This is, unfortunately, almost every state-level high court these days. They know the the federal government doesn't have real teeth to enforce anything, judicially, right now, so a lot of state courts are just flagrantly ignoring federal rulings.

It's also worth mentioning 2 more points:

1. not only will sea levels rise, but as glaciers melt, they'll disrupt the composition of the ocean itself. Glaciers are fresh-water, while most of the ocean is salt water. This will, inevitably, lead to significant oceanic ecosystem disruptions and potentially many more extinctions;
2. rising sea levels will also have a dramatic impact on global weather patterns. It's hard to predict what those will be, but we should expect more unpredictable weather shifts, stronger storms, and more anamolous "once in a century" weather events becoming significantly more commonplace.

So, in reality, the situation is much more dire than just sea level rise. We're at the liminal precipice, now, of the Holocene Extinction. Buckle in, because shit's gonna get real weird.

Then it is the duty of the people to yield that abdicated authority. The police don't get to be vigilantes, exacting death sentences on whomever they choose -- if they want to act like outlaws, then we must treat them as outlaws and turn to policing and protecting ourselves from them.

You should await further coup attempts, because they're coming. Fascism is a cancer that, unless stamped out, will fester and hollow out all that it touches. We still haven't made moves against the fascists that coordinated the first coup, so it's all but guaranteed that there'll be a second.

Protests, strikes, and riots. Things only get better if we make them get better.

Oh God

China's in for a ride awakening if it thinks it can successfully invade Taiwan whilst the US has effectively infinite budget and manufacturing capability to send a steady stream of current and next-genetation weapons and materiel to Taiwan and other allies in the area.

The war in Ukraine has kicked the US's wartime production ecosystem into gear, and we're churning out all kinds of stuff to replace what we're sending out. We have enough spare weapons to adequately arm Taiwan for years.

Same as upstate NY. I've never seen anywhere with more confederate flags flying than certain towns upstate. It's surreal.

Sure, but also... in the grand scheme of possible crimes, burglary is pretty low on the list. Since it's just burglarly charges, we can deduce the following:

• In order to get a burglarly charge (vs. Robbery, Larcency, etc), the alleged has to be unarmed (guns or violence would automatically tack on attempted X charges [assault, etc])
• The alleged would have had to have trespessed onto the premesis with the intent of theft, but either did not manage take anything substantive and did not cause any significant damage or harm (which would be their own charges, like vandalism, etc)

So even though it's 7 arrests... they're arrests for stuff that's just a real shitty nuisence rather than something that was substantively dangeous to other people. Even vague language implying forceful action (e.g. "you're going to get out of my way!", etc) are enough to get a higher charge than burglarly in NY -- this further reinforces the idea that this person is just an objectively very stupid thief, rather than a real menace.

We're counting on you.

Precisely. We should strive for society to not be how we are, but how we should be. The society we are a part of should be better example of empathy and reason than than any of it's individual members might be capable of; it must be grester than the sum of it's parts.

I posit that we shouldn't be executing anybody, regardless of the gravity of their crimes. We cannot grow, as a society and a species, if we cannot collectively control our most base instincts for hate and violence.

It's saddens me, so deeply, that that's where we are as a society.

> I’m not anti cop fwiw

You should be.