I'm not planning to leave, but with the Supreme Court authorizing a Trump dictatorship should he return, I've never had more thoughts like, "If I had to flee the country, where could I go and take my pets with me" than I've had now.
Don't take this MAGA fascism lying down. Fight back and win.
Vote out the Arizona Supreme Court justices who just banned nearly all abortions in the state. Vote to re-elect President Biden, and vote for Ruben Gallego for U.S. Senate, and a Democratic legislature for Arizona. Vote for the abortion rights amendment on the ballot this November.
This border drama is wholly a Texas MAGA Republican distraction for them to scare racists into voting for them so that they can pass unnecessary tax cuts for billionaires. Go down the road a few miles and the border gates will be wide open so that Texas Republicans can get cheap exploitable labor under-the-table.
As a Californian, I donโt even think about โthe borderโ. In fact here is a typical game of Volleyball using the Southern border as a gate. #immigration#uspolitics#uspol#politics
(1) a Presidential coup that has not (yet) succeeded, but had a flashpoint with the insurrection of January 6, 2021.
(2) a Judicial coup in which Mitch McConnell denied President Obama a Supreme Court appointment. then rushed Justice Barrett onto the bench. That coup succeeded.
Don't give up. We need to show the same courage the abolitionists, suffragettes, and civil rights activists had then, to save our democracy now.
Visiting home for the holidays. My conservative parents who used to have Fox News on all the time, now have Newsmax on instead. I finally just said, โI cannot hear this **** anymoreโ and left the room.
I probably should have just left the room quietly, but I cannot hear over and over again how Liz Cheney is a traitor and how Joe Biden is the threat to Democracy, and not respond emotionally to this MAGA propaganda.
I really wish the fairness doctrine still existed and applied to cable news.
The City of West Hollywood, California, has launched a new website called "Engage WeHo" to help the community be involved with Long Range Planning. It looks great! #WeHo #cities#urbanism
Since we are โverminโ according to Trump, does that mean he plans on exterminating us if he gets back into the White House? Just as Hitler did to his political opponents and everyone he found undesirable?
#TyrannyOfTheMinority is exactly what the founding rich, white, straight, cis, male slaveowners established for the United States, which is why they created an Electoral College that can thwart the popular vote, only allowed rich, white, men who owned property to vote, and counted nonwhites as three-fifths of a person.
We have had to fight for the expansion of the franchise, civil rights, and legal equality to include everyone throughout our entire history.
Look, we tried trickle-down economics for over forty years. It simply didnโt work. The national debt exploded and nothing trickled-down, so now we move on.
Stimulating the economy from the bottom up is clearly more effective. A rising tide should lift all boats, not just yachts.
My friend who emigrated to Spain posted that he had to go to the Emergency Room today. Instead of it breaking his bank account, the visit only cost him โฌ16.
We are being ripped off in ways we don't even realize by the US health โcareโ non-system which is designed to maximize corporate profits by bankrupting patients.
We need a new model and should adopt one of the universal health care models that get much better health care outcomes than ours. #universalhealthcare#medicareforall#USpol
Growing up Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher told us that capitalism went hand in hand with freedom and democracy.
Today we can see that capitalists can quite comfortably walk hand in hand with authoritarianism and fascism to maintain and consolidate their wealth and power.
I will be riding my bicycle 545 miles from San Francisco to Los Angeles with AIDS/LifeCycle in June 2024. Your donation to fight HIV/AIDS would mean the world to me and to the people who receive the lifesaving treatments and services your donation provides. #hiv#AIDS#AIDSLifeCycle https://giving.aidslifecycle.org/participant/Dan-Wentzel
The corporate news media is finally admitting that Mastodon exists and growing -- but only in order to write an article to accuse it of being rife with child pornography -- blaming platform federation and a lack of centralized moderation and content scanning.
I've honestly never seen even a whiff of such material on Mastodon, although the article in particular blames instances in Japan.
The article is as much an attack on decentralization and federation as on Mastodon.
Whenever someone mentions that the USA was founded on the slavery of nonwhites, and genocide of the indigenous peoples, all the right people get upset.
We need to keep bringing these inconvenient truths up until these historical wrongs are rectified. #IndependenceDay