jeffowski, 7 months ago to random

ProPublica, 7 months ago to Idaho

#Idaho Banned #Abortion. Then It Turned Down Supports for Pregnancies and Births.

Since the #SupremeCourt overturned Roe v. Wade last year, the state’s GOP-led Legislature has disbanded a maternal mortality committee, failed to expand postpartum #Medicaid coverage and turned down federal grants for child care.

#Health #Healthcare #Pregnancy #Parents #Babies #Birth #News

https://www.propublica.org/article/idaho-banned-abortion-support-pregnancies-families?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

GottaLaff, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

When does he NOT look “glum”?

Via Adam Klasfeld:

#Trump enters the courtroom for the start of his $250M civil fraud trial.

He's flanked by his lawyers, looking glum, and taking slow, deliberate steps before sitting at the defense table. 1/…

georgetakei, 7 months ago to random

It’s finally clear as day. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has announced he will run as an independent for president. He’s backed by GOP funders, and his goal is to peel away Democratic voters from Biden. Don’t be fooled by shiny third party traps. To stop Trump, we need to unite behind Biden. A vote for anyone else is a vote for Trump.

Green_Footballs, 7 months ago to random

The Republican Party tried to kill our aid to Ukraine when they need it most, as Russia prepares for a massive winter assault.

That’s what we should be focusing on, not a false fire alarm in the House. A large faction of the GOP is a literal fifth column in the US government.

rbreich, 8 months ago to random

This is how our government has been corrupted:

1. Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office.

2. Elected officials rewrite the rules in the donors' favor.

3. Donors make a huge profit.

4. Repeat.

For the sake of democracy, we must get Big Money out of politics.

pbump, 8 months ago to random

Since 1998, only 0.05% of gun background checks have been denied due to the purchaser's drug use. Only 0.03% have been denied because the purchaser was under indictment.
But outlier cases like those are now part of the 2024 presidential discussion.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/26/gun-laws-become-2024-issue-an-unexpected-way/

futurebird, 8 months ago to random

Americans are supposed to be the leaders in frivolous kitchen gadgets but these hilarious (tempting?) single egg poachers are only sold in the UK& Germany. (there are multi-egg devices sold for the US but they don’t even have temperature regulation or automatic power off and that defeats the whole purpose of the device, if you have to monitor it might as well boil)

Just generally most US appliances are designed to make way too much food.

What is your strangest useful kitchen gadget?

DeanObeidallah, 8 months ago to random

"Trump Lashes Out at ‘Liberal Jews Who Voted to Destroy America’ by Not Supporting Him." If you don't think Trump and MAGA come for the Jews if he wins you simply don't know anything about FASCIST movements. He is already framing as Jews who don't support Trump are the enemy. https://www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-lashes-out-at-liberal-jews-who-voted-to-destroy-america-by-not-supporting-him/

thepoliticalcat, 8 months ago to random

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Dahlialith, 8 months ago to random

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/09/mitt-romney-hero-coward-trump.html

StillIRise1963, 8 months ago to random

It's hard to say whether your children will survive climate change, since nothing is being done about it.

pbump, 8 months ago to random

New polling shows that Biden and Trump are seen as near-equally corrupt and mentally unfit for the presidency. Partisanship flattens everything. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/15/biden-trump-polling-2024/

mcfly, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random German

After having looked at a lot of alt-right material on social and meme media bein promoted in the last year i am sure that this is not random but well orchestrated.

I am looking for material on how the alt-right propaganda is produced and how it works.

Does anyone here have anything on that?

Especially interesting would be good docuemtation how its produced including ideally proof of the sources.

I am rather sure there are people being paid to create media and memes promoting alt-right and decompose media opposing that. I am sure People being paid to write tooling there.

This is not a bunch of incels, this is orchestrated software doing the job there.

RT for more reach welcome

marcelias, 8 months ago to random

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petergleick, 8 months ago to random

Proof that the CEO of Twitter/X doesn't actually USE Twitter/X.

georgetakei, 8 months ago to random

As Jim Jordan tries to inserts his committee improperly into state prosecutions once again, a reminder of why he is even in Congress in the first place. This is his district in Ohio. One of the most gerrymandered in the nation.

w7voa, 8 months ago to Starlink

CNN: Elon Musk secretly ordered engineers to turn off his company’s #Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast last year to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack on the Russian naval fleet, according to an excerpt from a new biography. https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/07/politics/elon-musk-biography-walter-isaacson-ukraine-starlink/index.html

StillIRise1963, 9 months ago to random

"Because the truth be told, White supremacy is not a mental health issue," Jones said on the House floor. "It is about terrorism, and the shooting that happened in Jacksonville, Florida, was not quote-unquote racially motivated. It was racial terrorism, and until we acknowledge that fact, until we act on that fact, it will continue to happen."

'White supremacy is not a mental health issue': Justin Jones scolds GOP after Jacksonville shooting

https://www.rawstory.com/justin-jones-white-supremacy/

georgetakei, 9 months ago to random

In the same month, unemployment dropped to 3.5%, and consumer confidence jumped to the highest level in two years. A strong recovery thanks to Biden's policies. Can a strong economy be the game-changer in 2024? This and other factors may define the election in 2024. https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/biden-2024-trump-election-strong

vagina_museum, 9 months ago to random

This week, it was announced that the first successful uterus transplant in the UK has been performed. Let's talk about the past, present and future of uterus transplants!

anneapplebaum, 9 months ago to random

If the Republican Party responds to the Trump indictment solely by attacking courts and judges, and if its leaders continue to work to de-legitimize the legal system, I am not sure how we recover.

For a precedent, Americans don't even have to look beyond our hemisphere: Venezuela is an excellent example of state that slid into autocracy while an elected president repeatedly assaulted judges.

jsrailton, 9 months ago to random

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