volkris @volkris@qoto.org

@heretical_i

These kinds of posts are bizarre. Describing a government structure that was specifically set up to avoid giving anyone that sort of power as giving somebody that sort of power is just...

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary explanation at this point.

This is just nutty.

@nognom

@AkaSci Link?

I tried to check his feed on X and I couldn't find this post, so I'm wondering if it's real or if it is disinformation about disinformation.

@Tooden it did not

@BeAware@social.beaware.live The code is publicly available on a git repository so you can run it yourself regardless of what some thread is saying.

Don't believe it? Well, try it!

@ekana @juergen_hubert

@BeAware@social.beaware.live Well that's not true.

BlueSky is a whole platform, and you can host your own relay if you want, and your content doesn't even have to go through a relay at all. That's just not how the system is set up.

@juergen_hubert

@BeAware@social.beaware.live Well that's not true.

BlueSky is a whole platform, and you can host your own relay if you want, and your content doesn't even have to go through a relay at all. That's just not how the system is set up.

@juergen_hubert

@juergen_hubert

For one thing, there is the issue of moving to non-mastodon instances on this platform.

For another thing, a lot of people complain about not having a lot of their stuff moved, weather through buggy instances or one instance not cooperating in the migration or whatever other reason.

@realcaseyrollins

Fair enough. So many people think that's actually a good idea that it's hard to tell who's joking.

#PoesLaw

@gabriel

@theguardian_us_news that headline is inaccurate.

The order specifically allows federal spending on grants and loans.

@zombywoof I'd describe it as promises he's either broken or in the process of breaking.

The [false] claim that he kept his promises in his first term was such a huge part of his campaign, and the left decided to play into the lie instead of countering it to deflate him as the loser he is.

So here we are.

@realcaseyrollins @gabriel

Just based on the headline on the paywall, sounds like they're planning on inflating their way out of tariffs?

Their undermining their own economy isn't exactly sticking it to Trump. It just means they'll leave the US more competitive without Trump even having to do anything.

@RememberUsAlways

When did Trump use extortion to extract demands?

@davidpnice

@RememberUsAlways

Y'all are spinning some nutty conspiracy theories here, and the problem is that buying into this nonsense serves to disempower voters who might otherwise work to fix things.

Why should I bother voting for a better official if you're telling me it's all a big bribery scheme anyway?

@davidpnice

@Drip_Drip it's the job of the SCOTUS to consider such cases.

And it's already pretty common in the US for public dollars to directly fund religious schools, so it's not that this could lead to that. That already happens.

This is more about the opposite, the extent to which states can discriminate AGAINST religious schools by denying them funding they'd otherwise be entitled to.

So this is more about allowing public dollars to be withheld from them.

@w7voa

@Thad court rulings regarding private gun ownership were made on the basis of such passed law...

@JizzelEtBass you beg the question here.

You say VA violated federal law, but the whole point is a dispute over whether the federal law actually applied to this case. VA says it doesn't, and that's why there's a dispute in court.

NVRA absolutely DOES allow changes 90 days before the election. It explicitly says so, right there in the statute.

Someone's misinforming you.

As for SCOTUS being captured by DJT, that case would be easier to make if it hadn't ruled against him pretty often.

Again, the story you've been told doesn't really match the facts.
@stanleyHootzz @cmconseils

@servelan

This has nothing to do with SCOTUS: if Trump's actions were actually illegal then the Court is happy to see them prosecuted and/or challenged in court.

@Nonilex well right.

So many feel that Biden went too far with his prosecutions of people, overcharging and generally abusing laws that didn't really fit the allegations, threatening peoples' civil rights in the process.

It's only right to follow up with investigations to figure out some of how the previous administration was using or abusing its power.

@europesays The narrative that I've always heard isn't concerned with the treatment being common, but just that it exists at all.

So I guess far from refuting the narrative, this study would really confirm it.