#Conservative
Tory liar refuses to admit her lie time and time again | Vox Political
https://voxpoliticalonline.com/2023/10/02/tory-liar-refuses-to-admit-her-lie-time-and-time-again/
Why the fuck do we put up with this shit?
#BeMoreFrench
#BurnItDown
#ClareCoutinho #LyingBastard #SophyRidge #Conservative #Tory #Tories #conference #speech #lie #Labour #meattax #ToryScum
#Conservative Party Conference proud to be banning digital devices in schools (this is far from new). Here something I wrote for the Centre for Attention Studies at King's College London.
It's about what you do when you don't want to ban.
Justice #ClarenceThomas #Recuses as #SCOTUS Turns Down #Appeal From #Eastman
#JohnEastman, a #conservative #lawyer who advised #Trump, sought to wipe out a decision that he said had harmed his reputation & that of his client.
Why the fuck is #google at the #Conservative party conference???
Who would replace #RishiSunak as #Tory leader if he loses the #election?
The prime minister’s rivals are shoring up support at the #Conservative conference in case of polling #defeat
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/oct/02/who-would-replace-rishi-sunak-as-tory-leader-if-he-loses-next-election
#ToryInfighting #DeadDuckPM
#GTTO
The lobotomised far right fools in attendance must be kept as far away from power & influence as possible.
What beggars belief is that these people dare show their face in support of Truss after the utter carnage she caused 12 months ago! 😳
#Sunak has little authority. His party has #NetZero faith in him, as even political failures like #Truss feel comfortable tabling alternative #CONservative manifestoes right under his rat-like nose.
These Conservatives are telling us they do not understand inflation | Vox Political
https://voxpoliticalonline.com/2023/10/02/these-conservatives-are-telling-us-they-do-not-understand-inflation/
#inflation #Rishi Sunak #Jeremy Hunt #Conservative #Tory #Tories #tax #lie #stupid #understand #ToryGobshites
#Conservative Party conference (so you don't have to). Low attendance (even by journalists who HAVE to go usually), low coverage, no real policies, desperate #Tory attempts to grab headline attention, by announcing 'wars on things' that don't actually exist, & a real lean in to new far right fringe media like GBNews.
If you don't know #GBNews see post above.
Tory Party Splitting and Mogg and Other Factions Publishing their Own Manifestos | Beastrabban\’s Weblog | Vox Political
https://voxpoliticalonline.com/2023/10/01/tory-party-splitting-and-mogg-and-other-factions-publishing-their-own-manifestos-beastrabbans-weblog/
Tired/Wired
Computer, show me the ideological-to-behavioral cycle of #conservative Americans in one short headline, please.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/30/metoo-california-murder-rachel-elizabeth-imani-buckner-joseph-roberts
Some time ago, I started asking acquaintances and colleagues who describe their #politics as #conservative what that means to them, because, as Mr. Walker says here, it doesn't look like they're actually 'conserving' anything.
Ah, the #Conservative Party Conference. What a week if, like me, #Schadenfreude is your favourite pastime.
Straight up this mornin', Priti Patel appearin' on Sky News, smirkin' and talkin' about the future of the party.
Quite an interesting, and damning, piece here by Richard #Walker, CEO of #Iceland, of why he is no longer a #Conservative. I have never had that much time for Conservative environmentalism but its disaffection with #Tories is real:
the realisation that Conservatives are not conserving anything [other than their own class/personal interests]
Term and Age Limits in Politics https://youtu.be/ZPzZohRXZeU?si=XvtNs4DMXgpXVNQW #politics #political #termlimits #agelimits #agism #congress #gop #democrat #liberal #conservative #moderate
#RishiSunak the helicopter – cartoon by Chris Riddell in The Observer, 1st October 2023.
The Prime Minister pays a flying visit to #Conservative conference.
More greenhouse gases, more heat, more energy in the climate system.
Governments, such as the #UK's "keep the rich elite rich" #Conservative policies, will lock us into decades more greenhouse gas emissions (woefully insufficient policies to mitigate the problems)
The majority of folk on the "street" either don't know or don't care, provided the fuel is cheap enough, etc.
The question is, how will the disruption of human-caused #ClimateChange them?
The right is coming for Taylor Swift. They don't stand a chance
https://www.salon.com/2023/09/29/taylor-swift-travis-kelce-conservative/
#TaylorSwift #Conservative #RightWing #TravisKelce #PoliticalTargeting #CultureWar #Politics #News
We Don’t Talk About Leonard
A new #podcast from ProPublica and On the Media
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The #conservative legal movement in the United States is more powerful than ever.
One largely unknown man has played a significant role in pushing the American judiciary to the right: Leonard Leo.
#LeonardLeo #SCOTUS #SupremeCourt #Courts #Podcasts #CriminalJustice #Politics #Judges #News
Members of the #FarRight faction of the party are coalescing around nominating a member of McCarthy’s leadership team, Rep. #TomEmmer (R-Minn.), to be the next #speaker if they can successfully #oust #McCarthy…. The members believe that #Emmer is more attuned to their concerns & will better deliver #conservative results than McCarthy.
What is the best book in Iain M Bank’s ”Culture” series, and why is it Surface Detail? 🤔
Ok. Player of Games, Use Of Weapons and Excession are awesome too. But if any should be made into a screenplay now it would surely have to be Surface Detail
It really puts forward where #conservative values can lead, if we let a sly techie give traditionalists all the #technology in the world: They’ll just use it to enforce their hate & fear on everyone
Eric’s #religiousjourney on #SexEducation #speaks to #queer #Muslims like me.
I saw myself in his struggle. Growing up in a #conservative household inevitably led to a #complicatedrelationship with my #faith – and my #queerness.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #TV #Spirituality #Representation #Culture #BlackMastodon
https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/28/eric-sex-education-season-four-religion-lgbtq/
#State #bans on #MedicallyNecessary #GenderAffirming #HealthCare for #transgender #minors are #unconstitutional
As with #laws forbidding #medication to induce #abortions, the #statutes in #Texas and other #RedStates are entirely about #conservative #politics and not at all about #health and #science
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
https://www.thestate.com/opinion/article279837789.html#storylink=cpy
Inside the tactics that won #Christian vendors the right to reject #GayWeddings
Opponents accuse #conservative #legal group behind landmark #SCOTUS case of manufacturing #lawsuits to advance its #agenda
#ADF
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/09/24/alliance-defending-freedom-wedding-lawsuit/
#Trump hasn't "stepped away" from #conservative foundations. He was never there. Trump isn't a conservative or a progressive. He's in it for himself and no one else. He'd throw his own mother under a bus if it earned him a dollar.
#UK & #USA stupid rich folk #politics
next month’s #Conservative party conference will be held under a banner reading “Long-term decisions for a brighter future” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/26/rishi-sunak-long-term-thinking-suella-braverman
#Trump backs#Sunak on #netzero rollback https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/09/24/donald-trump-backs-rishi-sunak-net-zero-climate-alarmists/
Summary - two rich idiots with ties to #FossilFuel companies infer that #climate #scientists are "alarmists"
The Royal #Meteorological Society is the UK’s Professional & Learned Society for weather & climate https://www.rmets.org/publications/all
#science
#UK & #USA stupid rich folk #politics
next month’s #Conservative party conference will be held under a banner reading “Long-term decisions for a brighter future” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/26/rishi-sunak-long-term-thinking-suella-braverman
#Trump backs #Sunak on #netzero rollback https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/09/24/donald-trump-backs-rishi-sunak-net-zero-climate-alarmists/
Summary - two rich idiots with ties to #FossilFuel companies infer that #climate #scientists are "alarmists"
The Royal #Meteorological Society is the UK’s Professional & Learned Society for weather & climate https://www.rmets.org/publications/all
#science
Challenge
Civil War-era law
Uses it to fight diversity
Conservative activist
Action
#civilwarlaw #conservative #diversity #ussupremecourt #cinquain #poetry
The #lawsuit is 1 of 3 that #Blum's #Texas-based group had filed since Aug challenging #grant & #fellowship programs designed by the venture capital fund & 2 #law firms to help give #Black, #Hispanic & other underrepresented minority grps greater #career #opportunities.
A different grp founded by Blum was behind the litigation that led to the June decision, powered by #SCOTUS's 6-3 #conservative majority, declaring #race-conscious student admissions policies used by Harvard & the UNC unlawful.
U.S. District Judge Thomas Thrash during a hearing denied a request by #EdwardBlum's #AmericanAllianceForEqualRights for a preliminary #injunction blocking #FearlessFund from considering applications for #grants only from businesses led by #BlackWomen.
(#Blum is a #conservative #legal strategist known for his activism against #AffirmativeAction)
The #Conservative #Crusade to #Define Who #Counts as a #Person.
The #conservative #legal #movement's #hate #campaign against #LGBTQ+ #communities is also a #larger and #ongoing project #attacking our #democracy.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Hategroups #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
https://rewirenewsgroup.com/2023/09/25/the-conservative-crusade-to-define-who-counts-as-a-person/
Bending to #FarRight, #McCarthy pushes #steep #safety net #cuts in #GovernmentShutdown battle
#Republican #House “speaker” embraces major #spending reductions in trying to win #conservative support for #funding bill
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/09/26/mccarthy-conservatives-cut-spending/
#StudentProtest against their #schoolboard’s #antiLGBTQ+ #policies goes #global.
#Students at #GreatOakHighSchool in #Temecula, #California have gained #international #support in their #fight against their #Conservative #schoolboard’s #antiLGBTQ+ #policies.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #California #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/26/students-protest-anti-lgbtq-policies/
I don't always agree with him but he's bang on the money today.
https://mastodon.scot/@simon_brooke/111130755914658314
simon_brooke - "Now the [#Conservative] party relies on an entitled class of the super-rich and dark monies from finance capitalism, which thinks and is told their money should buy access and influence, thus aiding the corrupting of the party, government and honours system" – Gerry Hassan
https://www.thenational.scot/politics/23813064.death-tory-britain-approaching---comes-danger/
"Now the [#Conservative] party relies on an entitled class of the super-rich and dark monies from finance capitalism, which thinks and is told their money should buy access and influence, thus aiding the corrupting of the party, government and honours system" – Gerry Hassan
https://www.thenational.scot/politics/23813064.death-tory-britain-approaching---comes-danger/
Tories try to use Russell Brand to cancel dissenting political views on social media | Vox Political
https://voxpoliticalonline.com/2023/09/25/tories-try-to-use-russell-brand-to-cancel-dissenting-political-views-on-social-media/
#Caroline #Dinenage #Conservative #Tory #Tories #MP #Culture #Media #Sport #committee #letter #TikTok #Rumble #Russell Brand #monetize #monetise #control #social media #internet
#McCarthy is unlikely to bring the eventual #Senate proposal up for a vote because it would require #Democrat votes to pass, acc/to multiple #Republican aides…. Members on the #FarRight, including many within the staunchly #conservative #HouseFreedomCaucus, have said that relying on #Democrats to move the bill would probably result in a Republican lawmaker filing a motion to #remove McCarthy from his speakership.
The UAW filed a formal complaint w/ the NLRB against Presidential candidate Tim Scott, after he violated federal law & intimidated his own campaign workers last week by threatening to fire those who strike.
#UAW #united #auto #workers #NLRB #national #labor #relations #board #TimScott #fascist #conservative #GQP #GOP #UnionBuster #strike #pay #equality #weekend #fair #compensation #workmans #comp #sick #day #paid #leave #maternity #health #insurance #retirement #wages https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/09/22/tim-scott-faces-complaint-against-uaw-for-saying-you-strike-youre-fired/70928794007/
#Factcheck: You can eat a #burger and fries for less than $78 at #Newark #airport
https://www.politifact.com/article/2023/sep/22/fact-check-you-can-eat-a-burger-and-fries-for-less/
#DavidBrooks, a #conservative columnist for @nytimes, made a juicy claim about the #economy in a #socialmedia post about his airport lunch.
"This meal just cost me $78 at #NewarkAirport," Brooks wrote on X the night of Sept. 20. "This is why #Americans think the economy is terrible."
The National Institutes of #Health (#NIH) froze a $150 million program intended to advance the #communication of #medical #information, citing #regulatory & #legal threats. #Physicians told The Post that they had planned to use the grants to fund projects on noncontroversial topics such as #nutritional guidelines & not just “politically charged” issues such as #vaccinations that have been the focus of the #conservative allegations.
#Academics, #universities & #GovernmentAgencies are overhauling or ending #research programs designed to counter the spread of #online #misinformation amid a #legal campaign from #conservative politicians & activists who accuse them of colluding w/ #tech companies to #censor #RightWing views.
The escalating campaign — led by #JimJordan & other #Republicans in #Congress & state gov — has cast a pall over programs that study not just #political falsehoods but also quality of #medical info online.
#Tories #CONservatives #ClimateChange #NetZero
🚨Trouble for #Sunak as #Tory MPs in blue wall left ‘vulnerable’ by PM’s net zero U-turns🚨
The Tories are predicted to hold just 29 out of 52 seats in the southeast, according to analysis of over 20k voters by Survation, where #Conservative voters say climate policies are important to how they will vote.
Sunak was widely mocked for axing policies that didn't exist, such as the #MeatTax #7Bins & compulsory car sharing.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/rishi-sunak-blue-wall-net-zero-election-b2416743.html
#ClarenceThomas spoke that year as well. He talked about his friend Justice #Scalia, who had recently died, acc/to a person who attended. Scalia, a #conservative luminary, had been a prominent advocate for the #Chevron doctrine, but Thomas said he believed his colleague was coming around to Thomas’ revised view on it before his death.
Thomas didn’t explain what he meant by that. “It was an aside,” the person said, “like he assumed most of the people in the room knew his position.”
(Probably as a result of their efforts) The #Koch network’s position has become increasingly popular in recent yrs. Once broadly supported by #academics & #judges on the #right, #Chevron is now #anathema to many in the #conservative #legal movement.
And there’s no more prominent convert than #ClarenceThomas.
After shepherding the case to the #court, #Koch network staff #attorneys are now asking the justices to overturn a decades-old #precedent. (#Thomas used to support the precedent but flipped his position in recent yrs. 🤔)
2 years ago, one of the network’s groups was the plaintiff in another #SCOTUS case, which was about #nonprofits’ ability to keep their #donors #secret. In that case, Thomas sided w/the 6-3 #conservative majority in the Koch group’s favor.
It’s impossible to know the full extent and details of Barre Seid’s #darkmoney giving to #conservative groups over the years because the law allows many nonprofits to keep their sponsors secret.
But tax records previously obtained by ProPublica show that between 1996 and 2018, he made at least $775 million in donations to nonprofit groups. Almost all of that money was given anonymously
https://www.levernews.com/how-a-secretive-billionaire-handed-his-fortune-to-the-architect-of-the-right-wing-takeover-of-the-courts/
1 Million March met with thousands of #counterprotesters across #Canada.
“These (Farright) #protests are supported by a big tent of #rightwing and #conspiratorial #groups, including #ChristianNationalists (#Fascists) , #conservative #Muslims, #COVID19 #conspiracytheorists, #sovereigncitizens, anti-#publiceducation #activists,”
#Conservative MPs were told not to post online or talk to media about competing protests on #ParliamentHill that saw protesters clashing over how schools should handle #LGBTQ2Splus issues.
The #CanadianPress obtained a copy of the message sent to members of #PierrePoilievre's caucus, which warned them not to speak publicly about the issue and provided talking points they could use to communicate with their constituents.
Conservatism is just what happens to the human brain when it can't get laid.
#republican #altRight #proudBoys #oathKeepers #maga #trump #gop #conservative #rightWing
Oh dear! 😂😂😂
The amount of #Tories who've already stood down, or have indicated they won't stand for re-election at #GE2024 is quite telling.
#CONservative candidates are creating publicity saying "Local CONservatives", & not putting #Sunak's face on their leaflets just as they did with #Truss & Doris #Johnson before him.
#Starmer meeting world leaders on his world tour, & broaching #Immigration & #Brexit is the biggest indicator yet that the #Tories are in BIG BIG trouble! 🤷🏾♂️
Yet another reason NOT to vote #Conservative next year!
Rishi Sunak considering weakening key net zero policies https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66857551
@trabimechanic
Questionable relationships between #ukpoliticalparties and #hindutva were around even before the #brexitreferendum in June 2016. Much of the #conservative campaign for the #london #mayor and #assembly relied on stirring up #antimuslim feeling among #hindu communities by implying that #SadiqKhan would literally strip gold ornaments off their womenfolk. And this particular campaign was in the first half of 2016! It did not pay off then but they have persevered with it since!
#Trump #Biden #GOP #Republicans #GunControl #NRA
🚨*A #Conservative Appeals Court just ruled against the federal gun law used to charge #HunterBiden!*🚨
The Court of Appeal sided against the law in a case involving a Mississippi man who was convicted & sentenced to prison for possessing a firearm while being a marijuana user, & legal experts say it could come up in Biden's case.
The Court ruled that it was too broad when applied in this instance & tossed it out. 👀
New phrase spotted:
climatically challenged, adj
An adjectival phrase that accurately describes the Conservative Party of Canada, but hey, feel free to apply it wherever warranted.
"The thing about helping low-income Americans is... because their initial incomes are so low, fairly modest amounts of aid can make a huge difference to their well-being...
we could have significantly blunted the rise in child poverty by retaining just one piece of the #ChildTaxCredit enhancement, the part that made the credit fully refundable...
But we didn’t do any of these things... because of #conservative opposition. And the nation as a whole will pay a steep price."
But eventually most of these issues are likely to be resolved by #SCOTUS, & the court’s 6-member #Republican-appointed majority has generally ruled in ways that favor the #conservative #social-policy priorities reflected in the #redstate actions. That inclination was most dramatically demonstrated in last year’s #Dobbs decision, when the Court overturned the #constitutional #right to #abortion.
The case followed a highly unusual path —one blazed by a five-justice #conservative majority who seemed determined to strike a blow against #CampaignFinance restrictions.
Initially, the dispute centered on whether a conservative #nonprofit’s unflattering documentary on fmr Democratic presidential candidate #HillaryClinton violated campaign finance #laws.
Many people trace the start of the #conservative #legal movement to 1982, the year of the founding of the #FederalistSociety, which provided a forum for #law students & profs w/conservative ideas to incubate their theories.
But the movement that has had such a profound impact on the courts today — one that involves #money & #politics, more than legal theories or principles — gained steam in the wake of the #CitizensUnited decision.
She (#GinniThomas) created a for-profit consulting biz using a similar name — #LibertyConsulting — that enabled her to perform consulting work for #conservative activist grps.
The #JudicialEducationProject supplied some of her biz: Docs indicate #LeonardLeo ordered at least 1 recipient of his groups’ funds, #KellyanneConway, to pay #GinniThomas for unspecified work, acc/to a #WaPo story….
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/05/04/leonard-leo-clarence-ginni-thomas-conway/
It funded #legal scholars to devise theories to challenge #liberal #precedents, helped to #elect state #attorneys general willing to apply those theories & launched lavish campaigns for #conservative judicial nominees who would cite those theories in their rulings from the bench.
…the #CitizensUnited ruling… upended nearly 100 years of #CampaignSpending #restrictions.
The #conservative #legal movement seized the moment w/greater success than any other group, & the consequences have shaped American #jurisprudence & #politics in dramatic ways.
From those early discussions among #Leo, #Thomas & #Crow would spring a billion-dollar force that has helped remake the #judiciary & #overturn longstanding legal #precedents on #abortion, #AffirmativeAction & many other issues.
The #SCOTUS 2010 #CitizensUnited decision transformed #politics. It loosened restrictions on #CampaignSpending & unleashed a flow of #anonymous #donor #money to *nonprofit* groups run by #political activists.
In the months before the ruling…, a group of #conservative activists came together to create just such an org. Its mission would be to, at the time, block then-President Barack #Obama’s pet #initiatives.
#DarkMoney #GinniThomas #LeonardLeo
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/10/ginni-thomas-leonard-leo-citizens-united-00108082
Rewards for Mismanagement - Dismissed #Conservative Ministers Pocket up to Seven Times Their Salaries https://bywire.news/articles/rewards-for-mismanagement-dismissed-conservative-ministers-pocket-up-to-seven-times-their-salaries
We all love a crony politician (not really). Someone who gets into politics to be a 'frontman' for their favourite business interests. It's no coincidence that most of the UK government are just glorified business folk. And just as with any venture capitalist, protecting the #environment is not high up on their 'to-do list'.
IPSOS #poll: bad news for #SNP, but voters in #Scotland doubt #Labour would do any better on #health and #economy. This article has nothing about #Conservative ratings on these issues, but notes that #Tory leader #DouglasRoss has the lowest party leader #favourablity rating. Labour's #AnasSarwar has the least worst rating, but SNP's #HumzaYousaf's has seen his rating rise 20 points
#politics #ScotPol #NHS
https://news.stv.tv/scotland/ipsos-voters-think-scottish-government-could-do-better-on-economy-and-nhs-survey-finds
The theory that the #14thAmendment disqualifies #Trump has gained traction… since 2 prominent #conservative #law profs argued in an (Atlantic) article last month that his actions before & during the #Jan6, 2021, attack on the Capitol constituted engagement in an #insurrection. But it remains a #legal long shot. Trump would surely #appeal any #ruling that he was #ineligible, and a final decision could rest w/ #SCOTUS, which has a conservative #supermajority that includes 3 justices he appointed.…
It represents a turning point in the system of lawless impunity for American plutocracy.
In the words of #FrankWilhoit, it is is a repudiation of the #conservative dogma: "There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect":
https://crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/liberals-against-progressives/#comment-729288
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Why are schools falling apart when the Tory government had ALL SUMMER to fix them? | Vox Political
https://voxpoliticalonline.com/2023/09/01/why-are-schools-falling-apart-when-the-tory-government-had-all-summer-to-fix-them/
If they were private schools, they would have been all over it
#RAAC #concrete #school #crumbling #falling #apart #down #collapse #Conservative #Tory #Tories #
"The push to disqualify #Trump under [the #14thAmendment] gained more traction when two members of the #conservative Federalist Society, William Baude & Michael Stokes Paulsen, recently supported the idea in the pages of the Pennsylvania #Law Review...
retired #conservative federal appeals judge J. Michael Luttig & Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Laurence Tribe made the same argument in The Atlantic."
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/state-election-officials-prepare-efforts-disqualify-trump-14th/story?id=102833123
#Library That Kicked Out #MomsforLiberty, a SPLC-designated #Hategroup Suffers Third #Bomb #Threat.
Their #expulsion from the space seems to have sparked #conservative #extremists to engage in acts of #DomesticTerrorism against the #library.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #DomesticTerrorism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #HateSpeech #Hatecrimes
@scalzi To be scared is TO BE A #Conservative... it is that fear of god thing...