The filing deadline was March 23 and he returned to the House last week, a little over 3 months after that, so I think he would have been MIA for a few weeks before the filing deadline.
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- ryper@lemmy.catopolitics @lemmy.world•Journalists float astonishing theory around silence surrounding Mitch McConnell’s healthEnglish1·4 days ago
- ryper@lemmy.catopolitics @lemmy.world•Journalists float astonishing theory around silence surrounding Mitch McConnell’s healthEnglish16·5 days ago
Rep. Tom Kean was missing for four months without much explanation and there have been no consequences.
Even Speaker Mike Johnson suggested Kean should have said more sooner at a news conference Tuesday: “If it were me, I would have been more specific about that, and I encouraged him to be.”
Dude won his primary unopposed while he still missing.
- ryper@lemmy.catopolitics @lemmy.world•Judge Rules Against Trump, Says He Clearly Prefers White PeopleEnglish4·5 days ago
Hurting minorities: There’s a totally non-racist reason
Helping minorities: Unacceptable consideration of race/Racist against white people
- ryper@lemmy.catopolitics @lemmy.world•Judge Rules Against Trump, Says He Clearly Prefers White PeopleEnglish13·5 days ago
The Supreme Court already said these exact Trump comments weren’t racist in the TPS case and that was 6-3. And they seem OK with Trump hating immigrants.
But no, Alito said. There’s a perfectly nonracial explanation for all of the dog whistles. “None of the cited statements by either the President or the Secretary was overtly racial, and in substance all expressed policy views that could rest on race-neutral justifications.” In other words, the Trump administration hates all types of immigration and wanted to roll back the TPS system as a whole; therefore, it couldn’t have acted racially in its decision. On top of that, the court said that it’s pretty much just a coincidence that the majority of TPS countries are predominantly nonwhite. That’s not the administration’s fault; it’s because “the great majority of countries granted TPS have ranked among the poorest nations of the world, and no European nation falls into that category.” The stability (and therefore superiority) of European nations is evidence to be used against any argument that the Trump administration was unfairly motivated by illegal racial animus.
- ryper@lemmy.catoTechnology@lemmy.world•Microsoft Needs Windows Lite, No telemetry, no spying, no ads, no AI, no .NET, to retain gamers and developersEnglish55·5 days ago
Microsoft is not going to remove .NET to attract software developers when they want developers to use .NET. Not having access to software that uses .NET probably wouldn’t be a good trade off for how little removing it from Windows would do to make Windows lighter.
- ryper@lemmy.catopolitics @lemmy.world•Trump Goon Says ‘Events of Last Decade’ Prove He Was Sent by GodEnglish24·7 days ago
Is smiting a valid punishment for blasphemy? If “god” would smite some of these assholes I might just become a believer.
- ryper@lemmy.catoPiracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Imagine buying a disc drive, which loses purpose in 1.5 yearsEnglish3·10 days ago
It’s not like all the existing discs are going to disintegrate when Sony stops making new ones.
They also just announced that the PS3 and Vita Playstation Stores will be shutting down, starting next month in certain regions and everywhere by July 2027. At some point in the future it will be impossible to buy games for your old PS6 because it doesn’t support discs and the Playstation Store doesn’t support the system.
- ryper@lemmy.catoTechnology@lemmy.world•Amazon sued in Australia after Prime subscribers were made to pay more to remove adsEnglish1·11 days ago
Good. They should have added an ad-supported tier people could opt in to, like everybody else did, instead of changing the existing tier to be ad-supported and requiring people to pay extra to opt out.
- ryper@lemmy.catopolitics @lemmy.world•Court allows Trump to fire FTC commissioner and overturns major restraint on presidential powerEnglish2·12 days ago
Need to un-MAGA the Supreme Court first or they’ll rule in favor of any suit challenging that law.
You know who could end the speculation real quick? Mitch McConnell.