democracy
"Vindman: Trump has ‘every intention’ to undo American democracy if reelected"
“We might have only one more vote left that really matters,” Vindman said in an interview on MSNBC’s 'The Last Word' with anchor Ali Velshi. “If Trump comes to office, he’s already declared that he intends to be a dictator. The President and the chief executive is invested with broad powers.”
Will Bunch: “It was McConnell’s rank amorality, in a wetlands where everything and everybody—even justices of the Supreme Court—is up for sale, that caused the utter devastation that burned the pathway for a narcissistic dictator.…He’s smart enough to know he doesn’t want to be seen wandering lost among the smoldering wreckage he created. Somewhere in the darkness, this gambler did not break even. It’s time to run.”
#MitchMcConnell #SCOTUS #democracy
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/mitch-mcconnell-destroyed-america-runs-away-20240303.html
“The real positive use case for tech isn’t about detecting what’s fake, but authenticating what’s real.”
From defense to #AI, the benefits and costs of #tech were under a microscope at #SXSW this year, reported Special Investigative Correspondent @stevanzetti yesterday: https://www.texasobserver.org/sxsw-disinformation-artificial-intelligence/
#war #activism #LLM #democracy #misinformation #disinformation #news #politics #USpol #Texas #Austin
MSNBC:
Liz Cheney urges the Supreme Court to stop aiding Donald Trump’s delay tactics
"I think it’s very important that the Supreme Court realizes, that what he's doing, is a delaying tactic...
It cannot be the case that a President of the United States can attempt to overturn an election and seize power, and that our justice system is incapable of holding a trial, and holding him to account before the next election."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHMiPAjaVtU
This week's comic: What can we do about a Supreme Court packed with corrupt extremists?
#supremecourt #scotus #democracy #law #abortion #cartoon #comic
"The facts involving Trump are crystal clear, and as news people, we cannot pretend otherwise, as unpopular as that might be with a segment of our readers. There aren’t two sides to facts. People who say the earth is flat don’t get space on our platforms. If that offends them, so be it."
~ Chris Quinn, editor of Cleveland's Plain Dealer
Lisa Needham notes that Republicans pushing Project 2025 are now out and proud about their plan to make Trump president for life:
"Republicans want to permanently enshrine their minority policies into law despite the fact that what they want is broadly unpopular. … Project 25 is all about enacting minority rule in America immediately upon Trump’s election."
#Trump #Republicans #authoritarianism #democracy #Project2025 #MinorityRule
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/project-2025-trump-president-for-life
If you think that during a DJT presidency you’ll have the right to protest against policies you disagree with, you’re sadly mistaken.
The whim of the man in power will reign over all.
Over your rights.
Over your opinions.
Over everything.
That’s authoritarianism.
#politics #democracy #authoritarianism ianism
209 Electoral College votes down, 61 to go to ditch the EC without amending the Constitution. It'd be nice to live in a real #democracy !
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/17/headlines/maine_joins_national_popular_vote_compact
"America’s mainstream news media and its pundits have, for the most part, actively avoided the ethical and moral dimensions of the country’s #democracy crisis and the Age of #Trump." https://www.salon.com/2024/04/19/first-criminal-trial-is-a-test-run/
Raw Story:
Internet melts down as Trump identified as 'unindicted co-conspirator' in Arizona filing
Trump's own niece, Mary Trump, had this to say about the news from Arizona:
"Good. Now indict the unindicted."
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-unindicted-arizona/
An investigation found 36 Facebook groups posing as separate grassroots movements opposing the expansion of London's ultra-low emission zone schemes to reduce air pollution. They were set up by the Conservatives as part of a coordinated political campaign.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/27/tory-staff-running-network-of-anti-ulez-facebook-groups-riddled-with-racism-and-abuse
#airpollution #london #ukpolitics #democracy
Don Harwood responds to New York Times editor Joseph Kahn, who says that the attack on democracy represented by Trump is not the premier campaign issue:
"Donald Trump is the first American presidential candidate to explicitly threaten the democratic system on which a free press depends. He could win. Considering the stakes for the country, that ought to be the campaign issue that dwarfs all others."
In yet another bad sign for #democracy:
#Netanyahu has essentially banned #FreePress in #Israel. His cabinet *voted* to kick #AlJazeera out of Israel says its #journalists are threats to #NationalSecurity.
I guess the pen truly is mightier than the sword & all that.
#Gaza #Palestinians #Authoritarianism
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-cabinet-moves-close-al-jazeeras-local-operations-2024-05-05/
Any Texan, in particular, can cast propaganda aside and simply look around to see that our state is built, maintained, and improved every day by unauthorized workers.
In our magazine, Interim Editor-in-Chief @gusbova asks why #Democrats keep flip-flopping on an issue at the heart of the American experiment. https://www.texasobserver.org/border-immigration-cowardice-democrats-biden-allred/
#immigration #border #MayDay #Texas #WorkersRights #democracy #Biden
A new report revealed #Trump’s disturbing penchant for #executing his #political enemies. His response is somehow even worse.
Fmr Trump comms dir #AlyssaFarahGriffin revealed that Trump called for the #execution of a staffer on several occasions during his time in the WH—& the disturbing news (& Trump’s even more troubling reaction) is already fading from headlines.
#law #democracy #VoteBlue #BidenHarris2024
https://newrepublic.com/post/182791/trump-execution-threats
As Heather Cox Richardson reports, the Supreme Court just signed off on a South Carolina congressional map that dilutes Black votes by gerrymandering.
And Samuel Alito wrote the majority opinion. She writes,
"Almost exactly 70 years after the Supreme Court unanimously decided Brown v. Board, it appears that the framed timbers designed to reverse the expansion of minority rights are falling into place."
#ElonMusk Ramps Up Anti-Biden Posts
The #billionaire has increasingly been using his #SocialMedia platform to criticize #POTUS #Biden.
“He is just a tragic front for a far left political machine,” #Musk wrote. It was the 29th time this year that he had posted about the president….
#power #influence #TaxCutsForTheWealthy #CorporateTaxCuts #gaslighting #propaganda #BigLie #democracy #VoteBlue #BidenHarris2024
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/24/technology/elon-musk-x-biden.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
Indian voters reject Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision for a one-party state in win for competitive democracy.
CNN reports: "In what opposition parties have declared as a victory for pluralism, voters in the world’s largest democracy partially rejected Modi’s populist vision for a Hindu-first nation, reducing the BJP’s share of the vote by 63 seats – bringing its total down to 240, far below the 272 required for a parliamentary majority."
Wallace on MSBNC: “Trump unhinged, rambling, incoherent after teleprompter fails at rally…
Trump is, of course, a convicted felon. His worldview is devoid of facts and untethered to reality. He offers no vision for the future and instead rants and rambles about sharks, electric boats, windmills, & toilets. He constantly lies about the border, even though he was the person who killed the bipartisan border deal. He lies 1/2
R/t Biden- Harris HQ
'Georgia Is Our Laboratory': Inside Trump's Plan to Rig 2024
Team #Trump sees #Georgia as 'a road map' for putting Trump's heads-I-win-tails-you-lose philosophy of #elections into practice
The Peach State is unique—it's the sole battleground state in which the #Republican Party has total #control over the levers of #power: a trifecta in state #House, #Senate, & governorship
#ElectionLaw #ElectionInterference #law #democracy #BidenHarris2024
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-georgia-laboratory-rig-2024-1235034510/
More #Trump allies, including #MarkMeadows, plead not guilty in #Arizona
The fmr White House chief of staff — along w/ #MikeRoman, who worked on Trump’s 2020 campaign — pleaded not guilty to charges stemming from their alleged efforts to try to subvert Joe Biden’s win.
#law #democracy #TrumpCoupAttempt #insurrection #BidenHarris2024
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/06/07/arizona-mark-meadows-mike-roman/
#Trump plans to claim sweeping #authority over #federal #spending
In a 2nd term, Trump will look at unilateral funding cuts for the #WHO & #green #energy initiatives.
He is vowing to wrest key spending powers from #Congress & to assert more control over the federal #budget than any president in #US #history.
#law #Constitution #SCOTUS #power #government #extortion #EconomicPolicy #MafiaState #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny #democracy #BidenHarris2024
https://wapo.st/3XekhX4