Texas Observer has identified four neo-nazi's recently active in the #Dallas/Fort Worth area, associated with the hate group Goyim Defense League, two of whom recently appeared in a viral TikTok video taken at an area taqueria.
My shorthand for the approach we most need in election coberage is this:
"Not the odds, but the stakes."
How does this work in practice? Margaret Sullivan answers that in The Guardian today. "Now’s the time to think about just how bad a DeSantis presidency would be."
That's my shorthand for what we most need from election coverage in 2024. Not who has what chances of winning, but the consequences for our democracy. Not the odds, but the stakes.
Dan Rather on the horse race:
"A horse race confers an equivalence upon all candidates. The only detail that matters is who is going to win — not all that might be lost. To view America through that lens today is an exercise in the absurd."
On this, the last day of Pride month, the Supreme Court declared it open season for business owners to discriminate against people they don't like.
Are you an artist, independent professional, or business owner in the US? It just got a lot more important for you to signal that you welcome and support queer and trans people 📣
It's not enough to be quietly inclusive in this day and age.
"Biden has steered the country out of a #recession and #pandemic, gotten through a slew of critical legislation (some bipartisan), avoided a default on the #debt, set the stage for about 14 million new #jobs and overseen a resurgence of manufacturing. Internationally, he has restored the #UnitedStates’ image and solidified and expanded #NATO in defense of #Ukraine.
“Librarians are being harassed in private Facebook groups. They’re receiving pressure from within and outside the school.”
But bookstores, libraries and book lovers of all kinds came together to fight back against the censorious, so-called READER act. From correspondent Matthew Patin: https://www.texasobserver.org/the-booksellers-revolt/
"Walmart surprises with industry-leading change to wages"
Walmart's surprise is that it is lowering its starting wage by $1 this year.
A 2020 US Government Accountability Office study of data from six states found Walmart was a top employer of Medicaid [healthcare subsidies] enrollees and a top employer of SNAP [food subsidies] recipients.
Walmart's business model relies on corporate welfare while its employees work full time and struggle to pay for food and healthcare.
Employees need to surprise Walmart with a union ASAP.
Cool and also these are exactly the sort of stories that lure lazy lefties into not showing up on the day. Polls are not votes, folks. Gotta show up. Each time, every time. #uspol
NO.
now is NOT the time to tell people not to criticize Biden. look at what he is doing for #Gaza after almost half a million #Uncommitted votes during these #primaries.
NOW IS THE TIME TO PUSH DEMOCRATS, TO THE LEFT AS HARD AS WE CAN.
Protests work.
Democrats need to be the #antifascist party, not the party of meeting the fascists in the middle.
now is the time for all democrats to act like members of an antifascist party and not as just the opposition.
One of the weirdest things in the US is that Supreme Court Justices only need 51 of 100 Senate votes to be put into a lifetime position — earned or not — but officers in the military need 100 of 100 votes to get a promotion that they earned and one nut job senator can prevent the promotion. That's a broken rule that should be changed.
"OMG Trump called his domestic enemies vermin! This is a lot like Hitler, who called his domestic enemies rats!"
Listen, you're not wrong. But let's not forget how USA propaganda called Japanese-Americans "vermin," yes, in that exact wording, and compared them to insects as well as rodents, to justify the Japanese internment camps. How USA propaganda called Italian immigrants rats (anarchist rats at that!) to justify cutting off immigration from there.
Yes, you should be alarmed. I'm not saying don't be alarmed. I'm saying you're not alarmed enough. #fascism#fascismUSA#pol#USpol
Trump raised a record-breaking $34.8 million the day after being convicted of election interference. That's nearly double their previous largest single-day online donation amount.
29.7% were new donors.
This is not a drill. He will get reelected unless people on the left step up to oppose him. And #Project2025 makes it clear how much worse things can get, both domestically and abroad. #VoteBlue
Chicago Is Considering Opening a Municipal Grocery Store
Led by labor-backed mayor Brandon Johnson, Chicago could become the first big city in the US to open a publicly owned grocery store.
To combat food deserts in Chicago, the city government is considering opening up a municipal grocery store. The Wall Street Journal recently had a piece about this initiative. In it, Joe Barrett tells the stories of a municipal grocery store in Erie, Kansas, which last year was $123,000 in the red and a municipal grocery store in St Paul, Kansas, which is profitable and has been in operation for sixteen years.
Similar municipal grocery stores exist elsewhere in the country, including in Baldwin, Florida, which was profiled in the Washington Post four years ago. In each case, a generally conservative rural municipality opens up a grocery store because nobody else would and because they feared that not having a grocery store could result in a death spiral of depopulation.
200,000 people showed up for Orlando Pride in defiant middle finger to Ron DeSantis (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Over 200,000 people showed up for Orlando Pride over the weekend, as an 11-year-old transgender girl led the parade as Grand Marshal....