This is the same AG that blocked the court ordered release of two people who had been wrongfully imprisoned for decades. This was like two people in as many weeks, just a month or so ago. What the hell is going on with Missouri?

How Right-Wing Billionaires Infiltrated Higher Education

The key, Pierson explained, was to fund the conservative intelligentsia in such a way that it would not ‘raise questions about academic integrity.’ Instead of trying to earmark a chair or dictate a faculty appointment, both of which he noted were bound to ‘generate fierce controversy,’ he suggested that conservative donors look for like-minded faculty members whose influence could be enlarged by outside funding.”

“They must be given grants, grants, and more grants in exchange for books, books, and more books. [To be clear, books written by the Ivy League professors Olin bought; not books for students]

They know their ideas are bad for us and they’re forcing them through anyway. I’m sure nothing we don’t already imagine, but the linked excerpt from Jane Mayer’s Dark Money brings receipts.

Hi, thanks for that. Im not an electrician but I work for the IBEW! In the given example, electricians in my state have years of training and on the job experience*. To a non-electrician like me, my thinking is that they can control their environment- cut off power, and have an idea of what they’re going into at a given time. You don’t know what is behind the door at a domestic violence call.

ETA: *before earning a license. And FWIW, I’m not the one downvote; I was the second upvote. People be out here voting their opinions, not discussions.

I don’t have much thought experience in this realm so I’m happy to be shown I’m wrong. I put all the blame on the paramedics who foolishly, probably, gave deference to non-medical folks who wouldn’t know better.

But on the surface I see a benefit to that being a rite of passage in becoming a cop. If I’m a cadet expecting to, in a couple of months, have a non-zero chance to encounter someone trying to kill me at, say, a domestic violence call, I’d want to know what such an encounter would be like before it happens outside a controlled environment. No?

*I am distinguishing this from the bullshit fake fear that gets Black Americans murdered by cops seemingly every day.

In case readers wants a journalist’s take instead of the subject themselves, link below. I think anyone noticing the hyperbolic way she spoke in the interview would quickly be seeking out a non-first-person perspective. The interviewer didn’t even allude to the pre-existing controversy around this lady, what terrible journalism.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/pornhub-traffickinghub-laila-mickelwait-book-b2585302.html

This anecdote from the article is technically hearsay, but I for sure buy that a person who uses language like she does is the same kind of person who’d write this:

Aylo also shared a screenshot with The Independent of a post it said Mickelwait shared then deleted on X, describing her husband as a “trained sniper who can consistently hit a target 1360 yards away.”

IDK why the preceding comments are talking about wages, this is about a former US govt worker providing US govt secrets and lobbying services for the government of South Korea. For what it’s worth, the article states she was out of government service at the time, and the charge is failure to file as a foreign agent. She was compensated in $3k handbags, fancy dinners, and $37k.

Her Rommate, Luzer Twersky, has a fascinating name.

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Do we think jeffw is the editor of lgbtqnation? They’re flooding the community with this source day after day. I’d’ve hoped @news had a higher standard… it’s not news that Lauren Bobert is racist.

Who is it the author says called her a racist? Nobodies on Twitter. We as readers need to respect our time and attention and downvote this junk food reporting. We owe it to ourselves.

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We have gods in America. No other way to describe billionaires with unending resources that can be pointed at whatever whim they want, coupled with no consequences for anything they do.

By nothing do you mean improving social safety nets? Completely agree. Otherwise, NY has the most gun control of any other state.

So much so in NYC, only the bribery class and law breakers can own them. An aside, in a just country, those wouldn’t need to be two distinct groups.

The tragic state of our institutions.

Judicial Branch- no longer legitimate; captured

Executive Branch- teetering on the ballot; captured (extent depending on one’s politics.)

Legislature- so captured it needs no further mention.

Press- owned by the folks that captured the other branches.

Safety nets and regs: being systematically dismantled by the illegitimate judicial branch to the benefit of the capturing parties.

If there are no TOS though, wouldn’t OP be in the clear? I was an intern at a state capitol a couple years and while we had secured user/print/PSK networks, the public network was just an unprotected SSID without a captive portal - you just join.

I didn’t think about it at the time, but it seems wild to have that setup in 2024. Piqued, I just looked it up and unless they’ve added a captive portal with a TOS to agree to, it looks like this is the only governing statement:

Wireless Internet access is provided for the public at the Connecticut General Assembly (CGA) campus. This includes the State Capitol Building, the Legislative Office Building (LOB), and the Old State House (OSH). This wireless service is protected by virus and malware protection systems. Objectionable advertising, pornography, spyware, viruses, and other inappropriate content is blocked. To utilize the Internet, simply connect your device to the CGA_Guest wireless network.

It reads to me like In that increasingly rare scenario that a raspberry pi advertising an exit node isn’t considered different from Joe’s laptop or Jane’s phone.