Politics & News LC thread - Vivek and John Candy were right

[goofy]

@goofy

Can it please be tomorrow so we can have a new main character, looking at photos of these freaks everywhere on the internet since I got home from work has been EXHAUSTING

https://twitter.com/jaywillis/status/1648710436186116098

Blissfully happy that we have moved on

[riverman]

I think the ranting passenger was both absolutely wrong and completely out of line and also pretty funny. “We’re not in Florida yet” lololol

[CaffeineNeeded]

I’m terrified of flying with my child precisely because of that kind of story

[McTrollson]

Oh wow the NPR Politics Podcast interview with Fetterman is an amazing listen.

[riverman]

On fire

blough job

blough job

Lololol

zach silberberg

[goofy]

NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell is out after admitting inappropriate relationship

Jeff Shell left his role as NBCUniversal CEO on Sunday after he admitted an “inappropriate relationship” with a woman in the comany, corporate parent Comcast announced.

“Today is my last day as CEO of NBCUniversal. I had an inappropriate relationship with a woman in the company, which I deeply regret. I’m truly sorry I let my Comcast and NBCUniversal colleagues down, they are the most talented people in the business and the opportunity to work with them the last 19 years has been a privilege,” Shell said in a statement.

Comcast hired outside counsel to begin an investigation following a complaint. The complaint was filed by the woman with whom Shell said he had an “inappropriate relationship,” according to people familiar with the matter. They declined to be named due to the sensitive nature of the developments.

[TheDudeAbides]

slave to Woke

[LouisCyphre]

Mob kills 13 suspected Haiti gangsters with gas-soaked tires

[eyebooger]

Holy fuck that sounds like an awful way to go.

[riverman]

Don’t fuck your coworkers, part infinity.

Shell Shocked: How a Sex Scandal, Big Egos and Putin Led to Jeff Shell’s...

[Jman220]

Ron Desantis about to get shellacked by Mickey Mouse:

Disney sues Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, alleges political effort to hurt its...

I know lolcourts and all, but this is such a ridiculously strong case. The man admitted what he was doing, all over the place, and devoted a chapter to it in his fucking book.

[riverman]

He drew an Obama judge lolollolololol

[Surf]

“But Disney also knows that it is fortunate to have the resources to take a stand against the State’s retaliation – a stand smaller businesses and individuals might not be able to take when the State comes after them for expressing their own views. In America, the government cannot punish you for speaking your mind.”

[boredsocial]

Am I understanding correctly that they are suing DeSantis personally? If so holy shit they’ll take everything he owns. Obviously they’re moving to block all the anti disney stuff he’s doing, but also isn’t this a personal lawsuit about economic damages from abuse of power?

[Jman220]

They’re not seeking monetary damages. Just injunctive relief.

[Jman220]

Man, reading this complaint is hilarious. It’s just quote after quote pulled directly from Desantis’ own fucking book. Meanwhile, they’re going to end up with a preliminary injunction rolling back even the abolition of the RCID, which is something that they were fine with letting die (and letting Desantis get a symbolic win on). Desantis just couldn’t take the symbolic win and legitimately wanted to force them to change their content.

[riverman]

Sawyer Hackett

[Jman220]

Disney v. DeSantis judge called Florida governor's law 'dystopian'

:vince1:

Walker was nominated to the federal court by former President Barack Obama

U.S. District Judge Mark Walker in Tallahassee has struck down several laws that defined DeSantis’ conservative political agenda, including statutes that sought to limit the speech of college professors, curtailed protests and restricted voting access.

In 2021, Walker blocked the Combating Public Disorder Act, which DeSantis signed into law after the 2020 protests over the murder of George Floyd, a Black man, at the hands of police.

Walker ruled the law’s expansion of the definition of “riot” infringed on protesters’ right to free speech.

The judge last year enjoined a law signed by DeSantis that banned ballot drop boxes and prevented groups from offering food and water to voters waiting in long lines,

Walker blocked the Individual Freedom Act or Stop Woke Act, which limited the speech of college professors, calling it “positively dystopian” in an opinion that began with a quote from George Orwell’s anti-totalitarian novel “1984.”

Walker said Florida had become a place where the First Amendment allowed, rather than prevented, the state to limit speech. Or as he put it, “in the popular television series Stranger Things, the ‘upside down’ describes a parallel dimension containing a distorted version of our world. Recently, Florida has seemed like a First Amendment upside down.”

[LouisCyphre]

Let me present you the official Twitter account of the German armed forces

Tweet 1: Bundeswehr flew 400 people from 20 countries out of Sudan

Tweet 2 (“Peter”): How many exactly of those were German? I’d really like to know. The pictures show hardly any Germans.

Tweet 3: How would you ascertain their German citizenship from pictures? Sandals and white tennis socks?

[goofy]

The San Francisco Standard

rat king 🐀

Chris Hayes

lol this fucking idiot had a can of bear spray on him when he was hurt and he’s still trying to be like “no, all those bear spray attacks on homeless people? that wasn’t me!”

But yeah, totally shocking to find that yet another sensationalized crime story in San Francisco is, for the infinitieth time, not what it appears to be at first glance!