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Can homeless people be fined for sleeping outside? A rural Oregon city asks the US Supreme Court ( apnews.com )

The scenes were emblematic of the crisis gripping the small, Oregon mountain town of Grants Pass, where a fierce fight over park space has become a battleground for a much larger, national debate on homelessness that has reached the U.S. Supreme Court....

wdlindsy , 2 months ago to random

"Instead of living off MAGA fumes in a race he is unable to win, Sideshow Bob should just drop out.

There is no path to victory for Bob. None. Zero. Zilch.

Of course, Bob’s not in the race to win. He’s in it to steal votes from Biden in a desperate effort to try and help Trump win the election. His campaign admitted as much earlier this week."

~ Scott Dworkin

#RFKJr #Trump #Biden #ThirdParty
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https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/sideshow-bob-should-drop-out

wdlindsy , 2 months ago to random

"Rural white voters have long enjoyed outsize power in American politics. They have inflated voting power in the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House and the Electoral College. …

The unfortunate fact is that polls suggest many rural white people’s commitment to the American political system is eroding."

~ Thomas Schaller

#WhiteRuralVoters #WhiteRuralRage #ElectoralCollege #Senate #MinorityRule
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https://theconversation.com/why-rural-white-americans-resentment-is-a-threat-to-democracy-224346

Zelenskyy straight-up said Ukraine is going to lose if Congress doesn't send more aid ( www.businessinsider.com )

Biden's campaign raised $90 million in March. Trump's war chest isn't even close ( www.usatoday.com )

President Joe Biden's reelection campaign says it raised a whopping $90 million last month with help from the national party....

Some people are being given thousands of dollars with no strings attached in universal basic income trials. They mostly spend the cash wisely. ( www.businessinsider.com )

wdlindsy , 2 months ago to random

Jay Kuo takes a sobering look today about how misinformation gets planted in the public square and then takes root and becomes "truth" in the minds of susceptible people.

Case in point: in 1998, the Lancet published a study by Andrew Wakefield which claimed to show a link between vaccines and autism. Kuo writes,

"The entire study was bogus."

#misinformation #vaccines #autism
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https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/shady-data-and-misinformation

wdlindsy , 2 months ago to random

"On March 24, on Washington Week, foreign affairs journalist Anne Applebaum said: 'Trump has decided that he doesn’t want money to go to Ukraine… It's really an extraordinary moment; we have an out-of-power ex-president who is in effect dictating American foreign policy on behalf of a foreign dictator or with the interests of a foreign dictator in mind.'”

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Trump #Putin #Russia #Ukraine
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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-2-2024

GottaLaff , 2 months ago to random

#Trump Media & Technology Group sued 2 of its co-founders seeking to force them to give up their co & leadership.

Wesley Moss & Andrew Litinsky, both former contestants on The Apprentice, "failed spectacularly" in their leadership of the company & made "reckless & wasteful decisions" that damaged it, lawsuit alleges.

The 2 sued Trump Media earlier this year claiming their stake should be more
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2024/04/03/Trump-Media-sues-co-founders-merger/8781712145172/

NATO Proposes $100 Billion, Five-Year Fund to Aid Ukraine ( www.bloomberg.com )

rbreich , 2 months ago to random

Between 1978 and 2022:

-Worker pay grew by 15%

-Top exec pay jumped by 1,209%

Major US CEOs are now paid 344 times more than their typical employees.

When I say corporate CEOs are exploiting labor, this is what I mean.

GottaLaff , 3 months ago to random

This day. Already.

Another 🇨🇦 house we wanted to see, already sold. Then take the damn listing down. That's happened 2x in 2 days.

Roofer supposed to fix leak at our Calif. home for sale this wkend. Supposed to pour🌧️ so he'd have to cancel, we;d have to put hold on house; coming today to see if he can do it. Sigh. Did I mention we discovered he's a major Trumpy? We noticed 2 stickers on his truck. I wanted to fire him but can't rt now

Can't sign in to Threads from Mac (not really a bad thing)

GottaLaff , 3 months ago to random

😢#RIP “Louis Gossett Jr., the first Black man to win a supporting actor Oscar and an Emmy winner for his role in the seminal TV miniseries “Roots,” has died. He was 87.

Gossett’s nephew told The Associated Press that the actor died Thursday night in Santa Monica, California. No cause of death was revealed.”

https://apnews.com/article/louis-gossett-jr-dies-1e86e1441ec8b614a282f3de22490a07?taid=6606bb32f963d30001514cc1&utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter

wdlindsy , 3 months ago to random

Rebecca Crosby and Judd Legum offer a list of 50 prominent corporations that have donated $23,273,400 to campaigns and PACs of election deniers since January 6, 2021. "Some of the largest contributors to election deniers are also some of the country's leading companies, including AT&T, Comcast, Walmart, and Microsoft."

#Jan6 #insurrection #corporations #AT&T #Walmart #Microsoft

https://popular.info/p/these-50-companies-have-donated-over

Even the Supreme Court seems sick of its abortion pills case ( www.vox.com )

The lawsuit challenging mifepristone should have never been heard by any court....

UN Security Council passes resolution calling for immediate ceasefire in Gaza ( www.cnn.com )

rbreich , 3 months ago to random

Billionaires have seen their fortunes surge by $2 trillion+ since the Trump tax cuts.

What's the GOP doing about it? Doubling down. They're trying to permanently extend provisions of the law that disproportionately benefit the rich.

It’s crystal clear who they work for.