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Guilty! Reddit definitely appeals to my obviously progressive leanings...but I know they're only delivering the northeast liberal hippie slant of news events...NY Post gives the opposite side, it reminds me of the angry guy on the subway platform, I like him too! Who else is going to tell me the Knicks still suck, they will forever suck, and it's all Ewing's fault for missing that finger-roll? The NY Post, that's who!

@Castanza Let's be real, the time for nuanced discussion or self-reflection is long gone. Do you think Trump is sitting down to debate the issues? What did he just say about pardoning a convicted binance money-launderer? "I don't even know him!" Meanwhile his family is in bed with Binance. Give me a break. As you said, Trump is a symptom of the system. We got what we paid for - or in this case, what we didn't pay for. Shall we talk about tax breaks for the rich and ICE budgets? Shall we talk about wealth distribution? Why does every republican senator vote against a bipartisan border security bill at Trump's request? Gimme a break. In terms of education- yes I made a blanket statement...dig deeper? Sure. Take a look at education levels amongst the 50 states and compare with which States voted red vs blue. We both know how it looks, we both know which states historically pushed for public education funding and which prefer voucher systems. We both know which party pushed for taxes to fund the institutions meant to discourage the blatant unconstitutional corruption we are seeing, and we know which party has made every effort to gut those institutions, using the same bullshit arguments seen in 1774 and 1858. I'll spare the poor sensitive summer children in the audience the painful truth, they don't want to hear it anyways.

We gotta get rid of the anarchists! Throw em in jail! Whoops - wrong anarchists!

As you can imagine decades of under-investment in education (not just financially but also socially/culturally) has led to the average MAGA voter. "Stupid and hateful" is generally how I describe what I am seeing these days. People either too stupid to realize the long term implications of their decisions (see: voting Trump into power and his subsequent policies), in many cases combined with some Christian-nationalist crap where they are hateful of anyone who is not "like them". As an American - it's absolutely embarrassing.

Portland is safe! Another domestic terrorist plot has been STIFLED by the ICE Super Squad:

Just another day at high school here in the States.

This wouldn't be a conversation if they had just branded it the MAGA Trump Super Serum

Noem vs perdomo was decided via emergency docket. Find me the oral arguments for this case. You can't, because they do not exist. https://browngold.com/blog/noem-v-vasquez-perdomo-the-supreme-courts-green-light-for-racial-profiling/ In Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo, the Court granted the government’s emergency request on its so-called “shadow docket,” with no oral argument, no briefing, and no warning to the public. Justice Kavanaugh insisted ethnicity “alone” cannot justify a stop. But by allowing it as a “relevant factor” alongside language, job, and location, the Court created a blueprint for racial profiling without naming it as such. If you buy Kavanaugh’s rationale, then you have adopted a probabilistic theory of reasonable suspicion, and you are abandoning a requirement of individualized suspicion before you detain someone. I think a general probabilistic theory of reasonable suspicion would be a significant departure from prior Fourth Amendment doctrine. I'd suggest reading the analysis provided here: https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/09/roving-patrols-reasonable-suspicion-and-perdomo/ I'd also note that the Supreme Court does not have the cojones to actually rule on Kavanaugh's rationale. They simply lifted a lower court's restraining order. In other words, the SC is saying "we know this is unconstitutional, but we don't have the guts to come out and say it. In fact, we're going to allow it for a temporary time period until it achieves the administration's aims, and then we'll forget all about it and pretend this never happened". Also known as: Chickenshit I cannot DISAGREE emphatically enough. This is what the administration is, in essence, already doing.

Great question since it could apply to multiple actions/positions/policies (call it what you will) taken by this administration. I was referring to ICE's blatant violation of the 4th Amendment. Even a middle school student would agree that race alone is not a valid reason to arrest someone. But our corrupt supreme court disagrees. Not that they would ever let oral and written arguments see the light of day and allow their corruption come to light. No, their corruption must be kept behind the shadows. TRUMP v. UNITED STATES https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-939_e2pg.pdf Today’s decision to grant former Presidents criminal immunity reshapes the institution of the Presidency. It makes a mockery of the principle, foundational to our Constitution and system of Government, that no man is above the law. Relying on little more than its own misguided wisdom about the need for “bold and unhesitating action” by the President … The Court gives former President Trump all the immunity he asked for and more. Because our Constitution does not shield a former President from answering for criminal and treasonous acts, I dissent. KRISTI NOEM, SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, ET AL. v. PEDRO VASQUEZ PERDOMO, ET AL. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/25a169_5h25.pdf Based on the evidence before it, the court held that the Government was stopping indi- viduals based solely on four factors: (1) their apparent race or ethnicity; (2) whether they spoke Spanish or English with an accent; (3) the type of location at which they were found (such as a car wash or bus stop); and (4) the type of job they appeared to work. Concluding that stops based on these four factors alone, even when taken together, could not satisfy the Fourth Amendment’s requirement of reason- able suspicion, the District Court temporarily enjoined the Government from continuing its pattern of unlawful mass arrests while it considered whether longer-term relief was appropriate. Instead of allowing the District Court to consider these troubling allegations in the normal course, a majority of this Court decides to take the once-extraordinary step of staying the District Court’s order. That decision is yet an- other grave misuse of our emergency docket. We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent.

The underlying issue is that the policy the are enforcing is unconstitutional. The fact that they suck at execution is just irony.

I think a better phrasing of the same question is, which company will create billions (trillions?) of value over the next generation? Which in my mind means you're looking at truly breakthrough technologies. True AGI? Something breakthrough in energy generation (nuclear)? Cures for major diseases (cancer etc)? That kind of stuff.

I agree with @Spekulatius, Brexit was my first thought. Shows evidence from a country similar to the US, about what happens when you embrace extreme isolationist policies, cutting yourself off from your allies and core trading partners...

The most basic laws of this land are enumerated in our Constitution which are being violated daily by the federal government. How many more examples must I post? How many more supreme court dissenting opinions must we publish? I know, I know, "who cares". And when those remaining functioning minds in American society asked "why", the response was a sea of made-in-china red hats with froth forming at the corners of their wearer's mouths, all powered by a single Trump-branded brain cell between them...I'll spare my mental health!

My friend, put gently I think the accuracy of your post could be improved with a review of the historical record... If you're interested: https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&psid=3059

Turns out the guy in the black sweater is a law abiding american citizen. Can't say the same for the goonsquad. Do you think they wear face masks because they're not used to the delicious scent of cooking with south american spices?

Just getting terrorists off the streets:

Calling it here first: Ivanka 2028

Politics, or the art of making sure anything which everyone agrees on, never happens!

I think the problem is polls have been politicized. A well designed poll is representative. A poll designed to drive a specific outcome may not be. Process vs. outcome

If only the parents of anti-vaxxers shared their views, we'd be spared this dumb argument!

It's so wonderfully ironic that the loony parents crusading against vaccines for their precious little babies, are themselves vaccinated.

Oh c'mon - some conservatives love making a controversial implication but when the point is pressed, immediately backtrack and claims dishonesty. Bunch of whiners. Take a look at this terrible point: Does anyone think more Floridians will get vaccinated if there was no vaccine mandate? I just did my own research and apparently the moon has no vaccine mandate and there's zero smallpox up there!

Also, this is somewhat the bet you make when doing business with governments. When things are quiet, it's great: little competition if any, stable work, decent margins. But at the end of the day the gov't can't allow people to go cold/hungry/etc. and so the contractor is partly on the hook for that. Similar happened with Aecon in Toronto - Metrolinx (gov't transit agency) went after them for all the costs associated with COVID delays and other screw ups.

Well, Warren may have cooled on power distribution (not necessarily generation). But regardless, I'd imagine Greg Abel is in the driver's seat at this point. And given Greg's career centered around energy, he may not be as quick to abandon it.

Not sure - I followed you into 5233. I noticed another cement company I track (Monarch cement) also up materially.