The news stories seem to just leave out that the Israeli fans stole and burned a Palestinian flag, assaulted a taxi driver and vandalized a taxi, and marched through Amsterdam chanting racist slogans and celebrating dead children in Gaza. Then during the match they disrupted a moment of silence for Spanish flood victims with chant and firecrackers (because Spain acknowledged the genocide and initiated an arms embargo).

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/8/israeli-football-fans-clash-with-protesters-in-amsterdam

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/11/what-happened-amsterdam-israeli-football-fans

But no, instead of a relatively straightforward escalation (still wrong) stemming from foreign racists staging a provocative march and being violent to citizens of the city, we instead just see the news parrot “it was a pogrom on poor Israelis just trying to enjoy some football”.

Coney Barrett was confirmed in 39 days. If the whole caucus was on board it could definitely be done, but Sinema would probably sell us out.

It is, as long as we say they’re both right and make sure neither side’s theory of politics is ever tried again.

I’d sandwich Merrick Garland in there as well, unless Biden just gets full credit for his failures.

Major news organizations believed these quotes were accurate enough to run the story in Israel and Gallant has not issued any countering statement.

Everything in that article was something someone said he said. It’s all reported by the families of hostages that were at the meeting.

I’m in the US and was specifically drawn toward European instance because my (admittedly very lightly informed) understanding is Europe just has better laws on internet freedoms. IIRC a US-based Mastodon instance (Mastodon maybe?) was seized by cops at one point for pretty questionable reasons. Our legal system gives far too much power to police and corporations to enact spurious searches and punishment.

But this whole article is specifically referencing the vote count in Dearborn, not the overall vote for Tlaib or Harris.

They can just establish jails on the fields they currently work and save the hassle. Just transfer the prisoners around at the different harvest times while the inadequate court system works its way to their case. Since they’re poor and the conservatives don’t want to pay for their lawyers, the companies can sponsor lawyers for them and avoid the need for any pesky public defender. Just submit your periodic “delay the case” motion so you can be kicked back to the end of the line and get more labor.

People think they can somehow thread the needle by voting for climate initiatives and abortion protections so that electing a fascist for reasons doesn’t impact the liberal issues they believe in. They think they’re going to get the best of both worlds, some sort of poorly evaluated economic benefit, while not having to worry about the (shockingly few) issues they worry about under a far-right regime.

I doubt Trump would even pay a token fine. The consequences for not paying a fine is that the punishment could escalate, but the punishment can’t escalate so why pay?

You can do both. Release a report in anticipation of being fired and make them fire you.

It would be a different world if he’d done that four years ago and appointed someone to be AG that was willing to enforce the law against powerful people even if it caused conflict. Merrick Garland may be the single person most to blame for this result behind Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. But we sure did clap back at those Republicans, didn’t we?

Because it’s a public influence campaign to influence resistance to his worst impulses (by politicians and the public) and position the Democratic party as righteous. People don’t just see one authoritarian thing and believe he’s authoritarian, it’s a conclusion you build up over time and need to maintain. And just preemptively rolling over for expediency gets you nothing. There’s no cost for doing this. Learned helplessness isn’t a strategy.

Gore lost by few enough votes that there are a multitude of people who could have acted differently to produce a win. You can pick and choose who you want to blame and everyone is right.

He’s going to dive into dementia live on TV. No way that man’s ego lets him be hidden away as his brain continues to melt.

By 2028, Republicans will have gone all-in on explicit voter suppression and fully political election boards, they’ll let the corporate overlords for media know they can take the mask off or suffer their wrath, and they’ll have a Supreme Court and federal government to back them up. They don’t need to hide anymore. They made the fascistic push this time and they won, now is time to wield that power.

It’s not even the leader itself that matters. Harris was a mediocre politician, but she could have run a better campaign on issues that make people believe in the Democratic party. But instead we ran up to election day wondering if Lina Khan would even keep her job and nightmares of neoliberal policies too limited and too complicated to inspire anyone.

Yeah, Harris’s campaign was bad, but she at least had a chance. We wouldn’t be as devastated today if Biden was the nominee because we’d all know the result. What would have been much better was actually having a primary rather than needing to tiptoe around his ego for half the campaign.

Biden barely won. No one should take 2020 as evidence of expertise. That was an embarrassingly nail-biting result.

You could pretend justice is still working and then make him do it. Even if it’s a waste of time, even if the Supreme Court will quash it. It doesn’t matter in that the end result guaranteed, but there’s value in making authoritarians be authoritarian.