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Harvard students were punished by the university president for expressing unpopular opinions.
They STUDIED for an hour in a LIBRARY, with political messages taped to their laptops.
What if it had been only one student? What if the pro-Palestine message had been half as big? What if it had been half an hour?
There is no narrative worth the pixels it takes on a screen that makes this anything but direct, pure suppression of dissent. The students followed every rule, didn't do any of the things bullshit campus rules penalize in order to stop protests. They didn't block sidewalks, light candles, chant, march, or even (apparently) make anyone the least bit uncomfortable.
So the Harvard admin just flat-out punished them for expressing a political opinion.
#gaza #palestine #university #highered #uspol #protest #dissent #punishment #authoritarianism
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/10/3/students-suspended-library-palestine-protest/
Pro-Palestine Students Banned From Widener Library for 2 Weeks After ‘Study-In’ Protest | News | The Harvard Crimson
More than 12 pro-Palestine student protesters were banned from entering Widener Library for two weeks after they staged a silent “study-in” protest at the library late last month.www.thecrimson.com
Report: US doctors call on Biden to "stop this madness". The Gaza death toll is likely greater than 118,908, ie, 5.4% of the population.
The US government is obligated, under US & International Humanitarian Law, to withhold military support for Israel.
“Our bombs are cutting down women & children by the thousands. Their mutilated bodies are a monument to cruelty.”
#USPol #Israel #GazaGenocide ..
'End This Madness Now!' - US Doctors Urge Biden, Harris to Stop Military, Economic Support of Israel - Palestine Chronicle
Nearly 100 American medical professionals who volunteered in the Gaza Strip urge the US administration to withhold support for Israel.admin (Palestine Chronicle)
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"Thank you Joe and Kamala, my 401 has NEVER looked so good!"
- Aure
Dow jumps 300 points for record close as September's big jobs report spurs rally:
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #HarrisWalz #USA #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Breaking #BreakingNews
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/03/stock-market-today-live-updates.html
Dow jumps 300 points for record close as September's big jobs report spurs rally: Live updates
U.S. stocks advanced on Friday as traders parsed the all-important jobs data.Alex Harring (CNBC)
#Special Prosecutor #JackSmith's damning 165-page filing from last week on #Trump's #ElectionFraud trial made public today
#LegalBreakdown episode 368
#BrianTylerCohen and #GlenKirschner 👉provide an *excellent* #CriminalLaw 101 of the filing.👈
"11:50h 🚨 MAJOR update as Trump gets the news he's DREADED in DC trial "
Women, thankfully, will win the election for #HarrisWalz. #Election #USPol “Trump losing ground with women on economy, poll shows.” - POLITICO
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/04/trump-women-economy-poll-00182451
Jack Smith's bombshell immunity brief
In a sane world it would be Watergate-level news.
In a Trump-cancerous US, it's just a typical Friday.
Ponder for a moment the damage Trump has done to our democracy with this being the case!
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Trump #BreakingNews #Breaking
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/jack-smith-trump-immunity-brief-chutkan
The firm that operates Truth Social is in turmoil following internal complaints to company board. You love to see it!
Top execs exit Trump Media amid allegations of CEO Devin Nunes' mismanagement and retaliation
https://www.salon.com/2024/10/04/top-execs-exit-media-amid-allegations-of-ceo-devin-nunes-mismanagement-and-retaliation_partner/
#ETTD #ShitSocial #DJT #SellAllDJT #GOPWeirdos #DonaldTrump #TrumpWillLose2024 #Project2025 #NoRepublicansEverAgain #VoteBlueUpAndDown #USPol #DevinNunes
YOUR HUSBAND OVERTURNED ROE V. WADE. AND HE IS STILL YOUR HUSBAND
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/03/melania-trump-memoir-abortion
New today: Undocumented immigrants spend large portions of their income subsidizing #healthcare for the rest of us, and certainly for elderly and disabled Americans. https://www.texasobserver.org/undocumented-immigrants-subsidize-healthcare/
#immigration #news #politics #USpol #Trump #HumanRights #health
Generous Guests: Undocumented Immigrants Subsidize Our Healthcare
While barred from most government healthcare programs, undocumented residents pay more in healthcare taxes than the entire cost of their own care.John Canham-Clyne (The Texas Observer)
Discover many of downballot candidates in Hurricane Helene’s path who are climate hawks and Green New Dealers running against MAGA climate deniers.
This is how we rebuild and build a sustainable future!
#helene #climate #uspol #gapol #flpol #ncpol
cc @GottaLaff
https://hillheat.news/p/u-s-climate-politics-almanac-2024-helene-races
U.S. Climate Politics Almanac: 2024 Helene Races
Key downballot climate candidates along Helene's path of destructionHill Heat
Imagine how it would be exponentially worse under a second Trump administration...
"Separated": Film Shows How Trump Tore Immigrant Families Apart, 1,300 Kids Still Alone
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/10/4/separated_film
#GOPWeirdos #DonaldTrump #TrumpWillLose2024 #Project2025 #NoRepublicansEverAgain #VoteBlueUpAndDown #USPol
“Separated”: Film Shows How Trump Tore Immigrant Families Apart, 1,300 Kids Still Alone
We speak with Oscar-winning filmmaker Errol Morris about his new documentary, Separated, based on NBC correspondent Jacob Soboroff’s book of the same name.Democracy Now!
In your guts, you know he's nuts.
#GOPWeirdos #DonaldTrump #TrumpWillLose2024 #Project2025 #NoRepublicansEverAgain #VoteBlueUpAndDown #USPol
JOBS REPORT: Another blockbuster report with Biden-Harris
• +254K jobs; unemployment down to 4.1%
• The Biden-Harris economy has added 16.2 million jobs
• 36 straight months of unemployment rate at or below 4.5%
• Employment for prime-working-age Americans at a 23-year high
#Economy #Jobs #USPol #USPolitics #Election2024 #Harris
Heritage Foundation Staffers Flood Federal Agencies With Thousands of Information Requests
The conservative think tank’s requests are clogging the pipeline at federal agencies in an apparent attempt to find employees a potential Trump administration would want to purge.ProPublica
Inte så oväntat, men ändå: Att Springsteen stödjer Harris i presidentvalet där borta.
https://www.dn.se/kultur/bruce-springsteen-ger-sitt-stod-till-harris/ #uspol #springsteen #harris
Bruce Springsteen ger sitt stöd till Harris
Bruce Springsteen ger sitt stöd till Kamala Harris. På Instagram kallar han Donald Trump för ”den farligaste presidentkandidaten under min livstid”.TT (Dagens Nyheter)
Melania's not taking an abortion stand--she's muddying the water to help soften fear about her husband's plan for a total nationwide ban.
Does Melania Trump really think her pro-choice messaging will fool us? | Moira Donegan
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/03/melania-trump-abortion-pro-choice
#MelaniaTrump #GOPWeirdos #DonaldTrump #TrumpWillLose2024 #Project2025 #NoRepublicansEverAgain #VoteBlueUpAndDown #USPol
Does Melania Trump really think her pro-choice messaging will fool us?
It could be that she is being sincere, but that does not mean her choice to make them now is not cynicalMoira Donegan (The Guardian)
"In the aftermath of #Hurricane #Helene, #Trump has blasted the #Biden administration for its handling of the disaster...
But a review of Trump’s record... show that the former president was flagrantly #partisan at times in response to #disasters and on at least 3 occasions hesitated to give disaster aid to areas he considered #politically hostile or ordered special treatment for pro-Trump states"
https://www.eenews.net/articles/helene-isnt-the-first-time-trump-inserted-politics-into-a-natural-disaster/
#GOP #Corruption #TrumpLies #Politics #USPol #US #USPolitics #USA #News
Helene isn’t the first time Trump inserted politics into a natural disaster - E&E News by POLITICO
Former White House advisers said Trump hesitated as president to provide disaster aid to California because of the state's Democratic leanings.Scott Waldman, Thomas Frank (E&E News by POLITICO)
David Axelrod on Trump's orgy of lies at MI rally.
https://x.com/davidaxelrod/status/1841925624098619516
#law #USpol #StudentLoanForgiveness #StudentLoans #students #education #VoteBlue #HarrisWalz2024
#Biden #StudentLoanForgiveness may proceed after small win in lawsuit
A federal judge will allow a temporary #RestrainingOrder that prevented President Joe Biden from discharging #StudentLoanDebt for more than 25M Americans to expire Thurs, clearing the way for the admin to move forward w/the plan.
#law #USpol #debt #students #education #loans #VoteBlue #HarrisWalz2024
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/10/03/biden-student-loan-forgiveness-restraining-order-expires/
Biden student loan forgiveness may proceed after small win in lawsuit
A federal judge declined to extend a temporary restraining order halting the regulation, clearing the way for the Biden administration to move forward with the plan.Danielle Douglas-Gabriel (The Washington Post)
The ruling, issued late Wed by US Dist Judge J. Randal Hall in #Georgia, stems from a lawsuit filed in Sept by 7 #Republican-led states to stop the #Biden admin’s new #StudentLoanForgiveness rule. The
states — #Missouri, #Georgia, #Alabama, #Arkansas, #Florida, #NorthDakota & #Ohio — claim that the admin is exceeding its authority & illegally preparing to forgive #loans before the rule is even in effect.
Federal prosecutors laid out their most extensive case to date against former President Donald Trump for his effort to overturn the 2020 election in a sweeping legal brief that was unsealed Wednesday by a federal judge who is weighing the explosive criminal charges against him.
The 165-page document, which lands weeks before an election in which Trump is taking another shot at the White House
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/02/politics/jack-smith-donald-trump-filing/index.html
Trump Fumes Over Release of New Evidence in Election Interference Case https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-doj-evidence-brief-election-interference-case-1235123732/
#GOPWeirdos #DonaldTrump #TrumpWillLose2024 #Project2025 #NoRepublicansEverAgain #VoteBlueUpAndDown #USPol
Trump Fumes Over Release of New Evidence in Election Interference Case
Donald Trump raged on Truth Social after a DOJ evidence brief related to his election interference case was unsealed on Wednesday.Nikki McCann Ramirez (Rolling Stone)
For the 1st time ever, a plurality of swing state voters now think that a #Democrat will win the presidential #election. This month, 46% of voters think #Harris will win, compared to 39% who think it will be #Trump. That is an 11-point swing in Harris’ favor since Aug, & suggests that Harris has been successful in presenting herself as a serious candidate.
#USpol #Authoritarianism #Republicans #Autocracy #Tyranny
#democracy #ProsecutorVFelon #WeAreNotGoingBack #Freedom #HarrisWalz2024
#EnergyTransition: The $20B US green bank program just funded its first project https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/policy-regulation/the-20b-us-green-bank-program-just-funded-its-first-project
"A #Bide-#Harris IRA program meant to expand #climate investment in underserved markets has its 1st target — a $31 million #solar effort in #Arkansas... At 66 MW across 16 sites, the project will be the largest commercial solar deployment in Arkansas and the 4th largest university #RenewableEnergy deployment in the US"
#Renewables #CleanEnergy #SolarEnergy #USpol #Harris2024 #ClimateChange
The $20B US ‘green bank’ program just funded its first project
An Inflation Reduction Act program meant to expand climate investment in underserved markets has its first target — a $31 million commercial solar effort…Canary Media
#USpol #Elections2024
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...in case you remembered that figure, too:
"How much money Musk ends up investing in the election remains an open question. In July, 👉the Wall Street Journal reported that he planned to donate around $45 million a month to help Trump. Musk, however, later denied the report."
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/20/elon-musk-political-donations-00180323160
“A woman who claimed to be a resident of Springfield sent a very long email saying that she had recently built a home in Springfield and is now faced with a ‘very very difficult situation’ because some of her neighbors are Haitian. ‘Our new home is now at risk of immediate depreciation.’” https://www.404media.co/internal-emails-reveal-how-hate-overwhelmed-springfield-after-trumps-lies-about-haitian-immigrants/
Internal Emails Reveal How Hate Overwhelmed Springfield After Trump's Lies About Haitian Immigrants
Internal emails from Springfield, Ohio reveal what has happened in the city after Donald Trump and JD Vance spread the conspiracy that Haitians are eating pets.Jason Koebler (404 Media)
" #NorthCarolina Gov. Roy Cooper’s office ... needed approval from the other elected officials... to exercise certain authorities under the N.C. Emergency Management Act...
before #Helene ravaged the western part of the state — most of the council had responded with supporting votes. But come 9am the next morning, one member had yet to cast a vote: Lt. Gov. #MarkRobinson, the #Republican nominee for #governor."
#Hurricane #GOP #Republicans #Politics #USPol #USA #News
NC Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson didn't vote on state's Helene emergency declaration, records show
North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, who has called on Gov. Roy Cooper to deploy more resources to help people in western North Carolina, was the only Council of State member to not vote on Cooper's request to declare a state of emergency, records …Paul Specht (WRAL)
Candidates who are afraid of fact-checking are afraid of the truth…and afraid of being caught lying.
Today Vance complained to debate moderators that he was being fact-checked.
Today Trump refused an invitation to appear on 60 Minutes because he didn’t want to be fact-checked, according to his campaign.
Their intention is to lie and deceive.
Trump-Vance cannot be trusted. They don’t deserve our votes.
#USpol #USpolitics #Trump #Vance
Key takeaways from #CorporateMedia punditry about the #VPDebate:
- #Facts don't matter
- It's all about the feels
- Style over substance
- #Lying is just fine if you are confident and poised while doing it
- #Racism is just fine if you do it without screaming
- Scapegoating of #immigrants is just #normal American politics (again)
What did I miss?
#JDVance #TimWalz #Harris2024 #HarrisWalz2024 #USPol #USPolitics #Media #VoteBlue
#USpol #Elections2024
#Project2025 - NEXT STEP:
https://newsie.social/@ProPublica/113234511630992418
#HeritageFoundation Staffers Flood Federal Agencies With Thousands of Information Requests
—The conservative think tank has filed thousands of public-information requests, clogging the pipeline at federal agencies in an apparent attempt to find employees a potential #Trump administration would want to purge.
#News #FOIA #Government #Project2025 #Climate #Vote #Gender #Biden
Heritage Foundation Staffers Flood Federal Agencies With Thousands of Information Requests
The conservative think tank has filed thousands of public-information requests, clogging the pipeline at federal agencies in an apparent attempt to find employees a potential Trump administration would want to purge.ProPublica
From late summer’s VP pageant of Democratic middle-aged American white men, #TimWalz emerged as an avatar of football-coaching, social-studies-teaching, father-figure affability, & this appeal helped carry him past arguably more strategic choices to a spot on the #Harris ticket. His affect, along w/his record as #Minnesota governor, made progressive policies look like a matter of folksy #CommonSense.
#VPdebate #debate #USpol #sexism #GenderRoles #ToxicMasculinity #TonicMasculinity #masculinity
Perhaps no previous politician has taken up the mantle of Dad in quite the way #TimWalz has.
#VPdebate #debate #USpol #sexism #GenderRoles #ToxicMasculinity #TonicMasculinity
#masculinity
That may be true in a sociological context, but in the realm of pop culture & style, the increasing ambiguity of “dad” has made it a handy floating signifier.Dad jokes, dad hats, dad shoes, dad bods, dad thrillers, dad rock, sad dads: to the extent that “dad” is a brand, dad is never bad.
#VPdebate #debate #USpol #GenderRoles #masculinity #TimWalz #JDVance
