#Cosomusic Dead&Co Playing In the Sand https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oZ16SCBAr8
#politics Sarah McBride (D-DE-elect) is a much better, more decent person than Nancy Mace or the other naysayers
#politics Hacking detaiils on Gaetz doc https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/us/politics/matt-gaetz-hack-testimony.html
#cosohumor I was today years old when someone pointed out that the banana is no longer the food that most closely resembles the telephone. You know what is? The Pop-Tart!
#politics When you have to check the URL 3X just to make sure you aren't reading a parody article https://www.reuters.com/world/us/muslims-who-voted-trump-upset-by-his-pro-israel-cabinet-picks-2024-11-15/
#politics There are five key areas that authoritarians want to control when they attempt to decapitate a democratic state, authoritarian expert and author Timothy Snyder writes: health, law, administration, defense and intelligence.
And in each of these arenas, the goal is to consolidate power, create chaos — and yes, even death. Authoritarians with power over these areas, Snyder says, “can make America impossible to sustain.” https://www.nj.com/politics/2024/11/is-trump-trying-to-kill-us-authoritarian-expert-says-yes.html
#politics This is what we live with. This is why the voters want anti-establishment/outsider candidates. This is why the Dems, perceived/labeled as insider elites lost, in spite of all the good that the Biden administration achieved. Now, the GOP somehow operating simultaneously as flunkies of the oligarchs yet positioning themselves as outsiders is a psy-op that would have made any KGB or CIA spook jealous.
#politics Jon Stewart and Heather Cox Richardson on how to keep the Democratic Party from learning all the wrong lessons from this election https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7cKOaBdFWo
#politics Jon Stewart and Sarah Smarsh, on how the Democratic Party has lost/surrendered the working class to the GOP. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC-VkbEpac4
Apparently there is a word for this shit show: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakistocracy
The Wilmington Coup was not just about seizing political power; it was a deliberate attempt to strip Black citizens of their hard-won rights and to reassert white supremacy. The event had long-lasting consequences, ushering in an era of Jim Crow segregation and disenfranchisement that would last for decades.
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