griff

joined 4 months ago
[–] griff 2 points 12 hours ago

boom boom out go the lights

[–] griff 7 points 13 hours ago

and the car you rode in in

[–] griff 5 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

also feels like grasping at straw men

[–] griff 3 points 13 hours ago

welcome to the multiverse

[–] griff 2 points 13 hours ago

“Great question “ is not a great answer

[–] griff 1 points 13 hours ago

E Pluribus Unum, anyone?

[–] griff 2 points 13 hours ago

also, deport them all to Lesser Idaho!

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F the 4th (everout.com)
 

DO SOMETHING on a local level for your community and your country. Take the time to register to vote and help others do the same, write postcards to government officials, create zines, and have a little catharsis with your fellow firework-hating neighbors. Organizers are inviting folks to “hang out among us, your local artists that support trans rights, immigrants, rights to protest, bodily autonomy, and all the good stuff.” Hell yeah, pals. That’s what I call America.

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F the 4th (everout.com)
 

DO SOMETHING on a local level for your community and your country. Take the time to register to vote and help others do the same, write postcards to government officials, create zines, and have a little catharsis with your fellow firework-hating neighbors. Organizers are inviting folks to “hang out among us, your local artists that support trans rights, immigrants, rights to protest, bodily autonomy, and all the good stuff.” Hell yeah, pals. That’s what I call America.

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Domestic terrorism USA (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 16 hours ago by griff to c/usnews@beehaw.org
 

As a United States marine, Arturo Flores served in Afghanistan and Iraq, where he worked as a military police officer and trained dogs to find roadside bombs.

It’s his experience in the military that has made what he’s seen on the streets of southern California in recent weeks all the more disturbing to him, Flores said.

Flores is the mayor of Huntington Park, in south LA county.

Like in other parts of LA, many Huntington residents have been terrified amid reports of masked federal agents detaining immigrants, or those that look like immigrants, on the street, in parking lots, at swap meets or large stores and soldiers deployed into the city against the wishes of local officials and the governor.

“It is a campaign of domestic terror that is being imposed on our residents on a daily basis,” Flores said. “It is a level of psychological warfare that I’ve only seen in theaters of war. It’s terrifying seeing it being displayed here in my city.”

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Domestic terrorism USA (www.theguardian.com)
 

As a United States marine, Arturo Flores served in Afghanistan and Iraq, where he worked as a military police officer and trained dogs to find roadside bombs.

It’s his experience in the military that has made what he’s seen on the streets of southern California in recent weeks all the more disturbing to him, Flores said.

Flores is the mayor of Huntington Park, in south LA county.

Like in other parts of LA, many Huntington residents have been terrified amid reports of masked federal agents detaining immigrants, or those that look like immigrants, on the street, in parking lots, at swap meets or large stores and soldiers deployed into the city against the wishes of local officials and the governor.

“It is a campaign of domestic terror that is being imposed on our residents on a daily basis,” Flores said. “It is a level of psychological warfare that I’ve only seen in theaters of war. It’s terrifying seeing it being displayed here in my city.”

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Space is the place (www.theguardian.com)
 

I would build a big spaceship and lure the worst people in the world into it with promises of a multimillion-dollar wedding party. Then off they would go to circle the solar system, leaving the rest of us in peace.

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Big media capitulation (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) by griff to c/usnews@lemy.lol
 

Donald Trump has reached a $16m settlement with Paramount, the parent of CBS News, over what he claimed was false editing of a pre-election interview with the Democratic candidate for president, Kamala Harris, in what is likely to be seen as a further example of capitulation by media companies hoping to smooth the waters with Trump.

The settlement is the latest example of media corporate parent companies making concessions to Trump and the Trump administration, which frequently casts unfavourable coverage as “fake news”.

[–] griff 6 points 1 day ago

Anything to keep Stephen Miller happy, eh?

[–] griff 2 points 1 day ago

thanks—that’s the link I’d attempted to paste to the post—still learning the ropes here

[–] griff 1 points 1 day ago

and still cogent & coherent at age 91!

 

Vice President J.D. Vance took heat from critics this week when he downplayed legislation that would result in millions of Americans losing Medicaid coverage as mere "minutiae."

Vance defended the budget megabill that's currently being pushed through the United States Senate by arguing that it will massively increase funding to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which he deemed to be a necessary component of carrying out the Trump administration's mass deportation operation.

 

Vice President J.D. Vance took heat from critics this week when he downplayed legislation that would result in millions of Americans losing Medicaid coverage as mere "minutiae."

Vance defended the budget megabill that's currently being pushed through the United States Senate by arguing that it will massively increase funding to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which he deemed to be a necessary component of carrying out the Trump administration's mass deportation operation.

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Oligarchs (self.billionaire)
 

A new plan backed by the governments of Spain, Brazil, and South Africa to tax the fortunes of the uber-rich drew hearty cheers from anti-poverty campaigners, environmental activists, and unions when it was announced on Tuesday.

As described in an announcement by the Spanish government, the initiative aims to create coordination between governments on the taxation of high-net-worth individuals to ensure they are not shuffling money abroad to avoid proper taxation.

[–] griff 3 points 1 day ago

or gators with pythons writhing upon their backs, surrounded by clouds of malarial mosquitoes etc

[–] griff 30 points 1 day ago (2 children)

as minuscule as the level of his empathy?

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Supreme Court Rubber Stamp (majorityreportradio.com)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) by griff to c/uspolitics@lemmy.world
 

As the legislative branch works their magic math to kill as many poor people as possible the judicial branch has been doing much of the same.

Elie Mystal joins us to break down last week’s slew of tragic rulings.

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Bombing Iran (podcasts.apple.com)
 

“As we record this, the United States has dropped 14 30,000-pound bunker buster bombs over three different locations in Iran that supposedly were developing a nuclear weapon. This in the face of President Donald Trump's own Intelligence Department's assessment that Iran was doing no such thing. Trump and his minions have declared the strikes a success that has, quote, obliterated, unquote, Iran's nuclear program.

However, a leaked Classified Intelligence Assessment indicates that while there was significant damage done, the bombing failed to bust the bunkers and only set back Iran's nuclear program a couple of months.”

—Ralph Nader Radio Hour

 

The GOP, which first lost command of the white vote in cities and, gradually, the suburbs, is in actuality the minority party. Without certain institutional (and therefore structural) advantages, the country should have long accepted the obvious fact of its multiculturalness and been organized by a politics that spanned from the likes of Joe Biden (conservative) to the likes of Mamdani (progressive).

The urban values supported by the Democratic Party should be regarded as conventional, as the usual, as the everyday. What must be registered as bizarre is not Mamdani, but Stephen Miller.

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