From the very same people that worried about “papers please” during covid.

Remember, Trump already backed out on the Bay Area / Silicon Valley in late October.

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Yeah. I do find it interesting that the crime control act from the 80’s has a lower punishment tier for a la carte premeditated murder. I wonder what the logic was behind that.

Maybe it’s there to reduce the risk of executing people who are innocent? A defendant has to be found guilty on two violent offenses, which is a higher bar for prosecutors to clear.

I’m not a big fan of the death penalty, but the history nerd in me is mildly curious about why this act was drafted in this way.

IMHO, because Trump was successfully flooding the zone.

The 1984 crime control act is kind of interesting. It was written to walk a line and really limit the death penalty for federal cases. The death penalty requires murder to be stacked with something like robbery, kidnapping, mob shit, etc.

Even though a premeditated murder would be considered a violent crime, the crime control act requires premeditated murder to be sandwiched within another violent crime to unlock the death penalty as a punishment option.

This is one of those things that appears to go right up to the line, but the judge ruled on precedent.

Totally agree. I’ve been keeping ink tanks in ziplock bags so they don’t dry out.

I think I might cut over to a B&W inkjet. There are tiny versions of those now, and I can print color elsewhere.

Only problem is size. Color lasers are chonky compared to a color inkjet. And a small printer is nice if you only print a handful of times a year. They’re easier to shove in a drawer or closer.

The days of me dedicating 24/7 desk space to a printer is over in my house.

I feel like Bruce is probably not what a lot of these guys were listening to in high school. A lot of them look like they’re under 40. The Boss’ core audience is Gen X. Born to Run was 1975.

I’m right on that X / Millennial cusp, and Springsteen was the music my older cousins listened to. They’re about 55-60 now.

We also need some sort of way to prevent heads from drying out so quickly.

Printer companies know heads dry out, and they ship tanks with caps / tape for prevent dry out on retail store shelves. But once the tanks are installed, printers just leave the heads exposed to the air. Like a pen without a cap, the tanks dry out.

I print like 5 times a year. So 90% of the time, when I’m replacing a tank, it’s because the damn head dried out.

Only problem with laser is the desk size for color laser. If you don’t print very often, and you want color, a laser can take up space.

From the guy that defended Rittenhouse’s gun as a tool of “self defense.”

Yeah, I don’t know how many of those new folks are or aren’t in that union. All I know is that the veteran border patrol folks are.

And my guess is that a lot of those existing employees are pretty pro Trump. Policing borders isn’t usually the public service job that bleeding heart liberals go for.

The The AFGE is larger organization and the NBPC uses their resources and muscle.

This administration is like Game of Thrones with the cast of Veep.

If these evil idiots had half a brain, they wouldn’t have immediately bum rushed the press and social media with half baked lies. They could’ve taken a beat to fully bake their lies.

This union doesn’t “oversee” border patrol.

The murdered nurse was a member of AFGE, and the AFGE is affiliated with the National Border Patrol Council (NBPC). But that doesn’t mean the AFGE fully represents the NBPC. It’s a team-up to have more collective bargaining power.

If the NBPC says that their leaders should be fired, THEN shit will have really hit the fan.

Finally a way to turn clean solar into something I can burn.

The 3.5% rule.

Nonviolent resistance has a higher success rate when compared to violent resistance. But non violent resistance does not mean the resistance movement will be bloodless. Authoritarians will respond to both a violent and nonviolent movement with aggression.

I see we’ve now hit the “Trump is tired of this and wants to TACO, but you have to make it look like he’s winning something” stage.

I hope it gets uploaded to another place. Imgur compressed the ever living shit out of that.