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Zirconium , to Texas in [NPR] Texas abortion bans are back in place after state appeals judge's order

Seems like the conservative belief that judges shouldnt “make” legislature is flawed if state legislatures cannot even write a comprehensive law (ofc that’s a feature not a bug)

moobythegoldensock , to Politics in [Analysis] 5 things to know about the latest charges against Donald Trump
  1. This is the third criminal indictment for Trump, but it’s more than just another legal woe
  2. The latest charges represent significant legal peril
  3. The indictment lists six anonymous co-conspirators
  4. Trump is calling this indictment “fake.” And, yes, he’s still leading the polls
  5. Charges for 2020 election interference are starting to pile up
starrox , to Politics in McConnell says he's 'fine' after abruptly stopping press conference
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May he fall a thousand times.

TheRealBob , to Politics in McConnell says he's 'fine' after abruptly stopping press conference
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Yeah no he ain’t fine. I’ve taken care of elderly people before, I’ve seen that look. I’m not saying he’s dying or anything, but that man is not well. Something very serious is going on with him.

UFODivebomb , to U.S. News in Trump charged with additional counts in Mar-a-Lago documents case (NPR)

Anybody from the “law and order” party want to defend this shit head?

"charges Trump, De Oliveira and Nauta with two new obstruction counts based on allegations that they instructed an unnamed, fourth worker to delete surveillance video footage at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence last summer “to prevent the footage from being provided to a federal grand jury.” "

Go on. Let’s here the bullshit excuses

ClarkFlankblast , to Politics in McConnell says he's 'fine' after abruptly stopping press conference

He wasn’t “fine” before this.

Anticorp ,

That boy ain’t right.

Che_Donkey , to U.S. News in Trump charged with additional counts in Mar-a-Lago documents case (NPR)
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what a dickhead

Piecemakers3Dprints , to Politics in McConnell says he's 'fine' after abruptly stopping press conference
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Just had to leech the lifeblood from a few shackled minors. Good as new, now.

Kalkaline , to Politics in McConnell says he's 'fine' after abruptly stopping press conference
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Terevos , to U.S. News in House Republicans' CHOICE Act would roll back some Obamacare protections
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Obamacare has been just awful. Medical prices have increased dramatically because of it. At least this is an attempt to correct some of that.

violetraven ,
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How will it correct any of that?

Terevos ,
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Don’t get me wrong, this proposal is by no means perfect or even the thing I would ideally address first.

But making more options for small companies and loosening the restrictions on what qualifies for health insurance will help curb the cost of medical care overall.

modulartable ,

What is the point of having cheap insurance options if said insurance does not cover or actually do anything? It’s worthless junk literally! Instead of taking the insurance you’d be better off pocketing the money and forgoing it all together.

I don’t know how you can blame “Obamacare” for medical prices increasing when it is clear that they would have and will continue to rise no matter if “Obamacare” still exists or not. When healthcare is about profits and is a business, whether any of us live or die does not matter to these companies.

SpunkyBarnes ,

Sorry, that sounds like a version of trickle down economics, which we know never did.

SpunkyBarnes , (edited )

Really?

Commercially insured here.

I have to jump thru hoops, wait, and pay a significantly higher out of pocket for any imaging outside of X-rays. Due to my employer, I am locked into a single provider. Sure, I can (and do) have supplementary insurance, but FFS why is that even necessary?

The answer to all of the above, IMO?

Corporate greed, enabled by government intervention.

The Affordable Care Act isn’t our real problem, we can lay that at the feet of Richard Nixon .

edit: word order

nihilx7E3 OP ,
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i mean, i agree that we should do something about healthcare prices & that obamacare is not faring so well right now. but trying to make it easier to get junk healthcare plans without doing anything about decreasing the price of full-fledged healthcare plans will just make things worse, & lead to a situation where low-income people are priced out of even being able to afford a full healthcare plan & forced to either default to these “short-term”/association plans or not have any at all

Jaysyn , to Politics in Judge blocks a Florida law that would punish venues where kids can see drag shows
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Federal court is where DeSantis' fascist dreams go to die.

Hondolor ,
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Is it really fascist to want kids to not be exposed to pornographic material :I

EvilColeslaw ,
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This is not actually about pornographic content. Florida already had laws to protect from actually obscene material.

Drag queen story time and drag acts that do not contain nudity are not pornographic.

HotDogFingies ,
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Correct. Misleading wording like this is how they manage to trick ignorant people into supporting hateful laws like this one - assuming they're not supporting these laws precisely because they're hateful.

The LGBTQ+ community (including drag queens) absolutely and unequivocally does NOT support pedophilia in any form. This includes exposing children to pornographic material. That's fucking canon and you can quote me on that shit.

Monomate ,

There’s some videos floating around of drag shows with sensual dancing with children present. I’m not saying all Drag presentations are like this, but maybe the law should’ve been more specific to these kinds of situations.

killall-q , to Star Trek in Why the galactic barrier and transporters don’t match real science, and why warp drive might
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Because teleportation is murder. Whatever comes out on the other side may look and act like you, but isn't you, because you're now dead for having been disassembled by the teleporter.

zalack ,
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Teleporters are interesting because when you think about it long enough, you realize the person on departure end died.

You think about it more... and if the person that comes out the arrival end is an exact replica -- down to the atom -- and, further, has internal continuity of experience... You realize that if you accept they died then you kind of also have to accept that the "you" of any given instant is constantly dying and giving way to the "you" of the next instant. That person living that experience at that exact moment will never exist again; they're dead.

So you're kinda back to transporters being business as usual again, but with a fun new existential crisis on the side.

SeeJayEmm ,
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In practice, I agree with you. The transporter scans, disintegrates, and reconstructs the thing being transported. But when the thing being transported is reconstructed at a subatomic level it is effectively identical.

I can imagine the society we see in startrek having already worked through the moral and philosophical implications. I would have loved to see that addressed in an episode tho.

concrete_baby OP ,

Is one carbon atom the same as another carbon atom, philosophically? Can you keep your identity when all your atoms are replaced by other atoms of the same kind? It’s the ship of Theseus problem

lightninhopkins , to U.S. News in Alabama lawmakers refuse to create a 2nd majority-Black congressional district

Likely Alito let them know how to frame it so that the SC gets to rule and further gut the VRA.

drwho , to U.S. News in Universal Studios might have invoked the wrath of California's Tree Law
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They’ll just get fined, and it’ll be a small fraction of their daily revenue.

Idrunkenlysignedup ,

I posted this elsewhere, but according to a quick Google it’s up to $18k per tree and from the images I found, it’s 5 trees. $90k is couch cushion money to Universal. They DGAF about fines.

audaxdreik , to U.S. News in Universal Studios might have invoked the wrath of California's Tree Law

You really love to see yet another unsuspecting victim accidentally invoke the wrath of tree law. Really makes that old episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force (S1E2) hit different. Ain’t no joke!

termus ,
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NO FEET

BarrelAgedBoredom ,

If there’s one thing I’ve learned from reddit; it’s that tree law is the only thing the us legal system takes seriously

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