Email your state’s Secretary of State!

https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/i-filed-a-complaint-to-disqualify

#USApolitics #USpolitics #USApol #USpol #14thAmendment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XTJNy_OrjE Is Trump a Fascist? Watch and find out. #usapolitics #fascism #Trump

JSTORDaily article by Sophia McClennen, author of Trump Was a Joke, on satirising him during his election campaign. "Part of what satire tends to do is reframe faulty logic and false narratives, but then when the narrative is not just a false narrative but an absolutely inane narrative, it gives you very little room to reveal its absurdity through absurdity." Could apply to quite a few UK politicians and suchlike. #Trump #satire #USApolitics #USAmedia

The Right-Wing Plan to Rewrite History.
Authoritarians from all political spectrums likely practice such a strategy, but still a good read.
#history #authoritarianism #Canada #cdnpoli #usapolitics
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2023/07/28/Right-Wing-Plan-Rewrite-History/?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_term=intro

Looks like Mitch McConnell had a stroke, and he came back later to answer questions rather than go to HOSPITAL.

#nzpol #USAPolitics
https://youtu.be/CSX-B2UJqmk

I keep hearing people expressing amazement at the horrifying, performative, gleeful cruelty of Republicans. They ask what it is all meant to accomplish. Here's another reminder:

CRUELTY IS THE POINT.

It's not a means to an end, other than that of satisfying their followers who also enjoy cruelty. Cruelty is itself the goal. We're dealing with sociopathic bullies. The only language they speak is dominance. Ignore this at your peril.

https://boingboing.net/2023/06/20/fraud-indicted-george-santos-shames-girl-for-having-acne.html

#usaPolitics #fascist

#Juneteenth #USAPolitics If the GOP ever takes total control of the USFedGovt, just think as part of anti-woke GOP policies actively pushed in a variety of States, this Federal Holiday would likely be removed and the event would be forbidden by law to be discussed in school. Go back to sleep they’ll whisper in your ear or better yet bash your head against a rock. We need to keep you stupid. 🤔 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juneteenth
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/here-s-what-it-means-to-be-anti-woke-you-re-pro-bigot

#Juneteenth #USAPolitics Ifthe GOP ever takes total control of the USFedGovt, just think as part of anti-woke GOP policies actively pushed in a variety of States, this Federal Holiday would likely be removed and the event would be forbidden by law to be discussed in school. Go back to sleep they’ll whisper in your ear or better yet bash your head against a rock. We need to keep you stupid. 🤔 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juneteenth
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/here-s-what-it-means-to-be-anti-woke-you-re-pro-bigot

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/10/us/politics/trump-supporter-violent-rhetoric.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare The GOP is very much an anti-American party at this point. As their corrupt and criminal nature are confronted in an attempt to defend the rule of law, the more they will push back in illegal, seditious and traitorous ways. It is well last time for any “moderate” political conservatives to jump ship. There is no saving today’s GOP. #USAPolitics #Grifters #Criminals #GOPTraitors

Seems Trump is now, for some unknown reason, claiming no one told him he was going to be indicted.

I mean apart from the numerous letters from archives, the FBI request, the FBI raid, the massively covered Grand Jury inquiry, the notice that you were the target of an investigation, and of course the notice of indictment...

#Trump #USAPolitics #nzpol

"BREAKING: Trump indicted in classified documents probe"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvOa0N_jxGA

#AboutFingTime #Trump #USAPolitics #nzpol

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/08/business/media/cnn-chris-licht-cable-news.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare The center is not balancing between a party that generally holds to truth and a commitment to governance and a party of wannabe petty autocrats who reject truth, democracy and governance in a raw grasp for power by any means. This article’s headline confuses centrism with splitting the difference between the two dominant parties. #falsePremise #USAMedia #USAPolitics

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/08/nyregion/redistricting-democrats-lawsuit-ny.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare As a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat, I believe the best thing for America is the use of an independent redistricting committee after the California model. Voters should take this away from legislatures to safeguard their voice/vote from partisan gerrymandering. #USAPolitics #Redistricting #Democracy

Report of Trump Recording Adds to Pile of 'Smoking Gun Evidence'

#Trump #USAPolitics #nzpol

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/31/us/politics/debt-ceiling-house-vote.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare Congress actually managed to govern instead of ceding responsibility to either the executive or judicial branches. Quick someone give them a cookie and a pat on the head. #USAPolitics

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/28/us/politics/biden-debt-limit-deal.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare don’t like compromising? Then you have to win a majority. The Democrats had a choice to push the debt ceiling before the midterm election cycle and didn’t take it. Have to suck it up and govern now. #USAPolitics #DebtCeiling #Compromise

Which launch by Elon was the biggest disaster?

#USAPolitics #Twitter #nzpol

Given how badly wrong Justice Thomas has been with declaring bribes, I mean donations, I mean BRIBES, it'd be real interesting to see what he's declared on his tax returns.

#USAPolitics

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/05/opinion/dianne-feinstein-senate.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare Aging doesn’t make us less of a person or dim our accomplishments, but, the choices we continue to make are important. Letting vanity? or some self-conception of worth blind one to when it is time to step down is a disservice to Californians and the Country. #Feinstein #Retire #Senate #USAPolitics

"Florida’s book-ban frenzy targets Nora Roberts, and she’s not happy

(...) This signals a new trend: Book banners are increasingly going after a wide variety of titles, including romance novels, under the guise of targeting “pornography.” That term is a very flexible one — deliberately so, it appears — and it is sweeping ever more broadly to include books that can’t be described as such in any reasonable sense.

(...) Speaking of the censors, Roberts told us: “I’m surprised that they wouldn’t want teenagers to read about healthy relationships that are monogamous, consensual, healthy and end up in marriage.”"

'Pornography' is rapidly coming to mean "stuff I don’t like" in Republican circles.

Gift article 🔗: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/04/28/ron-desantis-book-ban-nora-roberts-florida/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWJpZCI6IjM2NDUxNjc0IiwicmVhc29uIjoiZ2lmdCIsIm5iZiI6MTY4MjY1NDQwMCwiaXNzIjoic3Vic2NyaXB0aW9ucyIsImV4cCI6MTY4Mzk1MDM5OSwiaWF0IjoxNjgyNjU0NDAwLCJqdGkiOiIxMDM2NzcwOC1iOWM4LTQ0NTItYmJmYS1kMDhmYzRmYmUwNGEiLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy53YXNoaW5ndG9ucG9zdC5jb20vb3BpbmlvbnMvMjAyMy8wNC8yOC9yb24tZGVzYW50aXMtYm9vay1iYW4tbm9yYS1yb2JlcnRzLWZsb3JpZGEvIn0.arxaZr-x1Ub4AqVthnn7lmY1YAa6o1f1K752vYMK_-Y&itid=gfta

#Florida #NoraRoberts #BookBans #GOP #Republicans #USPol #USAPolitics