For what it is worth the new governor ran on hiring more police. As the former AG Bob’s goal was to massively expand the police state, and he was clear on that. And boy have they been out making shows of force the last two months.
The current scenario is the State of Washington voted for more police budget, regardless.
The Alito brain is the end stage of this mentality.
“‘Any’ limitation?? Have you considered fish and birds aren’t mammals? The principal wouldn’t be happy! Checkmate EPA, now you can’t enforce water quality standards.” -SCOTUS last week.
That’s the rough part a lot of Americans need to swallow: MAGA is full of disenfranchised people that would otherwise organize in solidarity for the common good of the working class.
There’s just been so many wedges and fences built up from the Cold War that the ruling class has been able to deflect and distract from progressive policy and maintain power.
There’s no shame in being strictly a singer. That is an ability in and of itself. Besides some songwriters don’t perform or sing, and there’s also nothing wrong with that. (Drummers and bassists in bands write songs too!)
When legislation passing the House hinges on strict party lines with only a couple votes margin of failure, ten members is massive. Al’s actions are not consequential because he was left hanging by his party.
Every defecting Democrat empowers the Republicans tiny House majority. Those ten Democrats are effectively auditioning for arguments (bribes) to vote with the GOP. And the party appears perfectly fine with that: further undermining Al Green from behind.
These are all the hard earned conservative Democrats the party has been working overtime to court.
Some democrats were willing to sing with Al Green during the censure hearing. But even so, other Democrats voted to censure Green.
When the ones backing Green sang a protest song after censure there was a counter chorus of republicans demanding Johnson have them dragged them out by security immediately. But they kept singing.
The fascists crumpled and went to recess without motion.
Imagine not just listening to the fascists for once, FFS.
She dissented in a minority opinion against a decision Alito made last week.
Alito made up complete fantasy and misinterpreted his own self to rule against the EPA and rrverse the 9th circuit. It is completely devoid of legal basis outside dictionary definitions and it even references its own arguments incorrectly. Alito literally contradicts himself in his own aegument and just plods right through. Barret calls this out as a failure on the basis of ‘ordinary english’.
But it doesn’t matter because Alito was in the majority. No matter how meaningless his arguments were or how utterly correct the dissenting opinion is: it is so ordered.
Goddamn. Those funding levels are absolute peanuts. Crumbs. Scraps of budgets.
The Holocaust broke a lot of people’s faith in humanity. When that hope is lost it is less a feeling of hate and more one so dispassionate and disconnected that they simply do not care about humanity.
And that can enable some hateful acts indeed.
“all magic in Harry Potter comes from the divine tree, at the beginning the tree blessed few people with its world bending power of imagination, this is how wizardry began, the tree spoke latin btw.”
It’d be right up her alley since the books nor movies allude anything whatsoever to a divine tree that spoke latin.
If the books had a divine tree that spoke latin then there’d be some framework and substance lending credibility to the explanation, which would be different.
The bullshit stemmed from an investor of competing vaccines to the combined MMR. They were selling separate vaccines which were less popular so they wanted to take down the combined MMR to make money.
It’s all been collateral damage of unrepentant greed.
There are whole portions of red states that currently lack OBGYNs. And the police are patrolling the roads for pregnant people that might appear to be leaving the state to see an OBGYN.
It’s been that way since 2022 though.
(Reference: Idaho.)
It certainly can be. And I share the sentiment as I have found it hard myself. I now have a family and kids so that takes up all my time but that in and of itself plugs me into a lot of interactions that I otherwise would have avoided.
So much of our society is built around childrearing though so I am pretty railroaded into following my own advice. But when I was younger I sought out events at local hobby shops: things like open D&D groups, card game tournaments, etc. I highly recommend it, if that’s your thing at all (and your mileage may vary significantly.) But it doesn’t always have to be direct political action to connect with members of your community.
If you’re genuinely asking some basic actions for a broad and general audience looking for political engagement:
A lot of states have initiatives and referendums citizens can bring to a vote in elections. There may be a grassroots organization working on an issue you may align with. (Especially vote reform groups looking to introduce alternatives to how we elect our government.)
Following this: Don’t be a stranger to your local government. At least learn who they are if you don’t. Your state reps and senators, your federal rep and senators, your kids’ school superintendent, the elected sheriff. Vote in the primaries, the odd years, the midterms, the big presidential tickets. And this isn’t ‘just vote’ advice. I mean vote for politicians pushing policies you agree with, regardless of party or incumbency. Don’t be afraid to third party in a primary (if you can).
Join community groups and socialize in meatspace. There may be community centers and libraries around you with things to engage with. As much as online spaces can help people feel connected or a shared or safe place, the politics and governance is maintained on the meatspace level of your neighbors. Your district is likely gerrymandered but it’s worth finding out where you stand in the whole tapestry of American governance. (This one can be a huge hurdle, and I understand. Most of my community are military so progressives get like 200 votes per 10,000 pure military industrial zionism. I barely amount to this advice myself, FWIW.)
These folks were pissed as all hell about a ceasefire.
I like how it starts with getting off Twitter and trying out Lemmy and ends with switching to Linux.
The idea someone would not vote because they read “Democrats are Centrists” online is funny to me.
The status quo, indeed.
Yeah but they’re at least on a self improvement plan.