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Dan Miller @meelar.bsky.social · 8h

The hukou system and international borders have many of the same downsides, and we shouldn't treat them as if they're entirely separate categories.

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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 8h

This is one of those things, like "how much do we spend on foreign aid," where people wildly overestimate the numbers involved.

In 2023, 1.1% of hourly workers over the age of 16 made the federal minimum wage or less. (When BLS first started collecting data on this question in 1979, it was 13.4%.)

Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 8h

No one makes federal minimum wages anymore. I'm talking employers who are (e.g. in the DMV region) complying with minimum wages in the $15.00 - $17.50 range. Even in states like Florida it's $14.00.

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Kevin Young Propagandist @jfloyd314.bsky.social · 10h

It is absolutely essential that Democratic decision-makers be made to understand that "Abolish ICE" is the one and only acceptable position for them to take on the matter.

Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 11h

It’s impossible to overstate how much “abolish ice” is the normie position now here in chicago — just countless random moms at toddler soccer on a park district field asking me where I bought my anti-ice t-shirt. average people don’t like our neighborhoods being terrorized.

laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 17h

A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.

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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 8h

I would assume that many more than 800 people have gone through security at LAX (or SFO, Denver, etc.) with weed in the last 5 years, so, statistically, you might have a good chance of getting away with it.

I wouldn't choose to play that game of Russian roulette. Guess you're just Built Different.

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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 8h

If you say so.

Black People Make Up 75% Of All Weed Arrests At LAX, Data Shows ~ L.A. TACO

Roughly a third of the people who were arrested by LAPD in the city of Los Angeles for cannabis-related offenses since 2020 were arrested in Westchester. Nearly all of those arrests happened at Los An...

lataco.com

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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 9h

"However, airport guests should be aware that Transportation Security Administration (TSA) screening stations are under federal jurisdiction."

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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 9h

I'm starting to think you wonder at a lot of things.

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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 9h

As an officer of the court, I cannot in good conscience encourage you to try to take weed on a plane, but I will say that it will be very funny for the rest of us if you ever find out the hard way what level of government TSA works for.

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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 9h

The feds *can* enforce it. They *choose* not to. They *choose* to spend their finite resources on other things.

They could change their mind about that choice anytime they want.

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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 9h

You would have to ask Pam Bondi, I guess. I don't really understand how she thinks, for which I'm very grateful.

PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 9h

There are literally so many federal criminal laws that every attempt to *count* them has failed. There is a very famous book whose thesis is that the average American unwittingly commits three federal felonies a day.

The U.S. Department of Justice brings about 70,000 criminal prosecutions per year.

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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 9h

She could. She could do that.

You find it impossible that the Trump administration could be choosing not to enforce federal laws criminalizing the sale and possession of cannabis in states where it is legal under state law and I am telling you that is exactly what is happening.

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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 9h

The federal Department of Justice does not enforce state laws of any kind, least of all cannabis legalization. (How exactly does one "enforce" legalization?)

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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 9h

For any of a whole bunch of reasons, but probably the most salient one would be the same reason a bunch of red states passed draconian abortion bans into state law during the Roe era: in anticipation of federal law changing in the future.

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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 9h

Which type of law is the Attorney General of California mainly tasked with enforcing: state law, or federal law?

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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 9h

I do not. I do agree, however, that you don't really have the first idea how federalism works.

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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 9h

Yes, and the federal laws that make that illegal are still on the books and very, very enforceable. Pinky promise.

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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 9h

Yes, having lived nearly all of my life in Colorado, I am familiar with the fact that cannabis is legal or decriminalized under the laws of many states.

I live in a city where psilocybin mushrooms are decriminalized and those are very much still illegal under federal law, too.

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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 9h

Did you just imply that if the Trump administration isn't enforcing a law, that law doesn't exist?

Just . . . just sit and think about that one for a second. Really put your mind to it.

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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 9h

Ah, yes, the famous Sativa Exception to the Supremacy Clause.

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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 10h

Hello! I am a lawyer in Colorado. Sara is correct.

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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 10h

honestly if this just became the Snapple cap of social media platforms, that might be better than whatever the fuck today was

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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 10h

We should do one of these every day. Tomorrow: poblano peppers and ancho peppers. Tuesday: coriander and cilantro.

Josie Duffy Rice @jduffyrice.bsky.social · 11h

so no one was going to tell me that mountain lions and cougars are the same animal? as are pumas? and panthers?????????

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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 11h

the one good high-stakes month my MLB team has had in its 33-year history happened at exactly the same time I was moving away from home and starting college, nobody can hurt me anymore

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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 11h

masochism, mostly

coper kupp country @camorooni.bsky.social · 11h

how do you people do this 162 times a year?

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