50 billionaire families have, at this early stage, already injected ~$1B into our pol system -most going to Rs & in support of #TFG -in an effort to maintain enough control of our pol system that their taxes won’t go⬆️ -doesn’t count: billions in dark$...
#1 movie in America last month: Civil War. RW militias are on the march. >1/2 of Rs say they're “expecting” a civil war.
Helicopter carrying Iran's President suffered a hard landing. Rescue crew is now trying to reach the helicopter. Devastated to hear the news, hope they find it soon.
A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi suffered a “hard landing” on 19th May, Iranian state media reported, without elaborating. Some began urging the public to pray for Raisi and the others on board as rescue crews sped through a misty, rural forest where his helicopter was believed to be.
Four young Germans beat The Ecke, the SPD's top candidate in elections for the European Parliament in Saxony, so badly in Dresden on May 3, that he had to be treated in the hospital for a broken cheekbone and eye socket. He had been out posting campaign posters. The shockwaves are still being felt, even as far away as Berlin.In an unusual step, Faeser called for a special meeting of state interior ministers last Tuesday evening at 6 p.m., where they discussed improving security measures for politicians.
The interior ministers didn't even have the chance to log in to their video conference when, at around 4:15 p.m., a man hit Berlin Senator for Economic Affairs Franziska Giffey (SPD) over the head with a blunt object that had been wrapped in a bag. She had been visiting a public library in Berlin's Neukölln district.
At 6:50 p.m., the ministers still hadn't logged out of their conversation when the Green Party politician Yvonne Mosler got attacked and spat upon while putting up posters in Dresden.
Is there any way of stopping all this?
There have been numerous attacks on politicians and volunteer election workers in recent days. Even the running camera of a Deutsche Welle film team that accompanied Mosler failed to deter the perpetrators. Society, it appears, has reached a new level of brutalization. Berlin politician Giffey has called it a "fair-game culture."
These are acts that are usually only in the headlines or public consciousness for a short amount of time. Taken together, though, they act like a corrosive solution: Drop by drop, act by act, they erode democratic structures. Will they corrode to the point that they threaten to collapse?
#SamAlito is taking sides that are, on a factual level, just a lie, a fiction. There is no 'steal' going on in this country, and the suggestion otherwise is an absolute treachery to confidence in #democracy that no one of any position of influence should be taking, much less a #SupremeCourtJustice who will be hearing cases involving an offshoot of this very set of beliefs and social turmoil.
North Korea confirms missile launch. It poses a threat to other countries because of Kim Jong Un's dictatorship.
North Korea has test-fired a tactical ballistic missile equipped with a “new autonomous navigation system”, Leader Kim Jong Un vowed to boost the country’s nuclear force.
I think that Biden has an even bigger problem than the fact that he keeps giving taxpayer-funded weapons to Israel to kill Palestinian kids: it's the recognition by many people that the reason for doing so is to appease the #oligarchy actually in charge of our country. That #billionaires , not city leadership, are directing police to suppress free speech. That's not #democracy. #Gaza