My ex was killed in Chicago in 2016, weeks after she got a restraining order on her then-fiance. He wanted her to have a threesome with one of his friends. She refused. He hit her and she left. Got the restraining order and a few weeks after, he put three in her stomach and left her to die. He drove to Minneapolis where he surrendered with the murder weapon, which was likely not registered. Good on Pritzker for doing the right thing. I just wish this narcissistic and violent country would do the same.
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Fortunately, my state (NH) has had a law like this since 1999, revised in 2013. There was no law like this in the ‘70s when my family was involved in situations like this. I remember the cops taking my dad’s rifles after the last incident though I don’t remember the details of how that came to be. I think they talked him into it. Hooray for progress but boo for why it’s 2025 and this isn’t law everywhere.
I'm a little worried for the sake of those law enforcement officers who have to do the searches. There's probably no more dangerous issue for enforcement than domestic disputes...
This is just a tiny drop in the bucket compared to what they and other responders will be facing soon. There are many millions of heavily armed, already angry Americans just about to enter their dementia years.
The man I knew as my foster father was a police officer and he confirmed that domestic violence incidents were the most dangerous and potentially deadly calls for responding officers.
Fuck Yeah JB! Glad I live in your state. Sucks that it has taken more than a quarter of a millennia in this country to do one simple thing. And it's not even the COUNTRY that's taking this up. It's one damn blue state, surrounded by red states full of the supporters of the Ferret-Wearing-Shit-Gibbon that have little to no gun laws, to do this. Guns flood into Illinois from Wisconsin, Iowa, and especially Indiana, then people wonder why Chicago is so violent (it's not that violent).
Oh. Leon announced $900 million in cuts to the Department of Education. Stupid me thought that Congress passes a budget and the President signs it and becomes law. I’m so bad at this.
That is how it should work, yeah. But this Congress doesn't seem to care, or even (on the part of Republicans) wonder why Trump and Musk are so determined to go around them.
No, what happens is that an orange assclown whose neurodegenerative brain looks like one of those cymbal monkey toys decides to give a saffer wanker and his band of unfuckables access to the entire government.
Then the unfuckables do a weak-ass dance and another Federal organ is shut down.
Cuts, according to ProPublica, specifically to a group that was storing and making accessible to the public all the information the Department of Education has for keeping schools across the country accountable. So, if you don't have any local newspapers anymore, and you want to know if the school in your area is good or not, good luck to you. I guess you can trust reviews people put on the internet?
'Georgia Rep. Buddy Carter (R-GA) put forth a bill Tuesday called the "Red, White, and Blueland Act of 2025." According to the Post, the act "directs the secretary of the interior’s team to ensure federal paperwork gets updated to the new name and gives a six-month deadline to complete that task."
"In a statement to The New York Post, Carter declared, “America is back and will soon be bigger than ever with the addition of Red, White, and Blueland."
"He continued, "President Trump has correctly identified the purchase of what is now Greenland as a national security priority, and we will proudly welcome its people to join the freest nation to ever exist when our Negotiator-in-Chief inks this monumental deal.”
According to The Post, "Secretary of State Marco Rubio has defended the president’s goal of taking Greenland by highlighting U.S. military support for the island territory and a 1951 treaty to defend it in the event of an attack."
"Rubio said during a podcast interview, “If we’re already on the hook for having to do that, then we might as well have more control over what happens there. This is not a joke. This is not about acquiring land for the purpose of acquiring land. This is in our national interest and it needs to be solved.”
Same here, damnit. This is all turning me into being ok with violence committed by our side to save our Democracy, and seek to make it even better when the Republicans are totally defeated. I am fucking ASHAMED of my country right now.
Never in my more than 6 decades darkening a patch of Earth have I been thoroughly ashamed of being an American citizen, but I am NOW.
Gracious comrades from other nations, with every iota of sincerity within me I apologize on behalf of my country. There is an egomanical madman in the White House who retains a stable of ready and willing enablers.
They need to suffer miserably and for an extended period of time for advocating this madness.
Including the people who voted for this. They need a horse whuppin'. Each and every one of them. They need to pay, because at the most, our Democracy is dead, and at the very least it's going to take decades for the country to recover what it is loosing.
My ex was killed in Chicago in 2016, weeks after she got a restraining order on her then-fiance. He wanted her to have a threesome with one of his friends. She refused. He hit her and she left. Got the restraining order and a few weeks after, he put three in her stomach and left her to die. He drove to Minneapolis where he surrendered with the murder weapon, which was likely not registered. Good on Pritzker for doing the right thing. I just wish this narcissistic and violent country would do the same.
Oh, that's so awful...
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Slightly OT- If you have a stash of illegal weapons, calling the police to your house is a very bad idea:
https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/san-jose-man-calls-911-to-report-break-in-arrested-on-illegal-firearms-charges
Gov. Pritzker changed the name of Lake Michigan to Lake Illinois. He even had a press conference. I love this guy.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/governor-jb-pritzker-pokes-president-donald-trump-says-lake-michigan-is-now-illinois-state-will-anex-green-bay/15885139/
Best. Billionaire. EVAR!
Ta, Robyn. Yes, make it harder for these vicious creeps to kill their partners.
Unless the law contains specific punishment for the police who fail to execute on it...its just another piece of paper.
Cops fought it hard. Probably because it's hard to stay a cop when your guns get confiscated.
Yay for my state!
How about "the son was also shot and wounded" instead of "but only wounded"?
Meanwhile DeSantis had taken the Sales Tax off guns and ammo from May 26- July 4…
He can unilaterally suspend the sales tax on favored items and remove elected officials. The Florida Constitution must be a fun read.
It’s a bro ocracy there and his Legislature is in on it.
I am so grateful to live in Illinois right now.
Fortunately, my state (NH) has had a law like this since 1999, revised in 2013. There was no law like this in the ‘70s when my family was involved in situations like this. I remember the cops taking my dad’s rifles after the last incident though I don’t remember the details of how that came to be. I think they talked him into it. Hooray for progress but boo for why it’s 2025 and this isn’t law everywhere.
And that was before the typical average Joe owned crew fed heavy machine guns,
smoking lamp is lit
(today is the anniversary of the day I lost Zulu, peace be upon him
so I am on a word diet, and spending the day with him today okay bai)
May Zulu's memory be a blessing forever.
[whispers of love and gentle support dapple softly past your ear...<3]
Go easy, Cap'n: The horizon is just over there.
-gb
I understand.
I'm a little worried for the sake of those law enforcement officers who have to do the searches. There's probably no more dangerous issue for enforcement than domestic disputes...
This is just a tiny drop in the bucket compared to what they and other responders will be facing soon. There are many millions of heavily armed, already angry Americans just about to enter their dementia years.
The man I knew as my foster father was a police officer and he confirmed that domestic violence incidents were the most dangerous and potentially deadly calls for responding officers.
It totally is. A DOJ report from 2016 found nearly a third of police firearms deaths were on DV calls.
Which... would help of they locked the abuser up and then went after their guns. But wouldn't want to ruin the poor guy's life, so risk of life it is
But you know who gets paid to do their damn job?
It's still gonna be dangerous to arrest the guy.
Fuck Yeah JB! Glad I live in your state. Sucks that it has taken more than a quarter of a millennia in this country to do one simple thing. And it's not even the COUNTRY that's taking this up. It's one damn blue state, surrounded by red states full of the supporters of the Ferret-Wearing-Shit-Gibbon that have little to no gun laws, to do this. Guns flood into Illinois from Wisconsin, Iowa, and especially Indiana, then people wonder why Chicago is so violent (it's not that violent).
>" ... more than a quarter of a millennia in this country ..."
Make that "more than 25 years."
Yeah, I live on the Indiana border, so the gun laws don't have much affect with that border right there....
Illinois is just hip deep in red states. There's not another blue state until...Cali-fucking-fornia!
Connecticut and Massachusetts are a LOT closer than California.
Oh. Leon announced $900 million in cuts to the Department of Education. Stupid me thought that Congress passes a budget and the President signs it and becomes law. I’m so bad at this.
Only Congress can get rid of a Department of the government.
That is how it should work, yeah. But this Congress doesn't seem to care, or even (on the part of Republicans) wonder why Trump and Musk are so determined to go around them.
[resumes aggressive head/desk maneuver]
I don't know which to feel more for: your head or the desk.
How do you cut from a department that you're just closing?
The same way you write two executive orders instructing that agency to do many, many things.
DOGE killed the Department of Y R Kids Don’t Read No Good in cold blood.
The programs he just killed were tasked with researching why kids have struggled to learn to read post-Covid. This cut is a Republican wet dream.
It's a fucking fire sale.
1-877-fuk-the-kidz
Did you just give us Matt Gaetz’s personal number?
They have to to slash these programs to balance it out in regard to the kids they haven't had an opportunity to shoot yet.
No, what happens is that an orange assclown whose neurodegenerative brain looks like one of those cymbal monkey toys decides to give a saffer wanker and his band of unfuckables access to the entire government.
Then the unfuckables do a weak-ass dance and another Federal organ is shut down.
Cuts, according to ProPublica, specifically to a group that was storing and making accessible to the public all the information the Department of Education has for keeping schools across the country accountable. So, if you don't have any local newspapers anymore, and you want to know if the school in your area is good or not, good luck to you. I guess you can trust reviews people put on the internet?
Just wow! how evil/stupid/racist are these assholes?
Did they all get lobotomized?
"'Are they dumb?' Critics let loose as Republican introduces bill to rename Greenland"
https://www.rawstory.com/greenland-renamed/?
'Georgia Rep. Buddy Carter (R-GA) put forth a bill Tuesday called the "Red, White, and Blueland Act of 2025." According to the Post, the act "directs the secretary of the interior’s team to ensure federal paperwork gets updated to the new name and gives a six-month deadline to complete that task."
"In a statement to The New York Post, Carter declared, “America is back and will soon be bigger than ever with the addition of Red, White, and Blueland."
"He continued, "President Trump has correctly identified the purchase of what is now Greenland as a national security priority, and we will proudly welcome its people to join the freest nation to ever exist when our Negotiator-in-Chief inks this monumental deal.”
According to The Post, "Secretary of State Marco Rubio has defended the president’s goal of taking Greenland by highlighting U.S. military support for the island territory and a 1951 treaty to defend it in the event of an attack."
"Rubio said during a podcast interview, “If we’re already on the hook for having to do that, then we might as well have more control over what happens there. This is not a joke. This is not about acquiring land for the purpose of acquiring land. This is in our national interest and it needs to be solved.”
At first I thought it was Borowitz or The Onion! The idiots are outstripping them in the humor race.
That isn’t just sucking up to Trump, it’s outright worship of him as a god. The golden calf at Mar-a-Lago isn’t just a massive lack of self-awareness.
The god-damned fuckin' IRA side of me is REALLY coming out....
Same here, damnit. This is all turning me into being ok with violence committed by our side to save our Democracy, and seek to make it even better when the Republicans are totally defeated. I am fucking ASHAMED of my country right now.
This is derelict, damned disrespectful STUPID.
Never in my more than 6 decades darkening a patch of Earth have I been thoroughly ashamed of being an American citizen, but I am NOW.
Gracious comrades from other nations, with every iota of sincerity within me I apologize on behalf of my country. There is an egomanical madman in the White House who retains a stable of ready and willing enablers.
They need to suffer miserably and for an extended period of time for advocating this madness.
Never has the term ‘ugly Americans’ felt more profoundly on point.
Including the people who voted for this. They need a horse whuppin'. Each and every one of them. They need to pay, because at the most, our Democracy is dead, and at the very least it's going to take decades for the country to recover what it is loosing.
Hear hear !!