Gaythia Weis @Gaythia@qoto.org

“The group White Dudes for #Harris rolled out a new $10 million ad campaign on Thursday, with the first ad of the effort targeting white men in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

The over one-minute-long spot addresses #Trump’s grip on the white male vote but works to appeal to voters in the bloc who are disillusioned with him and his campaign.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4888155-white-dudes-harris-ad-campaign/

I love that the men who would rather build robot wives than just be decent humans, think that women will be so sad to miss out on them.

"Combined with the specter of Trump’s threat of mass deportations if he wins, the rhetoric that the Republican campaign is staking the race on continues to blur the line between legal and illegal immigration in a way that puts immigrants of all statuses at risk."

~ David Kurtz

#Trump #JDVance #PoliticsofHate #PoliticsofDistraction #Springfield #Haitians #immigrants
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https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/trump-vance-intentionally-blurs-the

Under the tax plan proposed in Project 2025, it's estimated that a family of 4 making $100,000/year would get a $2,600 tax hike. But a family of 4 making $5 million/year would get a $325,000 tax cut.

It's a trickle-down nightmare.

Trump and his cronies have wailed about Trump's security.

Yet Trump's Project 2025 would GUT the Secret Service, forcing most agents to transfer to ICE -- with a "significant budget reduction."

So much for keeping America safe.

First legal view I’ve seen on the pager attacks:

“Mary Ellen O’Connell, a professor of law and international peace studies at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, said booby-traps are banned under international law. “Weaponizing an object used by civilians is strictly prohibited,” she said.”

https://apnews.com/article/lebanon-israel-exploding-pagers-hezbollah-syria-ce6af3c2e6de0a0dddfae48634278288

#Lebanon #Pagers #hezbollah #Israel

@peachfront @Nonilex The bill claims to be about forbidding non-citizens to vote, but that's already the law. Its real effect is to make it much harder for married women who changed their names to vote.

In case you didn't get the real point, being obsessed with biological motherhood is really about:

Women as subordinate sex/baby-factories, not full human beings.
Bloodlines and ancestry as the determining nationality and humanity.

Do not underestimate the stakes of this election.

#harriswalz2024

Oh look, Starlink is continuing to screw up the sky in every way possible.

"Second-Generation Starlink Satellites Leak 30 Times More Radio Interference, Threatening Astronomical Observations"

https://www.astron.nl/starlink-satellites/

It's going to be "hilarious" when Starlink messes up the radio sky so badly that radio astronomers can't even use quasars to calibrate GPS anymore. There are so many consequences from all these stupid, cheaply built, disposable satellites. https://www.universetoday.com/105160/navigating-the-cosmos-by-quasar/

He’s so good

Gov. #Walz in #NorthCarolina: "You know her story. Took on the predators. Took on the fraudsters. Took on the transnational gangs. Took on the big corporate interests … I bet she never thought the predators and the fraudsters and the greedy corporate interests would be all wrapped up into one person on a debate stage."

Hiltzik: Trumps jump into crypto as FBI warns of rising fraud - Los Angeles Times https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2024-09-18/fbi-calls-crypto-a-hive-of-pervasive-criminality-so-of-course-trump-and-his-family-are-jumping-right-in

As Radley Balko says, what Trump and Vance don't want people to know is that immigrants are making red America great again.

Springfield has lost about a quarter of its population since 1970, as manufacturing plants closed in the 1980s-1990s. In the mid-2010s, city officials began seeking to lure new businesses.

But the local population was aging.

#Trump #JDVance #immigrants #Springfield #disinformation #lies
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https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/what-jd-vance-and-donald-trump-dont

Last year the NYPD spent $150 Million to catch people who weren't able to afford to pay the subway fare. They collectively owed just $104,000 in fares.

Instead of funding cops to shoot people, why not use the money to make public transport free for people who can't afford it?

https://hellgatenyc.com/the-nypd-spent-150-million-to-catch-farebeaters-who-cost-the-mta-104000/

KOSA could block youth access to life-saving sexual and reproductive health resources. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/09/kosas-online-censorship-threatens-abortion-access

'Contrary to public perception, we observe considerably lower felony arrest rates among undocumented immigrants compared to legal immigrants and native-born US citizens and find no evidence that undocumented criminality has increased in recent years'
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2014704117

1/2 Dear fellow Europeans, I am respectfully asking you to consider signing this European Citizen Initiative to institute a billionaire tax. It was invented by leading French economist Thomas Piketty; I read the whole thing, and it is technically excellent. Hit me if you have questions, but please sign it, it is important.

https://www.tax-the-rich.eu/

It needs 1 million signatures (currently 300K) and seven countries over their threshold (currently three: Denmark, France, Germany).