Clara Listensprechen @ClaraListensprechen4@qoto.org

#elon and friends want to cut hundreds of billions out of the #pentagon's budget. taking bets on how long the weapons makers let them live.

They are not planning a four-year term.

They are planning an everlasting dictatorship.

Are we all clear on this?

Potentially hundreds of people incarcerated in Illinois should have been released from prison already because they participated in rehabilitative programs. Now a lawsuit is challenging how state prison officials have been calculating sentence reductions. https://www.wbez.org/criminal-justice/2024/11/14/lawsuit-claims-misapplication-of-law-is-leaving-people-stuck-in-illinois-prisons

#mathart with @geogebra using sequences:
https://youtu.be/jZEW_pdRZmM

https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/just-visiting/nation-risk-and-re-segregation-schools

May 03, 2018
"A Nation at Risk" and the Re-Segregation of Schools

We were on our way to closing the "achievement gap," and then something happened.

By John Warner

A portal to another world.

#Trump #fascist #felon #government #politics #political #humour #humor #cartoon

Me: posts an ad for a free bike frame on craiglist with a picture of the frame

Some guy: Hi. I want your bike rack

#WritingPrompt: Your character lays down an ultimatum. Does any one listen? Can they even enforce it?

#writing #AmWriting #authodons

Second Trump reign could make life ‘a lot harder’ for EU’s far-right leaders
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/17/second-trump-reign-could-make-life-a-lot-harder-for-eus-far-right-leaders
via @guardian

LOL; good luck apologizing to Putin for this Trump!

> Ukraine's first deep strikes are likely to be carried out using ATACMS rockets, which have a range of up to 190 miles (306 km), according to the sources.

https://www.reuters.com/world/biden-lifts-ban-ukraine-using-us-arms-strike-inside-russia-2024-11-17/

#RussiaIsATerroristState #SlavaUkraini #russianinvasion #RussiaUkraine #russia #ukraine #war #uspol

📰 Tragic outcomes for Russian recruits: missing soldiers highlight severe frontline losses

🔗 https://www.uawire.org/Contents/Item/Display/31304

#News #RussianInvasion #RussianWar #Ukraine

https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/oh-great-now-the-press-is-sanewashing

oh great, now the press is sanewashing Bobby Brainworms

opportunities, how do they work?

Trump's Blacklist: His Fascism, Legal Fuck-ups, and Business Failures - emptywheel

https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/11/17/trumps-blacklist-his-fascism-legal-fuck-ups-and-business-failures/

> In addition to using lawsuits to seed his false claim that the election was not fair, Donald Trump bullied the NYT for a group of stories that debunked his con.

Question from Russian newspaper reporter: "Does the incoming change of power in the U.S. carry any positive changes for Russia?"

Answer from Nikolai Patrushev (Putin aide): "To achieve success in the election, Donald Trump relied on certain forces to which he has corresponding obligations, and as a responsible person, he will be obliged to fulfill them."

SOURCE: Talking Points Memo
#Trump #Russia #Ukraine

Texas' anti-LGBTQ+ laws push transgender woman to make move to New Bedford

https://eu.southcoasttoday.com/story/news/politics/2024/11/15/transgender-woman-relocates-from-texas-to-new-bedford-ma-lgbtq-laws-discrimination/76240546007/

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

The first known US case of a more severe mpox strain has been reported in California, according to the CDC. https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/s1116-california-first-clade.html

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.
#Idiocracy

Update on US population vs Trump's nominees

As a percent of US population:
•White men: 30%
•Women: 51%
•People of color: 40%
•Black: 12%

Trump's nominees so far:
•White men: 68%
•Women: 20%
•People of color: 16%
•Black: 0%
•Men credibly accused of sexual assault: 12%

Look at that meritocracy go!

Disabled people have been right about almost everything that’s happened over the last 5 years.

People don’t listen to us because they don’t see us as real people. We’re invisible (at best) & disposable (at worse).

We are the canaries - and we are trying to warn you. Listen.

No one is safe from #Israel ‘s crimes against humanity in #Lebanon