President Joe Biden is expected to issue an executive order that would shut down asylum requests to the U.S.-Mexico border once the number of daily encounters hits 2,500 between ports of entry, according to sources.
By sunsetting Section 230, the US Congress could be about to break the internet as we know it
The proposal to Sunset Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act would eliminate the protections granted to internet platform providers from liability from users' actions
This legislation would deal a critical blow to the fundamentally American tradition of free speech and the internet as we know and love it
Just a reminder that while one party spends on protecting voting rights the other marshals its legal assault to challenge election results - for an election that is months away - and disenfranchise voters.
Imperfect democracy vs authoritarianism is on the ballot this November. #VoteBlue if that matters to you.
Well-known U.S. sports podcaster Colin Cowherd neatly sums up a recent development in politics & the law:
"Donald Trump is now a felon. His campaign chairman was a felon. So is his deputy campaign manager, his personal lawyer, his chief strategist, his national security adviser, his trade advisor, his foreign policy adviser, his campaign fixer, & his company CFO. They’re all felons.
'Judged by the company you keep.' It’s a cabal of convicts."
Dehumanizing insults have become way more common in political discourse. Psychology research has shown that they can prime us for violence – and even change our brains.
It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.” Joseph Heller, Catch-22 #Trump#Writing#josephheller#uspolitics#Politics
"One #illustration by... John Cuneo rose above the rest, depicting #Trump extending tiny hands toward #handcuffs far too big for them.
“It was a good composition that highlighted the laughably small hands, and the image, while reflecting the past, predicted the future,” Mouly said of the magazine’s latest cover image... titled “A Man of Conviction.” “Even with a conviction for a felony, [will] Trump ever be hampered or constrained?” https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/2024/06/01/political-cartoons-trump-guilty-verdict/
Hearing Tim Scott so vehemently defend the convicted felon, wannabe dictator, trump, has me convinced that Tim Scott is contending for the title of "Biggest Uncle Tom in America". Yeah, I said it. 😡
This trial exposed how much David Pecker helped Trump by constantly putting fake negative news about his opponents on every grocery store aisle in America. Pecker freely admitted it. I wonder if that exposure has done anything to change the minds of people who believed those stories. Or whether these people might view future tabloid headlines with a more skeptical eye. Probably not.
I think that that's a very good question. The newspapers are speculating about state visits if #DonaldJTrump is elected, but obviously the Home secretary would grant an exception in such a case.
But if the felony convictions are for falsification of business records it seems a lot more apposite to ask whether our rules about company directors would prohibit one that was a foreign felon convicted specifically for business-related offences.
Trump raised a record-breaking $34.8 million the day after being convicted of election interference. That's nearly double their previous largest single-day online donation amount.
29.7% were new donors.
This is not a drill. He will get reelected unless people on the left step up to oppose him. And #Project2025 makes it clear how much worse things can get, both domestically and abroad. #VoteBlue