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  • Republicans Introduce Their Biggest Attack on Voting Rights Yet

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  • The “Make Elections Great Again Act” would require photo identification, require mail-in ballots to be received by Election Day, require voters to opt-in to voting by mail, ban ranked-choice voting for federal elections, among many other restrictions.

    Jesus fucking christ....

    They of course want to funnel people to polls in person, for they know this will drive down turnout in itself, but also will make it way easier for Trump goons to harass voters. They'll also take advantage of the anonymous bomb threats that poured into 50 polling locations across battleground states in areas with higher Democratic turnout. FBI reports traced these to Russian IPs.

  • ‘It’s not too late to fix it’: internet inventor Tim Berners-Lee says he is in a ‘battle for the soul of the web’

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  • So I was tuning into this guy testifying to Congress the other day. Supposed neuroscientist, etc. Testifying to the effects of digital learning, pads, etc.

    Something just rubbed me the wrong way about him. Especially when you see the likes of Ted Cruz talking him up.

    Dude is heavily pushed by Moms for Liberty and "The Free Press" which we all know is a right-wing propaganda wing that gave us none other than Bari Weiss.

    I think the play here may be that they want to isolate children from the broader world and being exposed to other viewpoints. My gut instinct is that they're trying to construct the framework to justify isolationism and promote a Christo-Fascist society.

    I say this as someone who thanks the internet (especially in earlier decades) for changing multiple generations of my family from rural conservative Republican to progressive-left. The same reason they attack publicly-funded news like NPR or PBS, or Big Bird and Mr. Rogers.

    These things teach critical-thinking and kindness and make fearmongering less effective.

  • Carney says he expects U.S. to 'respect Canadian sovereignty' after Alberta separatists meet with Trump team

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  • Really making it obvious that they're copying the Putin playbook...

  • Bruce Springsteen releases anti-ICE protest song 'Streets of Minneapolis'

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  • Right that's like saying Bob Dylan - Hurricane is about ocean weather phenomena lol.

  • Bruce Springsteen releases anti-ICE protest song 'Streets of Minneapolis'

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  • It truly is wild, seeing us go through such a tumultuous period like my parents saw with the Civil Rights era. In struggle like this, great music is born -- from Jesse Welles to Springsteen throwbacks, to Dropkick Murphys tapping into that anger.

    Dispatch's Chad Urmston helped get me through the 2000s with his band State Radio (try Camilo, Right Me Up, Fight No More); Woodruff's Stick Figure helped soothe the pain I felt through Trump's first term and through covid (try Weight of Sound, Once in a Lifetime, Take it Easy).

    Seeing a mass culture movement of solidarity and peace and love try to rise through all this pain gives me some hope.

  • More 'No Kings' protests planned for March 28 as outrage spreads over Minneapolis deaths

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  • Bystanders beware dipshit apathetic comments like this trying to sow defeatism.

    Every No Kings Protest has been successful in spreading awareness and driving down Trump's popularity.

    This matters. Hitler was popular. Trump is not.

  • Doctors break with CDC on vaccine guidance for children

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  • Morale is plummeting among ICE agents over long hours, quotas and public hatred: reports

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  • It's kind of wild how much this is tracking with nazi germany.

    The Brownshirts were Hitler's first paramilitary force but ultimately became a liability due to their sheer incompetence / stupidity.

    So came the Night of Long Knives.

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    Microsoft Issues Emergency Windows 11 Out-of-Band Update

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  • And so the Windows curse of every other OS release being garbage continues.

  • Trump makes major U-turn as he lavishes praise on Tim Walz

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  • This sort of narcissistic behavior is textbook gaslighting.

    No different than the Mamdani meeting.

  • Most Fox News Reporting on Minneapolis Shooting Supports Official Version

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  • Doesn't help that most good or at least decent news is paywalled while fucking fox news blares freely in every waiting-room in the country.

    I appreciate the likes of PBS News, NPR, and UK Guardian who've found alternative models.

  • Update your 2026 bingo cards now

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  • Damn everything from the global pedo ring to the Biden crime family thing really is projection isn't it...

  • Update your 2026 bingo cards now

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  • Only way to get through to conservatives tends to be through their wallets. Unfortunately we all must suffer because of this but so be it...

  • The Lesser Evil

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  • This is incorrect as others pointed out. A phone is not a body cam.

    They released the phone cam, which they used to try to justify his actions with. A body cam wouldn't have because it would've showed he was fucking hit and it would've shown him shooting Renee in the face to the world.

    The reason they don't use body cams is because the unspoken word is, "show what you want people to see; throw the phone down when you don't want them to see it."

    The entire point of a body cam is to always film.

    (not a centrist Dem, btw)

  • High-speed train crash in Spain kills at least 39

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  • Trump Just Pardoned a Convicted Fraudster He Previously Freed from Prison for a Different Fraud in 2021

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  • Personally I'm partial to believing that capitalism is like a nuclear reactor; can be good, can be bad. Needs sophisticated control rods to maintain stability and prevent it from getting out of control.

    Nordic model nations in a nutshell who are realized not idealized models for some of the happiest and most stable nations on the world.

  • Trump Just Pardoned a Convicted Fraudster He Previously Freed from Prison for a Different Fraud in 2021

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  • Oh 100% agreed. Also no surprise that the likes of Musk and Russia have heavily promoted, defended, and relied upon encrypted communications like Telegram, WhatsApp, Signal, etc.

    My conspiracy theory is Rand Paul hand-delivered a key to Putin when he flew to Moscow.

  • Trump Just Pardoned a Convicted Fraudster He Previously Freed from Prison for a Different Fraud in 2021

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  • Easier to take bribes with crypto. I still stand by this being a huge factor in reduced accountability and accelerating corruption.

  • Sadly accurate

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  • Hey just please confirm you acknowledge the simple fact that Russia is the aggressor in Ukraine!

    Edit: Oof. Deafening silence. Gave themselves away.

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    Why is blocking so common nowadays?

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    What P2P intranet(?) mesh services are there?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    For younger generations, what was it like growing up with the internet?

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    'I am absolutely voting for Donald Trump': Undecided voters react to Biden's debate performance

    www.reuters.com /world/us/us-presidential-debate-some-undecided-voters-see-disastrous-biden-night-2024-06-28/
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    Undecided voter focus group leans toward Trump after debate

    www.axios.com /2024/06/28/joe-biden-replace-us-elections-2024
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    UK ban on selling arms to Israel would strengthen Hamas, says Cameron

    www.bbc.com /news/uk-politics-68999212
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    US public support for Israel drops; majority backs a ceasefire, Reuters/Ipsos shows | Reuters

    www.reuters.com /world/us-public-support-israel-drops-majority-backs-ceasefire-reutersipsos-2023-11-15/
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