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This is a story about a story that provides fewer details.

See the full thing here: https://www.vox.com/scotus/411185/supreme-court-religion-charter-schools-oklahoma-drummond

Arts and letters daily is great. Overlaps a bit with your interests, though not every day.

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Good. Don’t let Congress inaction in the pursuit of election politics work, and take credit for yourselves instead.

This is broken governance in action, but at least we have action this time. Pray the courts stay out of it for the sake of the people being helped by this move.

Brilliant being combative with strangers in the same echo chamber as you. Glad we spent this time together.

I’ve been hearing it for over 8 years now, to varrying degrees of intensity across the media spectrum. I’d assume anyone else paying even the least amount of attention has, too.

Yet here we are at a 48% split with 3 weeks to go.

So yeah, keep reporting. Maybe that fraction of a percent will make the difference; it’s close enough that it could! But don’t hold your breath, and don’t keep beating on the same horse as if doing so will make a difference.

I think we’re at a boy who cries wolf point. News pieces like this are almost a daily occurrence. Those who don’t care won’t simply because it happens again. If anything it will further galvanize their resistance.

There’s a sense that these things must be reported and recorded for reasons of history, but for whatever effect one would like to happen as a result it is probably useless.

For the most part memes are self contained to their own communities. It takes a few days but you can achieve a relatively meme free experience if you block each community.

It already does, and was in kbin day one (of reddit Exodus). Look in your settings for the block domains area. Unfortunately the feature to add a domain block only worked on desktop for me.

Same. Assumed tildes from just the title.

I have a network scanner on my phone. It’s off. You may take the bother of physically disconnecting it if you want, but personally I’ll keep my warranty.

Mine had an off button (key combo). Check the manual of the model before purchase. Never had to give it another thought.

I hate your analysis, and not because you’re wrong.

Our car has an awful sound system. I swear there are frequencies simply missing, and that transforms music in ways that are impossible to miss.

Or one would think, but my spouse doesn’t care at all. I offered to go through the trouble of upgrading the entire thing – receiver, dsp, amp, speakers, adding a sub – but they said no, why bother? Almost makes me weep when some of my favorites play on the radio.

Pi Hole successfully blocks all that.

Note I have my router redirecting all requests to port 53 (DNS) to the pi hole for those things that don’t obey the DHCP DNS. Not sure if Roku is one of those offenders, but I haven’t seen a Roku ad in years.

Correct. The current guy who lost will remain until the final election where his replacement will be voted upon.

Summary: the Maricopa County Clerk, the person who runs elections among other things, lost his primary reelection. While a Republican he was a defender of the legitimacy of the 2020 election. His winning opponent, on the other hand, has been an election denier.

Wow. You’re absolutely right.

I hate this timeline where we can’t trust any news media to not inject baseless politicisation into news coverage at every opportunity. sigh

In this thread: everyone misunderstanding the headline.

Published July 1st.

Presidential historian Allan Lichtman took aim at CNN’s News Central hosts Monday morning for being “complicit” in Donald Trump’s political rise amid the presumptive Republican nominee’s bid for a second term.

Lichtman, appearing with hosts John Berman and Sara Sidner, shifted gears during his comments about recent polls between Trump and Democratic incumbent Joe Biden.

He believes Trump’s remarks during last week’s debate should have grabbed more headlines than Biden’s much-discussed struggles.

“I love you guys in the media, but I have to say, you are complicit in Donald Trump lying and conning his way to the presidency. All of the attention has been on Biden’s faltering debate, but Donald Trump’s debate was vastly worse,” Lichtman said. "It was based entirely on lies. More than 30 significant lies.

“He threatened our democracy by saying he wouldn’t accept the results of a fair election. That he would seek retribution. Why wasn’t that the headlines? Why wasn’t that the greatest concern from the debate, rather than all of the focus on Joe Biden.”

In his rebuke of the media’s coverage of Trump, he continued:

“There’s an old saying, it’s not just the evil people who wreak havoc on the world, it’s the good people who don’t do enough to stop them. And the media right now is complicit in Donald Trump gaslighting his way to the presidency and threatening our democracy,” Lichtman added.