US women are now second-class citizens, thanks to Sen. #MitchMcConnell. He stole a #SupremeCourt appointment from #BarackObama, giving it to #Trump, who used it plus two other appointments to overturn #Roe v Wade. So ladies, be sure to thank #Mitch for your loss of sovereignty over your own body, a basic freedom that we men still have. It is now dangerous to be pregnant in red states, as doctors can't properly treat their patients if complications arise. #ThanksMitch
We should make the #DNC Convention in #Chicago a total shit show worse than 1968 if #Biden doesn't use all possible leverage to force some kind of one state solution with equal rights for all on #Israel.
NOTE: the Chicago area has the largest Palestinian population in the #uspol
@wjmaggos#Biden would lose the election if he did that, & doing so would guarantee #BenjaminNetanyahu remaining in power. I remember when #BarackObama tried forcing out Bibi & it backfired.
#Israel 🇮🇱 stated that after the October 7th attacks that they would continue the war in #Gaza until all the hostages are returned (which include 6 Americans) & #Hamas is no longer a military power.
In #NorthCarolina, Michele Morrow, the #Republicans' choice for state school superintendent, has called for #JoeBiden, #BarackObama, and other Democrats to be executed by firing squad. She appears to be a #QAnon believer, using its slogan "WWG1WGA" and accusing various people of harvesting adrenochrome from babies.
Morrow's own kids are homeschooled, and she advocates dissolving the very public school system she's running to be in charge of.
President Biden may owe his place in the top third to his predecessor: Mr. Biden’s signature accomplishment, according to the historians, was evicting Donald J. Trump from the Oval Office.
Disturbing story about Axel Springer, the German Murdoch, breathing down the next of B.I. This was Ben Mullin scoop, but I don't find it yet in The Times:
Business Insider story on's Harvard antagonist’s wife draws owner’s scrutiny https://wapo.st/3vyjdRI
"...'My suggestion. Nobel peace prize for #Trump,” one message reads. “And take it away from ibama [sic].” #BarackObama was given the Nobel peace prize in 2009..."
Read number 38 for 2023. I liked this memoir because it is an inside telling of life as President with a refreshing honesty and without rancor. Looking forward to volume 2. A four cup review ☕☕☕☕ #barackobama#memoir@bookstodon#bookstodon#goodreads#Bookwyrm
#BarackObama offered a complex analysis of the conflict between #Israel & #Hamas, telling thousands of former aides that they were all “complicit to some degree” in the current bloodshed.
"All Americans should be horrified and outraged by the brazen terrorist attacks on Israel and the slaughter of innocent civilians. We grieve for those who died, pray for the safe return of those who’ve been held hostage, and stand squarely alongside our ally, Israel, as it dismantles Hamas. As we support Israel’s right to defend itself against terror, we must keep striving for a just and lasting peace for Israelis and Palestinians alike."
In this installment, Dan blows Jordan's mind by telling him all about how Tucker Carlson decided it was worth his time to interview Larry Sinclair, the man who claims to have done drugs and had sex with Obama back in 1999.
What sort of crack has the staff of the Washington Examiner been smoking?? #TuckerCarlson abandoned any semblance of journalistic #ethics loooooooong ago. His promotion of absurd and baseless allegations about #BarackObama is par for the course at this point. #Tucker is a sad, #pathetic personality who eagerly amplifies the most implausible and disgusting #rightwing#lies. That's who he is, and what he's all about.
Trump came on to the political scene by saying Obama was not qualified to run for the office of president because he didn't feel like he was American enough for whatever reason.
It would be a nice bit of poetry if the same election requirements knocked him off the ballot for trying to steal an election.
(I wonder how many write-ins he'd get if this happened? Living in interesting times is exhausting!)
Reactionaries couldn’t square the man was an American, because their lying eyes told them his mother was a white lady, raised by white grandparents - and grandmother - from Kansas.
That could not be.
The only other way to reconcile facts: a wholesale conspiracy. The family was a hoax, and he’d been born in Kenya, after all.
Does anyone know if Dr Cornell West is active in the fediverse? I'd be very interested in his thoughts on Dr Jonathan Flowers' commentary on the "whiteness of Mastodon".
I would have been very interested in bell hooks' opinions on it too, if she was still around. RIP
"...West openly attacked Barack Obama for his complicit accommodation with US militarism and hegemonic capitalism, whom he colorfully derided as 'a Rockefeller Republican in blackface.' West seems closer in his affinities to Noam Chomsky, Edward Said and Jean-Paul Sartre, leading white public intellectuals, who spoke as they believed whatever the personal costs."
Ther's lots of ways to slice the #DemocraticParty coalition, but one important axis are the self-styled adults-in-the-room, who declare themselves realists, and the party's left wing, who are dismissed as idealists who don't understand politics: neither how to win elections nor how to wield power.
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A divided Supreme Court has struck down affirmative action in college admissions, declaring race cannot be a factor and forcing institutions of higher education to look for new ways to achieve diverse student bodies.
News: Poll Ranks Biden as 14th-Best President, With Trump Last (www.nytimes.com)
President Biden may owe his place in the top third to his predecessor: Mr. Biden’s signature accomplishment, according to the historians, was evicting Donald J. Trump from the Oval Office.
Knowledge Fight: #852: Tucker, The Man And His Twitter- Episode 5 (knowledgefight.libsyn.com)
In this installment, Dan blows Jordan's mind by telling him all about how Tucker Carlson decided it was worth his time to interview Larry Sinclair, the man who claims to have done drugs and had sex with Obama back in 1999.
Divided Supreme Court outlaws affirmative action in college admissions, says race can't be used (apnews.com)
A divided Supreme Court has struck down affirmative action in college admissions, declaring race cannot be a factor and forcing institutions of higher education to look for new ways to achieve diverse student bodies.