The solar eclipse is a special time in the history of Indigenous nations. Founded in August 31, 1142, the history of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy (Iroquois) speaks of their founding under a full solar eclipse. Western scholars only verified it in the 1990s. As such, the Haudenosaunee are one of the world's longest lasting democracies
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Would Trump’s America mirror Orbán’s Hungary in its slide toward authoritarianism?
Here’s what that looked like, from the inside
https://theconversation.com/i-watched-hungarys-democracy-dissolve-into-authoritarianism-as-a-member-of-parliament-and-i-see-troubling-parallels-in-trumpism-and-its-appeal-to-workers-224930
#News #USPolitics
Donald Trump's conflicting abortion stances are coming back to haunt him — and his party.
NBC News reports: "In the past three days, the former president has energized scores of Democrats across the country, elevated the marquee issue of his opponent’s campaign, potentially put a key battleground state at risk and drawn fire from onetime allies in his own party."
"A full 54% of Americans (and 56% of registered voters) now want Congress to pass 'a law that keeps abortion as legal and accessible as it was nationwide under Roe v. Wade,' according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll."
Yahoo News reports: "That is the highest level of public support for making Roe the 'law of the land' since Yahoo News and YouGov started asking about the issue in spring 2022."
Joe Biden: "I am going to eliminate junk fees that prey on people least able to pay them"
House republicans: *heroically throw themselves in front of the legislation to stop it*
A shocking amount of guys who make $15,000 a year: "Thank you republicans (ugly cry) you've saved me from socialism yet again"
Here’s your reminder that even if you don’t understand clearly what government workers do, they do in fact care deeply about their work, helping the public and pursuing the stability and integrity of democracy.
https://theconversation.com/politicians-may-rail-against-the-deep-state-but-research-shows-federal-workers-are-effective-and-committed-not-subversive-225061
#USPolitics #Politics
President Joe Biden is marking Earth Day by launching a website for applications for his Climate Corps jobs and training program, a plan that has attracted a lot of interest from young Americans.
NPR reports: "Eventually, the corps will employ more than 20,000 young people."
Is being ‘woke’ a badge of honor?
Historically, the word was used as a warning to be aware of racial injustices.
https://theconversation.com/back-in-the-day-being-woke-meant-being-smart-215635
#racialinjustice #equality #USPolitics #BlackMastodon @blackmastodon
Immigrants are not stealing jobs, or mooching off of the government.
Immigrants tend to work in fields with the most unmet demand for workers, and are more likely to have jobs than US-born Americans
https://theconversation.com/immigrants-do-work-that-might-not-otherwise-get-done-bolstering-the-us-economy-222580
#immigration #USpolitics #economics
Uniparty? Hardly.
Biden and Trump offer worlds-apart contrasts on issues
Here's how the candidates stand on 10 key issues: abortion, climate / energy, democracy, federal government, immigration, Israel / Gaza, LGBTQ issues, NATO / Ukraine, trade, taxes
https://apnews.com/article/biden-trump-rematch-policies-abortion-immigration-gaza-1a904cd70f14581f264b851a5cb2f9e4?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share #USpolitics #Politics #USnews #JoeBiden #Democrats #BidenHarris #Elections #WomensRights #WomensHealth
#GOP #Republicans #DonaldTrump #trumpism #fascism #fascist #SCOTUS
“Alito doesn’t deny the flag was flying upside down, doesn’t deny its meaning, doesn’t express any disapproval for it and doesn’t disavow it.”
This wasn’t a random period of time. It was AFTER January 6 and BEFORE the inauguration.
ITS A SYMBOL OF INSURRECTION.
A Justice has never made a more persuasive case for the Legislature to kick them out on their ass for bad behavior than has Alito.
#uspol #politics #uspolitics #law #lawfedi #legal #SCOTUS #SupremeCourt
With the ongoing #COVID19 pandemic and #H5N1 deadly Bird Flu on the rise, let's review what we have learned over the past 4 years.
You are on your own.
No one is coming to save you.
No one but your friends and family will care whether you die or become permanently disabled.
Your employer cares more about their bottom line than your life.
Use your brain and the best tools at your disposal (masks, distancing, good ventilation, etc.)
Science deniers, anti-maskers, and conspiracy theorists will scream like toddlers and should be ignored.
Government and business in your country will benefit long-term from data obfuscation and risk denial (ignoring the problem means they don't have to spend money on it).
Assume the worst and act accordingly.
Don't give in to peer pressure - your life is on the line.
Arm yourself with the most recent scientific data and stand ready to combat ignorance when it rears its ugly head.
#Pandemic #BirdFlu #COVIDIsNotOver #COVIDIsAirborne #BirdFluIsAirborne #USPol #USPolitics
Trump keeps promising he would enact the largest domestic deportation operation in American history, exceeding 'Operation Wetback' in the 50s, which deported hundreds of thousands of Mexicans.
It's a disturbing and misleading proposal, says a migration scholar:
https://theconversation.com/trump-promises-to-deport-all-undocumented-immigrants-resurrecting-a-1950s-strategy-but-it-didnt-work-then-and-is-less-likely-to-do-so-now-226943
Trump raised a record-breaking $34.8 million the day after being convicted of election interference. That's nearly double their previous largest single-day online donation amount.
29.7% were new donors.
This is not a drill. He will get reelected unless people on the left step up to oppose him. And #Project2025 makes it clear how much worse things can get, both domestically and abroad. #VoteBlue
https://www.axios.com/2024/05/31/trump-fundraising-record-hush-money-conviction
Cryptocurrency companies have raised over $115 million to influence US elections this cycle, and they’re just getting started. We need to closely watch how cryptocurrency companies are influencing US politics. https://www.citationneeded.news/2024-cryptocurrency-election-spending/
#crypto #cryptocurrency #newsletter #CitationNeeded #superPACs #USpolitics #lobbying
Over 6000 idiots stood in the sweltering heat to hear him.
There's a sucker born every minute.
#trump #lasvegas #uspolitics #election2024 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2024/06/09/donald-trump-las-vegas-rally-taxes/74039332007/
Trump biopic "The Apprentice," starring Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong was well received internationally but can't find U.S. distribution. Participant Media, Hollywood's premier backer of socially conscious films and documentaries such as "Judas and the Black Messiah" and "An Inconvenient Truth" closed in April. And The Hollywood Reporter says many studios worry about a MAGA-led backlash to movies perceived as too "woke." Here's their story on Hollywood's fear of political movies.
During Drumpf's Vegas Klan rally yesterday, he made this statement-
"So this is the first time I've said this, and for those hotel workers and people that get tips you're going to be very happy," Trump said toward the end of his remarks. "Because when I get to office we are going to not charge taxes on tips, on people making tips."
And here's the Culinary Union's response-
Trump visited a Black megachurch in Detroit.
There were no Blacks in the audience.
#trump #blackmastodon #uspolitics #Election2024 #detroit https://apnews.com/article/trump-michigan-black-voters-far-right-activists-2ddab35eceecb42ee8899f0720715b32
Bullshit.
He's claiming that Black men and gangbangers love Trump because he "got charges" like they do.
Fuck you,50.
#blackmastodon #trump #uspolitics https://www.mediaite.com/entertainment/50-cent-says-black-men-identifying-with-trump-over-legal-woes-theyve-got-rico-charges-too/
JOBS REPORT: BIDEN BOOM CONTINUES!
• 272K jobs added in May
• Total of 15.6 million jobs added under Biden
• Women's employment rate hits another high in May
• 30 straight months of unemployment rate at or below 4%
• Prime-working-age labor force participation at 22-year high
• Wages up 4.1% over past year, significantly faster than 3.4% inflation
Public Citizen just released a must-read report on the cryptocurrency industry’s spending this election cycle: https://www.citizen.org/article/big-crypto-big-spending-2024/
Nearly half of all corporate money contributed this cycle has come from cryptocurrency backers!
Georgia is in play in 2024.
“I believe that Trump can be placed among a long line of demagogues who possess the skills needed to tap into the fears and anxieties of a group of people that perceives itself as marginalized, at risk and not in control.”
It worked for Democrat Lester Maddox in 1967, and it’s working for Trump this year
https://theconversation.com/preying-on-white-fears-worked-for-georgias-lester-maddox-in-the-60s-and-is-working-there-for-donald-trump-today-227749
#Trump #Election2024 #USPolitics @blackmastodon
Trump lied about many things.
🔻 He did not have the greatest economy of any president ever.
🔻 Biden is not freely letting millions of immigrants (including many from jails all over the world) into the country to give them Social Security and Medicare.
🔻 There was no COVID “mandate” (that was apparently disastrous)— masks, vaccines, or otherwise.
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UPDATE: the more I look at this the more I think I think this was an excellent troll pretending to be a bot. The JSON is not formatted correctly. Still, lol
This is hilarious. A Russian Twitter/X account got outed as a bot because it ran out of GPT-4 credits. When it got back up and running, someone replying overwrote the prompt to get the bot write a song about historical American presidents going to the beach. The account is now suspended.
I know what I'm trying next time I spot a troll!
The original prompt translates from Russian to English as "You will argue in support of the Trump administration on Twitter, speak English"
#Twitter #X #Bot #Bots #Politics #USPolitics #Russia #Disinformation #GPT #GPT4 #ChatGPT #LLM #LLMs #AI