I like swapping them out but I wouldn’t do it all at once and I’d implement term limits that put them outside of a two-term president’s reach. I like 13 year Supreme Court terms because it’s a prime number and it would keep any one president from naming more than one or two justices.

Biden should appoint Cornel West and Bernie Sanders as two of the additional 4 justices.

My hot take is that a public life should mean a much reduced expectation of privacy. If you want to make decisions that affect millions (or billions) of people, those people should be able to see and hear everything you do outside of the most intimate necessities of life. E.G. you can poop without someone watching, but not much else. Don’t like it? Quit.

The headline is missing “again.” Chiquita, AKA the United Fruit Company, has been abusing Latin American nations for the entire time it has existed.

Outside of Florida, cholera and syphilis are more popular than DeSantis.

If you’re referring to dollars given/promised to “charity,” a huge amount of that is done in a way that protects assets from taxes but primarily benefits the donor or the donor’s offspring.

Example: Warren Buffet has billions he has pledged to charity. However, when he dies it goes into a private charitable trust that conveniently employs his children and pays them millions a year for “administration” duties. The trust can donate stocks to charities, and there is a tax exemption for the “value” of the donation, reducing the tax burden of the trust further. Billionaire charity in the USA is a nearly-complete fiction which is actually more in line with the behavior discussed in this article.

Very cool that the Minneapolis PD I’d just outsourcing forensics to <checks notes> discount retailer Target?

What’s next, the state of Arkansas outsourcing public education to Walmart?

Or, you know, a school. You know, where there are children? Maybe children who have physical limitations who have been called gimps?

Oh well, who cares about the educational environment and getting kids exposed to FOSS options instead of commercial software?

I 100% agree. I think it’s also good to remember that when people defend the death penalty, they’re thinking about people like this, or John Wayne Gacy, and not the thousands of people who are convicted with way more questionable evidence.

I’m a death penalty opponent but cases like this remind me why a lot of people aren’t.

Boy it would be a tragedy if 30-50 feral hogs trampled Ken Paxton into a paste.

Dammit, can we see criticism from someone who isn’t a monster and doesn’t refer to antisemitic tropes in their criticism?

You stated that the INR would have rigged an election. That is just as false as saying the FBI rigged a foreign election, that’s not what those agencies do.

Does the US fuck with the domestic affairs of other nations? Of course. Does the INR play a role in that behavior? Sure. Does that role include rigging elections? Absolutely not. They might suggest it, but the CIA would most likely do the dirt, the same way the CIA may be involved with armed insurrectionists but it’s going to be spec ops operators doing the training.

She said it in 2006, when she was a senator, not the Secretary of State. So I’d argue she absolutely did not mean “we” as “the state department.” She likely meant “we” as “the United States Government.” Either way, at the time she would not have been in a position to tell anyone to rig the election, being a democratic senator with a republican in the White House.

This agency that has zero foreign assets or any function beyond analyzing raw intelligence gathered by other agencies? They were going to fix an election?

Did you read the article? Ham-handedly manipulating foreign elections is clearly stated as within the jurisdiction of the CIA.

I’ve known people who were vegetarian/vegan for a while and then ate meat and got sick from it. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Isn’t there a journalism rule about not having a headline be a question with a yes or no answer? Seems like there should be.

Jeez, reading how the people were killed makes me wonder what the motive was. I’m assuming that with a group doing the deed it’s not just a psychopath.

Is it because Zionists engaged in brutality and repression at every step of the project to create Israel?

I once had a friend turn down an invitation because he “had friends coming in from Cleveland.” I told him he could just say he didn’t want to go.