Lou Katz @lou@entropyservice.com

When I was an editor at the Chicago Tribune, I would’ve been in trouble if I’d let my wife put a political bumper sticker on our car. But a Supreme Court justice’s home can fly a flag of insurrection and he’s still allowed to rule on whether the head insurrectionist has immunity.” https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/may-17-2024?r=13f3k3&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

The Biden Admin's rule limiting credit card late fees was set to begin this past week.

But a Trump-appointed judge blocked it at the request of the Chamber of Commerce — costing families an estimated $27 million a day.

MAGA and corporate interests want to keep ripping you off.

Trump gives isolated Americans the chance to hate alone together https://www.alternet.org/trump-isolated-americans/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

What happens when you mandate masks at a conference now that most people no longer wear them but medically vulnerable people are still at risk because #CovidIsNotOver? In the case of #PyConUS, the conference sells out.

Why a masking policy? “Many of us and our fellow community members can’t attend without health and safety guidelines in place. We want PyCon US to be an event that everyone feels safe attending,” organizers explained.

Well done @pycon https://fosstodon.org/@pycon/112445571644276379

@pluralistic
As someone who spent 40 yrs as a public servant I can attest to this being true. Just the other day I got told by my bestie that the military did right by me. I said “ I worked my ass off too” Her & her family don’t believe I worked hard but got everything handed to me.

I am pretty fucking sure that Justices Jackson, Kagan, and Sotomayor have all been called the c-word and worse throughout their careers and have never once hung an insurrectionist flag up at their house because of it

The Telegraph headline on Palestinian refugees is in essence identical to how rightwing British tabloids wrote about Jewish refugees when Britain denied them safe refuge during the Holocaust.

These institutions are dedicated to White supremacy at all costs. They view us as disposable nonhumans.

Any PoC and/or Jew who thinks these people are on their side is wrong. They may temporarily pretend to not hate Jews or Ukrainians or whoever but that’s all it is: temporary.

Capitalism is the state enclosing a common resource, water, so private owners can serve the public literal shit water and still collect rents from the public like feudal lords while we grovel and say thanks for the sewage.

I fucking hate hate hate hate capitalism.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/health/27970119/devon-water-bug-symptoms-spread-lates-news/amp/

The “Good Deal” Trump Allegedly Offered Oil Execs Might Be Worth $110 Billion https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/05/corruption-deal-donald-trump-offered-oil-executives-mar-lago-billion/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Don't say 'climate': Ron DeSantis signs bill removing references from state law https://www.alternet.org/desantis-climate-change/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

[Man] is right. I have been diabolically lied to. I have been told that:
❌ If I have a family, I am not committed to my career
❌ If I have a career, I am not committed to my family
❌ Motherhood=100% fulfilling
❌ My ideas actually originated w/the man who said them after I did

Opinion: SCOTUS Silently Grinds Democracy Into Powder as Trump Distracts America https://www.thedailybeast.com/scotus-silently-grinds-democracy-into-powder-as-trump-distracts-america?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Heads up for people compiling #OpenBSD -current (as opposed to snapshots), remember to restart sshd after installing, or risk locking yourself out.

#OpenSSH sshd(8) has now been split up into two separate binaries, sshd and sshd-session, with more changes pending.

djm@ modified src/usr.bin/ssh/*: Start the process of splitting sshd into separate binaries. This step splits sshd into a listener and a session binary. More splits are planned.

After this changes, the listener binary will validate the configuration, load the hostkeys, listen on port 22 and manage MaxStartups only. All session handling will be performed by a new sshd session binary that the listener fork+execs.

This reduces the listener process to the minimum necessary and sets us up for future work on the sshd-session binary.

feedback/ok markus@ deraadt@

Also only on #OpenBSD, this new sshd-session binary gets relinked on boot, as with sshd.

deraadt@ modified src/usr.bin/ssh/sshd-session/Makefile: construct and install a relink-kit for sshd-session
ok djm

deraadt@ modified src/etc/rc: run the sshd-session link kit also

I’m pretty sure we should blanket repeal the pardon power at every level.

It doesn’t even make sense in a rule of law system.

Democrats ask America's most corrupt Supreme Court justice, Clarence Thomas, if he would be kind enough, pretty please, to explain more about his corruption...

He is, of course, not explaining anything -- and daring anyone to do something about it.

https://newrepublic.com/article/181627/clarence-thomas-rv-loan-democrats-letter