Notices by Jason Perseus (jasonperseus@mas.to), page 2

Meanwhile French President Macron has potentially found a path which would create a coalition in the National Assembly with the center/center-right, which would make it very likely a Prime Minister is from his political camp.

✅ defeat fascism

✅ reaffirm mandate to govern

I’m not super familiar with French politics, but this feels like some Pelosi-style expert political maneuvering.

https://www.politico.eu/article/emmanuel-macron-france-shock-vote-coalition-centrist-thursday-president-elections-2024-nfp/

#politics #french #france #macron #assembly

Let’s pull a UK this November?

#uspol #politics #uspolitics #uk #election

Lmao.

This fucking world.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjer3llen42o

Take a step back and think how absolutely insane it is to think we need to conform our laws in today's world with precisely the kind of laws passed almost three hundred years ago.

"There are no historical analogs."

Yeah because they were still sending letters by fucking horseback and shitting in buckets to dump outside.

I think we can presume new concepts might have arisen in the last three centuries.

/endRant

#law #lawfedi #scotus #supremeCourt #uspol #politics #uspolitics

Justice Sotomayor with some sass in the bump stock case dissent:

#scotus #supremeCourt #law #lawfedi #uspolitics #uspol #politics

Prevaricate has to be one of my favorite words. It means to evade the truth. Not quite lying, but not providing the truth.

It comes from the latin "varus" which means "bowlegged," and eventually became "praevaricat" which means to "walk crookedly, deviated."

Prevaricate literally means to straddle the truth, to walk crookedly about it.

Which is amazing. I love a #word with a good story behind it.

Is there a feature to easily adopt the post you’re responding to’s hashtags into the next post?

I copy and paste but on my phone it takes forever and I presume someone already might have thought of that and I’m just unaware.

Feel free to share with me if you know of anything!

#tips #mastodon #feed #help

#PodSaveTheWorld hosts are **rightly** almost yelling in response to #Biden on the #ICC's arrest warrants for #Netanyahu.

"That is a gift to Russia.

That is a gift to China.

That is a gift to any autocrat that wants to live in a world with impunity."

https://crooked.com/podcast/hamas-and-netanyahu-accused-of-war-crimes/

#uspol #politics #uspolitics #foreignpolicy #Israel

Holy fucking kill me now.

This is the LAST thing I want.

If my computer did this I would launch it right out the window, go outside, and beat it with a bat.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/microsofts-new-recall-feature-will-record-everything-you-do-on-your-pc/

#tech #privacy #Widows #microsoft

I’d cut off aid to #Israel on the disrespect alone.

#uspol #politics #uspolitics #Gaza

https://www.axios.com/2024/05/19/netanyahu-israel-agencies-ban-us-gaza-war

“Alito doesn’t deny the flag was flying upside down, doesn’t deny its meaning, doesn’t express any disapproval for it and doesn’t disavow it.”

This wasn’t a random period of time. It was AFTER January 6 and BEFORE the inauguration.

ITS A SYMBOL OF INSURRECTION.

A Justice has never made a more persuasive case for the Legislature to kick them out on their ass for bad behavior than has Alito.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/samuel-alito-didnt-give-a-f-k-then-and-he-doesnt-give-a-f-k-now

#uspol #politics #uspolitics #law #lawfedi #legal #SCOTUS #SupremeCourt

“[If we cannot invade #Rafah] how exactly are we supposed to achieve our goals?”

You don’t.

Damn, isn’t life disappointing?

Turns out if murdering children is a means to your end, you just can’t fucking do it. Wild.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/may/09/israel-gaza-live-updates-biden-warns-us-will-halt-more-weapons-shipments-to-israel-if-major-rafah-offensive-launched

#Israel #Hamas #Gaza #uspol #politics #uspolitics #Biden

My nuanced position is that the constitution doesn't provide the right to be free from feeling unsafe from the content of another's speech.

And it also doesn't provide the right to be free from arrest when trespassing on private property despite it being in protest.

#uspol #politics #uspolitics

Per #FiveThirtyEight #ABC average, Supreme Court disapproval hits new high.

#uspol #politics #uspolitics #scotus #SupremeCourt #law #lawfedi #legal

Two Weeks in the Future: “Hold my beer.” 🍺

#uspol #politics #uspolitics #SupremeCourt #SCOTUS #Law #lawfedi #legal

Boycott #TraderJoes.

Boycott #Starbucks.

Boycott anything to do with Musk. #X #Twitter #Tesla #SpaceX

Corporations and their leaders will do everything they can to absolutely fuck you, so: Fuck Them.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/17/elon-musk-labor-union-lawsuit-strabucks-trader-joes

#uspol #politics #uspolitics

I don’t trust corporations not to kill people; I don’t trust the government to investigate them; and I don’t trust the media or news to report it accurately.

Which is probably why people are okay entertaining that idea that #Boeing may have killed the #whistleblower.

I don’t think there’s an issue investigating suspiciously-timed suicides of those testifying as key whistleblowers against corporations who are or have ties to major defense contractors.

I think it would be malpractice not to.

You don't beat fascism on a technicality.

That was true before today and it will be true after today.

#uspol #politics #uspolitics

#dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon #dogstodon #comic

One of my favorite things in the world is when people place lost winter items on things so people can find them.

It gives such a sad, yet hopeful, vibe.

#Photo #photography #photos #picture