When the Denver Post got bought out by a private equity company (you know how that goes), a bunch of journalists from there got together to create the Colorado Sun. It operates on a model similar to NPR/PBS, except federal/Corporation for Public Broadcasting funding was never a thing to begin with.

I’m not sure how well it’s working, but well enough that they’re still around after several years!

I mean, if you’re going to sell it to me, especially with game, for $35 you can call it anything you want as far as I’m concerned.

The big difference being that one thing being owned is completely inanimate, and the other is a literal human being against their will 🤷‍♂️

Clearly you are much smarter than myself. Can you tell me why renting land/a home is different than any other object that can be owned? Obviously shelter is a greater need than a chainsaw I could rent at Home Depot, but I thought the basic concepts should still apply?

And again, maybe I’m not smart enough to understand what you’re saying, but it seems like land owners (or “speculators”, if that’s the correct term now 🤷‍♂️) prohibit access to everyone except for tenants, and tenants instead have rights to use that property?

As mentioned elsewhere, owning isn’t necessarily for everyone.

What service does the land speculator provide to the tenant?

The ability to live somewhere that otherwise would have been reversed?

I am lucky enough to be able to own a home. I can live here, and nobody else. But if I decided to rent my home out and they paid me rent, they could live here instead!

As Noem is doing now.

I suppose, but if you want to keep the nuance, the kid is a teenage girl, Jeremy is the boyfriend, and Jacob is hella gay and the parents have said they don’t care. One kid explicitly not having a condition (the second bill specifically said it’s not subject to those conditions) doesn’t mean the other magically went away

To my understanding (not saying I agree with it, just trying to make the logic understood for awareness)…

• Congress passed a law allocating funding, but also requiring access for Congressional inspections without notice

• More funding was later allocated, and it explicitly was not conditioned on access for inspections

• Noem took that to mean allowing inspections without notice were no longer required, despite the initial funding with the requirement still being in place

I think CNBC’s ticker is for stock prices, whereas Fox and CNN are for news headlines (although Fox will do several pieces for the same story, essentially putting a miniature article in a ticker)

MSNBC hasn’t had a ticker in years, if ever (I’m sure they did at one point but I had watched it for a while and noticed its absence)

Maybe the goal isn’t for the letters from kids to change their mind, but to add to the public sentiment that there’s some crazy shit happening and help get the adults fired up.

What do you think these preschoolers should do?

I’ve been saying this for ages and is refreshing to hear it from someone else for once! I’ve also learned the term “dummymander”

No. Grand juries are used when a prosecutor wants to bring a certain level of charges against someone. The prosecutor basically shows the evidence they have that would justify a case, and they sign off on the indictment (charges). While a trial is not a sure thing for either side, grand jury proceedings are basically a formality and it’s not uncommon for a prosecutor to go their entire career without failing to get a grand jury indictment.

If an officer-involved shooting is justified and there’s no reason to bring charges, there’s no reason to get a grand jury involved either.

Lately I’ve been watching Noel Phillips videos on YouTube. He’s an airline geek (as am I) and has been to some really unique places - some are interesting places on different continent, some just random remote airports in the middle of American nowhere.

“thank you?”

-that guy, probably

I wouldn’t consider Trump to be Christian

Did you… Did you just type the word “slash”?

Soo, extortion?