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LightFIAR, 1 day ago

@gratefuldread In the U$A, democracy has been dead for decades.
This is what Oligarchy looks like.

TopKnot, 1 day ago

@gratefuldread Nikki is a full on cult member now. Congrats on the conversion.

Npars01, 12 days ago

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Trump may not win, but Republican megadonors are shelling out millions to ensure Trump's servile mimics get elected to Congress, despite the public's revulsion for Trump.
https://www.salon.com/2024/05/11/project-2025-targets-2024/

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/leonard-leo-koch-networks-pour-millions-prep-potential-second-trump-ad-rcna144360

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/26/politics/republican-donors-trump-haley-senate/index.html

If the Republicans win the Senate or House, Project 2025 is still a go, even without Trump himself.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/donations-surged-groups-linked-conservative-project-2025-rcna125638

https://michiganadvance.com/2024/01/16/project-2025-if-allowed-will-cement-america-as-a-rightwing-authoritarian-state/

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-plan-for-executions-if-trump-wins_n_663b97a7e4b0bcaefbf76812

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4644552-donald-trump-rnc-gop-mar-a-lago/

1/2

steve_zeke, 17 days ago

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Literally just watched it. Excellent, must-watch interview, especially the beginning when he blasts Kirby for “doing nothing but undermining negotiations” and the end when he’s asked about Biden’s upcoming speech on antisemitism. He urges Biden to “desist” from conflating anti-zionism with antisemitism, because it’s wrong and because it’s anti-Jewish.

steve_zeke, 17 days ago

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Here’s the exact transcript, just up.

AG: Do you consider anti-Zionism antisemitism?

DL: This is one of the most dangerous conflations imaginable. Desist from this now. We will fail in the struggle against antisemitism. We will fail to allow Jewish heterogeneity, which has been part of being Jewish throughout. The idea that one creed can be hegemonic, and anything else is antisemitic, is an affront to Jewish history. Desist from this now, Mr. President.

Sup3rN0va, 18 days ago

@gratefuldread I'm begging people to read The Book Thief AND also learn from it.

space_wrangler, 19 days ago

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Limited government sure seems to hate basic human privacy

lerk, 21 days ago

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Interesting:

"The traditional #chicken industry faces #environment​al challenges that are increasingly hard to ignore. Production is heavily reliant on feed made primarily from corn and soybeans, which demands significant #water resources.

For instance, it takes approximately 1.82 pounds of feed to produce just one pound of chicken. The cultivation of these feed crops is also the largest source of water consumption in the industry."

#vegan

JosephMeyer, 22 days ago

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This program is surely better than what we have in my home city of Austin, Texas where it is police officers who typically respond to mental health crisis calls. I imagine that police officers are involved in the Davidson County response team because persons at meetings to design the Davidson County program expressed worries about the danger to unarmed social workers responding by themselves. On the other hand, some of the same people who express such worries will parrot the popular anti-stigma line that persons in a mental health crisis are typically non-violent. So which one is it? If they present a serious risk of violence then we should acknowledge it and police should be involved. If they rarely pose such a risk, then why are police involved?

In reality, social workers go into all kinds of situations that involve some risk and they decide whether or not to ask for police support. They go into private homes to investigate child and elder abuse; they go to homeless encampments. The first-responders for the CAHOOTS program in Eugene, Oregon respond without police officers and they call for police officers only if they decide they are needed. But they only rarely ask for police to respond. And, a CAHOOTS representative told me during a phone call a few years ago that in the 30 years their program has existed none of their responders have been seriously injured.

Why not include police? Because it increases the risk of bad outcomes due to confrontation with an authority figure who will take over from a clinician if they perceive danger. Specific risks include arrest, incarceration, injury, or death including suicide by cop. In the words of Seth Stoughton, author of a book on police use of force, when police respond at least one gun is introduced to a situation where one may not have previously been present. He goes on to explain that when a gun is unholstered, one hand is occupied with it and unavailable for wrestling with a combative subject. He also explains that one of an officer's greatest fears is having a gun taken away. And he notes that putting a gun back in a holster is difficult in the midst of a crisis.

The news article notes a 25% arrest rate. That seems high to me. Perhaps it happens when a person in a mental health crisis punches or scratches a police officer. Maybe it is because they spit on an officer. Those are reasons why persons in a mental health crisis have been arrested and jailed in Austin, Texas. Perhaps the same is true in Davidson County. I think we can do better. Fathers like me and other family caregivers for persons with serious mental illnesses have been scratched, punched, or spit on during crises. But most of us do not want our children with mental illnesses to be arrested and jailed for actions related to the symptoms of illness. We want them to receive treatment, not become entangled in the criminal justice system.

ralph058, 25 days ago

@gratefuldread The Judge needs to extend the gag order to anything about the trial and to put on notice than anyone helping him post on the subject will be jailed.

blepharon, 25 days ago

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Why?

The article fails to give a credible explanation, having misinterpreted the Truss/Kwarteng economic sabotage.

https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/02/28/a-little-knowledge-of-macroeconomics-is-a-very-useful-thing-if-youre-claiming-to-be-a-social-policy-expert/

#MMT

jesuisgavroche, 26 days ago

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Ils sont les maîtres du monde, et les gouvernements européens sont leurs valets.

auticomics, 26 days ago

@gratefuldread https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2cdDFSWAPQ

That_Damn_Frank, 1 month ago

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Say what now...?

RevPudDudley, 1 month ago

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This story leaves out:

1. scrapping expensive new equipment before 2020 election
2. ripping out mailboxes [try to find one!]
3. ensuring that the fleet remains gas-powered
   ... this shithead should pay billions in damages to USG/taxpayers
   #treason