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It is unclear, however, if the federal employee violated any laws by refusing entry. While members of Congress do have an oversight role over federal agencies, that power is typically exercised through hearings and enforcement of policies.

And while the Constitution grants Congress the power to establish federal government offices, it is unclear whether individual members are granted unfettered access to those buildings.

NYT got that boot ALL the way down their gullet.

Let's see what's up on the site now ... https://www.kohney.com/comic/rat-problem-pt2/

I stand by my statement.

The Other End has been becoming one of my favorite webcomics for awhile now. Every time I start reading a strip I have no idea where it's going and it's usually terrifying. A+

Hey, fair. I know the overall political left has always been plagued with infighting and purity testing. I'd like to at least do my part in bridging the gap between leftists and liberals by not getting in your face about not panicking over this shit if you'll still allow me the same space to entertain my concern without calling me hysterical. Deal?

There have been growing criticisms of him coming from the left for a bit now on how some of his tendencies to diffuse situations learns more towards liberalism than leftism. This isn't an outright attack on him or to say he's moving rightward overall. I need to watch this video again but I think this is the one that touches on a bunch of the points, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hCxHvogsTY

From a comment on the video, "Jon Stewart made me a liberal as a child, adulthood made me a leftist."

If you like Jon Stewart I'm not trying to say you shouldn't. But as someone who has continually been moving left, I do feel more distance from him than I used to is all.

After everything, I do still generally respect and like Jon Stewart, but even I found his piece this week on the Daily Show to be some real weak ass shit. I try my best to keep ahold of myself, not run away too much with assumptions or conspiratorial thinking. But you don't have to wait for them to do 100% fascist shit to start calling them fascists.

The White House defended the firing of Fong and the other inspectors general, saying “these rogue, partisan bureaucrats … have been relieved of their duties in order to make room for qualified individuals who will uphold the rule of law and protect Democracy.”

This. This right here. They are screaming their intent at us and we don't need to wait for them to do it to respectably call them fascists. Like to be clear I guess he can do this but the way he did it is potentially incorrect? Regardless, that's not what I want to hear you say when you do it to a 22-year veteran of the department.

Real talk: so do I. Part of it is just being a computer nerd, part of it is working in IT, part of it has just been curiously testing Linux.

I have had more stability doing this over the course of a year than I had running the monthly Microsoft updates on Windows 10. On the rare occasions something broke (usually my own tinkering and not the update process) simply reinstalling it actually fixed the problem 90%+. I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but I was legit surprised and thought I would have slightly more problems with a bleeding edge distro.

As well, it's great to be able to just update everything with one simple command on the command line rather than having each application install an updater task that sometimes sits down in the system tray doing nothing but nagging you. Or having a program prompt you for an upgrade only to take you to the download page and make you basically reinstall the app over the old version with questionable results every time ...

staring at save screen

Wait, did I just save, or do I still need to save?

zones out while processing save again

I don't even know what to say about this mess, but yes: that's enterprise pricing. It doesn't need to be that way, but it can be because those are the kind of prices you can charge businesses. And really, just as a pleasant capitalistic side effect of this, is that the lower classes are completely locked off form this technology. It's not a mystery, it's not a conspiracy, it's business. And I hate it.

We were so aggrieved by the lack of communication that we decided to proceed with our incredibly drastic reaction without communicating to anyone ...

History from someone who moved to the platform early on:

A lot of the early adopters were the queer and trans community, first to leave Twitter after Musk's meddling and most sensitive to the changes he was making. (In this context I don't mean sensitive as in "snowflake", I mean sensitive as in "aware of inevitable changes and resultant catastrophe" - when someone shits in the pool you don't wait wait for the water to turn brown). They took the gross out humor and used it as a ward to keep some of the other elements from following over. Now they defend the term as history.

I don't particularly agree, I understand the basis for it but ugh, it's still gross. I keep advocating for "bleats" which kind of works as "Bluesky tweet" and leans into us all being sheep; something I find cute and take no offense at because it's a toothless insult wielded by deeply unserious people. Alternatively, I think we should've just straight stolen tweet since the trademark or whatever has been abandoned at this point (???). Failing that, I'll probably resort to just calling them posts, there's no point in fighting momentum like this and I imagine it'll probably settle down onto something else once the platform gets over its first wave of serious growing pains ... if it lives that long.

Of course you'll still meet individuals with a wide range of beliefs and I don't think you can boil a complex group down to a simple answer; but yes.

A few years back now it came out that Violent J's daughter was a furry, and like a good dad he supported her and at least tangentially got into the furry community which is very LGBTQ+. This opened up a really weird friendship between the groups, but from what I understand the Juggalos also have a history of being very anti-fascist which also jived with the progressive furries.

While I haven't met many myself, I fully accept the alliance. They're both alternative cultures which can look odd from the outside, but as you pointed out I think they both heavily focus on acceptance, respect, and support. It's a good unifying thread! Juggalos and furries will show you who they are without shame, I trust and respect that.