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My answer to that question is always that America's decline into vast inequity began in earnest with the presidency of Ronald Reagan and his free market, pro-deregulation, trickle-down bullshit.
“It certainly seems like an issue that could be ripe for litigation because it’s right on its face discriminating against people for sexual orientation or #transgender status.”
Out today, from Kit @oconnell: Emails obtained from the #Texas Department of Agriculture reveal the turmoil caused by Sid Miller's transphobic dress code, which the Observer first revealed last year. https://www.texasobserver.org/sid-miller-transphobic-dress-code-emails/
#news #politics #agriculture #transphobia #LGBTQIA+ #USpol #law
Transphobic Dress Code Prompted Turmoil in Agriculture Department, Emails Show
The Texas agency’s policy may be ripe for a lawsuit.Kit O'Connell (The Texas Observer)
Don't waste your vote this fall and you can get used to seeing this headline:
DOJ sues [insert obscenely greedy corp here]
#USpol #Elections
https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/17/24180196/adobe-us-ftc-doj-sues-subscriptions-cancel
US sues Adobe for ‘deceiving’ subscriptions that are too hard to cancel
Adobe is facing a lawsuit from the US government that accuses the software giant of hiding fees and making it difficult to cancel subscriptions.Emma Roth (The Verge)
What a novel idea - don't vote for a Convicted Felon to be President of the United States!
The Politico/Ipsos survey found that 21 percent of independents said they are less likely to vote for Trump after the conviction, adding that the guilty verdict in Trump’s hush money case is very important to how they will vote in November
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Trump #BreakingNews #Breaking
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4725329-trump-conviction-impact-independents/
"Long live October 7." That's what you're defending.
Here are hundreds of demonstrators in Lower Manhattan, celebrating the massacre of a thousand Jewish civilians. They're waving the flags of Hamas and Hezbollah, terrorist groups that explicitly aim to kill Jews everywhere in the world. Hezbollah once blew up a Jewish community center in Argentina.
How dare you and The New Republic claim this isn't #antisemitism? How dare you attack my president for condemning this hate?
Our top story: As the researchers proceeded to search for textiles, they realized they had stumbled onto a crime scene. A massive theft of pre-Columbian art reveals troubling truths about Texans’ role in the illicit antiquities trade. https://www.texasobserver.org/the-heist/
#history #culture #HumanRights #Indigenous #Texas #politics #USpol #news
Anatomy of a Pre-Columbian Art Heist in Fort Worth
A Texas Christian University professor and students probe the unsolved mysteries surrounding the 2001 thefts of dozens of artifacts.Jack Emery (The Texas Observer)
BREAKING NEWS 🚨🚨
Republican Clown Show!
The U.S. Justice Department on Friday told Republican House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson that it would decline to pursue criminal contempt of Congress charges against Attorney General Merrick Garland, according to a letter seen by Reuters.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Breaking #BreakingNews
”Rarely has the agency so aggressively pursued a politician for potential violations. ...”
Chris Paddie is fighting back in court against a state ethics commission probe into his allegedly illegal lobbying. https://www.texasobserver.org/paddie-ethics-lobbying-investigation/
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...wie mir lieb wäre:
Während es #China sicherlich nicht recht wäre, die Kaufkraft eines seiner wichtigsten Handelspartner, der #EU, durch einen Krieg mit #Russland zu reduzieren, ist #Xi sicherlich die Wiedervereinigung mit #Taiwan wichtiger.
Vermutlich würde er #Putler bei einem Einmarsch in europäische NATO-Staaten erneut gewähren lassen, ähnlich wie mit der #Ukraine. Fiele dann auch noch der #AtomareSchutzschirm durch Artikel 5...
@fasnix @iThreepwood
#USpol #Democracy
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...werden, dann kann man die Frage sicherlich binnen Jahresfrist aufgrund des #MAGA-Projektes zur Machtergreifung, #Project2025, mit an Sicherheit grenzender Wahrscheinlichkeit leider verneinen. 2)
Was das für #Europa bedeuten würde (#NATO-Schutzschirn), lässt sich leider aufgrund der Aussagen zum Bündnis des nun erstmals rechtskräftig verurteilten Kriminellen leider gar nicht so schwer prognostizieren,...
Any #ethics law that affects #SCOTUS has a bootstrapping problem. #Congress could pass any law managing or constraining SCOTUS, however reasonable, then the Federalist Society or whoever would immediately sue. The suit gets to SCOTUS and they strike the law down as unconstitutional, and we are back to an unaccountable SCOTUS. How do you address this problem? #aoc #msnbc #uspol #progressive #politics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW6H-RoVp1w
AOC: Supreme Court is ‘paving the path to authoritarianism’
Rep. Jamie Raskin and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez join Chris Hayes to discuss the Supreme Court ethics crisis and how to hold the justices accountable.» Su...YouTube
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Eine ausgezeichnete Frage, die du aufwirfst:
*Kann man die #USA noch als #Demokratie westlicher Prägung betrachten?*
Ich bin kein Politikwissenschaftler, auch wenn ich mit seit sehr vielen Jahren mit der Thematik beschäftige. Ich denke, die Historikerin #NancyMcLean trifft es bislang mit ihrem Buchtitel, #DemocracyInChains1) ("Demokratie in Ketten") noch.
Sollte #Trump im November 2024 wiedergewählt...
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https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/112598602729129143
HistoPol (#HP) (@HistoPol@mastodon.social)
@Snowshadow @Jeramee #USpol #Economics #MAGAnomics #MustReads (2/n) ...when right-wing economist, #Repubican economics strategist, and later-day #NobelLaureate #JamesBuchanan founded what would layer be known as the #VirginiaSchool.Mastodon
#Wahlkampfspenden #DEpol #USpol
Haben die #Deutschen mit Abstand nicht.
Die deutschen #Politiker--insbesondere von Schwarz/Gelb haben feuchte Träume davon, was seit 1 1/2 Jahrzehnten seit der Entscheidung des Obersten Gerichtshofs, #CitizensUnitedVsFEC*, in den #USA möglich wurde.
#Plutokratie und #Oligarchie fast in Reinkultur
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https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110856116616631495
https://mastodon.social/@DebErupts/110759648250546250
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110420059789133439
Deborah Rose (@DebErupts@mastodon.social)
@thoughtshopper@toad.social Citizens United, The 2010 Supreme Court decision tilted political influence toward wealthy donors and corporations. ##SCOTUS #CitizensUnitedVsFEC | Brennan Center for Justice https://www.brennancenter.Mastodon
Many #Trump allies had been secretly rooting for an #acquittal. The talking points wrote themselves: It would have been yet more evidence that the #UnitedStates #justice system was rigged in favor of #Bidens & against Trumps. Tues’s #guilty #verdict was inconvenient to that narrative.
Even more valuable would have been the #fundraising potential.
#gaslighting #ConspiracyTheories #USpol #law #HunterBiden
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/11/us/politics/donald-trump-hunter-biden.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
There are fewer than 1,213 daily local newspapers left in the U.S.
The number of partisan-backed outlets designed to look like impartial news outlets has officially surpassed them.
https://www.axios.com/2024/06/11/partisan-news-websites-dark-money
h/t @Prosaic
#USPol #Journalism #news #misinformation
‘Georgia Is Our Laboratory’: Inside Trump’s Plan to Rig 2024
Team Trump sees Georgia as ‘a road map’ for putting Trump’s heads-I-win-tails-you-lose philosophy of elections into practice
#news #politics #uspol #usa #georgia #elections #ElectDemocrats #electionfraud #trump
