No they can't. This is what's happened every time trump tried to cut state funding. Courts don't let the feds overstep their powers over states by threatening funding. Courts have ruled very consistently on this.

The DMCA is the US's implementation of treaties from the World Intellectual Property Organization's, WIPO Copyright Treaty. It is signed by 115 countries.

Wikipedia's page on the WCT has a map of the signatories

Mark Fitzpatrick, the owner of the Old State Saloon in Eagle, a suburb of Boise

Not Boise. Eagle. Please stop defaming Boise, by blaming the actions of this one guy in a different city on Boise.

Boise made the pride flag an official city flag so they could keep flying it at government buildings despite the state government trying to ban it. Boise is better than this article claims.

This feels like cherry picked examples to try and frame nutomic as being transphobic. Its always this one screenshot, of a comment made in response to something else that I have never seen posted any of the times this has been brought up. A response without context is kind of sus.

Being uninformed or misinformed is not bigotry. There was a time when I probably would have said something similar, before I learned more, and knew better. I don't think this is strong evidence of a real issue.

Until the point that he makes more questionable statements about trans or lgbtqia2s+ people, this is fine as far as I'm concerned. I don't think what I have seen so far is actionable.

Edit: from reading Ada's comments in this thread I endorse her stance.

From the very strict enforcement standards of this instance, the DM was enough to warrant a ban for nutomic, but not enough to warrant defederation for ml. That seems fine until or unless more information comes to light.

The military is a jobs program that many people are eligible for, who might not be able to get work elsewhere. There's a reason that the military has many lower income and minority members, and why paying for a college education is such an important part of the compensation. If you have better options you should take those, but many don't.

The idea that the US has a volunteer military is mostly propaganda. This country does a lot economic coercion to drive recruitment.

are republicans promising to abolish landlords now?

I already miss the old smorty

If that were the issue they would have canceled the orders several years ago. Refusing the planes at this point is due to more recent developments.

The most effective way for them to fight government waste would be to not sign executive orders unless they are unambiguously legal. This administration is constantly making work for federal lawyers at every possible opportunity, and lawyers are really expensive. "fighting government waste" is completely a smoke screen for what they're actually doing.

As of 8:45 PM ET, Dow Jones futures were down 1.26%, S&P 500 futures fell 1.16%, and Nasdaq 100 futures declined 1.20%.

Stock market indices fluctuate regularly. If you multiply a small normal percentage change in a national index by the size of an entire national economy you'll get a big number like $2 trillion to make an alarming headline.

There's a saying in stocks, if you want to see the trend, zoom out. If you're trying to push a narrative, zoom in. There's a reason alarmist publications pick very small time intervals when discussing how markets are affected by government actions.

The rich have more assets and income sources and have staff who do a bunch of financial chicanery to try to hide their tax evasion. Auditing the rich requires significantly more work than the poor.

These decisions are not about doing what makes sense. The IRS is a revenue generator. Spending money on the IRS brings in significantly more money in unpaid taxes than it costs.

The goal is not to do what's best for the government's budget. Its really about ensuring that their criminal friends can continue to get away with it.

Weird right wingers kept going on about trans people, and I wanted to be informed about it and learned a few things about myself in the process.

I genuinely had no idea for most of my life. The signs were there all along but only in retrospect. It took me 2-3 years of questioning before I started transitioning. I was not ever truly certain I was trans until I started HRT, and everything started to feel fine, like genuinely fine. Didn't realize I was depressed from dysphoria my entire life because I had no point of comparison.

I certainly envy the trans people who were able to learn they were trans at an early age. The best time to transition is just before the start of puberty, the second best time is now.