Just The Facts

08/19/2024

https://www.nbcchicago.com/dnc-chicago-2024/dnc-in-chicago-what-time-how-long-is-the-dnc-speakers-day-1-protests-street-closures/3525177/?amp=1

In addition to big speeches and street closures, the DNC will also see protests, with at least four protests planned for Monday in Chicago.

08/18/2024

The DNC is in Chicago this year and airs from Monday August 19 to Thursday August 22. Here’s everything you need to know.

The 2024 Democratic National Convention kicks off Monday in Chicago. Here's what you need to know about the convention, including a full schedule.

08/14/2024

If you know any Republicans who are wavering in their support of Trump or might be able to convicted to dump him for Harris, this article might come in handy.

"Donald Trump is destroying the GOP, and the only way to stop that is to help Kamala Harris defeat him."

08/14/2024

08/11/2024

It’s hard to believe this page turned four years old yesterday. I started Just The Facts because I was fed up with the empty, shallow, meaningless drivel that too much of the news is saturated with. Gossip and rumors, bickering and infighting, fake news and misinformation, palace intrigue, mind-numbing White House drama, propaganda and conspiracy theories.

I wanted to create a page that I would want to follow: a page that only reports on actual news, substantive stories about things that matter. I made this page with the hope that it will help at least a few people, but hopefully more, become more educated, more informed and more curious and skeptical about the world around them and where they get their information from while also motivating them to do what they can to make the world a better, safer, more just and more equal place for everyone.

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08/06/2024

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna163448

The two-term governor and former House member has gained notice for folksy rebukes of Trump and support for progressive policies in his state.

08/03/2024

07/28/2024

If Trump wins, this is what we can expect. The xenophobic, homophobic, white nationalist ChristoFascist takeover will be complete and we will never get to vote again.

07/26/2024

White dudes for Kamala, our time has come!!!! Join the meeting tonight - 8 pm Eastern, 7 pm Central, 6 pm Mountain, 5 pm Pacific.

07/26/2024

- 44,000 black women
- 45,000 black men
- between 130,000-160,000 white women

VP Kamala Harris is raising an army of voters and breaking records left and right without even breaking a sweat. Trump is going to get trounced. Mollywhopped. Rofflestomped. Obliterated.

BUT ONLY IF EVERYONE VOTES.

The events began Sunday with more than 44,000 Black women on a call to galvanize supporters for Vice President Harris’ historic run for president.

07/24/2024

07/24/2024

https://www.npr.org/2024/07/24/nx-s1-5050573/federal-minimum-wage-increase-15-year-anniversary #:~:text=The%20federal%20minimum%20wage%20has,%247.25%20for%2015%20years%20%3A%20NPR&text=submenu%20for%20Music-,The%20federal%20minimum%20wage%20has%20been%20stuck%20at%20%247.25%20for,It%20hasn't%20budged%20since.

Fifteen years ago this Wednesday, the federal minimum wage went up from $6.55 per hour to $7.25. It hasn't budged since.

07/23/2024

The more I think about it, the more Mark Kelly becomes my favorite choice for VP Harris’ running mate. With a resume that includes 39 combat missions in the Gulf War and FOUR Space Shuttle missions (two as pilot, two as Commander), he is a genuine bona fide Grade A American hero.

He’s been a popular Senator of Arrizona for 3.5 years and if he’s chosen, Democratic Governor Katie Hobbs will choose his replacement. And with Gabby Giffords being his wife, supporters of gun control reform and everyone who has been impacted by gun violence will have their biggest advocate in the White House since the debate arguably started 25 years ago with Columbine.

Kelly is smart and cool in debate, and tough on border issues, which could help blunt attacks on Harris as Biden’s “border czar” complicit in the mess at the border.

07/21/2024

Silver lining: President Biden was just told by the Supreme Court that he has absolute immunity with official acts from his office and now he doesn’t have to worry about getting re-elected. Let’s see him end his term with the same energy Trump ended his.

I want to see a flurry, an avalanche, a tidal wave, of executive actions covering everything from climate change to taxing billionaires and corporations to expanding the Supreme Court to gun control to abortion to gay and trans rights.

I’m ready to see President Biden when he is unburdened by the pressures of a campaign and has zero f***s left.

07/21/2024

HOLY HELL HE ACTUALLY DID IT

WE ARE IN UNCHARTED WATERS NOW

President Biden has dropped out of the 2024 race, a stunning end to a 50-year-long political career that culminated in caving to pressure by fellow Democrats to end his bid for reelection, which never fully recovered from an abysmal debate performance on June 27.

07/20/2024

Sheila Jackson Lee’s dying wish was for all of us to unite behind President Biden and stand with him. Honor her memory by voting for Biden in November.

07/19/2024

If you think Biden should step aside and step down as the candidate and if he did actually do that, what next?

We have to have all the answers RIGHT NOW. We don’t have time to make lists and do a casting call for the next President of the United States. This isn’t speed dating, it’s the future of American democracy. Would it be Harris? If not, then who? Tell me, right now.

What about money? Does this candidate have a war chest? Campaign money, staff, headquarters, phone banks? What about the ballots? Do we have a plan to get this mystery person on the ballots in all 50 states in the next month?

Democrats: stop with this nonsense, stop doomscrolling, stop panicking and get your s**t together. Now is the time we need to stay strong and unite behind Biden. Logistically, realistically, in practical and pragmatic terms, Biden is LITERALLY OUR ONLY OPTION SO SUCK IT UP.

07/16/2024

https://www.yahoo.com/news/biden-set-announce-support-major-214905613.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAEWLjJFMiGNDMu6PC-8048I09P9SwNKUAbidGJjKiR_2bmwF0lurGKv7FTpjKxgGmlf5pOaYYgGMHreSvw2k84I7UBpP-XQWyHzacbCiSGpk-uJ9hGrHmOmzUr2HMltS3Y2Ij1i96rXA4b9_Gj_NpdkMjnpUd5H-zbWlu8ZA74nM

Biden is also weighing whether to call for a constitutional amendment to eliminate broad presidential immunity, the Post reported, adding that Biden discussed at the move in a video conference with the Congressional Progressive Caucus on Saturday. Biden has previously shunned calls to overhaul the t...

07/12/2024

CONTENT WARNING: the third picture contains graphic and disturbing descriptions of Trump’s s*xual exploits with underage children.

🚨🚨 VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED 🚨🚨

Biden can cough and stutter and stumble all he wants. I really don’t care. It doesn’t change a thing. All the celebrities and pundits saying Biden should drop out really should stop.

07/04/2024

248 years ago today, the Declaration of Independence was unanimously ratified by all 56 delegates of the Second Continental Congress. As the title implies, this document declared to the world that the United States was a land of democracy. We will not be ruled by a tyrant or king. It is up to us, we, the People, to form a more perfect Union.

That Union has definitely improved over the years and decades and centuries but it’s not perfect. That perfection is an ideal that is constantly reached for but never fully achieved. And now the Supreme Court has essentially undone 248 years of progress by declaring that Presidents have absolute immunity pertaining to official actions undertaken while in office. The Supreme Court declared that the President of the United States could be a King if they so chose.

Those six conservatives on that bench, they completely disregarded the words that were written down on that parchment. All the Republicans who say “what would the Founding Fathers think of (blank)” should be absolutely shocked and enraged at this dangerous expansion of power. The US Declaration of Independence was also a Declaration of Outrage at the British King who was abusing and manipulating the citizens of the 13 colonies.

And now, the six conservatives have brought us back to square one. Because of them, the guardrails are off and legally, nothing is stopping the President from becoming a tyrant. Right now, we are lucky enough to have a decent man as President. However you feel about politics and policies, he holds no malice toward people. He’s not perfect but he cares and he tries.

If he loses in November, make no mistake: we will have an unrestrained tyrant in the White House. There will be no guardrails. He will be off-leash. All he has and all he knows is malice toward everyone. He will have the support of the conservative Justices, three of which he appointed, who will defend and justify whatever he deems necessary to satisfy his endless need for approval, adoration and power.

The presidential election of 2020 was dubbed “A battle for the soul of the nation.” The election coming up in four months will be known as “a battle for the future of the nation.” This election doesn’t just determine who becomes President for the next four years. It will determine the fate of the country for the next 40 years. You can vote for Joe Biden in November and vote for your favorite Progressive in 2028 or you can let that evil, egomaniacal, power-hungry, dark-hearted demon back into the White House and never vote again.

Your vote matters. If it didn’t, they wouldn’t be trying so hard to take it away. The choice is yours. Make it while you still can.

07/01/2024

The Supreme Court just ruled that Donald Trump has absolute immunity for official acts that were undertaken by him when he was President. They have reminded us of and further proven that which we already knew – no one is coming to save us. There is no white knight who is going to rescue us from this nightmare. There is no silver bullet, no deus ex machina, no last minute solution, no shortcut. None. Zero. Zip. Nada. No help is coming. We have to help ourselves. It is up to US to save this country by voting for Biden.

I really don’t care how you feel about him. Your options are Biden or Trump. You can either vote for Biden or help put Trump back in office. Voting for Biden helps Biden. Everything else helps Trump. Voting third party helps Trump. Writing in a candidate helps Trump. Protest voting helps Trump. Not voting helps Trump. Vote for Biden or this country as we know it will cease to exist.

The Supreme Court just said Presidents can do whatever the hell they want as long as it’s an “official act”. If Trump wins, imagine what he’ll do as an “official act”. Within a month, we’ll have executive orders banning abortion and same s*x marriage nationwide, the southern border will be shut down completely, all gay and trans servicemembers in the military will be discharged and all actions to halt or study climate change will be stopped across the entire federal government. The Supreme Court will strip the Voting Rights Act and Civil Rights Act down to their bones. This will become far more of a fascist, racist, white nationalist hellscape than it already is.

Doomscrolling and falling into a bottomless pit of panic helps no one. Deep breath in, deep breath out, and let this harden your resolve to ensure Biden wins in November. Vote for Biden as if your life depends on it. Because no matter who you are or where you live, I promise you – it does.

06/30/2024

With Hurricane Beryl quickly becoming a Category 4, it is now the strongest storm on record for the month of June. The Caribbean Islands and/or the Yucatán Peninsula of Central America are about to SLAMMED.

Hurricane warnings are already in effect in Barbados, St. Lucia, Grenada, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Tobago.

06/29/2024

LINK: https://www.advocate.com/news/stonewall-uprising-history

LINK: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna154940

06/28/2024

Forget the debate. Ignore the pundits and political “experts” on Twitter. Biden had a cold and it is common for Presidents running for re-election to bomb their first debate. Obama did the same in 2012. Take some deep breaths, let’s get up off the mat and get back in the fight.

THIS ARTICLE RIGHT HERE ⬇️⬇️⬇️ THIS IS ALL THAT MATTERS.

This is the whole game. This is what’s on the line.
The Supreme Court just made it harder to put insurrectionists in prison, they just made it easier to criminalize homelessness and they just made it harder for federal agencies to enforce regulations meant to protect the health and safety of American citizens.

If Trump wins, that’s it. Game Over. America loses. Clarence Thomas is 75 and Samuel Alito is 73. It is plausible the next President could be choosing a replacement for one or both of them. Which person do you want choosing the next Supreme Court Justice as President - the man who gave us Ketanji Brown Jackson or the man who gave us Amy Coney Barrett???

The Supreme Court issued three more opinions on Friday, marking the first time the justices have weighed in on the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

06/27/2024

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/president-biden-pardon-veterans-convicted-regulation-lgbt-members/story?id=111418033

President Biden has pardoned veterans who were convicted by the military under a regulation that allowed people to be kicked out for being gay.

06/26/2024

Happy anniversary to the entire LGBTQ+ community!!!!