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  • It’s not alarmist: A second Trump term really is an extinction-level threat to democracy

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  • Why do people make comments only on the headline without reading the article and commenting on that? The article *specifically refers to *"American democracy". It then goes on to reference other specific democracies for comparison.

    Headlines shorten things and usually aren't written by the person who wrote the article anyway; they sometimes don't even reflect the article contents accurately. If you don't want to read the article, fine, but please don't make comments based only on the headline.

  • Teary-eyed John Oliver begs reluctant voters to back Harris

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  • I suggest watching the entire video from GA State Rep. Ruwa Romman that is embedded in the article. Not so much for her reasoning about why she is voting for Harris, but for her comments of how to accomplish things politically in this country, how it works, how to actually move the country forward bit by bit. It's hard and takes work and time but it can definitely be done, and her thoughts about the Green party, how it doesn't do those things and thus never accomplishes anything.

  • Harris vows at Michigan rally to ‘do everything in my power to end the war in Gaza’

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  • Apparently no one in the comments has been paying attention. She's been saying these same lines about Gaza since the convention speech.

  • Harris vows at Michigan rally to ‘do everything in my power to end the war in Gaza’

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  • Bullshit, she's been saying basically that same sequence of lines, starting with the convention speech (maybe even before but I don't remember), at rallies and in some interviews. I think her saying it with protesters shouting at the rally made the media hype it up a bit more, but what she said yesterday is pretty much the same lines she's used on the topic the whole campaign.

    The only variation has been the first few words. She started out with "Now is the time to ...blah blah blah" to "I will work hard to ... blah blah" to now "I will do everything in my power to ...blah blah". After that intro phrase, the rest of the lines have been the same every time.

  • Subscriptions Are Ruining Our Lives. Here's Why They're Everywhere Now. | You'll own nothing and you'll be happy!

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  • Not only that but they can train their AI's on all their subscribers' journal entries. Check F-Droid.org for some free, privacy respecting FLOSS journaling apps.

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  • Man who cheated on his first wife while she had cancer and cheated on his second wife while impeaching Bill Clinton for having an affair, rails against the moral depravity of Democrats who encourage women to vote for whoever they want.

  • Iowa Poll: Kamala Harris leapfrogs Donald Trump to take lead near Election Day. Here's how

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  • Just think how hard a time they'll have with their treasonous election fraud conspiracies when she does so well even in red states, even without winning them. That's why it's so important to vote for her even if you live in a red state where you think it doesn't matter. It matters!!!

  • Iowa Poll: Kamala Harris leapfrogs Donald Trump to take lead near Election Day. Here's how

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  • Selzer is a highly respected pollster with a history of accuracy, so this is a positive sign. A couple of days ago a poll conducted by a university in Kansas showed Harris down by only 5 in KS, whereas in the last 2 elections, trump carried the state by 14 and 21 points, so that's a big improvement there. She also has a higher than expected lead in the polls of Nebraska 2. So all these polls of midwest red states taken together probably mean something about how this region of the country is moving.

    So Vote. Vote. Vote!

  • Trump Transition Co-Chair Floats Plan To 'Yank' Vaccines 'Off The Market'

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  • "on the market" means available to us, regardless of whether we would have to pay for them or not. They don't want us to have access to vaccines at all. This is not a joke.

  • Trump Transition Co-Chair Floats Plan To 'Yank' Vaccines 'Off The Market'

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  • Some excerpts:

    The co-chair of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s transition team promoted the debunked theory that vaccines cause autism in a CNN interview Wednesday. He also said Trump ally Robert F. Kennedy Jr., hopes to get “data” through a Trump administration to have vaccines pulled “off the market.”

    Kennedy told supporters earlier this week that Trump had promised to give him “control” over key public health agencies like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

    “The key that I think I’m — you know, that President Trump has promised me is — is control of the public health agencies,” Kennedy said in a livestream, video of which CNN obtained. He cited the Department of Health and Human Services, the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health, among others."

  • The 14 Characteristics of Fascism

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  • But now we're really here. It's all blatantly out in the open now as it never has been before, and they are explicitly running on it, not keeping it behind the scenes.

  • Jeff Bezos killed Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris, paper reports

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  • My first reaction was that it was cowering in fear, since trump keeps threatening newspapers. But after thinking about it, why would Bezos give a fuck if trump threatens the paper? He wants his paper to be a trump propaganda outlet because he wants trump to win. Not because he likes trump but because he wants the fascist movement to win so he can get richer (see Blue Origin govt contracts for one thing). Because having hundreds of billions of dollars is simply not enough, so fuck democracy.

  • Trump tax plans could exempt 93 million Americans from income taxes

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  • The only people he's going to exempt from taxes are billionaires.

    edit: OK, maybe also some multi-millionaires

  • Harris leads Trump 2-1 among the earliest voters, many driven by abortion access: new poll

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  • And she did still win the popular vote.

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  • So based on this type of criteria, God created men to fuck things up.

  • If Trump wins the election, US cities are at risk of military takeovers and mass deportations

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  • You hit it on the head. The unmarked vans, unbadged troops, people "disappearing"--those were their practice drills and how they'll do it. Uniformed troops will also be used in some situations (like the mass deportations), but the ones doing the daily dirty work against any demonstrators, specific political targets, etc. ("the enemy within") will be those incognito forces. 😧

  • 'Shaken': Analyst claims John Roberts has been left reeling from immunity ruling backlash

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  • Who said electoral victories translate into pressure for a given policy? Voting them into office gets them to where they have power and can then be pressured to wield it for our benefit, which is a different type of political action than an election. Voting in elections is how you try to get people who are closest to the values you're looking for into office--and the primaries are as important as the general for that.

    Organizing around an issue, speaking out with meetings, in the media, with protests, etc., calling attention and building up support for a cause--all those things exert pressure on elected officials. Read about movements in American history -- the civil rights movement, women's liberation, etc. and BTW you want to know a movement that was very effective? The fucking Tea Party movement, which led to the maga takeover of the republican party.

    For some reason (lack of proper civics education in schools is part of the problem), people have this simplistic idea that all they have to do is go vote for a president every four years, get pissed that they don't like the choices, and assume that the POTUS is supposed to somehow magically fix everything, not understanding the other branches of government involved, and when it doesn't happen fast enough or at all, they get pissed and either vote for someone else or give up and don't vote or fall for a populist conman or get violent or whatever. That's not how it works!

    No wonder we're where we are today. I'm sick of even talking about it any more. If people refuse to educate themselves about how our system of government is supposed to work and act accordingly then it's over, and we as a country deserve to fall into the fascism brought to us by the people who did make the effort to figure out how to achieve their agenda and went out and did it.

  • 'Shaken': Analyst claims John Roberts has been left reeling from immunity ruling backlash

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  • Maybe this columnist thinks he's "shaken", but I doubt it. The reason he acted in a more moderate way before was that the Christian Nationalist justices didn't have a strong majority and the ability to impose their agenda with impunity. The minute they had a 6-3 majority, he knew they could do whatever they wanted, and they have.

    The only thing we can do about it now is elect as many Dems as possible to the House and Senate and pressure them to impose term limits and expand the Court, things that should have been done a long time ago.

    And please, regardless of whether you think your vote for POTUS will count, vote anyway and fill out your full ballot because you have much more influence on your State legislature and local offices, which is where so many things that affect your life are decided.

  • Damning video shows Roger Stone is plotting a coup for November

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  • I see several comments wondering why Stone hasn't been put in prison. He was, but Trump pardoned him (and a bunch of others)

    From his Wikipedia page:

    On January 25, 2019, Stone was arrested at his Fort Lauderdale, Florida, home in connection with Robert Mueller's Special Counsel investigation and charged in an indictment with witness tampering, obstructing an official proceeding, and five counts of making false statements. In November 2019, a jury convicted him on all seven felony counts. He was sentenced to 40 months in prison. On July 10, 2020, days before Stone was scheduled to report to prison, Trump commuted his sentence. On August 17, 2020, he dropped the appeal of his convictions. Trump pardoned Stone on December 23, 2020.

  • Kremlin confirms Putin received COVID-19 testing devices from Trump

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  • The devices were for Putin's personal use, not for the people.