#this is not a sign of a “democracy”

[transrevolutions]

if your "military operation" results in civilian deaths over three times the number of "militants" killed, including children, your military is a fucking immoral failure. no wonder the palestinians aren't "peacefully protesting". you're fucking slaughtering their kids.

[captainkirkk]

Concept: One of the Bat kids starts a "Let us kill the Joker" petition on change.org and every single person in Gotham signs it except for Bruce Wayne

[swampthingking]

andrew’s definitely gotten in trouble with his pr manager for tweeting things along the lines of:

“no mania inducing medication will compare to the euphoria i will feel the day donald trump drops dead”

[beauty-funny-trippy]

[otrtbs]

okay since @greenvlvetcouch and i need to know sOoOo bad (we are banging the pots and the pans over here + we need 2 know so bad) im taking this issue 2 the polls!

[simonalkenmayer]

Sent to me:

Thank you Gen Z. Thank you. Take a bow. Own this victory. And please keep going. We have to change this place. It cannot keep going this way. It’s not fair that so much rests on you, but by god, you rise to the fight.

“Fuck em up.”

[andromedasummer]

i ended up having a like. 30 minute conversation with some of those "freedom convoy" people. was at the bus stop. they were wearing trump hats. i ended up roped into the conversation because i was so taken aback at seeing one in public i was just. staring at it. ive never felt more depressed about someone elses life and beliefs than when i talked to them.

[skelavender]

one thing i have learned. is that people. don’t know how to do paperwork

[vanishingsydney]

Seemed like all the Inner West of Sydney was on the drink yesterday, after local boy Anthony "Albo" Albanese was elected as Australia's 31st Prime Minister. What better way to celebrate than get on a session of 'The Albo', with a picture on the tap of the Labor Party leader at about 20 years old after he'd had a couple. In the heart of his own electoral district in the Inner West, at the Marrickville Hotel. Marrickville.

[imagine-all-the-people]

If you haven’t voted yet, Tuesday is fast approaching.

We need Democrat senators…🗳️

Codifying Roe v. Wade would mean passing a law that would affirm a pregnant person’s right to an abortion without undue interference

The most effective way to codify Roe v. Wade would be for Congress to pass a law, such as the Women’s Health Protection Act, that would be binding for all states. This act was passed in the House on September 24, but it is considered unlikely to pass in the Senate

Unless Roe v. Wade is codified, blue states will likely decide to codify Roe, while red states will continue to enact restrictions on abortion rights, like the 2021 Texas Abortion Law

Please vote blue. 💙

[explainslowly]

sorry but feeling compelled to sign a petition to thank the president of united states for "leadership" (especially considering the circumstances) is unbeliavebly unhinged bootlicker behavior

real anticharter energy

[t4t4t]

Controversy and criticism [of the Uhuru Movement]

...At the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, the General Students' Committee (AStA) broke apart in April 2015 as a consequence of internal dispute over purported antisemitism after having organized an information event about the Uhuru Movement on JGU campus in January.[19] The AStA distanced itself both from the Uhuru Movement, African People's Socialist Party and its leader Omali Yeshitela stating that "the struggle against racism and the consequences of colonialism should not blind us to other reactionary ideologies" and regretted providing a platform for this movement.[20]

Russian foreign influence controversy

The Uhuru Movement has been accused by state prosecutors of collaborating with alleged Russian foreign agent Aleksandr Viktorovich Ionov to sow social divisions in the United States.[21] Members of the group have traveled to Saint Petersburg, Russia, to attend an anti-globalization conference, and the group has also acknowledged that it supports Russia in its ongoing invasion of Ukraine.[22][23] On July 29, 2022, the Uhuru House in St. Petersburg, Florida, was raided by the FBI due to an indictment by a grand jury alleging a conspiracy between Ionov and the Uhuru movement to spread Russian disinformation under the guise of domestic political movements. An FBI Tampa Special agent said that "The facts and circumstances surrounding this indictment are some of the most egregious and blatant violations we've seen by the Russian government in order to destabilize and undermine trust in American Democracy."[24][25] On December 23, 2022, the Uhuru Movement organized an emergency meeting via Zoom, stating that the APSP expected new indictments by the FBI and the Department of Justice "in early January 2023 and possibly sooner", for violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act.[26] On April 18, a federal indictment was unsealed alleging that the Uhuru Movement, including the founder of the African People's Socialist Party, worked on behalf of the Russian government to spread pro-Russian propaganda and influence local elections.[27][28]

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Signe Wilkinson, Philadelphia Inquirer

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Ignoring this asshole isn't going to make him go away : Trump's latest desperate bid for dictatorship

Lucian K. Truscott IV

You have no doubt heard by now that yesterday, on his Truth Social network, Donald Trump called for “the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution,” because he lost the election for president.  He wants to be declared the “RIGHTFUL WINNER,” or “have a NEW ELECTION.” The all-caps are his, and of course what Trump is calling for is a coup.  To “terminate” the Constitution would be to overthrow the laws and the government of the United States and replace the whole thing with a dictator, namely, himself.

For all the things that he isn’t, Donald Trump is a politician, and he can not only read the polls, he has shown he’s pretty good at reading the electorate, a different thing entirely from polls, which are a stilted snapshot of opinion among voters at a single instant in time.  Trump doesn’t want to run for president again, because he lost the last time, and he’s looking around, and he’s afraid he’ll lose again.  That’s what the Saturday eruption on his social network was about:  fear.  He’s becoming increasingly irrelevant, and for Donald Trump, that is a fate worse than death.  He realizes after two years out of office that you can still be famous and yet slip into a state where your fame and even your presence on earth begins to cease to matter.

Who does Trump matter to at this point?  He matters to Republican voters, who political experts are beginning to slice and dice into MAGA, MAGA adjacent, old establishment, and never Trumpers.  But his voters didn’t do so wonderfully in the midterms, a fact that has doubtlessly not gone unnoticed by the man who endorsed so many of the Republican Party’s losers. The headlines are about DeSantis and the street-fight over who will be the next Speaker of the House and the war in Ukraine and China’s continuing struggle with the disease that was spawned within its borders.  Could Trump be feeling just a tad left out of the national conversation?

It’s interesting, isn’t it, to see what bothers the Prisoner of Mar a Lago as he finds himself in mid-fade from relevance.  He is sufficiently bored down there in his gilded cage that he invited two Nazi sympathizers to dinner recently, apparently figuring that would get himself some attention.  It did, of course, and it was exactly the kind he wanted, because it lit a tiny fire under the collective ass of the Washington press corps, sending them to their phones and even into the halls of the Congress to ask every elected official they could find what they thought of Trump dining with Nazis.  Trump is ever in the mode that he began in 50 years ago in New York City, that any publicity is good publicity.  If the question on everybody’s mind is Trump and his favorite Nazis, well, at least they’re spelling your name right.

Lately, Trump has found himself mattering a whole lot to some powerful judges who he appointed to their seats but who have ruled against him repeatedly in his flailing lawsuits trying to stop the DOJ investigation of the various crimes he has been accused of committing – trying to overthrow the last election, inciting the assault on the Capitol, and his theft and mishandling of classified documents after he left office.  Trump has lost one appeal after another, and now “his” special master, appointed by “his” Judge Aileen Cannon, is being dismissed, and everything seized at Mar a Lago by the FBI has been returned to the man who now oversees the prosecution, Jack Smith, a name that’s got to be keeping him up at night.

And Trump seems to matter a whole lot to Elon Musk, who has been doing everything he can think of to get him back on Twitter, including hiring a prominent contrarian journalist to exhume the Hunter Biden laptop story from the vaults of Twitter and splash it across the platform in a long series of tweets that had to have caught Trump’s attention.

In fact, most stories about Trump’s demand that the Constitution be terminated say the Hunter Biden laptop story was what was behind his explosion on Truth Social yesterday.  I think that’s less likely than Trump’s panic as the jaws of law enforcement close on him.  After all, he sees getting back into the White House as the only way he could avoid jail:  he could pardon himself.

My first thought when I decided to write this column was to title it, “There ought to be a law,” you know, against this kind of shit.  But there shouldn’t be.  There can’t be, because it would violate the very Constitution we’re trying to protect from the likes of Trump.  Besides, the anti-war movement back in the 60’s and 70’s was guilty, if that’s the right word, of calling for the downfall of the government because of the crimes the United States was committing in Southeast Asia.  I recall a lot of “there ought to be a law” talk back then about the calls of the Left for the overthrow of the government, and it was all from the Right, from Nixon’s people, the apologists for the war.

As outrageous as Trump’s anti-democratic talk is, it’s legal.  Calling for a violent overthrow of the government is, however sedition, the crime two leaders of the Oath Keepers were convicted of this week.  Trump may be a seditionist in his heart, but he’s carefully not one in his public words.

I think maybe the way to react to Trump’s latest attack on our democracy is to recognize how desperate and afraid he is.  That someone would be calling for the destruction of something, a constitutional government in this case, at the same time he is calling for himself to be installed as its leader, is absurd on its face.  He’s yelling into the void at this point, but if there is a lesson to be learned from the last six years, we ignore the unhinged cries of this monster at our peril. He sounds weak and pathetic, which he is, but he’s still a danger to the Republic. The Oath Keepers haven’t gone away, the Proud Boys haven’t gone away, and his MAGA hordes are always listening.

[Lucian Truscott Newsletter]

[memecatwings]

idk if anyone has been paying attention but desantis fired hillsborough countys attourney general bc he made a statement saying he'd refuse to prosecute abortion cases except after he got fired tampas mayor made a statement saying she wouldnt direct the police to arrest violators of the state abortion law and just today the tampa city cousel passed a resolution to respect the privacy of people seeking abortions in the city. desantis is probably gonna try to fire the entire city government over this. this is both terrifying and exciting to watch