Nordstahl @Nordstahl@qoto.org

A stunning natural color view of #Eclipse2024 from GOES-East geostationary satellite.

Processed by @simon_sat

@DemocracyMattersALot

Shame on the business leaders funding an anti-democracy movement.

John Paulson funds Trump's Coup 2.0
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/07/opinions/trump-2024-palm-beach-fundraiser-rich-donors-obeidallah/index.html

Woody Johnson fawns over wannabe tinpot despots.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/fawning-billionaire-woody-johnson-tells-fox-that-trump-impressed-us-at-fundraiser

Jeff Yass doesn't want to pay taxes, ever.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/who-is-jeff-yass-the-gop-billionaire-donor-dominating-2024.html

José “Pepe” Fanjul Sr. & oil baron Harold Hamm want to continue killing people either through a high sugar diet or through frying the planet.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-tells-billionaires-ll-keep-taxes-low-50-million-fundraising-gala-rcna146748

The #BidenHarris campaign New ad 😔 😢

Pass it on

https://youtube.com/watch?v=wInNjr_9D28&si=kh8hZ5qfi9D15LEd

They’re still here.
Worst rapture ever.

Just a heads up, I'm going to be away for a couple weeks, traveling and stuff. Will try to post when I can so you don't forget about me. In the meantime, you stay classy, Fediverse!

I keep thinking it is Tuesday, like the eclipse jumped us forward one day.

Tigger One enjoys a truly immense scratch post...

Amen.

SCOTUS dragging their feet on a decision about Trump’s ludicrous immunity claim is a stain on the court that cannot be washed out. It will be written and talked about for centuries to come. Shame on John Roberts and the Right-wing justices.

#SCOTUS #SupremeCourt #SupremeCorruption #ImpeachClarenceThomas #JohnRoberts

I don't believe in polls this far out from an election, but I do relish knowing that Trump is full on panicking every time polls are published that show him losing.

Clarence Thomas ruled in favor of Citizens United. Harlan Crow and his family's political contributions then went up 862%. Then we later find out Thomas let Crow take him on lavish trips, buy his mom's house, and help fund his wife's conservative nonprofit. See how this works?

My view of the solar eclipse was photobombed by a satellite transit.

© Brant Smith. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

According to the WaPo: “Donald Trump has privately said he could end Russia’s war in Ukraine by pressuring Ukraine to…cede Crimea and the Donbas border region to Russia.” Did we learn nothing from WWII and the danger of appeasement? Give an inch, he'll take it all.

Oh for fuck’s sake, people.

New in PN: "Instructing jurors that they are obliged to take Trump at his word that stolen documents are personal records is functionally an instruction to acquit. And by the time Judge Cannon says this in open court, there will be no way to appeal or to retry the case. She will have rigged the case." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/judge-aileen-cannon-jury-instructions-trump-docs

"On Saturday night, Trump convinced 117 extraordinarily wealthy people to give him $50 million at a campaign fundraiser at the Palm Beach home of billionaire investor John Paulson. They believe that if Trump becomes president again, he’ll give them another big tax cut."

~ Robert Reich

#Trump #EconomicElites #taxes #TaxCuts #SocialSecurity
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https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-full-eclipse-of-donald-trump

All it would take for AI to completely collapse is a ruling in the US saying these companies have to licence the content they used to train these tools.

They simply would never reach a sustainable business model if they had to fairly compensate all the people who wrote, drew, edited, sang or just created the content they use.

Simply being forced to respect attribution and licenses would kill them. Will that ruling ever happen? Maybe not. Should it? I think so.

In 2016 Trump pledged to ban abortion & punish anyone who gets one.

His various judicial picks voted to overturn Roe & ban mifepristone.

He's surrounded himself with sworn enemies of reproductive rights.

Whatever he's saying today, know that he will ban abortion given a chance

Discrimination and vote suppression are the hallmarks of the GOP over the last 5 decades, and continue today. https://newsie.social/@ProPublica/112213090790518630