The ottoman looked studiously away.

Article is short on details. So Belgium doesn’t have birthright citizenship?

Hate on Biden all you want, but please vote for him. Trump is worse. Trump was behind moving the US embassy to Jerusalem. Trump instituted a ban on travel to the USA from some (note some) Muslim majority countries. If Trump gets elected, expect Project 2025 to come to fruition.

This kind of thing sure seems to have happened quite a bit at Fox. Maybe there seems to be a whole lot of sociopathic predatory behavior among conservatives.

Dimon and Republicans are against it? Sounds like it’s something good.

I’ll just leave this here: French Revolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution

Philando Castile has entered the chat.

I had some punk students with non-natural hair colors when I was a high school teacher in California, and that was a long time ago. Nobody cared. This story is from Texas, though.

“Maduro’s increasingly bellicose rhetoric over Essequibo is seen by analysts as an attempt to distract from a series of overlapping crises at home” I guess “blame the gays” didn’t poll as well as “invade a neighbor.”

Typical cop talk. There is crime everywhere, and my department needs more money to stop it.

A few years back I remember bad cooking oil in Spain led to some very serious adverse health effects. Good on the police for catching the adulterated oil purveyors.

Yes, the left has been better. The left didn’t practice family separation like Trump did.

Reminds me of the Dreadnought hoax. As a former prankster, much respect to the people of Kailasa (but not Nithyananda). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreadnought_hoax

The news just gets sadder and sadder by the day. Why do I fixate on reading the news?

So, she was fired from teaching sex ed because she most likely knows more about sex than most people?

uncomfortable for some people People like me, who got tired of the firehose of ultra-right-wing lies, conspiracy theories, and propaganda. Oh, and nazis.

You can always count on Benny to come up with some hot take that’s wrong, stupid, or not even wrong.

Instead of sinking all that money into rockets, Bezos could pay his workers more and not treat them like robots. He could let them unionize if they want. But Bezos is a typical billionaire with a giant yacht.

An Analysis of Amazon Practises on Shop Floor Mainly by Taylorism and Additional Theories

https://www.clausiuspress.com/conferences/LNEMSS/GEFHR 2020/GEFHR2020037.pdf

Just don’t work for them. Don’t Uber, don’t deliver packages, don’t nanny their brats, don’t walk their dogs, don’t mow their lawns, just refuse to work for them and let them figure out how that “libertarian paradise” stuff works out.

Right wingers around the world are taking notes…