The Trump regime has been taking the position that because the VRA does not expressly create a private right of action there is none, and so it is only enforceable by the US Attorney General. The regime argues that since the US AG is in the executive branch this would call for the executive to sue itself, which it cannot do, and so the VRA does not apply to the federal executive.

In short, this is an effort to make the case about the unitary executive. 5/

@alice Please don't take my comment as some sort of advocacy for big centralized systems. But they DO have some advantages, which are important to understand if we want to build viable alternatives.

The Australian response, which is to ban young people from using social media for politics, is not going to stand. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/nov/02/global-youthquake-young-people-anger-protest-liberal-democracy

Here’s how piefed handles it using the browser.

One day, Trump will realize that US elections are run by States, and the Federal Government generally -- much less the Executive in particular -- has no say in them.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/nov/02/supreme-court-trump-california-ballots

Today is not that day.

@mcc The article I read said that Mark Zuckerberg and meta were being split up into quarters and fed to sharks so.... the technology is not all bad. Except it is.

You’re not alone in this wish, though I’m sure that doesn’t surprise you. I sort of accepted it as just part of how a federated reddit-style forum would work, but if there’s a way to address it, that would be very cool.

There’s a few cross folk in here, whose comments (I can’t pretend don’t hurt a bit!) do disagree. I’ll just have to have a think how I share on here going forward. The last thing I want to do is annoy anyone, but it takes a user all of 2 seconds to click on my profile here and see I’m deeply invested in the fediverse and have been on Lemmy for years now.

I appreciate your comment, thank you for saying so!

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By my reckoning, the New York Times devoted more resources to investigating a legal (if modestly sleazy) move by some Alaska Democrats than the staggering suppression of Democratic voting by the Trump regime and Republicans everywhere.

The Times is the trade journal for the rich and powerful.

@mattblaze Bush v. Gore I think it was a stolen election.

I need a new job. Let me know if there’s an opening for a very thoughtful, playful person who despises AI, cares about web standards, actually loves CSS and UX, has a long history in animation, and can write web or game code that ships with remarkably-few bugs (because I’m persistent and attentive)

Oof, I laughed a little too hard

@alice Well, yes. I'm here, after all. But that doesn't mean the federated architecture is without disadvantages of its own.

PyLova has that feature as well: https://codeberg.org/quokkau/PyLova

That one one thing I liked about Piefed. If only the creator wasn’t a man-baby.