I like the Republicans who claim we should help the citizens of America before we let any more immigrants in, but then refuse to vote for any programs that would actually help the millions of American citizens that need it.
#politics
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I've been so distracted by politics I haven't been getting any reading done lately 😩📚
I have a Big Announcement!
After a difficult pregnancy and abortion, I’m proud to share that my #Palestine #book has found a brave publisher to deliver it to the world, Daraja Press
🇵🇸 #PALESTINEWAIL is, now, available to pre-order for only $15
Please, share this book announcement with all who could use some Hope and Healing in our wounded world 🙏🏼✨
https://darajapress.com/publication/palestin-wail-poems
#books #bookstodon #Gaza #ceasefirenow #news #poetry #politics #peace #usa #warcrimes #war #boost
Yes. By all means let’s fact check every word out of Biden’s mouth but let the pathological liar say what he wants and just shrug. #politics #uspolitics
Fact check: Biden’s false and misleading claims at high-stakes news conference https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/11/politics/fact-check-joe-biden-nato-press-conference/index.html
"Heritage Foundation Exec Threatens ‘Gay Furry Hackers’ in Unhinged Texts
A newly released log of messages shows a director at the think tank spewing insults after a data breach"
#News #Politics #USpol #Trump #Project2025 #media #press #HeritageFoundation #USnews
About 500 years ago, Machiavelli offered some #leadership lessons for would-be dictators.
But based on his studies of the fall of the Roman Empire and Renaissance Florence, he also offered advice for people who wished to avoid a Machiavellian dictatorship – and any Americans reading it should take notes.
A political science professor from Tufts University breaks down a few things to take into consideration from Machiavelli:
https://theconversation.com/machiavelli-226434
#politics #USpolitics #history
If you want to understand your own privilege, ask yourself whether you see politics as a game or as survival. Where you land on that spectrum should give you a fairly good idea of how privileged you are.
I decided to take a look at The Heritage Foundation's YouTube channel and I'm already enraged. This is the type of crap they're spreading at their talks.
I'm reading the transcript and they've mentioned God multiple times and said that marriage is between a man and a woman. They also keep mentioning Judeo Christian culture. I'm only 5 minutes into the transcript and it's already this bad.
https://youtu.be/Q1HF1h41YGc?si=v7g94DRDDWTZ0GMZ
#Project2025 #YouTube #TheHeritageFoundation #politics #USpol
I started looking into Project 2025 so I could be more informed about it and...wow. This is really bad, absolutely horrible. They want to get rid of anything that benefits citizens and protects children and workers.
#Project2025 #politics #Fascism #USpol #media #press #USA #workersRights #democracy #2024Election
Link to full article: https://democracyforward.org/the-peoples-guide-to-project-2025/
I just found the 922 page Project 2025 PDF document and now I'm looking through it...not sure why I'm doing this to myself.
Strong words from Jason Hickel…
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Our ruling classes have spent the past 40 years shredding the social fabric — imposing austerity, misery, and extreme inequality — while crushing any Left alternative that promised to improve people's lives. They have actively paved the way for the rise of the far Right.
When it comes down to it, the “liberal center” would rather risk handing power to fascists than accept even the remotest possibility of Socialist reform. They claim to value universal rights and civil liberties, but at base all that matters to them is capital accumulation.
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Professor Jason Hickel is the author of “Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World”
"The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other."
– Bertrand Russell, Freedom, edited by Ruth Nanda Anshen, Harcourt Brace, 1940.
#quotes #reading #politics #SCOTUS #USpol #BertrandRussell #writers #Fascism
One day, I hope it will be common to read an article in a major newspaper that says something along the lines of "[Famous Person] commented on the matter in a post on #Mastodon, saying ...".