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  • New Louisiana law will criminalize approaching police under certain circumstances

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  • They shoot people who point things at them. They'll simply say they "feared for their life” when someone tries to take a picture of them at a distance.

  • Trump Said to Be Weighing White House Advisory Role for Elon Musk

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  • It's not that, it's more that two raging narcissists can't occupy the same space at the same time.

    You end up with a kind of NPD supercriticality.

  • Incumbent Democrat Who Voted to Ban Gender-Affirming Care in Texas Loses Primary

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  • If Democrats want change, this is how to do it:

    1. Win general elections; vote blue no matter who. 2 Primary out the corporatist candidates every chance there is, right down to the level of school trustee.

    This actually works, as we've seen with the GOP and their turn to rabid fascism. It can also work for good.

  • ‘Unbearable’ heat in Delhi is testing limits of human survival

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  • Yup, but it's possible to slow that rate and (if we're smart and motivated) geoengineer ways to reverse it.

    Again, though, it would require the rich to make less money.

    But yes, in general I agree with you; even if we pull out the stops we're already locked into some kind of increase, but that worse part is that it seems like we're going to do is go hell-for-leather because the rich don't have all the money yet.

  • ‘Unbearable’ heat in Delhi is testing limits of human survival

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  • We need the rich to accept making less money, worldwide.

    That's really it.

    We can probably slow the rate of increase and even begin to reverse it, but we need to convince the rich that they need to accept making less money.

  • Denmark Made Home Buying Easier. America Should Follow Its Lead.

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  • That would be true of landlords didn't also know that and, in turn, redline rent to the maximum tenants can possibly pay.

    I don't know about the US specifically, but In Canada, investors big and small have bought up all the rental stock and rents are now maxed out beyond what many people can pay.

  • Which is which?

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  • Now I'm wondering about hummingbirds.

  • White House says Rafah strike does not violate Biden’s warnings to Israel

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  • Remember the red line on Russia with regard to the first invasion of Crimea? Or Syria even earlier?

    Obama, and now Biden, actually embolden autocrata with spineless moves like these. Netanyahu's going to keep pushing because, line a toddler, he's not sure where the actual "red line" really is.

  • Why are German young people so easily seduced by AfD's ideas?

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  • We're going to get fascism back purely because the neoliberal idea of fucking over everyone for the greater glory of the wealthy, while strip-mining brown people for every bit of value apparently has consequences.

    Imagine how nice the world would be if we could have convinced the wealthy to make do with less?

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    Texas GOP platform calls for ban on same-sex parenting because being gay is "abnormal"

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  • I maintain we need to measure social group distance in a unit I'll call "Niemollers", after the pastor and poet.

    As in "how many Niemollers am I away from '...and there was no one left to speak for me '"

    Because the Log Cabin Republicans are probably three Niemollers. He'll Clarence Thomas is five, maximum.

  • US Speaker Johnson: "We don't put any international body above our sovereignty"

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  • I mean, other than Exxon, Shell or BP.

    And the Knesset.

    And Putin.

    But other than that!

  • US and UK to back Israel over ICJ ruling after blurring their Rafah red lines

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  • Biden doesn't really have a good path either way, and Netanyahu knows it.

    If he goes too easy on Bibi, he loses support and Netanyahu gets Trump, which is great for Netanyahu. If Biden goes too hard on him, the same thing happens. It makes sense when we realize that Netanyahu's goal is to get Trump I'm office so that both he and Trump can stay out of prison.

    What Biden is doing is probably the least bad option, and if he wins Netanyahu's toast.

  • 13 Harvard University students who participated in pro-Palestinian encampment will not get degrees

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  • I know it seems weird to think about this now, but back when Mandela was being released, the conservative establishment was calling him a terrorist and insisting that we still needed to support the apartheid government In South Africa against terrorist communists like Mandela.

    Reagan and Thatcher were both quite explicit about it.

    So this really is nothing new. The Right is always going to back the powerful against the powerless, and will always come down hard on any person or group that challenges the "natural order".

  • Wealth inequality starts at birth. Lawmakers debate whether child savings accounts can help, the 401Kids Savings Act

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  • No kidding.

    This is like healthcare, which every other nation has mostly solved, but the Americans bend over backwards to find the most byzantine “solutions “ for just to avoid taxing the rich and/or implementing a functioning welfare state.

    The latest hysterical example was importing drugs from Canadian pharmacies because apparently buying from a (barely) socialist country is okay, but basic bargaining is somehow immoral.

  • Israeli officials take down AP live shot of Gaza, US urges them to reverse block

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  • Israel just needs some lebensraum but the lugenpresse keeps getting in the way.

  • Israeli soldiers and police tipping off groups that attack Gaza aid trucks

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  • Getting quasi-military far-right citizens to do your dirty work? Where have we see that before?

    Just get them all matching brown shirts and be done with it.

  • Oil and Gas Billionaires Drum Up Dollars for Trump

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  • Boy, I bet the Democrats feel really good about how much of a good partner they were to the petroleum industry, slow-walking reasonable regulations, helping them with funding, etc.

    I bet they feel great seeing this.

    If they do manage to pull out a win in November, it needs to be no more Mr Nice Neoliberal. Bust the industry's collective balls.

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  • This is rather like cattle protesting for faster processing times at the abbatoir.

    Canada is basically strip-mining south Asian students for every cent of value as a way to avoid making hard political decisions about taxing the rich.

  • Revealed: Meta approved political ads in India that incited violence

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  • This is what happens when your platform prioritizes engagement over everything else, including people's lives.