Notices by azteclady (herhandsmyhands@romancelandia.club)

Biden's immigration policies are as fucked up as trump's, even if he leaves out the concentration camps. His enabling of genocide of Palestinians is beyond the fucking pale.

But a trump presidency would be exponentially worse, and democracy wouldn't survive it. Abortion, workers' rights, unions, voting rights, right to protest, freedom of movement, climate change, disaster response--all would worsen

So Biden it is

#2024Election #USPolitics

https://i-know-how-much-you-care.ghost.io/this-is-why-we-cannot-let-the-quiet-new-deal-stay-so-quiet/

I'm feeling so frustrated at how easily the left has split into those dreaming an unfeasible scenario to replace Biden four months before election day, and those who will not abandon the only viable candidate--incumbent and with a capable VP to take over if needed.

I get the utter terror of a 2nd trump administration--I'm a target too!!!--but seeing white "progressives" fall so easily for the right's tactics is fucking disheartening.

#2024Election #USPolitics

Rolling Stone with the facts:
"Trump Allies Try to Bully Dems, Media to Shut Up About His Fascist Plans
Republicans are seeking to capitalize on Trump’s assassination attempt — using it to demand everyone stop talking about his threats to democracy"

And it's fucking working.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-allies-fascist-plans-dems-media-1235060142/

"1,400 Black women sign letter of support for Biden, condemn lack of Democratic unity"--The Hill

"we believe it is unfair and disruptive to judge President Biden for having a bad 90-minute debate performance against a serial liar who wants to destroy our democracy and be a dictator-in-chief."

#USPolitics #2024Election #Racism #Misogynoir

https://thehill.com/homenews/race-politics/4780486-black-women-biden-harris-letter/

"You can't fix democracy by not voting"--you can't fix ANYTHING when you don't vote.

#VotesHaveConsequences; not voting has evern worse ones.

#USPolitics #2024Election #Vote

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSZjlCTyWJ4

Will you look at that.

#NateSilver now works for Polymarket, #Polymarket was found by, among others, #PeterThiel.

And now Nate Silver has spent a lot of capital on calls for Biden to drop out.

One time is coincidence, two is the beginning of a pattern, three is selling their soul for easy cash.

#USPolitics #2024Election

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/polymarket-hires-nate-silver-taking-154956290.html

If voting didn't matter, Republicans wouldn't have spent decades working to disenfranchise Democratic voters.

So it's time to work getting those voters to the polls.

Here's a way to help:
https://mastodon.social/@indivisibleteam/112816182252530409

Or go directly to:
https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/event/645367/

#USPolitics #2024Election

So apparently there's a white women hashtag going around ( #IUnderstandTheAssignment ), that's essentially another exercise in white women centering themselves, no matter what.

So, go read Lori Green's post, "The Problem with White Women" (heads up: she's a white woman just turned sixty). Read it, internalize it, share it--and if it doesn't apply to you? Read it, internalize it, share it anyway.

#USPolitics #2024Election

https://twooldfartstalkingromance.blogspot.com/2024/07/the-problem-with-white-women.html

The GOP is making hay out of the shooting at their national convention and of trump's "wound" and how close he was to being assassinated.

Meanwhile:

#USPolitics #2024Election #LookAtHisEar

The #Georgia Secretary of State has opened a portal for people to cancel *other* residents voter registration--without any mechanism to prevent mass cancellation of Democrats voter registrations.

If you live in GA, please check your registration, and keep checking it daily.

And you may want to register your feelings with the secretary of state office:
214 State Capitol
Atlanta, GA 30334
470-312-2803

#USPolitics #2024Election

President Jimmy Carter wants to live long enough to vote for Kamala Harris for president in November.

That man is really the best of us.

#2024Election #USPolitics

https://www.ajc.com/politics/jimmy-carters-next-goal-is-voting-for-kamala-harris/UKCLDIUSSJC6JM4NP7HGOEDCNY/

the Republicans are actively purging voter rolls in several states (Texas), and some (Georgia) have given their rank and file the tools to do it for them. Now it's Ohio.

And Felon Musk, peddling an information harvesting, fake registration site.

Check your registration at the official website for your state, and keep checking it. Don't let the fascists deprive you of your civils rights.

#USPolitics #2024Election

https://www.popsci.com/technology/elon-musk-voter-registration/

Just because: Texas representative James Talarico speaking on the dangers of Christian nationalism.

Amazing how clearly this applies to Project 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Blph_2RSBno

#2024Election #USPolitics #ChristianNationalism

Another one: Florida.

Check your voter registration regularly and frequently.

#USPolitics #2024Election #VoterRegistration

The inimitable Elie Mystal on the current initiatives to curb SCOTUS overreach and protect democracy.

"The road toward court reform leads to court expansion or it leads to nowhere. Biden, and now Schumer, are willing to take the first steps."

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/no-kings-act-schumer-trump-immunity/

#USPolitics #SCOTUS #NoKings #2024Election

@JuliusGoat on so-called "centrists" (and the Nazis they side with):

"And I've given up engaging people who ask me to prove to them that Trump and the Republicans are supremacists and fascists. The question is like being asked to prove gravity; it reveals such a desire to not observe things that it exposes itself as an active desire to not understand."

#USPolitics #2024Election

https://www.the-reframe.com/what-center-is-that-exactly/

Very timely reminder by @AnarchoNinaAnalyzes that, especially online, there is nothing that "everyone knows". There are billions of people on Earth. You can be sure, a lot of what you think is "commonly known", is not--and that's before misinformation and disinformation come into it.

#ElonMusk is investing billions to spread fascist propaganda--and not everyone who will vote in November knows it.

https://social.treehouse.systems/@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes/112954728927239630

#USPolitics #2024Election

Louis DeJoy--who inexplicably remains U.S. Postmaster General--wants to further destroy the Postal Service, under pretext of "making it solvent".

Senator Jon Tester has introduced a bill that would slow that process.

The real solution? eliminate artificial burdens on the USPS imposed by a Republican Senate--and fire DeJoy.

Aside: Tester is up for reelection in November, and we need him there. Vote!

#USPolitics #2024Election #JonTester #USPS #LouisDeJoy

The Real Young Prodigyes have relased this in response to the cuts to school buses for mostly-Black neighborhoods and schools in Louisville KY:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYKRz7sHZ1w

These cuts have also led to lawsuits (source: https://whas11.com/article/news/community/jcps-parents-lawsuit-bus-transportation-cuts/417-3a9ada38-9e87-4850-80af-7efc802199e9)

Per @bolts, there's a chance to elect a progressive state supreme court judge this November: Pamela Godwine has union support. (source: https://boltsmag.org/your-state-by-state-guide-to-the-2024-supreme-court-elections/)

VOTE!

#USPolitics #2024Election #2021RecallPhilipsRespironics

#OlayemiOlurin speaking, among other things, about why immigrants have a right to care about the politics of the country we live in, where we pay taxes and contribute to our communities in many tangible and intangible ways, even when we cannot vote.

So if you can vote? Please don't be the asshole who doesn't vote "to make a point", and helps Trump become king for life.

#USPolitics #2024Election

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuCG9xUTVX4