Posts by ZhiZhu@newsie.social
(DIR) Post #Ahr9drjP4LH52eRbY8 by ZhiZhu@newsie.social
2024-05-13T16:04:44Z
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"You all are wealthy enough, he said, that you should raise $1 billion to return me to the White House...Giving $1 billion would be a “deal,” Trump said, because of the taxation and regulation they would avoid thanks to him"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/09/trump-oil-industry-campaign-money/#Trump #GOP #MAGA #Corruption #MarALago #Oil #BigOil #US #Politics #USPol #USPolitics #USA #TaxTheRich
(DIR) Post #Aip4GCZv8li4UUaIiG by ZhiZhu@newsie.social
2024-06-11T15:50:40Z
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Texas will continue its ban on abortions in medical emergencies, state Supreme Court rulesA challenge brought by patients and doctors argued that the state’s strict laws endanger the lives of people whose pregnancies develop serious complications.- @19thnews https://19thnews.org/2024/05/texas-abortion-lawsuit-ruling-rejects-medical-exemptions/#Women #WomensRights #HumanRights #Health #Healthcare #GOP #Republicans #Misogyny #Politics #Texas #USA #News
(DIR) Post #AkJ8nWYhERJDYVUNk0 by ZhiZhu@newsie.social
2024-07-26T01:49:32Z
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"Vance is apparently offended that ungrateful American #women like #KamalaHarris demand not just #BirthControl and #abortion but also the right to #divorce. He has argued forcefully that no-fault divorce is a mistake—that even those in violent, #abusive marriages shouldn’t have the option."https://newrepublic.com/article/184142/jd-vance-attacks-kamala-harris-grateful-white-male-power#JDVance #Vance #Misogyny #Sexism #Violence #DomesticViolence #GOP #Politics #USPol #USPolitics #US #USA #News
(DIR) Post #AkaaBGHbOeqSTdM6aG by ZhiZhu@newsie.social
2024-08-03T05:29:36Z
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"Vote on... you have to vote on November 5th. After that, you don't have to worry about #voting anymore. I don't care because we're going to fix the…the country will be fixed & we won't even need your #vote anymore"https://www.mediamatters.org/laura-ingraham/laura-ingrahams-question-about-future-elections-leads-bizarre-response-donald-trump When #Trump says, "I don't care because we're going to fix the..."I have to wonder if he was going to say, "fix the vote".Fix it how?WHY WON'T PEOPLE NEED TO VOTE ANYMORE?#Weird🧵 1/#GOP #Politics #Project2025 #USA #Election2024 #2024Election #Meme
(DIR) Post #AkaaBH98BdfB9eOr1E by ZhiZhu@newsie.social
2024-08-03T05:33:15Z
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#Trump keeps telling people they won't need to vote after the #2024Election. What does he mean?"Trump told Believers Summit attendees... a #conservative political advocacy group. “I’m a #Christian. I love you. Get out, you gotta get out and vote. In four years, you don’t have to #vote again, we’ll have it #fixed so good you’re not going to have to vote.”"https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/08/02/trump-weird-nabj-jewish-christian-voters/🧵 2/#GOP #MAGA #Corruption #Democracy #SaveDemocracy #Politics #Election2024 #USA #USPol #US #News
(DIR) Post #AkaaBIsBlbIcVgULtA by ZhiZhu@newsie.social
2024-08-03T07:55:10Z
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" #DonaldTrump doubled down Monday on his recent statement that conservative Christians won’t have to vote again if they help elect him in November. At a campaign event for evangelical #Christians last week, the former president said: “Christians, get out & vote. Just this time. You won’t have to do it anymore. Four more years. You know what? It’ll be #fixed. It’ll be fine. You won’t have to #vote anymore.”"👀 🚩 https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-07-31/trump-vote-election-autocrats-dictatorship-mussolini-hitler🧵 3/#Trump #Fascism #Authoritarianism #GOP #USPol #USA
(DIR) Post #AkaaBKKwKBtL38wpLE by ZhiZhu@newsie.social
2024-08-03T08:05:10Z
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"Free & fair elections have been a nightmare for #Trump, who lost the popular vote in 2016 & was voted out of office in 2020 after one term...No wonder the former president is all in for the #authoritarian alternative. Autocrats have long seen depending on #elections to decide one’s #political fate as unacceptable. They have "fixed” #democratic systems by ending free & fair elections so they could stay in power indefinitely, just as Trump seems to wont to do."🧵 4/#GOP #fascism #Politics
(DIR) Post #AkaaBL8DMzJ5Vy0B96 by ZhiZhu@newsie.social
2024-08-03T08:30:06Z
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" #Trump seems to want something even more radical: no voting at all. The #GOP supports this with claims that #elections have been so corrupted by Democrats that they have ceased to be a valid way to choose leaders. As the #MAGA loyalist Sen. Tommy Tuberville of #Alabama told Newsmax in 2023, “The American people should just stand up and say, ‘Listen, enough’s enough, let’s don’t have #elections anymore.’ ”https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-07-31/trump-vote-election-autocrats-dictatorship-mussolini-hitler🧵 5/#Republicans #Fascism #Authoritarianism #USPol #Weird
(DIR) Post #Al0kqHPg9MBrVUHzFo by ZhiZhu@newsie.social
2024-08-15T20:33:35Z
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"In deciding upon which private-sector entities to contract with, the #US government considers the contractor’s reliability. Musk’s mercurial, impulsive temperament makes him and the companies he heads unreliable. The #government also considers whether it is contributing to a #monopoly. Musk’s #SpaceX is fast becoming one....American taxpayers should stop subsidizing #ElonMusk. Stop. Him. Now."- @rbreich https://robertreich.substack.com/p/time-to-stop-musk?r=g7z5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&triedRedirect=true#Musk #Corruption #Twitter #Politics #US #USPol #USA
(DIR) Post #AlLrAC22XxBqeZGl4S by ZhiZhu@newsie.social
2024-08-18T21:10:09Z
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"In #Britain, the canary has sung. This summer we have witnessed something new and unprecedented. The #billionaire owner of a #tech platform publicly confronting an elected leader and using his platform to undermine his authority and incite #violence. Britain’s 2024 summer #riots were #ElonMusk ’s trial balloon.He got away with it."https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/18/inciting-rioters-in-britain-was-a-test-run-for-elon-musk-just-see-what-he-plans-for-america#SocialMedia #Disinformation #Propaganda #Lies #Twitter #Musk #Politics #US #USPol #USA #News
(DIR) Post #AlLrAD9WNcli83mFN2 by ZhiZhu@newsie.social
2024-08-18T21:17:18Z
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"If #Musk chooses to “predict” a #CivilWar in the States, what will that look like? If he chooses to contest an #election result? If he decides that #democracy is over-rated? This isn’t #scifi. It’s literally three months away.None of this is happening in a vacuum. For a brief minute after 2016, there was an attempt to understand how these tech platforms had been used to spread lies & falsehoods... But that moment has passed."https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/18/inciting-rioters-in-britain-was-a-test-run-for-elon-musk-just-see-what-he-plans-for-america#ElonMusk #Twitter #Disinformation #News
(DIR) Post #AlLrAEieYUSszJDolk by ZhiZhu@newsie.social
2024-08-18T21:23:25Z
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"A #US congressional committee headed by #Republican Jim Jordan, convinced that big tech was silencing conservative voices, went on the warpath... Whole #university departments have collapsed, including the #Stanford #Internet Observatory whose #election integrity unit provided rapid detection and analysis in 2020.Even the #FBI has been prevented from communicating with #tech companies about what officials have warned is a coming onslaught of foreign #disinformation and influence operations"
(DIR) Post #AlLrAG3xYl6P9gCLcO by ZhiZhu@newsie.social
2024-08-18T21:29:58Z
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" #Twitter... has sacked at least half its trust & safety team. But then so has every #tech company we know about. Thousands of workers previously employed to sniff out #misinformation have been laid off by #Meta, #TikTok, #Snap and #Discord.Just last week, #Facebook killed off one of its last remaining transparency tools...In 2020, these efforts seemed pathetic, paltry, inadequate to the scale of the threat.Now they’re gone"https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/18/inciting-rioters-in-britain-was-a-test-run-for-elon-musk-just-see-what-he-plans-for-america#SocialMedia #Election2024 #USA #News
(DIR) Post #AlbF31uH6cy5Ui9Yxs by ZhiZhu@newsie.social
2024-09-02T16:48:09Z
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@futurebird That might explain why Trump keeps calling the USA "a failing nation" when the US is actually doing quite well, especially financially when compared to other developed nations.It's an attempt to get US voters to buy his quack "cure"#Meme #Memes #Politics #Trump #GOP #USPol #USA #US #UnitedStates #Election2024
(DIR) Post #AmDzeNVTjtPl6AmNX6 by ZhiZhu@newsie.social
2024-09-21T10:05:28Z
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@futurebird Hubby sent me this a while back. It seemed appropriate to share.#SingularThey #Meme #Memes
(DIR) Post #AmIC8HhjquatsBNe5o by ZhiZhu@newsie.social
2024-09-23T09:01:57Z
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"Trump raised the subject again. “If I don’t win this #election … the #Jewish people would really have a lot to do with that"...his latest remarks... threaten, if he does lose, and especially if he continues this line of argument, to unleash the fury of disappointed Trump supporters on #Jews. It does not take much to imagine the backlash, & the #violence, that could ensue. We Jews know something about being scapegoated."https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/09/22/donald-trump-jews-dangerous-antisemitism/#Trump #GOP #Politics #Election2024 #USA #News
(DIR) Post #AmIC8IeELRNknakMGO by ZhiZhu@newsie.social
2024-09-23T09:09:31Z
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"Trump has long had an unnerving habit of bringing up the fact of people’s #Judaism — sometimes mistakenly — on occasions when it seems irrelevant at best...Trump talks about #Jews in ways that are offensively stereotypical even as they purport to be laudatory: “I’m here with my two #Jewish lawyers,”... “Don’t you think it’d be good for me to have a Jewish agent?”"https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/09/22/donald-trump-jews-dangerous-antisemitism/#Trump #AntiSemitism #Racism #GOP #Politics #Election2024 #News #USA #US #UnitedStates
(DIR) Post #AmIC8KXZJBF2fVe49o by ZhiZhu@newsie.social
2024-09-23T09:29:33Z
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" #Trump consistently speaks in ways that suggest #American Jews have dual loyalty to the #UnitedStates and #Israel... He called Benjamin #Netanyahu “your prime minister” at a 2019 #Republican Jewish Coalition event. In a 2020 Rosh Hashanah call with #American Jewish leaders, Trump said, “We really appreciate you; we love your country also.”Your, your, your. Wrong, wrong, wrong. We are #JewishAmericans, not Israelis, & it is beyond insulting to imply otherwise."https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/09/22/donald-trump-jews-dangerous-antisemitism/#News
(DIR) Post #AmIC8LroNP1oma7kLg by ZhiZhu@newsie.social
2024-09-23T09:32:12Z
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"Trump’s been on this rant about supposedly self-hating Jews for months now. He has no standing to lecture me or anyone else about what it takes to be a good #Jew.His ominous new turn is instructing other people that #Jews like me would be at fault if he loses. And that is not just insulting — it’s #threatening and #dangerous.We’ve seen this move before. It needs to be called out because it does not end well."https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/09/22/donald-trump-jews-dangerous-antisemitism/#Trump #AntiSemitism #Violence #Religion #Politics #News
(DIR) Post #AmVQ9dB3QX8dAl6kCW by ZhiZhu@newsie.social
2024-09-29T19:52:37Z
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@futurebird Did you mean to post "Twitter is dead" in the CW?Not sure what "Twitter is deal" means. 😉