"Then there is this audaciously #undemocratic provision: To be elected to #state office, a candidate must win not only a majority of votes, but also more than half of Texas’s 254 counties...
"Tony Gonzales, the #Republican congressman who represents #Uvalde, where the #MassShooting of 19 #children & two adults took place in 2022, barely won his runoff against a #gun zealot who refers to himself as “The AK Guy,” a reference to his fondness for Kalashnikov assault rifles...
"Lest rank-and-file GOP voters ever again be allowed to override the activists who run the party machinery, the convention approved a new rule preventing any candidate who is censured from appearing on the ballot for two years.
"One #illustration by... John Cuneo rose above the rest, depicting #Trump extending tiny hands toward #handcuffs far too big for them.
“It was a good composition that highlighted the laughably small hands, and the image, while reflecting the past, predicted the future,” Mouly said of the magazine’s latest cover image... titled “A Man of Conviction.” “Even with a conviction for a felony, [will] Trump ever be hampered or constrained?” https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/2024/06/01/political-cartoons-trump-guilty-verdict/
"Steve Breen, the right-leaning #Pulitzer Prize winner for the outlet inewsource, only hit the drawing board once the #conviction was announced.
“I should have had ‘guilty,’ ‘not guilty‘ [and] ‘hung jury’ roughs all ready to go because the story is so huge and consequential, but I didn't,” Breen said. “I think it's #Trump fatigue. How many more ways can he be drawn?”...
"Steve Brodner, drawing for the Nation... His illustration depicts Lady #Justice toting #Trump toward a #prison cell as she says, “Grab him by the law.”
"Nick Anderson, the Pulitzer-winning #cartoonist...
“The fact that #Trump was #guilty on all 34 counts was a pretty devastating statement. I brainstormed for about 10 minutes before I landed upon the idea... I really wanted to capture that we now have a presidential candidate from a major #political party who is a #ConvictedFelon,” Anderson added.
He decided to spell out the word #FELON framing Trump’s face: “I wasn’t sure I could pull it off at first, but it really came together quickly.”"
This is such a great win for the average American.
Why don't the Democrats shout out all the things they do that help average American citizens? The Dems are terrible at campaigning. Sigh....
Also, too many news organizations just don't report on the good things that government does. Sadly, bad news gets more "clicks" than good news. (Thus, the people doing the clicking are at least somewhat responsible for news orgs' focus on negativity. But news orgs ultimately responsible.)
Judd Legum had an account in the #Fediverse@juddlegum with 106K followers (the Fediverse has no algorithm to promote or suppress posts), and instead chose to focus on his account on Threads @realjuddlegum with 77K followers. Now, he complains about the Threads algorithm which is suppressing his posts?
"There is a mini cottage industry of punditry that is forever on the lookout for the merest hint of disrespect toward #conservative voters, particularly #rural & working-class #white ones. But the fact that the #GOP nominee for president approvingly posted a video that declares a large ideological subgroup of #Americans “done” & “gone” if he is elected... appears to have garnered almost no headlines." https://newrepublic.com/article/181973/trump-media-attacks-media-dangerous-turn
"That helps explain how #Republicans have held a majority of seats on the #SupremeCourt for 55 consecutive years despite losing the popular #vote in seven of the last eight presidential elections: The #Republican majority on the Supreme Court interceded in an election to put a Republican loser in the White House where he could appoint two more Republican Supreme Court justices, perpetuating the Republican majority on the Court."
For the Women Who Accused the #Trump Campaign of Harassment, It’s Been More Harassment
Trump is well known for publicly bullying his #political rivals, but the former president’s campaign has also used similar tactics to launch private, relentless attacks against some of its own workers.
"Trump’s campaign used similar #bullying tactics against its own workers. These fights have been waged out of the public eye against #women with few resources to stand up against the campaign’s battery of #lawyers, paid from a seemingly bottomless trove of #campaign#money...
Supporters are giving him money earned with “blood, sweat a& tears,” Denson said. “And it is being turned around to terrorize people.”"
"“when I WIN the Presidency of the #UnitedStates, they and others of the LameStream #Media will be thoroughly scrutinized for their knowingly dishonest & corrupt coverage of people, things, and events,” Donald #Trump posted on Truth Social last September in an attack on NBC News...
What could Trump do to the #news media and its ability to inform the American people?
Judging by what he did in his first term, plenty."
"Dr. King said that in the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. Sadly, medically vulnerable people are under no illusion that the Democrats are any kind of friend. But their silence is surely loud and clear." https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/biden-cdc-silent-as-north-carolina
Looks like @taylorlorenz has succumbed to Murc's Law.
"These journalists seem to believe (perhaps unconsciously) that #Republicans have so little control over their own behavior that they cannot be held accountable for their own actions.
So, instead of blaming Republicans for the political difficulties they cause, they blame #Democrats for failing to control Republicans’ bad behavior."