LibraLady33

See you in court. democracydocket.com/cases/florida-…

we don't want one hour shipping, we want the workers to have one hour for lunch instead

"AI uses less water than golf courses!" Okay. Get rid of them both, then. They both largely benefit the wealthy and virtually nobody else. This is a useless argument.

@Mono_Signal @dieworkwear I thought the same and I'm not British.

@dieworkwear Trump boasted that Queen Camilla said “Wow!” when she entered the Oval Office. As a British person, I can categorically state that this exclamation was not a compliment.

The replies to this person's tweet lack a nuanced understanding of aesthetics. Let me tell you why I don't think this room works. First, the gold decorations make the room look like an ersatz Versailles. Go to Getty Images and type in "Oval Office." Then zoom in on the gold decor. You'll notice that the lines are very blunted and muddied; they lack the sharp lines and fine detailing that you'd expect on something made by an artisan. Hence why some people have suggested these decorations are from Home Depot (true or not, that's the impression). You can see the difference between the first and second photos. The first, of course, is of the Oval Office; the second is the reception room from the Hotel de Cabris in France, which was made during the 18th century under the direction of Louis XVI. Even at this distance, the second image looks much better because it was designed and executed by artisans working within a coherent visual language. You can really see the crisp lines and detailing. Second, the White House was designed by James Hoban, an Irish architect who migrated to the US for economic opportunities (what a great American story!). He originally designed it in the Neoclassical style, drawing on Palladian and Georgian influences. Neoclassicalism was a reaction against the Rococo movement, which reactionaries saw as overly ornate and frivolous. A bit of gold used sparingly and strategically can look fine in a Neoclassical building, but the amount Trump used has so radically encrusted the room that it's now in Rococo territory, making it look like a mismatch of aesthetics. You can see an example of gilded Rococo architecture in the third slide. Although it's not my thing, the effect is totally different because it's coherent. IMO, architecture sets the terms for you can decorate a space. Modernist furniture looks best in modernist buildings, just as Craftsman furniture looks best in Craftsman homes (see fourth slide). You don't have to do period recreations — sometimes mixing two aesthetics, or old and new, can make a space feel more natural — but having a sense of aesthetic history (art, architecture, furniture, fashion) can help you create better aesthetics. The Oval Office offends on at least three levels: the ersatz nature of the decor, the way it grates against Hoban’s Neoclassical vision, and the way it misunderstands the classical-republican symbolism that the White House was meant to project in the first place. As others have noted, this is the kind of decor you'd expect from dictators who rob their own country.

@JamesTate121 What happened to your substack post? The link says "page not found."

"A week ago I mailed a formal disciplinary complaint against Chief Justice John Roberts to the District of Columbia Bar Office of Disciplinary Counsel. The paperwork is at the bottom of this article in full, with my personal information redacted. I want to answer a few questions, recount what's happened since, and share some resources. People have asked why the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the rest of the legacy press have stayed quiet on a documented corruption story involving the Chief Justice. Three things worth understanding. The article has the receipts. Every factual claim is credibly sourced. The underlying reporting was done in pieces over the last decade by Business Insider, Politico, the New York Times, and the ABA Journal. The whistleblower complaint went through Congress. Senator Durbin’s Judiciary Committee received it. The Department of Justice received it. The records have mostly been sitting in the public domain since 2022 and 2023. The receipts are there. They’ve been there. Anyone who wanted to verify what I wrote could verify it in twenty minutes. I didn’t uncover something new. I pieced together a decade of public record that had fallen out of the news cycle, applied the statutes to the conduct, and filed paperwork. The synthesis is the contribution and the paperwork is the action. So why isn’t the mainstream media touching it? Ask them. What has the activist response been? Attorneys joined in. Judges joined in. Private citizens joined in. The project got a lot of media. The article hit number one on Reddit. The thing nobody who runs this system expected was that anyone outside it would do the work. Read the spreadsheets. Apply the statutes. File the paperwork. Treat the disclosure rules like the disclosure rules were meant to be treated. Show up at the post office with a certified mail receipt and put it in the public record. The men and women running this system built their careers on the assumption that nobody was paying attention. That the forms would go unread. That the recusals would go uncounted. That the statutes would sit on the shelf. That the institutions would cover for each other and no one outside would notice the arrangement. We noticed. We noticed the ten million dollars documented and the eleven million more estimated. The sixteen years of false characterizations. The hidden equity stake. The Code of Conduct written to fail and the justices who signed affidavits for no one. The Judicial Conference that won’t refer and the Senate that won’t impeach and the Attorney General who won’t prosecute. We noticed every institution pointing at every other institution and shrugging. You don’t need to be licensed or in good standing as a member of the bar association to sit on the Supreme Court, so why bother? Will John Roberts be disbarred? Maybe. We are stress testing their system. It’s our turn to flood the zone. It’s our turn to decide the news cycles. And who knows, maybe Chief Justice Roberts will achieve his dream of being in the history books. It will just be as the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to have his law license revoked. Further, think of accountability like the four minute mile. On May 6, 1954, a British medical student named Roger Bannister ran the first sub-four-minute mile. Before he did it, even scientists said it was humanly impossible. Today, it is common even among high school athletes. I mention this because something changes inside us when we watch the impossible happen. Something that changes everything. Because once we stop telling ourselves it is impossible, we start to make it more possible. When we show that these people are not above accountability, the more cunning rats will flee, the most aggressive turn on each other, and the true believers go down with the ship. The point is, we restore justice by relentlessly pursuing it. So we pursued it. The complaint I submitted is below in full. You're welcome to read it, share it, or put it on every car windshield wiper within a 5 block radius of the United States Supreme Court Chambers. Chase your bliss, even if that bliss takes the form of printing copies of this filing and placing it upon any doors of whatever Bar Association happens to be headquartered at 901 4th St NW Suite 700, Washington, DC 20001. Who am I to tell you what you should or shouldn't do on a Monday right before lunch break, which would arguably be the best time to make sure the flyers are seen. What I do endorse is filing your own complaint with the DC Bar Office of Disciplinary Counsel at 515 Fifth Street NW, Building A, Room 117, Washington DC 20001. Do it in your own words. The facts are in the filing listed below as well as in the original article, which is hyperlinked within this sentence. The statutes to cite are 28 U.S.C. § 455, 5 U.S.C. § 13106, and 18 U.S.C. § 1001. The rule is DC Rule of Professional Conduct 8.4(c). This is happening because we are making it happen. Movement creates energy. Energy creates heat. Enough heat and you can reshape the outdated and corrupt 250 year-old steel. We are the heat. We are the pressure. We are the changemakers." We also need ten subscribers per article. If you want this work to continue, for everyone, we need you. ---- Christopher Armitage cmarmitage.substack.com/.../i-filed-fo…...

.@TEDTalks cancelled my talk about women’s rights conflicting with men like this, as soon as it was announced. @TEDTalks platformed him. @TEDTalks de-platformed me. I’m an Olympic champion; I have lived experience of sport. I’m a civil rights lawyer & author; w expertise on women’s rights. I’ve taught Sports Law for 20 years. It’s galling. x.com/Jonnywsbell/st…

THIS is how to discuss abortion and women's health!!!👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻🔥🔥🔥👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 "When you see Rep. Gill’s shit-eating grin, you’ll know exactly who he is. Since Rep. Gill is so interested in our favorite types of abortions, I thought I’d share a few of mine. My favorite type of abortion is the one that prevents a raped ten-year-old from breaking her pelvis in childbirth. I also like abortions that keep women from carrying dead fetuses for weeks on end, which is what happened to Marlena Stell in Rep. Gill’s home state of Texas. My favorite abortions are the kind that stop women from going septic, or prevent 28-year-olds from losing both of their fallopian tubes. Another favorite? The abortion that means a Texas 21-year-old won’t be forced to carry a fetus developing without a head. I like the abortion that means a pregnant mother of five with cervical cancer doesn’t have to beg a hospital panel for chemotherapy. I like the abortion that doesn’t force a woman to travel far from home when faced with a fatal fetal abnormality. I like the abortion that doesn’t force a woman to travel far from home when faced with a fatal fetal abnormality. I really like the abortion that stops patients from having to plead for help in videos made in hospital parking lots. My favorite types of abortions are the ones that allow women to live. Maybe if Candi Miller, or Amber Nicole Thurman, or Tierra Walker had access to abortion, they would still be here. My favorite types of abortions are the ones that allow women to go to college. My favorite types of abortions are the ones that let women leave abusive relationships. My favorite kinds of abortions are the ones that mean women get to choose their own life path, to decide what is best for them, and to figure out if and when they want to start a family. My favorite types of abortions are the ones that allow us to meet the person that we’re supposed to be with. My number one favorite abortion is probably the one that allowed me to meet my husband and for us to have our daughter, who is now 15 years old. Actually, scratch that—my favorite is the abortion that saved my life when my daughter was three, and ensured that she didn't grow up without a mother. So Rep. Gill, it is really hard to choose just one favorite type of abortion. There are so many, and they’re all my favorites. Does that answer your question?" My Favorite Abortion, by @JessicaValenti open.substack.com/pub/jessica/p/…

@adammocklerr People way younger than boomers are in on this & many boomers oppose these policies. There are greedy horrible people - and many fighting the good fight - in every generation. Stop fueling generational divide and conquer tactics-focus on the real villains of the piece...

I’m sorry, but I’m not gonna be nicer about this. Neocon boomers are mortgaging my generations future by amassing trillions in debt, turning America into a pariah on the global stage, and getting our troops killed for another failing war. I have to watch these neocons lie about the state of this war on TV every single day. Then, the moment I push back and assertively ask, “hey, what’s the actual goal here?” I have a legion of neocon boomers telling me I should know my place. Or I should wait my turn to talk with the grown ups. Fuck that, genuinely. I’m not claiming to have all of the answers or be all knowing. But young people deserve a seat at the table to fight for our interests as well. 95% of media is made up of boomers in suits who created these problems, and being nicer isn’t going to fix them.

@SConnell13 @EdKrassen It does skew progressive. But also skewd those most attuned right now. Many people don't really start paying attention this early.

@LibraLady33 @EdKrassen I’ll vote for the most progressive sane candidate in the primaries so this isn’t a criticism but a Reich poll is likely to skew progressive. More disappointed than surprised it skewed so white guy but at least Pete clobbered Newsom. Coastal elites are a menace to workers.

I personally don’t think Kamala Harris will be the Democrat’s nominee. I think this is mostly based on name recognition. What do you think?

The mask has dropped. J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling stayed silent through two years of mass slaughter in Palestine, and now chooses to conflate antisemitism with anti-Zionism while smearing those who speak out @zarahsultana . That is deliberate.

@jk_rowling @zarahsultana One is an oppressive state. The other are Jewish individuals living in an entirely different country. Surely you can see the difference.

.@zarahsultana I assume this is a different Zarah Sultana MP to the one who was recently filmed clapping along to loudspeaker chants for intifada, on a street in Surrey. telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/…

I don’t want a city on Mars. I don’t want AI in every app. I don’t want data centres in space. I don’t want humanoids or flying cars. I want clean water. I want a stable climate. I want bees to survive. And a habitable planet.

@atrupar Taking & making money in broad daylight and @GOP loves it ..fkn ridiculous

@NikkiHaley Didn't you endorse Trump when you dropped out?

America just crossed a dangerous milestone: our national debt now exceeds the size of our economy. Washington spends $1.33 for every $1 it takes in, with a $1.9T deficit this year alone. When the bill comes due, expect higher taxes, a weaker dollar, fewer services, a weaker military—and our kids stuck paying for it.

For those who hate their mothers...

@tparsi These are brilliant and getting better all the time.

Iran’s latest AI Lego video marks a significant pivot. Instead of taunting the US military, it reflects a new chapter in which Tehran will seek peace by reaching out directly to the American people, bypassing the US government. It's a mirror image of the US strategy of the past decades. Some of the lines are quite noteworthy and will likely resonate with the anti-establishment sentiments prevailing among American youth in particular: "I love the constitution, the way it was meant. But not the way your leaders bypass consent..."

@WhiteHouse NO

BUILD THE BALLROOM.

The plan is greater Israel by any means necessary. That’s it. There is no other 12D chess going on here. The war is destroying the petrodollar, they don’t give a fuck. It’s not part of some deep strategy involving energy resources, it strengthens China immensely. They don’t care. They will burn everything to the ground to try to get greater Israel. It was a common error in analysis to treat the Iraq war as “stupid” or “a mistake.” Paul Bremer dismissing the Iraqi army, obliterating the state through De-Ba'athification, creating the insurgency. It doesn’t make any sense as a strategy unless you understand that the war was for Israel. The Iraqi state had to be pulverized so it could never again threaten Israel. Iraqi academics, engineers, specialists of all kinds had to be killed or chased out in terror. Then ditto in Libya, ditto in Syria. The only plan is to try to do that to Iran. None of this was “a mistake.” None of it was “stupid.” The actual goals were just different from the justifications presented for public consumption. The Israel lobby is immensely powerful but a war with Iran was always the one thing they couldn’t get. U.S. state planners since the Iranian revolution have understood what closure of the strait of Hormuz would mean. It is apocalyptic for the maintenance of the petrodollar that the U.S. empire depends on. The lobby has been working our government for decades now. They’ve finally got a president blackmailed enough and a deep state zogged enough that the initial start of the war could go forward. Now they’re riding on the back of a tiger. The cost of living crisis is coming home. They have to keep the war going over what will be increasing civil unrest. Eventually they’re going to push Trump into doubling down. The goal is to go nuclear. That’s what they think is the way out. Nuking Iran. This is genocidal madness. It’s why everyone in Congress needs to be held accountable for not funding a single dollar for this illegal war. It’s why the anti war movement in this country needs to wake up and recognize that we are in a crisis moment. Our passivity will be taken by the ruling class as permission to do the unthinkable.