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BREAKING NEWS 🚨
Judge orders Steve Bannon to report to prison July 1 for contempt of Congress sentence
The former Trump adviser was sentenced to four months in prison for refusing to comply with Jan. 6 Committee subpoenas, but it had been put on hold while he appealed.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol
Judge orders Steve Bannon to report to prison on July 1 for contempt of Congress sentence
A federal judge will consider whether former Trump adviser Steve Bannon should have to begin his four-month prison sentence for defying Jan. 6 Committee subpoenas.Ryan J. Reilly (NBC News)
Michigan used to be a safe bet for Democrats, but Trump’s 2016 campaign did a number on changing the state’s electoral question.
And today, Michigan is somewhere where small shifts can mean a lot. Low turnout with this voter group, extra enthusiasm with that one – small things like this add up in a big way.
https://theconversation.com/biden-and-trump-will-fight-for-michigans-votes-county-by-county-in-a-state-where-little-things-matter-a-lot-229456
#USPolitics #Trump #Biden #Election2024
Biden and Trump will fight for Michigan’s votes county by county in a state where little things matter a lot
Since 1992, Michigan voted reliably for Democratic presidential candidates. Then Donald Trump won the state in 2016, followed by Biden’s 2020 win in the state. Michigan is a ‘battleground state.’The Conversation
#Bluemaga 's going to start calling @TheConversationUS a Russian troll 🤣🤣🤣
#immigration #biden #joebiden #DarkBrandon #genocidejoe #tfg #34counts #uspol #uspolitics #usa
Members of the U.S. House of Representatives have long been addressed as “Congressman” or “Congresswoman.”
By contrast, a senator is referred to as, well, “Senator.”
Can we all agree on the genderless “Representative” term? There’s history to back it up, too.
https://theconversation.com/you-should-call-house-members-representatives-because-thats-what-they-are-not-congressmen-or-congresswomen-224722
#USPolitics #News
You should call House members ‘representatives,’ because that’s what they are − not ‘congressmen’ or ‘congresswomen’
Members of the House of Representatives relish their connection to their districts and their constituents. So why are they called “Congressman” or “Congresswoman” instead of “Representative”?The Conversation
Is this still better than #trump? A man that just keeps blatantly telling you lies and expecting you to gobble them up and ask for seconds?
This is the bullshit he pulls when he's losing in polls and being pressured from the left. Do you think he's going to be more progressive in a second term when none of that matters at all?
#uspol #uspolitics #biden
this is key.
#Trump never has been a leader, and he was never the cause of the shifts in the political landscape that we’ve seen. People blame Trump for so much that he’s simply not even capable of being the cause of.
Trump’s a loser and needs to be approached as such.
What you’re noticing is what his supporters trained him into doing. Long ago he would occasionally take an actual stance, get it wrong, and have to be corrected. He learned not to, since his crowd would project what they want to hear onto his rhetorical vomit. So much easier.
And it captures that far from being a leader, he’s a puppet for his crowd. THEY are the problem.
Practically, we need to identify his crowd as the problem and work on resolving that. Trump is the distraction.
This is so important in understanding #USPolitics
I know I’m an old white guy & people of color are not a single bloc. But, it astounds me that any person of color can vote for a #Republican, let alone #Trump.
NEVER vote for a Republican.
#TRMS #RachelMaddow #USPolitics
https://youtube.com/watch?v=P9lujh1rlWs&si=xN-X42OFY3JHLk9f
Trump's threats and bluster fail to intimidate Americans who see guilty verdict as reasonable
Rachel Maddow shows how Donald Trump routinely threatens violence and mayhem from his supporters if the American legal system tries to hold him to account, a...YouTube
"Corporations have given over $85 million bankrolling the Big Lie"
by @crewcrew
https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-reports/bankrolling-the-big-lie/
Bankrolling the Big Lie - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
We're scoring companies’ support for democracy based on how much they are giving to members who have done the most to undermine it.CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
sooooo uh
Trump sending a cease-and-desist to Rep. Bob Good, the de facto chair of the MAGA caucus in the House?
I mean it's a real shiv of a letter, too.
This is hilarious but... wa happen?
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/02/politics/lara-trump-larry-hogan-donald-trump-hush-money-verdict/index.html #USpol #USpolitics #elections #USelections
Local news is crucial to democracy, and it's disappearing — according to a new book by Steven Brill, excerpted in @Semafor, approximately twenty-two hundred papers and their websites went out of business between 2005 and 2021. That's created a vacuum into which "pink-slime" sites have poured. Brill writes about these sites that present themselves as legitimate publishers but are created to boost specific candidates and secretly financed by partisan funders, Democrats and Republicans alike.
#Media #Journalism #Publishing #USPolitics #LocalNews
The new pink slime media | Semafor
An excerpt from "The Death of Truth" from Steven Brill.Guest Columnist (flip.it)
"Donald J. #Trump has baselessly and publicly cast doubt about the fairness of the #2024election about once a day, on average, since he announced his candidacy for #president...
Though the tactic is familiar — #Trump raised the specter of a “rigged” #election in the 2016 and 2020 cycles, too — his attempts to #undermine the 2024 contest are a significant escalation."
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/05/24/us/politics/trump-election-results-doubt.html
#BigLie #TrumpLies #StochasticTerrorism #MAGA #Violence #GOP #Politics #US #USPolitics #USA #News
Trump Has Already Sown Doubts About the 2024 Election Results
A false, familiar claim by the former president — that the contest in which he’s participating is “rigged” — has reached a fever pitch in this cycle.Karen Yourish (The New York Times)
"Trump first raised questions about the 2016 election in August of that year, about 100 days before the election."
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/05/24/us/politics/trump-election-results-doubt.html
#Trump #BigLie #TrumpLies #Election #GOP #Politics #US #USPolitics #USA #News
Trump Has Already Sown Doubts About the 2024 Election Results
A false, familiar claim by the former president — that the contest in which he’s participating is “rigged” — has reached a fever pitch in this cycle.Karen Yourish (The New York Times)
"He did so earlier — and more frequently — before the 2020 election."
nytimes.com/interactive/2024/05/24/us/politics/trump-election-results-doubt.html
#Trump #BigLie #Jan6 #TrumpLies #StochasticTerrorism #Election #GOP #Republican #Republicans #MAGA #Politics #US #USPolitics #USA #News
"But in the 2024 cycle, the falsehoods have been baked in since #Trump announced his candidacy, almost two years before Election Day.
They show no signs of subsiding."
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/05/24/us/politics/trump-election-results-doubt.html
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On #Jan6 2021, thousands stormed the Capitol because Trump convinced them the #election had been stolen...
...next time?"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/24/vote-insurrection-trump-biden-jan-6-again/
#BigLie #TrumpLies #StochasticTerrorism #MAGA #Republicans #Terrorism #GOP #Republican #Politics #US #USPolitics #UnitedStates #USA #News
Trump Has Already Sown Doubts About the 2024 Election Results
A false, familiar claim by the former president — that the contest in which he’s participating is “rigged” — has reached a fever pitch in this cycle.Karen Yourish (The New York Times)
"Trump’s refusal to accept the results of the 2020 election had historic consequences. The so-called #BigLie — Trump’s false claim that the election was stolen from him — led to the #Jan6 2021 #insurrection...
He has never given up that framing, which no evidence supports, even well after the end of his presidency. And as he seeks to return to the White House, the same claim has become the backbone of his campaign"
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/05/24/us/politics/trump-election-results-doubt.html
#Trump #MAGA #GOP #Politics #US #USPolitics #USA #News
Trump Has Already Sown Doubts About the 2024 Election Results
A false, familiar claim by the former president — that the contest in which he’s participating is “rigged” — has reached a fever pitch in this cycle.Karen Yourish (The New York Times)
#USPolitics #ClimateChange https://www.threads.net/@aaron.rupar/post/C7tx6nIgtjB
Aaron Rupar (@aaron.rupar) on Threads
Trump on Fox & Friends dismisses climate change: "You're gonna have a little more beachfront property, okay?"Threads
https://theconversation.com/medieval-europe-was-far-from-democratic-but-that-didnt-mean-tyrants-got-a-free-pass-227214
#News #USPolitics @histodons #history
Medieval Europe was far from democratic, but that didn’t mean tyrants got a free pass
Medieval Europeans thought about politics in terms of leadership and often criticized rulers for ‘tyranny’ − both in government and in the church.The Conversation
"For more than two months after Election Day, [Trump] spread the #lie that he had won when it was obvious to any fair-minded person that his claims were false. He still repeats this falsehood.
...charged #Trump with having conspired to retain power and overturn the legitimate results of the 2020 #election by unleashing attacks on Congress on #Jan6 2021"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/24/vote-insurrection-trump-biden-jan-6-again/
#MAGA #BigLie #Violence #TrumpLies #StochasticTerrorism #GOP #Politics #USPolitics #US #USA #News
"Nixon lost the 1960 election to John F. #Kennedy by a razor-thin margin, and stories circulated at the time about vote theft in some states. #Nixon accepted the results.
Just as in 2000, when #Gore accepted the #US #SupremeCourt decision to overturn a ruling by Florida’s Supreme Court and halt a recount in the state, thus giving Florida’s 25 electoral votes — and the presidency — to George W. #Bush"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/24/vote-insurrection-trump-biden-jan-6-again/
#Trump #Jan6 #MAGA #Violence #Politics #USPolitics #USA #News
"There have been 19 presidential elections in my lifetime. In every one, the losing candidates accepted the results as lawful, with one exception: Donald Trump."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/24/vote-insurrection-trump-biden-jan-6-again/
#Trump #Jan6 #Insurrection #MAGA #Violence #Terrorism #StochasticTerrorism #DonaldTrump #GOP #Politics #USPolitics #US #UnitedStates #History #USA #News
Just a reminder that while one party spends on protecting voting rights the other marshals its legal assault to challenge election results - for an election that is months away - and disenfranchise voters.
Imperfect democracy vs authoritarianism is on the ballot this November. #VoteBlue if that matters to you.
https://www.axios.com/2024/06/02/legal-battle-2024-election-begun-biden-trump
This is disgusting. What the hell is wrong with you?
No, dehumanizing insults have not "become way more common in political discourse." ONE PARTY has reinvented itself in the image of Adolf Hitler and similar tyrants, employing dehumanizing insults with the conscious goal of inciting violent rage as a tool of revolutionary political power.
Dehumanizing insults have become way more common in political discourse. Psychology research has shown that they can prime us for violence – and even change our brains.
Story from 2018, with renewed relevance this #election2024:
https://theconversation.com/the-slippery-slope-of-dehumanizing-language-97512
#News #USPolitics #Psychology
The slippery slope of dehumanizing language
Dehumanizing insults have become more common in political discourse. Psychology research has shown that they can prime us for violence – and even change our brains.The Conversation
COUNTRIES BAN TRUMP 🚨
Donald Trump’s felony conviction now means he’s banned from a host of countries including Canada and UK
There are 37 countries that bar felons from entering, even to visit.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Trump
WHO'S MORAL IN THE GOP?
Only 10% of Republican registered voters say they are less likely to vote for Donald Trump following his felony conviction for falsifying business records to cover up a hush money payment to a porn star, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll that closed on Friday.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Trump #BreakingNews #Breaking
This trial exposed how much David Pecker helped Trump by constantly putting fake negative news about his opponents on every grocery store aisle in America. Pecker freely admitted it. I wonder if that exposure has done anything to change the minds of people who believed those stories. Or whether these people might view future tabloid headlines with a more skeptical eye. Probably not.
"And here’s a fun fact: There are many countries that will not admit #felons across their borders. This includes, apparently, Canada. #Trump cannot even travel to many countries, including some of our closest allies, and yet he hopes to represent the #UnitedStates. The absurdity of this stuns."
- @jaykuo
#TrumpTrial #Guilty #Felon #MAGA #GOP #Politics #USPolitics #USPol #USA
A Man Of His Convictions
The fallout from the jury verdict against Donald Trump begins.Jay Kuo (The Status Kuo)
Trump raised a record-breaking $34.8 million the day after being convicted of election interference. That's nearly double their previous largest single-day online donation amount.
29.7% were new donors.
This is not a drill. He will get reelected unless people on the left step up to oppose him. And #Project2025 makes it clear how much worse things can get, both domestically and abroad. #VoteBlue
https://www.axios.com/2024/05/31/trump-fundraising-record-hush-money-conviction
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How to tell if you are in a corrupt and immoral political party.....
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It has a Convicted Felon as it's nominee for President of the United States!
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Its leaders play hooky from work to support said nominee at his criminal trial.
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Its political leaders refuse to ponder or accept personal accountability
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It has Donald Trump in it!
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TRUMP CRIME FAMILY 🚨
Don Jr. Calls the United States a ‘Third-World Sh*thole’ After Jury Convicts Father
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Trump
Don Jr. Calls the United States a 'Third-World Sh*thole' After Jury Convicts Father
Donald Trump Jr. demoted the United States to "third-world shithole" status on Thursday after a jury in New York convicted his father Donald Trump.Michael Luciano (Mediaite)
My main (and far out) hope with regard to the #Trump verdict is that it causes at least some people to notice that he and the media ecosystem around him have been lying to them about the trial this whole time.
For months they’ve been spouting that this is a case without merit, without evidence, without even charges. It’s a slam dunk: OF COURSE he’ll be let off.
Well, the guilty verdict is going to cause at least some people to wonder what went wrong, look into it, and notice they were told so wrong.
Maybe Trump will appeal and have the charges reversed. BUT he’d never be able to unring the bell of people noticing that he (and media figures) mislead them so, well, hugely.
BREAKING 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨
Donald J. Trump GUILTY ON ALL 34 FELONY COUNTS!!!!
Trump is a CONVICTED FELON!
#AureFreePress #Mastodon #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Trump #MAGA #Republicans #Breaking #BreakingNews
🗳Do you live in #florida or do you know anyone who does? 🗳
Every #florida resident who requested a vote-by-mail ballot before Jan. 1, 2023 will need to request a new one!
Miami-Dade County canceled approximately 438,000 vote-by-mail requests, so if you want to vote by mail, you must RENEW your request.
Go to https://miamidade.electionsfl.org/vrservices/mbrs and follow the steps to submit the form. DO THIS NOW!
If you are not registered to vote or would like to change your party affiliation, you can do so online here: https://registertovoteflorida.gov/home
The deadline to register to vote before the primary election is July 22. The deadline to register to vote before the general election is Oct. 7.
#uspol #uspolitics #vote #election #elections #Elections2024
Voting by mail in Miami-Dade? You'll need to renew your request. Here's how
To vote by mail in Miami-Dade elections, you’ll have to renew your request for a vote-by-mail ballot. Here's how and important deadlines to know.Briana Trujillo, Ana Cuervo (NBC 6 South Florida)
BREAKING NEWS 🚨🚨🚨
Jury reaches verdict in Trump hush money case: Live updates
Verdict to be read in court in minutes!!!
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Trump #MAGA #Republicans #Breaking #BreakingNews
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4685007-jury-reaches-verdict-trump-hush-money-trial/
Donald Trump is now the first sitting or former U.S. president to be convicted of a felony.
But in other countries, ex-leaders have been investigated, prosecuted and even jailed – in the interest of protecting the rule of law.
https://theconversation.com/why-many-countries-have-prosecuted-former-leaders-231260
#breakingnews #news #uspolitics #trump
Why many countries have prosecuted former leaders
Both sweeping immunity and overzealous prosecutions of former leaders can undermine democracy. But such prosecutions pose different risks for older democracies like the US than in younger ones.The Conversation
