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JamesBazan

@JamesBazan@mastodon.coffee

I used my real name on the bird site to keep me nice. It didn't work, but cishet male privilege meant I mostly got away with it, so I'm not too optimistic about being "nice" on here.
White supremacy is a terrorist ideology.
The survival of democracy is on the line, so "BothSides" = Instablock
#NCPolitics #NCPol #Charlotte #NCGA
Header is a lip balm. Balm for your soul may not be banana flavored.

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gwaldby, to random
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Abortion restrictions increase risk of intimate partner homicide, study finds https://www.salon.com/2024/05/08/abortion-restrictions-increase-risk-of-intimate-homicide-study-finds/

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@gwaldby "Homicide is the leading cause of death for pregnant and postpartum women in the United States. The researchers found that the enforcement of one TRAP law was linked to a 3.4 percent increase in the rate of intimate partner violence-related homicides."
In the linked study from Tulane, 68% of those homicides are committed using firearms. So... we can expect victim-blaming to accompany the thoughts and prayers.

davidaugust, (edited ) to politics
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RFK Jr. brain has a dead worm that ate part of his brain in it, and has been impacted by mercury poisoning.

Well…this seems at once shocking and like it makes absolutely perfect sense.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/us/rfk-jr-brain-health-memory-loss.html?unlocked_article_code=1.qU0.MjjY.L1k3c9ClwkDy&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

#politics #election #RFKjr #USpol #BrainWorm

JamesBazan,
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@davidaugust I'm old enough to remember when brain wos would have been disqualifying. But back then, rape and insurrection probably would have derailed campaigns.

marcelias, to random
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NEW: Pennsylvania Republicans are asking the Supreme Court to revive the discredited independent state legislature theory to challenge pro-voter registration policies enacted by President Joe Biden and Governor Josh Shapiro.

Watch now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mO9qwRRzhg&t

JamesBazan,
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@marcelias If we vote, they lose. That's why they amplify cynicism couched in anti "establishment" rhetoric. It worked in 2016. It will always be part of their arsenal against democracy.

StillIRise1963, to random
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Fascists are going to get rid of all public education. Have you saved up for your kids yet.🤔

JamesBazan,
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@philip_cardella @StillIRise1963 in NC, the state constitution requires free & equitable public education. While continuing to defy a 1997 court order requiring them to provide that equitable funding for rural schools, the gerrymandered GOP supermajorities in the General Assembly lifted the income cap for private school subsidies. Now, they want to take an additional $300 million from public education to fund subsidies for families in the top 8% of incomes with kids already in $30k/year schools.

JamesBazan, to random
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“These students are going to have to find out what law and order is all about. Make sure you have your weapons in ready positions.” Brigadier General Robert Canterbury, Ohio National Guard, Kent State University Commons, May 4, 1970.
Apparently, "law and order" is all about being shot to death for protesting an illegal secret invasion of Cambodia, or walking to class while others are protesting.

GabeMoralesVR, to random
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So, serious question: If the declares that a president has sweeping immunity, including over assassinating citizens, what's to stop from just taking out?

JamesBazan,
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@GabeMoralesVR or the Supremes themselves.

JamesBazan,
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@GabeMoralesVR it's hanging on, "We're betting you are too ethical and patriotic to act as an absolute despot. We know this other guy has no such constraints."

TonyStark, to random
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The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act is investing approximately $1.6 billion into the much-needed restoration of the Brent Spence Bridge and the construction of a second bridge linking Ohio and Kentucky.

This bridge will provide a significant upgrade in infrastructure and transportation, create good union jobs, and pay attention to equity. This is what real governing looks like.

Fixing the Brent Spence Bridge - Center for American Progress:
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/fixing-the-brent-spence-bridge/

JamesBazan,
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@TonyStark Covington, Kentucky is a real bastion of the far right. Nearly 60% voted for Trump. Can you imagine transactional Trump funding needed infrastructure in a place he lost that badly?

emmreef, to random
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If got into the publishing business

JamesBazan,
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@emmreef Mr. Cheeseface, the dog in that cover photo, was shot and killed by a hunter in Vermont in 1976. Kristi Noem was only 5 at the time, but...

JamesBazan, to random
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Republican running to lead NC’s diverse k-12 schools says “Islam is evil,” Muslims should be banned from elected office

https://notesfromthechalkboard.com/2024/04/27/republican-running-to-lead-ncs-diverse-k-12-schools-says-islam-is-evil-muslims-should-be-banned-from-elected-office/

JamesBazan,
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@shekinahcancook This Court would look at it and give it their blessing, because a racial theocracy doesn't need decisions. It dispenses blessings.

JamesBazan, to random
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It occurs to me that we have a Supreme Court majority that lied under oath to get the job. That cutesy "Roe is settled law" dodge that most of them used to evade the question was far short of the oath they took:
"Do you solemnly swear that the testimony you will give before this Committee on the Judiciary of the United States Senate will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?"
I shouldn't be surprised by the depth and breadth of their faithlessness.

Green_Footballs, to random
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Trump keeps recycling this “argument” again and again without ever apparently realizing he’s saying that Joe Biden could throw him into a deep dark dungeon and keep him there and Trump would have no escape.

It’s another case of: either Trump’s that dumb or he thinks all his marks are that dumb.

JamesBazan,
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@Green_Footballs he knows President Biden is too honorable and honest to act so faithessly, while he suffers no such constraints himself.

JamesBazan, to random
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https://wapo.st/3vZhk1f

"When the vote on Ukraine aid finally came, it was overwhelming, 311-112. That raised the question: Why in the world did such a popular measure take so long?"

JamesBazan, to random
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Judge shoots down request to tell Trump who the first 3 trial witnesses will be:

dougiec3, to random
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"The Democrats would respond not by moving in the direction of working for the people. They responded by scapegoating their losses onto the Green Party.
They’re great scapegoaters—they never look at themselves in the mirror.
I love that phrase. “This is not the time.” If you go lesser-of-two-evils every four years, you’re gonna go lower. A liberal Republican from the 1970s now would be considered a progressive Democrat. That’s how far the Republicans have gone."
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/04/ralph-nader-third-party-politics-2024-interview/?utm_source=mj-newsletters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-newsletter-04-17-2024

JamesBazan,
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@kaydenpat @dougiec3 Ralph Nader is still, again, perpetually trying to redeem himself by blaming the Democrats. He must be worried that we forgot the consequences of his vanity campaign in 2000.

lzg, to random
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telling Dante "mother's love is profound and complete. mother's love is all encompassing and eternal. mother's love will destroy her, and you. do you want to go for a walkie?"

JamesBazan,
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@lzg How is it? I'm reading Stonebridge's "We Are Free to Change the World," and saw that book in my library search.

GatekeepKen, to random
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JamesBazan,
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@GatekeepKen amAs recently as the early '90s, Leona Helmsley's infamous quote, "We don't pay taxes; only the little people pay taxes," was a hiss line. Now it's the national motto.

JamesBazan, to random
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When a top Republican says Russian propaganda has infected the GOP:

"Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Tex.) — none other than the GOP chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee — flat-out said that Russian propaganda had 'infected a good chunk of my party’s base.'”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/06/when-top-republican-says-russian-propaganda-has-infected-gop/

JamesBazan, to random
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"I was just following the algorithm" must not function as a defense for crimes against humanity. Of course Israeli military AI would see food delivery as a threat.
Outsourcing murder to AI.

https://wapo.st/3VLLuj2

jeffjarvis, to random
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"I’m looking for people who don’t, before they speak, say, ‘what’s the right answer here?'” We wouldn't want that, would we? How much better to spout the first crap that comes to mind....
Bill Maher to Launch Podcast Network https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/bill-maher-podcast-sage-steele-host-1235860156/ via @thr

JamesBazan,
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@jeffjarvis @thr That geriatric frat boy is still marketing libertarianism as edgy free thinking? My sister used to watch him because he attacked the people she hated. "Listen to him," I said. "He also mocks the values you live for." She did. He does. She dropped him.

mastodonmigration, to random
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"There were problems."

NBC's newly hired GOP party boss uses flagship Sunday news platform to perpetrate the 'big lie.'

https://www.mediaite.com/news/watch-ronna-mcdaniel-insists-there-were-problems-with-the-2020-election-in-trainwreck-soft-launch-of-her-nbc-news-gig/

JamesBazan,
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@mastodonmigration platforming the Big Lie is collaboration. Paying to platform the Big Lie is complicity.

JamesBazan, to random
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The arc of the moral universe doesn't bend towards justice by itself. People have to put their backs to it.

https://wapo.st/3TOrv1F

e_urq, to trans
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England recently banned new prescriptions for puberty blockers for trans youth, pending a study on their efficacy and safety.

Cisgender children with precocious puberty will still be able to access the drug to treat social and emotional issues associated with early puberty.

We decided a primer on what these drugs are, how they work, and what the concerns are about them would be of use.

Mira Lazine has that coverage on Assigned.

https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/puberty-blocker-primer-england-bans-blockers

JamesBazan,
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@e_urq Wait. These drugs are safe and effective to block puberty for cisgender youth, but not safe or effective for transgender youth?

BenCisco, to random
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“Does the Constitution of the USA set the president entirely above the law?” is not a question we should need to ask in court. It’s a question we should know the answer to already.

JamesBazan,
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@BenCisco I'm pretty sure those folks who opted for a Republic over a monarchy had an idea about that.

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