Woody Guthrie is estimated to have written more than 1000 songs, but probably most of them are like this: lyrics on lined notebook paper. Every now and then an artist has the privilege to dig into the archives and pull one out and arrange and record it.

Charlie Kirk was supposed to be of the maga faction that supported Israel. Why would Bibi want to whack him?

There was a book a while back called Guns, Germs, and Steel that delves into this topic.

The root cause, as I understand it, is that Europe is on a continent oriented east-west instead of north-south. And Europe in particular is on the part of that continent that has a lot of easy access to the sea.

East-west orientation allows you to transplant plants and animals long distances and keep them at roughly the same latitudes, which means roughly the same climate. That is a big boon for spreading “civilized” agriculture, which is what creates surplus of labor, which creates non food jobs that advance technology.

Among the common 5-7 domesticated food animals people eat today, all but one or two were domesticated in Mesopotamia, but then spread all over Europe.

Access to the sea is the other component that turns tech advantage into colonialism, because it gives the transportation. Even today, China and Russia are great powers, but they are forced to be continental powers instead of maritime powers, because nearly all of their coast lines are hemmed in by narrow seas that are easy to blockade.

There are, of course, a bunch of other factors I’m not even thinking about and competing opinions. But I don’t for one second think that any of this has anything to do with European “innate intelligence” or skin color.

Yep, straight to SCOTUS.

The thing that makes the outcome suspenseful is that Gorsuch and Kavanaugh have been signalling “but not the Fed” when they’re attacking agency independence. Probably because they have stock portfolios.

So it seems like they may try to carve some distinction that saves the Fed from the same fate as the FTC, CFPB, NRLB, and merit protection board. It’s not at all clear what’s that might be.

How’s that reunification of Ireland going?

The Pennsylvania charge is for an illegal gun.

“Groyper” is a corruption of goy / goyim, right? A Yiddish word for non-Jews.

So is it fair to say that most of the 26 character message was on the shell casing, rather than the bullet itself?

My best understanding right now is that the shooter is in the wind.

The Federal gov in the US has a “road legal” standard for commercial motor vehicles like trucks and buses. The feds also have minimum rules for headlights, brake lights and turn signals on passenger cars.

Everything else in terms of road legality is a state law in each of the 50 states.

The reason is the Constitution gives the feds power to regulate interstate commerce (i.e. big commercial vehicles that frequently cross state lines). The feds do not have the general “police power” that states have to pass laws on whatever.

On September 30, the fiscal year will turn over, and the funds will not be available anyway. The case will be moot, so they will never be able to argue the merits in court, and the court will never come to a final decision.

The money will disappear. (Where? Somewhere, who knows?) And Congress’s will, expressed when they passed a law that said to spend this money on foreign aid in this fiscal year, will have been defeated.

The original auction of Girl with Balloon went for 1 million pounds in 2018. Love is in the Bin sold for 18.5 million pounds in 2021. That’s an 18x appreciation over 3 years. And a good move for the 2018 buyer to follow through with the purchase.

That is an excellent and profitable plan for someone, right up until the wall starts sledge-hammering itself to bits on the auction floor.

I agree that it’s lazy copy editing. “Allegedly” is used in the newspaper business as a magic “get out of any libel suit” word.

However, I don’t think it’s necessarily safe for the news flat report that Trump “did” the thing. They can report on what Carroll says he did (those are the allegations). And they can report that a jury determined it’s more likely than not that he did the thing.

This is a situation where explaining it correctly requires several more words than the editors wanted to spare.

Except it wasn’t a criminal conviction. “Conviction” is not a suitable word here.

Trump was found liable in a civil lawsuit for the tort of sexual assault. He was not convicted of the crime of sexual assault. Many crimes also have corresponding civil torts.

You don’t wanna risk getting detained re-entering the US and this racist ass administration denying your citizenship.

Since OP stated they are a natural-born US citizen, this scenario would be a significant escalation towards authoritarianism if it does happen.

Even doing this to a naturalized citizen would be an escalation.

Right now, most “border surprise” cases involve green card holders, not citizens, who have old criminal charges that rendered them deportable a long time ago. Just no previous federal government has cared enough to go find them and put them into removal proceedings.

This is also only an interim decision that only officially applies to operations in Los Angeles for the duration of that litigation and further appeals (e.g. 1-2 years). There was no opinion or explanation on how this ruling comports with existing 4A and 5A case law.

Were you here for US election season? Because there were piles of astroturf comments pushing a don’t vote narrative, with activity vaguely correlated around Moscow’s time zone. And they all shut up and disappeared right after the election.

And you could tell the difference between the psyop trolls and the genuine tankies, because the tankies are still here doing their tankie stuff.

The US has universal jurisdiction to prosecute pirates and to seize their vessels. Seize does not mean “sink.”

As far as I know, they don’t have a lot of facts in this case to spin into a “the bad guys escalated a law enforcement boarding operation” scenario.

I gave you the downvote because I once attended a public lecture by Stephen Hawking, near the very end of his lifetime. It had to be one of the few, very last, public lectures that Dr. Hawking had in him. And the topic of that lecture was the nature of time, and how all of the equations of motion are fully reversible, etc, etc etc.

Out of all of the topics Dr. Hawking could have discussed, that one is the one he chose. And to me, that means that the nature of time was interesting enough to him to spread around to the public. That there are live issues that are not well settled. And so on.

Since that time, I’ve not seen any major developments in theoretical physics or philosophy to shift the status quo to an appreciable degree.

This leads me to the final judgement on your comment: You are wrong. There are live issues to discuss here, and OP deserves to further explain, defend, and debate their philosophy.