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https://fb.watch/zIxoDHBsjA/?mibextid=wwXIfr&fs=e

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I need every active military person who isn't going the full term in hopes of retirement bennies to seriously consider not re-uping if you come up for it in the next couple years.

Why would you want to take the chance of having to follow the orders of incompetent commanders when those who have been in the trenches with you are forced out for not being white men?

Why would you want to take the chance of being ordered to fire on your friends and family to enforce a dictatorship that is looking to remove the benefits you may have joined up to get?

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Robert Gates.

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Linda Mamoun

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'Dead Children's Area'

This is too gruesome to comprehend. Israel is killing Palestinian children at industrial scale with U.S. weapons. But American media won't cover it.

HAARETZ

'Dead Children's Area':

American Surgeons Return From Gaza and Can't Forget the Nightmare

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We are coming. Fascists beware.

Join the correct side of history.

Chicago:

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No Amazon. No Walmart. No Target. No Disney. No Google. No Apple. No Visa or Mastercard. And especially no Facebook. I will not be posting on Meta platforms for the next 24 hours in support of the economic blackout.

Robert Reich

I’m with Robert! No corporate purchases, no visa or Mastercard, no Walmart, Target, Disney… corporate America will suffer the pain if they continue to bow to Trump, Musk, or his incompetent cabinet!

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Monkey Business

This year is the 100th anniversary of the Scopes "Monkey Trial." How odd it must have been to live in a time when a set of religion-rationalized conservatives rejected science, logic, and evidence to confirm an unsustainable worldview in the face of profound social, cultural, and economic change.

How. Odd.

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Well, that didn’t take long.

And if you voted Republican - you own this.

This IS you.

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reminders for today:

if you or someone you know might need it in the next few years, purchase plan b. the shelf life of plan b is 4 years, and we might not be able to access it as easily as we can now in the days ahead.

if you are larger/plus size: go online and purchase ella instead of plan b. plan b is less effective if you aren’t under 160 pounds.

if you can, purchase books that project 2025 is looking to ban.

mass deportations are starting. if you see ice vehicles or agents, yell ice raid and la migra as loud as you can.

if someone asks who you voted for, keep your mouth shut. they’re fishing for traitors.

if anyone, anyone at all asks about your neighbors or their legal status in the us, you know nothing. don’t be the reason that their family is separated.

if anyone asks about your religion or lack thereof, keep it vague. this administration will look for any excuse to persecute you.

your friends are trans or queer? for the next four years they’re not. don’t expose anyone’s status as a trans or queer person to anyone else, even if you think you can trust them.

did someone you know get an abortion? no, they didn’t. they were never pregnant.

in short, don’t be a snitch, and keep to yourself these next four years. we’ll make it through this even if it seems hopeless at times.

we can survive this. we’ve survived before, and we’ll survive again.

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Billionaire owners of news outlets are openly censoring two of the largest newspapers in the U.S., a country that has since its beginning has prided itself on the freedom of the press, as an essential part of true democracy. Think on that.

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Turnout 2024:

Interesting. From Paul Campos:

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"With final numbers now in, it’s possible to calculate fairly precisely how many Americans bothered to vote in the 2024 election, and how many couldn’t vote for one reason or another.

If we imagine a room with 100 people in it who reflect the population as a whole:

22 of them couldn’t vote because they were too young.

Six of them couldn’t vote because they weren’t citizens.

One couldn’t vote because of a felony conviction.

So note that nearly 30% of the residents of the US at the moment aren’t even eligible to vote.

Of those who were eligible to vote, only 63.88% did so. This means that only 45.8% of the population voted.

Going back to our white room with black curtains:

26 out of 100 people in it didn’t vote even though they could have.

22 out of 100 people voted for Kamala Harris.

23 out of 100 voted for Donald Trump.

1 person voted for somebody other than Harris or Trump for president.

1 person voted but didn’t vote for president.

Going back to the VOTER ELIGIBLE POPULATION (note that 21 million American adults aren’t eligible to vote), some particularly bad turnout numbers as a percentage of the voter eligible population in those states:

West Virginia: 55.5%

Texas: 56.6%

Oklahoma: 53.3%

New York: 57.9%

Mississippi: 57.5^

Hawaii: 50.3%

Arkansas: 53.5%

Some relatively good states:

Colorado: 73.1%. (All-mail voting)

Maine: 74.2%

Michigan: 74.6%

Minnesota: 76.4%

New Hampshire: 74.1%

Pennsylvania: 71.4%

Wisconsin: 76.9%

Note that it’s gotten FAR easier to vote in the USA over the last decade or so, and especially post-pandemic. All but three states now have some combination of no-excuse absentee voting by mail, and/or in person early voting. Almost no one is subjected involuntarily to the ridiculous traditional system, where you were forced to stand in line for hours on Election Day itself.

Basically we have a deeply unengaged public, in which nearly two out of five adults who are eligible to vote can’t even be bothered to do so (closer to one out of every two in several states, including some big ones), and in which a huge percentage of those who do vote are barely paying attention to what they’re doing, since they know as much about politics as I know about Olivia Rodrigo (Ironically my theory which is mine has led me to learn enough things about Ariana Grande that my relative ignorance regarding her is no longer a fair representative of the yet more impressive ignorance of our crucial swing voters regarding politics, who just made Donald Trump president again)."'