A Fading Coal Town Banked on a Wind-Power Boom. Then Came Trump.
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Fatima Houssana and 9 of her family members murdered 24 hours after film accepted in Cannes festival
Gaza Photojournalist In Cannes Doc Killed In Israeli Strike
Palestinian Photojournalist And Protagonist Of Cannes-Selected Doc Killed In Israeli Gaza StrikeMelanie Goodfellow (Deadline)
"the Jews run America" is definitely not white supremacist propaganda. Definitely the attitude of people who typically care about brown babies and journalists being murdered. Come on son. Let me hear your leftist thoughts on George Soros. Oroboros tail eating dumb shit useful idiotic racist motherfucker.
Also, more than half is enough to qualify for a false equivocation. So, no, with your fuzzy math.
Why can't we hate the behavior of a country distinctly from the people it makes up.
Absolutely nothing - on the contrary, they even supply the weapons with which these shameful murders are committed.
And Trump and his band of criminals are not even alone in this - my home country, Germany, is also aiding and abetting these terrible war crimes.
I simply cannot understand how a country like Israel, which is actually completely irrelevant on the world stage, not only gets away with genocide, but is even supported by many of those countries that otherwise always play the moralizer.
The only way I can explain this is that the fascist regime in Israel is taking advantage of the fact that this country is a leader in surveillance and espionage technology. Other than by blackmailing foreign state representatives, I simply cannot explain why so many countries persist in supporting all these terrible atrocities - in democratic countries even against the will of the people and at the massive expense of votes.
I'm aware that this is conspiracy theory, but I simply can't explain it any other way because it is so incredibly absurd and shameful.
I mean, Bibi has long been the subject of an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Courts.
It is of course quite clear that no government official in the USA is interested in this, but the fact that European countries, which recognize this intuition as binding, are also thinking about how Netanyahu could be invited as a state guest without having to arrest him immediately is simply telling. And then also supplying weapons to a war criminal?
How?
Israel is not irrelevant on the world stage. They are a major intelligence asset. Nobody comes close to what they can do. And America knows this. They have been enabling Israel all these years hoping to keep that asset on their side. The second we turn on Israel they become a mercenary operation for our enemies.
There’s not really any way to win with Israel. They are assholes. They shouldn’t exist in the first place. And we continue to play nice with them while they kill everyone around them and threaten anyone who dares question them.
Israel is not irrelevant on the world stage. They are a major intelligence asset. Nobody comes close to what they can do
Thats the utterly BS mystique zionists like to cultivate. You have no proof at all of it-- You're just parroting hasbara propoganda.
All I see day in and day out on the news is vicious Israeli war crimes, indiscriminate violence, and land theft for 80 years and the anger caused by it.
If the Israelis DO have any intelligence, its unreliable due to their rampant of torture, and it'll be about their enemies (not ours), and visciously slanted by their insane worldview and transparent attempts at manipulation of the west to their advantage.
Israels enemies are not the enemies of the west. All we care about in that region is oil and shipping lanes. Israel wants to steal land and kill muslims. The west has every reason not to care about that, and no gain to join in it.. So we arent even strategic allies. Israelis are rich barbarian cultists who buy influence. We need to dump them, despite their so called "intelligence".
Supreme Court blocks, for now, new deportations under 18th century wartime law
Supreme Court temporarily blocks deportations of Venezuelans held in northern Texas
The Supreme Court has blocked, for now, the deportations of any Venezuelans held in northern Texas under an 18th-century wartime law.Nicholas Riccardi (AP News)
"Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented."
Even Trump's appointees are going against him here.
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Progressive Barbara Lee wins Oakland mayoral race
Barbara Lee wins Oakland mayoral race
Barbara Lee took an insurmountable lead in the Oakland mayoral race in the latest vote count Friday.Sarah Ravani (San Francisco Chronicle)
Oakland uses ranked choice voting, which means that if a candidate receives a majority of first-choice votes, that person wins. If not, the last-place candidate is eliminated, and voters who selected that person have their votes counted for their next choice — a cycle that repeats until a candidate gets a majority.
We need this nationwide.
I don't know anything about her, but this sounds all right to me:
As for homelessness, Lee has referred to the crisis as a “moral disgrace.” She said she wants to test a guaranteed income pilot program for homeless people, hire unhoused residents to clean the streets, and work with the Veterans Administration to get veterans off the street.
Trump administration announces fees on Chinese ships docking at U.S. ports
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/28401341
The U.S. government began investigating China’s dominance in the shipbuilding industry, where it manufactures as much as 75%-80% of fleets, during the Biden administration.Steep levies on Chinese-made ships arriving at U.S. ports have been proposed, up to as much as $1.5 million, as part of a plan to bring more ship manufacturing back to the U.S., a policy which has bipartisan support.
Trump administration announces fees on Chinese ships docking at U.S. ports
The Trump administration on Thursday announced fees on Chinese-built vessels.Lori Ann LaRocco (CNBC)
Cory Booker to visit El Salvador in effort to return wrongly deported man to US
Cory Booker to visit El Salvador in effort to return wrongly deported man to US
Democrats press Trump administration to follow supreme court order to bring back Kilmar Ábrego GarcíaChris Stein (The Guardian)
That's the question! These are satellite images from the notorious El Salvadorian prison from 2024. The image is viral online with people claiming this is a pile of bodies and blood, but that's unsubstantiated (and the image is from before Trump took office). Another idea is that it's a pile of construction materials and clay.
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Senator's shocking claim why El Salvador won't release innocent man held captive in 'world's worst prison'
Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen has spoken out about the horrifying extent of which the Trump administration is allegedly in 'violation of court orders'Poppy Bilderbeck (UNILAD)
They need to stop this 1 at a time thing. Get like 40 members of Congress, Senators and Representatives. Show up at CECOT with cameras live streaming and demand to be admitted. When they refuse, force your way in.
I don't believe anyone in El Salvador, including Bukele and the goons staffing the prison, want to have a live stream of them assaulting/arresting a bunch of US members of Congress. And if they do, maybe that'll help wake some Republican voters up to the fascism.
Bukele has already blinked.
I am not worried for Booker. The tide is slowing down, and may turn soon if the pressure continues from all sides. Trump has played his hand badly.
OK so who should I have voted for? How do you know that I would vote for the person you demand?
Why should I give my vote to a party that doesn't seek it?
I'm not suggesting you vote either way, just that its really lame to feel superior for not participating in the process.
I've been voting since 1977, and I've NEVER voted for a presidential candidate I've actually liked. It's ALWAYS the lesser of two evils. Thats just the way it is, so grow up and accept it.
When did I ever say I was superior to anybody? I simply said that I refuse to cast a vote for either of these two criminal parties. In my lifetime they haven't accomplished anything for the public good and have stopped even pretending that they will.
The only peaceful way to change these parties is for a majority of people to stop voting. We're getting closer!
Yeah, the Ostrich Strategy. Everybody should just check out, bury their heads in the sand, and let the criminals have their way. That'll show'em. Can't see anything going wrong with that strategy.
And superior acting people never think they're acting superior, they just think they ARE superior.
Strange sell-off in the dollar raises the specter of investors losing trust in the US under Trump
Strange sell-off in the dollar raises the specter of investors losing trust in the US under Trump
Among the threats tariffs pose to the U.S. economy, none may be as strange as the sell-off in the dollar.Bernard Condon (AP News)
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It’s not fucking “strange”.
It’s Canada, Japan, the EU, and our other former allies retaliating against the US trying to use absolutely asinine and ham-fisted tariffs as a cash grab/shakedown by engaging in strategic retaliatory fiscal policy.
This is actual 4D geoeconomic chess. Because if orangeboi doesn’t listen and they keep going, the USD standard goes away.
I mean it IS retaliation though. It’s retaliation for thinking absurd tariffs are a great idea to apply to one’s allies.
And please do note that some particular countries who were until very recently considered geopolitical adversaries by our government (Russia; Belarus) are NOT targeted by any of the tariffs.
This is what happens when you switch teams, and all of your allies are not a fan of you switching teams, and they don’t want to be tied to your currency standard anymore.
The list of us interventions ending in the installation of a dictator is has more entries than the total number of countries on the planet. It cannot be overstated how many dictators the US has directly, explicitly supported and installed.
Hell we usually end up fighting them, because they stop paying whatever we charged for installing them.
Far as I can tell, Neobanks are the best option for less well-off Americans. I personally would go for Wise since it allows for banking through a desktop browser, but Revolut and Neon might be better options if you use smartphones. Neon in particular, since that is part of the EU bloc, uses IBAN Internation Bank Account Number, and is based in Switzerland. Revolut and Wise are based in London.
Mind, I haven't actually tried signing up for a neobank account as of yet. Do further research for any concerns you have, since I am pretty amateur at this fiscal stuff.
For anyone asking why it's strange, from the article
Traditionally, the dollar would strengthen as tariffs sink demand for foreign products.
If you're looking at the dollar with supply and demand, if international trade to the u.s. decreases with tarriffs, then the amount of dollars leaving the u.s. also decreases and thus the supply of dollars on the international market. Assuming demand remains constant then the strength of the dollar should go up.
For this decrease in strength you have to look to demand which has to decrease enough to counteract the tarriffs plus more. This decrease in demand is coming from both decrease in demand for assets priced in dollars (u.s. companies stocks, treasury bonds, real estate etc.) And retaliatory tarriffs which lower demand for u.s. goods.
While this has been historically true, it's not working this time.
But the dollar not only failed to strengthen this time, it fell, puzzling economists and hurting consumers. The dollar lost more than 5% against the euro and pound, and 6% against the yen since early April.
As with most things happening under this US administration, he pushes things to the breaking point to see how it reacts. He's stress testing the global economy. From there, I would guess that he'd back off just before the breaking point and move on to something else.
For DOGE, And All Criminal Actors, There Must Be Consequences and Accountability
For DOGE, And All Criminal Actors, There Must Be Consequences and Accountability
For a couple weeks, the green world has been rife with rumors that the Trump White House was preparing a series of executive orders to strip climate groups of…Josh Marshall (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
Nobody in the DNC is interested. I've watched every president of my lifetime commit war crimes. I've seen bankers rewarded for committing widespread fraud. When people stood up at #Occupy Democrats marginalized and ignored them
The DNC is not our friend and does NOT care about holding people responsible. They care about the appearance of rule of law
"Nobody" is a very strong word, and simply false
In any case, it's not the DNC that's the barrier here; it's who is actually elected to office
That's the story I was referencing. The DNC is moving against him, proving my point
I'm not apathetic. I am informed. I know that the Democrats will never curb the abuses or roll back the power grabs. These parties are playing the game together
The author, Josh Marshall always stops short of accountability for war crimes. He usually concerns himself --at length-- with what Iran and Hamas are plotting, the nature and use of Hamas tunnels, etc. The focus is always on shadowy others. He claims Oslo itself was the fault here, not Ben Gurion's abuse and violations of it. The Nakba? Evidently no Israeli is to be blamed for that. And the attacks on Palestinians are seen as a recognition of reality from the "realist-minded" Israelis, Josh claims.
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While he is against netenyahu and bloodthirsty settlers, he is a pro israeli-state pundit, and wont make any call to halt the IDF war on Palestinian civilians. Cheap logic from a partisan hack who cant admit that whats going on is exactly what he wants and supports. He's drinking tea with his pinky in the air, and a handkerchief at his nose so he doesnt have to smell the disgusting odor of the murdered.
He was rabidly against what he called "rhetorical excesses" in campus protests, not bothering to address why people were protesting. Club those students till they are silent, for their "rhetorical excess" eh Josh. What a fine American.
While I agree with Josh that we must all start following our laws, we need to start with the first ammendment protecting political free speech and acknowledging that what Biden did was criminal and violated numerous existing laws implemented for exactly this reason. Biden aided and abeteed war crimes and a massive genocide. And he and congress abridged the publics civil rights, using state violence to silence legitimate and peaceful political dissent, brutalizing students who were concerned about basic human rights. Disagreeing with the way zionists conduct what the world says are war crimes is not antisemitism and it never was. Even if it was antisemitism, it would be protected as political free speech. For many years people openly talked about keeping black skinned people down, even with violence, and it was free speech. But today if you question zioinisms methods at all you are instantly labeled as supporting Hamas. thats unamerican, fascist bullshit and a gross misuse of power by the president and congress-- done during a democratic party administraton no less. Just Shameful.
If we cant be honest about that then our calling out republicans for their own gross lawbreaking falls a little flat. Its always rules for thee and not for me, even within our own party. And then we wonder why the voters lose faith.
While he is certainly well spoken and educated, Josh Marshall is filthy-- he is a disappointment, he is a thug, he is a bad person, and he can suck it.
Is A Two State Solution Really No Longer Possible?
What can be called a “peace process” between Israel and the Palestinians ended with the failure of the Camp David summit and the onset of the Second Intifada in…Josh Marshall (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
The Anti-Vaccine Propaganda of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Take-home message:
- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., is one of the main activists of the modern anti-vaccination movement.
- The movie his corporation recently produced, Medical Racism: The New Apartheid, mixes real examples of racism in healthcare and vaccine misinformation to push an anti-vaccine agenda on marginalized communities of colour.
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Seriously, the fact that he's in charge of the health system is just a metaphor for the entirety of America
It's just fucked.
Fundamentally broken, and the majority of people just shrug their shoulders.
The populace is like the elephant who was tethered to a small stake while young and doesn't realise that it can rip it out now
You're all beaten down from birth
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SHOCK POLL: AOC a Close Second Place Behind Kamala Harris in 2028 Democratic Primary
SHOCK POLL: AOC a Close Second Place Behind Kamala Harris in 2028 Democratic Primary
Ocasio-Cortez, finished a close second behind only former Vice President Kamala Harris in one recent poll measuring how Democrats feel about 2028.Isaac Schorr (Mediaite)
That's the thing, we're sick of the same old same very old. Walz wasn't super bad, don't get me wrong, but the democratic voter is ready for change. Long since ready. It's only the DNC that hasn't caught up. We want more left than appeasing centrists. We're tired of reaching out a hand across the isle to bring back bloody stumps.
If you think that Hillary and Kamala lost just because they are women, then you haven't been paying attention. They lost not because they are women, they lost because that is what we were told we were getting. We all wanted rocky road ice cream, and they gave us vanilla. Then they wondered why they lost out on business. Fighting against fascism didn't seem to be enough for many. It blows monkey chunks that it had to happen when we have a fascist party taking hold, but it is hopefully a shake up that will actually get noticed.
It isn't about color or gender, it's about where they fall on the scale of things as well as age. Stop forcing that vanilla ice cream. We want the rocky road.
We all wanted rocky road ice cream, and they gave us vanilla
I feel like you missed an important point here. We didn't all want rocky road, we argued quite a bit on what ''new and progressive'' flavor we wanted. Some people even wanted vanilla.
The MAGAts won because they were united in not caring what flavor they got, so long as certain folks weren't allowed in the ice cream shop.
I’ll take my beating now
Yeah, I’m an old fuddy duddy who thinks that identity politics is a losing battle, maybe if everyone can get under the umbrella of the idea that billionaires are working to ruin this country?
If that's how you feel, you're supporting the wrong people. It was centrists who turned to identity politics to hide their lack of an economic platform. Remember when Hillary said breaking up the big banks won't end racism? Remember when the new DNC chair said they would still take money from good billionaires? If you want Democrats to focus on the billionaires ruining our country, AOC's your best bet.
I love Bernie Sanders, god bless him, but AOC and Bernie spreading whatever message they are is falling on deaf ears, the ears of middle America.
10K showed up for them in Michigan. 12.5K people showed up for them in Idaho. 30k showed up for them in a Trump district in Montana. Doesn't seem like it's falling in deaf ears, but maybe your right, and the Democrats should just not try to win any states in the middle of the country. I'm sure that's a great strategy.
What does AOC stand for exactly? Just the typical Gen Z talking points? “We gotta support drag queens in libraries!”You could take your average everyday Muslim and a white supremacist and ask them both how they feel about women/jewish people/gay people and you’d get the same answer.
Get fucked, bigot.
Bernie Sanders Rally Crowd Size Tops 30K in District Trump Won Three Times
Sanders touted turnout for his rally with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in a GOP-held California Congressional district.Andrew Stanton (Newsweek)
"Here's a long detailed rebuttal to your badly informed opinion."
"Ad hominem!"
Reddit and its consequences was a mistake.
It’s not a badly informed opinion,
It’s one that doesn’t automatically align with most left wing talking points that are basically just about identity politics. I bring it up because it’s why Democrats continue to lose. Defenders of AOC sound like Swifties. I like Harris but she doesn’t have to be the only candidate and neither does AOC. I’ll state it in plain English and maybe you’ll understand? Islam is a religion, it’s not a race or ethnicity. When I criticize the rules of this religion, which is Sharia law, which contradicts democracy in this country and is unconstitutional it doesn’t make me a bigot. Everything that have stated here in this thread is part of the reason why Democrats keep losing. The majority of Americans are tired of extreme left wing politics and policies, and it’s why we keep getting extreme right wing politicians who win elections. You can tell me I’m uninformed all you want, call me a bigot, whatever… But come 2028 you’re gonna get president JD Vance and VP Elmo. If it comes down to it and AOC is chosen as the Democrat nominee, I will gladly vote for her, but she can’t win, she isn’t electable and it isn’t because of sexism
AOC is a gaffe machine
I actually think she’s pretty well spoken. A lot of people clip her just to farm outrage, but honestly, we’ve seen (especially with Trump) that out-of-context clips don’t really shift public opinion much anymore, they just reinforce whatever people already believe.
We need some sanity, not more crazy regime change nonsense. Markets don't like uncertainties, and markets are what leads to productivity investment.
Not that Harris is any better.
As another outside observer I'd disagree that was the reason she lost. Yeah there's racism and sexism issues in the US, but in the last US election both AOC and Bernie got a lot of votes to elect them as senators on the senator ballot from people who also voted Trump on the presidential ballot.
AOC and Bernie did some polls on social media asking these people why they voted for both them and Trump. The responses were typically like "you're not part of the political elite" and "you say it how it is" and "you seem like you genuinely care about Americans".
IMO, Kamala is considered too close to the democratic political establishment and that the American public is desperately craving some more (mostly economically) progressive politics which AOC and Bernie have been talking about for years.
If the DNC run Kamala in 2028 then the Trump administration will project it as "Biden, Harris, and the elites want to be president forever, so why not pick me instead".
No. Surprisingly it wasn't the overwhelming racism and sexism of USA. Michelle Obama would have destroyed Trump. She probably would win in 2028 too.
Like everyone else said... Kamalacaust lost because she's a genocidal prosecutor walking in the footsteps of another total failure. They're just gross people.
The dems would rather lose than betray their genocidal capitalist masters.
Second place to Harris??? Holy fuck we deserve our fate.
Edit: upon reading the article (I know...) AOC has the best net favorability. So a little more hopium there.
The majority of the voting population answers this question based on name recognition alone. You're way more up to speed on the options than the average American voter. We need to put energy into getting people like AOC in front of as many disengaged and unaware people as possible. NOT complain and whine that everything isn't handed to us on a platter.
She's in second place and we have 3 years to move her into first, that sounds worth a shot to me. But go ahead and throw your hands up in the air, tuck your tail, and say there's nothing we can do.
We are closer than we've ever been in my lifetime.
How's that working out for you?
Harris could've eased Israel. Trump is capitulating 1000%. Gaza will be an ash pile in a year.
Thank fuck you didn't vote for Harris lmao. What a load of single-issue dogshit.
Harris would not have eased Israel, she herself said as much.
This comment isn't about the 2024 election, it's about the next one. Can the DNC not provide a candidate who refuses to arm a military committing genocide?
Ok look I voted for Kamala but if a candidate fails can we please run someone one else? You don't run the same person over again because the same people who felt like she was forced down their throats are still going feel like she's being forced down their throats.
And the same bs that was used against her will be used again. But people eat yhay shit up which is why it works.
And her tactics of bring out appealing to Republicans again is probably whay she'll do again and that's going to lose more dem voters.
The corporate Dems need to go away.
On one hand I want to argue against this. People were fucking dumb not to vote for her and should come crawling back. Not because shes the best, but because how the fuck did people think this was gonna turn out? Both her and Hillary were right. And people who helped Trump win, if anything, should hr asking for forgivneas, so lets give it to her.
..... At the same time I have little to no faith they would. They would just double down and go for concentration camps again. So yeah, move on.
Does it matter tho?
Y'all know that if they say vote Kamala, y'all will vote Kamala, like it or not
And the "democrats" know that y'all will vote blue no matter who anyways
But will the public have enough confidence to vote for Harris or AOC over Vance?
Definitely not for Harris. People were definitely fine for dealing with Trump to avoid Harris. Either that, or the Dems couldn't cheat as much in 2024.
I mean, 81 million people voted for Biden to avoid Trump, weird that only 75 million came out of their shells for Harris.
Vote Blue No Matter Who didn't work for Harris, won't work for AOC either. But stranger things have happened.
I'd vote for AOC over Kamala, 100%.
I mean, I still voted for Kamala, but I wasn't excited about it.
So the "democrats" have no incentive to improve in your case
You'll just vote whoever they choose on the ballot
I come from a country without a two party system, so we criticize everybody all the time.
I will be shocked if the Dem establishment doesn't run Newsom and do their damndest to ratfuck AOC like they did with Bernie.
Sure, there's a lot of time between now and a theoretical 2028 presidential cycle...
But I have learned to set expectations pessimistically and be surprised in the optimism direction, not the other way around.
Kanzi it is then.
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The world’s most famous bonobo turned 40 today. Kanzi communicates with humans and played music with Paul McCartney and Peter Gabriel.Perry Beeman (Iowa Capital Dispatch)
as if that’s somehow a qualification, and how she took a huge dump on working class Americans. Has anyone given thought to the Astronaut? You know, the guy whose wife was affected by political violence? The guy who seems reasonable and well spoken ? Middle America might actually vote for someone like Mark Kelly who flew combat missions during the gulf war. Why is the Democratic Party so obsessed with AOC? She’s not a bad person,
the right obviously hates her, and that’s shitty, but it doesn’t mean she should automatically be the darling of the Democratic Party, the obsession confuses me honestly, her personality is a bit grating tbh. Democrats are hellbent on either choosing and ineffective milquetoast man or a disingenuous woman.
Mark Kelly who flew combat missions during the gulf war
The same guy who voted with Schumer to sabotage the budget fight and leave the dems completely powerless? The same guy who AIPAC is balls deep in and who cant say enough nice things about Israel as they conduct their war crimes, and nothing ever about palestinian civilians?
Oh yeah Mark is exactly who the DNC would like to run. I can see it now, pics of him in a cockpit of a fighter jet. He wouldnt even need to talk about any policy positions at all, right?
If the establishment candidate wins the primary, we’ll dutifully vote for that candidate in the general
The core reason for the loss in 2024 still exists, and polls show that patience for DNC shenanigans has run out amongst voters.
This professor studies dictatorships. He helped convince Harvard to stand up to Trump
How an expert in dictatorships helped push Harvard to challenge Trump
Harvard professor Steve Levitsky has spent decades studying democracies and how they fail. He's now raising alarm bells over what he sees as a slide toward autocracy under President Trump.Kate Linthicum (Los Angeles Times)
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Their pressure seems to have helped Harvard President Alan Garber stand up to Trump
No: what helps Harvard stand up to Trump is that Harvard is loaded. The University of Bumfuck Nowhere will immediately cave in to Trump's authoritarian nonsense to maintain their federal funding and their tax-exempt status. Harvard can afford to do without them.
In other words, I'm glad Harvard is resisting. But this is yet another example of rich-man-can-do.
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Is the better option that rich man do nothing?
You’re not wrong that the money helps but someone also has to do the convincing part. They both help.
I believe those with more resources have more options to resist; this has always been the case. However, they don’t have all of the means.
I don’t think doomerism like this does anything but demoralize. It’s better than them going along with the bullshit. It’s gotta start somewhere, and it’s going to start with those who have the resources to resist.
I think that it’s similar to the idea that anti-racism needs to start with white people.
White people have the social capital to stay safe while protesting—thus able to further the cause for longer—and the subjugation starts with white people so they have a responsibility to start the movement.
Rich people have the economic capital to stay safe while protesting—thus able to further the cause for longer—and the subjugation originates with rich people so they have a responsibility to start the movement.
When the far right came knocking, Harvard made Columbia look pretty cowardly and unworthy of any prestige. Columbia should lose its "ivy league" title for good.
Good for Harvard leadership.
I might have to slap this together in photoshop before today’s protests.
Lab Leak, by Depends
Diseases occur naturally, new diseases occur naturally. We know the first cases were in Wuhan China. There are a number of theories on how "patient 0" became infected. (Bat to human transfer, lab grown, pig to human, other dead animal to human) But patient 0 is not even known, early COVID spread extremely fast and a source cannot be pinpointed. Knowing the exact source could help with prevention of future new diseases (shutting down wet markets or closing labs). But with the speed of the spread, death rate, and chaos it brought, it will likely never be known.
"Will someone pay." Without knowing an exact source we don't know if a human is at fault or if there was just the perfect storm of natural events. mRNA vaccines are a new technology that was fast tracked thanks to COVID. As a society we will benefit from its ability to develop new vaccines faster. Many nations/regions were forced to reevaluate their disaster relief plans because of COVID. If a future event occurs the lessons learned from COVID should help mitigate.
Trump's approval rating on the economy drops to lowest of his presidential career, CNBC Survey finds
Trump's approval rating on the economy drops to lowest of his presidential career, CNBC Survey finds
President Donald Trump is registering the worst economic approval numbers of his presidential career, according to the latest CNBC All-America Economic Survey.Steve Liesman (CNBC)
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The plan:
1 fuck everything up
2 make people mad
3 they protest
4 use pigs to incite violence
5 martial law, suspend constitutional rights
6 cancel elections
7 trump forever
Every time I see headlines like this I think:
He told us he would ruin it. For months. He signed the plans to ruin it weeks ago. He's been organizing teams of people to fuck it up starting a few days ago. Canada has been not only openly reporting on this as a major issue but even going so far as to run advertisements on Fox News informing people about it, but people only start to fucking notice it after the fact, like this really blindsides the majority of Americans!? Buffoons!
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As a Canadian it is god damn terrifying. I can't imagine what it's like to be a US citizen under the control of a dictator right now. Watching your fellow citizens be sent to death camps along with lots and lots of other people just unfortunate enough to be brown, tattooed, born in the wrong place or a woman who fights for immigrant rights.
Then the racists cheer and heil Hitler.
It's crazyness but it's been brewing for a very long time. Hopefully it wakes up lots of my fellow Canadians so we don't end up in the same place you are.
VOTE!
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Well you can kind of relate because Canada were no saints to the native americans: politicians and officials were apologizing for that as recent as 2015 as the 2008-2015 Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada reported on the century of abuse and mass graves of children.
But yes, it's all awful and we need to stop it immediately.
That's bullshit. Take your lumps.
Our government is still fucking the Natives today. No doubt about that. You'll get no argument from me. They're ignoring supreme Court rulings and acting like dictators when it comes to the native population in our country since before it's inception. Truth and reconciliation is a lie! If they wanted those things they wouldn't still actively repress the population, keep them poor, sick and seen as second class citizens as well actively pursue continual court cases to avoid representing the native population in any way. See dental care for northern native and Inuit children as an example.
Right now they're attacking their fishery in the east coast enshrined by law that they ignore since 1999. All parties. No one has done shit about it. They keep them oppressed and fighting with the local population to ensure no action is mounted against the government. Fascist fucks all of them. That's just one issue in an ocean of issues.
However....IF YOU'RE CANADIAN, GO VOTE!....in order to correct our mistakes as a population we need to avoid the admitted fascist in our race for PM.
It's not whataboutism to call out the lie "I can't imagine MY country doing [thing it had done for over a century]."
I'm kind of a stickler about accuracy and nuance.
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He's like the snake in that old Aesop about the farmer...
"You knew what I was when you took me in."
Protest letters from former Israeli soldiers lay bare profound rifts over the ongoing war
The growing campaign, which accuses the government of perpetuating the war for political reasons and failing to bring home the remaining hostages, has laid bare the deep division and disillusionment over Israel’s fighting in Gaza.
By spilling over into the military, it has threatened national unity and raised questions about the army’s ability to continue fighting at full force. It also resembles the bitter divisions that erupted in early 2023 over the government’s attempts to overhaul Israel’s legal system, which many say weakened the country and encouraged Hamas’ attack later that year that triggered the war.
“It’s crystal clear that the renewal of the war is for political reasons and not for security reasons,” Guy Poran, a retired pilot who was one of the initiators of the air force letter, told The Associated Press.
Protest letters from former Israeli soldiers lay bare profound rifts over the ongoing war
When nearly 1,000 Israeli Air Force veterans signed an open letter last week calling for an end to the war in Gaza, the military responded immediately, saying it would dismiss any active reservist who signed the document.Melanie Lidman (AP News)
Senator says Bukele staged margaritas at Abrego Garcia meeting, wanted it by pool
The New York Times reported that one of Bukele’s aides planted the tropical-looking drinks on the table to make it look like Abrego Garcia was living large. Van Hollen confirmed this on Friday. “This is a lesson into the lengths that President Bukele will go to deceive people about what’s going on,” he said, “and it also shows the lengths that the Trump administration and the president will go to, because when he was asked … about this, he just went along for the ride.”
Van Hollen added that Bukele’s government wanted the meeting to take place by a pool: “They actually wanted to have the meeting [take place] by the side of the pool in the hotel,” he said. “This is a guy who’s been in CECOT. This is a guy who has been detained. They want to create this appearance that life was just lovely for Kilmar, which, of course, is a big fat lie.”
Chris Van Hollen Describes Meeting With Kilmar Abrego Garcia
Sen. Chris Van Hollen detailed his meeting in El Salvador with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whom the Trump administration wrongfully deported.Andrew Perez (Rolling Stone)
Wait hold on, they wanted us to think it wasn't staged?
The dude was sent to a concentration camp and then sitting at a table in a decent looking area? And they had fake hand gestures exactly like North Korean photo ops and they expected us to think it WASN'T STAGED?
If the MAGATs ate it up, then I realize just how hard they reject the reality over their Truth.
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We've all seen the pictures of the concentration camp, everyone in white boxers and shirt with their heads being shoved down while they walk.
It amazes me that they think we would buy this as how they live day to day?
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Much like scam emails, it was never meant to fool you.
It's meant to fool the stupid, and stupid people vote.
Well it wasn't a funeral.
Edit: oh sorry that's Taiwan
When Mr. Garcia gets back to the US take his family and put them in safety in another country - Canada, Europe, so long as they're far from El Salvador or Trump. Political asylum anywhere safe, since he can be considered now a person of interest to those wanting to upkeep democracy, and a danger to those undermining it.
I'm sure there's plenty of people sympathetic to this cause and wanting Mr. Garcia to be able to freely speak without fear about what he's endured.
As soon as he's back in the US he'll have a big red bullseye on his back, guaranteed.
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He is never going to leave CECOT unless he’s in a coffin. That is literally the Warden’s mandate.
He did leave CECOT. He had been out of CECOT for one week before he met the senator.
And he can leave his current facility, too. He did for this photo shoot at a hotel.
All it takes is for Bukele to change his tune. Which he has, already once.
The pressure campaigns are working. Do not give up on this man.
Oh sorry, you are correct.
He was moved from CECOT to a different El Salvadoran hellhole, then paraded to a photo op at a hotel which Bukale later made a joke about on social media.
Exactly. Both things that a day before we were told could never happen.
The game is not over
“Kilmar Abrego Garcia, miraculously risen from the ‘death camps’ & ‘torture.’ now sipping margaritas with Sen. Van Hollen in the tropical paradise of El Salvador!” Bukele posted on X.
What a remarkable piece of shit.
I disagree. He's clearly concerned about the blowback now.
Their messaging and staging is desperately, pathetically screaming "not a gulag! Not a gulag! He's having a nice time here!"
He pulled a dude out of a Concentration Camp, brought him to a hotel, put fake drinks in front of him, then made jokes about it on social media.
He is not a politician. He literally calls himself “the world’s coolest dictator”.
Germany halts Eurofighter jet delivery to Türkiye citing tense political environment
Germany halts Eurofighter jet delivery to Türkiye citing tense political environment - Türkiye Today
Germany reportedly blocks Eurofighter delivery to Türkiye, citing concerns over political unrest in countryNewsroom (Türkiye Today)
RFK Jr. Touted as 'Unfit' After Rant About Lack of Autism in 'Older People': 'He Cannot Be This Stupid'
RFK Jr. Touted as 'Unfit' After Rant About Lack of Autism in 'Older People': 'He Cannot Be This Stupid'
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. incited backlash after questioning why autism is "only happening in young people" during a televised news briefing.Morgan Music (Latin Times)
Short answer: if they got it bad, they're dead or in a nursing home. That's why they aren't walking in a mall. They ran out of health.
Long answer: in recent times, there seems to be lower threshold of diagnosis.
But if he truly thinks he can pinpoint exposures that increase autism - things like the exposure to tetraethyl lead which probably increased criminality and decreased mental health - good luck for combing scientific studies. There may be some. But if he's gonna rewind the age old "vaccines cause" record and replay it, nah, I won't be listening.
It's not that there's a lower threshold. It's that the definitions and our understanding of Autism changed. People who formerly would have been labeled with Asperger's are now labeled (correctly) with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Plus we've learned how Autism can present differently in other communities that aren't white male children. Acknowledging that girls can even be Autistic is a relatively recent development (the 90s).
The truth is that there are likely a ton of people out there with undiagnosed Autism, because they wouldn't have met the criteria to be diagnosed as kids based on our understanding at the time. It's why there are so many adults now getting late life diagnoses.
Yeah, my uncle who passed definitely had Autism, and so does my dad. They're half-brothers, which means it's highly likely my grandmother was as well (which my dad also agrees with).
It's definitely hereditary in my family. I also clearly get my ADHD from my mom.
Acknowledging that girls can even be Autistic is a relatively recent development (the 90s).
That is in-fucking-sane
"No one in my generation had autism"
Sure thing. Uncle Barry, who collects every issue of Mechanics Monthly, and has spent over $10,000 on his model train set that is a perfect scale recreation of King's Cross Station, is completely neurotypical.
I have a staunchly leftist but older co-worker who thinks no one she knew growing up had autism.
"I still think something is causing it" despite being pro-vaxx.
The propaganda is extremely effective unfortunately
Considering how provaxx they where back then, it's insane seeing people who grew up with polio repeating antivax shit.
Like back in the day. No one got cancer....cause they didn't know wtf it was, doesn't mean the shit wasn't around. Science didn't stop in 1904.
I really do think autism and cancer have gotten much more common. And it's very likely something is causing it.
Not vaccines. Vaccines are fine.
Could be plastic. Could be pfas (forever chemicals). Could be lots of things, or a combination. But there's most likely an environmental cause rather than genetic or just an increase in diagnosis. (Though the increase in diagnosis and recognition is also real.)
What's causing the rise in cases is actual diagnosis. For many generations. Theirs and mine included. Either you were institutionalized. Or you were undiagnosed. People would just refer to you as Quirky or eccentric. There was no Spectrum to be on. It was treated as largely binary. Only in the last 40 years at the earliest did they start to fully understand the condition. And even now they still have a long way to go. But they've at least started recognizing the larger condition.
Thinking that the rise in diagnoses at this point is some sort of crisis/pandemic or Healthcare emergency that needs to be addressed. Is like blaming the Exterminator coming out and finding your house is filled with termites. It wasn't filled with termites before they came just a few odd little ones that you saw skittering about on the surface. All these other ones must have been brought by them or someone else right? It's not like they could have been there all along and we just didn't notice?
He looks like that old stress squeeze toy
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Panic Pete 5-Inch Squeeze Toy
Dont Panic, because Panic Pete is here to help. Squeeze his belly and watch his eyes, nose and ears POP. Pete is a classic stress relieving toy.ToyWiz
'He Cannot Be This Stupid'
He's even more stupid than they are acknowledging.
Y-u know guys at some point you just have to roll with this shit because it’s too absurd. I mean I remember I used to be outraged far far in the past when I still treated these seriously
Now it’s just hilarious. Outrage to entertainment pipeline
What you can do is laugh and be entertained because such stupid people at the top will probably never happen again for decades. It’s your chance to soak up all the entertainment potential
Exactly. My family is like "why does this bother you so much? You have a good job, a house a family, great holidays! All of this doesn't affect you at all!"
"Well yeah, I guess I could just ignore that the world is going to shit and that people less lucky than me are suffering through all of it..."
Problem is, all it does is push them in the wrong direction. My father went from "I don't care about any of this shit" to "what the fuck do you mean I can't go on my quarterly golf trip??" and on to "Bill Gates murders Indian children with vaccines and also have you heard about RFK Jr?"
Fuck Facebook man...
Coming from Silicon Valley, I can assure RFK, my friends with autism are absolutely crushing it out here.
I look at their homes and families and think “fuck, carve me off a slice of that spectrum.”
Respectfully, this is a vast oversimplification. There are many successful people on the spectrum in tech, but that doesn't always translate to success or money. Communication is a huge part of a development job and communication with others is usually fraught for autistic people.
That being said, a bunch of folks on the milder end of the spectrum have certainly had great success in the field, myself among them.
communication with others is usually fraught for autistic people.
You should read about the double empathy problem. It has empirical proofs and explain well the issue.
Intersubjective, systemic, and sensory roots of autistic social difficulties: a critical evaluation of enactivist and phenomenological approaches - Synthese
Despite some remarkable accomplishments, enactivist and phenomenological approaches to autistic social difficulties remain highly problematic.SpringerLink
Look, he's killing people. He should be arrested and go to trial for criminal negligence and manslaughter. Like the rest of the bunch.
But they can't even say it lol. "oh, some people touted!"
Touted 'Unfit'
By senators prior to his appointment?
No, by some anonymous posts on social media last week
So will this result in any actual consequences?
Absolutely not
Great
the only thing that kept him out of jails due to the untreated effects when he was younger is hs family name and wealth.
That and having a penis. Rosemary wasn't so lucky.
When I hear something along the lines of "there is no way someone can be that stupid." I think about 2 things.
- How dumb the average person is and realize half the population is dumber than that.
- The interview of a Yosemite Park Ranger discussing the difficulty of designing the perfect bear proof trash can. The ranger is quoted as saything,"there is a considerable intelligence overlap between the smartest bear and the dumbest human."
Supreme Court cases could pave way for larger role for religion in public schools
Supreme Court cases could pave way for larger role for religion in public schools
Analysis: The cases — over a district’s opt-out policy and a religious charter school — could have ramifications for school systems nationwide.Linda K. Wertheimer (The Hechinger Report)
Last year, the United States imported $438.9 billion worth of Chinese goods, according to the office of the U.S. Trade Representative. China was the United States' third biggest source of imported goods after the European Union and Mexico.
I’m guessing most of that is electronics? I feel like China is the biggest though for that reason alone. Things are about to get insanely expensive here.
Everyone hop in, we’re going back to 1950!
The People's Republic of China
U.S.-China Trade Facts U.S. goods and private services trade with China totaled $579 billion in 2012 (latest data available). Exports totaled $141 billion; Imports totaled $439 billion. The U.S.United States Trade Representative
Right! You see, this will increase global manufacturing’s need for oil for all that extra shipping, thus raising the price of oil, so US oil makes us all* rich!
- “All” meaning all the people already rich from making/selling oil including, and mostly, non-American countries/oil barons. The average person will almost certainly see their overall wealth decrease greatly.
In theory.
And it actually probably would be pretty easy to do following US requirements, seeing how lax some of the "Made in USA" labels are:
Made in USA of Imported Parts
...the final construction is done in our country, but all or nearly all the parts have been imported from other countries
Made in USA with Global Components or Global Materials
...the final product is finished in the United States. There could also be a few or no parts of the product that are made in the US, but the majority are made and imported from foreign countries.
Assembled in the USA
...the majority or all of the product is put together in the United States or its territories. ...it’s a foreign product, with foreign-made materials that were only Assembled in the United States. -allamericanmade.com/what-does-…
But the logistics of funnelling $450 billion worth of parts through somewhere else would be basically impossible.
...or they could just lie.
This is what people are missing. China already built up their logistics in Vietnam and Mexico most famously. This is transhipment. Every since Trump term one, they have been planning this day.
So while your right, in normal conditions it should be impossible. In our reality it's what's already happening. Just wait till we get "Spanish" cars. This was always the plan.
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51% is awfully close for me to have such harsh feelings towards a town investing in clean energy despite being founded due to coal. But I won't dissuade anyone from sharing that sentiment.
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