Here's more from today's debacle in Atlanta.
(No paywall)
#blackmastodon #trump #atlanta #uspolitics #Election2024 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-black-voters-mug-shot_n_667d0447e4b017bda37badbe
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U.S. Supreme Court rules in favor of the Biden administration in case about false info on social media.
NBC News reports: "In reaching its conclusion, the court overturned an injunction that would have limited contacts between government officials and social media companies on a wide range of issues if allowed to go into effect."
For more stories about the U.S. judicial system, follow @the-courts-ElectionCentral
#SupremeCourt #FreeSpeech #SocialMedia #Misinformation #USPolitics #Biden #Politics #News
The cryptocurrency industry Super PAC Fairshake is now #1 out of all Super PACs by total funds raised.
They've raised more than $175 million to influence upcoming elections in the US, and have more than $100 million of it still waiting to deploy.
Trump spokesman bragging yet again about how he is getting "support among Black and Hispanic men..."
Alas,sneakers and some out-of-work no-name rappers and has-been Philly Soul acts does NOT bring in more "support" in the Black and Brown community.
#trump #philadelphia #blackmastodon #latinomastodon #uspolitics #Election2024 https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/decision-2024/rep-senate-candidate-dave-mccormick-expected-to-join-former-donald-trump-at-rally-in-philly/3890146/
Economy when Reagan-Bush ran Morning in America reelection ad:
• Inflation 4.3%; Unemployment 7.3%
Economy today under Biden-Harris Great American Comeback:
• Inflation 2.9%; Unemployment 4.3%
BANNON JAILED MONDAY!
Steve Bannon must report to prison by Monday after Supreme Court rejects last-minute appeal
Bannon, a former Trump adviser, was convicted of contempt of Congress in July 2022 for defying subpoenas from the House Jan. 6 committee and sentenced to four months.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Trump #BreakingNews #Breaking
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Newsletter: The crypto industry jumps on the Trump train, and other recent events in the crypto world.
https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-60/
#newsletter #cryptocurrency #crypto #CitationNeeded #USPolitics
The Democratic National Convention kicks off in Chicago today, culminating in Vice President Kamala Harris' speech on Thursday. CNN suggests what to watch for: https://flip.it/RakXPL
Are you planning to watch any parts of the convention? Let us know your reasons by replying.
#DNC #Democrats #USPolitics #KamalaHarris #Harris #Biden #Politics #Chicago
Options: (choose one)
How will recent Supreme Court decisions affect the crypto world? Also, more absurdity from the crypto lobby, and some new regulatory actions. Catch up in my latest newsletter: https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-61/
#crypto #cryptocurrency #CitationNeeded #newsletter #USpolitics
When I write about the fact that mainstream American society, and in particular its media, bears a tremendous amount of responsibility for the rise of violent, overt fascism in American politics, the recent mainstream coverage of the Republican National Convention is a very good example of what I mean.
I'm literally watching mainstream media outlets and Very Serious PeopleTM all over the anglosphere cover the biggest nazi rally since the production of Triumph of the Will like it's the fucking Met Gala and what we're really here for is the "ownz." Meanwhile the entire goddamn crowd full of cracker American nazis, populated by the kind of professional class pigfucking fascists who can afford to attend the Republican National Convention, are waving matching professionally designed, mass produced signs in GOP/Trump campaign colors that say "Mass Deportations Now." And somehow, this rates less coverage and commentary than the fact that Downmarket Mussolini fell asleep during his nazi failson's speech.
Meanwhile these same professional media and political classes that are too squeamish to even utter the word fascism to describe the obvious fascism we're watching, are clutching their pearls and trying to tell me that some 20 year old loser reactionary taking a shot at the head American nazi means people who are correctly identifying Trump and his movement as fascist need to 'turn down the temperature" and "moderate our rhetoric."
Folks, fucking newsflash okay? Not only are mass deportations part of what we legally define as genocide on their own, but millions of people aren't just going to surrender their lives and quietly disappear. "Mass Deportations Now" means "political violence" and it's accomplished by the application of real as fuck deadly force; it's only a matter of time before some clever fucking nazi points out that bullets are cheaper than boats. The GOP is fully, totally, and completely a fucking fascist party and your goddamn "sensible adult in the room" instincts to both-sides and punch left in political discourse is actively HELPING the new American Nazi Party to install a violent, genocidal, overtly-fascist political and social order as we speak.
And don't gimme no shit about the Democratic Party being the instrument of our salvation because I haven't been in a fucking coma the past 10 years. I literally just watched a bunch of "Very Serious" and powerful liberals trot in front of microphones one at a time to say they were very happy American Hitler is okay and they were praying for his family, while pointing out that what we need now is civility and to seek "unity" in America, with the very same goddamn fascists waving "Mass Deportations Now" signs on my TV screen. Trump has been actively transforming the GOP from a crypto-fascist money cult into a violent, overtly fascist movement before our very eyes and I can think of literally one fucking time Biden said the words "semi-fascist" and then spent three days hiding in his basement because the fascist-aligned right wing media actively supporting a real as fuck fascist and his really fascist political party howled up a goddamn storm about how DARE you call them and their cracker fascist voters, fascists.
You want to know how Nazism and the Third Reich happened in Germany? It was rather a lot like this. A bunch of "Very Serious" and "Very Important" so-called centrists pretending everything is normal, punching left, and bowing and scraping to appease literal fucking nazis because "loud noises" and "what if the fascists get angry" and "both sides." Whether it's because they're cowards, or because they agree more with the fascists than they agree with you, is more or less fucking irrelevant. The reality is that mainstream America, its media, its political class, and its business sector are either frogmarching or sleepwalking you into a fascist nightmare that *will* end in mass fucking killings because the whole damn capitalist Pig Empire order is built to appease nazis, and smash the underclasses, the traditional wellspring of antifascism, in the process.
These people don't have a plan, they are not the wise ones here, and when they fucking lose to these nazis they're going to go back to their wine cellars, pour themselves a big ole drink and say "well we tried our best, the rabble are to blame" while you and yours are getting straight up fucking enslaved and murdered. The Very Serious PeopleTM are not gonna save you, in fact they're not even prepared to tell you what fucking time it is, so I strongly suggest you stop listening to them and start committing yourself to antifascist action because it might be the difference between surviving this and digging your own shallow grave while pundits cry about the death of bipartisan unity and blame you for your own demise.
That is all.
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Monday morning. Too much news. Went to bed to someone standing up to the Bully-in-Chief, but seem to have backed down. Gutted.
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If you haven't already, or perhaps if you want to again, @heidilifeldman has a #MastodonForHarris #actblue campaign to raise funds for VP Harris's presidential campaign to defeat #Trump.
I think the goal was $1,000 (lol) but we're going to the moon.
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Donate whatever you can, here: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/mastodon-for-harris
#uspol #politics #uspolitics #kamala #election #election2024
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Two Reminders as the Republican National Convention Begins:
1. No Republican since Reagan has delivered strong job growth, while every Democrat has.
2. Unemployment and inflation are lower today under Biden than when Reagan ran 1984 Morning in America reelection ad.
Economy when Reagan-Bush ran #MorningInAmerica reelection ad:
• Unemployment 7.3%; Inflation 4.3%
Economy today under the Biden-Harris #GreatAmericanComeback:
• Unemployment 4.1%; Inflation 3.0%
Wow that is a surprise. I didn’t think he’d drop out, but he did.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/biden-stepping-aside-as-democratic-presidential-candidate-1.7270682
I'm not sure how I feel about this. Relieved yet nervous? Sad? So much uncertainty.
Chaos reigns supreme.
This year has felt like nonstop #news, with significant events coming on a weekly or even daily basis. But it's not unique in #history.
For example, there was 1940: War, the draft and FDR’s historic reelection.
1968: Assassinations, political turmoil and more war.
1973 had legal abortion, a historic peace deal, Watergate and plenty of political mayhem.
#Histodons @histodons #USPolitics
#Biden moments away from addressing the nation on his decision to stand down from the 2024 #election.
If you think he has earned a beer for ~50 years of public service, donate $5 to help elect VP #Harris (and show #Mastodon is worth looking at)!
Or, you know, a six-pack for $30. 😇
@heidilifeldman has started this #MastodonForHarris ActBlue fundraiser and it is blowing past expectations, approaching $200,000 as we speak!
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/mastodon-for-harris
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The BBC theme and the Action News theme aka the Philadelphia National Anthem are the chime sounds of summer on my phone.
Move Closer to Your World my friend
Take a little bit of time
Move Closer to Your World my friend
And you'll see
#uspolitics #Election2024 #breakingnews https://www.inquirer.com/politics/breaking-news-summer-vibes-20240725.html
https://www.europesays.com/1361229/ Cheeto on your national fabric? #PoliticalHumor #PoliticalHumor #Politics #UsPolitics
Coinbase has tried to portray its “Stand With Crypto” PAC as having broad grassroots support among over a million “crypto advocates”, and boasts on its homepage of nearly $180 million raised by these advocates.
Its first quarterly FEC filing reveals it has had only $13,690 in contributions from seven people since its creation. Two of them work for Stand With Crypto and two of them work for Coinbase.
Everyone who voted for Biden already voted for Harris to succeed him. This muttering about a coronation is the new “but her emails”: a fake issue that marches along to a drumbeat of media coverage and partisan messaging.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/22/biden-election-campaign-democrats
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Just gonna leave this here.
Billy Graham's granddaughter joins '#EvangelicalsForHarris,' quotes Isaiah to blast #Trump supporters
😳❤️😳❤️😳
"[U.S.] House Speaker Mike Johnson and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries announced Tuesday the creation of a bipartisan task force to investigate the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump, adding to the congressional panels that are looking into the shooting at his rally in Pennsylvania."
CBS News reports: https://flip.it/QhqpiG
#Trump #TrumpShooting #Congress #USPolitics #Politics #Assassination #News