Veridor

network engineer, skeptic, gamer, tech enthusiast, retro console modder/tinkerer, free thinker. All opinions expressed are my own. He/him.

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

A federal court just confirmed what everyone already knew:

Trump’s DOJ is illegally using the machinery of government to target his political enemies with bogus investigations.

That’s not justice. It’s corruption. IT MUST END!

[Veridor @Veridor]

@KytorIndustries So sorry for your loss. I know it’s rough. I lost my mom to lung cancer a few years ago, so I feel ya.

[Carolina Forward @ForwardCarolina]

Many conservatives are very angry about the new Virginia Democratic gerrymander. They see it as totally unfair and proof positive of Democratic perfidy.

The conservative view is that liberal and Democratic complaints about partisan gerrymandering are essentially fake, the repeated bills they've proposed to ban gerrymandering are also fake, and that the real problem is Democratic, not Republican, gerrymandering.

Good news: there's a totally straightforward way for conservatives to defeat Democratic gerrymandering!

Republicans hold trifecta control in Washington D.C., as well as controlling majorities in North Carolina's state legislature. They could propose a bill right now, today, that bans partisan gerrymandering in every state. Force every state, blue/red/purple, to set up a totally independent commission like Michigan's, which literally uses a lottery to select members.

To really own the libs, they could even lift the anti-gerrymandering language right from the Democrats' own bill - H.R. 1 from 2021: https://t.co/4BckSWDmnR

They could do that and just dare the Democrats to vote against it. Prove their hypocrisy!

After all, if conservatives are truly concerned about partisan gerrymandering, wouldn't they want to ban it everywhere?

[Carolina Forward @ForwardCarolina]

Man, if only someone could track down who's in charge of the North Carolina state legislature, which has exclusive control of every single budget and law passed in our state, we could probably get to the bottom of this mystery!

(Also who on earth is that dude on the right)

[The Saurus @TheSaurus831]

Meanwhile in America the dumbest people you’ve ever met voted to bring measles back

[Veridor @Veridor]

@WindowsCentral Too little too late. Took the plunge with CachyOS and am loving it.

[Veridor @Veridor]

@dubesinhower Now THAT’s funny!

[Carolina Forward @ForwardCarolina]

This story is completely insane (and true)

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Want to know why Congress is doing nothing on AI?

AI oligarchs have already spent over $185 million buying politicians this year.

There it is. It’s no more complicated than that.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Insane that these unqualified unvetted kids were deciding on billions of dollars of government grants, based on their ignorance as well as prejudice. Musk has so much to answer for should Dems ever get power again.

[​𝐥𝐲𝐫𝐚 @sunnkssdseraph]

I think the hardest part of the current political climate is realizing how many people are actually just evil.
Not misinformed or uneducated... just openly and happily enjoying other people's suffering.

[DarkMatter2525 @DarkMatter2525]

Why are there zero standards for political office? Pilot, surgeon, lawyer, plumber, etc, all require specialized knowledge, but running a fucking city, state, country, etc, and you just need to be a talk show host or a dipshit influencer. Dumb.

[Carolina Forward @ForwardCarolina]

The problem is not, and has never been, Medicaid expansion. We are a very wealthy nation - we just spent $11 billion last month bombing Iran.

The problem is that so many Americans & North Carolinians make so little money that they need Medicaid to begin with.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.

[Paweł Wargan @pawelwargan]

This man is proposing to do with the sum total of published human knowledge what capitalism does with everything: steal it and then build enclosures around it for profit.

[Carolina Forward @ForwardCarolina]

The @Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, is out with a major new research study showing that immigrants, both legal and illegal, contribute significantly more in taxes than they receive in public benefits.

And there's more: because immigrants (both legal and not) are such large net-contributors of tax revenue, they also structurally reduce government budget deficits.

[Mike Drucker @MikeDrucker]

Half the people on this app melted down when they found out someone can buy a cookie with food stamps

[Amanda Killian @eroscestlavie_x]

One of those screenshots I think everyone needs to stare at before reading one of those salary articles. I constantly have to mentally adjust to it because I grew up thinking of $70k as the target "good" salary and $100k as wild wealth. But the 70k I used to think of is now 100k.

[Veridor @Veridor]

@suchnerve Too bad our politicians won’t allow them to sell to us.

[Dan McClellan @maklelan]

Five years ago this doofus publicly offered free legal services to Kyle Rittenhouse, a kid who brought an *illegal* loaded firearm to a protest & then killed two people with it. The raging & mindless hypocrisy & dishonesty of Trump’s admin are just utterly boundless.