Stargleamer
Stargleamer's JournalIt's never as bad for Republicans as it appears. . .
Republicans rely a lot on propaganda to help them win elections and you bet there will be plenty of that on Fox News, Sinclair, OAN, etc. from now until November. Musk himself will spend millions to help Republicans inflict more damage on the marginalized and poor in this country. Gerrymandered districts and voter suppression (voter ID laws, taking away early voting, etc.) all will have an effect. Also they are trying to make Americans more ignorant with their book bans and their attacks on "woke", and ignorant people are more easily swayed to their side. Republicans don't sweat because they know they have all of these things working in their favor.
Even if Democrats win they know our victory is only temporary and the way that Congress is set up we won't be able to accomplish much due to their fierce opposition to anything that would move this country closer to what they have in Scandinavian countries.
Runaway Train - Soul Asylum
The situation is so dire for so many of us in this country, and the Fascist-in-Chief is doing all he can to make such misery more widespread and hurtful. In memoriam to all those who will die due to his fascism in the next 4+ years.
"I will continue to help people even if it costs me my life"
Plant the Land is a vegan food justice project that was co-founded by Anas and Laura Schleifer, a Jewish American vegan-anarchist. It is organised and directed by Gazan volunteers and combines veganism, ecology, communalism, education and mutual aid.
— Freedom Press (@freedompress.bsky.social) 2025-08-06T07:31:11.372Z
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/08/06/m...
“ My priority is to reach my family’s bodies, but I also try to help people to alleviate their suffering. My father always said that I should do more to help poor families, and I should always be there for everyone who needs help, and I will do that because it is my responsibility and also because my father was always keen for me to help others.”
“ I work despite all the dangerous circumstances surrounding me. I received a call last year from the Israeli army, threatening me because I help families in Gaza. He told me that he would destroy my house and kill my family, but despite this threat, I continued to work to help families in Gaza. Therefore, my work is risky, but I will continue because families in Gaza need me.”
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2025/08/06/mutual-aid-in-gaza-i-will-continue-to-help-people-even-if-it-costs-me-my-life/
As an Israeli political scientist, I resisted thinking this war was a genocide. Here's what changed my mind
https://forward.com/opinion/759877/israeli-genocide-gaza-liberal-jews/?I wouldn't use the word "understandable", "predictable" is better. . .
Netanyahu's actions added accelerants to the fires of antisemitism, due to the tendency of many people to overgeneralize the actions and characteristics of some Jews to apply to Jews as a whole. An increased and expansive hatred results. This result could easily have been predicted.
As for Islamic terrorists, well, my guess is you yourself saw how much anti-Muslim hatred increased and played out in this country immediately after 9/11. Sikhs were even attacked in this country as well as Muslims because some thought the turbans Sikhs wore meant that they were Muslim. This result too was quite predictable.
It is "understandable" in the sense that this kind of short-circuited, knee-jerk thinking among people is common everywhere, and we've encountered it numerous times in our lives. When Herschel Grynszpan, a Jewish expatriate, killed Ernst vom Roth in 1938, the Nazis used this as a pre-text to start Kristallnacht--a lot of Germans didn't need much convincing that their antisemitism need to be ramped up a notch, to think of all Jews as treacherous or even murderous, as they thought of Grynszpan that way.
Al Gore: "it's all about power"
Al Gore didn’t hold back: The Trump admin is “attacking the heart of truth,†twisting facts like the Nazis did in the 1930s. From climate denial to rewriting the Ukraine war, it’s all about power—not reality.
— Jennifer C (@thejenniwren.teamlh.social) 2025-04-23T20:52:30.198Z
Gore warned the U.S. is under siege—and every former leader should speak out like he did.
He’s right—it is all about power
Trump's decision to quickly reverse Biden's order
Biden's order directed the Department of Health and Human Services to explore strategies to reduce costs. The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) responded to the order with programs to cap the price of certain generic drugs at $2 for Medicare beneficiaries, improve Medicaid access to high-cost cell and gene therapies and to streamline the evidence-gathering process for new drugs.
How much harm this will result in is hard for me to assess at this point.
But cruelty is the point, it's what the MAGAts love.
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