Notices by David August (davidaugust@mastodon.online), page 5

Well yeah you need shelter to live so you better get a third job!

by @CoolTimesOnline
h/t @ChacheNeguer
@erik

I want your opinion:
I am working on finding parallel quotes in Project 2025 and Mein Kampf for a sort of "are these quotes from Project 2025 or Mein Kampf?"

So far the topic areas of education, military strength, centralized power and anti-congress/parliament topics have a lot of cross-over.

Do you have any topic areas you'd like me to explore?

#project2025 #gop #politics #autocracy #democracy #election #USpol

Did you know half of Americans think Trump should suspend his campaign after becoming a felon? They do.

#USpol #election #trump #president #politics

@WizardBear @Magooish worth noting there’s a path to make a Constitutional Amendment that does not require anything of Congress.

source: https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/our-government/the-constitution/

House Democrat is proposing a constitutional amendment to reverse Supreme Court's immunity decision. We need it, even if GOP will stop it.

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-immunity-trump-biden-9ec81d3aa8b2fd784c1b155d82650b3e

#scotus #politics #law #democracy #USpol #presidential #immunity #PresidentialImmunity #election

"It's an official act."

h/t @tchambers

#StarWars #order66 #emperor #OfficialAct #PresidentialImmunity #president #scotus #immunity #corruption #politics #democracy #political #meme #USpol

I do not say this lightly, the American people need to start ignoring the opinions and decisions made by this scotus.

details: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2024/06/28/supreme-court-corrects-epa-opinion-after-gorsuch-confuses-laughing-gas-with-air-pollutant/

#scotus #experts #invalid #corrupt #law #politics #USpol

The Gish gallop is a bad faith rhetorical technique that overwhelms opponents with numerous false weak arguments.

Wikipedia can be a starting point for ideas on how to counter it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop

#election #debate #rhetoric

Coverage of #scotus’ reprehensible, cruel and unusual decision: https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-homeless-camping-bans-506ac68dc069e3bf456c10fcedfa6bee

Scotus just essentially made being #homeless illegal.

In Los Angeles it’s illegal to sleep in your car. If you find yourself spending the night in your car, set your phone to stream something. If you’re confronted by police, mention you were not intending to sleep but we’re watching TV or movie and fell asleep by accident.

I figured this out when I was “watching a show in my car” at one point.

I hope the #scotus that did this spend the balance of their lives “watching a show in their cars.”

Just topped up my queued posts for twitter inviting people elsewhere. No one is taking my username, but I'm also not being active there.

Every Tuesday around midday a message posts. I think of it like mail forwarding.

#SocialMedia #TwitterMigration

#US #politics #USpol #election #debate

This made me laugh.

The specific number might be disputed (usually in bad faith) but the reality is that minimum wage has not kept up with its intention: to allow people to live comfortably (not luxuriously, but comfortably).

#wages #MinimumWage #economics

*chef’s kiss*

#InformationWarfare #fsb #gru #russia #disinformation #bots #weapons #elections

“We have interviewed many formerly incarcerated men & women who spoke about…difference it would have made in their lives to earn surplus income that is not swallowed up by…purchase of necessities from…prison commissary store; of being able to spare their debt-burdened families from having to support them; of saving enough money to re-enter society on a stable footing; of contributing, through a standard wage arrangement, toward future benefits such as Medicare, Social Security…”

End legal slavery in the US.

“And though members of Congress denounce imported goods made with prison labor in places like China’s Xinjiang province, the offices of many government agencies in Washington and elsewhere are stocked with furniture and supplies made by prisoners in this country.”

“Labor that people have no meaningful right to refuse and that is enforced under conditions of total control is, unquestionably, slavery.”

Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/19/opinion/juneteenth-slavery-prison.html?unlocked_article_code=1.000.5voK.6Q7-8r38nFpk&smid=url-share

#Juneteenth #PrisonLabor

#China has a population over 10 times the #Philippines, they have about 32 times the physical size & a gross domestic product 33 times the size of the Philippines.

So what was Xi Jinping compensating for when Chinese Coast Guard boarded Philippines’ boats with hammers, knives & machetes, punctured navy boats, wounded Filipino sailors (including one who lost his right thumb) and stole rifles? Most people will say: geographic position in the #SouthChinaSea, but only Xi‘s lovers know for sure. 😉

And thankful they did. #DDay80

🗳️🫡

via @augieray

#vote #dday #war #democracy #autocracy #election #elections #politics #USpol