Gaythia Weis @Gaythia@qoto.org

📣 UPDATE: Given today's news out of NC & how much help we need in Montana, I've decided to remove Josh Stein from my State Executive Endgame page and replace him with BEN ALKE for MT AG and JESSE MULLEN for MT SoS!

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https://secure.actblue.com/donate/endgamestateexecs2024?refcode=masto

In #books: ”Jessica Pishko describes today’s American sheriff as an increasingly powerful elected figure who runs the nation’s massive infrastructure of local jails and is nearly always a well-funded incumbent with access to increasingly sophisticated weapons.” https://www.texasobserver.org/lawmen-above-the-law/

#politics #USpol #bookstodon #police #CriminalJustice #democracy #elections #HumanRights #GunViolence

So we’re in a care crisis in America. Think of the burdens of child and elder care alone in your life. #KamalaHarris is the only one talking about this. https://www.statnews.com/2024/08/01/kamala-harris-policies-caregiving-care-economy-an-issue-other-candidates-should-promote/

“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

With regards to the last share, Canopy Northwest Arkansas is a nonprofit that supports refugee relocation in the area, helping refugees find housing, jobs, navigate the immigration process, and to overall get established in a new country.

Our former church helped support an Iraqi family several years ago. Many large communities are likely to have at least one if not more organizations focused on this goal.

#Arkansas

https://www.canopynwa.org/

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