“We need to know who is going to stand up with us! And this choice is clear. Joe Biden bet on the American worker, while Donald Trump blamed the American worker”
United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain
Although this clip is a few months old the sentiment is still true
If you truly are moral, if you truly care about the American worker then you must vote Joe Biden
@flexghost Even more significant IMHO, is #LinaKahn & the FTC #NonCompeteAgreementBan —which I would amend from “FTC bans noncompete agreements, making it easier for workers to quit” to making it easier for #Workers to compete, innovate & help level the playing field for the American #WorkingClass 🙌 💙🇺🇸
The insane wails of people lying about Merrick Garland are getting more and more ridiculous. Sidney Powell investigation overt in 9/21. By 1/19/22, DOJ had Rudy's Jan6 comms. There were overt subpoenas targeting Trump by May. Privilege fights WITH TRUMP started in 6/22.
Jonathan Greenberg:
The only reason that SCOTUS’ evil immunity delay strategy will prevent Trump's Jan6 coup trial & conviction before election is that AG blocked his prosecution for 20 mos…
@GottaLaff@emptywheel The only way to fix this is for the People to rise up and VOTE!. Vote everywhere. Vote out every MAGA Republican in the House, the Senate, governor seats, State AG, all down the ballot. The People need to take control by using their vote. Then change laws, and impeach a few SCOTUS justices, expand the court, fix the Electoral College. Bring back America. Is this a long shot? Yep. But we are capable of doing hard things. #VoteBlue2024
STEPHANOPOULOS: Just to sum up. You support #Trump for pres even if he's convicted in classified docs case. You support him for pres even though you believe he contributed to an insurrection. You support him for pres even though you believe he's lying about the last election. You support him for pres even if he's convicted in Manhattan case. I just want to say, the answer to that is yes, correct?
A pack horse librarian delivering books in rural Kentucky in 1938. During the Great Depression, the Pack Horse Library Project was a Works Progress Administration (WPA) program in which the librarians, who were often called "book women" or "book ladies," delivered books to remote parts of Appalachia.
California red areas all the way home. Billboards for The Epoch Times. Trump banners. Fascist variations of the American flag. Anti-Newsom/Pelosi signs.
@GottaLaff So many people assume states like CA, OR, and WA are "safe" blue states. While the odds are fairly good that they will remain mostly in the D column, we should not get complacent. Here in OR, there is strong support for the tRump party. Most of it is in the more rural areas, but it feels like it's creeping into our suburbs. My brother in WA has noticed this in his area as well. It's frightening. WTH is wrong with people?!🤦♀️ Safe travels. For everyone else, don't despair. #VoteBlue2024
As immigration debate swirls, Girl Scouts quietly welcome hundreds of young migrant girls. (NYC💙):
Once a week in a midtown Manhattan hotel, dozens of Girl Scouts gather in a spare room made homey by string lights & children's drawings -earn badges, go on field trips to the Statue of Liberty, & learn how to navigate the subway in a city most have just begun to call home *newest members of NYC's largest GS troop *live in an emergency shelter-.
A variety of world leaders have positioned themselves to capitalize on this global wave of extremism - much of it far-right, bleeding into authoritarian aspirations. Trump is clearly one of them.
There is no room for protest 3rd party votes in this country. Those votes will definitely make a statement though that's all it will be and the benefactor will be Trump.
If that's what you want, then don't be a hypocrite about it. Own it and vote for Trump.
LISTEN: Don’t lose the plot. Today’s #SCOTUS decision in the Sec 3 case is not just about Trump, it’s also insulates congressional insurrectionists. More alarming is that the concurring justices are telling us in stark terms what is going on with the conservatives on the Court. And it may be worse than we thought.
What makes everything extra complicated is that what happens in America seems almost impossible in the Netherlands were I live. My brain really melts daily when I read what is happening.
But I want to understand because what happens in America has a great impact on us in Europe.
Supreme Court to weigh #Trump immunity, keeps D.C. trial on hold— Bloomberg #SCOTUS
“Supreme Court to decide Trump’s immunity claim in election interference case
“Even if the justices ultimately rule against Trump, the court’s intervention adds a further delay, meaning his trial will not start for weeks, if not months.
And ironically the media apparently believes that after they successfully replace our democracy fascism, they’ll still retain their CoNational rights to free speech & free press, be able to protect their sources, etc. They are gullible idiots—they may as well believe in the tooth Fairy !
TY, Baldwin's Senate seat is in jeopardy, but Sen Warren's probably isn't, but it's concerning that wealthy donors are trying to oust prominent Dem MOC:
Deaton (R), fmr US Marine & cryptocurrency ATTY is challenging Sen Warren as she runs for her 3rd term in office.
He recently moved to MA, released a campaign video highlighting his years in the Marines serving as a judge advocate -& his career as a lawyer in part rep. mesothelioma victims.
MATH EXERCISE: #Trump's immunity appeal paused his DC trial on Dec. 7 — w 88 days to go until Mar 4 trial was set to begin
That means if #SCOTUS sends case back to Chutkan, she will give Trump roughly 88 days to prepare for trial. If SCOTUS denies the stay on, say, Feb. 22, that would line up Trump's trial for May 20 ..the precise date he's slated to go on trial in Florida, but which seems highly unlikely to remain on track #legal#TrumpIndictment
@GottaLaff@underthestars
In 2015 I kept screaming "but SCOTUS", when everyone around me was screaming "BUT HER EMAILS!!" Clinton wasn't my first choice, but the blocking of a SC justice appointment was a clear message of the GOP's corrupt intentions. Praying we aren't too late to stop the loss of our democracy. #VoteBlue2024
Raskin: All we need from a special prosecutors is a decision…he didn't need to take the cheap shots & you could take the same type of shots @ #Trump who recently confused a woman he sexually attacked & lied about w 1 of his wives. It reminds me of the gender-based cheap shots they took @ Clinton & now all these age-based cheap shots @ #Biden. You can turn them around use them on Trump fumbling his way thru daily trying to figure out which criminal case he’s attending
@GottaLaff I'd rather have a president who can't remember a date than one who regularly and completely ignores the law and can't remember the truth! #VoteBlue2024
Okay, so we've chosen #degrowth. Now let's try to imagine what our daily lives might be like in this strange (yet somehow familiar) new world...
This is what fancy terms like “degrowth” and “sustainable living” actually mean. They mean we consume less energy and buy less stuff. It is the world our grandmothers knew.
It means that you fix the umbrella you broke, you sew your t-shirt with a needle and a thread when it gets torn, and certainly you don’t throw it away and buy another one when it gets out of fashion. Perhaps you first wear it for going out, then you wear it at home, and lastly, you use it to dust the bookshelves.
It means you grow your own food (if you have land) and cook from scratch. You save meat for special occasions. If you buy food at a market, it doesn’t come in colorful plastic bags, but the clerk will wrap it for you into an old newspaper or something. Or she’ll ask you to bring your Tupperware and glass jars next time. And if you actually do buy something wrapped in plastic or aluminum foil, you will definitely save that for later re-use. Just like your grandma did.
You don’t travel as much, mostly you just stay home because there is lots of stuff to do (remember: gardening, sewing, and repairs). You don’t replace your phone every year, not even every two years, but you keep it as long as it works. And work it should for a long time because, again, no planned obsolescence.
It is a life of fewer changes and a much calmer pace. Less hustle, fewer toys, but more time to read books and listen to each other.
It is not such a grim lifestyle. Most people enjoyed the 1960s (or perhaps the 1970s in Europe; we were lagging behind because we had to rebuild our cities after they were bombed to the ground in WWII). It was a time that already had all the perks of modernity but none of the pathological perversions of capitalism.
People could enjoy a well-developed medical service, abundant food supply, relatively cheap travel, and lots of opportunities for self-development. Most of them were no longer forced to be farmers (by harsh conditions) but could pursue other interests if they fancied them. In a sense, it was the best of both worlds. It wasn’t a bad life at all!