Holy crap the number of candidates running in the LaSalle—Émard—Verdun byelection is wild. It's like... 75+ names?? I want to see what the ballot looks like.
As the news cycle focuses on the latest apparent assassination attempt, the real story here is that arms profiteers have flooded the United States with weapons—while social crises have intensified—to such an extent that even billionaires like Donald Trump are experiencing the consequences.
There have already been hundreds of mass shootings in the United States in 2024. Trump is just getting a small taste of how the rest of us live. The difference is that the rest of us don't have the Secret Service and millions of dollars in security to protect us.
As usual, the ruling class create a threat to us, profit on it, then pretend to be the chief victims. The solution is not more police repression, nor more state-imposed gun control (since that would only be enforced via more police violence). We have to organize collectively and horizontally to defend ourselves against arms profiteers, police, and politicians.
Found on FB with the following text:
"While I was trying to photograph the Northern Lights in the wee hours of the morning, my cat decided to photobomb the picture. Since I had the camera’s shutter speed maxed out, it ended up leaving a sort of ghostly image of my cat in the photo.
Township of Holway, Taylor County, Wisconsin
Admin asked me to edit my post with the nearest city. The nearest city to the location of this picture is Owen, WI, which is 9 miles away."
Photographer: Kristie Kohn
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Some people will complain that a magazine or journal or professional society shouldn't endorse a candidate.
But if an arsonist was running for office, campaigning on the promise of bigger and more dangerous fires, those people wouldn't scold firefighters for endorsing the opponent.
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Maybe Trump should stop messing with the Haitians
Just saying 🤷🏼♂️
NEW: How Jared Kushner’s Saudi-funded Affinity Partners has invested over $1 billion - including in an obscure deal with WeWork's ex-CEO Adam Neumann
In July Sen. Wyden launched a probe of Kushner's firm and the potential conflicts of interest as foreign govts try to influence Kushner and Trump as he runs for president.
I put together a full overview of the companies in which Kushner's Affinity Partners has invested to-date:
GOP governor candidate opposes contraceptives for young people - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/09/gop-governor-candidate-opposes-contraceptives-for-young-people/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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ACAB FOREVER and fuck Adams. i thought nobody could be worse than Giuliani and Bloomberg yet this guy has been the fucking worse.
Bill de Blasio wasn't Koch, but he was a far more competent and better mayor than this fucking asshat.
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![[OC] US incarceration rate compared to European rate. Despite making up only 5% of the world's population, the US is home to around 25% of all convicts worldwide.](https://social.trom.tf/photo/preview/640/15837493 "[OC] US incarceration rate compared to European rate. Despite making up only 5% of the world's population, the US is home to around 25% of all convicts worldwide.")
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Ok, this is pretty cool 😎.
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in reply to Meg • • •So like... My read of these results is that they're real bad for the liberals (in the sense that it confirms their massive drop in popularity in both ridings), kinda good but not as good as expected for the conservatives (in that they didn't make it even closer in Manitoba), and pretty mediocre for the NDP (in that they did about as well as you might expect).
(I won't pretend to be able to credibly parse what this means for the bloc)
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