Consolidation of US media. Billionaires will burn the world down rather than cede an inch, and it's their narratives that get amplified.

Always open season on the left—'Murican as apple pie.

Better to make the FBI work for their money

In your best interests to take that conversation to a cozier, more encrypted forum.

Things can overlap a bit. But we all know exactly what type of 'obscene' things the hammer is going to come down on. This was a bid to control the content of libraries. If librarians really wanted to play it safe they would just pull the books. You've seen pics the boxes of what schools are discarding to comply with similar laws. The politicians don't want to jail librarians, they want to look like they are fulfilling promises to their base, and sweep away 'subversive' ideologies that would undermine their power-grab. They want the trains to run on time, things to feel just normal enough that you won't go out of your way to question authority.

Banning the under 18 is a bit like setting your house on fire to send a smoke signal. Not normal, and not a thing I think they can honestly sustain. They are burning up a core tenet of libraries:

5. A person’s right to use a library should not be denied or abridged because of origin, age, background, or views

to try and save higher directives:

1. Books and other library resources should be provided for the interest, information, and enlightenment of all people of the community the library serves. Materials should not be excluded because of the origin, background, or views of those contributing to their creation.

2. Libraries should provide materials and information presenting all points of view on current and historical issues. Materials should not be proscribed or removed because of partisan or doctrinal disapproval.

3. Libraries should challenge censorship in the fulfillment of their responsibility to provide information and enlightenment.

4. Libraries should cooperate with all persons and groups concerned with resisting abridgment of free expression and free access to ideas.

Yet another reason I hope Idaho is paying attention and turns out in November.

It's a totally fucked situation, but I'm glad the libraries are taking the malicious compliance route and standing behind the collections. These laws want them to pull everything 'controversial' from the shelves and go on business as usual. Good on them for drawing a line.

Probably better to protest now before trump starts handing out lethal rounds to the national guard.🙃

Yep yep. For a time had a job that handled new and old pistol permits and amendments. In the months before 1/6 people were filing amendments for gun modifications and were giving the serial numbers as political slogans.(I live in a blue state.) Never once going back a hundred years of records had seen that done before. Oh boy are they out there.

Which policies?

So. Biden being less than 10 points behind in swing states is a death knell. But Stein needing to make up 50 points everwhere is doable? Really. Reeeeally The Biden alternative needs to have a snowball's chance.

Please explain Jill Stein's path to victory to me.

Not even saying she was a plant, just a useful tool. Jill Stein has had chances and failed-not a viable plan. So what else?

Sending love from the cold bits of NY. It ain't over until it's over-and then you hitch a ride up here and I row you into Canada.

Functional plan. If Stein was able to coalesce power she would have done it in the past decade. Even with the russian propaganda she barely broke 1% of the popular vote.

Cool. Joe Biden is a genocidal dottering old fuck.

What's your plan? If anyone has a functional alternative to preventing the country from failing completely into Christian fascistism in November I am all fucking ears.

A problem is that nationally Dems ignore the districts that things like stefanik crawl out of (or borrow the address of their parent's summer home for.)

What was ny-21 could have been competitive. We've gone for Obama before. But Dems wrote us off as an acceptable loss and never made an honest run against her. They could have kept her on the ropes-she at least used to have to pretend to be bipartisan.

Oh guy. The word you want is murder. Objects kill people all the time. Every 20 minutes you gotta put down the 2a ganda and look at something in the distance.

Yea.. 'Guns don't kill people... blood loss and organ damage does.'

:')

Don't threaten me with a good time.