As usual, the Democrats will be informed to all classes about the effects of this year’s elections and will move forward with the desperate Biden in charge, while the Republicans will use their losses to show that they want to work harder to undermine the few that remain. Strands of opposition. The democratic procedure in the United States.
After taking a beating in Ohio over abortion and marijuana, Rick Santorum bluntly stated what many Republicans have long believed: “Pure democracies are the way to run a country. “
– The Intellectualist (@highbrow_nobrow) November 8, 2023
“Santorum is Latin for asshole. “
There’s nothing new here: In 1890, when Mississippi politicians designed the state’s disenfranchisement laws, they deliberately tied them to specific crimes for which they thought black citizens would be more likely to be convicted.
Calling the abortion vote “depressing,” Ohio Sen. J. D. Vance said Republicans will have to work harder to convince the pro-abortion electorate and push for “a national people’s people. “”We cannot give in to the concept that the U. S. Congress has no role to play in this matter, because if it doesn’t, the pro-life motion will almost non-exist. »
+ For decades, Republicans have continually said that “abortion is a factor that deserves to be left to the states,” where they have monopolized state legislatures. But now that, in referendum after referendum, red state voters have overwhelmingly supported abortion rights, they need to ban it at the federal level.
Of course, Biden is unlikely to gain much from the generalization of abortion rights. Biden has been hostile to abortion rights for most of his political career, adding that he voted for the Hyde Amendment every time it was introduced in the Senate, which reduced the constitutional right to abortion as a privilege reserved for the wealthy by cutting federal investment in abortion clinics that served the poor.
Even Americans in the “red states” need marijuana legalized, despite (or perhaps because of) the fact that their president is one of the loudest drug fighters in U. S. history. In fact, marijuana legalization generally works 10 to 15 percent higher than Democratic applicants in red and purple states, but the national party still doesn’t seem to be able to do it as a matter of policy.
Here’s Trump pulling out his full Mussolini for Veterans Day. . .
Do you get the impression that some of us are tied to lampposts?
Trump spokesman Steve Cheung denied that Trump’s rhetoric echoes that of dictators like Hitler and Mussolini and warned that those who claim this is the case will find that “their entire lives will be crushed when President Trump returns to office. ” the White House”.
Vivek Ramaswamy on American “vermin” (the homeless): “Do you want to know what genuine ‘vermin’ are?This is what lurks daily in San Francisco, until Gavin Newsom finally decides to cover it up in the blink of an eye in honor of Xi Jinping. This is an old mainstream media trick: obsessing over a random word Trump said and condemning it as a prude while *completely* ignoring the substance of what’s killing this country. He probably wouldn’t let them get away with it.
Chris Christie: “Every time Donald Trump says something stupid, Vivek is there with the broom and dustpan to review it and leave it blank afterwards. You’d think a guy with a Harvard education would get a better job.
Newsmax’s Greg Kelly on Trump’s description of his enemies as “vermin”: “They say Donald Trump is like Hitler, he has the same words as Hitler. Well, Hitler used the word chair, okay?
Apparently, the editors of the New York Times felt the same way as Kelly. Here’s how they covered HRC’s derisive comments about MAGA related to Trump’s promise to exterminate the American left. . .
Werner Herzog: “Dear America, you wake up, as Germany once did, and you realize that one-third of your other peoples would kill another, while the other third would watch. »
Nikki Haley says allowing other people to post anonymously on social media is a “threat to national security. “She promises that, as president, she will make it mandatory for “all social media users” to be “verified by name. “by the First Amendment. . .
Arizona General Election Poll. . .
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TikTok influencer George “the Conscious” Lee, Jr. on Biden: “When we start talking about the lesser of two evils, a lot of my fans, the 3 million, literally ask the question, like, ‘so the lesser of two evils is the one that sustains genocide?Ranked, scored, scored. ‘”
This isn’t an Onion headline, but it’s an apt description of Biden’s entire policy strategy on everything from Gaza to Ukraine to climate change to physical care, the border wall and student loan forgiveness. . .
At least four Republican Ohio state lawmakers are seeking to strip judges of their power to interpret the abortion rights amendment passed by the electorate this week. They need Parliament and the courts to make decisions on the amendment.
Louisiana Governor-elect Jeff Landry plans to withhold the budget for New Orleans’ crumbling water infrastructure until women’s abortions are processed.
TikTok-loving Nikki Haley’s daughter is now talking more about what motivated the 9/11 attacks than the former U. S. ambassador to the UN. . .
Yet the Guardian is absurdly doing its part to once again ignore young people (and their parents) by cutting off Osama bin Laden’s “Letter to America,” which had quietly resided on its site for more than two decades. . For what? Probably because TikTok users were struck by the fact that bin Laden highlighted U. S. -Israel relations to justify al-Qaeda attacks: “They brought in thousands of foot soldiers who opposed us and formed an alliance with the Israelis to oppress us and occupy our land. “”That’s the explanation for our reaction on the 11th. “
The speaker of the new House, Mike Johnson, sits on the board of Living Waters Publications, an evangelical Christian publishing space that has warned that contracting “monkeypox” is “an inevitable and appropriate punishment” for being gay. The editor also hinted at the rumor that Barack Obama is the Antichrist because of his “penchant for Islam. “
Jacob Chansley, the guy known as “QAnon Shaguy” who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, is running for Congress as a Libertarian candidate in Arizona’s congressional district.
+ Here’s Republican Brian Robinson’s stylish concession tweet, after his run for a seat on the New York City Council. . .
Excerpt from China’s “reading” of this week’s assembly between Xi and Biden: “President Xi Jinping noted that there are two characteristics for China and the United States in an era of global transformations that have not been noticed in a century: one is to strengthen solidarity and cooperation and unite to cope with demanding global situations and promote global security and prosperity, and the other is to cling to the zero-sum mentality, galvanize rivalries and confrontations, and lead the global toward turmoil and division. Both possible characteristics point to two other instructions that will mark the future of humanity and planet Earth.
On the other hand, here’s Biden. . .
Q. Would you say that President Xi is a dictator?
Biden: Well, look, he’s. . .
– Paris Marx (@parismarx) November 16, 2023
Since the U. S. was expelled from Afghanistan, opium production has fallen by 95%. . .
Politico’s Jonathan Martin: “Biden can’t govern the country, run for office, and oversee a new Middle East peace process. He is expected to appoint two high-level envoys to the post: Bill and Hillary Clinton. Why not just call Kissinger?
Hillary Clinton warns of Trump’s victory in 2024: “Hitler duly elected. Of course, his inept campaigning, his stated preference to run against him (not Jeb!), and his political resume as a blatantly pro-war neoliberal, ensured his election. . .
Why the attempt to sell Bidenonomics to the rest of Americans is failing: The New York Times published a chart showing the huge rate of economic inequality in the United States, where the richest 1% own 31% of American wealth and the poorest 50% own 31% of American wealth. 2,5%. . . (The Times called it a “huge inequality”; “Yawn” is an accurate self-assessment of the newspaper’s overall attitude toward the crisis. )
Fox News host Greg Gutfeld argues that women seek abortions because they are afraid of change: “Abortion is based on a concern that is greater than genuine authenticity. . . Talk to who you’ve had a baby with and think about how they were doing before they had the baby.
Upon learning that Gutfeld was their anonymous sperm donor, how many women eager to give birth would not decide to abort their fetuses and start over?
Tom Cotton believes Hezbollah will finance its nuclear program on the black market for menthol cigarettes. . .
According to a new Reuters special report, there is a new generation of U. S. extremists “on the run,” who have “unleashed the deadliest wave of political violence in the United States in decades. “Almost all of them are obsessed with the far right. Many are fed as “fictional narratives,” such as the Q-Anon conspiracy. “These radicals eschew corporate beliefs,” Reuters reports, and “embrace any set of notions, no matter how divergent, that intermingle with their specific grievances. “.
According to a Pew survey, about one-third of U. S. adults under the age of 30 get their news from TikTok.
In 1917, thirteen black infantrymen were hanged following racial violence in Houston—the largest mass execution of U. S. infantrymen in the U. S. military. Over the next year, 3 mass trials were held, 6 more black infantrymen were hanged, and 91 others were convicted of riot-like felonies, adding homicide and rioting. The infantrymen were represented through a single officer who didn’t even have a lawyer.
It took two days for the all-white military tribunal to convict the first 58 soldiers. All appeals were denied and they were hanged less than 24 hours later. Now, more than a century later, the military has overturned the convictions and declared the trials to be fundamentally unfair and racist.
Tyrone Paylor, Memphis Public Defender, on the brutal tactics of the city’s police: “In our experience, some officers are trained enough to know where the line is between ‘all means necessary’ and what is needed. allowed to interact with citizens.
The NYPD uses police drones to record a bunch of protesters and turn the footage over to prosecutors to “assist in arrests. “
In April, Juneanne Fannell, an 82-year-old woman from Rio Rancho, New Mexico, called police to tell them that her caretaker, Henry Cardana, had threatened to kill her. Policeman Cardana, ignoring Fannell’s complaint, praised the guy for his gun collection and left, while the bedridden woman begged them to stay. Four hours later, Cardana shot and killed Fannell.
When David Hall fractured his left wrist while in a jail in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, the prison doctor treated his serious injury by giving him an Ace bandage and telling him it “healed itself. “Since then, Hall has been able to move his wrist slightly. Hall filed suit and won a jury judgment of $770,000. Then Corizon, the correctional health care company that hired the doctor, filed for bankruptcy and blocked compensation.
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the case of Brent Brewer, a Texas man who was sent to death row, discovered thanks to the unwanted clinical testimony of a discredited forensic psychiatrist and jury orders that so baffled at least two jurors (who sought to vote for it). life in prison without parole) idea that they meant the opposite of what they were saying. The Supreme Court refused to hear Brewer’s appeal, and Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott, who happens to be seeing his poll numbers rise every time he oversees an execution. , has refused to grant him a pardon. Brewer’s last words: “I would like to tell the victim’s circle of relatives that I have never found the words to fix what I broke. I just need you to know that this 53-year-old man- The old man is not the same reckless 19-year-old boy from 1990. I hope you find peace. Thank you, Director.
Last week, Stephen Cooper wrote about the death penalty case of Casey McWhorter, which took place Thursday in the state of Alabama. Before killing, McWhorter said he enjoyed his family and expressed his sorrow to his victim’s family. She said of her torturer: “It is not lost on me that a habitual abuser of women is performing this procedure. McWhorter, referring to Terry Raybon, William C. Raybon, now executed statewide, is a former Alabama state soldier. who was fired for misconduct twenty years ago. A judge later described him as a guy who “beats women, associates with criminals, and neglects his official duties. “
After all, Idaho found a store that sold them execution drugs, so the state could go back to killing other people on death row. The Idaho Department of Corrections paid $50,000 for 15 grams of pentobarbital, according to an execution drug purchase order received through the Idaho Statesman Review. The value has tripled since they were last used to poison someone to death.
For the first time since Gallup began asking questions about the fairness of the use of the death penalty in the United States, more Americans say it is applied without (50 percent) than (47 percent), an increase of five points in the percentage who think this has been implemented since the last measure in 2018.
Under the new Clean Slate Act, another two million formerly incarcerated people in New York State will have their sentences sealed if they are not convicted of new crimes for a set period of time (three years for misdemeanors, eight for eligible felonies).
Last year, K’aun Green fatally shot San Jose police officer Mark McNamara at a taqueria after Green broke up a fight and disarmed a gunman. McNamara resigned last week following the discovery of racist text messages he had written, adding one that read, “I hate black people. “
During a pre-dawn raid this week, police in Mobile, Alabama, shot and killed a 16-year-old boy, who was not the target of the raid. The guy the police were looking for was homeless at the time. But he was later arrested for possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.
“They buried him with my permission and dug him up with my permission,” said Bettersten Wade, the mother of Dexter Wade, a crushed man killed by an off-duty Jackson police officer in March and buried later. the wisdom of his family.
After a federal law went into effect to get juveniles out of adult jails, the number of youth in the Allegheny County (PA) jail really increased. After 249 hearings to determine whether the juveniles deserved to be transferred out of prison, only one was returned.
The Supreme Court has rejected the appeal of Michael Johnson, an imprisoned man in Illinois with bipolar disorder, who has been locked in solitary confinement for 3 consecutive years without any access to fresh air or the opportunity to exercise. Excerpt from Justice Jackson’s dissent: “During this period, Johnson spent nearly every hour of his life in a lighted, windowless mobile the size of a parking space.
Last week, Los Angeles County agreed to pay $700,000 to Josie Huang, a public radio reporter who fell to the ground and was arrested by the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department while covering a BLM protest. This is probably the largest amount paid to a journalist for covering the 2020 protests.
The Baton Rouge Police Department operated a “torture warehouse” where members of its street crime unit searched, beat and humiliated dozens of people and then released them, without charging them with any crime.
Despite the hysteria around arranged thefts, the Criminal Justice Council sees no replacement for thefts nationally between 2019 and 2023 and attributes the illusion of an increase in thefts to “an increase in reporting”. exaggerated his own crisis.
Parental incarceration has affected more than five million children in this country. 47 In fact, 100% of those incarcerated in state prisons are parents of minor children. But only eight states have passed laws that attempt to reduce the number of incarcerated caregivers:
A federal lawsuit filed through five Black women alleges Kansas City police officers raped and intimidated them into reporting crimes ‘Report me to whom, to the police?I’m the police,” one accuser said after she was raped.
Local police arrested a driver transporting his injured dog to the vet in Bernalillo, New Mexico. He explained, “My dog is bleeding from the mouth!”
Policeman: “I don’t care”
The dog died while the family members pointed a gun at it.
A Seattle police dog in education mutilated his partner’s roommate while she was doing laundry. The police report called the incident a “spontaneous triggering of a spot bite contact. “
A Texas caseworker who made mistakes helping patients at a psychiatric facility register to vote has been charged with dozens of election crimes. None of the other people she helped were registered, however, she pleaded guilty to the threat of being sent to prison. . Today the state is revoking his coaching license.
Rosa Miriam Sanchez died while running in a box of carrots. His companions say his body lay on the ground where he died for hours and they were told to finish harvesting the box around him.
In the United States, life expectancy for men has fallen to 73 years, six years less than that of women. Dr. Brandon Yan, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health: “The opioid epidemic, intellectual fitness, and chronic metabolic diseases are at the forefront of the knowledge we see here, which explains why there is this growing fitness gap. life expectancy through sex, as well as the general decrease in life expectancy. waiting. ” Men have higher mortality rates in all 3 situations than women.
The United States kills more young children than the IDF, for reasons of economic and social policy. . . According to the World Factbook, the United States has the 173rd infant mortality rate in the world.
Challenging traditional wisdom about immunity, a new study finds that older adults who have already had COVID-19 are at higher risk of reinfection.
Cases of neonatal syphilis have increased tenfold in the past decade and have risen to nearly 32% in a single year, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The disease can be fatal.
A study in the British Medical Journal predicts that zoonotic viruses are expected to collectively kill 12 times more people by 2050 than in 2020, researchers warn. The analysis, which excludes the COVID-19 pandemic, shows that the number of reported cases of contagion and deaths caused by these four groups of viruses (Ebola, Marburg virus, SARS coronavirus 1, Nipah virus, and Machupo virus) have increased by approximately 5% and 9%, respectively, between 1963 and 2019.
A carnivorous fungus blamed for valley fever is spreading through the Southwest. Its expansion is driven by climate change. According to the CDC, cases have nearly quadrupled in the past two decades.
An underdiagnosed iron deficiency can contribute to fatigue, brain fog and concentration disorders in about one in four adolescent and young women in the United States, according to a new study published this week in JAMA.
Cruise’s internal documents show that the autonomous vehicle maker knew its vehicles had a hard time driving safely among children and couldn’t trip over large bumps in the road, but the vehicles continued to drive anyway.
Seventeen-year-old Max Hightower, a trans student at one of the top schools in Sherman, Texas, has been fired from his starring role in the production of “Oklahoma!”by the school because of gender politics. However, the school admitted that there was no written policy. They simply implemented this rule in this play where a trans student played the lead role.
The planet has just experienced the 12 months in at least 125,000 years.
Greenland’s coastal glaciers are melting twice as fast as they did two decades ago, according to a new study.
+ A publication in Science Advances discovered that Antarctica had 68 ice shelves that shrank especially between 1997 and 2021.
Among the 20 most sensible fossil-fuel-generating countries, the United States, Brazil and Saudi Arabia are making plans for a gigantic increase in their domestic oil production. Meanwhile, Russia, India and Indonesia are making plans to greatly increase their coal production. Together, those plans would produce 69% more fossil fuels than is compatible with the 2Cs target.
In 2021, Xi Jinping pledged to “strictly control” new coal-fired forces projects until 2025, but the opposite happened. Over the next two years, China granted permits for new coal-fired power projects at a rate more than double that of the previous two years.
+ We have reduced sulfur dioxide pollutants by 94% in the last 40 years, virtually eliminating acid rain. A cost/benefit study of acid rain prevention measures shows benefits of $122 billion per year and costs of only $3 billion per year. It’s an economic boon, not the disaster many trade lobbyists have warned against. For example, the Business Roundtable loudly proclaimed that such measures would cost $104 billion per year. The opposite happened.
The drought has led to a sharp drop in European cereal production: Romania (-32%), France (-10%), Spain (-24%) and Hungary (-35%).
20 farming families in California’s Imperial Valley use the Colorado River more than all of Wyoming, New Mexico or Nevada combined. A vast canopy of crops covers this naturally dry valley, all grown with river water.
19% of European species are threatened with extinction. Extinction risks are greater for plants (27%) and invertebrates (24%) than for vertebrates (18%).
A review of public records shows that 19,543 wildfires on U. S. Forest Service lands were fired. Deaths in the U. S. in California were attributed to human reasons between 2000 and 2022.
Firefighting foam infected groundwater beneath Chicago’s O’Hare and Midway airports with PFAS chemicals, Army researchers found. It is not known how it has spread.
China has already built enough car factories to make all the vehicles sold in China, Europe and the United States combined.
+ There is only one African company on the global Fortune 500 list.
A new warm map from DHS shows that the most migrant smuggling occurs in areas with border walls. Places like Organ Pipe and El Paso have been completely isolated because of Trump, but that’s still where there are the highest number of arrests. The walls do not prevent human migrations, however, they particularly prevent migrations, especially of very rare species such as jaguars.
Since 1990, grass and shrub fires have burned more land and destroyed more than wildfires.
More than 100,000 New Yorkers lately live in low-lying coastal neighborhoods under threat of chronic flooding, even when it doesn’t rain.
Brazilian beef has a carbon footprint greater than all the emissions generated in Japan combined.
A new paper in Nature shows that between 38 and 59 percent of U. S. GDP is “wasted,” in the sense that without it greater human progress outcomes could be achieved. Much of this waste also causes the burning of thousands of tons of carbon.
A study published in the Lancet states that thermal stress wiped out 4% of Africa’s GDP in 2022.
More than 100 scientists have signed a letter urging the Canadian government to take action to halt the degradation of intact forests in the past caused by large-scale commercial logging.
The Wyoming state Republican Party says it has “no confidence” in its own governor, Mark Gordon, after he said climate change is genuine and driven by fossil fuels, and called on the state to be carbon negative.
Republican Railroad Commissioner Wayne Christian has demanded that the Texas Board of Education reject the new science textbooks because they describe, as they should, the reasons and effects of climate change.
Oregon police obsessively spied on the state’s social and environmental justice groups. Internal emails received through Siskiyou Rising Tide and Information for Public Use show that police treat even the most placid social justice activities as sites of criminal threat.
45 percent of the nation’s tap water contains “permanent chemicals,” known as PFAS. For what? Chemical corporations have spent more than $100 million over the past three years to block the law and regulation of those poisonous chemicals, some of which cause cancer and infertility.
In late October, a grizzly bear was photographed through a wildlife camera located in Missouri Breaks in the Great Plains, the easternmost bear seen in Montana in more than a hundred years.
On the Coal River podcast, Simon Scott conducted an interview with Mike Roselle about the origins of the Earth First! movement.
If Jesus had shown this kind of courage in walking the Via Dolorosa, the Romans would have fled Jerusalem on the first ferry to Brundisium. . . .
– jennycohn@toad. social ✍? ? (@jennycohn1) November 10, 2023
Akira Kurosawa: “What I’m trying to say in ‘Ran’ (1985) – and that’s from the level of the script – is that the gods or God or anyone who observes human events feels sadness at the way human beings destroy. and the powerlessness to influence their behavior.
In an interview with the French television channel ORTF in 1973, Anthony Burgess said: “Your translator Georges Delmont wrote this about you: Burgess is as puzzling as a dinosaur running down the Champs-Elysées. »
Burgess: “Yes, I’ll settle for that. Yes, I will. “
This calls for a minute of silence. . .
The CIA published Russian translations of Joyce’s Ulysses in Italy as part of a program the company called “a Marshall Plan for the Mind. “The concept was to spread Western literature in the communist bloc of the Cold War. The CIA-subsidized Bedford Publishing Co. had a workplace in Rome. At the time, Italy had the largest Communist Party in Europe (see The Hot Books of the Cold War by Alfred Reisch).
In 1960, after learning that it appeared in Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake, Groucho Marx wrote a letter to Leonard Lyons of the New York Post:
Dear Lennie,
There’s no reason why he shouldn’t appear in “Finnegan’s Wake. “I am as bewildered by life as Joyce.
Tracking down this “Wake” object may simply be a task of life and I wonder if I’m up to it. Is it imaginable that Joyce was in the United States at some point and she saw “I’ll Say Ella She Is!” “Or was it that a New York City police officer, on his way back to Ireland for a stopover at Mother Machree, met Joyce in a swamp and patiently explained to her that at the Theart Casino, between 39th and Broadway “There were 3 young Jews? running around the stage. Yelling at a distant global that they were all Napoleons?”
The Marxist in The Wake says, “These are the 3 lipoleum boyne who complain in the living room. “
“I can’t tell you what she did to me, my structure will never be the same again. . . “
– Christian Nightmares (@ChristnNitemare) November 7, 2023
Our friend P. Sainath, India’s leading journalist, will give a lecture on India and the three pandemics at Portland State University on Monday, November 20 at five o’clock in the afternoon. at Parsons Gallery, Urban Center Building (URBN 212, 2nd floor). It is free and open to the public.
She said, “Would you like to waste your time?
American Witch Words
“We’re making up witches’ words. If in 1850 Americans didn’t like slavery, the word exorcism was “abolitionist. “He was a “lover. ” He believed in free love and the murder of peaceful slave masters. lynched and assaulted. Today, the word is “communist. “It doesn’t matter what it means in a man’s mind. If someone questions the strength of wealth, needs to build more VAT or defends civil rights, they are a communist. , a revolutionary, a scoundrel, and threaten to waste their work or be imprisoned.
– THE WEB. DuBois, 1948