Friday, July 26, 2024
Harris: We Are Not Going Back | Why Did Trump Pick Vance? | Fox News Is ...
Vice President Kamala Harris is already landing effective blows against Trumpism on the campaign trail, Republicans are regretting Trump's choice of running mate, and the folks at Fox News are finding it hard to criticize Harris for her policies.
Mexican president to ‘friend’ Trump: close the US-Mexico border at your peril
Andrés Manuel López Obrador warns ex-president that campaign pledge will hurt $325bn Mexicans bring to US…
WOTM: What We Fairly Deserve
My response to a person who commented on a video from last month regarding Hell.
Bad Faith Documentary
Watch for free on Tubi.tv — https://tubitv.com/movies/100020971/bad-faith
BAD FAITH is a feature-length documentary that explores the dangerous rise of Christian Nationalism in the United States. Part archival chronicle, part exposé, the film reveals the secretive political machinery that has relentlessly sought to weaken and destroy American democracy in order to promote its authoritarian vision.
Our cast includes religious leaders, historians, investigative journalists, state senators, political activists, sociologists, and a former high-ranking member of the Trump administration. They will guide us on a revelatory journey into why our nation is so divided and how it got there. Several have dedicated their lives to challenging Christian Nationalism's theocratic vision for America and the film chronicles their actions.
Opinion | How Supreme Court immunity ruling could affect CIA - The Washington Post
Whether the goal is to dispatch private paramilitary teams to the southern border with "shoot to kill" orders to prevent illegal crossings; use private hires to hack political opponents; or provide armed support to prevent the counting of electoral votes under the guise of "election integrity," ordering any of these illegal activities would constitute an "official act." They are all closely related to core executive branch functions that the court says are necessary for an "energetic executive" (i.e., protecting against foreign attacks, protection of property and securing of liberty). Prosecuting the president for these activities would almost certainly be barred, because any prosecution would present a danger of intruding on the "authority and functions of the Executive Branch." Engaging the CIA would add a layer of secrecy, and using private paramilitary groups would protect any illegal operation from exposure through such laws as the Freedom of Information Act, which applies only to government agencies.
The court's decision further states that in distinguishing official from unofficial conduct, courts may not inquire into a president's motives. If a president should choose to declare a political rival guilty of treason, deploy a paramilitary group to assassinate that rival and direct the attorney general to sign a document saying that said rival's death is necessary for the "securing of liberty," these would be official acts for which the president is immune. Unlike England's King Henry II — who gave himself plausible deniability by wondering aloud, "Who will rid me of this meddlesome priest?" — the newly immune president would have no need to speak obliquely...
Senators subpoena Steward Health CEO, open investigation into company - The Washington Post
"This is a story of private equity, with no constraints, taking over a massive hospital system and then looting it for their own personal wealth," Markey said at Thursday's hearing...
Donald Trump calls for jail sentence for burning American flags
"Now, people will say, 'Oh, it's unconstitutional.' Those are stupid people. Those are stupid people that say that," the former president continued. "We have to work in Congress to get a one-year jail sentence. When they're allowed to stomp on the flag and put lighter fluid on the flag and set it afire, when you're allowed to do that — you get a one-year jail sentence, and you'll never see it again."
Thursday, July 25, 2024
2024 Election Intensifies Online Conspiracy Theories and Misinformation - The New York Times
Nearly half of the accounts making those claims were fake, resulting in more than 400,000 interactions, such as reposts or likes, with users, according to Cyabra, a social media intelligence company based in Tel Aviv. The company found the same phenomenon after Mr. Biden's withdrawal, indicating a coordinated campaign to promote Mr. Trump and denigrate Mr. Biden...
Trump files complaint against Harris for taking over Biden’s campaign funds
Complaint to Federal Election Commission Tuesday accuses Harris of violating federal campaign finance laws…
A Jewish couple was rejected as foster parents because of their religion. This is the future Project 2025 envisions
But their plans quickly fell apart when the Christian state-funded foster care placement agency informed them by email that they "only provide adoption services to prospective adoptive families that share our belief system". The Rutan-Rams, who are Jewish, were out of luck...
Opinion | JD Vance Has a Bunch of Weird Views on Gender - POLITICO
But the one instinct that Vance and the rest of the New Right share is a deep skepticism about modern feminism and gender equality — or what the New Right calls "gender ideology." Overt chauvinism that seeks to roll back much of feminism's gains is one of the most obvious unifying threads of this varied movement, and Trump's choice of Vance anoints and entrenches it into the culture-war side of the MAGA movement...
Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff face online wave of sexist, racist attacks
Growing number of antisemitic, misogynistic posts reveal far right's anxieties as Harris's candidacy solidifies…
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