After the 2020 presidential #election, as some #Trump supporters falsely claimed that President #Biden had stolen the office, many of them displayed a startling symbol outside their homes, on their cars & online: an upside-down #AmericanFlag.
One of the homes flying an inverted flag during that time was the residence of #SupremeCourt Justice Samuel A #Alito Jr, in Alexandria, VA, acc/to photographs & interviews w/neighbors.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador took office in 2018 pledging to cut down on gang violence, but killings last month reached the same historic highs as when he first started his presidency. With his tenure set to end and elections set for June 2, cartels have stepped up their bloody turf wars against one another, and residents are caught in the crossfire. Read more from the Associated Press.
The #Republican-led UnitedStates House of
Representatives passed a bill on Thurs that would force President Joe #Biden to send weapons to Israel, seeking to rebuke the Democrat for delaying bomb shipments as he urges Israel to do more to protect #civilians during its war w/ #Hamas.
The #Israel Security Assistance Support Act was approved 224 to 187, largely along party lines. 16 #Democrats joined most Republicans in voting yes, & 3 #Republicans joined most Democrats in opposing the measure.
The act is not expected to become #law, but its passage underscored the deep #US#election-year divide over Israel policy as PM Benjamin #Netanyahu's government seeks to wipe out militants who attacked Israel on #Oct7….
It's almost election season and I see so many people are finally waking up to the dilemma of consistently "voting for the lesser of two evils" has brought us. I said this in 2016 when I decided to not vote for Clinton or Trump, I said it again in 2020 when I decided not to vote for Biden or Trump.
Every single time I was derided and said, "lesser of two evils is still evil." Everyone said "settle for Biden." This is exactly what settling has brought us.
Rachel #Maddow on Bradley W. Hart's superb "Star-Spangled Fascism" podcast:
"The harder thing for us to sort of sit with, as Americans, is that there have been fascistic tendencies, fascistic movements in America ... for longer than we like to admit."
The fascist project 2025 receive funding from Koch network & Leonard Leo. The project is also heavily promoted by MAGA-criminals ie:Steve Bannon, who has called it the “blueprint” for Trump dictatorship.
▫️ Disappear the word abortion from all rule, legal & government laws. It will not exist in America. Thousands of Women and Girls will die.
▫️ Deny birth control coverage.
▫️ Reverse a Biden policy that requires hospitals to offer abortions in medical emergencies to save Women's life. Forcing her death and denying medical aid.
▫️ DoJ for (arrest political adversaries or enemies)
▫️ End the Department of Education.
▫️ Allow disinformation from Russia and China.
▫️ FBI will have no ability to warn or stop disinformation from Russia or China.
Known liar Mike Johnson, Byron Donalds, Cory Mills, Doug Burgum & Vivek Ramaswamy hang around lower Manhattan to be trumps gag order gangsters.
Gag order prohibits trump from making comments about jurors / witnesses and also from causing others to make comments about the case, jury or court staff.
Republican politicians who’ve appeared at the felony Trump criminal trial: “I see politicians running toward the sound of the sleaze because that's what their master is demanding them."
"You have to embrace the election denial, the lies, you have Mike Johnson using his position (House Speaker) to violate the gag order, to say things the Judge says, 'do not say.' You have to embrace the lies, you have to embrace the insurrection, you have to embrace the hush money to a porn star, the multiple affairs. You have to embrace the obstruction of Justice. You have to make yourself part of the obstruction of justice."
"We need to remind everybody that this is not normal. This was unthinkable."
"You have to embrace the lies, you have to embrace the insurrection. You have to embrace the obstruction of Justice. You have to make yourself part of the obstruction of justice." Republicans are a criminal organization. 🚨
Every move Republicans make at this point is aimed at undermining our justice system.
Several members of Congress from the Republican MAGA party, have traveled to NY to defend a man who's been charged with 37 counts under the Espionage Act, crimes against the United States of America.
They've gone to undermine our justice system. They are trying to impeach Merrick Garland, the US Attorney General, by calling his integrity into question while at the same time they are calling the integrity of our justice system, period, into question.
They are working diligently, feverishly, daily to prime their people to revolt in a bigger way than they did on January 6th in an even more violent way and in an even more widespread way.
Because when Donald loses the #election to President Biden, they want nothing but a “January 6th” on a massive scale because they are not going to accept the results of the election. They've told us so.
Nothing good is happening or coming from the Republican Party. It is the criminal party.
U.S. President Joe Biden and former U.S. President and presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump have agreed to debate in two televised broadcasts. These events are usually organized by the Commission on Presidential Debates, but the Biden and Trump teams directly negotiated the terms of the showdowns. The Biden campaign says the Commission “is out of step with changes in the structure of our elections and the interests of voters.” But there’s some strategic thinking involved in the move, too. Yahoo! News has more about the changes and why they’re important.
Donald Trump - candidate for the Republican party despite having:
-sent an armed mob to stop the election certification
-told an insurrectionist mob to go to our Capitol and fight like hell
-tried to steal an election
-received millions of dollars from foreign nations while serving as President
-been found to be a sexual predator by a jury
-been found to be a fraud by a judge
-had multiple affairs that he covered up through hush money payments
-did tax fraud
-stolen national security secrets which he hid and concealed, enlisted others to help his Espionage crimes
-promised a healthcare plan in two weeks, never delivered, but did deliver an empty binder to 60 minutes
-pretended a pandemic wasn't serious causing hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths
-said he wants to be a dictator
-told our enemy to go ahead and attack our allies
-sent jobs to china
-praises murderous dictators
-told 33,000 lies in office
And all of this is but a fraction of his crimes, scandals and despicable moments. #election
Republicans hate Girls and Women - they have already bent the laws to be able to murder us and disappear us. They are now making it legal to humiliate and torture us. There is no love - and there is nothing redeemable - in a man who would be ok with this assault, subjugation, and physical abuse of Girls and Women. Girls and Women aren't vessels to club and claim caveman style. We aren't vessels to impregnate and imprison. We are autonomous beings with fundamental human rights to self determine. And: whether raped or not--> Abortion is healthcare! Ps.Men speak up for us.
🎥 Jessica Valenti she/her, Feminist author & columnist. Subscribe to her newsletter Abortion EveryDay.com
Evangelical MAGA lawyer Michael Farris—who helped lead the effort to overturn #Roe—says that he and his colleagues plan to amend our US Constitution to ban abortion care in all 50 states (from conception until natural death) once they amass enough political power. He promises to take away healthcare from all Women and Girls.
Fake religious MAGA lawyer Michael Farris—who helped lead the effort to overturn #Roe—says that he and his colleagues plan to amend our US Constitution to ban abortion care in all 50 states.