Interesting fact - As of 2011, actual horses* are allowed to be service animals.

*Certain ones, at least

Right, but the limitations around even asking about a service animal make it a risky endeavor, so shops often take the safer route and assume any dog is a Service Animal.

It was absolutely ridiculous that he said that. Full stop. No politician should mess that up that badly.

But, I’ve heard people theorizing that, somewhere in the middle of the sentence, he realized that telling the world “fool me twice, shame on me” would have been a disastrous PR nightmare, so he tried to bail out.

It’s the crazification factor.

Here’s the original post about it.

Fuuuck. There it is. I’d been wondering why the hell USAID garnered such ire, but I’d missed that. Now it makes sense. Thanks.

In addition to what everyone else has posted, FMLA also has the wonderful caveat of not coming into force until you’ve been at a job for one year. Yay…

If you work full time (~2080/yr), then $700 amounts to $0.33 (33¢) per hour, or about $27 per biweekly paycheck. Any union worth their salt will certainly get wages increased by more than that. Unfortunately, for a lot of people at or near poverty, that $27 makes a huge difference.

Same thing with fighting anti-union activity by your employer - yeah, it’s federally protected and you’ll likely win in court and get back pay, but few can afford to not get paid for the intervening months while it works its way through the system.

Not the one you replied to, but…

I was agnostic for quite a while. I viewed it with an air of “scientific smugness”, thinking “since there’s no way to prove one way or the other, of course agnosticism is the only rational view.”

What finally pushed me to full atheism was 2 thoughts:

• Whether there is a god or not, the universe operates as if there isn’t. By that I mean, we’ve chipped away at the “god of the gaps” and found scientific explanations for every natural phenomenon that was previously attributed to god.
• If there is a god, and they are omnipotent, then surely they would understand why I don’t believe and would not punish me for that view. If they’re truly omnipotent and want me to believe, they know exactly what kind of evidence would be necessary to change my mind. Since that hasn’t happened, either there is no god, or there is and they’re ok with punishing me for something they could resolve immediately, in which case fuck them.

Appealing to self-centeredness is one way.

Look up Steve Bannon and Dominionism. They literally want to usher in their religious apocalypse.

Another article about his underpinnings:
https://archive.ph/bILE0

“What I’ve learned so far tonight: America is WAAAAAAAAY more sexist than it is racist. And it’s pretty f****** racist. #ElectionNight” Actor Patton Oswalt Source: Twitter

I will go see the Melania movie tonight!

Which time?

“He doesn’t get boo’d in this country.”

X (Doubt)

The threat of appearance will be enough for a not insignificant number of people. But also, they can use historical voting numbers to selectively target certain locations. No need to send anyone to the R+17 or the D+22 districts.

100 miles.

https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/border-zone

This one is older, but has the great image showing just how many cities are in that 100 miles:
https://www.southernborder.org/100_mile_border_enforcement_zone

Agreed. It’s not so much a matter of changing church tax code, but changing 501c3 tax codes in general and having enough IRS agents to properly keep up.

I’ve seen people have their cards cancelled for doing this. Rare, but not unheard of.

It’s over 80° in Phoenix and parts of SoCal this week, the first week of February. We’re absolutely fucking fucked.

I’d never heard of Anand G. until he did an episode of Stay Tuned with Preet a few weeks back, but he was a great guest and I instantly became a fan. HCR is amazing as well!