"An estimate from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office released late Tuesday said that while the new work requirements in #SNAP would save money, the added benefits pushed by Democrats would cost more—and add almost 80,000 people to the rolls in an average month
@Extra_Special_Carbon I don’t think expressing frustration with my political party is supporting the opposition.
I’m not saying don’t vote for Dems!
Voting is and always has been choosing the lesser evil, and these days that’s Democrats across the board.
And I wasn’t saying that we had any ability to fix the Supreme Court issue and the debt ceiling (Manchin and Sinema are always an issue), just that those are examples of the GOP acting in bad faith.
While everyone needs to do what is best for their personal safety and their peace of mind, there is a reason why purges are a precursor to the worst parts of a genocide. Once all of the people in a targeted community who are able to flee have fled, those who are left behind are the most vulnerable. And the people designing the genocide – and yes, this is a genocide and yes, it’s designed — want it that way.
Historically true as well: In 1930s Germany, Jews who could leave left. Those remaining tended to be older, poorer, in worse health—and much easier to attack.
What’s the opposite strategy? Is there a way to encourage left-of-center voters to settle for a while in red-but-almost-purple states (eg, FL and TX), to stabilize them, and defend against the batshit rightwing’s abuse of political power?
Gosh. If the legal experts who are reading the tea leaves are correct then there could be multiple indictments in Georgia for election fraud. The court in Georgia has been asked to keep two weeks free in August. Possibly to hold initial hearings for anyone indicted. 😮
Says the woman who voted for Trump in both 2016 and 2020, and grew up on wealth harvested (through Halliburton contracts) from her father inserting lies about WMD in CIA reports (leading to the invasion of Iraq)
We're still learning details of the #DebtCeiling deal, but for now it looks like #Republicans basically won. They threatened to absolutely devastate the US economy unless the White House agreed to spending caps, funneling more of the food stamp budget to wealthy investors, hurting poor people, and being complicit in racial demagoguery ("welfare queen"-like #GOP propaganda). And the White House gave them all those things to a degree. https://apnews.com/article/debt-ceiling-deal-food-aid-student-loans-3c284b01d95f8e193bca8d873386400e
It's unsurprising that hurting the poor a litttle more wasn't a red line for #Biden, as he tends to do what's popular with donors and voters, and the portion of #Democratic donors and voters who understand the lives of the poor and make their welfare a top priority is very small.
Some poor people offered up as human sacrifice.. Biden called the deal "good news for the American people"
@juddlegum
Imagine the number of corrupt Republican politicians in Texas lined up to replace him. #USPolitics is an industry not a civil process. #Democracy
"Imagine I come home and find a crazy man in my house. He is holding a full gas can and a lit match. 'If you don’t sign over the deed to your house,' he screams, 'I will burn this place down.' I refuse, and we enter a standoff for days. Neighbors gather around my home. The police arrive. It is a major scene. The media show up. The newspaper and TV reporters see this as a big story and slap it on the front page and lead the evening news with it: 'Two local residents caught in fierce negotiations. If their talks don’t succeed, a house will go up in flames.'"
Dana Milbank: Save the world economy or his own job? McCarthy can’t decide.
"'Let me be very clear,' he said. 'From the first day I sat with the president, there’s two criterias I told him,' McCarthy said, raising two fingers. 'We’re not going to raise taxes because we bring in more money than we ever have. And we’re not going to pass a clean debt ceiling. And we’ve got to spend less than we spent this year.'
Let me be very clear, Mr. Speaker. Those are three, er, “criterias.'"
so far I've been happy on @eldritch.cafe (even though I don't speak French, the people and mods on here have been decent, and the 5000 character limit on posts is much appreciated.) but as you'd expect from a smaller instance, I get very few or no results for many tags that are important to me, like #contentCreator#youtube#twitch#livestream#videoInterview#vlogger#videoEssayist#socialCommentary and many similar tags.
so it might be useful for me to try out another, more content creator-inclusive server sometime. but I'm not sure there's really a perfect fit out there.
for one thing, character count is important to me, and so many instances (I presume founded by Twitter users) leave theirs at the default 500, which I find stifling. even 1000 is frequently irritating, when I've gotten used to 5000. I also don't understand the appeal of tight character limits, since people just then write out long, rambling threads of posts, that can easily be taken out of context to warp their whole argument and leave them rife for misinterpretation (see: "quote tweeting")
beyond that, while my videos focus on so many #progressive causes I care about, like #feminism#lgbtq#queer#equalRights#genderdiscrimination#genderEquality#houselessness#mentalHealthcare#transRights#racialEquality and many other #leftwing#USpolitics, because I do my videos topless, there are basically no platforms I can host my content until I can somehow convince sponsors to pay me so I can set up my own hosting-- @tio is kind enough to let me post my uncensored videos to his #peertube server, but there's no real searchability within peertube (as evinced by how many people suggest I post my content to peertube, which I already have been for years...) and putting censored videos of my videos on mainstream platforms that tell people to visit my website to see my uncensored videos doesn't work well, both because of how often my content gets #banned even when it's fully censored (thanks, haters), and because many people are a little, well... 😏 I can only say "follow the link written on the video" (because I'll get banned for "linking to porn" if I put a clickable link in my video description or social media post) so many times.
back to switching instances, the main reason I picked Eldritch Cafe several years ago is because, being French, they don't have the same blatantly misogynistic puritanical views towards "female nipples" being unacceptable viewing outside of explicit sexual situations. they just want them placed under a content warning, as you'd expect on basically every server. but alas, like I said, there just aren't really any other content creators that I've found on here, especially not vloggers/social commentary/video essayists like me (idk what the distinction is, really). that's why it might make more sense for me to move instances, much as I've come to feel comfortable here.
but then the crux of the problem arises--I am, first and foremost, a #toplessequality activist. I want "the same rights for 'female looking nipples' that 'male looking nipples' get." while I was raised a nudist, and for a little while there I did a fair amount of content catering to nudists (talking about #nudism / #naturism , being fully naked instead of just topless, etc...) but I've really been finding the urge to distance myself from nudists lately, for reasons I go into detail here: https://www.toplesstopics.org/nomorenudism/ the tl;dr version is that just talking about nudism all the time is boring to me, and I resent how so many of the (straight cis male) nudists who would exchange my videos amongst themselves would skim right past my whole "fight for gender equality" and just use me as a (more culturally appealing than yet more straight white cis male) nudist figurehead. a lot of nudists are also very anti-sex worker, which goes against my morals- I fully believe that #sexWorkIsWork, and any #consensual#sexWork is fine by me.
what I resent is that, when it comes to mainstream platforms, only being allowed to post my uncensored female nipples on platforms that allow explicit sexual material. I am NOT a sex worker, I DO NOT do anything actually sexual in my videos-- I have interviews with #adultFilm actors, #camgirls, #kink educators, etc, but it's discussion only, we don't DO anything sexual, or go into graphic detail about sexual acts. but because of puritanical American society, the only places I can simply be topless-while-female is on places like Onlyfans, Mewe and Joystick.tv - - places already overflowing with porn.
Republican politicians in #Texas support crime and corruption by their fellow #Republicans so routinely that we're all shocked when they hint that one of them went so far that they might, maybe, perhaps, one day hold him accountable.
Lauren Boebert says fighting 'hate and antisemitism' is code for going after conservatives
“U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) said on Thursday that the Biden administration's vow to ‘fight hate’ and antisemitism equated to a promise that they are "going after" conservatives.”
A person with even a small shred of intelligence might put 2 and 2 together here. But that clearly isn’t Boebert.
The United States has a #DebtCeiling because in 1917, Congress would have had to gather slowly by train and horse-and-buggy to approve new debt to pay for World War I. An economist points out that other countries do fine without this archaic law:
“The best solution would be to scrap the debt ceiling altogether. Congress already approved the spending and the tax laws that require more debt. Why should it also have to approve the additional borrowing?”
#USPolitics
I find it interesting - these people who are making statements at their sentencing, in clear hopes of being pardoned by Donald Trump; it shows that they paid no attention to Donald Trump’s guiding principle.
“What can you do for me NOW?” - DJT
Not “what have you done for me lately”, not “what can you do for me in the future”.
call Trump doesn’t give a shit what you’ve done for him, you’re completely disposable unless you’re useful to him NOW.
Listening to someone who was at the Miami #DeSantis rollout yesterday. She had a reservation at the Four Seasons he was staying at.
The police are threatening her and several others, including minors, for "trespassing," in a hotel they had paid to be in. "Please tell your friends, especially in the North, because there are people that are going to vote for DeSantis because they think he's not as bad as Trump. He's worse. He's a fucking monster." #USPol#USpolitics