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2023-12-11 23:41:58

The Right is Prepared For This Moment. Are We?
When we decided, earlier this year, to publish a special issue on the #Right, Republicans had not yet elected an avowed #Christian #nationalist as speaker of the House — one who was a key architect of Donald #Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, who had partnered with “two wolves and a sheep deciding what’s for dinner,” and who, in the first moments of his speakership, declared God had “ordained” his authority.
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-right-is-prepared-for-this-moment-are-we/
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2023-12-06 00:33:17

Mike #Johnson Said Same-Sex #Marriage Would Lead to People Marrying Their Pets, Wanted to Sentence #Abortion Doctors to “Hard Labor”
He also supported criminalizing #gay #sex between consenting adults.
CNN’s KFile reports that prior to his career in politics, Johnson wrote a series of deeply #homophobic editorials in his role as an attorney for the socially conservative legal group now known as Alliance Defending Freedom.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/10/mike-johnson-said-same-sex-marriage-would-lead-to-people-marrying-their-pets
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2023-12-02 21:23:25

Georgia Republicans’ New Voting Maps Defy Court Order to Boost Black Representation
They are a “blatant attempt to make me lose my seat,” says Rep. Lucy McBath.
"Check out these WHITE dudes"
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/12/georgia-redistricting-maps-republicans-defy-court-order-gerrymandering/
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2023-10-25 04:00:23

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I find that sad

2023-10-25 03:37:58

I have an honest question for the forum at large.
How is it possible that 197 men and women duly elected by the people of their states are held hostage by 20 white supremacists, fascists, and racists who are incapable of compromise and consumed with their own agenda?
I really would like to hear other people's ideas on our dysfunctional House of Representatives today.

2023-10-25 03:07:45

Liz Cheney Has Some Concerns About the 2024 Election
Cheney went on to talk about how concerned she is for U.S. democracy if Trump gets reelected. When asked if she’s ruling out running against Trump for president, she replied: “No, I’m not.”
If Cheney enters the fray, she will be joining 10 Republicans vying for the GOP nomination, three Democrats gunning for the Dem nomination, and two independents. But hey, the more the merrier, right?
#Cheney #gop #election2024
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/10/liz-cheney-trump-2024-election-threat-democracy.html

2023-10-25 02:59:40

Big Tech Cannot Be Regulated
#BigTech is so profoundly different from other industries
Antitrust regulation was originally designed to prevent price gouging by megafirms that restricted supply until the price hit a level maximizing their monopoly profit, at the expense of consumers and workers (whose employment falls alongside output). Obviously, this is irrelevant in the case of Big Tech’s services, which are free of charge and free of supply constraints.
#antitrust
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/big-tech-regulation-less-realistic-than-collective-ownership-by-yanis-varoufakis-2023-10

2023-10-23 23:22:31

I’ve decided to quit sharing any further reports coming out of the Middle East.
There is so much Bias and Misinformation about the Conflict between Hamas and Israel that I simply don’t know who to trust anymore.
Better to withhold an opinion than to further an erroneous one.
#MiddleEast #Israel #Palestine #Hamas #War

2023-10-22 05:10:57

Rock Climbing Anyone?
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2023-10-22 01:55:58

No, Israel Is Not Making the Desert Bloom
For decades, Israel has boasted of “making the desert bloom,” as if Palestinians never even existed. As Israel today pushes Gazans toward mass dehydration, we should remember its longstanding efforts to colonize land through
its control of the water supply.
The collapse of the drinking water supply brings deadly dehydration and the risk of diseases like cholera and dysentery.
#Israel #Palestinians #Gaza #HumanRights
https://jacobin.com/2023/10/israel-settler-colonialism-greenwashing-eco-normalization-water-energy

2023-10-16 02:30:08

Biden is ‘weighing’ a visit to Israel for show of solidarity
A trip, which is not yet confirmed, could happen as soon as this week, if it takes place at all.
"Say it ain't so Joe!"
#Israel #Netanyahu
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/15/biden-visit-israel-trip-00121677

2023-09-13 01:50:34

AOC Warns of 'Chaos Vibes' as Far-Right GOP Agitates to Oust McCarthy, Shut Down Government
U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman told the Republican House speaker that "if you don't stand up to this harmful element of your own party, you will allow them to destroy you and us in the process."
As far-right Congressman Matt Gaetz on Tuesday signaled that he wasn't impressed by House Speaker McCarthy's bid to appease MAGA Republicans by launching an impeachment inquiry
#AOC #McCarthy
https://www.commondreams.org/news/biden-impeachment-and-government-shutdown

2023-08-30 01:35:38

The GOP is a shambles, unable to nominate anyone electable
The big story coming out of the 2024 election might be the end of American democracy. That’s because the man already twice impeached and under indictment for trying to overturn the last presidential election is becoming even more extreme in promoting violence and sowing distrust in government.
#trump #Democracy #capitalism #oligarchy
https://thehill.com/opinion/columnists/juan-williams/4171654-the-gop-is-a-shambles-unable-to-nominate-anyone-electable/

2023-08-23 19:08:01

Why Did Alberta Put the Breaks on Its Booming Clean Energy Industry?
Perhaps it also has something to do with the power of the oil and gas sector and their relentless lobby
They are threatened by wind and solar being cheaper at scale now than fossil fuels and the simple fact that no one owns the sun and the wind. That means no long-term dependency on their products, no fear of scarcity to milk while they jack the price and reap record profits.
#ClimateCrisis
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/why-did-alberta-put-the-breaks-on-its-booming-clean-energy-industry

2023-08-05 14:17:47

Are humans a cancer on the planet?
There's a very distinct possibility we could trigger our own extinction or, at the very least, greatly reduce our population while completely altering the way we currently live. Little things like going outside during daylight hours or growing food in the dirt could become relics of the past, along with birds, insects, whales and many other species. War, famine, pestilence and death
#ClimateCrisis
https://www.salon.com/2023/08/05/are-humans-a-cancer-on-the-planet-a-physician-argues-that-civilization-is-truly-carcinogenic/