From Robert Reich newsletter:

Nonprofit “death penalty” bill passes the House

"U.S. House just passed a terrifying bill that would empower Trump to strip the nonprofit status of any organization & believe it or not, 15 Democrats voted for it.

Under the bill, Trump’s Treasury Secy could simply labeling the group “terrorist supporting.”

No due process. No meaningful appeals procedure. The bill doesn’t even require the administration to provide evidence or an explanation."

Talking about fascism still is not normalized in conversations. With like-minded friends, yes, but in general people still clam up. Are worried it’s “over-reacting”? Are they uninformed? Disbelieving? The sad scary slippery slope in Weimar. Sophie Scholl was guillotined at 21 years old for distributing warnings about who the Nazis really are. She died thinking her punishment for the pamphlets was worth it because other people would know and do something after she was killed. But did they? no

#CosoMusic

Damn - RIP Andy Paley

https://variety.com/2024/music/news/andy-paley-brian-wilson-collaborator-spongebob-dead-1236216365/

Politics editor at WaPo is out.
https://nypost.com/2024/11/21/media/washington-post-abruptly-ousts-politics-editor-dan-eggen-after-trump-win-report/
#news

One of my guiding principles.
(This quote is almost always misattributed to James Baldwin.)

The Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwtyn-L-2gQ

#CoSoMusic

RUMINT: Two ambulances and cars full of Secret Service just left Mar-a-Lago.

This is an actual news broadcast from a legit Tennessee station 2 days ago. Stay tuned until the end for the part about 'their women.'

(I'm actually afraid to hashtag this horror show.)

https://youtu.be/byvkRclGfSE

omg - these ppl have crawled out from under their rocks... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byvkRclGfSE

I would have an existential crisis!!
#humor

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#CoSoHumor #CoSoPolitics #politics

#happypride
I love this message. Bigots can bite me.

I'm old enough to remember when Howard Dean couldn't be president because he yelled a little too enthusiastically in a speech to his supporters.

—Derek Pearce

#politics

House passes HR 9495 which allows TFG to name any non-profit or advocacy group as a terrorist organization without any due process.

This was passed thanks to 15 Democrats voting with the GOP.

https://theintercept.com/2024/11/21/gop-house-trump-nonprofit-authoritarian/

𝐑𝐮𝐝𝐲 𝐆 𝐀𝐭 𝐑𝐢𝐬𝐤 𝐎𝐟 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐭 𝐎𝐟 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭

Georgia election workers Shaye Moss and Ruby Freeman have moved for a civil contempt of court finding against Rudy Giuliani in their defamation case, pointing out to the federal judge in DC that he has continued to defame them in violation of the permanent injunction he agreed to in order to resolve related claims against him.

Firstly, the DOJ is supposed to be apolitical and impartial. Unless of course you're building a 'regime' instead of a government.

Secondly, who the fuck does this shithead think he is?

Come on red states with your #WarOnWomen, "condoms are mandatory for unmarried males." Put your morals where your mouth is.

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The demise of the newspapers -

I got an interesting comment from someone explaining in interesting detail how Craigslist is (partially) responsible for the demise of the newspapers.

Though I agree, this is part of the problem, I posit that the demise of the newspapers is in a large part due to the loss of unbiased newspapers. Our local papers, providing local and national news to over 300k people, were bought out by Gannett, a right wing propaganda outlet. RWNJs bought out many local news