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This sounds like a great idea. I have been getting mine in what is autumn here, but maybe I’ll get it before I can’t…

I immediately thought about Terry Schiavo.

While I have a lot of issues with Department of Defense things, being over budget is a pretty common challenge in the private sector, too. Transportation is over budget a lot because we underfund it. Not that the current administration cares.

I am not savvy enough to understand the article at a technical level, but this says a lot about the right-wing mindset:

Other changes mandated by the EO include:

• Barring the Treasury Department from sanctioning people in the US who are involved in cyberattacks on US infrastructure. The accompanying White House statement said the change would prevent “misuse against domestic political opponents.”

We will deal with it, thanks for making this list ❤

I live in an area that has gold mining and brothels. After reading this, I now wonder if trafficking is an issue in my place. Not a lot of opportunity for locals, but there are young folks 😐

This is kind of funny to me, but also close because this (not exactly) was a fear of mine about these when I was younger

Fascists have argued that the enemy is both strong and weak, for a long time. The enemy changes over time perhaps, but it doesn’t seem that the far right does.

Serious Queensryche vibes

Unfortunately for Floridians there are definitely open pit mines in Fla.

Very true! The whole domain squatting thing is pretty bizarre to me.

The .org seems to require a log in. I wonder what entity has these domains. I imagine the folks working to manifest the fediverse don’t have the capacity to buy up all the possible domains.

Haha this is the first thing I thought of. I didn’t know what kind of bird she was tho. FilmCow is great.

I read the article, and I am also not really sure what the author was trying to accomplish. Right now (in the US at least) is not very similar to 2008 and I am unsure how many “lessons learned” for folks like myself would be useful.

You may have a local or regional org to help, and there are multiple national groups that cover a variety of bases. Legal funds, advocacy, news. Pick your passion.

Mug cloud?

I live in an area that was part of the sagebrush rebellion, I work in places that Claude Dallas did his thing, and it is very conservative here. I am also a federal land management employee. There is no push for this here. I notice my state isn’t named in the article, mostly higher population states, but I think that this movement will have difficulty getting traction with most right wing land users due to concerns about what it will cost them. Ranchers get a pretty good deal on public land, and it may be telling that mining and timber groups are no longer involved.

At any rate, this “coalition” is definitely something to keep watching. I used to live in New Mexico and there was, at that time, a ranching propaganda publication that really stoked fears about things that just didn’t exist. People are driven to decide on fear and we have to provide an answer to that.

Wait, so significant portions of the US population will need identification beyond a state-issued ID? If so I feel like this hasn’t been in the news or I’ve really missed a big headline.

The MSPB dismissals got me since the MAGA folks seem so obsessed with anything that they deem to be not based on merit. Obviously they lie, and this is great evidence of that.

Yes, but what does it mean if the USA is not a participant of the ICC? FAFO? Maybe it needs to happen.