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Yesterday, 37 Democratic Senators voted to pass the anti-trans NDAA. Those same Dems refused to allow Senator Baldwin to advance an amendment to remove anti-trans provisions from the bill. EITM has released an easy to read list of Senators who voted for it. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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I read this chart differently. It says people disapprove of these extreme promises when asked. That doesn't mean they care about them, or voted based on them. If anything, I read it as evidence that people shrugged and said "meh, whatever" about this vile stuff when figuring out who to vote for.

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Also, a significant number of Americans didn't vote, period. If this is a poll of the general populace (it appears to be? I can't get past the paywall) and not confirmed 2024 voters, it's not wise to say "the majority believes this, but voted Trump."
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Trump won the popular vote, but did not even win the majority. And that's just a count of the folks who *did* vote. He won a MUCH smaller chunk of the general populace. 36% of eligible voters didn't even bother to show up.

You do know that they are supposed to work for *us,* right?

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The Dems are not grown-ups in the room secretly playing 5d chess, they are capitulators submitting to a person they've accurately named as fascist before he even takes office. This isn't about my poor widdle feelings, this is a case of "history will judge them harshly, and so should we"

Mass deportation would decimate the construction industry and make housing prices skyrocket well past its current unaffordability. Which is secondary to the core issue-- that it would be horrific and inhumane. But where is mainstream media on that obvious economic impact?
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Corporate agriculture will likely find horrific ways to contract with prisons for slave labor and manage to carve out a dystopian path to survival. But small crew independent contractors and construction? Nope.

I have a real distaste for talking about genocide in terms of "guys it will make tomatoes and rent more expensive," but also my faith in people wanting to prevent genocide for genocide prevention's sake is at an all-time low

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Mass deportation would decimate the construction industry and make housing prices skyrocket well past its current unaffordability. Which is secondary to the core issue-- that it would be horrific and inhumane. But where is mainstream media on that obvious economic impact?

Even Sanders is saying he can't wait to work with Elon. I used to respect the guy as a guy of principle (if a terrible judge of character when it came to staff). But nope, he turned out to be a hack, too

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And anyone wanting to be like "oh he's calling their bluff," no. He has policy and budget priorities and he's willing to see if he can't get them through by offering to collaborate with a billionaire fascist. And that's what it is: collaboration.

In 2024, several New Hampshire Democrats, afraid that anti-trans attacks would work, voted in favor of a trans surgery ban and bathroom bill. They lost more seats than most other states. Now the R majority is ramping up targeting us. Capitulation didn't work. National Dems, take note.

Hard to do mass deportations if you can't pay your jackboot ICE thugs

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When I said gum up the works and jam the gears I was talking to Democrats, but holy cow he may do it to himself

n 2024, several New Hampshire Democrats, afraid that anti-trans attacks would work against them, voted in favor of a trans surgery ban and bathroom bill. They lost more seats than most other states. Now the R majority is ramping up targeting us. Capitulation didn't work. National Dems, take note.

In 2024, New Hampshire Democrats, afraid that anti-trans attacks would work against them, voted in favor of a trans surgery ban and bathroom bill. They lost more seats than most other states. Now the R majority is ramping up targeting us. Capitulation didn't work. National Dems, take note.

Yuck! I hate to have to admit I've gotten lazy, when it comes to Slackware. I've been lulled with running it on semi current hardware. I decided to run it on an old (~2009) consumer laptop running win7. With 4GB ram and an old cpu, its been nutz. Install was tolerable but update and Sbo? #Slackware
#slackware

KDE is a nightmare (slowness), so back to FluxBox. Might try out the Cholesterol-Free desktop. Anyone have any luck with it resource wise? And running browsers? Especially Chrome? Fuhghetaboutit!!! I need to stop tho cause 30 years ago, this would have been a weekend vs an hour!!! #Slackware #Linux

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Yuck! I hate to have to admit I've gotten lazy, when it comes to Slackware. I've been lulled with running it on semi current hardware. I decided to run it on an old (~2009) consumer laptop running win7. With 4GB ram and an old cpu, its been nutz. Install was tolerable but update and Sbo? #Slackware

#Linux #slackware

If any publishers are out there, I have a book proposal on this very topic that I'd love to get in your hands!

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Hayes on King Elon demanding House Republicans tank the CR and shut down the government, tweeting about it 70 (!) times today👇🏽 PSA: He is not doing this for the good of the country. FULL: www.instagram.com/reel/DDvo_gV...

The deepest irony is that the only reason we can afford any of this is because of the settlement we received after getting tear gassed and baton round bullet-scarred in 2020. It was nice having cash for five minutes, I guess

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Switched to buying all the necessities in bulk so we have backstock* Upgraded our home security** Rushed through home repairs and buying home repair materials*** Got meds filled for 90 days & getting my blood tested for vaccine needs**** Got the baby a passport. Normal post-election stuff.

Switched to buying all the necessities in bulk so we have backstock* Upgraded our home security** Rushed through home repairs and buying home repair materials*** Got meds filled for 90 days & getting my blood tested for vaccine needs**** Got the baby a passport. Normal post-election stuff.
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Also installed a whole home surge protector and joined a low income home solar lease program, because energy deregulation. Still have to download my data to personal servers and lock down cloud-based stuff, because... everything.
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Oh and invested in a new store of N95s, kn94s, and @flomask.bsky.social for the family. And buying new and backup filters for all the home air filters because COVID is still real and... so is this. bsky.app/profile/phil...

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Today, Democratic Senators refused to hold a vote to remove the anti-trans amendment targeting healthcare of the trans children of service members from the NDAA. Only 14 Senators voted against the final bill. Subscribe to support our journalism. Guest post from Mira Lazine.

Hard to describe the level of nausea I feel watching Dems pivot from "he's a fascist who will end this country" to "we're just gonna see where we can be bipartisan and avoid picking fights" in one month flat
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And you know, I have a lot of quiet critiques of the whole "don't comply in advance" command broadly applied, because I sometimes see it directed at vulnerable private individuals who probably SHOULD be thinking about how to be more strategic about life under a vengeful fascist. But Dems?
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MAGA had been a reality for nine years now. If you're a politician don't have the stomach to stand up to fascists, you have had AMPLE time to move the fuck on and make room for someone who WILL manifest meaningful opposition to an existential fascistic threat to democracy.

Please let this be his single-minded obsession to the exclusion of all others for the next four years

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TRUMP-VOTING SOUTH DAKOTA FARMER: “Half our workers are foreign-born… it’s an open secret farms are held up by undocumented workers… if they round them up within 2 days we won’t have food… we have to trust (Trump) won’t do what they say they will.” 🤔😕
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