'Trump says 'big bill' should only help GOP states: 'Don't want to benefit Dem governors'
Donald Trump argued that a GOP budget bill should help only Republican states instead of benefiting Democratic governors.
"We're going to make a couple of tweaks," Trump said of his "one big beautiful bill" during a Tuesday trip to Capitol Hill. "I mean, we don't want to benefit Democrat governors, although I would do that if it made it better, but they don't know what they're doing."
"We want to help all the states, but we have governors that are from the Democrat [sic] party, let's say New York, Illinois, big ones, and let's say Gavin 'Newscum,' who's done a horrible job in California."
'Trump says 'big bill' should only help GOP states: 'Don't want to benefit Dem governors'
President Donald Trump argued that a GOP budget bill should help only Republican states instead of benefiting Democratic governors.David Edwards (Raw Story)
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Same thing happened to me. If I block someone on Mastodon or another Fediverse microblogging instance, they're blocked. Because that part of the Fediverse was built by people who had been harassed and doxxed off other platforms.
Here? Blocking just means you don't see the troll, but they can continue to inflict all kinds of havoc on your post scores. Ironically, "karma" isn't a thing on Lemmy like it is on Reddit, but votes are still used to rank your posts.
I guess there are a hundred great folk on here for every preteen edgelord, but that kind of nonsense really spoils the fun of this platform. Sorry to see you get downvoted for a perfectly reasonable post.
If I block someone on Mastodon or another Fediverse microblogging instance, they're blocked. Because that part of the Fediverse was built by people who had been harassed and doxxed off other platforms.
Evidently you missed the many (many) discussions that took place maybe 5 years ago by some of those exact builders about how this is, and remains, only a fig leaf which requires every server to cooperate in maintaining the illusion.
I wish I'd saved links based on how often this comes up. There are fundamental issues with how federated systems in general and ActivityPub in particular work, and "real" blocking is one of them. People running other instances can modify the code however they want, and no technical measures have been implemented (because it turns out to be very difficult to do so) to prevent any node operator from removing the fig leaf.
Piefed seems to implement bidirectional blocking
✅ blocking – users, communities, domains, instances. bi-directional.
Roadmap - PieFed
Currently, PieFed is still pre-release software, suitable for developers to contribute to but not for use in production. https://piefed.PieFed
It's a different blocking philosophy. Reddit used to work like Lemmy does, for example. The keyword here being "used to". Here's their announcement post from when they changed it.
I personally prefer this method of blocking, because you're not a moderator or administrator and thus should not get to customize the experience of other users than yourself.
Yes, there's the legitimate use case of stopping mass downvoters. But two-way blocking can also be (and has been) used maliciously. You can slander someone and then block them, making them unable to defend themselves or even know what happened, for example.
Israeli doctor compared killing Palestinians in Gaza to 'eliminating cockroaches'
Israeli doctor compared killing Palestinians in Gaza to 'eliminating cockroaches'
An Israeli doctor serving as an army reservist has compared killing people in Gaza to “eliminating cockroaches” in a post on social media.Lubna Masarwa (Middle East Eye)
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Sounds very much like language from the Rowandan Genocide....
Israel is trying to commit genocide.
Say it.
Israeli opposition leader, former general Yair Golan, condemns his country for 'killing babies as a hobby'
Israeli opposition leader condemns his country for 'killing babies as a hobby'
A former Israeli general and the leader of the country's left-wing opposition party has said Israel risks becoming a "pariah state" and that a "sane country does not fight against civilians, does not kill babies as a hobby, and does not give itself t…Sally Abou AlJoud (Middle East Eye)
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US Immigration Authorities Appear to Have Begun Deporting Migrants to South Sudan, Attorneys Say
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Yes, in fact it is too hard...
When the cruelty, disorientation, and disappearance is the point. 🤷♂️
"Yay! Great work, Rose!"
"Wait! Fuck! I forgot that we can only give attaboys to white men now. No one heard that though, right?"
I heard that...
"Fuck fuck fuck fuck.... Uhhhh.... Hit the bricks, Rose! We'll keep your DEI achievements, though."
FDA says Covid vaccines likely not available for healthy kids and adults this fall
Older adults and other groups at high risk for severe illness might still be able to get vaccinated, the FDA vaccine chief said Tuesday.
The Food and Drug Administration is planning major changes for how Covid vaccines are rolled out and who will be able to get the updated shots this fall.
In a paper published Tuesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary and Dr. Vinay Prasad, the FDA’s new vaccine chief, wrote that any new Covid vaccine now must undergo placebo-controlled clinical trials — meaning, some people would get the actual vaccine while others get an inactive substance like a saline shot, to compare results.
At a planned FDA vaccine panel meeting on Thursday, agency advisor are expected to advise the vaccine makers which strains to target for new shots. The new clinical trial requirement isn't expected to affect the fall rollout for older adults and other people at high risk for severe illness because drugmakers are exempt from additional testing for those groups.
Fall Covid vaccine rollout for healthy kids, adults is likely not going to happen
The FDA is planning major changes for how Covid vaccines are going to be rolled out and who will be able to get the updated shots this fall.Berkeley Lovelace Jr. (NBC News)
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UK suspends trade talks with Israel and attacks ‘repellent’ extremism
UK suspends trade talks with Israel and attacks ‘repellent’ extremism
Foreign secretary David Lammy condemns blocking of aid trucks and calls by Israeli ministers to ‘purify Gaza’Patrick Wintour (The Guardian)
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UK suspends free trade talks with Israel and announces sanctions over West Bank settlers
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/34958452
The U.K. suspended free trade talks with Israel on Tuesday and hit West Bank settlers with sanctions, less than a day after vowing “concrete actions” if Israel didn’t stop its new military offensive in Gaza.
https://apnews.com/article/uk-starmer-israel-gaza-criticism-acabcdb4da0f1368f7e8a471cf494c0e
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Ron DeSantis rips federal tailpipe emission monitoring, 'woke roads'
Florida Man: “They did this infrastructure bill, and you get the bill and they try to give you money. But then you’ve got to jump through all these hoops,” DeSantis said. “I have to monitor tailpipe emissions for Florida drivers. I am not doing that. I’m not doing the woke roads. I’m not doing any of that.”
Ron DeSantis rips federal tailpipe emission monitoring, 'woke roads'
The Governor doesn't want to 'jump through ... hoops' to get federal money, such as curbing pollution and looking at road designs that ripped up urban neighborhoods.A.G. Gancarski (Florida Politics)
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January 6 rioter who was pardoned by Trump arrested for burglary
Zachary Alam was imprisoned for role in Capitol attack and later pardoned, and now allegedly entered Virginia home and stole items
A participant in the January 6 attack pardoned by Donald Trump was recently arrested for burglary and vandalism in Virginia in what is believed to be the first incidence of new charges for a person who took part in the 2021 US Capitol insurrection.
Zachary Alam received one of the longest prison sentences, eight years, for his part in the violence committed in Washington DC by Trump supporters attempting to keep him in office after his 2020 election defeat by Joe Biden.
The judge at his sentencing noted that officers called him “by far the loudest, the most combative and the most violent of the rioters”.
Alam, who has previous convictions including auto theft and driving under the influence, was found in a nearby neighborhood and arrested and charged with felony residential burglary and misdemeanor vandalism, the newspaper said.
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Bernie Agrees: Democratic Party Is a ‘Threat to Democracy’
Bernie Agrees: Democratic Party Is a ‘Threat to Democracy’
In a recent podcast appearance, the senator from Vermont agreed his party “needed accountability” for its handling of the 2024 presidential election.Paulina Rodriguez (The Daily Beast)
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“Fair enough. I’m not gonna argue with that” is hard a wholehearted pressing of the issue that the Democrats are bad. He’s specifically talking about his dissatisfaction with the primary process for President.
He also defends voting for democrats:
“Because it’s easy to say,” said Sanders. “But ‘burning it down’ means children will not have food to eat. The schools will deteriorate. People will not have healthcare. I’m an elected official. I’ve got to represent the people. I can’t turn my back on them.”
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No, the decline started decades before COVID... Republicans, as an institution, have been destroying education in the US going back at least to Reagan. This has been a much longer play with a lot of dedication on the GOP side. As was stacking the courts with as many Federalist Society judges as possible. And creating obstacles to allowing people to exercise their Constitutional right and public duty to vote.
I just looked up the Heritage Foundation. They started in 1973. That's when the Christian Right started getting really involved in things, and Project 2025 is their dream project.
For what it's worth, what Sanders said is a lot softer than the headline implies:
Singh interjected with another question: “But could we not also say, if there hasn’t been a fair primary for the Democrats since 2008, are they not also a threat to democracy?”“Fair enough,” Sanders answered. “I’m not gonna argue with that.”
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Florida Republicans Resist Donald Trump Ending TPS for Venezuelans
Florida Republicans Resist Donald Trump Ending TPS for Venezuelans
The Supreme Court allowing the Trump administration to end TPS protections for Venezuelans may have implications for 350,000 living in the U.S.Andrew Stanton (Newsweek)
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Mexico City mayor's personal secretary and adviser shot dead in the street by gunmen on motorcycle
Mexico City mayor's personal secretary and adviser shot dead in the street by gunmen on motorcycle
Mayor Clara Brugada, who holds the second most powerful political post in Mexico, said her secretary Ximena Guzmán and adviser José Muñoz were killed.CBS News
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ICE Barbie offers her own made-up definition of habeas corpus
Kristi Noem gave an egregiously wrong definition of the legal principle habeas corpus while testifying to senators Tuesday.
“Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country,” Donald Trump’s homeland security secretary said.
She was quickly cut off by the stunned senator who had asked her to define the term, Maggie Hassan. “That’s incorrect,” the New Hampshire Democrat said.
Hassan explained that the well-known legal concept refers to a detained person’s right to know why they are being held so they can challenge their imprisonment in court.
ICE Barbie Offers Her Own Made-Up Definition of Habeas Corpus
Kristi Noem gave the jaw-dropping answer to a roomful of shocked senators.Liam Archacki (The Daily Beast)
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Chinese researchers find eukaryotes originated around 2.72 bln years ago, possibly with hydrogen origins
Chinese researchers have uncovered that eukaryotes originated around 2.72 billion years ago, earlier than the Great Oxidation Event, providing valuable insights into the evolutionary history of eukaryotes.
The findings were published in Nature on Wednesday.
The research team, composed of scientists from the East China Normal University, spent six years collecting sediment samples from salt marshes and mangrove wetlands across China.
Using techniques in computational biology, the team found that eukaryotes evolved before the diversification of all sampled Heimdallarchaeia.
A previous study suggested that eukaryotes are nested within Heimdallarchaeia, but their exact phylogenetic placement within Asgard archaea remains controversial.
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Grok pivots from 'white genocide' to being 'skeptical' about the Holocaust
Summary
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok, integrated into X (formerly Twitter), sparked backlash after promoting the debunked “white genocide” myth and expressing skepticism about the Holocaust death toll.
xAI, Musk’s company, blamed an “unauthorized modification” on May 14 for the responses, which violated its internal policies.
Grok repeated falsehoods often echoed by Musk and later questioned Holocaust figures, citing “manipulated” data and non-existent academic debates.
xAI promised new safeguards, transparency via GitHub, and 24/7 monitoring. Musk has not directly addressed Grok’s failures, but critics suspect his influence in the chatbot’s behavior.
Grok Deletes 'White Genocide' Posts, Is 'Skeptical' About Holocaust
Elon Musk's Grok chatbot from xAI is no longer posting about the myth of 'white genocide' in South Africa but has dabbled in Holocaust denial.Miles Klee (Rolling Stone)
UK sanctions 'godmother' of Israel's settler movement Daniella Weiss
The UK government has announced sanctions on Daniella Weiss, a far-right Israeli settler known as the "godmother" of the settler movement.
Foreign Secretary David Lammy said the move "demonstrates our determination to hold extremist settlers to account as Palestinian communities suffer violence and intimidation".
Weiss, 79, is the leader of a radical settler organisation called Nachala - or homeland - which has also been sanctioned.
For decades, Weiss has been prominent in the founding of Jewish settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, on land captured by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war.
UK sanctions 'godmother' of Israel's settler movement Daniella Weiss
The foreign secretary said the move "demonstrates our determination to hold extremist settlers to account".Tom Bennett (BBC News)
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foggy
in reply to MicroWave • • •You want Boston to throw another tea party? They're game.
No taxation without representation motherfucker.
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in reply to MicroWave • • •States by GDP:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o…
In 2024, states that voted for Harris generated 48% of the GDP, Trump states 52%.
Wikimedia list article
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Baguette
in reply to jordanlund • • •Let's look at Texas voting by county
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Uni…
Now let's look at the proportion of gdp by county
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:T…
Hmm I wonder where most of the money in red states comes from...
File:Texas counties by GDP 2021.png - Wikipedia
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in reply to jordanlund • • •This seems to be a strategic engagement inducing comment but I'll bite.
One additional piece of obvious information will probably adjust initial impressions of the above comment. So Harris "won" 20 states and Trump 30... so using some napkin math and by using the logic that most people would assume by merely looking at that statement (I noticed you didn't actually make a claim one way or the other) that means.... Harris states, on average, generate roughly 30% more GDP, on average, than Trump states.
Edit: Punctuation
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Unknown parent • • •Uh...
Muskovite's primary residence is Boca Chica, Texas. (Much to my chagrin...) 🤷♂️
IninewCrow
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Unknown parent • • •I'm just so fucking pissed that Trump keeps pulling his fucking punches. He's made so many missteps only to walk them back at the last minute. Still fucking horrible, still hurting people, but avoiding the vast majority of the actual impact and lethality of his decisions.
Tariffs being example A, B, C and D.
I do NOT want prices to skyrocket, I do not want people to suffer, I do not want a fucking civil war. But holy shit. You can't play stupid chicken as the president and continuously get away with saying "oops" sorry someone else ruined the sick flip I was going to do over and over.
If he'd been forced to commit, he'd likely already be dead or out of office.
I'm so fucking exhausted.
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in reply to Goodmorningsunshine • • •I agree with but every state has blue voters too
The red states don't have enough blue voters but they do have plenty
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Unknown parent • • •Mine pays for a huge number of them. California.
We're going to vote on whether we want to seriously pursue succeeding from the US in 2028. If this shit doesn't stop, I imagine things will slowly fall apart in this country.
California recently (this year, I believe) became the fourth largest GDP in the world, previously the fifth.
sos.ca.gov/administration/news…
Proposed Initiative Enters Circulation: Requires Future Vote on Whether California Should Become Independent Country :: California Secretary of State
www.sos.ca.govAuli
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in reply to CIA_chatbot • • •If there is a civil war, I'm sure the enemies of the US would rejoice. It's like that onion article that's like "al queda decides to sit back and watch US destroy itself".
But aside from that, I hope the conservatives lose. And I hope after they lose, we learn from history. Don't just let them come crawling back into power like after the first civil war. The ultra rich and their lackeys need to be removed from power, and kept out.
Then again, the 14th amendment should disqualify Trump and a bunch of the republicans, and that doesn't seem to matter.
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in reply to BlameTheAntifa • • •Proposed Initiative Enters Circulation: Requires Future Vote on Whether California Should Become Independent Country :: California Secretary of State
www.sos.ca.govSabinStargem
in reply to MangioneDontMiss • • •California Independence Is One Vote Away - CALEXIT NOW!
Jayson Alipala (CALEXIT NOW!)Pandasdontfly
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in reply to MangioneDontMiss • • •I love it. "Here's a petition to betray the country. Any separatists come forward and put your name on this list."
It will save sooooo much time.
MangioneDontMiss
in reply to mhague • • •(insert wendys meme here)
since you're too dumb to notice, trump already betrayed the country.
kent_eh
in reply to MangioneDontMiss • • •That means it's time to separate the country from Trump.
Far past the time, actually, but it's never a bad time to get started.
Bytemeister
in reply to mhague • • •DarkFuture
in reply to mhague • • •Conservatives betrayed the country when they RE-ELECTED a felon rapist traitor to tank our economy, remove our rights, ignore our Constitution, and sow division amongst Americans.
Us blue states are just tired of giving our money to traitor fuck welfare queens.
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in reply to Lucidlethargy • • •Technically, it isn't a vote for secession, but rather a vote for dedicating resources towards researching the option. Which, honestly, would be better IMO. It gives California options, since we don't exactly know how things will look two-four years from now. We could have AOC sweeping out Trump in a special election, we could have Trump's parade murdering civilians who block the procession, we simply don't know.
So we should all prepare our blue states for the possibility of conflict, be it knowledge, resources, or institution. Hope for the best, expect the worst.
SabinStargem
in reply to BrinkBreaker • • •No, he hasn't really held back. The worst damage has its effects delayed, but will become apparent within two years: The elimination of food and drug standards, the death of NOAA's weather services, the destruction of our scientific institutions, cutting of federal workers of every category.
Our society has been hollowed into a house of cards, and will only require a breeze for everything to fall apart.
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in reply to jjjalljs • • •Personally, I think a United States that has eliminated the GOP, we would actually be able to reobtain Super Saiyan status among the nations of earth. Our greatest weakness, is that many parts of our governance are dated compared to the institutions of the European Union - we can't elect many good politicians, rife with corruption, a broken social identity where American cannot be defined, abusive corporations and employers, failing education, the failure of the social contract, crumbling infrastructure, ect. For the last 40ish or so years, American has been running on inertia and a big military stick, which masked the erosion of America.
Fix these things, and suddenly the US might become a genuine super power again.
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in reply to SabinStargem • • •It's going to take a helluva lot longer than "suddenly" for the rest of the world to trust the USA again.
You fuckwits knew what Trump was and you went and made the same stupid fucking mistake again 4 years later.
Even if you kick Trump and the MAGAts out, how can we trust that you won't simply let them seize power again in a couple of years?
It's going to take a generation of sane progressive leaders before anyone will start to forgive and forget.
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in reply to CIA_chatbot • • •It’ll be super fucked if we do. If it’s left vs right you’ll have most of the major cities besieged by rural folk. If it’s state on state, Red and blue states both will have to “secure” vast swaths of their populations or suffer constant sabotage.
This isn’t as easily cut and dry, north vs south, as the US civil war was. Modern civil war would be a hell of destroyed cities and slaughtered or starving innocents. Just look at all current conflicts. You may be tired now, but it’s nothing compared to the reality of what USCWII would be.
Kusimulkku
Unknown parent • • •Weird to frame the breakup wars and ethnic conflict of Yugoslavia around the part that the US played in it. Assuming that was what you were talking about
GoodLuckToFriends
in reply to invertedspear • • •Closest analogous conflicts I could imagine would be when the us bombed eastern europe. Urban areas would be bereft of food and incoming supplies, rural areas would be bereft of most foods and incoming supplies, and everyone devolves into roving gangs and desperate attempts to fortify an area of 'trusted' neighbors.
Reading the first hand accounts of what people went through is enough to make me horrified whenever anyone talks about the possibility of a civil war with glee. They don't have the imagination or the knowledge to comprehend what neighbor vs. neighbor really looks like.
GoodLuckToFriends
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in reply to Etterra • • •Wrong perspective. Every time he says words, I wish HE were never born.
It's true, though, I can't watch any extended interview with him, my blood pressure can't take it, and there simply isn't enough liquor in the house to make it through a hour long interview.
LanguageIsCool
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in reply to MicroWave • • •DarkFuture
in reply to MicroWave • • •He's a literal traitor.
Americans are just too stupid to see it in anything but hindsight.
Assuming the fascists don't win and rewrite history, he will be considered a traitor in the history books.
barneypiccolo
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in reply to MicroWave • • •When I say "not my president", it's not me refusing to acknowledge Trump's authority/ being a sovereign citizen. It's me saying he is acting in a deliberately antagonist way. He sees us as the enemy. He isn't leading, in fact he's doing the opposite.
Here's what's supposed to be normal: even if you don't vote for someone in office, you are still their responsibility. JB Pritzker still has a responsibility to protect Republicans in Illinois. Greg Abbott still has the responsibility to protect democrats in Texas.
finitebanjo
in reply to IninewCrow • • •barneypiccolo
in reply to BrinkBreaker • • •Walking back the tariffs was always part of the plan. The whole thing is the biggest market manipulation fraud in history. He puts the tariffs on for a few days, the market tanks, them he postpones the
tariffs, and the market bounces back.
He's only been in about 3 months, and he's already done it 3 or 4 times. It's all a scam, everything with these mobsters is a scam.