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panamared27401

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N.C., USA. Management consultant, but not the crappy kind. Old, sweary, and stabby when provoked. #Antiracist; #Antifa; #Resist; trying to be a good LGBTQ and BLM ally. Interests: #journalism #media #maps #dataviz #astronomy #management #leadership #LearningAndDevelopment #learning #uspol #ncpol #cats #mastocats #kittens #CatsOfMastodon.

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GottaLaff , to random
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🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️ “During a marathon day of proceedings in the Mar-a-Lago classified case, a morning hearing in front of Judge Aileen devolved into a shouting match amongst the attorneys, and the afternoon series of arguments prompted the judge to wonder if the legal nuances of the case may be too difficult for jurors to understand” https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/22/politics/trump-documents-case-judge-cannon-hearing?cid=ios_app

panamared27401 ,
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@GottaLaff Translation: #Cannon doesn't understand them.

rbreich , to random
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When Trump openly and repeatedly exclaims that migrants are “poisoning the blood of our country,” or shares a video calling for a “unified Reich,” he is literally echoing the language of Hitler.

Trump is not a “populist.” He’s not a “strongman.” He is a fascist.

Use the word.

panamared27401 ,
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@rbreich Call him a Nazi, Robert. Call all the MAGAts Nazis. Don't even call them neo-Nazis. There's nothing neo about them.

GottaLaff , to random
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Biden slams 'outrageous' ICC warrant for arrest of Israeli leaders - AFP

panamared27401 ,
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@GottaLaff Oh, for fuck's sake. War crimes are war crimes. Crimes against humanity are crimes against humanity. As an American who supports Israel, I am beyond fucking tired of the attitude that American and Israeli leaders can do no wrong and should not be held to the same standards as everyone else.

panamared27401 ,
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@GottaLaff I'm gonna vote for him no matter what, but he's engaging as dishonestly with the subject as any Republican would. Netanyahu != Israel, and a good leader would find a way to make that clear. Republicans are going to criticize him no matter what he does, so he may as well do the right thing.

cdarwin , to random
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We’re letting Trump distract us from his corrupt, anti-climate agenda

Donald Trump sat down with oil executives and told them that if he wins, he’ll scrap a slew of President Biden’s clean energy and other environmental regulations they don’t like
— as long as they raise $1 billion for him.

The response? Crickets.

Trump’s pay-for-play move was frequently described as
⭐️ “transactional.” The right word is
🔥“corrupt.”

Last weekend, at a rally in Wildwood, N.J., he pledged to halt offshore wind farms.
All of them.
Right away.
“We are going to make sure that that ends on day one,” Trump said.
“I’m going to write it out in an executive order.”

It was consistent with a remarkable statement he was reported to have made to the energy execs:
👉 “I hate wind.”

No investigative reporting is required to see what Trump would do.

His campaign website goes on and on about how he would “stop all Joe Biden policies that distort energy markets,” describing the president’s approach as “industry-killing, jobs-killing, pro-China and anti-American.”
👉The right’s propensity to deny climate change runs so deep that in Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis and his fellow Republicans in the legislature have written their denial into law.

Last week, as Anna Phillips reported in The Post, DeSantis signed a bill that removes most references to climate change in state laws and, for good measure, bans offshore wind turbines in state waters and weakens natural gas pipeline regulation.

🌟There could hardly be a clearer contrast between Trump and Biden, or their parties.
You might think that the environment, and climate in particular, would be playing a large role in the 2024 debate. 🌟

Yet for all the good work reporters are doing on these issues, there is a strange, substantive vacuum in this campaign.

Citizens are getting plenty of information concerning Trump’s latest polling numbers and, yes, lots of news on his hush money trial.

About what he’d do if he wins again: not so much.
There’s a raging argument over whether journalists have a special obligation to defend democracy against Trump’s threat to it.

For the record, I think they do.

🫵But that debate understates the challenge Trump presents to political coverage of all kinds.
🔸By violating so many norms simultaneously while throwing out so much chaff in any given week, he dodges accountability.

🔸He is the only public figure in memory who dodges one scandal by getting enmeshed in a new one.

🔥Before the first scandal sinks in, the second sucks up all the oxygen, and then along comes a third. 🔥His $1 billion ask of super-rich oil guys was barely a blip.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/19/trump-climate-change-wind-energy-corrupt/

panamared27401 ,
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@cdarwin The problem is that SCOTUS, along with the many other gifts it has given us over the years, has made it almost impossible to convict someone for public corruption. Just Security had an article about this in April: https://www.justsecurity.org/94515/supreme-court-public-corruption-ethics/

futurebird , to random
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I don't know how my ancestors survived.

apex predator who could easily subdue and eat me in a tree

my brain: Kitty Cat! Little kitty cat! Let me hug it!

panamared27401 ,
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@futurebird Same.

GottaLaff , to random
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Via Kyle Griffin:

New: Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin is calling on Alito to recuse himself from all cases involving the 2020 election.

"The Court is in an ethical crisis of its own making, and Justice Alito and the rest of the Court should be doing everything in their power to regain public trust."

panamared27401 ,
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@GottaLaff Hey, Dick, Alito is going to ignore you. How about you hold some hearings and drag Alito and Thomas in and grill them?

luckytran , to random
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The US government is ending the program that provides free COVID vaccines to people who are uninsured and underinsured.

This is a public health failure that will further decrease already low vax rates, and puts marginalized communities at greater risk.

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4670459-cdc-ending-free-covid-vaccines-uninsured/

panamared27401 ,
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@luckytran Apparently it's not just the Republicans who want us dead.

MikeDunnAuthor , to random
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Today in LGBTQ History, May 17 is International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT). This date was chosen to commemorate the 1990 decision to remove homosexuality from the International Classification of Diseases of the World Health Organization (WHO). In 2009, the WHO added transphobia to the name of the campaign, and organized activities that year to highlight and end. The goal of the campaign is to raise awareness of violence, discrimination, and repression of LGBT communities throughout the world.

panamared27401 ,
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@MikeDunnAuthor I did not know this was a thing. Excellent!

rbreich , to random
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S&P 500 companies bought back $181B of their shares in Q1 to pump up their value.

Buybacks are projected to reach $925B this year.

In 2025, they’re estimated to hit over $1 TRILLION.

Why is this driving inequality?

It's simple: the top 1% alone own roughly half of all stocks.

panamared27401 ,
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@rbreich Stock buybacks should be illegal. I believe they once were.

GottaLaff , to random
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CNN hosts Jake Tapper and Dana Bash will moderate the first 2024 presidential debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump next month, the network announced today.

panamared27401 ,
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@GottaLaff Will they cut Trump's mic when he interrupts?

futurebird , to random
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I know that people say it's unethical but I think it's good to let a cat use her instincts for mousing.

(She is such a little obstruction. Will NOT let anyone do ANYTHING but pet her, please help us she is a tyrant!!)

panamared27401 ,
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@futurebird Unethical to let a cat catch a mouse? In what universe? (EATING them, on the other hand, is a no-no. Kirby usually regurgitates his, half-eaten, given the chance. Take the mouse from kitty and toss it outside instead.)

GottaLaff , to random
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Agree.

My take: This is not a debate, it's spectacle.

Via Jennifer Mercieca:

I mean, can debate him if he wants to, but authoritarians like don’t debate. Trump will be there for one reason: to humiliate Biden.

panamared27401 ,
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@GottaLaff As the old saying goes, it'll be like playing chess with a monkey. The monkey will knock all the pieces of the table, shit on the board, and then walk around acting like he won.

panamared27401 ,
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@GottaLaff 😙

luckytran , to random
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Republicans are trying to take away and criminalize the right to make decisions around our own health, whether that’s the right to wear a mask or the right to have an abortion. Unacceptable.

https://www.wral.com/amp/21433199/

panamared27401 ,
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@luckytran The purpose of the legislation is to prevent (constitutionally protected) public protests and prevent any future mask mandates. Sieg Heil.

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