Joe Biden has expressed a willingness to work alongside the PARTY OF DONALD TRUMP to intimidate a legitimate court of law which is trying to defend one of the most persecuted and marginalized groups of people in modern history against a bloodthirsty genocidal war criminal and his ongoing campaign of butchery.
A campaign of butchery for which Biden has chosen to aid and abet for months.
@angiebaby They stand for what political parties, no exception, have always stood for in purported democracies: subverting democracy to get the reins of power.
A majority of Supreme Court Justices were appointed by Presidents who lost the popular vote.
We must abolish the antiquated and slavery-era Electoral College have a national popular vote. We can have a runoff between the top two if no candidate gets 50% in the first round.
Facebook just took down roughly 100 pages and profiles for violating the site's rules that prohibit “militarized social movement,” including militia groups that take personal responsibility for defending their communities from a variety of perceived threats.
These 100 pages are just a tiny fraction of the thousands of militia groups Facebook has previously kicked off the site, supposedly permanently.
There’s nothing groundbreaking about protesters’ tactics of taking over university buildings or erecting encampments on college lawns.
These students – knowingly or unknowingly – are part of a long history of radical student organizing. There are echoes of both the protests against the Vietnam War in the 1960s and 70s and more recently, of South African apartheid in the 1980s.
It may have started out as Colligiate awareness to evil in the world off campus, in the "Real World", for a few naive weeks, but that is not what's going on now.
There are no equivalency of this Antisemitism & attack on Anti-Western values with the 60's & 70's Vietnam War protests.
Here is the Pro-Terrorist subversion Anarchy proponent plan.
"Private equity firms owned more than 20% of the health-care companies that went bankrupt last year. The nonprofit Private Equity Stakeholder Project, which investigates multiple industries, said it spotted at least 17 such bankruptcies in 2023, compared with eight in 2019 and even fewer during the previous three years, marking a 112.5% increase over the last five years."
With private equity firms failing to find success in healthcare, and with rural hospitals unable to keep their doors open, now is perfect time for the US government to take the healthcare industry public.
Profit and healthcare don't mix. Scoop up the hospitals and clinics for pennies on the dollar and restore healthcare access to rural areas.
Amazing. I was just listening to Jasmine Crockett on The Bulwark and she related a story of two members of Congress who'd had their student loan debt relieved and they DIDN'T KNOW WHY. They were trying to figure out what happened. And we wonder about how low-info our voters are when we have Congress members so completely uninformed about what #Biden has done?! 🤦♂️ 🤬 😩 #USPolitics p.s. someone tell Tim Miller "emigrating" is a word. Jeez. Americans aren't planning on "immigrating" from the U.S.
“The choice facing the nation this November is much older and deeper than Trump. A determined minority has been trying to shape the foundations of American governance for their own benefit since the inception of the republic. ... In 2024, the country is once again immersed in a pivotal battle over whom the political system should serve and represent.”
So, super fancy, exclusive restaurant catering to wealthy diners rips off its customers, harasses and steals from its employees, then washes its hands by gifting real estate to a proselytizing Christian organization that provides housing and meals to people who have been pushed down, abused, and displaced by the kinds of people who endure a waitlist of up to year, jet to a dining destination, and pay $500 for dinner. Can’t help but think this illustrates the capitalism circle of life.
The Willows Inn, a super fancy, fine-dining, farm-to-table, restaurant on a remote island near Bellingham, WA, that the New York Times in 2011 labeled "one of 10 Restaurants Worth a Plane Ride,” had a precipitous fall from grace in 2022. Now, the property is selling, and the proceeds will benefit Lighthouse Mission Ministries, a shelter for the unhoused.
In its heyday, as it topped the culinary world's best restaurant lists, fraud and abuse festered behind the scenes.
Employees alleged a nightmare environment of sexual harassment, bullying, misogyny, and racism.
The Willows Inn paid $1.37 million to settle a class-action lawsuit for wage theft.
Turns out, the restaurant's "farm-to-table" claims also fell short. Some of the supposed locally sourced and foraged food actually came from random grocery stores and even Costco. At $500 a plate, that’s not what you bargained for.
To make amends, the former owners, Tim and Marcia McEvoy, donated the property to Bellingham’s Lighthouse Mission, a Christian organization that provides shelter and services to the unhoused (and only hires Christians). The property, reportedly worth about $2.4 million, has accepted an offer and is expected to change hands soon.
!! Calls for recusing himself from j6 cases.. it should be calls to remove a biased corrupt judge from power.
There is literally a christian nationalist GOP stooge in one of the most powerful positions in the world. Roberts' court is a sham.
@Breedlov
This POS must be disbarred. So tired of lawyers policing themselves. We have seen just how obscenely criminal they are. It's really disturbing.
Trump keeps promising he would enact the largest domestic deportation operation in American history, exceeding 'Operation Wetback' in the 50s, which deported hundreds of thousands of Mexicans.
"It felt almost as if someone senior in the US wanted to stop the case ever coming to trial but didn’t want the embarrassment of withdrawing the extradition request"
What's the chance* that GOP MAGAts will come around to banning vasectomies now that the young'uns are choosing to sterilize themselves rather than face the Big Government overreach of abortion bans?
I mean, how can you enslave child-bearing folks under the boot of capitalism if they refuse to create a steady labor supply?
*The chance is very likely slim to none since the patriarchy by definition values men's rights. But still, capitalism also requires an underclass, and forced birth plunges many into that category without regard to gender.
@shansterable@Lazarou They won't do that because it affects the menfolk—you know, the white male patriarchs of the family structure they want. (Gay men, in their eschatology, don't bother with vasectomies.) It's all about controlling women, 100%.
(They might mandate vasectomies, though, for "undesirables"—males who are non-neurotypical, queer, or non-white.)
I think whenever I see a headline or a person making some claim about #section230 the first reaction needs to be, “Okay, section 230 of what? What do you think that refers to?”
So many people have no idea what section 230 actually says, or does, but at least this response would help weed out the most uninformed of the people spouting out about it.
@LouisIngenthron this question of regulation of internet activity is an administrative question!
And if a person doesn’t know how the administration works, then they’re in no position to judge or modify the administration.
That’s the point: asking what it’s a section of is a great way of putting a point on whether the person has the most basic familiarity with the thing they wish to attack and change.
#USPolitics June 2, 1924: Congress enacts the Indian Citizenship Act. Only 100 years ago. Just a reminder that the constitutional definition of 'people' to include all humans is a very recent event, less than 160 years. It's not that long ago. My grandmother (RIP) was born in 1898. The current conservative backsliding on who gets to be 'people' under the constitution needs to be stopped. Don't vote conservative. Reform the Supreme Court. #democracy https://www.history.com/news/native-american-voting-rights-citizenship
This is at least partially because of the FBI’s campaign of sabotage against 20th-century Black leaders, which was so ruthlessly effective that it remains near-impossible to separate the truth from deliberate distortions, or sort these threads into any kind of moral coherence.
“What is the point of having power," she says, "if you will not use it to stop crimes against humanity?”
Jewish Presidential appointee Lily Greenberg Call resigned in protest at its refusal to stop arming Israel. It's an astonishing letter.
Update: a few minutes after tweeting this, her X account was suspended 🤨
The U.S. Supreme Court rejects conservative challenge to the federal consumer protection agency.
NBC News reports: "The justices rejected a business-backed argument that could have hobbled the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which protects people from unlawful financial services practices such as predatory lending."
Many Americans believe Congress could be fixed with a simple solution: Throw the bums out with term limits.
But that creates more problems than it solves, says political scientists.
For one, members in their legally mandated final term in office enjoy a kind of "senioritis" -- and experience apathy toward being productive in their final year, because they don't have to face the voters again at the ballot box.
