but it doesn’t look like he’s keeping people from getting the Moderna or Pfizer vaccines, and the one he is restricting was already restricted for undefined reasons.
All COVID vaccines were first released under Emergency Use Authorizations. But the "emergency" was COVID itself.
Moderna and Pfizer were the first, and have since been fully approved by going through the appropriate FDA process and undergoing clinical testing on an unprecedented scale.
Those mRNA vaccines could be rapidly developed because of the revolutionary technology involved. Novavax - a "traditional" vaccine - was first EUA'd in October 2022. It came much later and still needed to go through the same approval process, but its access wasn't restricted except to under 18s. Adults over the age of 18 could get Novovax as a standalone, or as a booster in cases where their first vaccine was not available or appropriate.
Novavax has just completed the FDA approval process and received a different authorization. They have somehow passed the review, but in doing so, it's access has now been restricted.
Why? Is it because of efficacy, or safety? The EUA was originally granted because it passed review of its safety and efficacy, but the more extensive approval process would have more clinical trial data to verify both.
Interestingly enough, the FDA hasn't stated why the vaccine received such a bizarre approval. No announcement of what, exactly is the reasoning why under 65's would not be allowed to receive it. Is it too risky? That'd be odd, considering senior citizens can get it. Is it not proven to work? That'd also be strange, because senior citizens can get it, and their immune systems are worse.
Who knows? With an anti-vax asshole as head of the DOH, who can say for sure?
Well, fun fact - this means there is no traditional vaccine that is fully authorized for normal adult use.
The mRNA vaccines bear a lot of unfounded controversy. Of the unvaccinated, many Americans who weren't entirely anti-vax but were scared of the brand new technology, wanted traditional vaccines. Many of the unvaccinated were scared of the "emergency" in emergency use authorization, and wanted to see long-term proof that they were safe.
Now, underneath the authority of a well-known anti-vaccine madman and his treasonous, self-serving felon of a boss, that option never came to fruition.
No "traditional" vaccine will be "traditionally" authorized, for the kind of "traditional" people who might just be scared of new things, and wanted to "wait and see." The mRNA vaccines were a modern goddamn miracle and a shining achievement of human ingenuity, but I get it. People are scared, panicky animals, and they'll make all sorts of rationalizations.
Those people could still benefit from being vaccinated, and now they won't have that "safe" option.
Under RFK Jr., I can only imagine why.
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I feel like if it was easy for him to get rid of the existing ones, he probably would..
Tho he got his kids vaxed and refused to answer if he’d do it again so there’s some chance he’s just being a disingenuous prick and fucking over millions for personal gain.. wouldn’t put that past a single “conservative”
(Wild how in the wider world conservation means protecting things that exist, while American conservatism actively seeks to destroy everything that has existed for decades.. wild…)
His kids are all in the 20s-30s. They very well could have insisted on getting vaccinated themselves.
I don’t trust that red faced bastard or his brain worm puppeteer one bit.
Israel says it will let food into Gaza after announcing new ground assault
By Nidal Al-Mughrabi and Maayan Lubell
May 18, 20255:26 PM EDT
Summary
ꞏ Israel says it aims for 'operational control' in parts of Gaza
ꞏ Latest airstrikes killed at least 130 Palestinians, medics say
ꞏ No progress reported in indirect ceasefire talks in Qatar
Israel says it will let food into Gaza after announcing new ground assault
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/30318507
By Nidal Al-Mughrabi and Maayan Lubell
May 18, 20255:26 PM EDTSummary
ꞏ Israel says it aims for 'operational control' in parts of Gaza
ꞏ Latest airstrikes killed at least 130 Palestinians, medics say
ꞏ No progress reported in indirect ceasefire talks in Qatar
Israel says it will let food into Gaza after announcing new ground assault
By Nidal Al-Mughrabi and Maayan Lubell
May 18, 20255:26 PM EDTSummary
ꞏ Israel says it aims for 'operational control' in parts of Gaza
ꞏ Latest airstrikes killed at least 130 Palestinians, medics say
ꞏ No progress reported in indirect ceasefire talks in Qatar
Predicting it now:
This aid will only be allowed into the south of Gaza. Between food and a ground assault, they'll have the carrot and the stick to push Palestinians out of the north, which they'll then ~~annex~~ "occupy indefinately".
Top genocide scholars unanimous that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza: Dutch investigation
A growing number of the world’s leading genocide scholars believe that Israel’s actions in Gaza constitute genocide, according to an investigation by Dutch newspaper NRC.
The paper interviewed seven renowned genocide researchers* from six countries - including Israel - all of whom described the Israeli campaign in Gaza as genocidal. Many said their peers in the field share this assessment.
“Contrary to public opinion, leading genocide researchers are surprisingly unanimous: the Netanyahu government, they say, is in that process - according to the majority, even in its final stages,” the investigation concluded. “That is why most researchers no longer speak only of 'genocidal violence', but of 'genocide'.”
Top genocide scholars unanimous that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza: Dutch investigation
A growing number of the world’s leading genocide scholars believe that Israel’s actions in Gaza constitute genocide, according to an investigation by Dutch newspaper NRC.Sondos Asem (Middle East Eye)
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Since when was this “contrary to popular opinion”?
Ask The United States, Germany, the UK, and their "free press" that claims Palestine isn't being cleansed, and if they are, they deserve it.
Correct, but what the press publishes and frames, and refuses to publishes is what forms public opinion.
You ask the NYT and BBC about Gaza, they'll tell you that Gaza has always been rubble with blood in the sand.
You ask the US government and Germany about Israel's actions and motives, they'll advocate for your comments to be removed.
How a press and state operate can't prohibit public opinion, but has major influence. American press helped to cover up the Yellow cake Uranium that was falsified for a illegal invasion. It didn't stop the protests, but refused to cover protests on equal levels with Iraq/Al Quada's actions.
Plus right now Feddit is trying to censor any criticism of Zionism, Israel, and Gaza unless it's praise for the aggressor.
Article 2 of the Genocide Convention has 5 definitions of genocide, you only have to meet ONE for it to be considered a genocide.
Israel: Hold my beer!
ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/ihl-…
Article II
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
✅ (a) Killing members of the group;
✅ (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
✅ (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
✅ (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
✅ (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
That's interesting. When I was growing up I was told it had to meet all 5, and the reason for Canada's colonialism not being considered genocide is that it didn't meet all 5.
Of course we all know what Canada did to indigenous folks was actually a genocide but the government would still tell you otherwise. Either way they meet at least 4 of these. Whether you want to say it was deliberate or not I guess is up for debate but...
If you want to be sad, read up on the Residential Schools.
1948 was 50 years before the last of those hellholes closed.
And yes, Canada has semi-officially recognized it as a cultural genocide. With actual genocide recognition passed by the House of Commons in 2022.
(d) bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-…
(e) bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-…
There are far more, but those two are already enough to prove the point.
China sending children of exiled Uighur parents to orphanages, says Amnesty
Young Uighur children are taken into orphanages without parents' consent, Amnesty International says.BBC News
I always take a skeptical stance whenever it is Adrian Zenz who wrote the study (for d), and I'm looking at the study he made right now
Point e, though, seems to be truthful and shows what happens to the kids of parents sent to the reeducation camps
Google "Uighur forced sterilization" and "Uighur children separation".
apnews.com/article/ap-top-news…
pbs.org/newshour/world/ap-repo…
aljazeera.com/news/2020/6/29/c…
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amnesty.org/en/latest/research…
cnn.com/2021/03/18/china/xinji…
China forcing birth control on Uighurs to suppress population: AP
Beijing accused of forced sterilisation, abortions, and pregnancy checks on hundreds of thousands of minority women.Al Jazeera
I mean, it should be immediately apparent to anyone who has been paying attention.
This doctor absolutely fucking nails it:
france24.com/en/tv-shows/t%C3%…
"The doctor went on to claim that Israeli snipers are deliberately shooting children in Gaza, citing his observation of two children who were shot twice. "No child gets shot twice by mistake," he said."
Here's the base problem... Israelis don't see Palestinians as innocent. They've said this repeatedly:
nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/…
Israel posts video saying ‘there are no innocent civilians’ in Gaza
Israeli government accounts on X have been posting a video with a quote from a freed Israeli hostage, where she says “there are no innocent civilians” in Gaza.David Ingram (NBC News)
For people who see others as just part of a Race or Ethnicity, their victims are not persons, just pieces of a race to take down.
The aggressor's mental dehumanization of their victims is what allows them to just exterminate them as if they were animals and one way to dehumanize them is to look at them as just pieces of a "bad" Race which needs to be removed/eliminated.
Genociders target "a Race" and want to destroy "a Race" - that's how the aggressors see the whole affair: as a fight of Races.
The victims, on the other hand, are individual human beings who suffer as only thinking and feeling human beings can suffer, not as pieces of "a Race", and their suffering would be exactly the same when done the same things no mater what thier Race.
Israeli soldiers wore T-shirts with a pregnant woman in cross-hairs and the slogan "1 Shot 2 Kills," adding to a growing furor in the country over allegations of misconduct by troops during the Gaza war."The smaller they are, the harder it is," says another shirt showing a child in a rifle sight. Soldiers wore the shirts to mark the end of basic training and other military courses and they were first reported by the Haaretz daily.
cbsnews.com/news/israeli-t-shi…
This article is from 2009 by the way.
Israeli T-Shirts Joke About Killing Arabs
Deaths Of Palestinian Women, Children Become Fodder For Israeli Military FashionCBS News
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