“Law & order” has always been code for putting [whatever marginalized group you don’t like] in jail.

That’s great! I’ve been watching since I noticed the berries so ripe, and I actually saw a red-headed finch in the yard today for the first time in years, so hope isn’t lost.

Zero. That’s the really weird part.

Today I spent a few hours gathering the crapload of Nanking cherries that have ripened on my bushes. When we moved in, almost twenty years ago now, we used to call them bird berries because we didn’t know they were edible, but the birds seemed to love them. It occurred to me today that I haven’t seen a single bird eating them this year. Maybe the berries are plentiful everywhere, and they’ve just found other places to gather, but it was a sobering realization.

Bob Dylan’s “Masters of War”, anyone?

These women are heroes, and they need as much support as we can give them.

A man with Musk’s resources could change the lives of thousands of people in an hour, yet this is what he does with his time.

I will never take these companies’ side over a noble sailor of the high seas, but I took a look at the movies produced by Millennium Media, and they need every red cent they can get. They’re certainly not getting them from tickets or rentals. Good lord, I haven’t seen so much ripe stinking dogshit since the summer I spent clean cages at the animal shelter.

How humiliating to get copyright swatted for downloading something from the studio that brought you such timeless classics as The Prince & Me: The Elephant Adventure and Day of the Dead: Bloodline.

That’s exactly what uncles are for.

Yes, but I was highlighting the disparity between “active voters” and “Americans in general”, and between them and now. Saying half of the country supports Trump simply isn’t factually true.

Now, whether people who don’t vote should even be part of the conversation is another debate, of course.

It’s a security blanket that large blocks of society have yet to grow out of, unfortunately. Like trying to phase a toddler out of their binky, suggesting laying it aside is likely to result in tantrums.

You’re right in that the current state of the country does not actually reflect the ideals it professes to be based on, and this Supreme Court ruling is proof of that.

It is also definitely religious-based.

I defend free speech, even the shitty speech by bigoted assholes, but violating a person’s civil rights is not protected by free speech.

Once you cross the line into preventing someone from doing a thing just because of who they are, that’s no longer speech but action. And of course the rights of business owners to serve who they want to is a grey area, but that’s what we have the courts for. Unfortunately, the current SCOTUS is so heavily politicized that it seems unable to adjudicate these issues impartially.

Even if you go by voting numbers in the only election he actually won (and even that wasn’t by popular vote), it WAS closer to ⅓, and that was SEVEN YEARS AGO. I’d wager quite a few who called themself a supporter back then have changed their minds since. They’re just not speaking up about it, and so the perception is skewed.

My personal religion requires me to refuse service to Trump supporters.

These “religious freedoms” cited are completely arbitrarily defined. Anyone can claim they have a religion with tenets that exclude specific groups of people or promote civil rights abuses. Having a religion that says “you must commit crime” does not actually give you the right within society to commit crime.

That says nothing about the existence or lack of a deity, only that if there is one he’s a HUGE piece of shit.

Fuck the SCOTUS.

Betteridge’s law of headlines applies here.

And also because conservatives will always cut programs and regulations that make life easier for people with disabilities.

They would dismantle the entire Americans with Disabilities Act if they could just to line the pockets of their corporate masters.