They want a shutdown lol this idea that negotiating will avert it is silly since you don't negotiate for things you don't want.
Captured implies that the State didn't already function as a tool of capital
All this because Republicans in the US don't like that sending arms to Ukraine makes Biden look good to the general public.
I know, I was joking
Yes, although the US pulled itself back enough with some of FDR's reforms that it kicked the can down the road a few generations, whereas the Weimar Republic actually collapsed.
I know right? This quote in the headline makes her out to sound so tepid like "please mr president could you maybe be more confrontational against the fascists who want to kill me and my allies? 👉👈"
Too busy trying to court centrist voters and uphold a dying status quo
Nah if Trump was in office in the last four months there'd be open conflict across the Middle East with thousands of US troops bound for Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, etc
What matters is perception and public messaging and that is currently one of a centrist president incapable of reigning in a foreign ally or continually calling out House Republicans for their shenanigans that put American lives at risk at home and abroad.
Conservatives have constant control of the conversation because they have zero qualms publicly stating how their political adversaries stand in their way. But instead it looks like Democrats trying to win Republicans support by adopting republican policies instead of bullying them into accepting the plan of the majority party of the upper legislature and presidency.
Such an idea is impossible anyways, because to ensure a benevolent society you need to incorporate the wide range of viewpoints and experiences of the people within it, something a dictatorship, by definition, precludes.
Man if only someone at the DNC would see this...
EDIT: y'all I was being sarcastic
They're banking on the 6-3 conservative majority being willing to use their power.
When organized labor is crushed, what comes next is never pretty (see: 1930s Germany).
I don't know how to confirm this myself but I have read and heard that before anything else, after it was known Hamas fighters were inside Israeli territory, the IDF first move militarily was to start bombing Gaza. No one can argue honestly that the IDF defends Israelis - its literally just the most reactionary of religious Zionists that they serve.
Secular Jewish Israelis? Nah they can fend for themselves for a few hours, we've gotta attack Palestinian civilians, says the IDF. And that's not even bringing up that 20% of Israeli citizens ARE ARABS, some of whom were also attacked in their homes in Southern Israel 10 days ago, but of course the same people calling Hamas human animals will go after them next (not to suggest they aren't already, only that Gazans face more immediate extermination).
The impression I had gotten from interviews (Al Jazeera, the Guardian, Haaretz) was that Israeli civilian police were there and exchanged fire with Hamas but that it was HOURS before they came across any IDF personnel. I've been focusing on this less as the time goes on and the catastrophic situation in Gaza gets worse and worse, so maybe further sources have come out regarding the Nova Festival.
Regardless I would like to see consequences to the people who authorized a festival so close to Gaza in the first place...
Earlier this week, Secretary of State Antony Blinken deleted and replaced a post on X, the former Twitter, in which he mentioned Turkey’s calls for a ceasefire
God, they even KNOW what's right and then scramble to make themselves wrong
Hope these are accurate! PiS's actions towards democracy and free press are sickening
Well then he HAS made the college conservative if the studsnts are fleeing, opening up the space for their preferred students. Headline makes it sound like he failed.
"Cmon, can't we all just hate queers in peace, together?"
Anti-trans organizations have said that their position against gender affirming care center on "protecting kids." Now, a Florida judge has allowed them to proceed with their next target: trans adults.
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/7791489
> Key takeaway from the article for me was this paragraph: > > "The stark reality is now inescapable: legislations targeting the medical care of transgender adults have taken root, despite the claims of anti-trans activists that they are trying to “protect children” with these laws. Florida's new provisions represent the first significant restrictions on trans adult care to fully materialize."
Anti-trans organizations have said that their position against gender affirming care center on "protecting kids." Now, a Florida judge has allowed them to proceed with their next target: trans adults.
Key takeaway from the article for me was this paragraph:
"The stark reality is now inescapable: legislations targeting the medical care of transgender adults have taken root, despite the claims of anti-trans activists that they are trying to “protect children” with these laws. Florida's new provisions represent the first significant restrictions on trans adult care to fully materialize."
PICKERINGTON, Ohio—Staff at the Pickerington Public Library are organizing to form a union. If successful, they would become the third library system in central Ohio to unionize through the Ohio Federation of Teachers (OFT).
The headline should read something more like "Florida students to return to schools after fascist-overhaul of the curriculum" but that wouldn't be "objective" enough for NPR.
Students will literally be watching Prager U Kids videos, require parental permission for a nickname, and be forcibly misgendered by even their closest, favorite, teacher as a matter of State Law.
Texas, Utah and other states are age-gating parts of the internet.
Lawmakers across the country (United States) are trying to protect kids by age-gating parts of the internet.
Over 144,000 workers are set to strike on September 14 if negotiations with their employers, the car manufacturers General Motors, Stellantis, and Ford, fail. The union has already employed the tactic of practice pickets at auto plants in Detroit, Michigan and Louisville, Kentucky
The country enacted one of the world's harshest anti-LGBTQ laws in May, prescribing life in prison for same-sex intercourse and the death penalty in certain cases.
The project has been delayed for years, but perhaps with Amtrak (and Andy Byford), the line will finally progress.
North Carolina undertook a veto override session to pass a gender-affirming care ban, a don't say gay or trans bill, and a sports ban for trans youth all in a single day.
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/4580386
> From the article, my emphasis added: > > "Bills targeting the LGBTQ+ community remained stagnant for the initial months of North Carolina's legislative cycle. However, the landscape shifted when Democratic Representative Tricia Cotham, elected from a district which voted for her,** a Democrat, by +19points, switched to the Republican party**. This gave the GOP the crucial 72 votes required to override a governor's veto. Subsequently, these bills were promptly slated for hearings and aggressively advanced by the state's Republican leadership."
North Carolina undertook a veto override session to pass a gender-affirming care ban, a don't say gay or trans bill, and a sports ban for trans youth all in a single day.
From the article, my emphasis added:
"Bills targeting the LGBTQ+ community remained stagnant for the initial months of North Carolina's legislative cycle. However, the landscape shifted when Democratic Representative Tricia Cotham, elected from a district which voted for her,** a Democrat, by +19points, switched to the Republican party**. This gave the GOP the crucial 72 votes required to override a governor's veto. Subsequently, these bills were promptly slated for hearings and aggressively advanced by the state's Republican leadership."
Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis Wednesday morning, for the second time, suspended a Black elected Democratic State Attorney and replaced them with an appointee of his own choosing.DeSantis, who is also running for president, says he is suspending Florida State Attorney Monique Worrell "for ...
Sexualisation is hardly new - nor is it a dogma. A dogma is an insistence about certain things being unequivocally and unquestionably true - "sexualisation" isn't something that can be true or false since it's an abstract concept.
tl;dr: THE QUESTION: what context am I missing in regards to sexualisation as a "new and odd dogma?" Why?
One of my favourites from Alan Fisher. Seriously, just one more lane bro!
One of my favourites from Alan Fisher. Seriously, just one more lane bro!
People living in a street in Bristol came out swinging in support of their neighbours who had their Pride doormat sprayed with black paint.
I love to see this sort of solidarity, but I wish it was the norm...
Her case highlights why we need to enshrine neuro rights in law.
Sure, updating patients rights would help but how fucked is it that our system allows this by default in the first placd?
