Rosa Parks was breaking the law, too. If the law is stupid or unconstitutional, suing is how you get a court to make that determination and strike the law.

In this case, the cyclists’ argument is that they are following the law and the NYPD is incorrectly citing them.

Time for Jello Biafra to write a new updated California Uber Alles

This is a child. He attended middle school, so he’s at oldest 14. The article makes it sound like he was severely disturbed, he needs psychological care.

I had heard it was popular outside of car commuters from outside the city, have you seen reports otherwise?

Yeah, there’s a big difference between “this herb has some naturally occurring anti-inflammatory compounds” and “this berry is a cure for cancer and lupus and the common cold.”

Regarding yoga, stretching and bodyweight exercises are definitely a good part of fitness, but the mystical side of it is complete horseshit.

People laughed when leftists talked about the yoga studio to fascism pipeline…

In all seriousness this is utterly fucked.

That’s my read. I have no idea why this isn’t more common.

“Yeah, I’m a freak. Yeah, I like to have a burly man do things to me that make most people curl up in fear. That’s just who I am. Now let’s talk about [REDACTED].”

The podcast Weird Little Guys just concluded a long series of episodes about the weird bullshit leading up to this.

I think it’s due to the Modi government’s naked Hindu nationalism.

One of the worst things we do as a culture is setting arbitrary milestones and then shaming ourselves or others for missing them.

Are you expecting to graduate? You’re better off than many who didn’t finish at all. You stumbled, you’re moving forward. You’re going to be fine.

Particularly considering Facebook (I will die before I call it meta) blocked major Islamic Indians on their platforms as well as the biggest Islamic news outlet in India. Standing up your own instance on mastodon/lemmy/friendica/Pixelfed is the best way to avoid getting shut down by billionaires who kowtow to fascists.

Don’t forget ignoring literal decades of data that show adding lanes doesn’t fix traffic

I don’t know that that’s an “average Texan,” I think that’s more “average massively wealthy landholding Texan.”

I’m not running for a third term, I’ll just have a third term.

The guy who lies all the time says something? Probably lying.

I’m not a lawyer or barrister, but there are already laws against fraud, which is what you are describing. There’s a huge difference between deliberately over claiming and making a mistake, and what the article is describing is at worst honest mistakes.

If the Vancouver woman you referred to is the same one I read about, she was addressing the paperwork issue and was arrested anyway. She told ICE she would pay for her own ticket to return to Canada and was detained in torture conditions anyway. When legal, press, and Canadian government attention were brought to bear, she was told “if you had just said you would pay for your own ticket you could have avoided all of this.”

Unless you are a white US citizen with significant money, I wouldn’t recommend leaving the country.

We have the “white mirror” thing. It’s called Star Trek.