> Penn Jillette Wants to Talk It All Out. cracked.com/article_40871_penn…

h/t @pluralistic.

#politics, #uspol #HumanCondition

Penn Jillette Wants to Talk It All Out

The outspoken magician/comedian/writer talks to Cracked about leaving behind Libertarianism, why he’s worried about the future and how Trump is even worse than you think

^{Tim Grierson (Cracked.com)}

Trump's new goon squad is more menacing than his gang in the 1st term. Musk will use his bully pulpit to ensure all GOP MOC comply with his orders.

“Elon & Vivek talked about having a naughty & nice list for MOC & how we vote/we’re spending the American peoples'💰" -MTG

Trump's 2nd term comes with Musk serving as his pol enforcer. Within Trump’s team -a feeling that Musk is intent on seeing them through to the point of pressuring Rs who may be less devout.

#USPol #Musk ktvb.com/article/news/nation-w…

KTVB

Official YouTube channel of KTVB Idaho's News Channel 7 in Boise. Watch nearly every segment right after it airs on TV, covering everything from high school sports to development and growth in the Treasure Valley.

^YouTube

UPDATE: a spokesperson from JP Morgan Chase told the Texas Observer they fired the operator of a neo-Nazi X account who we identified as their employee.

"This person is no longer at the firm. We do not tolerate hate in any form and take incidents such as this very seriously."
texasobserver.org/revealed-ope…

#politics #USpol #extremism #racism #antisemitism #Texas #news #SocialMedia #ElonMusk

Revealed: the Operators Behind Four Major Neo-Nazi X Accounts

Anonymity has long been a tactic used by extremists to spread their ideology while avoiding social consequences, from Klansmen hoods to online pseudonyms.

^{Tristan Lee (The Texas Observer)}

Latest comic: Experts explain why America voted for plague

#cartoon #comic #politics #uspol #media #journalism #election #authoritarianism

@economics-that-works

16 min

We grow animal fodder and food additives, but not our own food supply.

youtube.com/watch?v=CFcQOSzetO…

#uspol #economics #climatechange

Grist has unpacked the background of the Trump Cabinet nominees who will have an especially significant impact on federal climate policy, the public, and, ultimately, the planet. texasobserver.org/trump-cabine…
via @grist

#environment #politics #USpol #Trump #DonaldTrump #news #extremism #ClimateChange #energy #OilAndGas

The Trump Picks Who Could Decide Our Climate Future

It's not just the EPA. From Elon Musk and RFK Jr. to Marco Rubio and Doug Burgum, Trump's choices to lead key agencies are poised to set a very different climate agenda.

^{Grist Staff (The Texas Observer)}

Report: Francesca Albanese: Western denials of Israel’s genocide will, one day, "be a case-study in political cynicism".

Western politicians protecting Israel as it perpetrates genocide in Gaza are ignoring facts of law. Prejudice & ideology prevail.

Albanese's two reports, this year alone, analysed Israel’s acts of genocide & also placed the Israeli state’s intent to commit genocide against Palestinians in a historical context."

aje.io/3pg6gk?update=3367765

#Albanese #USCynicism #USPol #Gaza .

Thank fuck for universal health care.

#auspol #uspol

The discussion of blanket #pardons, reported earlier by Politico, remains primarily at a staff level although #POTUS #Biden has talked about it with senior members of the team…. It comes after Biden pardoned his son Hunter to spare him from prison on gun & tax charges. The White House declined to comment on Thursday.

#law #democracy #USpol
politico.com/news/magazine/202…

White House officials do not believe the potential recipients have actually committed crimes, but they have grown increasingly worried that #Trump’s selections for top #DOJ positions indicate that he will follow through on his repeated vows to seek #revenge. Even an investigation that results in no charges could drag on for months or years, costing those people hundreds of thousands of dollars in #legal fees & crippling their career prospects.

#law #democracy #USpol

#Biden’s staff is debating whether he should issue blanket #pardons for a swath of #Trump’s perceived enemies to protect them from the “retribution” he has threatened after he takes office….

The idea would be to pre-emptively extend executive clemency to a list of current & former government officials for any possible *crimes* over a period of years, effectively short-circuiting the next president’s promised campaign of reprisals.

#law #democracy #USpol

Yesterday: Among the neo-nazi X accounts revealed by Texas Observer are a 35-year-old vice president at JP Morgan Chase and a worker at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Indian Head, Maryland. texasobserver.org/revealed-ope…

#politics #USpol #extremism #racism #antisemitism #SocialMedia #ElonMusk #news

Revealed: the Operators Behind Four Major Neo-Nazi X Accounts

Anonymity has long been a tactic used by extremists to spread their ideology while avoiding social consequences, from Klansmen hoods to online pseudonyms.

^{Tristan Lee (The Texas Observer)}

Harry Litman: “I have written my last op-ed for the Times. Yesterday, I resigned my position. I don’t want to continue to work for a paper that is appeasing Trump and facilitating his assault on democratic rule for craven reasons.”

#latimes #patricksoonshiong #LosAngelesTimes #WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #EatTheBillionaires #USPol

A health insurance CEO gets basically assassinated in New York - and it sparks the biggest SoMe explosion on the state of health care in the US, the AI fucked up refusals, the time limits on anesthesia, the fact the US spends more per capita than any other country, and has one of the worst outcomes

Yet the media is all about CEOs freaking out and hiring security

Maybe don't sell a product that people require, you end up denying anyway, and leave families in huge debt

#USpolitics #USpol

"My name is Amos Goldberg. I'm an Israeli professor of #Holocaust studies. For almost 30 years I have researched and taught the Holocaust, genocide, and state violence, and I want to tell whoever is willing to listen that what is happening now in #Gaza is a #genocide."

Location: Parliament Square, London

C: LedByDonkeys @ByDonkeys on X

#USpol #Israel #Palestine #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity

Under Biden/Harris there was 600 billion worth of tariffs... Trump suggests 80 billion in tariffs... Guess which one everyone lost their shit over?

#USPol

Reposting this after the Skrmetti case was heard before the US Supreme Court today.

#Trans #TransRights #ProtectTransKids #Skrmetti #SCOTUS #USPol

New today: The Texas Observer has identified the operators of four anonymous accounts that regularly share racist, antisemitic, and neo-Nazi content on X. Three of the operators appear to live or have claimed to own property in Texas.
texasobserver.org/revealed-ope…

#extremism #politics #USpol #SocialMedia #Texas #ElonMusk #news #racism

Revealed: the Operators Behind Four Major Neo-Nazi X Accounts

Anonymity has long been a tactic used by extremists to spread their ideology while avoiding social consequences, from Klansmen hoods to online pseudonyms.

^{Tristan Lee (The Texas Observer)}

What does Agenda 47 spell for America’s future?

open.substack.com/pub/thomhart…

#PresidentChumpDidThis #RepublicansDidThis #GOPKakistocracy #ResistFascism #GOPWeirdos #RacistGOP #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol #Project2025 #Agenda47

What Does Agenda 47 Spell for America’s Future?

A stark warning about Trump’s dystopian plans for his second term...

^{Thom Hartmann (The Hartmann Report)}

@energisch_

#USpol

(2/2)

...nepotism and incompetence. But that takes also some time to set in. Not all federal employees that the #OrangePeril and his techbro #UncleElon might want to get rid of will "ride silently into the night," I guess".

//

@energisch_

#USpol

(1/2)

That will take a long time and things are going to get backer for a (larger-than-you-might-think) "lucky few."
Take a look at the present state of the #Argentine economy. #Milei is pursuing similar approaches, though he is a "100%" freemarketeer. Cutting slack at government institutions is not necessarily bad. The bad part is...

Report: Since issuing arrest warrants for Netanyahu & Gallant, the International Criminal Court has faced “coercive measures, threats, pressure, & acts of sabotage”.

“The court will continue to carry out its lawful mandate, independently & impartially, without giving in to any outside interference."

~Head of ICC

aje.io/bdr7it?update=3360815

#ICC #USPol #IsraeliImmunity #Netanyahu #Gallant .

"My God, what has the US done! This is embarrassing!"
- Aure

"Trump proposed to make Canada the 51st US state and Prime Minister Trudeau as its governor"
- Fox News

Trudeau made a surprise visit to Mar-a-Lago last Friday after Trump announced plans to impose 25% tariffs on Canadian and Mexican goods over illegal immigration and drug trafficking.

To this, Trudeau replied that this fullness will kill the country's economy.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Canada #uspolitics #uspol

Report: Since issuing arrest warrants for Netanyahu & Gallant, the International Criminal Court has faced “coercive measures, threats, pressure, & acts of sabotage”.

“The court will continue to carry out its lawful mandate, independently & impartially, without giving in to any outside interference."

~Head of ICC

aje.io/bdr7it?update=3360815

#ICC #USPol #IsraeliImmunity #Netanyahu #Gallant .

In May, State riot police violently broke up a peaceful anti-genocide encampment at U Mass Amhearst & arrested 134 people.

The big question was, Why?

The end of term was three days away.

Prof Emeritus Sut Jhally has an answer:

youtube.com/watch?v=WRm90F1Hqn…

#StudentProtests #GazaGenocide #USPol #PoliceViolence #USCensorship .

#USpol #Satire

#AltText:

Mexican-looking, man with a cap, kneeling in a zucchini field, 2 baby marrows in his hand, looking into the distance.

"So, on January 20, we leave. Then, we drink tequila in #Mexico for two weeks. Then we watch the #MAGA|S
try to do our jobs, and we laugh our asses off.
Then we come back and ask for three times our old wage, since we do the work of six MAGAS.
Sounds like a plan!"

mastodon.social/@_9CL7T9k8cjnD…

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2024-12-02 02:09:46

Latest comic: Capitulation

#cartoon #comic #uspol #media #politics #democracy

It would be nice if the Times admitted that it incorrectly assumed Trump was acting in good faith when he attempted to distance himself from Project 2025 even though Trump has a well documented history of acting in bad faith in all matters and at all times.

#USPol #project2025

nytimes.com/2024/11/29/us/poli…

Republicans make the world suck.

'Nuisance': Far-right Texas AG seeks to shut down homeless ministry on Thanksgiving alternet.org/ken-paxton-sunris…

#NoRepublicansEverAgain #RepublicanKakistocracy #VoteBlueToSaveEverything #GOPWeirdos #USPol

'Nuisance': Far-right Texas AG seeks to shut down homeless ministry on Thanksgiving

Far-right Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has been a highly divisive figure in Lone Star State politics, often drawing vehement criticism not only from Democrats, but also from fellow Republicans.

^{Alex Henderson (Alternet.org)}

From the archives, by former Editor @gabrielarana: Each year, one publication after another pushes some version of a piece doling out advice for avoiding conflict with one’s problematic relatives at the dinner table. This isn't one of those guides. texasobserver.org/this-thanksg…

#politics #USpol #news #culture #family #Thanksgiving #racism #Trump

This Thanksgiving, Call Your Racist Uncle a “Racist” - The Texas Observer

How-to guides for avoiding political conflict at the dinner table overestimate the value of keeping the peace.

^{Gabriel Arana (The Texas Observer)}

“The Texas board of education voted 8-7 on Friday to approve a new Bible-based curriculum in elementary schools.

The curriculum, called ‘Bluebonnet Learning’, could be implemented as soon as August 2025 and affects English and language arts teaching material for kindergarten through fifth grade public school classes.

Teachers will have a choice to opt into the new faith-based learning curriculum, but the state is offering a financial incentive of $60 a student for participating school districts.”

They’ll make it mandatory later, of course.

theguardian.com/us-news/2024/n…

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#OrganisedAffiliatedFuckers #DontPayTheGuardian #USpol

Texas approves new Bible-based curriculum for elementary schools

Teachers can opt in, but state is offering financial incentive of $60 a student for participating school districts

^{Erum Salam (The Guardian)}

#USpol #Fascism

👉Even before assuming office, #MadDogMusk assumes #role of lead prosecutor in a 21st century version of #the #SalemWitchTrials on #X👈

Via #RobertMcCoy, #TheNewRepublic

"*Elon Musk Keeps Unleashing His Crazed Followers on Government Workers

Musk is singling out federal employees by name on social media.*"

"...#senior advisers 4 climate + environmental justice @ the Dpt. of Housing + Urban Development,... Dpt. of Energy."

newrepublic.com/post/188891/el…
newrepublic.com/post/188891/el…