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Apple removed ICE tracking apps. Way to protect democracy, Tim Cook.
“The Board and the Governor have put their politics over justice and made a mockery of our legal system.”
Yesterday, Governor Greg Abbott issued a full pardon for Daniel Perry, who killed Garrett Foster, a protester at a Black Lives Matter march in 2020. Special Investigative Correspondent @stevanzetti explains all the context the governor ignored: https://www.texasobserver.org/abbott-pardon-daniel-perry-garrett-foster/
#news #politics #USpol #GregAbbott #BlackLivesMatter #protest #GunViolence #Texas
It's worth remembering that the civil war was a slave revolt:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWiM00lCRTE
Slaves started liberating themselves and a few radical white folks decided to help. This challenged the very legitimacy of the state.
The Northern response was to neutralize the threat by killing or allowing the most radical elements to be killed, then compromising with the remaining resistance. The South thought that this strategy wasn't radical enough, so their repose was to increase violence against the oppressed. Because the North wouldn't also increase violence, the South first secedeed so they could increase violence without Northern restriction, then, not believing that to be enough, attacked the North.
The modern US is a synthesis of these two strategies. We saw this immediately after the assassination of Lincoln, with Southern slavers rolling back gains made during the civil war as far as possible. This became the second phase of American slavery, which lasted until WWII. As a reminder, we are in the 3rd phase of American slavery since it remains legal as long as a person can be compelled to admit to a crime.
Every 4 years we get to choose a government that exercises one of these two strategies: eliminate radicals and compromise with moderates, or unrestricted class warfare on the population. The slave revolt was a third option: direct action.
It turns out, direct action gets the goods.
#FaniWillis #wins #primary
Willis now proceeds to November’s general #election, where she will face Courtney Kramer, a Republican lawyer who interned in the #Trump White House.
#FultonCounty DA Fani Willis, who has emerged as a national figure after bringing #criminal charges against Trump, won her Democratic primary on Tues in her first ballot appearance since the inception of the high-profile #ElectionInterference case.
#Atlanta #GApol #USpol #law
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/21/fani-willis-georgia-democratic-primary/
Jimmy Kimmel asked people to post videos to YouTube from cities across the US where Trump is sending National Guard Troops to QUELL INSURECTION, and to tag these videos #ShowMeYourHellhole
Newsletter: Trump is still corrupt, a core developer warns bitcoin won’t survive an upcoming code change, and crypto lenders are ratcheting up leverage like it’s 2022.
new ayn rand just dropped
#argentina #milei #javierMilei #bailout #uspol #aynRand #atlasShrugged #meme #memes #libertarian #libertarians #libertarianism
Donald Trump's administration is walking back about half of a reported 1,000 cuts at the CDC.
"So about 50% of those people are just any moment now about to get notices that say, y'all can come back, actually," MSNBC senior reporter Brandy Zadrozny said on Saturday. "They're going to be rehired, literally.
Chaos and destruction - it's all part of the plan.
https://www.rawstory.com/cdc-layoffs-2674176604/
#UsPol #Health
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That's odd. The UK election is being held on the USA's Independence Day, while the US election is being held on the UK's Guy Fawkes Night.
Don’t know if we can draw anything from that, but it's curious...
With political violence on the rise, the question isn’t whether we can return to some imagined golden age of bipartisanship.
It’s whether we can rebuild the relationships that make democratic governance possible.
My new OpEd: https://thehill.com/opinion/congress-blog/5545432-gingrich-congress-polarization-tactics/ #uspol
I think the one reason why I’m voting enthusiastically for the fuckers facilitating genocide is this: the last fucker tried a coup and wants to get rid of any checks on his power.
I would like to be able to vote again in 2 years. Things can get worse, and they absolutely will get much worse for literally everyone under a Republican administration.
Just signed up for my local Visibility Brigade No Kings Day rally. How are you spending your Saturday?
#USPol #PresidentForSale #Resist #Indivisible #VisibilityBrigade #ICE #Immigration #Fascism #NoKings
"Acclaimed author #OmarElAkkad writes a powerful reflection [on] #WesternHypocrisy over #Gaza in his book, #OneDayEveryoneWillHaveAlwaysBeenAgainstThis. We speak to El Akkad on the immense suffering that has occurred over the past two years of #Israel's genocidal war and examine how #WesternLiberals failed the people of Gaza."
https://omny.fm/shows/the-take/glb-omarelakkad
#Palestine #WarOnGaza #GazaGenocide #USpol #USpolitics #USforeignPolicy #liberalPosturing #NiOubliNiPardon #books @bookstodon
Bizarre how a few professional a-holes can close down a government and just stop paying people..
But ofc those a-holes are still getting paid
The US of A-holes is literally run by paid trolls
The #Portland #FrogBrigade speaks! (now with subtitles!)
"We decided to come support our friend Toad. (aka The #AntiFascistFrog) He's a friend from another pond.
They are calling Portland an explosive fire-ridden sort of warland, which it's not, because we're here."
This would be good for Jimmy Kimmel's show.
#ShowMeYourHellhole
From @OregonLive
@lizzyacker
https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/10/trumps-antifa-roundtable-made-some-wild-claims-about-portland-heres-the-truth-about-7-of-them.html
Edited cover image to highlight the phrase:
"He's a friend from another pond."
#uspol
Michael J. Fox on what made 'Back to the Future' so special: 'standing up to bullies' ☢️ 🎬
"It's just about one thing that's relevant right now: it's about bullies. It's about standing up to bullies. We live in a really bully culture right now. There's something about seeing the little guys stick up to bullies that people love. I think there's also something about time, family & what we mean to each other."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MesGmIiu9I
#BackToTheFuture #MichaelJFox #Movies #USPol #FutureBoy #Books
Yes ofc you should be able to talk to and even yell at politicians
It’s part of the job description and if people can’t handle that.. Don’t go into politics
Politicians are in service of the public, we are your bosses, not the other way around, act like it
There is nothing more un-American than the current fascist regime
Latest comic: What does not belong?
#cartoon #comic #politics #democracy #firstamendment #monarchy #authoritarianism #uspol
You ever think to yourself “but I am just one person, what can I do to make a difference?”
It turns out that “wear an inflatable frog costume and go downtown” is actually a really reasonable answer.
I dislike framing #privilege in racial terms. It reaches those already aware & misses a huge growing reservoir of white privilege... brown people. That the American idea of white has shifted through time says that this is as much cultural as racial.
Being first generation, I know lots of immigrants. Brown people who weren't born with privilege and come into it later in life, can be the worst because we don't realize that we've joined the disenfranchisers.
I'm naturally introspective & may have figured it out eventually, but my wife accelerated the process. She's white, aware, & understood the implications and responsibilities of privilege. It's embarrassing, but at the start of our relationship, I was "whiter" than she was.
Also, the race conflict framing benefits the regime whose supporters are mostly not poor. The ones who are poor won't grasp the sociological implications of something they're not fully enjoying. Those people are potential allies & don't need to understand perfectly to join us.