#LizCheney says she’ll vote for #KamalaHarris
‘I don’t believe we have the luxury of writing in candidates’ names,’ the fmr #GOP House [& #powerhouse] member said.
Cheney, an ex-#Republican member of #Congress from #Wyoming & daughter of fmr VP #DickCheney, announced her backing of current MVP #Harris while speaking at Duke on Wed.
#HarrisWalz2024
https://19thnews.org/2024/09/liz-cheney-kamala-harris/
A former Pence adviser said Trump had 4 years to help Afghan allies leave the country but Stephen Miller's 'racist hysteria' blocked it from happening 21-AUG-2021 https://www.businessinsider.com/stephen-miller-racist-hysteria-blocked-help-afghans-ex-pence-adviser-2021-8
#StephenMiller #PeeWeeGerman #TrumpNazis #WhiteSupremacy #Racism #GOP #TrumpAppointees
#MikeJohnson’s next steps on #GovernmentFunding fight could determine whether he gets to keep his job as #House #Speaker.
w/the #election & a #government #funding deadline around the corner, the speaker must find a way to govern, avoid a #shutdown that could cost his members in swing districts [& the country, not that the #GOP cares] & keep #Trump & #FarRight #HouseRepublicans happy enough to not imperil his own #political future.
#IssuesNotSolutions #PublicDisservice
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/12/politics/mike-johnson-next-steps-government-funding-fight/index.html
Interview: Maya Berry faced racist & hostile questioning from Republicans at a hate crime hearing, incl Sen. John Kennedy, who told her, “You should hide your head in a bag.”
"The experience illustrated the very problem of dehumanization the hearing was meant to address.
"That kind of bigotry & hatred is difficult to hear from anyone, but to actually experience from a sitting member was pretty extraordinary.”
~Maya Berry
As the #AntiAbortion movement grows increasingly frustrated w/ #Trump, they are turning to his No. 2, Sen #JDVance, for help.
Trump’s criticism of 6-week #AbortionBans, his support for #IVF (w/a #weird promise to make IVF coverage free), & his public stance that #abortion is now a settled issue left to the states have made some anti-abortion advocates urge their followers not to vote for the #GOP ticket.
#ReproductiveRights #AbortionIsHealthcare #VoteBlue #HarrisWalz2024
https://www.notus.org/2024-election/anti-abortion-jd-vance-trump
To be fair, she is more mature.
"Donald Trump Says He ‘Hates' Taylor Swift. She Hasn't Mentioned His Name."
"The pop star has focused her messaging on encouraging fans to register to vote -- and hasn't attacked him personally."
#GOP #Republicans #Trump #TaylorSwift #Swifties #Harris #Election
First Trump assassin: Bullied, seemingly apolitical Republican kid looking to go out with a bang.
Second Trump assassin: Ramaswamy/ Haley supporter, Trump-Biden “double hater” and possible Never Trump Republican whose motive is yet unknown.
"Trump Immediately Tried To Fundraise Off Of Possible 2nd Assassination Attempt"
"After shots were fired in his vicinity, Donald Trump sent out a fundraising email looking for cash."
BECAUSE, OF COURSE THEY DID. 🤬
#NorthCarolina's State Board of Elections… acting on "complaints" from the #GOP… has removed 747,000 #voters from the voter roles on the grounds they are "ineligible" to vote (when the voters don't support you, don't bother trying to win them over, just stop them from voting.) 😒
And all it takes to get you scrubbed from the voter rolls is to MOVE WITHIN THE STATE TO A DIFFERENT PRECINCT.
Check your voter registration if you live in NC.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4901476-north-carolina-purges-747k-voters/
FEMA’s repeatedly told Congress since the beginning of 2023 that its Disaster Relief Fund was inadequate but the House GOP’s budgetary hostage-taking has locked those levels in.
And they’ve been saying they couldn’t get through this hurricane season since June.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/mayorkas-warns-fema-doesnt-enough-223947234.html
#NASA Administrator Bill #Nelson on Friday called for an investigation into a Wall Street Journal report that #SpaceX founder and Donald #Trump ally Elon #Musk and Russian President Vladimir #Putin have been in “regular contact” since late 2022.
The report raises national security concerns as SpaceX’s relationships with NASA and the #US military may have granted Musk access to sensitive government information and US intelligence.
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/10/25/politics/elon-musk-vladimir-putin/index.html
Lately I've been thinking about how the #Republican party has evolved over the last decade or so as viewed through the lens of the games that major voices in the party play.
Previous generations of #GOP speakers were proudly golfers, but lately major voices are football fans. You can hear them make that shift from talking about golf to talking about football.
Well, over the years Republicans have made this marked shift from looking to work together and build consensus to just looking to fight their opponents. And it strikes me that that's also a difference between golf and football.
The new generation of conservative speakers don't understand the realities of political systems where they have to work with others, convince others, to get things done. It's as if they are projecting philosophies from football on to their politics in ways that didn't happen previously.
And that's a shame for us all. That's how you get #Trump... and #Harris.
“It strains credulity that this was a simple mistake,” the group wrote. “Tom Barrett and his Campaign placed two nearly identical ads in two different newspapers within a week of each other. The ad placed in the newspaper read predominantly by Black voters has the wrong election date; while the ad placed in the newspaper not read predominantly by Black voters has the correct election date.”
#votersuppression #racism #gop #Election2024
https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2024/10/14/tom-barrett-michigan-election-misleading-ad/
As a trans woman, I often find myself struggling to properly articulate the real purpose of modern Pig Empire fascism's eliminationist campaign against trans people and anyone else who doesn't fit into the heteronormative binary on which their fragile, but wholly malevolent and dominance based conception of masculinity rests.
On one hand it would be a gross misrepresentation to say that fascists, the political actors driving their movements, and the rich people paying for modern nazism don't really hate trans people and wish to eradicate the public existence of trans identities, because they absolutely do. On the other hand however it would also be a grave mistake to forget that these people foundationally "use the whole cow" and their pogrom against the existence of trans people is also intentionally acting as a type of skeleton key to justify and facilitate a larger eliminationist agenda that revolves around purging their political enemies, removing civil rights and buttressing support for important ideological planks in the fascist platform - like violent nationalism, colonial extraction, white supremacy, eugenicist ableism, patriarchal dominance and so forth.
Indeed, while the fascists certainly do hate trans people and any sort of gender nonconformity, their decision to make anti-trans hate the tip of the fascist spear in a war for control pretty much comes down to the fact that trans people aren't particular numerous, visible, or empowered in our society, which itself has been mainlining normalized transphobic ideology for decades. It's much easier to convince people to hate folks they don't know in everyday life, and the pre-existing marginalization of trans people ensures that these pogroms can be abstract and ideological in a way that greases the path for violent eliminationism more effectively. We are, to put it succinctly, an easy gateway target for fascist repression that in turn can be used to expand the sphere of fascist influence and allow for the elimination of much larger portions of the population down the line by repurposing the justifications for repressions of trans people in a very "first they came for" sort of way.
While all of this is difficult to explain to folks not directly in the fascist crosshairs at any given moment, it's not all that hard to see this principle in action when empowered fascists are able to exercise control over our laws and state structures. Which is why I was utterly unsurprised to learn that American fascists in governments all over the United States are now using their actualized anti-trans pogrom to push a eugenicist agenda designed to target the rights, protections, and threadbare support programs for disabled Americans pretty much anywhere they control the government.
Suit Over Gender Dysphoria Could Dismantle New Disability Rules
"But gender dysphoria is just part of the 130-page federal rule. It also protects disabled parents’ rights in child welfare cases and prevents hospitals from using disability as a factor in determining who gets care in crisis situations, such as equipment shortages during a pandemic. It adds Long Covid to the list of conditions that may constitute a disability and strengthens protections against unnecessary institutionalization, requiring that care be offered in the least restrictive setting and, ideally, in a patient’s community.
Striking down the entire rule would have wide-reaching implications for all disabled Americans and other marginalized groups who rely on federal agencies’ interpretations of decades-old laws to enforce their rights, says Mia Ives-Rublee, senior director of the Center for American Progress’ Disability Justice Initiative. “They’re utilizing LGBTQ issues as a wedge,” Ives-Rublee says. “The attack is really about the regulatory process of the federal government, and this will impact almost every interaction that a disabled person has with the services and supports that they receive.”
As I've written many times in the past, fascism isn't ultimately a violent chud rush similar to what we say during the January 6th 2021 coup (or autogolpe if you prefer) attempt by Trump supporters, so much as a legalist doctrine enforced by empowered nazis and the state at their disposal; a sort of violent game of "Simon Says" with prison camps and pogroms. The use of politically activated anti-trans sentiment to eliminate protections for disabled people isn't a bug in the fascist program but rather an intended feature; and it certainly won't be the last legalist application of fascist ideology if this movement continues to accumulate power in our society. Cis people should of course oppose the fascist anti-trans pogrom in action because it's the right thing to do, but also because you can bet your bottom dollar that it won't, and isn't stopping after they drive trans people out of public life - you and yours may well be next.
#TransRights #Fascism #Ableism #Pogrom #USPol #GOP #Eugenics
How #Tech #Billionaires Became the #GOP’s New Donor Class
#ElonMusk & a group of #SiliconValley allies have built a shadow campaign to put #Trump back in office.
Last Feb, the #billionaire financier #NelsonPeltz summoned a group of about 20 wealthy, predominantly #Republican donors & a handful of GOP strategists to dinner at his $334 million waterfront estate in Palm Beach, FL.
#Kleptocracy #RulingClass
#HarrisWalz2024
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/18/magazine/trump-donors-silicon-valley.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Nature editorial: World needs U.S. president who respects evidence
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03417-y
*science, evidence-based policy threatened
* need society that creates jobs, promotes health, advances science
* solutions for world’s problems come only f. shared, accurate understanding of reality
Nature readers: U.S. election monumental for science
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03479-y
#politics #PostTruthism #GOP #MAGA #conservatism #billionaires
Comment (image): I have long advocated the same issues/solutions
More than a 1,000 bills were filed by legislators on the unofficial start of the #TxLege which ironically was the day before #TransVisibilityWeek. Ironically because #GOP politicians are trying to make good on their promise to eradicate trans folks. They have filed bills to:
— ban the use of taxpayer resources for “gender reassignment” including adults HB 847
— inform parents if their child’s perception of their biological sex is “inconsistent” with their “sex organs, chromosomes and...
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She Supports Trump’s Anti-Immigration Policies. #Texas Incorrectly Flagged Her as a “Noncitizen” on Its #Voting Rolls.
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Mary Howard-Elley is the 10th U.S. citizen identified by ProPublica, The Texas Tribune and Votebeat whose registration was canceled after her #citizenship was questioned. Her saga shows how tough it can be for eligible #voters to get reinstated.
#News #Election2024 #Politics #GOP #Republicans #Government #Immigration
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-noncitizen-voter-roll-removal-mary-howard-elley
Tell The People with Sunny & W1: Companies That Donated To Trump and Project 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz6lHO4ezy8
#gop #magat #Election2024 #Project2025 #Boycott
Auto Zone, ACE Hardware, Allegiant Air, Arby's, ArmorAll, Ashley Furniture, Bali Underwear, Bausch + Lomb, Big Heart Pet Brands, Bike Athletics, Molson Beer, Coors Beer, Brooks shoes, Buffalo Bills, Buffalo Wild Wings, Buick Cadilac, Carls Jr., Champ Clothing, Hanes, Cheverolet, Cinnabon
Cincinatti Financial, Conair, Cuisinart,
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I swear to God she ought to just pee on the floor in Congress if they ban her from the bathroom. #transrights
What horrible people the #GOP are. "Oh trans population is only a couple percent." yeah, well that's what Germany said about Jews.
"Harris goes to church while Trump muses about reporters being shot"
"Donald Trump is asking voters in Pennsylvania again to make him leader of a 'failed nation.' Kamala Harris countered from a Michigan church pulpit that God offers America a 'divine plan strong enough to heal division.'”
Comment: MAGA has failed, not the USA. He's projecting the downfall of his empire onto the whole nation.
#GOP #Trump #MAGA #Harris #God #Michigan #church #Christianity #Jesus #press
A #Reminder from #FerrisBuellersDayOff to #TeamTrump and the rest of #GOP how that works
