I guess I’ve been living under a rock because I’ve never heard this story. So, as a curious person, I would have expected someone writing an article about the story would at least take a few sentences to explain WTF beaglegate is about.
I searched on my own and found the story to be mixed truth.
It is a fact that, in two different NIAID congressionally funded studies, beagle puppies were tested on and euthanized.
It’s not clear if Fauci specifically knew of or approved of these studies while he was head of the NIAID. Though all tests were done according to existing procedures and regulations. There’s a lot of misrepresentation of what the tests were or how the dogs were treated for political theater.
ST. LOUIS — Five states have banned ranked choice voting in the last two months, bringing the total number of Republican-leaning states now prohibiting the voting method to 10....
There is literally no good argument for writing a law banning this. It’s indefensible. I challenge one person to try.
I’ve been in favor of RCV for a decade+ and believe our country would change practically overnight by adopting it; however, there are legitimate reasons it hasn’t been adopted. As stated and linked in the article,
Brown and other critics of ranked choice voting contend the system is confusing, and he said there are numerous instances in which voters didn’t end up ranking their choices.
Ballot exhaustion occurs when a ballot is no longer countable in a tally as all of the candidates marked on the ballot are no longer in the contest. This can occur as part of ranked-choice voting when a voter has ranked only candidates that have been eliminated even though other candidates remain in the contest, as voters are not required to rank all candidates in an election. In cases where a voter has ranked only candidates that did not make it to the final round of counting, the voter’s ballot is said to have been exhausted. An exhausted ballot is sometimes referred to as an inactive ballot.
Whether this qualifies as “literally no good argument” I think is dependent on the number ballots where this was an issue. You could make an argument that people aren’t educated about the system or the system isn’t adaptable for all voters. Whether those are “good arguments” is perhaps subjective.
I’m a registered Democrat. I would not support him dropping out of the election even if he’s in jail.
There is no established rule that says you can not run for president as a convicted felon.
What I am in favor of is people not being fucking idiots and voting for a convicted felon to be president. Just as the same as I’m in favor of people not voting for a literal farm animal to be president - it’s just moronic. I’m also no in favor of people voting for anyone who’s failed to present themselves as a public figure who gives a flying fuck about the American People or the United States Constitution or someone who may be a rapist or may be a bigot or may not be able to speak or read comprehensively. Why the fuck are we stuck with this guy as an option? Out of 330 million people, this is the best we can do?
Edit: I mean, how is it that so many people are dummies?
people are fairly split on the Trump case overall with 47% saying the charges against Trump were politically motivated
I agree with you. I recognize my choice of words didn’t hit the nail on the head and I failed to take the time to find the right word(s).
Whatever the word is for people who are easily brainwashed and find comfort in their echo chamber despite being informed of the facts by historically reputable organizations - those people.
Because despite liberals also living in their own echo chambers, most of them can still observe reality and accept that Biden also has his shortcomings. They can also look at what’s going on with Hunter and agree with the reasonable Republicans and say whatever wrongs he did, he should be held accountable. They can judge him for what he’s doing / not doing in Gaza and protest him (as they should). If Joe Biden did one percent of what Trump has done in his life, Democrats would turn on him, not defend him. I’m still not forgiving him for the 1994 crime bill and don’t think he should ever have been elected president. I was excited to discover a progressive voice in TYT in the mid 2010s but I’ve kept a level head and realized they were turning into extremists.
Brainwashing, propaganda, advertising; I don’t understand how they work. I worked as an art director in advertising and I had to quit because of all the manipulation. They all treat people like rats hanging a big chunk of stinky cheese in front of them.
I’m a pretty dumb person but I vividly recall, as an eight year old in catechism class, thinking all religions claim to be the “true” religion and realizing that there was no such thing as god and it was ll bullshit. How was I, as an eight year old, able to break free from the cult while most grown adults fail to see through it all? That’s the part I don’t get and I wrongly chose “dummy” to describe these people.
My question to them was: How does “dehumanizing” work to begin with? If we’re wired to be social empathetic creatures, what is so powerful about these statements to unwire us?
The entire story is missing right between these two paragraphs.
Why are dehumanization and violence so closely connected? As social creatures, we’re wired to empathize with our fellow human beings, and we get uncomfortable when we see someone suffering.
Once someone is dehumanized, we usually deny them the consideration, compassion and empathy that we typically give other people. It can relax our instinctive aversion to aggression and violence.
It’s been reported that only 10% of felons are given jail time for similar convictions. You have to wonder if such remarks after his conviction, indicating he’s learned absolutely nothing, may lead a judge towards the harsher punishment.
Also, let’s take a moment to applaud Alvin L. Bragg.
Alvin L. Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, risked his reputation by indicting Mr. Trump in a case that some prominent Democrats said wasn’t strong enough to have brought against a former president. Instead, Mr. Bragg cemented his place in history as the first prosecutor to convict a former president.
The part where he said his trial was rigged was where I got really worried.
He is taking every possible opportunity to dismantle the foundation of this country for his own self interests and his “lock her up” cult followers are eating it up. They believe him over the facts, precedents, science, and laws. They believe these universal truths are “rigged”.
Meanwhile, his own appointed judge is presiding over another of his cases who may actually be interfering with it.
I’m pretty open to taking a step back and looking at things from both sides. Your political affiliation doesn’t explicitly mean you’re impervious to propaganda or brainwashing. Although, it’s apparent one group is more weak minded and unbothered by the larger scope of their actions. I find these people to be immoral and self-righteous and disgusting and I’m embarrassed as an American to be associated with them. It’s not easy to be comfortable with strangers out in public these days.
I genuinely believe most of us mostly want the same things. Corporations and politicians have divided us and created the polarization for their benefit. We have to even the playing field. We need Ranked Choice Voting. We need to fund elections exclusively with tax payer dollars.
So, the silver lining I’m hoping for is that after this inevitable civil war, we can make elections truly democratic.
Hopefully I’m just overwhelmed with the news cycle but it seems like people really don’t care much about intellectualism. This country has been on an anti-intellectualism path for a decade or more. If people don’t care to know stuff, how can we progress?
This group has been told over and over that what they believe is factually untrue. You can point at the sky and explain it’s blue and offer the scientific explanation for it being blue yet they will claim that it’s red with no evidence at all (just that the pillow guy says so). This used to be a fringe group and I totally get that a small segment of the population has particular perspectives but the fact that it’s becoming common place is just mind bending. I don’t understand how people can be shown facts and continue to lie to themselves. How hurt can you be? How prevalent is mental instability? What could we possibly do to make people feel better and give a crap about themselves and their communities?
With the billionaires backing him, it’s going to be on us as individual Americans to make sure Trump doesn’t end up in the White House again. That means not just voting but talking with people around you, volunteering and donating
That means not just voting but talking with people around you, volunteering and donating
Honestly, I give up. If you’ve already decided you’re voting for Trump, you do not exist in the same reality as me. There is absolutely zero redeeming quality about the person or his politics. He literally does not care about the United States, the Constitution, or the people voting for him. A vote for Trump isn’t a vote for president, it’s a vote for a cult leader. I’m not equipped to fix what’s broken in your head.
That certainly seems reasonable and maybe you’re right.
For similar reasons, people are (rightfully) protesting Biden due to his policies with Gaza. I know that in the presidential primary in my (super blue/Democrat) county last month, 10% of the votes cast by Democrats (16,216) were write-ins and 90% of those (14,625) were for non-people (“uncommitted”, etc). As it turns out, practically the same number of people cast protest votes as votes for Trump (14,740). Biden still got 144,000 votes so losing 14,000 to Trump isn’t so much of a concern. My greater concern is about how easily people are being manipulated - across the board, across the world - and how people are losing sight on the possible crumbling of the country they live in. Not to mention only 20% of my county even bothered to vote.
Totally unrelated… actually, maybe not totally, this conversation has me going back and checking on some voting records. The 2020 election was the highest voter turnout in Philadelphia for 25 years. It was also the highest turnout in the United States for a century. So when Trumpers claim ‘the election was rigged because Trump got more votes than any other president. How is it possible for Biden to get more votes than him?’, they’re ignoring the verifiable facts that the election had a record high turn out. It’s been all downhill since they’ve been denying these election results.
The wealth gap is certainly an issue. Typically, Americans are more prosperous under Democratic presidents and while that may be true on paper in select areas, it’s apparent that most people are still hurting. On paper, Biden has been a remarkable president and has saved Americans billions if not trillions. Saving money is different than putting money in their pockets though. To say, yeah - but it could have been so much worse, means nothing to most people.
A study by the liberal Institute of Taxation and Public Policy predicts Mr. Biden’s plan would increase by more than $100,000 a year what someone in the top 1% of earners pays Uncle Sam. President Obama in 2013 raised taxes on that same group by $83,000. President Trump in 2017 cut their taxes by about $50,000 a year.
The top 1% of Americans earn about 20% of all income in the U.S., but they pay nearly 40% of all federal income taxes. The Biden plan will put even more of the tax burden on the wealthy. “It’s time for corporate America and the wealthiest 1% of Americans to just begin to pay their fair share,” he said Wednesday in his speech to Congress.
And wages are up compared to inflation for the past year. But eventhough inflation is still at a comfortable-ish sub 4%, the future looks questionable. www.statista.com/…/wage-growth-vs-inflation-us/
But to the greater point, when people are struggling to put food on the table and upgrade appliances or save for the future, they’re going to get stressed. They’re going to become afraid and they’re going to search for answers - even if those answers are wrong, it’s what they want to hear. Keeping this wage gap wide, keeping the middle class down, gives politicians power.
Gun rights organizations and anti-government groups have typically argued that paramilitary activity is constitutionally protected by the Second Amendment’s language about “a well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State.”
But constitutional experts hold that it is not protected. After the violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in August 2017, a team with Georgetown Law’s Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection (ICAP) sought to examine the legality of the kind of brazen paramilitary activity on display that weekend. They found that all 50 states had some kind of laws on the books, but were rarely enforced.
The team also found that the historical context of “militia” did not mean a private paramilitary group that was answerable only to themselves, but an armed group that predated the National Guard, was first established in the colonies in the 1600s and was meant to be deployed at the behest of the governor. Additionally, McCord told The Trace in an interview two years ago, Supreme Court decisions in 1886 and 2008 found that the Second Amendment did not prohibit states from banning private paramilitary groups.
“Our legislation makes the obvious but essential clarification that these domestic extremists’ paramilitary operations are in no way protected by our Constitution,” Rep Raskin said in a statement regarding Thursday’s bill.
The following excerpts are unrelated to each other but, as a “movement”, I can’t help but see them as a bunch of drooling imbeciles who lack basic comprehension of facts and reality. Though I’m sure there’s a handful of intelligent people who’ve somehow succumbed to brainwashing.
I mean, this first one would indicate they’re ramping up to protect us from Trump. Their reality is not about patriotism but delusion and cultism.
When the government tries to steal the election again and they think we’ll just sit and take it
Huffman and Demere are also key players in the pro-Confederate movement known as “Heritage, not Hate.”
many of their posts convey a general sense of urgency about the need to prepare for “war” or to “stand up” against many supposed enemies, including drag queens, immigrants, pro-Palestine college students, communists—and the US government.
They’re arguing whether Trump can be prosecuted for attempting to overthrow an election or whether (assuming he wins the next election) Trump gets to “appoint a real special prosecutor to go after the most corrupt president in the history of the United States of America, Joe Biden, and the entire Biden crime family”.
If there’s ample evidence you broke a law, you should be prosecuted and held accountable. The alternative is “turning the Oval Office into the seat of criminal activity in this country”. If Trump thinks he can go after Biden for something no one has brought any evidence to suggest he has done (for how many years?), go for it. Evidently at least a third of this country is stupid enough to believe anything that comes out of this idiot’s mouth and believe the President of the United States should be at all concerned with anyone breaking the law.
I really do appreciate the Supreme Court’s attention to history and their responsibility to future generations of this country. But fuck, this is stupid. This country is stupid.
I’m guessing they have a typo in their graphic where the tenth cheapest drink is more than the most expensive. …dailymail.co.uk/…/83780847-13320199-image-a-7_17… I wonder how many other errors there are in their reporting.
Recently, Donald Trump fans in Florida and Michigan have been auto-generating and spreading around faked “pictures” of Trump surrounded by crowds of Black supporters—and earning significant traction for doing so. Coming at a time when President Joe Biden is worried about losing the Black voters who came out for his 2020...
What I find interesting about this is that no matter how fake something like this may be it still serves the purpose of suggesting a thought or feeling to someone; it plants a seed. There’s definitely a certain segment of the population more prone to believing fiction (always has been, ie National Enquirer) but the vast majority of us will file things we want to be true into our subconscious where they slowly become non-fiction in our minds. This is how product advertising has always worked. This is how religion works. I mean, everything has the potential to start as something fictitious and become real in our minds. Have you ever told a story about something that happened to you only to realize, or have someone tell you, that it was the plot of a sitcom?
Trump and politics aside, it’s an interesting neurological phenomenon. These are the things we should be studying and teaching to evolve as a species. Though, governments and our corporate overlords would never allow us to actually think for ourselves.
That’s a good point. You can’t plant a seed anywhere and expect it to blossom. The soil needs to be primed to accept the seed.
I’m in the middle of reading an article about how phones and social media are affecting the mental health of the youth. We all believe this to be a fact yet the scientific evidence actually does not support it. It’s easier to convince people that something’s true when they already feel like it should be true. Where “should be true” (or want to be true) comes from for each individual is something to consider.
You can’t say the presidential election doesn’t matter.
I fully agree with the sentiment that not enough people are concerned enough with their local and state elected officials. We get far too caught up in the national news headlines, or the news in states thousands of miles away, now thanks to our increasingly connected lives. The onslaught of media coverage is distracting and dividing. Yeah, 10000% agree with this.
That doesn’t mean the commander in chief and leader of our country is irrelevant. It doesn’t mean you should “sit it out”. It’s difficult to leave individuals out of the conversation to keep this civil but we’re in a unique time where a twice impeached president who has said and done things that are difficult to defend as “presidential” or even moral is up for election again. This year, I’d argue that the presidential election matters more than your local election.
As for the electoral college, most of the people who have an issue with this lack the understanding of why this was established and how it functions as a tool of a representative democracy. That’s not to say it’s flawless but it’s worked without issue for nearly 250 years. I see it as a very, very low priory of things that need reform.
I’d also submit that people need to be more supportive their local newspapers. Far too many are crumbling and getting bought up by national organizations and tilting the narrative. Read your newspapers - not just the front page of their website, not just their social media posts. Discuss local politics with your friends and neighbors. Ask the newspaper if they could investigate something. We have not held the fourth pillar of democracy to the standards that best interest us. And I’d argue it’s because we simply don’t care enough about the news than we do entertainment. People are afraid of the real news but there’s a lot more to it than drugs and crime.
A new Politico-Ipsos poll Tuesday showed Americans’ perception of former President Donald Trump’s criminal cases, with a notable shift among independents....
Because Newsweek is trash. I don’t know how or why but links to this publication are rampant on Lemmy.
General rule 1: Read with a fine tooth comb and you’ll find decent reporting about two thirds of the way through a Newsweek article.
General rule 2: Any news outlet with a comment section is more concerned about getting people to spend time on their site to sell ads than they are neutrally informing the public.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsweek
Merger with The Daily Beast (2010–2013)
Spin-off to IBT Media, return to print (2013–2018)
Newsweek Publishing LLC (2018–present)
In 2020, Newsweek’s website hit 100 million unique monthly readers, up from seven million at the start of 2017. In 2021, its revenues doubled to $75 million and traffic increased to 48 million monthly unique visitors in May 2022 from about 30 million in May 2019 according to Comscore.
While the magazine still produces in-depth reporting and the occasional scoop, staffers said the parent company had gone on a hiring spree last fall, grouping mostly young writers into a breaking news team of more than 20 staffers. These reporters are tasked with churning out an unheard of level of content for massive web traffic.
One staffer on that team told Splinter they’re getting paid less than $40,000 a year. Breaking news writers are expected to draw 1 million page views a month, they said, with traffic bonuses starting thereafter. “We get chastised if we don’t [meet 1 million page views],” they said, “and get assigned garbage, clickbait articles to compensate.”
More context: The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission allowed Donald Trump’s media and technology company to merge with a blank-check acquisition vehicle in a deal that currently values the parent of his social media app Truth Social at as much as $10 billion. reuters.com/…/digital-world-shares-surge-us-regul…
If this were a healthy democracy, we would have a press corps that would put a spotlight on what is real and not “both sides” everything while focusing on the horse race instead of the consequences of the election.
Oh, I don’t know about that one. The job of the press corp is to report, not to speculate. This is one of the problems we have now, there’s far too much opinion and speculation in the “news” media. I have to use quotes for news because what most Americans choose to observe as the news today is a shell of what it once was. The call should be for less speculation and more unbiased reporting and interviews for both sides.
Incidentally, since I was a kid, I’ve always thought the news and government leaders have failed to educate the people about policy and intents. This seems to be where speculative and opinion based journalism have taken seat.
That the media are focused on Biden‘s age, while ignoring Trump’s infirmities is absolutely maddening.
Agreed. Because (again) “the news” doesn’t so much care about their responsibility as the fourth pillar of democracy but about their responsibility to advertisers and share holders. Trump and fear have always been the Big Stories that generate ad revenue.
As James Fallows pointed out, in the New York Times there were headlines on Super Tuesday’s outcomes that Trump romped and Biden has trouble while Biden got a significantly higher percentage of votes than did Trump, which tells us all too much about media bias.
I mean, he is the incumbent president. Does anyone even know who’s running against him in a primary? No. because the media isn’t reporting that (enough).
I’m honestly a little more distraught about what the press has become than four more years of Trump. It’s in large part because of the press and media outlets pretending to be news that we have Trump in the first place.
Although, I do blame The Public’s lack of interest and attention more so. People just don’t care to watch actual news. They only care about headlines and short video clips and thriving in their echo chambers. So, as much as I’d love more federal funding for non-profit journalism, that’s not going to overcome our disinterest in real unbiased reporting and interviewing.
I think the future of this country is very, very dismal. The polarization of politics can only get worse as we hand over all our Power of The People to social media and content makers and (eventually) AI – unless we adopt Ranked Choice Voting. RCV could very well reduce the polarization and extremism on both sides of the aisle while (eventually) cultivating a congress that works together to enact legislation making this country more representative of The People. As would public funding of all elections and regulating the power of special interest groups in DC.
Actually, I felt hit over the head watching PBS Newshour after Katie Britt’s objectively bizarre SOTU response. Here’s a link to the recorded live stream timestamped immediately after Britt’s address (~2:11:00)(you’re welcome) www.youtube.com/live/nFMuU4uCFh0?si=70umbfLmLbqoj…
They responded like grown ass adults and (for the most part) on the content and relevance of her address. I don’t know how they were able to hold it together with such professionalism. I think part of it is that they have a spectrum of political leanings there who still have respect for one another. They’re there to report on the event and offer broad context to the story without getting in the weeds and bickering for ratings.
Coffee is one of the most widely consumed psychoactive beverages on the planet. Nearly every country, region, and culture has its own unique way of preparing and consuming coffee. There’s nothing simple about coffee. Those beans in your kitchen are the sum total of a complex series of interactions between international...
Have we forgotten how much air time the “billionaire” / “reality tv host” / “real estate mogul” got during the 2016 election? While everyone else was out getting donations to run ads for their campaign, the “press” used Trump’s fame to increase their viewership and advertising revenue. They didn’t talk about policy, they didn’t do deep dives or hardball interviews with the candidates, they didn’t do their job as the fourth pillar of democracy; they talked about the crazy antics and repulsiveness of the ‘this guy can’t be for real’ candidate. Of course the press wants Trump to win. No one watches the news (anymore) to learn things or to feel good about things.
You cannot engage the frames the press traffics in because it knows the best way to reach the maximum audience is to give Republicans what they want and drive liberals to hate reading, hate sharing, and even hate subscribing. Because even by rebutting them, you spread and strengthen them. That’s just how brains work.
That’s not how “the press” is supposed to work. Toying with your emotions for profit is how television programming and circus sideshows work.
Who’s holding the media accountable for fucking us over? Who among us are voting with our wallets and our eye balls and giving actual journalists a fighting chance against these newstainment programs and meme posts and social media click bait faux-headlines?
Right, no one. Because no one actually cares about The News and policy and how politicians and corporations are having an impact on our country. That’s too difficult to digest compared to lashing out at a headline that makes us feel upset. Of course I exaggerate by saying “no one” cares but it might as well be since those who care aren’t the ones watching newstainment and newstainment is raking it in appeasing to the mass of nobodies.
In a speech that included quotes from the Bible, the TV show Reacher, and the lyrics of 90’s rapper Vanilla Ice, Republican state Rep. Ernie Yarbrough introduced an amendment to the bill to add that “immunity will not be provided to a person who intentionally causes the death of an unborn child.”
LMFAO Please tell me he used “ice ice baby” in a speech about frozen embryos 🤣
MSNBC pundit Rachel Maddow said it is “irresponsible” of news organizations to carry former President Trump’s remarks when they know he is going to make false statements....
Yes, it’s terrible that a remarkable number of our population are a bunch of easily manipulated morons. Let’s also shift our attention towards that while you continue to report the news.
While you’re at it, stop your ongoing efforts to manipulate an emotionally unstable population who can’t tell the difference between opinions and biased reporting and actual journalism.
The blog-ification of “news” needs to be addressed. I certainly appreciate the insight of experts and academics but the packaging of personal assessments and opinions by talking heads as News continues to be a disservice to the fourth pillar of democracy.
So today is my birthday, and I’m wanting to cook myself something special! I have carte blanch to make a huge mess that my partner will clean, so I’m rearing to throw down. What are your fav celebratory meals? Could be simple, could be complicated, could be expensive, could be cheap af. Just looking for some inspiration....
New Haven Pizza. I haven’t had a car since 2020 and, upon reflection, have decided the first thing I’m going to do when I get a new car is drive three hours up to New Haven and get a pizza from Sally’s.
For a home cooked meal, smoked ribs and mac and cheese.
‘Fauci Kills Puppies’: Inside the Forgotten Fake ‘Beaglegate’ Scandal (www.thedailybeast.com)
Missouri joins other red states in trying to stamp out ranked choice voting (www.npr.org)
ST. LOUIS — Five states have banned ranked choice voting in the last two months, bringing the total number of Republican-leaning states now prohibiting the voting method to 10....
Trump Complains Not a Single Juror Smiled at Him (www.thedailybeast.com)
NEW POLL: Nearly Half Believe Trump Should Drop Campaign Over Guilty Verdict (www.mediaite.com)
Live Updates: Trump Lashes Out After Conviction in Misleading Speech (www.nytimes.com)
Washington Post Coverage as well
Trump campaign raises record $34.8 million in donations after guilty verdict (www.cnbc.com)
Why Megadonors Are Unfazed by Donald Trump’s Guilty Verdict | Money flowed into the former president’s re-election campaign from Wall Street and Silicon Valley following Thursday’s historic conviction (www.nytimes.com)
With the billionaires backing him, it’s going to be on us as individual Americans to make sure Trump doesn’t end up in the White House again. That means not just voting but talking with people around you, volunteering and donating
Is Trump going to prison? What to know about the possible sentence after his conviction (www.cbsnews.com)
EXCLUSIVE: Florida educators trained to teach students Christian nationalism (popular.info)
CBS's Brennan To Buttigieg: How Is It Possible That $7.5 Billion Investment Has Only Produced "7 Or 8" EV Charging Stations So Far? (www.realclearpolitics.com)
Extremist Militias Are Coordinating in More Than 100 Facebook Groups (www.wired.com)
People who read overwhelmingly support Biden (piefed.social)
Samuel Alito has a very strange theory for how to protect democracy (www.motherjones.com)
Working hours required for a Starbucks latte in U.S. given minimum wage rate (www.chart2char.com)
Least hour states Washington: 0.293 Maryland: 0.298 Connecticut: 0.303...
Trump VP contender Kristi Noem says no exceptions for rape or incest in abortion ban (www.independent.co.uk)
Post Roe v Wade abortion law in South Dakota only allows for exceptions to save life of mother...
Democrats need to pull themselves together and remember: Biden is still better than Trump (www.usatoday.com)
While rebutting another post here on Lemmy, I ran into this. This says exactly what I want to say....
So, Fake Images of Trump With Black Voters Are a Thing Now (slate.com)
Recently, Donald Trump fans in Florida and Michigan have been auto-generating and spreading around faked “pictures” of Trump surrounded by crowds of Black supporters—and earning significant traction for doing so. Coming at a time when President Joe Biden is worried about losing the Black voters who came out for his 2020...
Why local elections matter more than the presidency (civicinfluencers.org)
This is US focused but the principle of being involved in local issues is universal to all democracies....
Jack Smith is convincing Americans Donald Trump is guilty (www.newsweek.com)
A new Politico-Ipsos poll Tuesday showed Americans’ perception of former President Donald Trump’s criminal cases, with a notable shift among independents....
Trump says a TikTok ban would empower Meta, slams Facebook as 'enemy of the people' (www.cnbc.com)
The GOP can't leave MAGA — "Americans must electorally mercy-kill the Republican Party" (www.salon.com)
An ex-MAGA activist warns “no civic savior is coming” as Donald Trump’s cognitive decline becomes undeniable...
☕️7 Myths and Misconceptions About Coffee (www.wired.com)
Coffee is one of the most widely consumed psychoactive beverages on the planet. Nearly every country, region, and culture has its own unique way of preparing and consuming coffee. There’s nothing simple about coffee. Those beans in your kitchen are the sum total of a complex series of interactions between international...
Is the press trying to help elect Trump? (www.theframelab.org)
Alabama passes IVF immunity law (www.npr.org)
Hypocrites being hypocritical about their own hypocritical beliefs....
Maddow says MSNBC ‘irresponsible’ to broadcast Trump victory speech (thehill.com)
MSNBC pundit Rachel Maddow said it is “irresponsible” of news organizations to carry former President Trump’s remarks when they know he is going to make false statements....
Favorite Birthday Meals (www.beehaw.org)
So today is my birthday, and I’m wanting to cook myself something special! I have carte blanch to make a huge mess that my partner will clean, so I’m rearing to throw down. What are your fav celebratory meals? Could be simple, could be complicated, could be expensive, could be cheap af. Just looking for some inspiration....
Gen Z is choosing not to drive (www.newsweek.com)