Not if you're a woman, a queer person, a member of the working class or poor, need health care, need higher education, or don't want to be governed by people who use your tax money to help kill Palestinian kids, among other things.
But sure.
It wasn't Trump doing those things, so I agree that it's okay.
I know.
But at the same time, we can't really pretend we give a shit about genocide and then vote Democrat or Republican, both of whom are a-okay with sending more WMD's to Israel while they're committing one.
I think, as more and more information on US' involvement in the Israeli genocide come to light, we have to face the fact that American voters simply don't care. Both major parties enthusiastically participate in funneling US taxpayers' money to Israel, and watching them bomb children, hospitals, and innocent people day after day for an entire year hasn't changed public sentiment on that.
If anyone really cared about the genocide, they wouldn't vote Democrat or Republican. On this issue the parties are in complete agreement.
No worries, my dude. It can be hard to tell online.
The minimum wage was always intended to be a living wage, and when I look at everything we've lost by electing people who coddle billionaires, it puts me in a blind rage.
Other countries have $25 billion dollar war budgets, universal health care, living wages, free college, and an actual social safety net.
We here in the US have 700 billionaires and an entire population of people who can't endure any unexpected financial hardship without going further into debt.
It's fascinating in a sad, depressing way, watching Harris promise to crack down on the border and, instead of touting various benefits for the people whose votes she's courting, is instead promising tax cuts. She doesn't seem to have an adequate understanding of what it means to be a working-class American, where a one-time tax cut cannot replace having a monthly or bi-weekly benefits check to help with the soaring cost of living. (A soaring cost that, coincidentally, the Biden Administration has kind of just ignored.)
I'm pretty sure Boss is being sarcastic.
It's so maddening to me that part of Biden's pitch four years ago was how electing him would mean a blow against fascism.
Yet here we are.
accordingly: implying that the problem is the Democrats for not unilaterally overturning the entire constitutional order when they don’t have the votes to do that (or anything, for that matter!)
Yet, with a simple majority, we saw Republicans pass the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, and Obama and Biden both had a simple majority in the Senate and controlled Congress. We've also seen presidents unilaterally keep Congress in session, as the Constitution allows them to do, in order to help pass important legislation. The thing is, the loss of Roe, the rollback of voting rights, the minimum wage, none of it seems to matter enough for Democrats to actually wield power when they have it. Republicans still get what they want. When I mention this in any online forum, the excuses roll out like Halloween candy, but if you're someone working for a living in the US, you're well aware that it doesn't matter who we elect. Your life only gets harder.
I'm also aware that there's really no way to change it, outside of being a billionaire or being willing to commit a terrorist act, both of which don't apply to the vast majority of people. The only way for an average person to benefit from our system of government is just to make sure you're putting every dollar you can in the stock market, because both parties agree 100% that the stock market should never drop, and they'll make trillions appear out of thin air overnight to achieve that.
At this point, if you're not double-checking something produced by your AI tool of choice, it absolutely is your fault. It's no secret that these applications were trained on garbage.
That's okay.
Enjoy your Sunday.
I'm past the point of giving credit to Democrats for saying nice things or pretending to create change.
I'm giving them credit for what they actually produce.
We've discussed it elsewhere in this thread, but it's really not.
Your right to vote, absentee or otherwise, is largely based on your zip code. Democrats haven't shown any interest in bringing back the Voting Rights Act.
If you're a wage earner in this country you're already living in a fascist dictatorship, and knowing that nothing's going to change no matter who you elect, it's likely you're going to decide to not miss a badly needed day's pay rather than vote.
I can’t understand why someone would just roll over and give up when one candidate is promising a fascist dictatorship
Weird. A bug in the app switched up my replies.
What I intended to say was:
I can understand. If you're a wage earner in this country, your life does not change in any significant way based on who we elect, so why skip a badly needed day's pay to vote? There's just no point.
And when you point this out to other people, all you get in response are excuses.
This makes me think about that quote about insanity.
We've seen 40 years of Republicans getting their way no matter who we elect, so it's exceedingly difficult for me (and I imagine most people working for a wage) to understand why it even matters.
Yeah, but to me, it seems a tad backward to have Democratic leadership at the federal level, and yet, your rights still depend largely on your zip code.
I gotta say, part of me kind of admired the chutzpah, pulling this junk out of his ass against a voting bloc they are going to badly need to win, but you're not wrong. Harris built her career on the lost lives of non-violent drug users she put behind bars.
Ah, my mistake mixing them up. Thank you for the correction.
This article buries the money quote:
“We’re not a monolith,” Thompson said. “However, we are just like every other American in this country who wants a good paying job, that we can provide for our children and participate in their lives and the lives of our partner, that we can get them home safely, afford to go to the grocery store, save a little for retirement and have a vacation.”
Reminds me of the article yesterday calling out women for not having enough babies and blaming individualism and secularism instead of the fact that people can't afford to procreate.
The simple fact is that it's really hard to sell Biden 2.0 when Biden 1.0 failed people so spectacularly for people that are out there working to live. You just can't hand someone a record of failure and expect that they're going to enthusiastically support your candidacy.
The remarks have set off a wave of handwringing among liberals over how intensely Black men will back Harris and whether the focus on Black men belies Democrats’ deeper troubles with the broader electorate.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Barack Obama had frank words for Black men who may be considering sitting out the election.
“Part of it makes me think that, well, you just aren’t feeling the idea of having a woman as president, and you’re coming up with other alternatives and other reasons for that,” he said Thursday to Harris-Walz campaign volunteers and officials at a field office in Pittsburgh.
America’s first Black president touched a nerve among Democrats worried about Vice President Kamala Harris’ chances of becoming the second.
Harris is counting on Black turnout in battleground states such as Pennsylvania in her tight race with Republican Donald Trump, who has focused on energizing men of all races and tried to make inroads with Black men in particular.
Obama’s comments belie that Black men still overwhelmingly back Harris. But her campaign and allies have worked hard trying to shore up support with this critical group of voters — and addressing questions about potential misogyny.
Black Americans are the most Democratic-leaning racial demographic in the country, with Black men being outpaced only by Black women in their support for Democrats.
MADISON, Wisconsin — On an oppressively hot August day in downtown Madison, the signs of this famously liberal city’s progressive activism are everywhere. Buildings are draped in pride flags and Black Lives Matter signs are prominently displayed on storefronts. A musty bookstore advertises revolutionary titles and newspaper clippings of rallies against Donald Trump. A fancy restaurant features a graphic of a raised Black fist in its window, with chalk outside on the sidewalk reading “solidarity forever.”
Yet the Green Party, which bills itself as an independent political party that has the best interests of self-described leftists at heart, is nowhere to be found. It has no storefronts, no candidates running for local office, no relationship with the politically active UW-Madison campus, which has almost 50,000 students.
Where it does have purchase is in the nightmares of local Democrats, who are deeply afraid of the effect the third party might have here in November. As one of the seven presidential battleground states, Wisconsin is a critical brick in the so-called Blue Wall, the term for the run of Rust Belt states that are essential to Kamala Harris’ chances of winning the presidency. It’s a deeply divided state that’s become notorious for its razor-thin margins of victory — a place where statewide elections are so close that even tenths of a percentage point matter. Against that backdrop, the Green Party looms very large this year.
The Supreme Court has let stand a decision barring emergency abortions that violate the law in Texas, which has one of the country’s strictest abortion bans.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday let stand a decision barring emergency abortions that violate the law in Texas, which has one of the country’s strictest abortion bans.
The justices did not detail their reasoning for keeping in place a lower court order that said hospitals cannot be required to provide pregnancy terminations if they would break Texas law. There were no publicly noted dissents.
The decision comes weeks before a presidential election where abortion has been a key issue after the high court’s 2022 decision overturning the nationwide right to abortion.
The justices rebuffed a Biden administration push to throw out the lower court order. The administration argues that under federal law hospitals must perform abortions if needed in cases where a pregnant patient’s health or life is at serious risk, even in states where it’s banned.
She is the first person with type 1 diabetes to receive this kind of transplant.
A 25-year-old woman with type 1 diabetes started producing her own insulin less than three months after receiving a transplant of reprogrammed stem cells1. She is the first person with the disease to be treated using cells that were extracted from her own body.
“I can eat sugar now,” said the woman, who lives in Tianjing, on a call with Nature. It has been more than a year since the transplant, and, she says, “I enjoy eating everything — especially hotpot.” The woman asked to remain anonymous to protect her privacy.
James Shapiro, a transplant surgeon and researcher at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, says the results of the surgery are stunning. “They’ve completely reversed diabetes in the patient, who was requiring substantial amounts of insulin beforehand.”
Vice President Kamala Harris raised $27 million at a packed New York City fundraiser on Sunday. That's according to a Harris campaign aide who said it's the largest fundraising haul since Harris took over at the top of the ticket from President Joe Biden.
NEW YORK (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris raised $27 million at a packed New York City fundraiser on Sunday, her largest fundraising haul since she took over at the top of the ticket from President Joe Biden, according to a Harris campaign aide.
Though Harris has far more money than former President Donald Trump, the money will be needed to compete with pricey advertising by deep-pocketed outside groups that support Trump, said the aide, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss private fundraising details.
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Ohio officials have stationed state police at Springfield schools in response to bomb threats that officials say are mostly coming from overseas.
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (AP) — Ohio stationed state police at Springfield schools Tuesday in response to a rash of bomb threats — the vast majority that officials said came from overseas —- after former President Donald Trump and his running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance falsely said legal Haitian immigrants in the small city were eating dogs and cats.
Schools, government buildings and elected officials’ homes in Springfield were among the targets of more than 30 hoax threats made last week that forced evacuations and closures. Two more schools had to be evacuated on Monday, and the high school was threatened on Tuesday. Republican Gov. Mike DeWine said a foreign actor was largely responsible, but he declined to name the country.
A jury will soon decide whether a so-called Trump Train that circled a Biden-Harris campaign bus violently intimidated former Democratic lawmaker Wendy Davis and two others.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas jury will soon decide whether a convoy of supporters of then-President Donald Trump violently intimidated former Democratic lawmaker Wendy Davis and two others on a Biden-Harris campaign bus when a so-called “Trump Train” boxed them in for more than an hour on a Texas highway days before the 2020 election.
The trial, which began on Sept. 9, resumes Monday and is expected to last another week.
Attorneys for the plaintiffs argued that six of the Trump Train drivers violated state and federal law. Lawyers for the defendants said they did not conspire against the Democrats on the bus and that their actions are protected speech.
Here’s what else to know:
> NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Governor Kathy Hochul on Thursday signed a new law requiring retailers to boost safety protections for store workers, including requiring major chains to add panic buttons in all New York State locations.
> Unions representing retail workers had pushed for the new law, known as the Retail Worker Safety Act (RWSA), after high-profile shootings in the state and as some retail executives recently have cited a rise in retail crime - a claim that has been disputed.
> The FBI conducted searches at the homes of two of New York City Mayor Eric Adams' closest aides on Thursday, sources familiar with the investigation told ABC News.
>The Hamilton Heights home of First Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright, who is engaged to Schools Chancellor David Banks, and the Hollis, Queens, home of Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Phil Banks, were searched as part of an ongoing investigation, the sources said.
I hope this means Adams is next.
I clicked on this expecting it to be about FSU, but nope, it's from that other Florida team.
Funny stuff.
Federal law already allows only U.S. citizens to vote in elections for president and Congress. Yet Republicans are raising concerns about the potential for noncitizens voting in this year's elections.
It just made my morning to see that not only is the AP reporting this correctly, but the headline explicitly states the insane rarity of voter fraud. (Non-citizen or otherwise.) You have a better chance of getting a clear picture of Bigfoot than you do of having a voter fraud incident in your jurisdiction.
The CDC says this is the largest listeriosis outbreak since 2011.
The article states that these horrendous, disgusting infractions of health regulations have been documented out for at least the previous year, but given their severity, I’d imagine it’s always been this way at Boar’s Head production facilities. (Seemingly without any meaningful accountability from regulators.)
I’m going to cook my deli meats from now on, no matter where they come from.
Investigators say the latest search for the remains of 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre victims has ended with three more containing visible gunshot wounds.
> OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The latest search for the remains of 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre victims has ended with three more sets containing gunshot wounds, investigators said.
> The three are among 11 sets of remains exhumed during the latest excavation in Oaklawn Cemetery, state archaeologist Kary Stackelbeck said Friday.
> “Two of those gunshot victims display evidence of munitions from two different weapons,” Stackelbeck said. “The third individual who is a gunshot victim also displays evidence of burning.”
Stories like this underscore the importance of reading history, because (at least here in Missouri) I was never taught about the Tulsa Massacre and didn't learn about it until I read about it myself.
Other things you may want to read about that you may have never heard of: The Battle of Blair Mountain, Haymarket Square, or the Great Rail Strike of 1877.
The Israeli military ordered more evacuations in southern Gaza early Sunday after an airstrike on a school-turned-shelter in the north killed at least 80 Palestinians, according to local health authorities. Israel said it targeted a militant command post, killing 19 fighters.
> DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Israeli military ordered more evacuations in southern Gaza early Sunday after a deadly airstrike on a school-turned-shelter in the north killed at least 80 Palestinians, according to local health authorities. Israel said it targeted a militant command post, killing 19 fighters.
If you stick someone in a canoe in the middle of the ocean, you've still committed murder when they drown. These so-called evacuation orders don't change the fact that Israel is committing genocide and running an apartheid state, with the help and backing of war criminals in the US government.
French police have evacuated the area around the Eiffel Tower after a man was seen climbing the Paris landmark hours before the Olympics closing ceremony Sunday.
> PARIS (AP) — French police have evacuated the area around the Eiffel Tower after a man was seen climbing the Paris landmark hours before the Olympics closing ceremony Sunday.
> The shirtless man was seen scaling the 330-meter (1,083-foot) tall tower in the afternoon. It’s unclear where he began his ascent, but he was spotted just above the Olympic rings adorning the second section of the monument, just above the first viewing deck.
Kind of a dumb thing to do, but I hope he makes it and I admire his moxie.
Algerian boxer Imane Khelif has won a gold medal at the Paris Olympics. She emerged victorious Friday from a tumultuous run at the Games where she endured intense scrutiny and online abuse over misconceptions about her womanhood.
Really, really glad she won gold after how much shit she's put up with these last few weeks.
British police are gearing up for another night of violence amid concerns that far-right groups plan to target as many as 30 locations around the country following a week of rioting and disorder.
Is there a good reason why journalists keep calling this "far-right disorder" instead of what it really is: Fascist Terrorism?
The Supreme Court has shut down a long-shot push from Missouri seeking to remove a gag order in former President Donald Trump’s hush-money case and delay his sentencing in New York.
> WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday shut down a long-shot push from Missouri to remove a gag order in former President Donald Trump’s hush-money case and delay his sentencing in New York.
> The Missouri attorney general went to the high court with the unusual request to sue New York after the justices granted Trump broad immunity from prosecution in a separate case filed in Washington.
> The order states that Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito would have allowed Republican Andrew Bailey to file the suit, though not grant his push to quickly lift the gag order and delay sentencing.
US stocks set to start the day sharply lower and Japanese stocks crash in biggest one-day drop ever. Follow the latest news here.
> US stocks plunged on Monday morning as Friday’s dismal July jobs report continued stoking fears that the US economy is on shaky legs.
> The Dow plunged 1,072 points, or 2.7%. The S&P 500 fell 4.1% and the Nasdaq Composite sank by a whopping 6.3%.
> The Cboe Volatility Index, or VIX, which measures bets on expected stock market volatility, surged to 55. The last time the fear gauge hit that level outside of the pandemic was the Great Financial Crisis, in 2008.
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