"The U.S. Treasury and the #FederalReserve are separate entities. The #Treasury manages all of the money coming into the govt and paid out by it. The Fed's primary responsibility is to keep the economy stable by managing the supply of money in circulation."
This makes sense. The rest of the article, explaining how the Fed does other stuff too, confuses me. The Treasury should do all that. The Fed's primary responsibility should be its only responsibility. #uspol
Jesus. The GOP made laws in certain states that certain votes can't be counted until the election is over and now, they don't want to count votes after the election is over...
Why don't they just say the quiet part out loud... The media really isn't going to put two and two together. #USPol
"In Chicago [1968 Democratic Convention] you could say the demonstrators represented the future and that the police who beat them and arrested them were punishing the future for coming too soon."
"Mightn’t it be better to have a pragmatist with minimal philosophy [Nixon], than an ideologue like Humphrey who seemed still to believe we should be the world’s policeman?"
#USPol
In #NewHampshire a bill was passed to end child marriage and raise the min. age to marry to 18.
The bill passed the Senate unanimously and in the House it passed 192 to 174.
ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY FOUR!!! voted to sustain child marriage! WTF? And they say they need to protect kids from trans people!
One GOP representative argued this would restrict the freedom of those who are of “a ripe and fertile age”.
This is the modern day republican party folks.
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee is reportedly secretly intervening to stymie Susheela Jayapal's (sister of Rep. Pramila) congressional race in Portland.
AIPAC is funneling money through 314 Action, which says it helps elect Democrats with a science background, in this case Maxine Dexter, a doctor.
Jewish Insider news had floated Dexter as a potentially pro-Israel candidate before she entered the race.
the third US State Dept official (& first diplomat) to resign publicly over US Gaza policy
"This Militaristic Approach Has Been a Failure"
"I could no longer be a part of the State Department & promote this policy. It’s an inhumane policy. It’s a failed policy that is helping neither Palestinians, neither Israelis"
“Those anxieties came into view again last week when the traditionally modest College Democrats of America sounded the alarm, saying in a statement, “The White House has taken the mistaken route of a bear hug strategy for (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu and a cold shoulder strategy for its own base and all Americans who want to see an end to this war.” 🔥 #uspol
"It is increasingly going to take the batons of police to enforce this consensus of US support for #Israel, which itself has a limited ceiling [..] Many of these students have crossed the fear barrier" - #YousefMunayyer
"Residents of #Texas and Pennsylvania, the top two gas-producing states, saw their natural gas bills increase by 50 and 51 percent between 2016 and 2023, respectively."
People in the U.S. complain about disruptive #protests, but the country has systematically closed down venues for #dissent. Want to vote for a non-genocidal President? Sorry, two-party system. Want to pass progressive legislation? Sorry, filibuster. Want to support the #Palestinians? Sorry, our ally is #Israel. Want your #university to divest from armaments? Sorry, fiduciary duty. Want to write some graffiti? Sorry, #vandalism. So disruption may be all we have left, short of #violence.
"Multnomah County elections officials will mail new ballots to 9,300 voters after omitting a proposed Metro Zoo bond from the ballots they sent to those people.
The voters who received the incorrect ballots live in three precincts in and around Gresham."
We are still underestimating the historical gravity--the dark awesomeness--of the last answer #HopeHicks gave under direct examination.
She revealed, in essence, that #Trump admitted to her that he would have lost in 2016 had he not committed 34 felonies.
Sit a moment with that."
A court drawing of the judge, a blond woman, an #TFG w/ notes saying, "I'm automatically attracted...
Interview with Jesselyn Radack, whistleblower lawyer
An Assange extradition "would affect publishers, journalists, bloggers, anyone – me & you."
Assange remains detained in a high-security prison in the UK, facing extradition on "17 Espionage Act charges & a charge of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion for publishing about 400,000 classified US military documents exposing potential US war crimes in Iraq & Afghanistan."
Norm Eisen, who served as a special counsel to the House Judiciary Committee during the former president's first impeachment, stated Trump was asleep in the New York court on Friday as his former White House aide Hope Hicks was answering questions under oath. #AureFreePress#News#press#headline#GOP#Politics#uspolitics#uspol#Trump