Merrick Garland sat on an attempted coup d'etat, an attempt to end democracy for good in the US for two bloody years. He is no victim, 200 million Americans are victims of his actions. Biden picked a GOP AG after that coup attempt, he is no victim either.
If you look at how they have acted, they will declare martial law without any action on the part of Dems, protesters etc. Not acting won't stop this, however if the population that aren't willing fascists ALL come on to the streets they will never dare to declare martial law. Trump is 100% a coward.
The old frog in boiling water strategy. Before 70% of Americans know there's a real problem, it's too late.
That particular person aside, there can only be a small % of a population that thinks like or behaves like this or society will collapse. All progress whether it be in STEM, human rights, etc all came from people who are the opposite of this or people who were tightly constrained by civil people.
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unironically, this is the song of the summer. it's been in my head for three days straight.
Well the obvious response is do you think its ok to disobey laws that were democratically enacted if those laws were fine with the majority but are aimed at attacking, eliminating, disenfranchising a minority you're a part of? Or what if those laws are ignoring an impending disaster, founded on lies
Isn't it about time that American journalists and people of good will got together and created a US wide newspaper that you can trust? Not one owned by billionaires or centi-millionaires (even the "good" ones). Set up a public-good trust.
She'll testify that Donald was just an innocent old pal of Epstein's who was horrified at what he found and quit the friendship.... if she wants to live that is.
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There is an answer: Degrowth. Work toward a circular economy in ‘democratic’ nations. Autocratic states will follow, or face economic & political instability. The West started us down this suicidal, fossil-fuel-addicted path. We must lead the world by example.
It is unfair BTW. She is clumsily speaking facts & getting in serious trouble for it while Frank Hester said black women like her should be shot & nothing. Starmer is really bad at managing PR & personnel for the Labour party & to say he doesn't have their (MP's) back's is an understatement
She should really be quiet on this specific issue for her own good. If someone could parse her language for her pre press statement it would be good but better she just sidestep these issues because she is very clumsy in her language and keeps leaving ammunition for her critics.
It's this sort of thing which would really put a kink in the step of Reform UK Party Ltd. aka Reform 2025 Ltd. MPs 👍 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
He is exactly the gross, perverse, solipsistic, malignant wart of a man he has always seemed to be.
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Is he wrong? Are they all wrong?
They (Nestle) love to cover up their involvement but Purina is a subsidiary of Nestle.
His voters never saw either story. Fox news and that entire closed media ecosystem for the RW is working as intended and successive Dem admins sat on their hands and let it go on. Yes it started with Reagan but Dem inaction is a crisis.
Takes real guts to stand up to the revulsion of your fellow, radicalised citizens. Add that to the legal trouble they're bringing on themselves... real mensch.
It is both alright. The real journalists are being murdered for revealing truths like the approx 200 covering Gaza, Daphne Galizia & Ján Kuciak. The journalists refusing to do their job with no comparable risks are in the wrong job, are effectively PR officials for corrupt elites.
That is what should be the priority but it has become crystal clear that the US govt's main priority (particularly but not exclusively under the GOP) is protecting the interests of the rich at all costs. These listees are all rich, therefore it won't come out with these govts.
I mean how much clearer could it be that the whole thing stinks? For years there was no tape as the cameras weren't working, now the tape comes out but it is crudely edited to remove more than enough time for several men to enter to "suicide" Epstein & leave. Who was POTUS in 2019? His best friend.
These guys are just seat fillers for the "good" billionaires and corporations. The terrible reality is that even with the control that the US system gives to corporations, the ultra low taxes it takes off the ultra rich; they still aren't satisfied & want democracy to end altogether. This must end.
I don't think that most of them are normal, normal people don't obsess about money, power, glory the way that they do. I think that the richer they are, the more control they feel they are owed, the more deference they demand. That deference is not forthcoming therefore, net lets them know it so🧠🫠😡
They're fine with ANY level of rhetoric, words well beyond anything Vylan or Kneecap said as long as it aligns with their own reactionary orthodoxy. They're also completely fine about violence as long as its coming from western colonialism or RW authoritarianism.
Which would be morally and legally correct but it won't happen. The Trump crime family have effectively now taken complete control over the most powerful military in the world & the US, even in the best of times, flaunts the law & ignores right & wrong. They're now his hitmen & enforcers.
Kneecap is not the story. Genocide in Gaza is.
Very, very spacious I'd guess.
She was a desperation pick because of Biden's ego & top dems (as always) fncked up. An open primary a year earlier was the way to go and they NEED a left populist candidate to beat Trump. He is a symptom of Dems/GOP forcing neoliberalism on America. Solve the problems, no more Trumps.
Harris said she would continue a Biden did, Biden pretended to flap his hands around and object weakly to the genocide but behind the scenes it was revealed that there was no effort or talks to soften Israels crimes. Lots of other things would be better but not Palestine.
When an ad agency reaches out and gives me a list of other talents they've worked with
Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952
"both sides" eh? I don't see how the victims of colonialism, apartheid, ethnic cleansing and now genocide on one side and the perpetrators of all of those woes on the victims can possibly be equally to blame. I have a memory of the writer saying Israel should "defend" the Nakba though so...
This regularly happened to me when I went into Dublin on a Sunday. Trains cancelled, no particular effort to tell anyone about it and no alternative arrangements to help the many travellers they left in the lurch. It really isn't good enough. I don't use trains on Sunday any more.
I think that there is a section of Labour that would be politically, philosophically happier and more apt to the Lib Dems and Tories but knew that the former can't gain power and the latter is to RW for them so they co-opted Labour instead.
The left hates the cuckoos who took over the party of the left through subterfuge and treachery while working with neoliberals and the RW media. Just to be clear about the context.
Partly but also with no social mobility, permanently. Its a fusion of the gilded age and feudalism enforced by facial recognition tech, omnipresent surveillance by AIs and deportation to concentration camps for anyone who objects or tries to organise resistance.
He is absolutely loving this, he is a Dickensian villain and he is utterly remorseless. Finding huge fun in the destruction of the future of tens of millions of fellow Americans. The super-rich don't think the way everyone else does, they should be kept away from power permanently.
America needs a revolution, you guys should have switched over the European style safety net, universal health care & workers rights decades ago. Yes, you have a slightly better chance of getting super rich but that infinitesimal chance vs likelihood of poverty/wage slavery...
You know, most of the cabinet seem desperate or fearful. Lutnik really seems like he's having the time of his life being an evil c@nt. When this all ends will he be welcome at all the parties soirees for hedge fund types? Yes, undoubtedly so, they all feel that rich=better, don't understand people.
A minority wholeheartedly support him, they're in a cult or they're dumb psychopaths who enjoy or profit of the short term chaos & are too shortsighted to see where it leads. Another minority are doing nothing a smaller minority want him gone desperately. Wish it was a majority.
The irony of someone of middle eastern descent claiming that those of often American descent aren't as American as those descended from European colonists. I don't think there's an origin story of any interest, he's a boring, common or garden psychopath.
One of the greatest mass thefts in history. Deliberately sending many millions into poverty, and many into early graves just to have more of what they already have too much of. There should be no billionaires, they have no positive value, they cause huge harm to everyone else.
Tasmanian salmon is a classic case of why industry needs strong regulations to succeed. Tasmanian and federal regulators have failed to rein in the worst excesses of the fish farm industry. The industry is now under threat, because its products are toxic www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
None of this is arguable at all which is why it scares the sh1t out of me that so many EU countries argue that even standing against it verbally is criminal. Germany is deporting EU citizens who protest a genocide. How can Germany make a claim to leadership of the EU when they have no moral compass?
Remarkable how little preparation the govt have made really. They've known since the beginning that the MNC would eventually leave but they have made so little effort to support native alternatives, improve infrastructure or even belay the end with housing for workers for the MNCs. Gross dereliction
Starmer was put in place to avoid nationalisation. Won't happen with him or his fellow cuckoos still in place.
A start but you need to be doing more concrete things. This is a rapid running coup and they have paramilitaries and the support of most police & probably a hefty chunk of the military, history shows the rest will obey orders. You should be deprogramming them or at least spreading knowledge of law.
Studies show a massive return of fish and marine megafauna to sites with these underwater tidal turbines. How? Simple: overfishing is prevented. If they proved suitable for Irish locations, it would be *such* a win-win, generating clean electricity AND providing a haven for marine ecosystems.
It has taken decades of constant propaganda to brainwash a majority of Americans into voting against their own interests and to be hostile to politicians who would be good for them. This propaganda effort may only have worked when the good times rolled, scarce food might blow it all away swiftly.
Not only should we all be boycotting Amazon for a very long list of reasons not least its treatment of workers, destruction of competition, local business and support of Trump. The .ie is much more expensive than the .uk and .de version even accounting for exchange rates.
Tadaa.
I would politely suggest that officialdom in Irish Education (particularly the support services!) migrate their material and updates from X to here. It is so unfair that teachers are forced to engage with that platform in an effort to be informed. #edchatie
Yup, it is Trumpian, 2016 Trump, not 2025 Trump but MM has a few commonalities with Donald in rhetoric in the Dail etc particularly.
They all have their private jets or yachts fueled up and ready to go when the US Kristallnacht begins. If the Dems had more like Crockett, AOC, Sanders et al Trump would never have gotten near power. Its partly the inaction, corporatism and corruption of the ones above that led to this disaster.
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This struck a chord thinking of some principals I've met. "Principals and their staff need a healthy relationship defined by trust and support. Many teachers I’ve worked with over the years don’t feel valued, respected or trusted. It’s them-and-us." #edchatie www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...
Just so utterly wrong, utterly ahistorical, amoral and over-the-line evil interpretation. As the biggest world power for a century, no other country has cheated/screwed over more countries in that period of time except, maybe, Russia.
Ok but where were the justice department, FBI, Democratic party, Merrick Garland etc for the first 2 years of the Biden presidency? Your political elites on all sides did nothing or worse, the allowed the sidelining of any vocal opposition. Their hands are on this too.
You have switched sides now, no "almost" about it. Kind of takes away the gloss from a lot of fiction about US politics, presidents, people, USSS, FBI etc. All either corrupt or paper tigers. A full on traitor to the US has become POTUS & everyone we imagined might intervene is impotent.
It is America now.
Could never understand their lack of support for Ukraine. Just because we've seen how vile US foreign policy can be and seen the deterioration of US democracy, doesn't make other nations run by criminals any less abhorrent.
And the easy time the "business plot" conspirators received after their plan failed hasn't helped.
Did they have to pick a singer who looks so like Vance?
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The issue underlying all of this is that the Democratic party seems to be remarkably prone to putting forward huxters and people who do 180s on election. This is very rare elsewhere. Have to wonder why that is.
In case anyone has forgotten, the Biden administration was also talking about sanctioning it and threatened to invade if they arrested Netanyahu. Trump is undoubtedly worse but the problem with US lawlessness is pre-existing.
Any resistance they do now will get them fired or be against the law unfortunately. Too little, too late.
This entire thing is all about pulling the carpet out form under workers rights. The oligarches want a tiny "elite" and a vast population of people who are desperate for work and will put up with any conditions, wages to acquire it. Reversion to Dickensian work conditions. Many victims voted for it.
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That's a very nice read. They did an excellent sum-up of the problems. Deeply frustrating that the DoE civil servants and politicians seem rigid in their thinking and set on ploughing on regardless of mass expert opinion on the new curriculum & projects.
Very important letter, didn't know the IUA had rejected it too. The fact that this is not being widely discussed in the media is a terrible indictment of the journalism here. Only so much teacher orgs etc can do if journalists aren't making people aware. Little hope McEntee will be an improvement.
I'm here at the Blinken press briefing, and Max Blumenthal just disrupted with questions about Blinken's role in the genocide. Will post video shortly. (He will probably also post video, he was filming as well.) He ended with, "You too, Matt, you smirked through a genocide."
America's wealthiest tech oligarchs are showering Trump's inaugural committee with millions in donations. Why are billionaires aligning with fascists? So the rest of us fight each other and don't look up to see where all the wealth and power have gone.
Everytime a parent folds and buys their kid a smart phone, they increase pressure on every other parent in their peer group, school etc. Really would be a great idea if people came together and made community agreements not to do it. They're terrible for kids.
There is no good reason to use this kind of language anyway. Why not speak plainly so there's no misunderstanding? It just obscures meaning, leaves a hostage to misinterpretation, intentional or not and seems an unnecessarily exclusive way to communicate anyway.
We just had an Oide day and the people running it were extremely unctuous in their assurances that the ISTA were deeply consulted on all of it. Specifically said that you guys wanted the skeletal system put back in (to LC bio) but implied there was much more. They're clearly lying to their reps too.
So rather than admit that the entire thing is a bad idea, fatally undermined by the ubiquity of AI, they (the Dept and Norma Foley) are going to promote the ensh1tification of the Irish education system to save face in the short term. This kind of thing kills faith in government.
Ta-Nehisi Coates wields words like sledgehammers.
I want them to be wise enough to listen to advice, listen to the experts and look critically at all evidence, especially real world evidence from other countries, before trying out a new system or method in education. Don't change for the sake of it.
It may have always been a thing to a degree but there is a definite trend since social media for people who have been publicly humiliated, to go on a swerve to the extreme right. She is just following the trend & it seems like she may have suffered many humiliations; she started Lib Dem.
And, em, the Republic of Ireland too as we head into Senior Cycle reform? #edchatie
Been thinking about the need for education around the fundamental problem of the Democratic party and why Kamala would have just been an extension of those problems. Thankfully Elliott made this video to basically do that for me. Please send this to your Liberal friends youtu.be/-0ZIiqqOpEA?...
Hopefully he is very transfer unfriendly. A large chunk could well be a protest vote but there are legitimate places for those votes to go in Ireland it might well be just edgelords, people who like or commit crime etc.
Great to see this post on the mind-blowing benefits of rewilding getting so much traction. Ever more people are developing a strong eco-consciousness, and it could *not* be more needed.
My son and I have an ongoing routine where we both pretend to be graduates of D4 boarding schools. "You've got to back brave, y'know. When my first food truck failed, I jumped right back on the horse and got a second loan from my Da to open another food truck."
I learned some stuff about Bluesky I did not know by reading this. Maybe worth passing it on to others so we can all start getting the full benefit of the 🦋.
He was a dreadful minister too, particularly in Health. His competitors all had big flaws but I was astonished that he was picked ahead of anyone else.
Taoiseach Simon Harris is asked what his team communicated to RTÉ after Kanturk exchange. He says he doesn’t believe they questioned whether Charlotte Fallon was a member of Sinn Féin.
Everyday is a good day to watch Jon Stewart obliterate a Republican hypocrite. lol
Yup, nothing I've heard from any FF or FG minister has dissuaded me from the theory that the govt intend to do nothing about this crisis, intend to "ride out" the demographic bump with as little extra schools, teachers etc as possible to save money & damn the consequences for children of Ireland.
Before & After: I don’t think people realize the extent to which parked cars degrade public space.
It’s all in the telling.
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Captain: I'm really nervous about giving this speech. Sun, rubbing his shoulders: Don't worry, big guy. You got this.
