"These are people who make more than $35,000 but less than $58,000 per year, but don’t currently qualify for #overtime; to oversimplify, bosses have reclassified many of these #workers as managers, exempting them from federal overtime protections. The #Biden rule would make them eligible...

Guess who managed to block this rule that would have provided those people with relief? #MAGA #Republicans allied with #business interests, that’s who."

newrepublic.com/article/188663…

#GOP #Politics #USA #News

Trump's transition team turns to Project 2025 after disavowing it during the campaign

Transition officials have used Project 2025's extensive personnel database to identify potential hires for the incoming administration, a person familiar with the plans said
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Trump #BreakingNews #Breaking

nbcnews.com/politics/donald-tr…

House panel was told Gaetz paid two women $10,000, in part for sex
washingtonpost.com/politics/20…

#MattGaetz #Florida #GOPScumBucket #USPol #ExpelMattGaetz #DisbarMattGaetz #IndictMattGaetz #GOP #GOPTraitors #RepublicanKakistocracy #USPol

BREAKING NEWS

House speaker bans trans women from using Capitol women's bathrooms after first openly trans lawmaker is elected

It comes after Republican Rep. Nancy Mace introduced a bill to ban incoming Rep. Sarah McBride from using female bathrooms at work
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Trump #BreakingNews #Breaking

yahoo.com/news/house-speaker-b…

#Trump #Treason #Constitution #GOP #GQP

Points to Ponder....

"Does Putin tell Trump over the phone or via email on which clowns Trump should choose to run the government"
- Aure

It’s Pretty Clear Why Trump Wants Total Crackpots to Run the Military and Intelligence Agencies

Pete Hegseth and Tulsi Gabbard are bananas Cabinet picks. But don’t overlook the CIA nominee.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Trump #BreakingNews #Breaking #Putin

slate.com/news-and-politics/20…

Republicans Worry Trump Is About to Steamroll Congress on Matt Gaetz

Donald Trump could bypass the Senate and make Matt Gaetz his next attorney general. Here’s how.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Breaking #BreakingNews #Trump

newrepublic.com/post/188443/re…

Republicans Worry Trump Is About to Steamroll Congress on Matt Gaetz

^{The New Republic}

"The least qualified nominee in American history"

Why Trump picked Fox News host Pete Hegseth for defense

Veterans groups and service members are warning against Trump’s ‘dangerous’ appointment to the Pentagon, as the president-elect rewards loyalists dedicated to his agenda
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Trump
#AureFreePress

independent.co.uk/news/world/a…

Our new Secretary of Defense

[thread] John Thune
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Thu…

* politician serving as senior U.S. senator from South Dakota 2005+
* will become the Senate majority leader in Jan 2025
* 2024 elected Senate Republican leader, succeeding Mitch McConnell

Comment: McConnell known for filibuster (frustrating Obama), working with Leonard Leo to secure SCOTUS conservative supermajority

#JohnThune #MitchMcConnell #SenateRepublicans #GOP #Trump2 #fascism #SCOTUS
#Project2025 #billionaires #libertarianism #Christofascism

Trump pressures candidates for #Senate #GOP leader to fill his Cabinet right away

US Senate has not allowed presidents to make recess appts since a 2014 #SCOTUS ruling limited the president’s power to do so.

He's not even been sworn in, so he's not even POTUS yet, but - true to form - Trump wants to break that rule. Big time.

Hm. Wonder why. arabnews.com/node/2578824

#Election2024 #Elections2024

Trump pressures candidates for Senate GOP leader to fill his Cabinet right away

WASHINGTON: Days before Senate Republicans pick their new leader, President-elect Donald Trump is pressuring the candidates to change the rules and empower him to appoint some nominees without a Senate vote. Republican Sens.

^{AP (Arabnews)}

"Look what the vote wrought!"
- Aure

Online abuse, harassment and hate toward women has soared in the days since the US election, with phrases like “your body, my choice” and “get back to the kitchen” exploding on platforms like X and and TikTok, according to the Institute for Strategic Dialogue.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Breaking #BreakingNews #Trump

msn.com/en-us/news/world/ar-AA…

Honest to God, why isn’t Ken Paxton in prison?!?

Texas Will Allow Justice Department Monitors Outside — Not Inside — Polling Places huffpost.com/entry/texas-justi…

#IndictKenPaxton #KenIsATraitor #PaxtonForPrison #Texas #GOPTraitors #GOPSedition #GOP #USPol

Texas Will Allow Justice Department Monitors Outside — Not Inside — Polling Places

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton originally tried kicking federal monitors out of the Lone Star State, but he and the DOJ struck a new agreement.

^{Brandi Buchman (HuffPost)}

"The Secret White Nationalist Working for the Trump Campaign in Pennsylvania"

politico.com/news/magazine/202…

"Luke Meyer was Trump’s regional field director for western Pennsylvania. Online, he was the white nationalist Alberto Barbarossa."

#GOP #Trump #MAGA #LukeMeyer #PA #press

Good Morning, all

Inspired...

youtube.com/watch?v=e6Funs6yyE…

And for balance, here's the background to the gag about Trump wanking Mike Stand (a joke familiar to those who remember BBC's Radio Active 😆 ).

youtube.com/watch?v=B0Pn-_3sB-…

As to Don The Con's new slogan, 'TRUMP WILL FIX IT', I guess he never flew on Jimmy Savile's private jet?

#PE2024 #GOP #MAGA #VoteBlue

Also, in 'clarifying' his dog-whistling about his #GOP critic Liz Cheney facing a firing-squad, Donald Trump doubled-down, calling her 'a war-hawk who, if she were ever put in the line of battle would be the first to chicken-out.'

Fine words coming from Don The Con, who five times avoided being sent to fight in Vietnam by persuading a doctor that he had disqualifying 'bone spurs.'

Trump does so much projection, he could always find work as a prison cinema projectionist.

#MAGA #VoteBlue

"Harris goes to church while Trump muses about reporters being shot"

apnews.com/article/donald-trum…

"Donald Trump is asking voters in Pennsylvania again to make him leader of a 'failed nation.' Kamala Harris countered from a Michigan church pulpit that God offers America a 'divine plan strong enough to heal division.'”

Comment: MAGA has failed, not the USA. He's projecting the downfall of his empire onto the whole nation.

#GOP #Trump #MAGA #Harris #God #Michigan #church #Christianity #Jesus #press

Trump says he shouldn’t have left White House after 2020 loss

Donald Trump is asking voters in Pennsylvania again to make him leader of a “failed nation." Kamala Harris countered from a Michigan church pulpit that God offers America a “divine plan strong enough to heal division."

^{JILL COLVIN (AP News)}

The historically most accurate pollster in the United States is Ann Selzer. She only does polls in one state - Iowa, typically a very Republican state. For the last two elections her polls were outliers that turned out to be correct, showing that Trump's support was far stronger than expected in 2016 and Biden wasn't going to run away with it in 2020.

She just put out her final poll of the election showing Kamala Harris up by 3 points... in Iowa.

youtube.com/watch?v=yTU0ZWFNmz…

#Election2024 #2024Election #Trump #DonaldTrump #JDVance #uspol #uspolitics #politics #Kamala2024 #KamalaHarris #GOP #MAGA #MAGAts #Vote #Republicans #RVAT #Democrats #HarrisWalz2024 #VoteBlue #HarrisForPresident #HarrisWalz #VoteHarris #Iowa #AnnSelzer #Polls #Poll #Selzer

file under: things that will not be reported on fox news

thedailybeast.com/listen-to-th…

#Election2024 #2024Election #Trump #DonaldTrump #JDVance #uspol #uspolitics #politics #Kamala2024 #KamalaHarris #GOP #MAGA #MAGAts #Vote #Republicans #RVAT #Democrats #HarrisWalz2024 #VoteBlue #HarrisForPresident #HarrisWalz #VoteHarris #Epstein #JeffreyEpstein

Now #Texas requires hospitals to refuse trtmt of admitted "illegals."

Texas has become the harbinger of #GOP policy.

This what you want? Doctors violating their Hippocratic oath? Sick & injured people condemned to die b/c of #immigration status?

B/c you know what'll happen: ppl won't go to hospitals because they're required to declare their #citizenship &/or immigration status - or that of a family member. And Sbbott'll find some way to track em down

#Election2024

abc13.com/post/texas-hospitals…

Texas hospitals must now ask patients whether they're in the US legally. Here's how it works

Critics fear the change could scare people away from hospitals in Texas, even though patients are not required to answer the questions to receive medical care.

^{ABC13 Houston}

#Polish #Defense spending

(2/n)

...2025 2) (apparently revised downwards from 5% of #Polish GDP as of July, 2024.

You might reply that a budget dies not equal actual spending, however in a democracy, such huge building projects take time.

IMO, the delay is chiefly to to the fact that the "Moscow friendly" #Polish version of the #GOP, the "Law and Jusice Party", was in power until the brave #Poles voted them out of office in December,...

3)
reuters.com/business/aerospace…

BREAKING NEWS 🚨

The judge overseeing the lawsuit against Elon Musk and his $1 million giveaway to registered voters who sign a petition supporting the First and Second amendments has moved up a hearing in the case to Thursday at 10 a.m., bumping it up from Friday, according to a new order.

The order from Philadelphia Judge Angelo Foglietta states that "all parties must be present."
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspol #Breaking #BreakingNews

6abc.com/elon-musk-philadelphi…

Elon Musk ordered to attend Philadelphia hearing; DA asks for more security

^{6abc Philadelphia}

"But new data reveal that #Trump was the one whose #immigration policies damaged the country’s #security. In fact, he released more convicted criminals into the #UnitedStates than his successor....

when it comes to the small percentage of noncitizens who do commit crimes, Trump did not prioritize removing them during his term in office. In fact, he explicitly deprioritized them."
washingtonpost.com/opinions/20…

#Immigration #Politics #GOP #NationalSecurity #Crime #News #USNews #USA

"In his first week in office, #Trump signed an executive order rescinding Obama-era orders that directed the Department of Homeland Security to focus its resources on detaining & removing noncitizens who committed serious crimes....

What did that mean in practice? Immigration & Customs Enforcement agents were no longer required to focus on felons."
washingtonpost.com/opinions/20…

#Immigration #Policy #DHS #ICE #Crime #GOP #Politics #USPol #USA #News

#MichelleObama’s #Brutal #Takedown of #ConvictedFelon #DonaldTrump’s #MentalState #Shames #Media.

As Michelle Obama harshly indicts Trump, a former #GOP #strategist working to win #swing #voters explains why her #message might reach #undecided #women—and reflects on how the #media is #failing us.

newrepublic.com/article/187583…

Michelle Obama’s Brutal Takedown of Trump’s Mental State Shames Media

As Michelle Obama harshly indicts Trump, a former GOP strategist working to win swing voters explains why her message might reach undecided women—and reflects on how the media is failing us.

^{The New Republic}

Why #KamalaHarris Has the #Momentum Going into #ElectionDay.

As usual, #Republicans have flooded the zone with #GOP #leaning #polls that attempt to claim that Trump is likely to win.

And as usual, some in the #corporatemedia has been quick to echo this #narrative

— Don't forget the financial incentives the media has to portray the election as a close race, in order to drive increased political advertising revenue they wouldn't receive if the election was not close

dailykos.com/story/2024/10/27/…

Why Harris Has the Momentum Going into Election Day

As usual, Republicans have flooded the zone with GOP leaning polls that attempt to demonstrate that Trump is likely to win. And as usual, some in the corporate media has been quick to echo this narrative.

^{Daily Kos}

#GOP #Senator #RickScott #Rips #Trump #Rally #Comic for #PuertoRican ‘#Garbage’ #Joke

‘It’s Not #Funny and It’s Not #True’

mediaite.com/politics/gop-sen-…

if you ever find yourself wondering "how did crypto bros get all this money to try to take over the government?" a big part of the answer is "the government gave it to them in the form of covid stimulus and PPP loans".

the crypto industry alone is now responsible for roughly half of all corporate money attempting to influence the election. you'd never know it though because their campaigns never mention crypto.

paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

#Election2024 #2024Election #Trump #DonaldTrump #JDVance #uspol #uspolitics #politics #Kamala2024 #KamalaHarris #GOP #MAGA #MAGAts #Vote #Republicans #RVAT #Democrats #HarrisWalz2024 #VoteBlue #HarrisForPresident #HarrisWalz #VoteHarris #crypto #bitcoin #BTC #Tether #PPP #covid

" #DonaldTrump has described at length the dangerous and disturbing actions he says he will take if he wins the presidency.

...These statements are so outrageous and outlandish, so openly in conflict with the norms and values of #American #democracy that many find them hard to regard as anything but empty bluster.

We have two words for American voters: Believe him."
nytimes.com/interactive/2024/1…

#Trump #Fascism #GOP #Politics #USPol #USA #News #Press #Media #Election2024 #Vote #VoteBlue

nothing to see here, just #JDVance actively encouraging the breaking of laws and the harassment of poll workers in a swing state.

x.com/DanteAtkins/status/18503…

#Election2024 #2024Election #Trump #DonaldTrump #JDVance #uspol #uspolitics #politics #Kamala2024 #KamalaHarris #GOP #MAGA #MAGAts #Vote #Republicans #RVAT #Democrats #HarrisWalz2024 #VoteBlue #HarrisForPresident #HarrisWalz #polls #swingState #Pennsylvania #Michigan #Wisconsin #Virginia #VoteHarris

Van Jones should know 'why'. Spoiler:she's female and dark skinned.

"‘He gets to be lawless. She has to be flawless.’: Van Jones on Trump and Harris "

#Harris #RVAT #Politics #News #USA #2024Election #Vote #Polls #Kamala #Walz @KamalaHarrisWin #Fascism #Authoritarianism #MAGA #GOP #Democrats #Dictator #Racism #Sexism

cnn.com/2024/10/23/politics/vi…

"The Real #Trump Problem: Cognitive Decline?
Donald Trump, [is] showing potential signs of cognitive decline, may not be able to perform the duties of the presidency for a full term. We believe he should release his medical records, as Vice President Harris has done, to provide transparency about his health."

#Harris #RVAT #Politics #News #USA #2024Election #Vote #Polls #Kamala #Walz @KamalaHarrisWin #Fascism #Authoritarianism #MAGA #GOP #Democrats #Dictator

nationalinterest.org/blog/poli…

The Real Donald Trump Problem: Cognitive Decline?

As physicians, we are deeply concerned that Donald Trump, showing potential signs of cognitive decline, may not be able to perform the duties of the presidency for a full term.

^{The National Interest}

#NASA Administrator Bill #Nelson on Friday called for an investigation into a Wall Street Journal report that #SpaceX founder and Donald #Trump ally Elon #Musk and Russian President Vladimir #Putin have been in “regular contact” since late 2022.

The report raises national security concerns as SpaceX’s relationships with NASA and the #US military may have granted Musk access to sensitive government information and US intelligence.

edition.cnn.com/2024/10/25/pol…

#Ukraine #Russia #MAGA #GOP

#GOP's Fred Upton backs #KamalaHarris' presidential campaign

West #Michigan #Republican & former U.S. #House Rep. #FredUpton is endorsing VP Kamala Harris' 2024 bid for the White House, saying his party's nominee, former President Donald #Trump, is #divisive, #unhinged & has "not changed his colors."

#HarrisWalz2024
detroitnews.com/story/news/pol…

GOP's Fred Upton backs Kamala Harris' presidential campaign

Michigan Republican and former U.S. Rep. Fred Upton said Donald Trump is divisive, unhinged and has "not changed his colors."

^{, The Detroit News (The Detroit News)}