https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-impoundment-appropriations-congress-budget

«Trump’s designs on the budget are part of his administration’s larger plan to consolidate as much power in the executive branch as possible.»

What’s that you say, Republicans? Something about “imperial presidency?”

Y’all are so full of it.

https://uhrp.org/about/#:~:text=The%20Uyghur%20homeland%20is%20known,as%20a%20settler%2Dcolonial%20occupation.

East Turkistan, not Xinjiang, which means literally “new frontier”.

TIL financial trading companies use saved Wireshark packet captures (libpcap) as audit sources. Neet!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42269227

Reading an essay written in a foreign language:

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2024/11/kendrick-lamar-gnx-new-album-review/680806/?gift=ly-h2TZGdDJyaoFv6n-KafyaTHx6m3OPlB3vq-7i6Xw&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/election/article296175214.html

Republicans. No honor. No courage. Unable to just take the L.

NC State Board of Elections currently has 3 Dems, 2 Repubs. The Republicans want it to deadlock.

At this point, I’m pretty sure I will go to my grave voting Democrat. Which… young me would probably never have expected.

«“The oral and written misrepresentations made by the conference to convince and effectively trick our client to not hold a vote to leave the denomination under rule 2553 while such right existed severely prejudiced and permanently injured our client,”»

https://www.al.com/news/2024/11/unholy-threat-united-methodists-sue-breakaway-beach-church.html#:~:text=%E2%80%9CThe%20oral%20and%20written%20misrepresentations%20made%20by%20the%20conference%20to%20convince%20and%20effectively%20trick%20our%20client%20to%20not%20hold%20a%20vote%20to%20leave%20the%20denomination%20under%20rule%202553%20while%20such%20right%20existed%20severely%20prejudiced%20and%20permanently%20injured%20our%20client%2C%E2%80%9D

“We didn’t knooooowwwww!!! 😭”

🙄

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5010049-boebert-cameo-ethics/

So, uh… is Cameo like OnlyFans? I’ve never heard of it before.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/nov/26/far-right-weaponising-ai-generated-content-europe

Brave new world. If you’re seeing what you want to be seeing, maybe… it’s AI?

«Smith asked U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan to dismiss the election-related case “without prejudice” — a legal term that means the case could theoretically be brought again in the future.»

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/25/jack-smith-drops-case-trump-election-00191514

Well… I guess we’ll see, in four years.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/25/business/thyssenkrupp-job-cuts-germany.html

I see the decision to mothball nuclear power plants and depend on Russian natural gas is going well.