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Don’t you think she’s more loudly going to preach about the virtues of out Lord and Savior, Six-pack Jesus?

It starts feeling like Trump vibe-coded his Presidency. Stuff happens because it sounds good in the LLM’s mind, but of course it has no idea of the knock-on effects and all hell breaks loose.

After this is all over, we’ll have to add up the corruption and graft and see what percentage of GDP that is. There are kids barely born that will have to pay back this insanity.

Was about to say: the cat wouldn’t be resting by the side of the human, its butt would be right on the face! 🤣

It’s a bit odd to blame low literacy rates for the fall of the Roman Empire. It took centuries for that Empire to fall, and throughout that time the literacy rates within were way ahead of most of its enemies. Historians like Gibbon largely blame economic and political factors: disruptions in trade routes due to constant warfare, depopulation of entire regions due to internal and external struggles, and lack of internal cohesion / constant infighting.

Now, at least the disruption of trade routes and the constant infighting are afflicting the USA right now, although not because of war. The USA is still so powerful that it takes a monarch’s unilateral decision to impose tariffs for trade to be rerouted, and it’s his doing that the country is as deeply divided as it’s been.

Posturing before the Republican primary runoff.

It’s disgusting that this man issues an opinion like this. It’s worse that some Texas voters would prefer him because of this B.S. The party of limited government, of parental rights, of individual responsibility: right there at the forefront of telling people who they can be, against their own will, that of their parents, and that of medical professionals.

Ah, so the short story is this would have flown under the radar if it hadn’t been for a person that was accused of murder that needed dirt on the arresting officer.

What do you know, an accused murderer is today’s hero.

For the lazy: on the Democratic side, Talarico is leading Crockett by almost 8 points with 80% of the vote counted, while there is going to be a runoff between Cornyn and Paxton for the GOP, with Cornyn having a small lead at this stage.

An interesting piece of information is that there were about 77000 more votes cast for Democrats than Republicans, about 3%. That doesn’t mean much, but it’s an interesting signal.

I would wager the guess his war machine is still more popular than his involvement in the Epstein affair and his brutal mishandling of the US economy. Or the fact he is delusional about both, being completely exonerated by the release of the Epstein files and having created the best economy in the history of the universe, according to him.

I think the big question is what kind of IG user are your contacts. If they are on the platform to look at what the Kardashians are up to, or the big influencers, then lack of monetization on Pixelfed means your contacts will miss the content from IG.

If it’s people that exchange pictures and don’t care what famous people do, then maybe switch to Pixelfed and continue posting a reduced amount to IG, with the information that most of your posts are on Pixelfed. And maybe, once in a while you could post a screenshot of your Pixelfed feed on IG, so that people can see the quality of other people’s content.

A whole NOVEL in 57 words!

Yeah. Labour seems to have gotten as far as knowing they needed to talk about change to win the election, but seemed not to realize they had to do something about it after they won.

To be fair to them, it must be really hard to understand the need for change if you are a posh member of parliament. What’s wrong with the status quo? Look at all these people licking your boots! /s

I’ll absolutely buy into that logic. But why would they take such a huge lead and just throw it out like that? They should have realized that their policies stink, no?

Sounds like tossing the baby with the bath water…

From the post body:

The court’s ruling focused on the parents’ claim that their rights under the free exercise clause of the Constitution’s First Amendment were violated. The court also said they have valid parental rights claims under the Constitution’s 14th Amendment.

So, yes, it is a religious issue. And I would have totally bought a framing that says the law infringes on the teachers’ rights or those of staff to notify the parents. I don’t know why they would frame it as the parents’ right. I suppose it’s because they couldn’t find school personnel willing to go to court over this.

I totally get your point, and you are right. But the court went out of its way to frame is as the parents’ right based on exercise of religion, which seems bonkers to me.

I suppose the post body might be wrong, too.

I agree, and they have more or less always been that way. If you wanted to shrink the reach of religion, you brought a case about the rights of Muslims or Native Americans. If you wanted to expand it, you brought a case about Catholicism.

I think what changed is that they were more roundabout about it and they tried to find some reasoning that got them where they wanted but not for the reasons they wanted. Sort of like the decision to let the baker discriminate, which was formally decided on the grounds that the State of Colorado discriminated against his religiosity.

It’s so odd it took the Tories decades to lose support, and Starmer manages it in just a couple of years.

I am surprised Labour is not sacking him posthaste.

See, that’s what makes SCOTUS’s argument so insidious. If the right to be notified is religious in nature, then the conflict with the child that doesn’t want to tell the parents also is religious in nature. In particular, the child asserts the freedom to be free from the parents’ religion.

If the decision were based on the free speech rights of the school, or on concern for the well-being of the child, I could have understood. But basing it on the religious rights of the parents is in direct contradiction with the fact that the child clearly doesn’t want their parents to know, which means the child is aware the parents would disapprove for religious reasons, which means the child does not share that particular religious belief.

The court’s ruling focused on the parents’ claim that their rights under the free exercise clause of the Constitution’s First Amendment were violated. The court also said they have valid parental rights claims under the Constitution’s 14th Amendment.

That is very troubling. I could have understood a First Amendment justification for the school and the staff, although they have to live with restrictions on what they say all the time.

Basing this on the parents’ free exercise clause means that the parents have a religious right to know the details of their children’s lives, which implies they have a right to force their religion on their children.

That is a monstrous claim, as children have a right to their own religion and exercise thereof under the First Amendment, too.

Nearly half say they would be more likely to support continued military action if it led to a government in Iran that is friendly to the U.S. or puts an end to the Iranian nuclear program.

The downside risks are also evident: 54% say they would be less likely to support U.S. military action if it leads to U.S. casualties. Many also indicate their support would decline if U.S. actions led to a broader conflict in the Middle East.

“If this goes well, I will have always been behind it. If it goes poorly, I was always against.”