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04/05/2024

"For about a week, the cluster of tents raised by students at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, stood in solidarity with Palestinian civilians in Gaza and with students protesting at other campuses across the US.

Then, on Tuesday, the tents quietly vanished from the grassy quad at the heart of campus. There were no riot-gear-clad crackdowns from police and no assaults from masked groups to spur disbandment. Instead, Brown chose a different path: it negotiated."

For about a week, the cluster of tents raised by students at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, stood in solidarity with Palestinian civilians in Gaza and with students protesting at other campuses across the US. Then, on Tuesday, the tents quietly vanished from the grassy quad at the hea...

03/05/2024

“I believe everything that Donald Trump tells me about his intentions,” Fanone said in a phone interview. “And I think every American should — everyone in the world should — believe Donald Trump in the things that he says because there’s a method to the madness.”

The former police officer, who was assaulted during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot, told HuffPost that it was "shocking" to see Donald Trump's plans laid bare.

03/05/2024

I've been fascinated for years by the UXA and other examples of cooperative and effective (localized) socialism. They focused on the workers and families rather than corporations or systemic / radical governmental change.

Explore a diverse range of articles in the YES! Media archive. From justice to sustainability, discover insightful perspectives on shaping a better world.

01/05/2024

"And thanks to the carefully manufactured conservative majority on the Supreme Court, he likely would commit all these capital constitutional crimes while enjoying some sort of half-assed jerry-rigged immunity based on some sort of half-assed jerry-rigged distinction between “official” and “private” acts.

The whole country has seen all this. The whole country knows all this. The whole country knows, or at least intuits, what is to come. And still, according to most polls, the upcoming election is a dead heat."

The whole country knows, or at least intuits, what is to come. And still, according to most polls, the upcoming election is a dead heat.

01/05/2024

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Throughout her seven decades of acting, Cloris Leachman had been in the spotlight since the 1940s! The American actress won eight Primetime Emmy Awards, a Daytime Emmy Award, and an Academy Award. The iconic actress passed away at the age of 94 on January 27th, 2021. In memoriam, let's take a look a...

30/04/2024

When I was Director of Student Activities at Illinois College, I got the Student Government Association to look at writing a new Constitution. One day, one of the Government teachers, who was the SGA's primary advisor stopped and asked me why I was trying to write a long constitution. She pointed out that the US Constitution is only 4,500ish words long. My response was that she was correct but that it was not a very well-constructed document. She got really angry when I said that, and I think that was the final straw in my employment there as my contract was not renewed for another year.

What she wouldn't listen to me try to argue is that it left too many holes and structural weaknesses that left it open to abuse. That was in 1991. Today, we have had Il Douche's presidency and look at all of what he is doing to our entire governing processes and norms. This story here is just one of God only knows how many that have been written in the last 8 years over him and what he has and will do to us.

That is also why when I lead the writing of a new constitution for the SHSU SGA, it came in at 51 pages (and there were still a couple of topics that we simply ran out of time for and which still needed to be added to it. The student body approved it but the VP for Student Affairs would not allow it to be enacted. That document included 6 or 7 pages that simply defined every single term used in it. I could go into full rant mode here but I will end by simply saying that no organization should always assume that actors in their governance will also do what is best for the organization rather than for themselves. Brevity in detailing how your government will work is NOT a virtue, it is a recipe for disaster.

How the Supreme Court rules on presidential immunity in former President Donald Trump’s effort to jettison his federal charges could have some collateral damage: Congress’ impeachment power. At oral arguments in the case Thursday, Trump attorney D. John Sauer told the justices that the nation’...

22/04/2024

Stolen from a friend who didn't have a share button. :)

22/04/2024

"In case that's not obvious, let me spell it out: Setting aside the factual errors, what Greene is saying is that tech used to shoot down drones and missiles should now be aimed at refugees who are entering the United States, to make use of their legal right to seek asylum. Now, the U.S. government will not do this, at least under President Joe Biden. It's both evil and violates all sorts of international law. But Greene's rhetoric is still dangerous. She's normalizing the idea of mass murdering unarmed civilians, and encouraging her supporters to enact the violence if the government won't."

From Kari Lake's "strap on a G***k" to the Supreme Court coddling Capitol rioters, GOP threat levels are growing

20/04/2024

19/04/2024

Political pundit ‘Jay in Kyiv’ responded: “The amendment that Marjorie Taylor Greene just proposed to sabotage the Ukraine bill is something that is such a nuanced Russian disinfo narrative that it could have only come directly from her Russian handlers.

“The notion that Hungarians are being persecuted in Ukraine is insane BUT it’s being pushed by both Orban (who was promised a piece of Ukraine by Putin) and Russian disinfo machine. For an American to suggest this really confirms she is being handled.”

As House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) pushed a multi-bill package of foreign assistance in the House (including one that allocates approximately $60 billion to Ukraine), Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) pushed back proposing amendments to the legislation including the ‘Ukraine Security Supplement...

18/04/2024

Oh... joy!

Well, add another ring to the far-right looney circus of clowns and sh*t-gibbons.

On Tuesday afternoon, the CEO of MyPillow Mike Lindell, along with a cadre of election deniers, spoke in front of...

18/04/2024

It'll be interesting to see how they try to enforce their new law. 🤣🤣🤣

One witness at a legislative hearing said she believed the White House was engaged in climate experiments but could not provide definitive proof.

18/04/2024

God, I hate these people more and more every day.

"House Freedom Caucus members are signing up to take shifts to guard the House floor in order to prevent resolutions they’d consider unsavory from slipping through that could curb their power,"

Rumors are circulating on Capitol Hill that the Freedom Caucus is preparing to launch a FART war. The far-right House Republican group Thursday appeared to be plotting a defensive tactic against moderate counterparts and has assembled to assist them in this effort a Floor Action Response Team, or as...

19/02/2022

Image Source: Getty / Gideon Mendel A quick Google search of "Black person fired for hair" will pull up an alarming 98.2 billion search results.

09/02/2022

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — Between calculus and European history classes at a West Virginia public high school, 16-year-old Cameron Mays and his classmates were told by their teacher to go to an evangelical Christian revival assembly. When students arrived at the event in the school's auditorium, th...

09/02/2022

The poll was conducted soon after the Freedom Convoy protest began and found that 68 percent of Canadians think a Trump re-election would end U.S. democracy.

09/02/2022

You would think Republicans would be chanting 'Lock Him Up' and calling for hearings with anyone who was part of the Trump White House. But nothing.

09/02/2022

This is how nonsense wins.

02/08/2021

If you can shrug it off as just another incident of Trump talking too much, then you have already signed up for the next incident—and the one after that.

02/08/2021

The U.S. Capitol riot launched one of the largest investigations in Justice Department history, with hundreds of defendants now facing charges. But the lawyer who’s put himself at the center of nearly 20 of the legal defenses has plenty of problems of his own—from a bizarre legal strategy and lo...

02/08/2021

To combat 'socialism' labels, the Democrats should promote and champion their version of capitalism.

02/08/2021

Donald Trump now has a $100 million weapon to wield against US democracy.

02/08/2021

GETTR, the new platform started by members of the former president’s inner circle, is awash with beheading videos and extremist content.

02/08/2021

"I think we should be extremely alarmed," the progressive New York congresswoman said in an interview.

02/08/2021

Ocasio-Cortez warned that even with organizing, Republicans are "laying the groundwork" to refuse to certify election results that don't go their way.

02/08/2021

'We cannot in good faith blame House Republicans when Democrats have the majority,' New York Rep. Ocasio-Cortez said Sunday.

02/08/2021

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) tells CNN's Jake Tapper the House should reconvene to help extend the recently-expired nationwide eviction moratorium.

02/08/2021

Sadly, today, narrowness is a feature of the DSA, not a bug.

02/08/2021

Unless your GOP colleagues step in, you are doomed to go down in history as a cautionary tale: a person who betrayed his family, his country and himself.

02/08/2021

They said Gosar's "lifelong, insecure need for the approval of others" may have caused him to sacrifice "decency and integrity to satisfy Trump."