You have to hand it to her, she's really good at this. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-live-harris-campaigns-in-north-carolina-while-biden-isolates-with-covid-19

#COVID surge grows as cases in 26 states now ‘very high’ and ‘high,’ CDC says

Wear a mask! Don't ban masks!
https://www.masslive.com/news/2024/07/covid-surge-grows-as-cases-in-26-states-now-very-high-and-high-cdc-says.html

I really don't think Americans understand the speed with which Trump will tear apart the govt if he wins. And when he deregulates the banks and financial systems, shuts down the FDIC, and people lose their savings and retirement and have nowhere to turn, then what? How about all your relatives on social security and medicare or ACA who lose that or large portions of it, or those who lose their hard-earned govt pensions or VA care? "Sorry I voted for Trump" isn't gonna cut it.

After all the great work, I guess this one got me. I just made my first donation to ProPublica.
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-ziklag-secret-christian-charity-2024-election

#SCOTUS predictably overturns long established Chevron deference, which will lead to absolute madness and a breakdown of the effectiveness of Federal agencies to serve the people. That's been a longstanding right wing project and Trump delivered the SCOTUS that did it. Trump's intent for this country is authoritarianism. His handlers designed this SCOTUS for a reason, the end of our system of government and a new right wing theocracy and an imperial executive. It's working.

I think of patriotism as different from nationalism or jingoism. People often do mix those ideas together. I think it's patriotic to try to live up to certain ideals such as equality and social justice, and to want a country that cares for its citizens. It's patriotic to care. I also think we should link such ideals to the concept of national security, which is thought of mainly in terms of threats rather than in making citizens' lives better. Let's redefine patriotism.
https://gurdeeppandher.substack.com/p/patriotism-global-joyhttps://gurdeeppandher.substack.com/p/patriotism-global-joy

It seems like the American system of government has to fundamentally change because a malicious minority of frothing nutjobs should not be legally able to literally take over and destroy that very system while the majority can do nothing because of the electoral college. The nutjobs are going to win, eventually, sooner or later, under this system, and succeed in killing it by using its own fatal flaw.

I've been thinking about 6 unelected politicians in robes whose contrived logic will unleash mass killings with bump stocks, instead of protect citizens who live in a modern world, not the "original" world. A maniac appointed 3 of these people for specific purpose. We know at least 2 of them are also maniacs. And with this ruling they prove themselves all 6 maniacs. They will kill many victims. And we have one recourse: No Republican majority in Congress, no Republican President. That's it.

Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt signed a bill which would force public school districts to adopt a policy which allows students to go off-campus to attend a religious or moral instruction course.

The Satanic Temple, which is a federally-recognized religious organization, made a recent Facebook post stating Oklahoma public school students could soon be earning graduating credits from their Hellion Academy of Independent Learning (HAIL). https://www.kswo.com/2024/06/05/governor-signs-religious-moral-instruction-bill-days-after-satanic-temple-challenged-him-do-so/

@thomasfuchs And why isn't is "Water Force" for the Navy and "Dirt Force" for the Army?

@AntennaPod I switched to AntennaPod a couple of months back and I love it.

Vermont becomes 1st state to enact law requiring oil companies pay for damage from #climate change

“Finally, maybe for the first time anywhere, Vermont is going to hold the companies most responsible for climate-driven floods, fires and heat waves financially accountable for a fair share of the damages they’ve caused.”

Maryland, Massachusetts and New York are considering similar measures. https://apnews.com/article/vermont-climate-change-superfund-oil-companies-b6565729f23e85eed4d3da44b04ae2e5

Amazing. I was just listening to Jasmine Crockett on The Bulwark and she related a story of two members of Congress who'd had their student loan debt relieved and they DIDN'T KNOW WHY. They were trying to figure out what happened. And we wonder about how low-info our voters are when we have Congress members so completely uninformed about what #Biden has done?! 🤦♂️ 🤬 😩 #USPolitics p.s. someone tell Tim Miller "emigrating" is a word. Jeez. Americans aren't planning on "immigrating" from the U.S.

"More people were killed by U.S. law enforcement in 2023 than any other year in the past decade, outpacing population growth eightfold. But despite a focus on urban areas, fatal police violence is increasingly happening in small town America at the hands of sheriffs, the top law enforcement officials in counties nationwide." #police https://www.cbsnews.com/news/county-sheriffs-deaths-accountability/

A team of scientists say seawater flowing underneath and into gaps in the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica is contributing to the melting of the massive ice formation — a potentially ominous sign of the coming effects of human-driven #climate change from the world's widest glacier.

These areas of the glacier may be undergoing "vigorous melting" from warm ocean water caused by climate change, which could lead to even more rapid sea-level rise around the globe. https://www.npr.org/2024/05/21/1252727848/antarctica-thwaites-glacier-climate-change-sea-level-rise

Another article on this -
"U.S. Space Force and Space Command officials have said that both Russia and China are ramping up their counterspace efforts, developing and testing new weapons like lasers to dazzle satellites, the “nesting dolls,” and a “grappling” satellite that can grab and tow other satellites out of their orbit."

A few of these on-orbit threats have been observed in recent years. #space #counterspace #DOD #military
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/russia-counterspace-weapon-near-us-satellite/

No-paywall archive link.
WaPo: U.S. says Russia likely put ‘counterspace weapon’ in orbit to attack satellites

"Moscow launched a satellite into low Earth orbit last week that was 'likely a counterspace weapon presumably capable of attacking other satellites in low Earth orbit.' Russia deployed this new counter-space weapon into the same orbit as a U.S. government satellite”
#space #counterspace #DOD #military https://archive.is/PRCkI

Not only do realists know that Israel's actions will perpetuate Hamas & violent resistance, "realists oppose Israel’s actions (and U.S. complicity in them) because the combination is undermining America’s global position. The war in #Gaza has made it clear that America’s commitment to a “rules-based order” is meaningless; it is frankly hard to believe that U.S. officials can still utter that phrase with a straight face." https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/05/21/why-realists-oppose-the-war-in-gaza/

Why has it taken over 3 years for American #media to report that an extremist SCOTUS Justice flew a "duress flag" -- a symbol used by the insurrectionists -- for days after January 6? Why 3 years?
#SCOTUS #Alito #extremism

Ostracize the Trumpers in your life. Ostracize the fascists in your life. Ostracize the people who are bringing the harm.