#uspol
Missing context for every #USpol #Journalism take I’ve seen on people’s sense they’re worse off economically: major pandemic relief programs that expired in last 1-2 years (student loan repayment pause, childcare subsidies, others)
I was about to say that this was a bad take, but it's Jacobin, so that would be redundant.
If Trump wins, the fault is with the voters, and the nonvoters. As always.
Why Joe Biden is COP-ping out of this year's climate talks... https://hillheat.news/p/why-biden-is-copping-out #cop28 #joebiden #uspol #climate
The RW Christofascist organization founded by Ralph Reed, the Faith & Freedom Coalition, are sending out surveys in #Ohio that, at first glance, mimic IRS tax documents.
According to its website, the coalition opposes abortion, medical marijuana, and same-sex marriage, and otherwise supports limited government. #USPol
Reed wrote the book, "For God and Country: The Christian Case For Trump." The original title for the book was “Render to God and Trump."
Careful there Rep Ryan Zinke (R) your xenophobia and racism are showing a little.
https://www.axios.com/2023/11/08/republicans-expel-palestinians-proposal-democrats-backlash
"The United States has been a source for great evil and great good. It’s one of the more complex imperialist nations, but too many Americans dismiss this complexity and instead embrace fairy tale, cherry tree-laden narratives of American exceptionalism. Of course, Kevin McCarthy is far too simple for actual US history."
#uspol #politics #ushouse #conservatives #bullshit
https://www.wonkette.com/p/how-dumb-is-kevin-mccarthy-on-a-scale
This sort of story is why M4A is a nonstarter. Didn't we learn anything from the failures of our VA hospital system?
So, were the Hamas militants who murdered 1,400 innocent people "victims"? Asking for a murdered friend.
Environmental activists declare a win and vow to keep fighting after judges argue that the #Texas Commission on Environmental Quality illegally enabled Port Arthur LNG to avoid air #pollution control requirements.
https://www.texasobserver.org/port-arthur-lng-emissions-limits?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=audience
#news #politics #USpol #GulfCoast #environment #ClimateChange
"A measure of a functional society is that bureaucracy should be boring!...
The fact that the constitution requires public employees to take an oath to the constitution itself, rather than to the President, should be an obscure piece of Founding Fathers trivia rather than a consideration in thinking about how the next President will rule."
~@donmoyn
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-i-wrote-in-the-new-york-times
#Trump #MAGA #GOP #Republican #Corruption #Authoritarianism #Fascism #Politics #USPol #USA
Daily reminder that the morality of our choice in the US in 2024 is clear:
Show up and vote against the fascist MAGAs.
It doesn't matter who is running against them. Fascists must be opposed no matter what.
Yes.
No matter what.
That means no exceptions.
At all.
Perversely, I am heartened by good old-fashioned American libertarian oligarchs putting their thumbs on the scale for a good old-fashioned terrible Republican. Things were getting so dark with the international cabal of petro-fascists putting their thumbs on the scale for Trump. This feels like green political shoots. #Haley #Koch #uspol
Red states’ efforts to rein in blue cities increase post-pandemic https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/11/27/red-states-blue-cities-preemption-control/ "Despite long advocating small government and local control, Republican governors and legislators across a significant swath of the country are increasingly overriding the actions of Democratic cities — removing elected district attorneys or threatening to strip them of power, taking over election offices and otherwise limiting local independence." It's almost like this was always BS. #USPol
Well with the Koch’s funding Nikki Haley I’d say her chances of becoming President have increased from 1% to 2%.
A Corrupted COP
"New revelations show just how bad the oil countries really are"
COP28 host nation, UAE, "used its official position to leverage new oil & gas deals around the world... a timely reminder that there are entire nations that essentially operate as oil companies, with precisely the same attention to morality as Exxon or Shell."
Bill McKibben
https://billmckibben.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
"The Chilling Warnings Picked Up by Israeli Intelligence Months Before October 7 Massacre"
"An Israeli Military Intelligence NCO issued three warnings in the months prior to October 7 that Hamas was preparing an attack on Israeli communities near the Gaza border, but her words were brushed off"
The NCO told her commanders, "Hamas intends to carry out a massacre in the Gaza border communities".
Al-Shifa hospital, Hamas's tunnels & Israeli propaganda
Democracy Now interview with Jeremy Scahill
"It's an utter lie that was co-signed & promoted by President Joe Biden & his administration"
Until posted separately, the interview is 40 mins in to the Tues show at https://www.democracynow.org/
Scahill's Intercept article
https://theintercept.com/2023/11/21/al-shifa-hospital-hamas-israel/
Just some #Iranian / anti-Israel cyber terrorist attacks on US water supply infrastructure outside Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/28/us/pennsylvania-water-cyberattack/index.html
#terrorism #israel #uspol
"Romney's response has since sparked backlash from MAGA supporters as some criticized his stance that veered away from his own party."
The Republican party will not allow you to be a member in good standings if you don't support whatever MAGA demands from moment to moment. This is the same party the embraced the logic of you're either with us or with the terrorists 20 years ago
They haven't changed at all.
https://www.newsweek.com/mitt-romney-faces-backlash-maga-1846910
Some people either never saw or forgot about where the USA was when Trump was in charge...
https://youtube.com/watch?v=4TogbPPyQQM
Alternative 🔗:
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=4TogbPPyQQM
https://piped.video/watch?v=4TogbPPyQQM
It's terrible that it takes so long for actual investigative reporting to happen these days!
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ns77HNv-eCA
Alternative 🔗:
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Ns77HNv-eCA
https://piped.video/watch?v=Ns77HNv-eCA
The lack of confidence in being able to survive in the economy of the 1990s is a big reason I stayed in the Army longer than intended.
In 1994, Robert Reich saw that a lack of economic fairness could lead to a two-tiered society, with easily manipulated resentment. He didn't literally predict the rise of MAGA faux-populists, but it's not like we didn't know that "hard work not being enough" would be a problem.
#USPol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bnd0eSuxu84
I'm so over the victim-blaming.
No, in fact, if Democrats manage to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, then it does not follow that the people who suffer under a true American fascist dictatorship are responsible for their own suffering. And the fact that Biden advocates reach for this bullshit rhetoric so often partially explains the lack of enthusiasm around voting for him.
TL;DR: Stop victim blaming. Fuck off.
#USpol #fascism #fascismUSA
https://toot.community/@YusufToropov/111488290867959562
"Honest Government Ad | How to rig elections"
"The Australien Government has made an ad about electoral campaign finance reforms, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative."
Juice media
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3WTlyuhDs0
Yes, as in the Australian duopoly, so in U.S., U.K., Canada.... etc. With ideosyncrasies, of course
Who The Hell Is Jonathan Braun? Well. We will find out in the coming days. Why? This drug smuggling, loan shark was pardoned by Trump.
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-pardon-kushner-drug-smuggler-jonathan-braun-doj-predatory-lending-2023-11
#law #justice #fedilaw #uspolitics #politics #uspol #news #breakingnews
North Korea has announced that their spies have taken satellite photos of the #WhiteHouse, Capitol Building & the #pentagon
If they'd had access to image searches online then they could've quickly extracted these.
Hopefully Liz will do to Trump’s electoral chances as she did to the Queen. #ukpol #uspol
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/27/liz-truss-republican-president-election-2024
Just going to point out what we've all known for a long time now: Trump is owned by Russia and other hostile foreign powers.
Liberals already going INSANE over the election. Next year is going to be super tiresome.
Don't get me wrong, I too am concerned, if not terrified, what Trumpy 2: Grifter Boogaloo - Full Fascist Edition is going to look like. I just don't think the best way to stop it is screaming in the face of anyone who points out the obvious fact that Biden is kind of sleepwalking into this thing.
Why Trump is an Incredibly Weak Candidate https://www.messageboxnews.com/p/why-trump-is-an-incredibly-weak-candidate #USPOL
“‘No Guardrails’: Experts sound alarm about Drumpf’s plot for ‘radical’ second term”
Is this the country we want to live in?! Vote for Democracy in 2024!
https://youtu.be/hV2IDQOUMPk?si=FeOmzVNkf4WRR2Lj
#USpol #USpolitics #Dictatorship #Dictator #Tyranny #VoteBlue #Democracy
I am exhausted with the amount of absurdist high ground takes because as usual American politics sucks ass, as if that's some sort of revelation.
I can't take you seriously if you
1. Can't tell the difference between Republicans and Democrats
2. Think not voting accomplishes anything
I also have zero interest in debating this.
#USPol #TreasonWeasel
“Almost a year ago, retired judge Barbara Jones was appointed to Donald Trump’s fraud case, not as judge but as a financial monitor, who would watch for any sudden moves (such as transferring properties into someone else’s name) and, if necessary, eventually oversee the dissolution of his ownership.
“Trump’s attorneys want to put her on the witness stand — and Judge Arthur Engoron just rejected that request.
“In cases involving alleged financial fraud, there is often a concern that the defendant, knowing he might be ordered to pay up at the conclusion, might try to hide assets by transferring ownership to a family member or business associate.
“In Trump’s case, Judge Jones was also to handle a slate of other duties regarding financial disclosures and property valuations.
“The former president has taken issue with the valuation of his properties, accusing the judge and New York Attorney General Letitia James of making the numbers up to make him look bad, but his companies have also promised to make changes based on the findings.
“Trump’s attorney, Clifford Robert, requested on Monday permission to call Judge Jones to the witness stand and was summarily rejected. The Messenger reported:
“Besides being untimely and inappropriate, Judge Jones and her staff are arms of the court,” Engoron said in a denial from the bench, adding that having her also testify would invite a conflict of interest.
“Jones already submitted a report to the court, and in it, she concluded that financial information handed off to lenders was “incomplete” in that it omitted “certain material liabilities.”
“Depreciations, she said, were reported “inconsistently,” and obligatory certifications of the accuracy of financial statements were “not consistently provided,” according to CNBC.”
From: @realTuckFrumper
https://mastodon.social/@realTuckFrumper/111485418868362639
Trump promised to rebuild America's infrastructure, but he did nothing.
Trump promised to revive American manufacturing, but he did nothing.
What did Trump actually deliver?
Tax breaks for the wealthy and justices who stripped away reproductive rights.
The choice is clear:
![[Red Text] When Donald Trump left office, 3 years after he gave a huge tax break to big corporations and wealthy lobbyists, and 11 months after he recklessly downplayed COVID’s threat, the economy was down millions of jobs and 3,000 people were dying every day.
[Blue Text] Under Joe Biden:
• Democrats passed the American Rescue Plan, which jumpstarted the economy, reopened schools, and vaccinated the country. Democrats followed that up with historic investments in U.S. infrastructure and manufacturing.
• Democrats also passed the Inflation Reduction Act, which brought down prescription drug prices. Inflation is now significantly lower than when Ronald Reagan bragged about “Morning in America” during his 1984 reelection campaign.
• Wages are rising faster than inflation, a key part of Joe Biden’s plan to rebuild the economy from the bottom up and the middle out, not the top down.
• The economy has added 14 million jobs and unemployment has been below 4% for 21 straight months, the longest stretch of sub-4% unemployment in 50 years.
[Bar chart showing job growth over the past 9 presidential terms, with Joe Biden's the highest at 13,954,000 and Donald Trump's the lowest at -2,670,000]
[Red Text] MAGA Republicans voted to protect tax breaks for the rich and now they focused on banning abortion, attacking civil rights, ignoring Trump’s authoritarian threats, and cutting Social Security and Medicare.](https://media.hachyderm.io/cache/media_attachments/files/111/485/497/827/807/738/small/acd34ad9509f9975.png)
1/5
Ta-Nehisi Coates & Rashid Khalidi on the 100-Year War on Palestine
"I was there for 5 days in the Occupied Territories. I had this degree of anxiety about going, bcz I knew I was going to see something, something I couldn’t quite name
"& I thought I was going to another country, but what amazed me was I actually felt that I was in the same country, but I was in a different time. I was in the time of my parents & grandparents"
T-N Coates
https://www.democracynow.org/2023/11/24/ta_nehisi_coates_and_rashid_khalidi
..2
2/5
“If we look at the Middle East, I think it’s about time we stop apologizing for our support for Israel. There is no apology to be made. None. It is the best $3 billion investment we make
"Were there not an Israel, the United States of America would have to invent an Israel to protect our interests in the region. The U.S. would have to go out and invent an Israel."
Joe Biden speech, Senate floor, June 1986
https://www.democracynow.org/2023/11/24/ta_nehisi_coates_and_rashid_khalidi
...3
3/5
The 100-Year War on Palestine
"The British started this project bcz it was in the strategic interests of the British Empire"
It serves American imperial interests, has always done.
"We do not give $3.8 billion a year..for..sentiment..It has to do with oil..imperial interests"
It also has to do with the evangelical right, "one of the things that moves American politicians, the votes, the money, the concentrated political power of the evangelical right"
Khalidi
4/5
The 100-Year War on Palestine
It also "has to do with money. Our politicians are... bought & sold. That needs to be said. & the bigger the donor, the more services they get.
"And if we ask, 'Why is it that our media is so complicit?' it’s partly because our media is an echo chamber for the people in power in Washington.
"The New York Times, The Washington Post... They're like the Soviet press during the Cold War... they echo power."
Khalidi
...5
5/5
The 100-Year War on Palestine
"Who owns those institutions of the press? The same people who own the politicians. The same people who own our universities... The board of trustees [are] the same people who finance the politicians, same people who own the media.
"A compliant media with a government that is supportive of Israel, bcz of votes..the evangelical right..imperial strategic objectives, it’s very simple. It’s money. It’s power"
Khalidi
There seems to be a dispiriting spiral whereby timid centre-left governments get elected to deal with real problems, but because they're so timid – and scared by vested interests – prove to be ineffective.
So then exasperated voters turn to right-wing politicians who seem at least shouty and confident. (sigh)
The lesson? Supposedly progressive governments should be more confident, less scared of their own shadows and the tabloid media, and actually try to make useful if challenging changes. (Yes I am looking at you, Albanese. Biden too.)
Donald #Trump plans to invoke the Insurrection Act and use military power to rule with an iron fist and take revenge on anyone he considers "an enemy" in 2025. His former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen says he plans to seek asylum in another country if Trump wins the #2024Election. https://www.alternet.org/trump-project-2025-2666367202/ #USPol #Trump2024 #TrumpDictator #TrumpMustBeStopped #TrumpInsurrection
@seanwithwords @barney @politico
If voting didn't work, the Republicans wouldn't spend billions to suppress it. But you're giving them the win for free by suppressing yourself.
Only a vote for Biden stops Trump, and you have a moral obligation to do this.
This left-wing Trumper wisely blocked me before lying about me. This way, I can't respond.
For the record, those on the far left who are too pure to vote for Biden are the left-wing Trumpers.
It’s remarkable that European nations, members of the EU are taking far more principled stands against Musk. In the US, not as much or it isn’t reported on.
Featured story: “This was the choice of the school to refer to law enforcement, the choice of the law enforcement to detain the child, the choice of the prosecutor to charge him and try to trump up the charges.”
https://www.texasobserver.org/why-was-this-11-year-old-honor-roll-student-put-in-solitary?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=audience
#news #politics #USpol #schools #education #children #police #prison #HumanRights #solitary
Reality check and rant about people planning to vote 3rd party or not at all
Another Toxic White Cishet Male who doesn't value human life.
Noticing a pattern in the States, you noticing that too Liz Truss... yeah?
The brain workings of the hardest of the hard-core Donald Trump fans continue to mystify me
"you need to lower your standards and date these shitty, selfish men or Civilisation will collapse and there won't be enough White Babies" - the Washington Post Editorial Board.
Did that come direct from Bezos himself, we wonder?
Scientists: https://fediscience.org/@gwagner/111482052825474750
Americans: [pic]
"If you don’t leave, we’ll kill you’: Hundreds flee Israeli settler violence in Hebron area"
"Seeing the Gaza war as a golden hour to fulfill their West Bank ambitions..settlers have chased out entire Palestinian communities in Area C"
The three-tiered classifications of the occupied territories divided Palestinian land, etc into different units & rights — all "vastly inferior compared to those granted to Israeli settlers living in the same areas"
"Never Forget: Jews and Muslims have Often imagined themselves in History as Siblings & Allies"
"Historically, & even theologically, Jews have always been closer to Muslims than they were to Christians.
"In Muslim lands... Arabic “became the language of science & philosophy, of government & commerce, even the language of Jewish theology when such a discipline began to develop under Islamic influence.”
https://www.juancole.com/2023/11/imagined-themselves-siblings.html
5/5
The 100-Year War on Palestine
"Who owns those institutions of the press? The same people who own the politicians. The same people who own our universities... The board of trustees [are] the same people who finance the politicians, same people who own the media.
"A compliant media with a government that is supportive of Israel, bcz of votes..the evangelical right..imperial strategic objectives, it’s very simple. It’s money. It’s power"
Khalidi
4/5
The 100-Year War on Palestine
It also "has to do with money. Our politicians are... bought & sold. That needs to be said. & the bigger the donor, the more services they get.
"And if we ask, 'Why is it that our media is so complicit?' it’s partly because our media is an echo chamber for the people in power in Washington.
"The New York Times, The Washington Post... They're like the Soviet press during the Cold War... they echo power."
Khalidi
...5
3/5
The 100-Year War on Palestine
"The British started this project bcz it was in the strategic interests of the British Empire"
It serves American imperial interests, has always done.
"We do not give $3.8 billion a year..for..sentiment..It has to do with oil..imperial interests"
It also has to do with the evangelical right, "one of the things that moves American politicians, the votes, the money, the concentrated political power of the evangelical right"
Khalidi
2/5
A young Joe Biden delivered a speech on the Senate floor in June 1986:
“If we look at the Middle East, I think it’s about time we stop apologizing for our support for Israel. There is no apology to be made. None. It is the best $3 billion investment we make
"Were there not an Israel, the United States of America would have to invent an Israel to protect our interests in the region. The U.S. would have to go out and invent an Israel,”
https://www.democracynow.org/2023/11/24/ta_nehisi_coates_and_rashid_khalidi
...3
"If you don’t leave, we’ll kill you’: Hundreds flee Israeli settler violence in Hebron area"
"Seeing the Gaza war as a golden hour to fulfill their West Bank ambitions..settlers have chased out entire Palestinian communities in Area C"
The three-tiered classifications of the occupied territories divided Palestinian land, etc into different units & rights — all "vastly inferior compared to those granted to Israeli settlers living in the same areas"
**WOMEN AT FAULT FOR POLITICAL DIVIDE: MARRY A MAGA MAN!**
Ridiculous concern trolling by *The Washington Post's* editors, too cowardly to put a byline for the author, really showcases how #incel grievance has become normalized.
They argue *someone will have to compromise *(meaning women) or else marriage rates will tumble. I think women may have already found their own alternative.🤔
#feminism #patriarchy #dating #politics #genderdivide #USpol #relationships #sex
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#newsletter #journalism #culture #News #Texas #politics #science #USpol #environment
‘Michigan has showed the world’: Whitmer signs pared-down Reproductive Health Act into law
Underneath a digital billboard that said, “Today we are taking another bold step forward to ensure Michigan laws reflect Michigan values,” Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Tuesday signed into law bills that repeal several abortion restrictions in Michigan.
The ceremony, held at Schoolcraft College’s Vistatech Center in Livonia, featured dozens of reproductive rights supporters and elected officials, including Lt. Governor Gilchrist, state Sen. Sarah Anthony (D-Lansing), state Rep. Laurie Pohutsky (D-Livonia) and Dr. Sarah Wallett, chief Medical operating officer of Planned Parenthood of Michigan.
“Across the nation, the American people are standing up for abortion rights,” said Whitmer. “We’ve seen it again and again. They’ve looked to Michigan because we showed the world. When you speak truth to power, when you fight for the issue and fight for the people, you can win on this issue.”
#USPol #Politics #Michigan #News #Abortion #ReproductiveRights #ProChoice #GretchenWhitmer #Whitmer
Excerpt from "Spin" by Brian Singer (1995) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRkEpTqSOWI #USPol #Media
As the report notes, NYT, WaPo and other major #USPol media campaign coverage remains little changed despite huge shifts in the culture, the political and media environment, and in how people get information. If anything, these institutions and their #journalists are more settled in their conventions and more resistant to criticism. We need #journalism not on what people say but on what candidates have done and will do; not predicting who'll win, but informing the vote. https://www.cjr.org/analysis/election-politics-front-pages.php
A related reminder about the limits of year-out polling:
• Reagan trailed Mondale by 6 points in the Oct. 1983 Gallup poll
One key is to focus on the economic fundamentals:
• When Reagan ran his upbeat "Morning in America" ad in Sept. 1984, unemployment was still 7.3% and inflation was still running at 4.3%.
• Today, under Biden, unemployment is only 3.9% and inflation is down to 3.2%
Another key is to highlight the contrast between Trump Chaos and the Biden Comeback
![[Red Text] When Donald Trump left office, 3 years after he gave a huge tax break to big corporations and wealthy lobbyists, and 11 months after he recklessly downplayed COVID’s threat, the economy was down millions of jobs and 3,000 people were dying every day.
[Blue Text] Under Joe Biden:
• Democrats passed the American Rescue Plan, which jumpstarted the economy, reopened schools, and vaccinated the country. Democrats followed that up with historic investments in U.S. infrastructure and manufacturing.
• Democrats also passed the Inflation Reduction Act, which brought down prescription drug prices. Inflation is now significantly lower than when Ronald Reagan bragged about “Morning in America” during his 1984 reelection campaign.
• Wages are rising faster than inflation, a key part of Joe Biden’s plan to rebuild the economy from the bottom up and the middle out, not the top down.
• The economy has added 14 million jobs and unemployment has been below 4% for 21 straight months, the longest stretch of sub-4% unemployment in 50 years.
[Bar chart showing job growth over the past 9 presidential terms, with Joe Biden's the highest at 13,954,000 and Donald Trump's the lowest at -2,670,000]
[Red Text] MAGA Republicans voted to protect tax breaks for the rich and now they focused on banning abortion, attacking civil rights, ignoring Trump’s authoritarian threats, and cutting Social Security and Medicare.](https://cdn.masto.host/frontendsocial/cache/media_attachments/files/111/472/487/033/340/156/small/552e0869743739f7.png)
@futurebird
I have some insight into the community and can confirm that it's true.
True for myself as well, for the same reasons. Fuck #Biden. #uspol
So, I don't know how many people know this, but several Republican organizations, including the Heritage Foundation, Turning Point USA, the Family Policy Alliance, the American Conservative, and others are working with former Trump administration officials to develop a comprehensive plan to remake the entire federal government into Trump's image if he wins the election.
They published a playbook titled "Project 2025" this year in which they spell out how they're going to take on the "deep state" by stocking ever agency - FDA, State Department, DHS, USAID, EPA, NIH, etc. - with MAGA loyalists to cut every DEI program, end all support for LGBTQ+ people, eliminate food stamps, cut humanitarian aid to Palestinians, and so on.
All Republicans are at least as bad as Trump, if not worse.
"This is what you get” is not the same thing as “this is what you deserve"
"Israeli citizens didn’t deserve to be murdered in cold blood by Hamas.
"Palestinians in Gaza don’t deserve to be systematically annihilated.
"Israel doesn’t deserve to be represented by the likes of Netanyahu or Ben-Gvir.
"None of us deserves the terrorism, war & refugee crisis that is to come.
But it’s what we get when we value land claims over human rights....
I was just thinking today that perhaps younger folks need to see more earlier news reporting (this doc was made later, but news reports from the '60s and '70s were what I had in mind) to see how awful our TV news is now. Sometimes I think the problem is that people don't remember there used to be a higher standard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0apaiPiupE #USPol
When you’re holding a single queen and decide to go all in
Excellent summary why we despair about the direction in which the land of the free is drifting towards 😥🥱😷
#uspol #uspolitics #fascism #monopolies #capitalism
https://open.substack.com/pub/robertreich/p/beyond-trump-why-american-capitalism?r=1ezlkn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Featured story: School board #elections have transformed into expensive, high stakes political minefields. We mapped out the right-wing PACs and lobbyists responsible in #Texas ... https://www.texasobserver.org/school-board-pacs-consultants-right-wing?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=audience
Don't miss @stevanzetti's interactive influence map: https://stevanzetti.kumu.io/the-hydralike-network-that-turned-texas-school-board-elections-into-partisan-battlegrounds
#news #politics #PublicSchools #democracy #USpol #education #education
The west's climate-catastrophe plan:
* Silence & gaol dissenters;
* Impoverish & brainwash the rest;
* Impose forever wars & prison-camp epidemics to kill as many as possible (eg, Gaza).
Welcome to 21stC global fascism.
Psychopaths care for nought - even their own children - except power
Most are old men; they'll die in relative luxury.
"Even if billions perish in the coming climate catastrophe... we shouldn’t be too concerned"*
"Influential Israeli national security leader makes the case for genocide in Gaza"
Giora Eiland argues that all Palestinians in Gaza are legitimate targets & that even a “severe epidemic" in Gaza will "bring victory closer.”
Eiland on how Israeli & US stances differ:
"Gaza is very similar to Nazi Germany... this is the accurate description of the situation, so it is also correct to wage the war accordingly"
RFK jr's campaign sent me a campaign email and they used a catch-all email address I used to use for politics a decade ago but haven't post-Obama.
They are using stale democratic mailing lists.
@blogdiva That is such BS. No one is being told to shut up. Asked not to repeat Russian and GOP propaganda… yeah. Explained that citizenship requires putting in the hard fucking work instead of whining at the last minute… yeah. But no one is being told to shut up. Explained about the difference between basic fucking math that saving democracy requires and electing a fascist… yeah. Explained about deliberately depressing the vote by pandering to protest voters…yeah #farL #USPol