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Crossing a historic threshold, Mexicans appear poised to elect a woman as president this Sunday but to otherwise leave politics largely unchanged. Reprinted with permission from palabra. and Puente News Collaborative: https://www.texasobserver.org/in-mexicos-historic-vote-politics-are-little-changed/
#news #politics #Mexico #democracy #election2024 #border
In Mexico’s Historic Vote, Politics Are Little Changed
A Puente poll represents a rare survey of the Mexican public by U.S. media.Eduardo García (The Texas Observer)
Fucking hell; he will make millions on this #verdict from the chumps, the white supremacists, the angry, criminal, violent & privileged.
The #Trump campaign’s fundraising site, hosted by Republican fundraising platform Winred, is now back online & soliciting donations after crashing just minutes after today’s verdict. It bears Trump’s mugshot over the text “Never Surrender” & solicits donations ranging from $20.24 all the way to $3,300.
#law #guilty #felon #TrumpTrial #democracy
Political parties are structured to limit democracy.
Example #853564:
‘Appalling cull’: Britain’s Labour bars another left-winger from election
The parliamentary system is particularly bad, given the leader's power, but Trump has shown that a presidential system can be equally bad.
> Critics accuse party of conducting a purge of left-wingers, as Faiza Shaheen deselected over social media posts.
"Fourteen pro-democracy activists were convicted in Hong Kong’s biggest national security case on Thursday by a court that said their plan to effect change through an unofficial primary election would have undermined the government’s authority and created a constitutional crisis."
ABC News reports: https://flip.it/xzIlpX
More more top news, follow @news-thenewsdesk
#HongKong #Democracy #Activism #Asia #News
14 pro-democracy activists convicted, 2 acquitted in Hong Kong's biggest national security case
Fourteen pro-democracy activists have been convicted in Hong Kong’s biggest national security case by a court that said their plan to effect change through an unofficial primary election would have undermined the government’s authority and created a …KANIS LEUNG Associated Press (ABC News)
Here is the (two dimensional) political placing of the parties in the forthcoming UK election from Political Compass....
If you thought you didn't have an awful lot of choice, the fact that all major parties are (on this assessment) siting in the blue (Right/Authoritarian) quadrant will confirm that suspicion
source: https://www.politicalcompass.org/uk2024
h/t @melanie @PoliceStateUK
The Political Compass
The Political Compass: a 2-dimensional typology of political opinionswww.politicalcompass.org
Paul Waldman asks,
"How'd you like to win an election with just 4% of the vote?"
"Under the GOP proposal [in Texas], a candidate could win a statewide race with just 4 percent of the vote."
#Texas #Republicans #democracy #MinorityRule
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https://paulwaldman.substack.com/p/the-texas-gops-bonkers-attack-on
Alito is in the tank for the criminal former president and the decimation of democracy. Not that his legal opinions have ever left much room for plausible deniability on those fronts, but now it is out there flying in plain sight.
But we can also fly our own flags, ones that support #democracy and freedoms, writes @andreagrimes
https://www.damemagazine.com/2024/05/28/justice-alitos-politics-are-literally-flying-in-our-faces/
Justice Alito’s Politics Are Literally Flying in Our Faces | Dame Magazine
There’s a rule at my parents’ tony lake house neighborhood in deep East Texas, that you’re not allowed to fly “political” flags or even put “political” signs in your yard.Andrea Grimes (Dame Magazine)
Meanwhile, President #Biden's campaign is holding a news conference outside the courthouse in Manhattan, a guarantee of attention since the media has been stationed here for week.
The speakers have focused not on the #TrumpTrial, but largely on the insurrection by #Trump supporters on #Jan6, 2021, & the threats the Biden campaign argues Trump poses to #democracy & the nation's future.
#criminal #law #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference
I’m emerging from my social media hiatus to share recent comments from Ken Burns. I’ve chatted with him a few times over the years, always to my benefit. He’s very worried about American democracy — I think with good reason.
Here’s a video excerpt from his speech at Brandeis:
https://youtu.be/C3AHtlF3gSk?si=z0QwftW__YBdJGSG
A transcript of his speech:
https://www.brandeis.edu/commencement/2024/burns.html
Finally, a Washington Post column on his talk:
'There is no real choice this November': Ken Burns gives powerful defense of democracy
Filmmaker Ken Burns delivered a powerful defense of democracy while delivering the commencement address for Brandeis University. The Morning Joe panel discus...YouTube
#UK infected #blood #scandal made worse by ‘chilling’ cover-up, inquiry finds
He added: “When we told people, they didn’t believe us. They said this wouldn’t happen in the UK. Today this proves this can happen – and did happen – in the UK.
#health #politics #crime #humanRights #fail #democracy #news
UK infected blood scandal made worse by ‘chilling’ cover-up, inquiry finds
Thousands of deaths could have been avoided, final report on infection of thousands with HIV or hepatitis C concludesHaroon Siddique (The Guardian)
#Georgien är ett avkoloniserat demokratiskt land som just nu kämpar mot yttre hot mot dess nationella integritet, frihet och oberoende. De behöver allt vårt stöd i kampen mot #putinism, #nystalinism och #fascism.
Georgien (och #Ukraina) måste snarast välkomnas in i den europeiska gemenskapen. Deras kamp för frihet och demokrati är även vår kamp.
გილოცავთ დამოუკიდებლობის დღეს!
#georgia #independenceday #freedom #democracy
Regardless of your choice of religion (if any), your "right to exist" NEVER supersede someone else's right to do so. Doesn't matter if you've been a victim in the past, it doesn't give you a "free pass" to use that as an excuse to commit atrocities in the present.
When institutions are controlled by interests who do not accept criticism, you're not living in a democracy anymore and act exactly like the authoritarian governments you hate so much.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/24/harvard-student-commencement-speaker
Harvard student speaker denounces university over Gaza protest response
Shruthi Kumar gives unscripted condemnation of university after 13 students barred from graduation over involvement in protestsGloria Oladipo (The Guardian)
The flags outside of #SCOTUS Justice Alito's homes are symbols that fuel white nationalism.
Throughout U.S. history, Americans have been warned that anti-Black #racism is deeply embedded in the fabric of our society and institutions... and has always been a threat to #democracy. Real progress will require racism to be confronted within Americans' minds, homes, and communities first, not just Washington D.C. https://www.axios.com/2024/05/24/alito-censure-flag-jan-6-democrats
A controversial bill to give Taiwan's legislature increased power passed a second reading on Friday. A third reading is required for the bills to become law
https://focustaiwan.tw/politics/202405240018
Revisions boosting Legislature's investigative powers pass 2nd reading - Focus Taiwan
A package of amendments to the Law Governing the Legislature's Power that would strengthen the body's investigative powers passed a second reading Friday, moving them one step closer to becoming law.Focus Taiwan - CNA English News
#ElonMusk Ramps Up Anti-Biden Posts
The #billionaire has increasingly been using his #SocialMedia platform to criticize #POTUS #Biden.
“He is just a tragic front for a far left political machine,” #Musk wrote. It was the 29th time this year that he had posted about the president….
#power #influence #TaxCutsForTheWealthy #CorporateTaxCuts #gaslighting #propaganda #BigLie #democracy #VoteBlue #BidenHarris2024
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/24/technology/elon-musk-x-biden.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
As Heather Cox Richardson reports, the Supreme Court just signed off on a South Carolina congressional map that dilutes Black votes by gerrymandering.
And Samuel Alito wrote the majority opinion. She writes,
"Almost exactly 70 years after the Supreme Court unanimously decided Brown v. Board, it appears that the framed timbers designed to reverse the expansion of minority rights are falling into place."
#SupremeCourt #Alito #corruption #democracy
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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-23-2024
May 23, 2024
It turns out that Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito is not the only one flying an “Appeal to Heaven” flag. Leonard Leo, the man behind the extremist takeover of the American judiciary, also flew that flag at his home on Mount Desert Island in Maine.Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)
A concise and well-written article, 'The End of Civic Compassion: On education in a fascist America' by Jason Stanley, the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University as published by The New Republic. As one who worked in higher education for 32 years before retiring almost four years ago, I noticed that faculty members seemed more circumspect in their words and actions in the latter part of my career. I think that came in response to gradually more oversight or what some might call meddling in higher education by state lawmakers. I am about halfway through a dystopian novel, Prophet Song by Paul Lynch. It is an unpleasant read that some have compared to Orwell's 1984. It feels more prescient to me than 1984 did when I read it in high school 50 years ago. Is that because I am more politically aware or "woke" today, or are we much closer to the edge of a precipice than we were back then?
If we really lived in a democratic state based on the rule of law, wouldn't #Assange have long since been pardoned due to the inability of the legal system to acquit him?
#question #democracy #humanRights #wikileaks #press #freedom #journalism #warCrime #politics #jail #fail #ethics #justice #system #UK #USA #news
https://www.history.com/news/native-american-voting-rights-citizenship
Native Americans’ Long Journey to US Citizenship and Voting Rights
Native Americans won U.S. citizenship in 1924, but the struggle for voting rights stretched on for much longer.Becky Little (HISTORY)
It is established fact that Australian soldiers in Afghanistan committed war crimes. Today, the man whose courageous act of whistleblowing brought these crimes to light has been sentenced to almost 6 years in gaol.
This is a dark day in Australian history. Democracy needs people to stand up when they see wrongdoing being committed by powerful people. We should be thanking and celebrating David McBride, not imprisoning him.
#democracy #WarCrimes #Afghanistan #Australia #DavidMcBride #Whistleblower
David McBride: former army lawyer sentenced to five years for stealing and leaking Afghanistan war documents
McBride, who pleaded guilty to stealing commonwealth information and passing it to the ABC, receives non-parole jail term of 27 monthsSarah Basford Canales (The Guardian)
Good News, Bad News!
"We can't afford another election cycle when essential truths are buried" Essential (and engaging) video:
https://www.tiktok.com/@fix_media_now/video/7365933873730964779
Read our full guidelines here:
https://www.mediaanddemocracyproject.org/2024-election-coverage#guidelines
#Democracy #Press #Journalism #Media
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Add Your Name: Pro-Democracy 2024 Election Coverage
Sign our open letter to media executives and publishers demanding they adopt guidelines for 2024 election coverage that emphasize pro-truth, pro-voting, and pro-democracy practices.Media And Democracy
Don Harwood responds to New York Times editor Joseph Kahn, who says that the attack on democracy represented by Trump is not the premier campaign issue:
"Donald Trump is the first American presidential candidate to explicitly threaten the democratic system on which a free press depends. He could win. Considering the stakes for the country, that ought to be the campaign issue that dwarfs all others."
#Trump #democracy #NewYorkTimes
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https://zeteo.com/p/as-a-veteran-reporter-ive-always
As a Veteran Reporter, I've Always Valued Neutrality. But Trump's Threat To Democracy Should be the Biggest Political Story of 2024
What the New York Times is getting wrong in its coverage of Trump vs. Biden.John Harwood (Zeteo)
The difference between #Project2025 and #Trump’s usual #authoritarian ravings is that Project 2025 isn’t an empty threat, it’s a concrete plan that will roll back your rights and put the government in your life.
#ScorchedEarth #dictator #lessfree #lessfair #lessAmerican #TotalControl #retributio n #uspoli #uspolitics #govote #democracy
Is it true that you shut down all your platforms in the #Fediverse BEFORE the elections, in a time when the fight for #democracy and the #EU is so important? https://darnell.day/european-union-surrendering-fediverse-voice-to-threads
So, no joy. I can't believe it. Most people blocked Threads, the great platforms that help misinformations, are not a democratic option.
European Union Surrendering Fediverse Voice To Threads
Image Credit: EU Voice I was alerted by @helma@mastodon.social that @EDPS@social.network.europa.eu announced that the European Union h...Darnell (Seize The Day)
You know that conversation about expanding #SCOTUS
This article explains why that may not make a difference in more liberal outcomes for our #Democracy #law #Supremecourt
https://www.vox.com/scotus/24145279/supreme-court-shrinking-docket-quiet-quitting
Supreme Court justices are the most powerful, least busy people in Washington
The justices are quietly quitting their day jobs as judges, even as they become more and more political.Ian Millhiser (Vox)
#Maddow nails it, as usual.
From the Republican perspective, this election is not actually about policy or governance. It's about the GOP's project to change the American form of government from democracy to autocracy.
https://youtube.com/shorts/rQUdyV3uxRE?si=yubPoh5p6pykNfZL
#BidenHarris2024 #democrats #Project2025 #democracy #autocracy
@DemocracyMattersALot
@DefendDemocracy
@uspolitics @geopolitics @politicalscience
Maddow: There is no governing talk happening in the GOP
Rachel Maddow on the reason nobody know what Trump's policy is on Gaza or contesting what Biden is doing on infrastructure.» Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.ms...YouTube
It is always a bad sign when a #democracy bans the #press...
source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68961753.amp
The Foreign Press Association (FPA) urged the Israeli government to reconsider its decision, saying the shut down of #AlJazeera in the country should be "a cause for concern for all supporters of a free press".
#censorship #war #gaza #problem #journalism #freedom #politics #military #humanrights #security #news
Al Jazeera office raided as Israel takes channel off air
The network denies being a threat to security, and says Israel wants "to cover up its crimes".BBC News
In yet another bad sign for #democracy:
#Netanyahu has essentially banned #FreePress in #Israel. His cabinet *voted* to kick #AlJazeera out of Israel says its #journalists are threats to #NationalSecurity.
I guess the pen truly is mightier than the sword & all that.
#Gaza #Palestinians #Authoritarianism
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-cabinet-moves-close-al-jazeeras-local-operations-2024-05-05/
RS:
Former top prosecutor shows why Hope Hicks 'is such a devastating witness against Trump'
"Why Hicks is such a devastating witness against Trump," Weissmann wrote after the Friday hearing. "1. Hicks makes clear Trump knew of the Cohen payoff scheme to Daniels...
4. Hicks establishes that Trump knew that money was for Daniels' silence- not for the claimed legal fees for ongoing legal work by Cohen."
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-hope-hicks-devastating-weissmann/
#News #Politics #Trump #Democracy #Democrats
Former top prosecutor shows why Hope Hicks 'is such a devastating witness against Trump'
Andrew Weissmann, the former top prosecutor on former special counsel Robert Mueller's team, explained on Friday why he thinks former Donald Trump aide Hope Hicks was such a "devastating" witness against the former president in his criminal case.David McAfee (Raw Story - Celebrating 20 Years of Independent Journalism)
Axios:
Elon Musk to reinstate X account of white nationalist Nick Fuentes
Fuentes' X account was still suspended as of Friday morning.
Musk then posted ...
"This will probably cause us to lose a lot of advertisers and makes me sad..."
https://www.axios.com/2024/05/03/elon-musk-nick-fuentes-x-account
#News #Politics #Democracy #Democrats #News #Elonmusk #Twitter #Twittermigration #birdsite
Dear European based LGBTIQ+ people.. (so basically everybody).
Today I attended an event in #Amsterdam organized by @waag @DeGroene @gemeenteamsterdam and the #oBa Amsterdam public library called #StateOfTheInternet
Featured speaker this time was Euro Member of Parliament @kimvsparrentak who passionately spoke on the need for a more free Internet detached from #bigTech and more focussed on #Democracy and real #Social interaction.
When confronted with her presence on X and Insta, and the lack of active presence here on the #Fediverse we promised to help her.
Please help us get a decent follower-base here and follow her account right now, before she even gets a chance to get more active. A follower base of more than a 1000 people will surely help her convince her party members to spend time and money on a real presence here.
I used a cut out of the image posted by @sicco in this post: https://todon.nl/@sicco/112372340250592627 thank you for that Sicco.
Sicco van Sas (@sicco@todon.nl)
Attached: 1 image .@koen@procolix.social asked MEP @kimvsparrentak@eupolicy.social after her #StaatVanHetInternet speech why she isn't more active on Mastodon. She said that she wants to.Todon.nl
Raw Story:
'Trump did this': U.S. VP rages over Florida abortion ban
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris sought to make Donald Trump the face of Florida's strict new abortion ban Wednesday...
"Across our nation, we witness a full-on assault, state by state, on reproductive freedom. And understand who's to blame: former president Donald Trump did this," Harris said in a Jacksonville, Florida speech.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-did-this-u-s-vp-rages-over-florida-abortion-ban/
#News #Politics #Trump #Democracy #Democrats
'Trump did this': U.S. VP rages over Florida abortion ban
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris sought to make Donald Trump the face of Florida's strict new abortion ban Wednesday as Democrats hammer the issue ahead of November's presidential election.Agence France-Presse (Raw Story - Celebrating 20 Years of Independent Journalism)
