#America
Ever notice how the #evangelicals, #charismatics and #dominionists scream the loudest about #religious #freedom, yet these are the same ppl who what to name #America as a #christian nation and put christian #symbols in #schools and other public places. See the hypocrisy? I do not know how we are going to fix our #country and return it to a place where all #religions or no religion is accepted?
"DuPont and two related companies said they would pay close to $1.2bn to settle liability claims brought by public water systems serving the vast majority of the US population on Friday, just days before the start of a bellwether trial in South Carolina over PFAS contamination."
#America’s #BigCity #BrainDrain
https://www.stitcher.com/show/the-daily-10/episode/americas-big-city-brain-drain-303995978
In recent years, well-paid and #college-educated #Americans have shed major #cities like New York, San Francisco and Washington for places like Philadelphia or Birmingham, Ala.
So... #Twitter is replatforming all the #Nazis, #insurrectionists, and anti-vaxxers, #Trump is allowed to run for #POTUS, ringleaders of the sedition are leaders in #Congress, nobody takes #COVID seriously anymore, and we're just gonna let the #shootings continue and the planet broil, because #America has no memory and our only concern is whether rich people can retain more yacht money. Am I caught up? Did I miss anything?
Ayer, mientras viajaba en el metro se me ocurrio buscar en startpage por la palabra "desdolarizacion" y me sorprendio la escaza cantidad de los resultados, incluyendo palabras como "dolarizacion".
Aproveche de echar una mirada en algunos de ellos y me quede con la boca abierta, por la esquizofrenia de los periodistas sobre el tema: O es intencional o de verdad esa gente ni siquiera busca informacion antes de comenzar a vomitar su mierda.
La BBC p.e. publicaba en 2011 que el proceso dolarizador de Ecuador y El Salvador no seria reversible en el mediano plazo, ya que esa divisa era la mas estable y no habia alternativas que le pudieran hacer peso, por mucho que el Euro ya hubiera conseguido alzarse por sobre el 20% de las reservas mundiales... por mucho que los gobiernos izquierdistas del momento quisieran revertir ese camino, no seria posible bajo esas condiciones... y reconocian que sin un bloque de paises con espaldas anchas esto seria solo un sueño.
Todo muy bien, hasta ahi, nada discutible... y la entrevista al experto era muy acertada, porque ninguno de los paises mencionados ahi es realmente relevante por si solo frente al omnipresente Gran Dolar: Deudores netos y sin participacion en las decisiones de ningun tipo a nivel global. Material necesario para desanimar a cualquier otro pais que se planteara siquiera comenzar a recorrer el camino contrario. Material ideal para usar en la propaganda.
En cambio, otro articulo escrito en mayo del presente año en el medio Bussiness Insider expele ignorancia por todos sus poros. Primero al afirmar rotundamente que el proceso de desdolarizacion fue comenzado por solo 2 paises: Rusia y China. Y segundo es que ese proceso ha tenido mas bien resultados ambiguos, mas bien magros.
Para quien investigue un poquitin, se entera que este proceso siempre ha estado latente. Ya las primaveras arabes tuvieron como uno de los motivos justamente el terrorismo financiero de los #EEUU, que buscaban detener cualquier proceso en esa direccion: Libia habia propuesto que todos los paises africanos se desvincularan de la divisa USAmericana y para ello habia que avanzar en una moneda comun... de esta forma, la #OTAN inicio el proceso de derrocamiento de todos los que estuvieran a favor de reducir el poder de su moneda comun. A Iraq le fue igual de mal.
La caida del uso del Dolar para nada comenzo con el conflicto UA-Rusia, sino que ha sido un proceso lento, pero continuado desde finales de la decada de los 90s. Asi lo demuestran las cifras de todos los organismos economicos internacionales, desde el #FMI hasta el #BancoMundial.
La necesidad de reducir la dependencia con respecto de esa divisa ha estado siempre presente en todos los paises tanto deudores como victimas de sanciones politico-economicas. #America Latina y Africa desde siempre han estado entre la espada y la pared, ya que al no tener alternativas a las cuales adherirse, hasta ahora no habian podido moverse y sus intenciones habian quedado solo en declaraciones.
La situacion positiva actual de #China y los eventos sucedidos el 2014 han simplemente conseguido por fin acelerar este proceso. Todos los paises, de alguna manera heridos por la accion del Dolar, ahora han comenzado un proceso de desacoplamiento o alejamiento respecto de esa divisa. Esto no significa que la puedan abandonar en el corto plazo, pues hemos visto como los EEUU y sus socios mueven sus piezas (propaganda, acusaciones, amedrentamiento, visistas "diplomaticas relampago", etc) para intentar detener a los rebeldes.
Es probable que hace 10 años atras, si las 30 economias mas poderosas hubieran aislado y separado al gigante asiatico, hoy ninguno de los movimiento anti-dolar serian posibles. Si hasta socios como Corea del Sur han dado pasos timidos para abrir su comercio exterior a otras divisas.
Hoy cerrarle la puerta a China seria un hara-kiri para cualquier economia, incluso para los propios Esclavos Unidos. Aunque segun sus ultimas cifras hablan de no mas del 15% de intercambios exonomicos entre ambos, la realidad parece distar de esas cifras, ya que los USamericanos ni siquiera se han planteado marginar al dragon asiatico de ninguna de las instancias economico-financieras globales... es tal asi, que sus corporaciones -a pesar de las amernazas y los dulces que le tira su gobierno- siguen inviertiendo mas y mas en territorio asiatico.
La prensa por su parte solo sabe decir horrores de ignorancia: La desdolarizacion recien acaba de iniciarce y sus instigadores han sido unicamente China y Rusia, como si la India, Brasil, casi todos los paises africanos... no contaran en esto.
Por otra parte, la misma prensa repite a diario de cuan malas son las actuales cifras que viene presentando la economia china, dejando al margen, que las cifras del resto de los paises industrializados son al menos el DOBLEMENTE mas malas... y que en ultima instancia es China el motor del crecimiento mundial. Hay una sutil separacion en el discurso cuando se habla de zonas economicas. "China no da el ancho a pesar de que crecera mas del 5%", "USA esta estupendamente a pesar de que apenas sobrepasara el 0% de crecimiento"... un mundo patas arriba.
How De-Dollarisation Could Change the Global Economy
#Politics #ForeignAffairs #Society #America #BRICS #China #USA #ASEAN #DeDollarisation #Economy #Euro #USDOllar #Yuan #GlobalEconomy
https://the-14.com/how-de-dollarisation-could-change-the-global-economy/
An interesting bit of colonial history from the Better Homes and Gardens Heritage Cook Book, 1975
#ShinyHappyPeople reveals that #fundamentalistchristianity teaches the same principles as the #taliban #WahhabistIslam except with that special creepy capitalist vibe unique to #america ‘s prosperity gospel.
'This #US president and his Transportation Secretary are driving real change #trains #highspeedrail #America #Biden https://www.rashmee.com/2023/06/04/amtrak-joe-pete-buttigieg-and-americas-train-revolution/
If you're thinking about #traveling from #America to #Canada this summer for #vacation, keep in mind that while they do have the same kind of electrical outlets and power (120 volts, 60 Hertz), their phase is shifted 45° to the left. So don't forget to #pack an adapter.
(1/n)
Mikhail #Gorbachev's restrictions on #alcohol sales until 1987(2) seem to have paved the ground for #OrganizedCrime in #Russia, just like #Prohibition in the #US in the 1920's(1):
"Prohibition Profits Transformed the Mob"
"Prohibition practically created organized crime in #America. It provided members of small-time street gangs with the 👉greatest opportunity ever 👈— feeding the need of Americans coast to coast to drink beer,..."
"Pesticide companies failed to disclose a series of studies assessing brain toxicity to European regulators, according to new research, despite the same studies having been submitted to US regulators."
The #HardHatRiot: A Forgotten Flashpoint in #America’s #CultureWars
https://youtu.be/AF-G9Iov28M
#wages #labor #workers #construction
The #resistance crescent and the end of #US domination
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/resistance-crescent-and-end-us-domination
#empire #america #imperialism
Marmon Big Eight
#Marmon #MarmonBigEight #USA #America #ClassicCars #VintageCars #Cars
#America Is Headed Toward #Collapse
#History shows how to stave it off.
"The long history of human society compiled in our database suggests that America’s current economy is so lucrative for the ruling elites that achieving fundamental reform might require a violent #revolution. But we have reason for hope. It is not unprecedented for a ruling class—with adequate pressure from below—to allow for the nonviolent reversal of elite overproduction. But such an outcome requires elites to sacrifice their near-term self-interest for our long-term collective interests. At the moment, they don’t seem prepared to do that."
#America-#Mexico #border is a clear and present centre of humanitarian #crisis.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65786973
#jugend #meinung #migration #amerika #kapitalismus #konsumgesellschaft #kuba #youth #opinion #america #capitalism #cuba #loneliness
Der Text von Klaus Hecker ist eine Replik zu dem dritten offenen Brief von Frei Betto an Ernesto Che Guevara die aktuelle Situation in Kuba betreffend. Auf Deutsch erschienen bei amerika21.de.
https://amerika21.de/blog/2023/04/263292/frei-betto-offener-brief-che-guevara
#jugend #meinung #migration #amerika #kapitalismus #konsumgesellschaft #kuba #youth #opinion #america #capitalism #cuba #loneliness
In Spanien fragt der Kellner, wenn man in größerer Runde zusammensitzt und bezahlt werden soll, „la cuenta o la cuenta aleman“. „Cuenta aleman“, die deutsche Rechnung, bedeutet, dass jeder für sich alleine zahlt. Das ist in Spanien oder Italien nicht üblich, da zahlt einer, die deutsche Lesart gilt als schäbig.
https://www.pressenza.com/de/2023/06/was-man-den-jungen-menschen-in-kuba-sagen-koennte/
"The Indian government will not consider any proposals for new coal plants for the next five years and focus on growing its renewables sector, according to an updated national electricity plan released Wednesday evening."
#India #Coal #FossilFuels #USA #America
https://apnews.com/article/india-coal-pause-plan-climate-renewables-68b75402af663e4553434bc672fc9cda
"Jobs created by net-zero transition will ‘offset’ fossil-fuel job losses in Republican US states"
Billions in #US federal grant money will go into the planned upgrade of #America's #trains. #Amtrak #highspeedrail https://www.rashmee.com/2023/06/02/amtrak-train-high-speed-rail-uprgrade-america/
Amazon and Google fund anti-abortion lawmakers through complex shell game
The Republican State Leadership Committee (#RSLC) received tens of thousands of dollars each from corporations including #Comcast, #Intuit, #Wells #Fargo, #Amazon, #Bank of #America and #Google last year, analysis of IRS filings shows.
The contributions were made in the months after Politico published a leaked supreme court decision indicating that the court would end the right to nationwide abortion access.
Google contributed $45,000 to the RSLC after the leak of the draft decision, according to the CPA’s review of the tax filings.
Others contributed even more in the months after the leak, including Amazon ($50,000), Intuit ($100,000) and Comcast ($147,000).
The RSLC, which works to elect Republican lawmakers and promote #rightwing #policies at the state level, is at the top of a chain of spending and donations which eventually connected to rightwing candidates in North Carolina.
This type of spending, which relies on channeling money through various third-party groups from larger organizations, is a common part of modern political campaign financing.
"Companies need to know where their money is ending up". -- Bruce Freed of the #Center for #Political #Accountability
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/03/anti-abortion-lawmakers-donation-amazon-google-comcast?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Extremists Are Running #America Because No One Runs Against Them | The New Republic
https://newrepublic.com/article/173081/extremists-running-america-no-one-runs
Artist Contest - The American Flag - on #FineArtAmerica
https://fineartamerica.com/contests/american-flag-beauty.html?tab=overview
Click in the 'Images' tab to view the entries, or submit your images if you're a member of this webiste.
Enjoy!
Photo: Star-Spangled Banner. American flag waving in shadow light. Copyright 2022 Frank J Casella
#photography #art #americanflag #flag #painting #america #American #pride #AmericanPride
eicker.news #technews »#Mosthated #brands in #America: #Trump Organization, #FTX, #Fox Corporation, #Twitter.« https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/01/most-hated-brands-in-america-trump-organization-ftx-fox-corporation.html
Everything that works in #America, #republicans what to tear down; #Social Security, #Medicare, #Unions, #Education, the #economy, #EPA ... Why is that? Do republicans think #Russia is better? I do not understand the #thinking(?) other than they believe the #rich #oligarchs deserve more so they can build an #economy like that of #Russia or old #England. They must feel the best economy is one based on #authoritarian #oligarchs like #MuskMelon.
@hachi #America chose going back to the dark ages and being offended by anything even remotely sexual, #USA is more likely to copy #Uganda if anything. US politicians still enact laws based on superstitions that everything in the world is harmful to children (both parties even). The only part of the #LGBT community some support are those who are useful to the system, typically ones who love to live with a permanent victim complex and show everyone how persecuted they were as a badge of honor.
Iconic signs & scenes on US Route 66.
Shop Wall Art options here: https://buff.ly/3We5VTj
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#USRoute66 #wallart #decor #travel #tourism #artprints #americana #USA #America
#mastoart
What is the problem with #republicans, do they really #hate #America and #Americans that much?
A Black girl won the first national spelling bee, dealing a blow to racism | NPR
If you haven't heard about the Black girl who won the first national spelling bee in the U.S. 115 years ago, you're not alone: even many in her family didn't know about Marie C. Bolden's feat until after she died, decades later.
#SpellingBee #racism #America #MarieCBolden #AfricanAmerican #BlackAmerica
https://www.npr.org/2023/06/02/1179460206/first-national-spelling-bee-winner-black-girl
American #Impressionist painter Childe Hassam spent many summers on #Appledore Island off the coast of #Maine. Every year, he and a circle of musicians, writers, and other artists made an informal colony based at the home of his friend, the poet Celia Thaxter. This painting created in 1913 evokes the leisurely, seasonal rhythms of #America’s privileged families in the last years before the Great War.
https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/1-the-south-ledges-appledore-1913-childe-hassam.html
#art #arthistory #Hassam #MastoArt #sea #coast #summer #impressionism
Check out this photograph / digital artwork that would look great framed and hanging on your wall in your home or office or produced on a variety of products.
In 1965 the new innovation for Harley-Davidson was greeted with the new model name of Electra Glide and it soon became a Classic.
https://pixels.com/featured/harley-davidson-electra-glide-john-hughes.html
#BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #harleydavidson #ElectraGlide #motorcycle #America #sanfrancisco
#TraeCrowder: Damn Boy! (FULL COMEDY SPECIAL)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhEt2E-2WQ0&list=WL
In his debut special DAMN BOY he brings it to the stage in his native #Tennessee; offering a unique, drawl-soaked perspective on the various absurdities of life in 2020s #America.
#Extremists Are Running #America Because No One Runs Against Them
https://newrepublic.com/article/173081/extremists-running-america-no-one-runs
#BBC report on "How #GunViolence is reshaping American lives", with stories of gun training for #teachers, families moving house, and useless and traumatising classroom "drills" for #children. But all that fear would end in #America had decent #GunControl laws
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-65686152
1,130,593 Americans Dead From COVID 19
2023-June-01 Friday
755 Americans Dead Last Week
U.S. - 16.29% of global pandemic deaths
U.S. - 4.20% of the global population
#US #USA #America #Americans #COVID19 #Covid #Corona #CoronaVirus #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborn #Pandemic #PandemicIsNotOver #Mask #Masks #WearAMask #Death #Deaths #AmericanDeaths #Vaccine #Vaccines #silentsunday #montag #sunday #Friday #SilentSunday #Monday #LongCovid #news #USNews #politics #USPolitics
‘[#SouthAfrica] wants to benefit from #US ties while undermining U.S. interests; […] [SA’s] leaders are hypocritical when they harp on respect for sovereignty but say nothing when #Russia violates #Ukraine’s; […] they excessively emphasize diplomatic protocol […] to obfuscate; and […] rampant #corruption is affecting their decisions.
There’s rarely any appreciation for what #America has done for [SA]
“Any chance they get to poke the U.S. in the eye they will do it”‘
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/01/u-s-south-africa-ambassador-russia-00099604
Explained | Why has #America adopted a new policy to restrict visas to Bangladeshis who undermine the election process at home? How has the #SheikhHasina government reacted? | @janusmyth
https://trib.al/C8g1OdZ #press
#indigene #amerika
#buch #rezension #inuit #kanada #indigenous #people #america
#bookreview #book #review #canada #land
"Wow, ich bin vollkommen geflasht von der Geschichte um ein Teenager-Waisenmädchen, das sich in einen Inuit (Innu) verliebt und ihm in die Wildnis folgt. Auch wenn Ihr den Autor nicht kennt und Euch der Verlag gar nichts sagt, nehmt Euch bitte kurz Zeit, ausnahmsweise in die Rezension zu diesem Juwel zu klicken."
Rambler Classic
#Rambler #RamblerClassic #USA #America #ClassicCars #VintageCars #Cars
From 31 May 2023 through to 1 June the Tulsa Massacre took place. Deputized whites killed more than 300 African Americans. They looted and burned to the ground 40 square blocks of 1,265 African American homes, including hospitals, schools, and churches, and destroyed 150 businesses.
White deputies and members of the National Guard arrested and detained 6,000 Black Tulsans who were released only upon.. 1/2
...when there are so many mass shootings that you need to download the CSV file to count them because the number is *that* high.
Carmel by the Sea addresses: An American addity, a wealthy town without street addresses. Documentation of all the weird accomodations they undertake.
https://www.carmelresidents.org/carmel-addresses-
#openaddresses #california #addresses #america #carmel #maps #+
"How to improve US cities and tackle the climate crisis? Get rid of parking spaces"
All gave some, some gave all. Remember them this Memorial Day. Shiloh National Military Park
#shilohnationalmilitarypark #memorialday #memorialdayweekend #honor #freedom #photooftheday #photography #civilwar #war #nature #naturephotography #outdoors #pic #picoftheday #shiloh #tennessee #travel #art #remembereveryonedeployed #photo #thankful #blessed #travelphotography #photographer #photography #weremember #america #americanhistory #explore #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt
Wishing all who celebrate Memorial Day a day of remembrance and reflection
https://pixels.com/featured/eagle-cares-american-flag-college-mascot-designs.html
#BuyIntoArt #MemorialDay #Eagles #GoEagles #GoAmerica #America #FlyEaglesFly
I created this image to honor those we have lost for this Memorial Day. ❤️
get it here: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/freedom-eagle-lisa-s-baker.html
#memorialday #eagle #bird #landofthefree #freedom #proud #america #art #artwork #painting #digitalart #digitalartwork #mastodon #mastoart #fediart #fediverse #TheArtDistrict #ayearforart #artgallery #birds #honor #remembering
@augieray Clearly, The Wrong People Are Leading #HR: Brain-Dead #Hiring Practices To Ditch🔴https://bit.ly/3qYavrd
#USA #Business #Europe #Security #EuropeanUnion #RemoteWork #China #Fediverse #Diversity #HumanResources #Politics #WorkingFromHome #CyberSecurity #America #Recruitment #Iowa #Technology #Racism #CEO #Britain #Immigration #Recruiters #Canada #Military #Leadership #Hybrid #InfoSec #Jobs #Migrants #Law #EU #Xenophobia #Tech #BlackMastodon #Management #Education #Strategy #DataBreach
Yeah, I am fairly confident that #JoeBiden will win re-election in 2024 thanks to Agent Orange (aka #Trump).
👉🏾 https://darnell.tv/2023/05/27/joe-biden-reelected-president-blame-trump/
My view is that no other #GOP candidate can beat #Trump in the primary. If they could, #America 🇺🇸 would potentially be screwed as there are some crazy #Republican candidates running.
But most sane who dislike #Biden despise #DonaldTrump even more.
Americans, by and large, have stopped trusting science. One chemist thinks he has identified a big part of the problem — scientists. Christopher Reddy says the scientific community is failing to help Americans understand science, particularly environmental disasters and medical emergencies. The Guardian has more.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/may/25/science-crisis-book-christopher-reddy
#Science #Communication #America
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1,129,838 Americans Dead From COVID 19
2023-May-26 Friday
935 Americans Dead Last Week
U.S. - 16.29% of global pandemic deaths
U.S. - 4.20% of the global population
#US #USA #America #Americans #COVID19 #Covid #Corona #CoronaVirus #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborn #Pandemic #PandemicIsNotOver #Mask #Masks #WearAMask #Death #Deaths #AmericanDeaths #Vaccine #Vaccines #silentsunday #montag #sunday #Friday #SilentSunday #Monday #LongCovid #news #USNews #politics #USPolitics
I've decided today's #livestream is gonna test the limits of #twitch #censorship by taking place in our #hotTub - since Twitch theoretically started allowing swimsuits on stream over a year ago (which of course allows topless "male-looking nipples" but not "female looking nipples" like everywhere else in or oriented towards this #puritanical #sexist #misgynist PoS country #America) I thought it'd be fun to do a #toplessTopics AMA (#askMeAnything) while wearing a bikini in our backyard hot tub. of course, given how topless Topics is #banned to a degree that no other #contentcreator is, I'll probably get #suspended yet again despite not breaking #CommunityGuidelines - but hey, that just gives me more screenshots for my banned page! https://www.toplesstopics.org/banned
anyway think of some AMA questions for me to answer on today's livestream, every Tuesday and Thursday 12-3 pm pst at https://www.twitch.tv/cerigotgame and I'll answer them live! they can really be AMA, but if they're sexual, I'll have to be super vague in how I answer. also, I'll think less of you as a person, for being a 🍆 for 🧠s instead of respectful. but go ahead and try I guess 🤷🏽♀️
see you all in two hours!
@noondlyt for context, HERE is the original (a bit cringe) video
I really like his intro guitar here in the original but by about 14s seconds in, he's pretty much on mute.
He wrote the song. So it's not like "the rest of the band turned his guitar down". Bonus points for anyone who finds me some videos of him actually playing guitar, which he's doing "more than ever" apparently.
OK this really blew away my expectations here.
77-year old guitarist from "America" is still putting it down - with a spine-tingling version of their 80's hit (which I didn't much care for TBH) "You Can Do Magic" - and it only has 24 likes???
@noondlyt
#HorseWithNoName #TeamRGB #RussBallard #America #Magic
Brazilian-American vs "Hispanic": Interesting data from an accidental US Census release
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/05/19/hispanic-latino-brazilian-census-definition/
#latinamerican #demographics #politics #hispanic #america #brazil #brasil #+
"New York City is sinking in part due to the extraordinary weight of its vertiginous buildings, worsening the flooding threat posed to the metropolis from the rising seas, new research has found."
#US #USA #America #Research #Environment
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/19/new-york-city-sinking-skyscrapers-climate-crisis
@fraying We have a mess happening. We must focus all of our attention on beating the #GOP and winning a majority in all elections for #Democrats. It doesn't matter what the particular issue is, the #Republicans are evil and are set on destroying #America as we know it. They will keep at it and taking rights and money away from all of us.
#America is in the grip of a new ‘#LavenderScare,’ spreading #fear of #LGBTQ+ people.
In the early 1950s, the Eisenhower administration fired or barred thousands of gay, lesbian, and transgender people from federal government jobs. This was called “The Lavender Scare.”
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #History #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
DeSantis’s "Leo-World" Ties:
In recent years, #Chris #Jankowski was listed on the board of advisers at #N2 #America, a dark money group designed to boost the GOP’s image in the suburbs. The organization campaigned for schools to resume in-person learning amid the COVID-19 pandemic and boosted the confirmation of Trump’s 2020 Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett.
Tax records show N2 America was primarily funded by Leo’s #Concord #Fund, which donated at least $1 million to N2 America between 2020 and 2021. The organization reported raising $1.5 million during that time.
DeSantis’s nascent campaign operation includes several other N2 America alumni.
https://jacobin.com/2023/04/leo-leonard-desantis-super-pac-funding
The Anti-Trans Panic is Rooted in White Supremacy
https://truthout.org/articles/the-anti-trans-panic-is-rooted-in-white-supremacist-ideology/
“Trans folks cannot fight these bills alone. Nor can mainstream trans organizations let themselves be tempted by politics of respectability that center whiteness as a way of finding popular acceptance.”
#abortion #America #gender #racism #reproductiveRights #trans #uspol
#OtD in 1925 El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, aka Malcolm X, was born in #Omaha, #Nebraska. He became one of the most influential Advocates of self-defence for Black People as well as one of the harshest Critics of #America's institutional #Racism (* 19. Mai 1925 as Malcolm Little in Omaha, Nebraska - † 21. Februar 1965 in New York City)
"Montana Governor Greg Gianforte has signed a bill banning TikTok within the state — the first ban of its kind in the United States. The bill, SB 419, prohibits TikTok from operating “within the territorial jurisdiction of Montana” and demands mobile app stores make the app unavailable for Montana residents."
#China #USA #America #TikTok #CommunistParty #CCP #CPC
https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/17/23686294/montana-tiktok-ban-signed-governor-gianforte-court
#Conservative #NewYorkTimes columnist Ross #Douthat makes an interesting case here: that the #legalization of #marijuana in the #US is making things worse, not better. #America's experience with #drugs is different from the #UK's in many ways. But advocates for #decriminalisation of #cannabis need answers for those who worry about unintended consequences here, too (gift link)
#LegalizeCannabis #DrugsPolicy https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/17/opinion/marijuana-legalization-disaster.html?unlocked_article_code=9yIDKDMd-bpNpFQ0OzCre1w3LVPzbBmSWZzP8oGw6M4fYs5NhzwgeB6CUqG7Zv9EO-Yhg0BdGhy4NQF3gMyhNDtPUuQLA7BNIX4QDSNxuEF0fUGyvvvcThxFo6JCeZZm4lzoYjkG5v2Qm4vYVVuu5wzcfskC-zq7A87GZq1DvBOHs__c_IPgR3Ogiv1PO64axk5DcnMJreifZDE0zpweRDIW3C2ucVDPhqvCH0xyIOlRAKOP6PFVaJv4Roydklp6ApzH-7a-nJ32DmbDkJ4THsgIlHFudQz4s4HFu48ac5m0OjgDgS86QHwIE89g0_ICmInxPTHBQwgBZ0xXMHlrYLSuahKzKd9VVA&smid=nytcore-android-share
@tzimmer_history @Alienated53 those foolish extremophiles and neophobes are ruining american democracy.
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/11/09/beyond-red-vs-blue-the-political-typology-2/
Uugh - #America what are you doing?
TL;DR: " ‘The forever prisoner’: Abu Zubaydah’s drawings expose the US’s depraved torture policy. He has created a series of 40 drawings that chronicle the torture he endured in a number of CIA dark sites between 2002 and 2006 and at Guantánamo Bay. The images give a unique and searing insight into a grisly period in US history. "
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2023/may/11/abu-zubaydah-drawings-guantanamo-bay-us-torture-policy
#Torture #Law #Warcrimes #Allparties #Afghanistan #Iraq #War #News #Politics #Art #History
Why does #America continue to resist #GunControl?
On the face of it, it looks like the toxic influence of the #NRA but in the end from afar it does seem that surely the lack of politic will has deeper roots?
Whatever it is, the death toll from rampant #gunviolence continues to rise; elsewhere countries manage to stop this (indeed even some states - Massachusetts for instance - have reduced fatalities through some further regualtion)...
My American friends, elsewhere this is not normal!
I learned from white evangelicals over ten years ago that they know *exactly* what porn is. Florida has a bigoted government banning *books* like the Nazis did. It has zero to do with children, zero to do w/ porn, but instead building up a white Christian supremacist gov’t. America’s people need to rebel while we can for our future. Organize, be patient, create, strategize, disrupt, get up and try again. Learn from our past.
#America #climateCrisis #fascism #Florida #poverty #uspoli
@GottaLaff You don’t have to invade a country if you can convince the people to kill each other. - #putin probably.
#guns another #massshooting #america #gop #oligarchy #war #children #globalwarming is involved. #nra #russia
It's both sad & telling that a person in NYC honestly believed the way to help someone with #mentalillness was to choke them to death to shut them up.
This is #America today. I'm sure he'll claim "self defense" or some other bullsh*t.
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If you have any questions, ask the server's admin at @brendan
#FeaturedServer #Vermont #VT #VermontUSA #Vermonter #Vermonters #USA #UnitedStates #America #Mastodon #Fediverse
I know I'm just a Brit who can only sit and be devastated on behalf of my trans sibling due to how far away I am - but I'm seeing loads of people (understandably) leaving places such as florida, due to the anti trans laws being brought in. However, are there any trans folk who are staying in these places who have fundraisers, etc, that I can boost? If there's anything I can share/do online as a Brit (I'm very low income, so sadly cannot donate right now), please let me know. I don't want the people who are staying to feel like they're being left behind or given up on during all of this! Simply leaving is not an option for everyone - so I just want to send solidarity to those staying, regardless of why you're staying as well.
And if there's any amazing work that's going on in these places, please let me know! I'd love to hear if there are people doing work on the ground, so people can hear there is some hope left too
‘Fearful and trigger happy’: flooded with guns and paranoia, the US reels from shootings | Gun crime | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/30/usa-gun-crime-paranoia-self-defense-gun-laws
In a speech on the legislative floor, the Democratic Connecticut US senator Chris Murphy added: “Gun murders are now just the way in which we work out our frustrations. This is a dystopia … that we’ve chosen for ourselves.”
Gun makers profit off this. Well, and congress critters who are being bought off.
@thegreatgonzo
This week Mrs Mike was telling a teenager that getting a criminal record would be a good way of making it difficult or impossible to visit the #USA
His reply was that America is far too dangerous and he wouldn't want to risk going there.
If this is a common attitude it is destroying the reputation of #America for a generation.
@greeneralia It's a strange take. I'd be ecstatic if India and China took greener options towards growth - but significant help and investment has to come from the historically largest polluters - north #America and western #Europe. One cannot benefit from a vice and then put others down into poverty for eternity after they've already got their rewards.
Ofc you can take a "different" approach to poverty alleviation, one that's not tied to "growth" — I don't know what that is.
When “medical bill bankruptcy filing” is a thing you know #healthcare in #America is screwed up.
#America's Most Influential #ConspiracyTheorists Are Going All-In On #Transphobia.
A #nexus between #Antitrans and #Antivax ideas is especially visible; major #Antivaccine figures like #SherriTenpenny and #StewPeters share #news articles and posts on their #Telegram channels stoking #Hatred and #Panic about #Trans #issues
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQIA #SocialMedia #Hate #Bigotry #Transphobia #MoralPanic #HateSpeech #StochasticTerrorism #Hatecrimes https://www.vice.com/en/article/93ky48/americas-most-influential-conspiracy-theorists-are-going-all-in-on-transphobia
Climate graphic of the week: Asia’s prolonged April heatwave concerns scientists
‘Exceptional’ conditions raise fears about a hotter 2023
Herrera said the ferocious temperatures amounted to the “worst April #heatwave in #Asia'n history ongoing in more than a dozen countries”. He noted on Friday that record temperatures were also widespread in South #America, while #Japan was experiencing “exceptional heat”.
https://www.ft.com/content/b1b07514-f1c0-4f1b-88ce-974379ce4d64
BREAKING: #GOP PROPOSED CUTS FOR VETERANS BENEFITS
- Cuts 81,000 Veterans Health Administration jobs
- Reduces funding for rural telehealth
- Cuts 6,000 Benefits jobs INCREASING WAIT TIMES FOR HEALTH CARE
- Cuts $565M for clinic construction
- Cuts 500 jobs from the cemetery service and delays the opening of 5 new facilities
- Cuts housing for 50,000 veterans
- Cuts food assistance for veterans
- DEEP cuts to mental health care
- ELIMINATES job training for homeless veterans
- CUTS the entire VA budget by 22%
As a #veteran, we were promised that #America would care for us when we returned from duty. Republicans do NOT care about veterans. They USE us as props and pawns to gain power, then throw us under the bus, leaving us hungry, jobless, homeless, sick, or dead.
STOP VOTING FOR REPUBLICANS
#fascist #criminal #republicans
@dave Adding some hashtags so more people will see the article because this isn’t limited to one small town.
#extremism #politics #rightwing #fascism #bullying #America #farright
Here’s another $3 billion in the news (from March)
“(People)…report higher rates of skipping meals, eating less, relying on others for meals and visiting food pantries…
…At the same time, a majority… in all states say they have less than $25 on hand to cover expenses.”
~ Here’s why millions of Americans will lose $3 billion in monthly food stamp benefits starting in March~
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https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/01/politics/food-stamps-pandemic-emergency-allotments/index.html
As #Transgender #America #struggles, #national #news doesn’t know what or how to write about the topic.
#Reporters run the risk of not successfully #communicating to the #public the sheer #scope and #cruelty of the ongoing attack on #trans #people’s #humanrights
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQIA #Media #MoralPanic #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
An #anthropologist attends a #CPAC conference ( #conservative #RightWing #America) and reports on their findings of the attitude towards #trans folks.
This being @SAPIENS_org, it is well thought through, fully supportive of trans folks and focused on debunking some of the #myths that the right perpetuate.
I'm really pleased to see serious #academic #writing focused on supporting trans folks. Will the right wing read this? Probably not. Will people who are unaware of the attacks trans folk experience every day read this? Quite probably. Will it help to increase understanding, empathy and allyship? I sincerely hope so.
Tangentially, calling the US a democracy is #propaganda, plain and simple.
Just a note to those who post about "saving American democracy"... the US has never been a democracy, irrespective of what you've been told all your life. If it is legal to buy favorable legislation (via "campaign contributions), then it isn't a democracy. If you can change voting districts to favor one party over another, then it isn't a democracy. And those are just two of many examples.
The US is an oligarchy.
“we are becoming a nation full of a distinct modern form of uncontacted tribes: at once hyperconnected and cut off, addled by propaganda and starved for human contact, convinced that the only good person you don’t know is a dead person you don’t know.”
- Anand Giridharadas
#compartmentalization #tribalism #hyperconnected #propaganda #humanism #america
Arguing with my wife about whether we need to upgrade our health insurance from $1700 a month to $2500 a month just because my youngest might be having health issues and there are no specialists that he needs to see in our current insurance network. All while having not seen a single paycheck in over 3 months now. 🫤 #america #thingsaregoinggreat
America is a Gun
England is a cup of tea.
France, a wheel of ripened brie.
Greece, a short, squat olive tree.
America is a gun.
Brazil is football on the sand.
Argentina, Maradona's hand.
Germany, an oompah band.
America is a gun.
Holland is a wooden shoe.
Hungary, a goulash stew.
Australia, a kangaroo.
America is a gun.
Japan is a thermal spring.
Scotland is a highland fling.
Oh, better to be anything
than America as a gun.
Brian Bilston
In case you've missed it, because it's not yet making the media much on this side of the Atlantic- have a look for news about #ClarenceThomas and the improbably named #HarlanCrow- a #legal story from #America with a plot and characters which would make John Grisham blush