Notices by swanksalot (swanksalot@toot.community)

True And Correct Verdicts https://www.flickr.com/photos/swanksalot/51129221660
#mono #architecture #Chicago

Trump Baffles Everybody With Bizarre ‘Biden Circles’ Babble - The Daily Beast https://apple.news/AWHWREVj0Tq6OqolvPkHb9w

I’ve trained myself to skip over the paragraph of nonsensical rambling by Trump spokesperson Steve Cheung. Never adds to my understanding of any topic, nor does it usually make any logical sense

Kamala Harris Proposes Big Home Care Benefit For Medicare https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kamala-harris-medicare-home-care_n_6704a28ce4b0b12bd23f785f
As someone with a 95 year old grandmother who still lives at home (with assistance and family near), yes Medicare should cover home care

Truth Social Users Are Losing Ridiculous Sums of Money to Scams https://gizmodo.com/truth-social-users-are-losing-ridiculous-sums-of-money-to-scams-2000506604
lol

Official End of An Era as Blackbird sign is removed
#WestLoop #Chicago

Doesn't Everybody Want To Be Wanted? https://www.flickr.com/photos/swanksalot/51746559126

You Shan’t Make A Liar Out Of Me
#rain #Chicago #mono

As Taliban starts restricting men, too, some regret not speaking up sooner https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/09/22/afghanistan-taliban-restrictions-men-beards/
the obvious parallel is to US men in MAGA run states.- you might think electing Christian Nationalists will be no big deal, but I caution you to think it through

Others Have Politicized #Arlington, but Trump’s Approach Has No Precedent What is unusual in this instance is how the Trump team reacted when they were called out for it. Instead of apologizing or claiming it was all a misunderstanding, they doubled down.” https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/01/us/politics/trump-arlington-cemetery-army.html

Trump can’t get away from his #Arlington scandal https://www.dailykos.com/story/2024/8/30/2266798/-Trump-can-t-get-away-from-his-Arlington-scandal?pm_campaign=blog&pm_medium=rss&pm_source=

The Neighborliness Option
Chicago officials have been terrified that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott would inundate the DNC with migrant buses. But the people of Chicago may have already called Abbott’s bluff.

https://prospect.org/politics/2024-08-14-neighborliness-option-chicago-migrants-dnc/

it’s been said before, but fuck that sadist Greg Abbott
#Texas #Chicago #immigration

Lawrence: 'Stupidest' candidate Trump did not answer reporters' questions
Donald Trump rambled and lied for over an hour without any follow up questions or fact-checking. MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell says that while he hopes Vice President Harris answers questions from reporters, after the press conference that Donald Trump turned into a “charade,” Vice President Harris has “absolutely no greater obligation to do so because of what Donald Trump pretended to do today.” https://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/lawrence-stupidest-candidate-trump-did-not-answer-reporters-questions-216787525948

Tim Walz Stole Your Mom's Valor, LAST NIGHT https://www.wonkette.com/p/tim-walz-stole-your-moms-valor-last
"Walz filed his paperwork to run for Congress on February 10, 2005; presumably, he submitted his retirement paperwork around the same time (or even earlier) in order to retire by May. "

Democracy dies if we drop the case of Trump, Egypt and $10 million in cash
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Anyone can talk about making America great again, but that’s not really going to happen until we make bribery a crime again.
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/trump-sisi-egypt-10-million-bribe-20240804.html?utm_source=social&utm_campaign=gift_link&utm_medium=referral

#USPol #corruption #Trump #Egypt #SCOTUS

"You gotta give the people somethin' good to read on a Sunday"

#USPol #TheClash

RNC Notebook, Day Two: Bob Fioretti, Charlie Kirk and cops from Illinois all in town https://www.dailyherald.com/20240716/news/rnc-notebook-day-two-bob-fioretti-charlie-kirk-and-cops-from-illinois-all-in-town/
#RNC #Chicago
sad to see how low Bob Fioretti has fallen

Democrats to IRS: Investigate right-wing groups that pretend to be "churches"
More than a dozen Congressional Democrats, led by Reps. Jared Huffman and Suzan DelBene, are asking the IRS to look into why the Family Research Council, a non-profit organization that doubles as a right-wing hate group, is allowed to be classified as an “association of churches” and receive perks typically associated with houses of worship. https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/democrats-to-irs-investigate-right
Tax all the churches imo
#religion

Why is the pundit class so desperate to push Biden out of the race? | Rebecca Solnit | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/06/biden-trump-race-rebecca-solnit #USpol

The Supreme Court Is a Joke. It's Not Funny Last week, in their ruling halting the Biden administration’s plan to limit ozone pollution from drifting into other states, Supreme Court justices repeatedly, accidentally referenced “nitrous oxide” — a.k.a. laughing gas — rather than the chemical compounds actually at issue in the case https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/supreme-court-joke-not-funny-1235050011/
#SCOTUS #environment #pollution #corruption