KimPerales

KimPerales, 2 hours ago to random

Appalling from a son of Latino immigrants: "We're gonna have to do something dramatic" -- Marco “Rubio on Meet the Press says he supports Trump's plan to round up migrants and send them to detention camps.

Kristen Welker then plays tape of Rubio saying in 2016 that he doesn't support Trump's plan to round up migrants.” -A Rupert #Immigration #MassDeportation https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/sen-rubio-once-called-trump-s-mass-deportation-plans-unrealistic-now-he-s-changed-his-mind-211206725830

KimPerales, 3 hours ago to random

It appears that #TFG has a sinister plan for winning the election, inciting specific violence, & this time it includes taking out Pres Biden. “Trump flattened for talking about executing Biden before gun owners.” #GOPTerrorism #GOPDeathCult #GunViolence

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-threat-biden/

KimPerales, 3 hours ago to random

#SilentSunday Carmel:

KimPerales, 5 hours ago to random

The Senate must act now: A RW SC majority could well place #TFG effectively beyond the reach of the nation’s criminal justice system for his attempt to void the outcome a national election. This isn’t the 1st time a politicalized court has tried to take control of the levers of the nation’s govt, with sometimes catastrophic results. Abraham Lincoln warned the nation about the dangers of a politicized & overreaching SC. The brazenness became clear with Bush v Gore. #SCOTUS https://www.publicnotice.co/p/abraham-lincoln-warning-scotus-roberts-court

KimPerales, 18 hours ago (edited 18 hours ago) to random

Many red 🩸state #MAGA parents aren’t vaccinating their children: “Responding to the rise in pertussis (#whoopingcough) cases in South Dakota, they’re up 4500%.” #GOPDeathCult

https://www.dakotanewsnow.com/2024/05/18/responding-rise-pertussis-cases-south-dakota/

KimPerales, 1 day ago to drones

Very concerning: An Israeli Company Is Hawking Its Self-Launching Drone System to US-Police Departments. A Louisiana sheriff’s department has been testing the drone system, which is already used by Israeli police & many settlements. There’s a documented history of US-Israel security tech exchanges, which civil rights & racial justice advocates have long criticized for contributing to the militarization of the police: #Surveillance #PoliceState #Racism #Drones https://theintercept.com/2024/05/17/israel-orione-drone-us-police-louisiana/

KimPerales, 1 day ago to random

Ruth Ben-Ghiat issues a warning: #TFG will institute another reign of terror; a 2nd presidency would end democracy & freedoms. A small circle of insiders would administer authoritarianism & conspire in his corruption: “For the personalist ruler, the party exists to defend, avenge, & enrich the ruler. Every counterrevolution needs disciplined cadres. #Project2025 is readying a civilian army of bureaucrats to transform US govt.” #GOPConspirators #Authoritarianism #democracy https://newrepublic.com/article/181265/permanent-counterrevolution?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=SF_TNR

KimPerales, 2 days ago to random

Their allegiance to #TFG is for pardons, power, promise of a Cabinet position or to be picked his VP, money… “When Republicans help Trump evade gag order to attack his trial as illegitimate, they're not just "showing loyalty" or angling for VP. They're saying that their allegiance is to Trump over our institutions/rule of law itself. Say it that way.” #GOPConspirators #GOPCorruption #RuleOfLaw https://newrepublic.com/article/181682/trump-trial-maga-rage-dark-dangerous

KimPerales, 2 days ago to random

“.. wages have now outpaced inflation on a YoY basis for 12 straight months. .. a great sign for the American worker that hopefully continues.” -C Bilello🇺🇸 #Bidenomics #VoteBlue2024 #RealWageGrowth

KimPerales, 2 days ago to random

Hopefully, the jurors will agree: On Michael Cohen's testimony: "The Trump defense is that everyone in the Trump organization was a criminal and a liar and a crook, except for the boss, who was not." -D Frum #TFG #Justice #RuleOfLaw #GOPConspirators

KimPerales, 2 days ago (edited 2 days ago) to random

A reprehensible, corrupt pardon,& antithetical to the #1A right to protest: “Gov Abbott’s pardon & its accomplishing rhetoric fits into pattern of sanctioned violence or threatened violence against undesirables. In those case an Air Force vet protesting police brutality-there’s not even a mention of Foster, the victim. The message from Abbott & ppl like him is ominous. Daniel Perry wasn’t the first. Do you really think he’ll be a the last?” #BLM #GOPFascism #GOPRacism https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/05/abbott-daniel-perry-pardon-protesters-texas/

KimPerales, 2 days ago to climate

Many automakers are sabotaging the world’s efforts to avoid catastrophic global warming by lobbying against EV transition: #ClimateCrisis #EVs #GlobalWarming https://thedriven.io/2024/05/14/nearly-all-major-car-companies-are-sabotaging-ev-transition-and-japan-is-worst-study-finds/

KimPerales, 2 days ago to random

🚨Abhorrent: Texas Governor Pardons Man Convicted of Murdering BLM Protester.

“Texas has one of the strongest ‘Stand Your Ground’ laws of self-defense that cannot be nullified by a jury or a progressive District Attorney."

• Governor Gov. Greg Abbott https://theintellectualist.com/exas-governor-pardons-daniel-perry/

KimPerales, 3 days ago to random

Big Biden donors are helping dictate IL policy, but that may be dangerous, bc he may lose 13% of those who voted for him in 2020:

A poll released this week found that Pre Biden would likely lose the support this Nov of around 13% of those who voted for him in 2020 largely bc of his handling of foreign policy & IL's war in Gaza. Those same policies likely benefit the pres' re-election campaign in a different way: his biggest funders happen to support them. #IsraelHamasWar https://responsiblestatecraft.org/biden-gaza-2668270281/

KimPerales, 3 days ago to random

RW govts like IL, destroy #democracy:

"Disturbing deep history of how IL’s radical RW religious terrorist fringe led by outlaw West Bank settlers has, over 50 yrs, moved into the mainstream, wrecked democracy & now taken over the country.

The parallels with the US right are chilling."
-K Anderson

"Destabilizing threat -long history of crime w/o punishment, many of those officials now say, threatens not only #Palestinians living in the occupied territories +IL itself."
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/magazine/israel-west-bank-settler-violence-impunity.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sU0.cXtA.NWPZq7tHGC7p&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

KimPerales, 3 days ago to random

Republicans are taking away the right to survive in NC:

Bill would ban anyone from wearing a😷mask in public—even for health reasons.

"Bill: makes it a misdemeanor to wear a mask, punishable by 6-18 months of probation & a fine. The original statute *amended here, excludes official secret societies to be excluded from mask/hood prohibitions - Klan & Proud Boys conceivably could be exempt. Intent is to stop protests & prevent masking mandates."
-N Quick

#GOPDeathCult
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4666792-north-carolina-could-ban-face-masks-for-medical-reasons-in-public/

KimPerales, 3 days ago to meta

#META exploits children:

Meta revoked a job offer to a prominent cyber-intel. analyst -after he criticized IG for failing to protect children online.

Raffile had been offered a job as a human exploitation investigator. He'd participated in a webinar on safeguarding agst FIN sextortion schemes (featured: parents of 4 children who'd died after being scammed on IG), during which he criticized #IG for allowing children to fall prey to scammers & offered possible solutions.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/16/meta-rescinds-job-offer-human-trafficking-expert?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

KimPerales, 3 days ago to random

Great news:

The SC rules that the funding structure of the CFPB is legal.

"Today's decision is a HUGE victory for the CFPB & a major defeat not only for the corporate lobby, but for the 5th Circuit, which embraced a theory so radically anti-historical & textual that JUSTICE THOMAS wrote the opinion emphatically reversing it.

In a 7–2 opinion by SCJ Thomas, the court UPHOLDS the CFPB's funding structure, concluding that it does NOT violate the appropriations clause."
-MJ Stern

KimPerales, 3 days ago to Cybersecurity

#Surveillance, telecoms are lying:

A USG cybersecurity official has broken ranks from his agency & publicly revealed that attackers have repeatedly tracked the physical location of ppl inside the US using vulnerabilities in the backbone of the world’s telecommunications cellular INFRA in recent years.

The comments from the CISA official are highly unusual in that they provide an unvarnished assessment of the threat posed by such attacks on telecom NWKs-.
#Cybersecurity

https://www.404media.co/cyber-official-speaks-out-reveals-mobile-network-attacks-in-u-s/

KimPerales, 3 days ago to microsoft

"A few years ago, #Microsoft promised to be carbon neutral by 2030. Since then, its energy consumption has exploded, due to #AI. Not only will Microsoft not fulfill its promise, it's accelerating #climatechange.
Reminder: Tech execs always lie."
-R McNamee

Microsoft's relentless push to be the global leader in #AI is putting that goal in peril. The co's total planet-warming impact is ~30%⬆️higher today than it was in 2020 -makes getting to below 0 by 2030 even harder-.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-15/microsoft-s-ai-investment-imperils-climate-goal-as-emissions-jump-30

KimPerales, 3 days ago to random

Civil discourse? Rs may listen, but they lie:

Gov Lee had spoken to the mother of Tyre Nichols, R Wells in 2020. The conversation was about Wells’ disagreement with HB 1391, a bill that prevents local govs from passing anything that'd interfere with police stopping crime. “She felt like that it was offensive -a slap in the face to what had happened in the city -& I viewed that piece of leg. differently.”

2024: TN rolls back 'that' police reform.

#GOPFascism #GOPRacism https://wpln.org/post/gov-bill-lee-highlights-how-he-wants-to-foster-better-discourse/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

KimPerales, 3 days ago to random

If #TFG wins: a fascist America:

No fascism w/o dictatorship -aim of fascism is to destroy democracy from within. Ways a Trumpist dictatorship to happen here: Insurrection Act, & martial law. 2020: Trump entertained using the Insurrection Act, during the BLM protests, being stopped only by DEF Sec Esper. This time -there'll be no shortage of protests—Trump might not be discouraged -could deploy the armed forces to assist local LE to quell civil unrest or to use the MIL-. https://newrepublic.com/article/181224/day-one-dictatorship

KimPerales, 3 days ago to random

The IL AMB to the US is bullying Dem MOC over their views re PA #IHL, #humanitarianaid...

A letter is rankling Dem MOC, "verging on offensive" & raising Qs about who's "the superpower." Never before has IL sent "such a harsh letter." Herzog suggested lawmakers weren't adequately doing their jobs. “It's disappointing that you've reached this determination on such a sensitive matter w/o having conducted sufficient due diligence to learn, check. corroborate the facts-."

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/israeli-ambassador-blasts-democrats-letter_n_6644fde3e4b00df0c6b6cba5

KimPerales, 3 days ago (edited 3 days ago) to random

Some good health news: an effective, universal vaccine will likely be developed for #Covid:

"The first pan-coronavirus ("universal") vaccine Phase 1 clinical trial results are encouraging for eliciting broad sarbecovirus, #SARSCoV2 variant immune response.

We haven't seen this in people before:

Individuals vaccinated with SpFN/ALFQ had robust
cell-mediated and antibody responses against multiple clade 1 sarbecoviruses."
-Eric Topol

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(23)00410-X/fulltext

KimPerales, 4 days ago to random

MSM is focused on #TFG. He's not in court today, they could cover how Rs are passing laws that jeopardize the health & lives of IMGs/POC/Women/LGBTQ ppl...

#DeathSantis hid behind closed doors when signing the bill.

"Modern politics: Death of Shame, politicians -no longer shamed of behavior that'd humiliate most decent souls. FL makes it illegal to guarantee shade & water to outdoor WKRS. Recently a FL farm worker died from heat exhaustion."

#GOPDeathCult #GOPRacism https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2024/05/14/heat-protection-ban-florida-workers-maxwell/