#republicans
Remember how #Republicans were so deeply concerned about the #budget deficit? They just proposed expanding tax breaks for #corporations. https://www.commondreams.org/news/republicans-follow-debt-ceiling-fight-with-tax-cuts-for-wealthy
"Photographic evidence included in the indictment showed massive piles of boxes throughout Mar-a-Lago, including boxes stacked halfway to the ceiling in a bathroom. Many of these documents contained highly sensitive 'defense and weapons capabilities' information, the indictment alleges."
"The indictment, helmed by special counsel Jack Smith, is a scathing accusation of national security mismanagement. The indictment alleges that Trump had a massive collection of boxes with classified information moved to his private residence at Mar-a-Lago as he left the White House."
~ Justin Klawans
#Trump #crime #criminal #Republicans #NationalSecurity
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https://theweek.com/us/1024212/10-things-you-need-to-know-today-june-10-2023
Marcy Wheeler writes,
"Wrapped up inside Jack Smith's Espionage Act indictment is a public integrity indictment, a claim Trump falsely got elected on a promise he would guard classified information."
She calls this section of the indictment against Trump "Hillary's Revenge," since he couldn't do enough in 2016 to insist he was all about protecting classified information as he lied about Hillary and her emails.
Trump refused to hand over all the documents he had taken from the White House — even after being subpoenaed for them. Trump then orchestrated an expansive scheme to hide papers and feed lies to authorities seeking them. On two occasions, the indictment charged, Mr. Trump showed secret documents to people without security clearance and indicated that he knew he was not supposed to. #trump #trumpindictment #republicans
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/10/us/politics/trump-documents-indictment-democracy.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:
There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind,
alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
There is nothing more or else to it,
and there never has been."
~Frank Wilhoit, composer
https://crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/liberals-against-progressives/#comment-729288
#uspolitics #trumpindictment #Trump #magacult #gop #republicans #DOJ #uscongress #foxnews
Summation. Also important to note:
Special counsels are appointed in cases in which the Justice Department perceives itself as having a conflict or where it’s deemed to be in the public interest to have someone outside the government come in and take responsibility for a matter.
"This is clearly an indictment that was drafted to answer those questions. It’s overwhelming in details."
"There are indictments that are sometimes called narrative or speaking indictments. These are indictments that are really meant to make a point as to the depth of the evidence. There are some indictments that are just bare bones. This is not. The special counsel knew that there would be a lot of people who were going to allege that the Department of Justice was acting in a biased or politically motivated way."
~ Jonathan Turley
Profiles in Scourge
Know Your American Traitors
Pictured, from left to right: Benedict Arnold, Mini-Dicked Donald.
#ProfilesInScourge #CompareAndContrast #DonaldTrump #Trump #MiniDickedDonald #MiniDickDonald #BenedictArnold #MaraLagoDocs #JackSmith #MerrickGarland #ObstructionOfJustice #GOP #MAGA #Republicans #EspionageAct #KnowYourTraitors
"'United States of America v. Donald J. Trump and Waltine Nauta.'
Pause a minute over that caption. The United States of America is seeking justice against Donald Trump. The executive branch of the government of the country is accusing its most recent former leader of crimes that put our national security at risk.
That is a very big deal."
~ Lawfare
#Trump #crime #criminal #Republicans
https://www.lawfareblog.com/united-states-america-v-donald-j-trump-and-waltine-nauta
#Earth Matters: #Republicans seek to sabotage #climateaction as #worldburns through 'carbon budget'
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/6/8/2173945/-Earth-Matters-Republicans-seek-to-sabotage-climate-action-as-world-burns-through-carbon-budget
#Trump supporters are organizing on fringe social media platforms, finding the names of fed prosecutors and compiling information about their "children" and families
"We need to start killing" one #MAGA #cultist said
Another: "(their) children are fair game"
#GOP #Republicans #News #Politics #Conservative #TruthSocial #Vice
https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxjjgb/trump-supporters-are-threatening-civil-war
So basically the #GOP presidential candidates are composed of Original #Trump, diet Trump, Healthy (smarter) Trump, Calm Trump, Not as crazy Trump, refined Trump & obscure Trump.
Tell me again why Trump will not secure the #Republican nomination when numerous #Republicans embrace #DonaldTrump‽
#republicans are projecting again about a President running the DOJ for political purposes. Their accusations are confessions.
#trumpindictment
New Yorker: Trump’s Latest Indictment Is Also About the Future of the Country https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/trumps-latest-indictment-is-also-about-the-future-of-the-country #NewYorker #Podcast/ThePoliticalScenePodcast #RepublicanPrimary #DonaldTrump #Republicans #Mar-a-Lago #Podcasts #Politics
The party of abnormal demands norms. That ship sunk a long time ago.
Yeah, 50% of Americans will be voting for this #criminal savant in 2024. What has happened to our Republic....
Oh, I know; #Republicans happened.
37 Counts of Indictment...
"Classified Documents and Obstruction of Justice: Inside the 37 Felony Counts Against Trump. Justice Department prosecutors on Friday unsealed an indictment detailing more than three dozen charges against the former president for his handling of classified documents and obstruction of justice."
#Unfit #GOP #Republicans #Democrats #Sedition #Treason #News
So here's the game...
"Trump indictment unsealed – a criminal law scholar explains what the charges mean, and what prosecutors will now need to prove "
#Unfit #GOP #Republicans #Democrats #Sedition #Treason #News
Criminal-in-Chief
"Donald Trump stored, showed off and refused to return classified documents, indictment says"
#Unfit #GOP #Republicans #Democrats #Sedition #Treason #News
Nowwww who's the law and order party?
#Republicans #democrats
Zachary B. Wolf cites PRRI head Robert P. Jones on Pat Robertson's legacy:
"Robertson’s legacy includes the 'melding of [his right-wing evangelical] religious world with the Republican Party.'"
Pat Robertson played a key role in creating the Republican party as it's now configured.
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/08/politics/republicans-pat-robertson-what-matters/index.html
"His MAGA base could and probably would vote for him anyway. But the American people deserve to know whether one of the major political parties will actually nominate a presidential candidate who has been convicted of federal offenses and is facing possible serious prison time."
~ Jay Kuo
#Trump #crime #criminal #Republicans
https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/trump-indicted-what-to-know-and-look
"After Trump was elected, the institution of the Republican party failed the makeup test as it reflexively defended every one of Trump’s illiberal postures. It failed another makeup test with the first impeachment and failed yet again in the post-election period, during which the party aided and abetted Trump’s attempt to overturn the results of the election and then decided against permanently removing him from politics via the second impeachment."
"Trump #crime #criminal #Republicans
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Jonathan V. Last thinks Trump has presented four tests to American democracy. Of these, we've failed one test, passed two, and one's yet to come. The failed test:
"The first test was for the institution of the Republican party. The GOP failed this test when it capitulated to and normalized Trump through the summer and fall of 2016."
#Trump #crime #criminal #Republicans
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https://thetriad.thebulwark.com/p/the-indictment-and-trumps-four-tests
"It’s not just that he mocked and ignored the law for decades when he was in the skuzzy world of New York real estate, although it is that, to some extent. But it’s much more: He became, by means fair or foul, the president of the United States. Presidents have obligations to the people—all the people—that no one else in our system has."
~ Michael Tomasky
"'Historic' really doesn’t even begin to describe it. No former president has ever been federally indicted. Now we have a former president who has been indicted by two grand juries in two different jurisdictions — New York and the federal government — on two different sets a facts, alleging two different sets of crimes. That does not happen very often."
~ Dennis Aftergut
Trump #crime #criminal #Republicans
https://www.democracynow.org/2023/6/9/historic_trump_indictment
"Violations of those laws put our country at risk. Adherence to the rule of law is a bedrock principle of the Department of Justice, and our nation's commitment to the rule of law sets an example for the world.
"We have one set of laws in this country, and they apply to everyone. Applying those laws, collecting facts, that's what determines the outcome of an investigation. Nothing more and nothing less."
"Smith stressed how the laws the former president broke are essential to keeping the nation safe.
'The men and women of the United States intelligence community and our armed forces dedicate their lives to protecting our nation and its people,' said Smith."
~ Matthew Chapman
Video coverage of special counsl Jack Smith's statements today about the charges against Trump:
"We have one set of laws in this country, and they apply to everyone."
#JackSmith #Trump #crime #criminal #Republicans #LawandOrder
"That's not just embarrassing; it's dangerous. Because we all knew who Trump was, and millions of people voted for him anyway."
"[Trump's indictment is] a devastating indictment of the American electorate. Far too many voters were willing to elect such a person to the highest office in the land despite reams of evidence that he is an unscrupulous businessman, a sexual predator, and an unrepentant narcissist who warmly embraces authoritarianism."
~ Teresa Hanafin
"I am pretty speechless after reading this indictment
The evidence- the testimony - the pics - the granularity of the evidence is just stunning.
This case is a slam dunk for conviction beyond a reasonable doubt. ...
What is most striking to me is the level of Intent and Willfulness that the Special Prosecutor has been able to capture and articulate in the Indictment."
~ Martin Shell
#Trump #crime #criminal #Republicans
https://heidicuda.substack.com/p/restoring-faith-martys-hot-take
A song for all the #Republicans defending Trump in the face of the #TrumpIndictment -- by the late, great #JohnPrine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HON0ceL42QI
Backed by taxpayer money, the religious right has been rapidly opening charter schools across the country.
#charterschools #republicans #betsydevos
https://progressive.org/public-schools-advocate/how-right-wing-christians-taking-over-charter-schools-burris-230609/
This is a really great piece by Zack Beauchamp. #vox #trump #trumpindictment https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/2023/6/9/23755171/trump-indictment-republican-reaction-doj-documents-mar-a-lago #republicans #gop
@pivoinebleue
The GOP has been building and recruiting their #RepublicanTerrorist cells for decades, Hitler has his SA Brownshirts, #Republicans have their Proud Boys, 3 Percenters, Oath Keepers, KKK, Confederates, Nazis, and the rest.
Happy #Newstodon Friday, a day when we highlight great publications on the #Fediverse and some of our most important stories.
Let's re-share this story by @stevanzetti, who asked #Texas Republicans that represent #Allen if they would disavow the ideology of last months shooter. We'll have an update to the story next week (one pol responded to us) but it's a sign of how normalized #extremism is within today's GOP: https://www.texasobserver.org/allen-shooting-republicans-extremism/
And so it begins... From @RawStory
'Scary as hell': Militia expert says Trump tweet from GOP's Clay Higgins is call for 'civil war'
The recently-former chairman of the Cranston, Rhode Island #GOP, who resigned last month after being arrested for smoking crack, has been arrested again -- this time for molesting a 12-year-old girl.
'Scary as hell': Militia expert says Trump tweet from GOP's Clay Higgins is call for 'civil war'
"Paving the way for those today calling for an end to liberal democracy, Robertson blamed LGBTQ Americans and women for secularizing the United States, which he saw as a tragedy and frequently blamed for natural disasters.
That political ideology depended on creating a false picture of what was really going on in the country."
#PatRobertson #Republicans #evangelicals #LGBTQ #misogyny
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"The extremism of today’s Republican Party grew in large part from the work of televangelist Pat Robertson, who died today at age 93. The son of a segregationist southern Democratic senator, Baptist minister Robertson urged evangelical Christians to vote and made them a core constituency of the Republican Party."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
"A political party that routinely incites violence and condones lawbreaking by its own members and supporters is not a 'tough on crime' party, and journalists who portray it as such are lying to you. The Republican Party has declared its belief that it is above the law, and has deliberately condoned and encouraged lawbreaking as a means of seizing power. It should be treated as such."
~ Jamison Foser
#Republicans #crime #criminal #LawandOrder
https://findinggravity.substack.com/p/in-response-to-trump-indictment-republicans
From 08 Jun: George Santos’ Lawyer Was Part of the January 6 Mob - George Santos, the lying and indicted GOP congressman from Queens, New York, has steadfastly refused... https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/06/george-santos-lawyer-joseph-murray-january-6-capitol-insurrection/ #capitol-insurrection #january-6 #politics #republicans
"It’s not just Trump. The Republican Party and the wider conservative movement supports criminality and thuggery at all levels of American government. Trump isn’t an isolated case, he’s just the most visible symbol of a pervasive rot."
~ Oliver Willis
#Trump #crime #criminal #Republicans
https://www.oliverexplains.com/p/crooked-donald-trump-leads-a-criminal
"The indictment announced last night (by Trump himself) is coming from the Justice Department — from the same federal government that Trump led and wants to lead again.
The indictment asserts that the former president is a felon."
~ Robert Reich
I guess Governor #DeSanctimonious forgot to make it illegal to indict #Republicans in #Florida
I am a tad confused that #MAGA #Republicans seem to think that there can only be one #news story a month. But it's really good timing on the part of the #BidenFamily to have timed all of these grand juries to come to a head at just the same time as the news of this #Biden #Wiretransfer story.
#GOPShite #Insanity #Conspiracy #MTG #Crime #Poor #PresidentTrump #WaaWaaWaa #1023Forms #Stupid #Politics
Donald Trump indicted on at least 7 federal counts including conspiracy
Federal Government has more than a 92% success rate when charging an individual with a federal crime!
Trump will be arrested and processed at his hearing Tuesday at 3pm EST in a Miami federal court house
Charges will be detailed at his arraignment
Within 15 minutes of breaking the news, Trump started mass emailing his followers for their money!
#BREAKING #news #BreakingNews #Trump #USA #GOP #Politics #Republicans #MAGA
Why should political cults be acceptable when they become a serious issue of national security.
“Former president, first ever to face federal criminal charges….”
#Trump #Republicans #indictment
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/06/08/trump-classified-documents-mar-a-lago/ I’m
#Republicans are super busy trying to downplay toxic clouds of wildfire #smoke blanketing large parts of the US.
"There’s just no health risk"
"This doesn’t kill anybody, it doesn’t make anybody cough, this is not a health event"
"This has got nothing to do with climate. This is not because of climate change."
Now "isn’t the moment to start lecturing people about the science of climate change"
Greg Kelly praises the smoke, calling it a "beautiful, interesting aura."
👉🏼#FBI agent who testified for Republicans was suspended over leaked sensitive information
#House Democrats are asking Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate whether Garret O'Boyle, who was presented as an FBI #whistleblower by #Republicans, lied to Congress.
George Santos' lawyer took part in Jan. 6 march on Capitol: report
#news #politics #republicans
https://www.rawstory.com/george-santos-january-6-lawyer/
"Robertson helped solidify evangelical support for Donald Trump, dismissing the candidate’s sexually predatory comments about women as an attempt 'to look like he’s macho.'"
"He called for the assassination of the Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez in 2005. Later that year, he warned residents of a rural Pennsylvania town not to be surprised if disaster struck them because they voted out school board members who favored teaching 'intelligent design' over evolution. And in 1998, he said Orlando, Florida, should beware of hurricanes after allowing the annual Gay Days event."
"With one or two federal indictments looking like a strong possibility, some GOP lawmakers are calling for Congress to defund the DOJ and the FBI — including Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Michigan), a Trump ally who supported his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results."
~ Alex Henderson
They believe he's above the law. They believe Republicans should be above the law.
"Target seems to have given in to the “backlash,” which increasingly resembles not a boycott but a terror campaign. And just as chillingly, the people making death threats are being cast—as The Washington Post did in that same story—not as extremist thugs, but as “emboldened shoppers.” "
https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/110509333838521767
wdlindsy@toad.social - When Target has had Pride displays since 2015, why the current vicious attack on Target?
https://newrepublic.com/article/173382/rights-war-target-lgbtq
"To make sense of the campaign against Target, we need to understand how an amalgam of influencers, from white Christian nationalist politicians to violent far-right street groups, have been unashamedly grafting a vintage Satanic Panic narrative of child mutilation and pedophilia onto the retailer’s annual displays of mass-produced rainbow kitsch (which is more celebrated for its high meme potential than anything else)."
When Target has had Pride displays since 2015, why the current vicious attack on Target? Melissa Gira Grant writes,
"There is an important story here, but it’s not a story of backlash."
https://newrepublic.com/article/173382/rights-war-target-lgbtq
"The Republican Party has shown consistently that not only does it refuse to address the issues young people care about, but they are actively seeking to roll back our rights.
The Democratic Party and President Biden, on the other hand, have proven they will deliver for young people."
~ Victor Shi
#youth #voters #GenZ #Republicans #Democrats
https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/big-questions-answers-victor-shi
"It’s like burning a cross on someone’s lawn: It’s an attempt to frighten people into compliance and submission.
The Republican politicians pushing anti-L.G.B.T.Q. laws usually pretend that their principal, if not their sole, motivation is to protect children. But these laws operate in furtherance and protection of the fragile patriarchy, in perpetuation of the twin evils of homophobia and heterosexism and in reinforcement of abusive gender-identity policing."
Charles Blow looks at the terror campaign the Republican party has mounted nationwide against the LGBTQ community and what it intends:
"The way this kind of terrorism works is that it not only punishes expression, condemns identities and cuts off avenues for receiving care but also creates an aura of hostility and issues grievous threats."
#LGBTQ #Republicans #terrorism #violence #cancellation #erasure
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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/07/opinion/pride-lgbtq-laws.html
Cognitive Dissonance
#Pence doesn't even have the *male parts* to stand up to his own attempted murderers... how can he run a country?
You know why they can't find any decent, honest presidential candidates for the Republicans? Because there aren't any..
Loving every iteration of #Republicans eating their own.
If #TuckerCarlson is deplatformed for realz that's cool w me
Tilting at Woke Windmills
#Woke #republicans #GOP #politics #Satire #EditorialCartoon #Cartoon #Cartoons
@Teri_Kanefield
#Republicans have proven that they hold Trump above the United States. They are raising a fascist #FourthReich.
Federal prosecutors have notified Donald Trump that he is a criminal target and likely to be indicted imminently in a probe into alleged classified documents
#News #GOP #Politics #USA #Trump #MAGA #Republicans #TrumpCrimeFamily
By me, from “The Awful 88th” at @TexasObserver:
Although Republicans floated dozens of anti-#LGBTQ+ bills during the regular session, just a handful of them made it to the governor’s desk. Still, each one whittles away at the rights of #queer folks in #Texas in different and distinctly harmful ways. These include: banning medically-necessary #gender-affirming care for #transgender young people, banning transgender athletes from participating in #sports at public colleges and universities, a broadly written bill targeting “sexually explicit” performances (meant to criminalize drag performers), and a bill to ban or restrict public library books that #Republicans deem to be “sexually explicit” or “educationally unsuitable.”
The most immediately harmful bill of the bunch looks to be Senate Bill 14, which prohibits evidence-based, frequently life-saving care for transgender young people under 18, including treatments like hormones and puberty-blockers, a reversible treatment to slow the onset of adolescence. Doctors caught providing these forms of #healthcare to trans kids would be stripped of their medical licenses, even though essentially all of the same treatments can legally be used on cisgender individuals (and most controversially, intersex people) under other circumstances. For example, some cis kids who enter puberty too early may be prescribed the same blockers now banned for trans kids.
A coalition of groups including Lambda Legal, the Transgender Law Center, and American Civil Liberties Union (#ACLU) of Texas have pledged to sue to block the bill’s enforcement on the grounds that it creates an illegal double standard. Thanks to Abbott’s signature on Monday, the new law goes into effect September 1, and it’s already becoming harder to access trans healthcare in the state as doctors and clinics move or close.
“In the last two weeks, we have probably gotten somewhere between 40 and 50 phone calls from panicked parents,” a leading New Mexico pediatric physician told the Observer. “What I’m hearing from families is that appointments that they had already scheduled are now gone,” said Dr. Michele Hutchison, chief of pediatric endocrinology at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. That leaves families scrambling to secure care in neighboring states to avoid disastrous interruptions in treatment.
Senate Bill 12, the so-called “drag ban” bill, underwent significant changes in its journey through the two chambers. Explicit references to #drag performers were removed but the bill’s scope was broadened to ban so-called “sexually explicit” performances anywhere minors are present. A last-minute addition targets the usage of certain prosthetic body parts, such as the silicone breasts or artificial phalluses sometimes worn by drag performers—and by some transgender people, too.
“There is no good version of this bill,” said Ash Hall, a policy and advocacy strategist at the ACLU of Texas who focuses on queer rights. “Because it’s not limited to business premises anymore, a major concern I have is how this is going to play out in #Pride parades,” they said.
However, Hall suggested Abbott might veto the bill because, as written, it could even affect performances by groups like the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. Of course, if this one is vetoed, the next step could be passage of a new version of the bill in special session. Already, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick has called for a special session bill to ban drag queen story hours at public libraries.
Despite the record-breaking attacks on LGBTQ+ rights this year, Hall said they find hope in the queer community, which came out by the thousands to oppose the bills.
“They want us all to go back in the closet and be miserable or shut up, but we won’t,” Hall said. “#Trans people have always been here and always will be. They can’t legislate us away.”
Read more at https://www.texasobserver.org/88th-session-texas-legislature-lgbtq-energy-schools/
#politics #transphobia #trans #HumanRights #SB14 #censorship #books #Libraries #FreeSpeech #LGBTQIA+ #TXLege
“Data shows for the first time that the peak demand for electricity this summer will exceed the amount we can generate from on-demand, dispatchable power, so we will be relying on #renewables to keep the lights on.”
But rather than fix the grid, #Republicans spent their time in the #Texas legislature trying to block renewable #energy:
https://www.texasobserver.org/88th-session-texas-legislature-lgbtq-energy-schools/
#environment #infrastructure #ClimateChange #TXlege #politics #news #USpol #OilAndGas
The obvious attempt by CNN to grab Fox Corporate viewer cattle after the Dominion judgment was obvious.
This should be a warning to grifters everywhere but they are blinded by greed.
Charles Pierce on the new manufactured tantrum of Republicans about something that will never happen — government officials ripping your gas stoves from your kitchens:
"The House drew up a bill to prevent something that was never going to happen, because that's the way Republicans roll these days."
#Republicans #FauxOutrage #WasteofTaxpayerDollars #ScareTactics #infantilism #TemperTantrums
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a44110059/gas-stove-house-bill/
After years of stirring hatred and violence, Republicans in Florida are now pleading for migrants not to leave. The MAGA movement loves talking about hard work, but they sure do seem scared at the prospect of having to do it.
https://www.rawstory.com/ron-desantis-immigration-law/
#politics #uspol #uspoli #uspolitics #news #desantis #rondesantis #migrants #florida #desantisdestroysflorida #gqp #gqpclownshow #gop #republicans #republican
“You have to ask yourself why it’s so important for politicians and figures with large cultural influence like #ElonMusk to try to either ignore this or suggest it’s not true,” Michael Edison Hayden of Southern Poverty Law Center said. “It should be a no-brainer to want to distance yourself from things like incel misogyny or a purely hateful ideology.”
.@TexasObserver's #extremism correspondent @stevanzetti has done important work here, reaching out to #Texas #Republicans and demanding they disavow the nazi beliefs of the #Allen shooter. Not a single one would do so.
Stories like this are vital as they force us to confront the fact that key tenets of #fascism, such as hypermasculinity and extreme nationalism, are becoming mainstream GOP positions. Also, highlighitng the dangerous idol worship of figures like Tim Pool. Great work by Steven Monacelli that should be widely shared:
https://www.texasobserver.org/allen-shooting-republicans-extremism/
“We invite all elected officials … to speak out against #racism and extremist ideology and all forms. We think they have a real responsibility to do that.”
On the one-month anniversary of the #Allen shooting, Special Investigative Correspondent @stevanzetti reached out to the 15 elected officials who represent constituents in the town. Not one Republican would condemn the shooter's beliefs: https://www.texasobserver.org/allen-shooting-republicans-extremism/
#Fascism #news #Politics #guns #MassShooting #Texas #Republicans #Extremism
Oliver Willis writes that the current war of the right on trans people is a new iteration of an old war against any group the right finds convenient to demonize at the moment.
He writes,
https://www.oliverexplains.com/p/the-rights-anti-trans-playbook-was
George Santos begs court not to reveal who paid his $500,000 bond
"The politically active religious right is not nuts at all, though. It is the product of a deliberate and brilliant strategy. The unholy alliance between capitalists and churchgoers was born in the era of the racist south’s 'segregation academies,' nominally religious tax exempt schools set up for white kids in the wake of Brown v Board of Education."
~ Nina Burleigh
#evangelicals #Trump #Republicans #capitalism #racism
https://americanpoliticalfreakshow.substack.com/p/sunday-scaries
Does anyone else find it weird that #Biden is touting the #debtCeiling compromise as a victory instead of pointing out that he negotiated with #Republicans who were holding the entire country hostage just so they could starve poor people more?
Gov. Gavin Newsom and other top California officials Thursday cautioned school administrators against restricting what students read and learn about marginalized groups — marking their most forceful response to a spate of conservative-led book challenges to date.
#News #GOP #Politics #USA #democrats #Republicans
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/01/newsom-california-schools-ban-books-00099659
Happy 🏳️🌈 #Pride Month! 🏳️⚧️
Although #Republicans are targeting the #LGBTQIA+ community in #Texas, this is nothing new. We've fought for decades—and won before. We will win again.
We will always be here.
https://www.texasobserver.org/before-lawrence-v-texas-book-history-lgbtqia/
"If McCarthy’s “child … with no job” comments were made in error, it was an error that McCarthy appeared to make twice — in the same context, on the same day, on the same network (Fox News)."
https://www.truthorfiction.com/house-speaker-kevin-mccarthy-a-child-that-has-no-job/
@Npars01 @KatM @Teri_Kanefield #Biden should have directed the Treasury to ignore any #DebtCeiling as unconstitutional on its face, rather than make ANY concessions to domestic terrorists (#Republicans).
The House voted tonight to suspend the #DebtCeiling until Jan. 2025.
71 #Republicans and 46 #Democrats voted against the bill, which now moves to the #Senate.
See how your Representative voted at ProPublica Represent:
Earlier: What the public saw—regardless of the lawmakers’ intentions—was the eruption of fissures that have more to do with pride and power than justice. It was a cross between the state’s largest intra-party catfight and its most public self-inflicted gunshot wound ...
https://www.texasobserver.org/paxton-impeachment-accountability/
#news #politics #TXlege #USpol #KenPaxton #impeachment #Republicans #Texas
I actually have a little hope that this will work out for "the best": once the #Republicans blow up the #DebtCeiling agreement, the Democrats can stop "negotiating" with them in "good faith" and just tell them what they should have to begin with:
STOP HOLDING THE AMERICAN ECONOMY HOSTAGE. We don't "negotiate" with terrorists.
One can dream.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/31/us-debt-ceiling-republican-hard-right-vows-to-sink-deal-hours-before-vote-expected #USpol
In any "catastrophic default" preciptated by #Republicans' debt ceiling hostage-taking, the #GOP views its own supporters as collateral damage. Acceptable casualties. Expendables.
It's the same with their vote suppression measures. https://apnews.com/article/biden-mccarthy-debt-deficit-8efddbd5813b019325586e9290549873
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Whoa! I bet Beto won too and Paxton threw out mail in ballots in favor of Abbott. #Republicans are the cheaters and liars!
They rigged the election because they know that they are the minority and can't win unless they cheat!
Paxton: Trump Would've Lost Texas If It Hadn't Blocked Mail-in Ballot Forms
>"We would've been one of those battleground states," Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said.
Via @emptywheel:
How did we decide to call the targeting of vulnerable people by the far right "the Culture Wars"?
No one is calling up Target and making physical threats bc they sell shirts with crosses on them.
How did the #media come to give sustained attention to a bunch of far right wingers yelling "woke! woke! woke!" rather than the fact that their only policy proposals are to beat up Disney and undermine sound health guidelines? #fascism #Republicans
Conservatives going after #Target for their #Pride merchandise is just one part of their overall plan. The LGBTQ+ community isn't their only target; so are Muslims, people of color, people with disabilities, etc.
The goal, of course, is #genocide, leading to a white ethnostate.
All of us have to stand together, and fight MAGA fascism.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/targets-pride-month-boycott-shows-disturbing-gop-plans-rcna86496 #USPol #fascism #PrideMonth #MAGA #Republicans
I live at the end of a cul-de-sac that gets as much traffic as the 2-lane highway a few blocks away.
1) They have to look at my big purple house with #rainbow #flags
2) I want them to see what I think of #Republicans
Tell #Target -- this is what GENUINE (#corporate) allyship looks like: The North Face continues #Pride push amid #LGBTQ+ marketing backlash | Ad Age
https://adage.com/article/marketing-news-strategy/north-face-continues-pride-push-amid-lgbtq-marketing-backlash/2496766 #business #retail #advertising #gqp #republicans
Proven way to stop an autocrat?
Don't be a spoiler candidate like this guy.