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DemocracyMattersALot , (edited ) to random
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June 1, 2020 – Declaring himself “your president of law and order,” Trump threatened to summon “all available federal resources — civilian and military” — to quell protesters who demanded justice after the killing of George Floyd. He referred to demonstrators as “an angry mob.”

antipode77 ,
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@DemocracyMattersALot

GOP - Grand Obstructionist Party

Make sure, they can't implement their vile plans.

Proposals to be implemented in a second Trump term.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-second-term-plans-wildest-proposals-1234947327/

Need info on voting :
Make sure you are registered to vote !

https://vote.gov/
https://www.vote.org/
https://justfacts.votesmart.org/
https://www.vote411.org/

antipode77 , to bookstodon group
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Eagerly awaiting my order of

Bundle 7-9 of The Terry and the Pirates master collection.

https://cloverpress.us/collections/terry-and-the-pirates-the-master-collection

The complete strip will be collected in twelve deluxe 11" x 14" hardcover volumes, with a complementary thirteenth volume by Dean Mullaney and Bruce Canwell that tells the behind-the-scenes story of the strip.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_and_the_Pirates

antipode77 , to random
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https://americansfortaxfairness.org/tag/democracy/

Democracy survives and thrives only when everyone can participate and have confidence that the rules are not rigged against them. But in recent years, billionaires have deployed their fortunes to influence candidates and elected officials at every level of government and even tried to sway the judiciary. We must tax billionaires fairly to protect democracy, and we must protect democracy to tax billionaires fairly.

https://americansfortaxfairness.org/wp-content/uploads/Billionaire-Family.pdf

futurebird , (edited ) to random
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Trump has said FOUR times that he will withhold federal funding from schools that require vaccines. Not just COVID. ALL.

This is most schools. This is hitting me where I work. This will lead to children dead from measles. It's obvious, inevitable.

Someone on here said they just couldn't bear to vote for Biden to keep Trump from office since at least under Trump there were better masking rules.

I hope that person sees this.

Worse is worse.

edit: because I don't know measles from smallpox

antipode77 ,
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@futurebird

The consequences of getting one of these diseases can be life altering or even deadly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syL1ATP3jEE

Paul Alexander developed polio at the age of 6. The disease left Paul paralyzed from the neck down and unable to breathe on his own. He was placed in an iron lung, a large metal cylinder that varies air pressure to stimulate breathing. Paul died at age 78, accomplishing more than anyone thought was possible.

[ Contracted polio in 1952 - No vaccination was available.]

rbreich , to random
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50 billionaire families have already spent $600 million on the 2024 elections.

More than half—$416 million—went to Republicans or conservative groups that want to extend Trump's tax cuts for the rich.

Could there be a clearer example of how big money corrupts our democracy?

antipode77 ,
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@rbreich

https://americansfortaxfairness.org/tag/democracy/

Billionaire Families influencingPolitics.
https://americansfortaxfairness.org/wp-content/uploads/Billionaire-Family.pdf

rbreich , to random
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Unionized Apple store workers in MD voted to authorize a strike.

Apple has been accused of not bargaining in good faith over pay.

But since contract talks began, Apple has announced ~$150 BILLION in stock buybacks.

I don't want to hear that Apple can't afford to pay workers.

antipode77 ,
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@rbreich

Stock buybacks used to be ILLEGAL stock price manipulation.

Make this ILLEGAL again.

Nonilex , to random
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What #Trump promised #BigOil as he asked them for $1B for his campaign

Trump pledged to scrap President #Biden’s policies on #ElectricVehicles & #wind #energy, as well as other initiatives opposed by the #FossilFuel industry.

As he sat w/some of the country’s top #oil execs at his Mar-a-Lago Club last month, one exec complained how they continued to face burdensome #environmental #regulations despite spending $400M to lobby the #Biden admin…

#Climate
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/09/trump-oil-industry-campaign-money/

antipode77 ,
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@Nonilex

Advertisement.

Government for sale ! Apply at Trump Tower 721–725 Fifth Avenue, New York !

Special Clearance sale everything must go, "owner" is in need of money.

It's a lot cheaper than paying your taxes.

It's a lot cheaper than obeying the law.
Any fine will be just "cost of business".
Guaranteed NO prison time.

Paying your dues is just for the "little" people, not for the "large" people.

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THIS NEEDS TO CHANGE 😡

jsrailton , (edited ) to random
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I can confidently diagnose #betterhelp as sociopaths.

Promised therapy customers privacy...then gave their mental health info to advertisers.

Victims get less than ten bucks each.

Company made billion+ in revenue last year alone.

In a just society with good privacy laws, they'd face existential civil & criminal consequences.

https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/nation-world/betterhelp-therapy-class-action-settlement-refund/507-b4ef5e0f-c722-4562-95e9-c3cdd7738d1a

#therapy #psychology #privacy #psychotherapy #mentalhealth #telehealth #medicine #HIPAA #surveillancecapitalism #advertising #facebook #meta

antipode77 ,
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@jsrailton

A 7.8 million fine is of course chump change for a company with 1,000 million + in revenue.

Proposal : Add a year in prison for the CEO and CFO. That will get their attention !

Nonilex , to random
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#SCOTUS is hearing a challenge today to a federal #law prosecutors used to charge >350 people who attacked the Capitol on #Jan6.
>100 have been convicted & sentenced under the statute for obstructing or impeding an ofcl proceeding—the joint session that convened to confirm Biden’s victory.

The case could impact #Trump’s federal trial in DC for trying to remain in power, 2 charges he faces are based on the same #obstruction statute.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/04/16/supreme-court-jan-6-obstruction-case-trump-rioters/

antipode77 ,
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@Nonilex

The conservatives on the Supreme Court are getting ever more brazen about their partisanship.

That's because there are no consequences in sight until everybody is thoroughly disgusted by their power grab.

antipode77 , to random
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Debunking the myth of the "genius" Billionaire.

https://youtu.be/_pUxqKqnMlQ?si=I-mZrtWCNaQH9_nW

... Brian Klaas joins us to debunk a common misconception about wealth – that all those who have it are smarter than average. Klaas uses probability to explain that though this is an easy assumption to make, it’s technically not correct.

Thinking smarter and working harder does not always make you rich; most of the time, it’s just about being positioned at the luckiest spot on the bell curve.

futurebird , to random
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Might be possible to reach some of the weabo nerds obsessed with the superiority of Japan by educating them on the history of labor (not all labor, but some) has been supported & respected in governing institutions & granted access to power.

To this day Japan's government provides remarkable support for "Traditional Japanese Crafts" (there is of course controversy about what properly fits in that category)

But, that's WHY so many Japanese goods are just better made. We could do it too.

antipode77 ,
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@futurebird

The same applies to Culture as it does to Biology, Economics and many other fields.

A single idea Monopolizing the mind is a bad thing. It prevents us from finding solutions to issues, that otherwise might be solved through completely new mindsets or paradigm's.

Try a thousand different things and succeed at some is a beter evolutionary strategy, than being stuck in a tunnel vision with no viable ideas.

We need lots of sensible differing viewpoints.

GottaLaff , (edited ) to random
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1/...

⏳N.Y. district attorney supports a 30-day delay in Donald ’s hush money trial

The trial was scheduled to begin on March 25.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-trial-delay-rcna143481

antipode77 ,
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@GottaLaff

Looks like "death by a 1000 cuts" for the judiciary and all other people involved.

I am reminded of this :
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarndyce_and_Jarndyce

The second of these cases is generally identified as the dispute over the will of the "Acton Miser" William Jennens of Acton, Suffolk. Jennens v Jennens commenced in 1798 and was abandoned in 1915 (117 years later) when the legal fees had exhausted the Jennens estate of funds; thus it had been ongoing for 55 years when Bleak House was published.

GottaLaff , to random
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Via Ian Sams:

You can’t make this up.

On page 72 of the transcript, it is not President Biden who admits to “misremembering” things from just moments earlier

It’s the Special Counsel himself

antipode77 ,
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@GottaLaff

The MSM blindly accepting Hur's "expertise in neurology" without verifying the original source material.
Democrsts did that for them.

An expose on this debacle is here :
https://popular.info/p/manufacturing-a-political-crisis

"while the report disparaged Mr. Biden’s mental health, medical experts on Friday noted that its judgments were not based on science and that its methods bore no resemblance to those that doctors use to assess possible cognitive impairment." David Loewenstein

onmywalk , to random
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7 chapters in - damn if #WilWheaton doesn't read @pluralistic 's #TheBezzle like he is Marty Hench. This story has me looking for corners to hide in and keep listening!

antipode77 ,
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@MayInToronto @no_spoon @onmywalk @pluralistic

Doctorow’s First Law:

“Any time someone puts a lock on something that belongs to you, but won’t give you the key, that lock is not there for your benefit.”

antipode77 , to bookstodon group
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An ongoing story "Reading the Herculaneum scrolls."

https://scrollprize.org/

Making new scans for future processing.
https://scrollprize.substack.com/p/new-scans-of-herculaneum-papyri-at

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/premium/article/herculaneum-scrolls-vesuvius-challenge-seales

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-21-year-old-used-ai-to-decipher-text-from-a-scroll-that-hasnt-been-read-in-2000-years-180983084/

antipode77 , to random
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An interview with Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic)

About the issues in his new book ' Chokepoint Capitalism'.
He also calls for the un-rigging of labor markets.

Cory said a lot of interesting things in this interview.

https://www.thesling.org/video/slingshot-episode-5/ ( 58m )

[ 293 Firms killed by Google :
https://killedbygoogle.com/
https://www.bigtechontrial.com/
https://www.thesling.org/
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/
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    antipode77 ,
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    Agreed. Even when disappears from , the danger to from the remains.

    The people and organisations behind https://www.project2025.org/policy/
    will continue to gnaw at the foundations of Democratic Civil Society.

    Therefore improving and reforming the current systems is a VERY impottant task on ALL levels of government.

    Mother Jones has an in depth series on American Oligarchs.

    A recommended look into the mirror.🏰

    https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/01/american-oligarchy/

    carnage4life , to random
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    As a Google user it feels like terrible timing to be cutting costs by getting rid of the people who give feedback on whether search results are good or not.

    It’s giving eating their seed corn.

    antipode77 ,
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    @FeralRobots @lymphomation @carnage4life

    Where will it all end ?

    https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/dataviz/dfa/distribute/chart/#quarter:135;series:Net%20worth;demographic:income;population:1,3,5,7,9,11;units:levels;range:1989.3,2023.2

    https://www.statista.com/chart/19635/wealth-distribution-percentiles-in-the-us/

    10 percent of the richest people in the United States own almost 70 percent of the country’s total wealth. As of Q1 of 2021, the top 10 percent held 69.8 percent of total U.S. net worth (which is the value of all assets a person holds minus all their liabilities).

    https://eu.usatoday.com/story/money/2023/12/06/top-1-american-earners-more-wealth-middle-class/71769832007/

    The top 1% holds $38.7 trillion in wealth. Those households hold about 26% of all wealth.

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    @lymphomation @FeralRobots @carnage4life

    One of the primary causes is "Rigging the game".
    On a playing field with unequal rules, you can't win. No matter how hard you work. Change the rules to be more fair. At least then you do have a chance.

    Rigged - Dean Baker
    How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer
    https://deanbaker.net/books/rigged.htm

    Amazon's anti trust paradox. - Lina Khan
    Currently head of the FTC.
    https://www.yalelawjournal.org/article/amazons-antitrust-paradox

    @bookstodon

    https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/dataviz/dfa/distribute/chart/#quarter:135;series:Net%20worth;demographic:income;population:1,3,5,7,9,11;units:levels;range:1989.3,2023.2 https://www.statista.com/chart/19635/wealth-distribution-percentiles-in-the-us/ 10 percent of the richest people in the United States own almost 70 percent of the country’s total wealth. As of Q1 of 2021, the top 10 percent held 69.8 percent of total U.S. net worth (which is the value of all assets a person holds minus all their liabilities). https://eu.usatoday.com/story/money/2023/12/06/top-1-american-earners-more-wealth-middle-class/71769832007/ The top 1% holds $38.7 trillion in wealth. Those households hold about 26% of all wealth.

    There has been an enormous upward redistribution of income in the United States in the last four decades. In his most recent book, Baker shows that this upward redistribution was not the result of globalization and the natural workings of the market. Rather it was the result of conscious policies that were designed to put downward pressure on the wages of ordinary workers while protecting and enhancing the incomes of those at the top. Baker explains how rules on trade, patents, copyrights, corporate governance, and macroeconomic policy were rigged to make income flow upward.
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    • antipode77 , to bookstodon group
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    Free book

    The End of Loser Liberalism.
    Chapter 1

    . . .

    The political system and the “free market” are rigged to the advantage of the rich and powerful, which makes it difficult for progressives to make headway in pushing policies that advance the interests of everyone else.

    There are enormous obstacles in our path, but if we don’t know where we are going, then we can be absolutely sure that we are not going to get there.

    https://deanbaker.net/books/books.htm

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