Republicans retain control of the House, CNN projects, giving the party sweeping power following presidential and Senate victories. https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/13/politics/house-control-republicans-trifecta/index.html

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November 13th marks the beginning of Transgender Awareness Week, a week dedicated to raising visibility for transgender people and addressing the issues that members of the community face. It leads up to Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR) on November 20th, which honors the memory of those who lost their lives to anti-transgender violence.  

Senate Republicans select Sen. John Thune of South Dakota as their new leader, replacing longtime GOP stalwart Mitch McConnell. https://t.co/2DPN56Xzzy%20https://t.co/xLAFd3pWcZ

Before Musk, Twitter was one of the most important journalistic outlets in the world. Now The Guardian, one of the most important newspapers in the world, has abandoned it.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/nov/13/the-guardian-no-longer-post-on-x-twitter-elon-musk

The success of the Republican party is based on training people to be proud of their shitty behavior instead of feeling guilty for it. An undercutting of the very fabric of society. A nation of self-righteous, selfish bullies.

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Jack Smith will step down as Special Counsel before Donald Trump takes office.

The move will allow him to finish his report and leave the job before he can be fired.

𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐕𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧 𝐇𝐞 𝐌𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐇𝐞 𝐒𝐚𝐢𝐝
𝐻𝑖𝑠 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑑𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑓𝑎𝑟𝑐𝑒. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑏𝑒 𝑎 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑑𝑦.

A critical mass of voters simply did not hear about [trump's] positions, or did not believe them if they did. (The most bleak thread in this story are interviews with unauthorized immigrants who say they would have voted for Trump if they could, assuming that surely he would not deport them, as they’re honest and hardworking folks.)

https://prospect.org/politics/2024-11-12-donald-trump-deportation-crypto-crash/

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When fascists come to power, the first thing they attack are national and international institutions: political parties, labor unions, churches. Anything which could be the basis of a broad-based opposition to the régime is dissolved or co-opted.

If you want to resist, you cannot abandon these institutions. They have to be protected. Once they're gone, the fascists can wipe up the smaller groups piecemeal and at their leisure. They won't be much fussed about knitting circles.

An H5N1 influenza pandemic under someone like TFG (read: horrifically mismanaged) would be catastrophic. And probably the end of their regime.

H5N1 is *extremely* lethal - with a recorded human fatality rate of over 50%.

You can't afford to mismanage a pathogen that lethal the way COVID was mismanaged; that's the kind of mistake that wipes out entire towns, destroys any semblance of order, & topples nations.

There are rapidly increasing warning signs that an H5N1 pandemic may be on its way.

President-elect Donald Trump has picked South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem to lead his Department of Homeland Security, sources say. https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/12/politics/kristi-noem-homeland-security-secretary/index.html