Notices by azteclady (herhandsmyhands@romancelandia.club), page 4

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

Non-Republican candidates running for any and all public offices in #Florida are at risk of being summarily dismissed by Governor #RonDeSantis, in order to install one of his handpicked fellow fascists to enact unpopular and harmful policies.

Which then allow him to do things like this:
https://www.tampabay.com/news/environment/2024/08/21/florida-state-parks-jonathan-dickinson-golf-course/

If you can, attend the meetings on Tuesday to record your opposition--and check your #VoterRegistration and #Vote in November and every election thereafter.

Speaking of #RonDeSantis, here's how the political landscape is changing in #Florida:

DeSantis endorsed 23 school board candidates across the state.
11 lost outright.
6 are headed to runoff voting (check your #VoterRegistration by the way)

Only six--a quarter--won outright.

Florida is not likely to ever be a truly progressive state, but holy cats, it is definitely not an unrecoverable abyss of ass backwards conservatism.

#USPolitics

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/20/ron-desantis-school-board-results-00175296

I also want to note how #Politico slants their reporting here: the issue is not what role parents have in shaping their children's education. The issue is *which* parents have been given authority to dictate how other parents educate *their own children*.

Reporting is not neutral when it erases context in favor of the #Christofascists

So, again: check your #VoterRegistration then #Vote

#2024Election #USPolitics

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/20/ron-desantis-school-board-results-00175296

#WillBunch on the #2024DNC and how it's so different from all that's come before for at least four decades--and yes, that includes Barack Obama's campaigns.

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/chicago-dnc-democrat-vibe-ecstasy-20240821.html#loaded

On that vein, if you haven't, perhaps give this #PoliticsGirl short video a watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gu1gHT5BOU

#USPolitics #2024Election

Most of us reduce elections to the one issue (or office or candidate) that we think most affect us, forgetting how interconnected it all is.

We need to win the WH, the Senate and the House to avoid going full fascist nation--but also so that we can pressure elected officials to protect us via rational regulations (meaning: not funded by industrial lobby)

For example (pardon the casual fatphobia and ableism) by @notjustbikes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN7mSXMruEo

#2024Election

Check your registration, keep checking it, take a screenshot confirming you've registered, check you have the ID you need to vote.

Because the Christofascists are ready to disenfranchise as many voters are they can, and to scare and even jail however many they can--including elderly people.

https://www.rawstory.com/texas-election-raid/

#2024Election #USPolitics #KenPaxton #Texas

Hey, look, fresh indictment of Trump, same charges, and fuck the Christofascist SCOTUS majority and their immunity for Trump--because, let us not lie to ourselves, if Biden were to use that ruling to do anything for the poor, or people who can get pregnant, or the fucking air we breathe and water we drink, he would not be covered.

#USPolitics #2024Election #TrumpIsAConvictedFelon

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/trump-indicted-federal-election-interference-case-supreme-court-immuni-rcna168503

#Crossfire 1986, start at 1:18 #FrankZappa used the phrase "fascist theocracy"

#USPolitics #ChristoFascism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fam5wRXcoQE

"A vote for Trump is a vote to ban abortion in all 50 states; anyone who suggests otherwise is just trying to elect him (so he can ban abortion)" --@lolgop

Not everyone is terminally online, not everyone knows Trump didn't "change his position" on #Abortion. Not everyone knows that Republicans and Trump will do absolutely anything to get him elected, so they're free to control the rest of us to death

#USPolitics #2024Election

https://i-know-how-much-you-care.ghost.io/a-vote-for-trump-is-a-vote-to-ban-abortion-in-all-50-states/

#COVID19 is still here; many people are left with #LongCOVID symptoms of varying severity, from fatigue to brain fog. #BigPharma have little motivation to do anything about it, so our only recourse is to #Vote, elect Democrats, and then bully them into doing the right thing for the country rather than corporations. (h/t @rebeccawatson)

Bonus: this strategy works for anything and everything you care about.

#2024Election #USPolitics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GacJom78qNE

There's a lovely video about VP Kamala Harris visiting a Penzey's Spices store in Pittsburgh (clip here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpTCweo0tCQ; if you are a woman/femme of a certain age, have tissues handy. I cried).

MAGAts started leaving a flood of negative reviews, despite most not being actual customers, which leads to this statement by the company: https://www.penzeys.com/shop/about-republicans/

#USPolitics #2024Election #PenzeysSpices

Check your voter registration, take screenshots, get ready to fight for your right and responsibility in November.

#USPolitics #2024Election #VoterRegistration #Vote

https://vote.gov/

Jamelle Bouis on J.D Vance's blood libel against Springfield Haitian immigrants.

Original headline versus "let's not offend the Nazis" headline.

NYT gift link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/14/opinion/jd-vance-haiti-ohio-immigrants.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Kk4.3LU5.m7KulToUWMMg&smid=url-share

#USPolitics #2024Election

I do not consent either.

#USPolitics #2024Election #RepublicansAreWeird #RepublicansAreCreepy