Another always relevant comic for #USPol

We just need to swap out the names of some of the companies so it's now things like microsoft, google, amazon, exxonmobil, at&t, boeing. etc.

This is a US supplied 2,000 pound bomb milliseconds before it exploded in a residential neighborhood of Beirut Lebanon a day or two ago.

There have been so many strikes on medical workers and residential buildings in Lebanon the past week I just can't keep up.

#USPol #JoeBiden #Beirut #Lebanon #Israel #FreePalestine #FreeLebanon

If the worst does not actually come to pass, I don't think I'm going to be sitting here going "oh noooo I can't believe I strengthened my communities, made sure I'm up to date on my healthcare needs, and volunteered for causes I believe in"

3/3

#USpolitics #USpol

Sometimes the forecasted storms uneventfully pass by, in which case you're left with a little extra food on hand, some jugs of water for the next storm, and some cozy blankets to snuggle up in.

Anyway, this has been a message to those choosing to mock people who are taking steps to prepare for a Trump presidency. 2/3

#USpolitics #USpol

My whole life, I've lived in New England: the land of blizzards and ice storms. When there's a storm on the forecast, we prepare. Stock up on bottled water and nonperishables, refill prescriptions that are running low, charge the flashlights and electronic devices, have a stack of blankets on hand, make sure there's fuel in the car and (if you're lucky) generator, restack the indoor wood pile. 1/3

#USpolitics #USpol

Escaping From Trump?

Fancy a break?

A 4-year cruise: the US offers a "break from politics"

A residential cruise line is offering a four-year voyage for passengers looking for an extra-long vacation.

All-inclusive tickets start at $256,000 for a single room. Double rooms start at $319,998. The cruise will take vacationers to 140 countries.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #vacation #cruise #Politics #uspolitics #uspol

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I'm Russian living in Russia. I was 5 when Putin was 'elected'. I'm 30 now. I know that feeling of hopelessness very well. You should never surrender. Autocrats of the world are counting on you being down and depoliticized because all of this. Don't give them an easy win. Always fight, no matter how bad situation seems.

#usa #trump #election #democracy #us #uspol #USPolitics #harris #russia #putin #palestine #ukraine

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If you’re someone at higher risk due to the US election, I want you to know that I’ll do what I can to help and support you.

If you find yourself in Colorado and need a place to stay for a few days—or just need someone to talk to—PLEASE reach out. I’m sick to my stomach, but I’m trying to figure out how to keep things positive.

I’m here on Mastodon, but I’m also on Signal at cassidyjames.01 or here: signal.me/#eu/UzJ-uiGxfEjdgYEZ…

#USpol #LGBTQ #LGBT #LGBTQIA #TransRights

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Follow this link to message on Signal.

^signal.me

#USPol

The only accurate state of the US

I had no idea that North Carolina allows spouses to share a voting booth. Both must consent to that, but of course an abused (or otherwise scared or intimidated) spouse isn't going to complain.

ncnewsline.com/2024/10/25/alam…

h/t @MissGayle @Burnt_Veggies @cafechatnoir
#uspol #voting #NorthCarolina

Alamance County voters raise concerns about spouses sharing polling booths • NC Newsline

Some Alamance County voters at the polls were shocked to see spouses sharing voting booths — though the practice is legal in North Carolina.

^{Brandon Kingdollar (NC Newsline)}

Hi all, it's me, An Old. Quick election reminders:

- If you are in line before the polls officially close, STAY IN LINE. You are entitled to cast your vote.
- DO NOT TRUST calls/texts/posts/TikToks from now until Weds. Deepfakes will be rampant.

Classic scams:
"your voting location has moved"
"your group votes on Weds" <- old Jim Crow shit
"have your payment ready" <- poll taxes are illegal

Vote! No later than Tuesday, even by mail! Demand a provisional ballot if anything goes wrong!
#USPol

I must not trust polls.
Polls are the mind-killer.
Polls are the little-deaths that bring both false hope and false doom.
I will ignore the polls.
I will permit them to pass over me and through me.
And when they have gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see their path.
Where the polls have gone there will be nothing.
Only votes will remain.

Or something.
#uspol

To pull a Bezos: to sell oneself out to someone only to be kicked in the teeth by them.

Couldn’t have happened to a smarter person. Like literally, almost anyone paying attention with a modicum of intelligence would have known acquiescence would earn them nothing but scorn.

h/t @amberwavesofflame

#fec #WashingtonPost #trump #bezos #USpol

People make fun of the “what happens in the booth stays in the booth” election ads, but I know poll workers who have had to keep husbands out of their wive’s voting booths because they had to “make sure she votes right”. When I was phone banking I also talked with a woman who’s husband or boyfriend was clearly around and it almost definitely changed the nature of the call. Voter intimidation by men is a real problem and I’m glad these ads address it.

#USPol #USElection

See my reporting on their previous violation, which is being reviewed by the FEC: citationneeded.news/coinbase-c…

#Coinbase #crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol

Coinbase appears to have violated campaign finance laws with a $25 million super PAC donation

Actively involved in contract negotiations with a federal government agency, Coinbase was likely prohibited from making its $25 million contribution to the Fairshake cryptocurrency-focused super PAC in May 2024.

^{Molly White (Citation Needed)}

As an active federal contractor, Coinbase is prohibited from making political contributions, including to super PACs. This makes $50 million that they have contributed in violation of pay-to-play laws for contractors.

#Coinbase #crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol

We want to support the journalists; so boycott Amazon and encourage Bezos to sell the Washington Post to someone who gives a shit.

Washington Post writers say don’t dump subscriptions over non-endorsement
theguardian.com/media/2024/oct…

#WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #EatTheBillionaires #USPol

Jeff Bezos has caved in to fascism by forbidding his Washington Post editorial staff from endorsing Kamala Harris in a likely quid pro quo with Mango Mussolini.

Jeff Bezos engaged in illegal union-busting tactics, spending over $14 million in 2022 alone to undercut his employees' rights.

Jeff Bezos spent $500 million to build his personal floating mansion Koru, the tallest sailing yacht in the world that is so big, it has its own 250-foot support yacht.

Jeff Bezos, executive chairman of Amazon, extorts 50% of revenue from sellers on the monopolistic retail website Amazon.com.

Jeff Bezos this year bought his *fourth* private jet for $80 million, a Gulfstream G700 luxury business jet that travels near the speed of sound. Bezos’ plane made 28 flights in 39 days — leaving a carbon footprint of 264 tons, or 17 times what the average American emits in a year.

Jeff Bezos, as reported by ProPublica, filed a tax return in 2011 showing he lost money and received a $4,000 child tax credit from the US government during a year in which his wealth held steady at $18 billion.

I can go on and on, but how many reasons do you need to boycott anything he touches?

Cancel your Washington Post subscription. Cancel your Amazon Prime membership. Boycott Amazon.

You have alternatives. Don't feed the beast.

#USPol #USPolitics #Amazon #Bezos #WaPo #BillionairesShouldNotExist #TaxTheRich #UnionBustingIsDisgusting #UnionStrong

I donated to @glyph and co's #SuperSwingDistricts slate. Properly resourcing state-level candidates increases the chance that voters in important swing districts might actually get to meet someone they're going to vote for, or be persuaded to show up and vote for something that matters to their local community.

Learn more, consider supporting: superswingdistricts.org/

#USPol

I've donated to #SuperSwingDistricts, a strategy for donating to local candidates in important races that are also likely to "turn out" many voters who wouldn't have voted for the federal candidate otherwise. Thanks @glyph for building and sharing this 💜

Please take a look, this strategy seems compelling to me:

#uspol superswingdistricts.org/

Whew. Going to take a moment now just to close my eyes and take deep breaths and imagine, because this is definitely also within reach, that in a few weeks Trump loses, slowly loses the rest of his appeals, is jailed for his existing convictions, and begins to fade from public memory.

There will still be years of work to do, gradually breaking the power of the ghouls who made him and are complicit in his crimes. But what an amazing feeling that would be.

We can still make it happen.

#USPol

And we made it, and then some. On to the next goal: $60k.

Writing that thread about the stakes of the election from my perspective really took a lot more out of me than I thought it was going to though, so please get to $60k while I take a break for a while.

#USPol #SuperSwingDistricts

Make that $200.

#USPol #SuperSwingDistricts

An hour later and we're only a little over $300 from the new goal. Thank you to everyone donating. Really inspiring to watch.

#USPol #SuperSwingDistricts

Okay, time to properly launch this: SUPER SWING DISTRICTS! superswingdistricts.org

This is a slate of Democratic candidates calculated for maximum impact for your donation dollars.

National campaigns receive a ton of money, but can't always deploy it locally in the places that the Electoral College, gerrymandering, and … shenanigans mean it needs to be spent. But figuring out which local campaigns *can* use it is a lot of work. This site is the output of that work.

#USPol #SuperSwingDistricts

So, yeah. Make a plan to vote for Democrats. Donate to Democrats. Get out the vote for Democrats. A vote for Democrats might not be perfect, but it is a vote *against* fucking killing somebody's whole family.

Of course the Maga party is not *exactly* the Nazi party, I do not think Jews will be first on the list; we will not have a play-by-play Holocaust re-run. But they *are* playing the hits by starting with "the communists", which some of you may recall begins a famous poem.

#USPol

Godwin's law looms over all discourse so I try not to bring this up constantly but *I* am constantly thinking about it when looking at the news.

My great grandparents' names are on that list I just linked. And when we were learning about what the other kids in school would call "the holocaust", my grandmother would often speak about her experience using french words and phrases, because, you know. It happened to her, and when it happened to her it happened in french.

#USPol

And that's the word she would use, in French. "Déportations". As in "mémorial des déportations", which is what a lot of holocaust museums are called in France.

For me, the phrase "mass deportation" has a visceral resonance more like "fucking kill your whole family" than "fiscal policy".

Which makes me feel absolutely insane when horse-race pundits say it. "Will fucking killing your whole family reduce housing prices? Fucking killing your whole family is very popular among men 18-34."

#USPol

2020 was our Beer Hall Putsch. It failed. Remember when Hitler failed seize power? Conservative elites allowed his rehabilitation, his poisoning of their institutions. It was years until he could do "deportations". And—I cannot stress this enough—*that is what they called it*. "Deportations".

This is what a record of "mass deportations" looks like. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline…

We are past "it could happen here". It *IS* happening here. It just hasn't all happened *yet*.

#USPol

Going to take a break for a few hours from talking about #SuperSwingDistricts but I did want to talk just a *little* bit about the stakes.

In 2016… almost 8 years ago… I wrote this: blog.glyph.im/2016/11/what-are…

If you're convinced, this is not an article for you to read, but it is an article for you to share, if you know someone who is not convinced that this is *serious*.

I was early, but I wasn't wrong.

In 2016, nobody had "mass deportations now" signs. In 2016, there were guard rails.

#USPol

Deciphering Glyph :: What are we afraid of?

Deciphering Glyph, the blog of Glyph Lefkowitz.

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“The last time the United States launched a mass deportation effort … U.S. citizens of Hispanic descent were rounded up and sent to Mexico—a place that many had never been before. The mass deportations that Trump is proposing would be devastating for our #economy and dangerous for American Latinos.” texasobserver.org/how-mass-dep…

#Trump #news #politics #Fascism #extremism #Republicans #Texas #USpol #immigration #border #election2024

How Mass Deportations Would ‘Devastate’ Texas

The Lone Star State is home to millions of undocumented residents and members of mixed-status families critical to the state’s economic success, yet Texas leaders are cheering on Trump anyway.

^{Francesca D’Annunzio (The Texas Observer)}