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Reminder from @TheGuardian that the mess that is today’s news coverage of Trump started in 2016:
“in a scathing analysis of 2016 election coverage, the Columbia Journalism Review noted that ‘in just six days, The New York Times ran as many cover stories about Hillary Clinton’s emails as they did about all policy issues combined in the 69 days leading up to the election’.”
#USPolitics
#JournalisticMalpractice
#sanewashing
#Trump
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/sep/06/trump-clinton-harris-election
Taylor Swift has fulsomely endorsed Kamala Harris on Instagram, describing her as "a steady-handed, gifted leader," making clear that she plans to vote for her in the forthcoming U.S. election, and signing off as a Childless Cat Lady. "I believe we can accomplish so much more in this country if we are led by calm and not chaos. I was so heartened and impressed by her selection of running mate Tim Walz, who has been standing up for LGBTQ+ rights, IVF and a woman's right to her own body for decades," she continued, ending her post with a reminder to followers that they should register to vote. Here's more from USA Today.
#TaylorSwift #KamalHarris #HarrisWalz #Celebrity #USPolitics #USElection #Debate
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Vance’s church has condemned his bigotry. 😳
“Today, our nation is divided by partisanship and ideology, which blind us to the image of God in our neighbor, especially the unborn, the poor, and the stranger. These negative sentiments are only exacerbated by gossip, which can spread quickly across social media with no concern for the truth or those involved.”
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#Election2024
#vance
#springfield
#TrumpVance
#catholicChurch
#immigration
The Great American Comeback with Biden-Harris:
• Nearly 16 million jobs added
• Stock market keeps hitting record highs
• Strongest post-pandemic GDP growth in the world
• Much lower unemployment & inflation than Reagan in 1984
• Employment for prime-working-age Americans at a 23-year high
"I think our people hate the right people," said JD Vance.
I’ve heard it said that if you don’t vote with whichever party then you are a coward. I think that’s exactly backwards, and even reflects poorly all the person making that argument. It doesn’t take much courage to go with the group.
Instead I go the other way: no matter which party you might prefer in general, it takes courage to say they nominated a moron, and fortunately the other party also nominated a loser, so no matter what the US is going to slog through these next few years.
In my opinion the courageous position is to say no, you nominated a moron, and I’m not going to give you my vote. We’re going to be okay I guess, whether you win or not, but I’m not going to let you assume that you have my vote if you insist on nominating a moron. You should have nominated someone better. You should have nominated someone worthy of my vote. Do better next time.
That’s the state of #USPolitics . As South Park said, big douche versus turd sandwich. So screw both #Democrats and #Republicans. Neither of you managed to nominate someone worth voting for, so I’m voting for my dog.
To give either party our votes is to sign on to their nomination of garbage people. Let’s not. Let’s say that they need to actually nominate worthwhile administrators.
But more practically, let’s focus on #Congress. No matter who wins this election, they’re going to suck, but we can still express ourselves through our representation in Congress, and that’s honestly how it should be anyway.
Check out your representatives. See how they have actually been voting, and vote them out if they have been letting you down. That’s really where our focus should be anyway.
Not on which jerk ends up in the Oval Office.
(But thank God #Biden is on his way out, as he has been terrible for #science in the US, which has not gotten nearly enough attention from the press.)
Trump World is pushing the "better off" messaging again.
Bring. It. On.
#Economy #USPol #USPolitics #Harris #KamalaHarris #Kamala #Trump
As headlines about the Trump family’s “World Liberty Financial” crypto project appear in outlets like the New York Times, a scam website spoofing the project remains on the front page of Google search results. Blockchain data show people actively purchasing the token.
This is the same scam URL and token address promoted by the hackers who compromised Twitter accounts belonging to Lara and Tiffany Trump two weeks ago.
It’s such an old story that Haitian Creole has a phrase for it: “yon kanpay manti”, meaning “a campaign of lies".
Time and again, U.S. leaders have spread anti-Haitian ideas, and blamed ordinary Haitians for problems with roots in American meddling in Haiti.
https://theconversation.com/theyre-eating-pets-another-example-of-us-politicians-smearing-haiti-and-haitian-immigrants-239032
#News #USpolitics #Haiti #TheyreEatingPets
Billie Eilish and her co-writer, brother Finneas O'Connell, have endorsed Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in the U.S. election. Eilish told her 119M Instagram followers Harris and Walz are "fighting for our reproductive freedom, our planet and our democracy." O'Connell referenced Project 2025 as the pair urged followers to visit iwillvote.com today, which is National Voter Registration Day. Here's more from Billboard.
#BillieEilish #NationalVoterRegistrationDay #HarrisWalz #Celebrity #Entertainment #USPolitics #USElection
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"The Dangers of Donald Trump from Those Who Know Him"
"The New York Times editorial board has made its case that Mr. Trump is unfit to lead. But the strongest case against him may come from his own people. For those Americans who are still tempted to return him to the presidency or to not vote in November, it is worth considering the assessment of Mr. Trump by those who have seen him up close."
The New York Times' Editorial Board this morning:
"The Only Patriotic Choice for President"
Excerpt below. Link to full editorial below.
Dozens of #JDVance's former Yale Law classmates spent Tuesday night’s vice-presidential debate donating money to a fund for Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, raising more than $10,000.
This is NEXT level sass!!! #VPDebate #election2024 #uspol #uspolitics #HarrisWalz2024 #KamalaHarris @KamalaHarrisWin
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Bruce Springsteen has endorsed Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in the November election. In a video posted to his Instagram feed, The Boss also emphatically rejected Donald Trump, describing him as, "the most dangerous candidate for president in my lifetime." He continued: “His disdain for the sanctity of our constitution, the sanctity of democracy, the sanctity of the rule of law, and the sanctity of the peaceful transfer of power should disqualify him from the office of president ever again. He doesn’t understand the meaning of this country, its history or what it means to be deeply American.” Watch the video here, courtesy of @USAToday.
#BruceSpringsteen #Entertainment #KamalaHarris #TimWalz #USPolitics #USElection
JOBS REPORT: Another blockbuster report with Biden-Harris
• +254K jobs; unemployment down to 4.1%
• The Biden-Harris economy has added 16.2 million jobs
• 36 straight months of unemployment rate at or below 4.5%
• Employment for prime-working-age Americans at a 23-year high
In Texas’ third-largest county, the far right’s vision for local governing has come to life.
@ProPublica and @texastribune report: "Tim O’Hare’s leadership in Tarrant County, Texas, gives a glimpse of far-right priorities: cutting programs for at-risk youth, targeting elections and stifling dissent. Home to 2.2 million people and the city of Fort Worth, [the county] is the most significant political battleground between Republicans and Democrats in Texas."
#Texas #USPolitics #FarRight #Politics #Conservatives #Election
Trump Agenda: Himself and His Rich Friends
Harris Agenda: Working Americans and Middle Class Families
Vote accordingly
#Election2024 #Economy #Freedom #USPol #USPolitics #Harris #KamalaHarris #Democrats #Trump #MAGA #Republicans #Abortion #RoeVWade
Behind #Christian Nationalism’s Influence on the 2024 #Election
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The Christian right has become an increasingly powerful force in American #politics at every level, from school boards to the presidency. Its roots trace back decades.
#News #USPolitics #History #ChristianNationalism #Rightwing #Abortion #Trump #Project2025 #HeritageFoundation #Jan6
“Minnesota nice, whether represented in policies or in being kind to neighbors, is a worthy ideal,” writes a scholar who has studied the experience of Vietnamese refugees in Minnesota.
But “...the trope of Minnesota nice has a more complex history – especially when it comes to nonwhite people.”
https://theconversation.com/the-contradictions-of-minnesota-nice-236751
#USPolitics #TimWalz #Midwest #Refugees #News
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.
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