#republicans
US House Passes Bill that Threatens Civil Society Organizations
On November 21, 2024, the US House of Representatives passed H.R. 9495, which would grant the secretary of the US Department of the Treasury unilateral authority to remove the tax-exempt status of any US nonprofit group that it designates a “terrorist supporting organization,” which the legislation does not clearly define. The bill does not require the government to provide evidence to support such a decision.
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The House of Representatives on Thursday approved H.R. 9495, dubbed the
"nonprofit killer" by civil society groups. The measure would give the
incoming Trump administration broad authority to go after its critics by
revoking the tax-exempt status of any group it labels a "terrorist
supporting organization," with no evidence needed. The bill passed on a
219-184 vote, with 15 Democrats joining Republicans. H.R. 9495 has the
support of the Anti-Defamation League and other Israel lobby groups.
Critics warn the law would immediately target organizations fighting for
Palestinian rights. The bill's fate in the Senate remains uncertain.
#human-rights #human-rights-watch #hrw #civil-rights #trump #republicans #republican-party #civil-society #israel #palestine #palestinians #gaza
After the mass deportation, the jobs that open up are the jobs that Trump should be forced to do.
♲ Ham on Wry - 2024-11-09 00:40:00 GMT
Fun Fact: If there is a mass deportation, the jobs that open up are jobs Americans don’t want to do. They’re labor intensive, pay less than minimum wage and are dirty.As the productivity drops in many areas, prices will rise…..especially in the food industry.
The more you know.
https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/113383122680525196 Nonilex@masto.ai - This was the #KamalaHarris video shared by #BadBunny.
#PuertoRican artists #JenniferLopez & #RickyMartin also shared #Harris’s video on their Instagram accounts, each expressing their support for her. The three artists alone have more than 314 million Instagram followers between them.
#MAGA #Republicans #WhiteSupremacy #intolerance #racism #hate
https://hartmannreport.com/p/trumps-backdoor-to-the-white-house-aba
#Trump’s Backdoor to the White House
#Republicans are gaming the system for a second Trump term—here’s how they plan to pull it off...
#ThomHartmann
..."The three states most likely to swing the election in the Electoral College this year are Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. And, just by coincidence of course, Republicans in those state passed laws in 2020 guaranteeing election day chaos around their vote counting this November 5th.
Trump and the GOP know there’s no way he’s going to win the national popular vote; the last Republican initially elected to the White House with a majority of America’s voters was George HW Bush in 1988. Republicans just aren’t that popular with the American people.
Poppy Bush’s son George lost in 2000 by a half-million votes, but got five Republicans on the Supreme Court (including two appointed by Daddy) to block the recount in Florida that would have shown that Al Gore won the state and thus that year’s election.
Like Bush, Trump lost the election in 2016 by three million votes. But in five swing states — focused on by Vladimir Putin and Jill Stein — he was able to eke out a tiny Electoral College win. And then everybody forgot he had lost by 3 million votes. Tip your hat to our media.
This year, Republicans are again counting on the Electoral College (and Jill Stein, Putin, and Elon Musk) as their first line of defense, focusing billions of dollars on a handful of swing states with ads that range from deceptive to outright lies. It’s all backed up by a massive Russian effort on social media.
If it looks like that’s going to fail, however, their primary Plan B is to replicate their 2000 strategy of messing with the vote at the local level, and using the chaos from that to get the election in front of their Republican friends in the Supreme Court. To that end, they’re preparing a variety of lawsuits (check out Marc Elias’ site, Democracy Docket) in swing states.
...
Republicans in those three states — when they controlled them in 2020 — passed sweeping election laws preventing any mail-in ballots from being counted until Election Day, guaranteeing that election workers would be overwhelmed and the results will be delayed.
Democrats took over Michigan and in 2023 amended the law so ballots can be processed before Election Day, thwarting their plans there. But Democrats don’t and haven’t taken back the legislatures of Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, so the GOP’s laws stand: Mail-in ballots can’t be counted until election day in those states.
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Republican leaders and the billionaires who own them know that if they lose this election in a blowout, it might be years, or (like in the 1930-1980 era, decades) before they can again climb to power, particularly if the Harris administration is successful in rebuilding the American middle class that’s been gutted so badly by Reaganomics."...
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October 14, 2024
Trump Threatens to Deploy Troops on U.S. Soil to Target "Radical Left"
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump called on Sunday for the
National Guard or U.S. military to be deployed on U.S. soil to target
what he called "radical left lunatics." Trump made the call during an
interview on Fox News.
Donald Trump: "I think the bigger problem are the people from within. We
have some very bad people. We have some sick people, radical left
lunatics. And I think they're the - and it should be very easily handled
by - if necessary, by National Guard or, if really necessary, by the
military, because they can't let that happen."
#trump #martial-law #election #fox-news #radical-left #national-guard #military-rule #republican-party #republicans #conservatives
In Texas’ Third-Largest County, the Far Right’s Vision for Local Governing Has Come to Life
https://www.propublica.org/article/tarrant-county-judge-tim-ohare-far-right
No Compromise: Tim O’Hare’s leadership in Tarrant County, Texas, gives a glimpse of far-right priorities: cutting programs for at-risk youth, targeting elections and stifling dissent.
The Last Battleground: Tarrant County, home to 2.2 million people and the city of Fort Worth, is the most significant political battleground between Republicans and Democrats in Texas.
Winning Elections: O’Hare has pushed to end free bus rides to the polls for poor residents and close polling locations on college campuses, which GOP leaders said would help the party.Over the past two decades, Tim O’Hare methodically amassed power in North Texas as he pushed incendiary policies such as banning undocumented immigrants from renting homes and vilifying school curriculum that encouraged students to embrace diversity.
#politics #texas #republican-party #republicans #right-wing #election #tim-ohare #far-right #radical #hate #bigotry
https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/113268522361215044 GottaLaff@mastodon.social - 2 weeks ago.
Two. Weeks. Ago. #ProLifeMyAss Â
Via Kamala HQ:
These are the #Republicans who voted against #FEMA funding two weeks ago
https://www.newsletter.peoplepowerunited.org/p/reproductive-freedom-for-all-news
#Reproductive #Freedom for All - News Briefing - October 2, 2024
❤️ Our right to reproductive freedom must be protected. Read the latest updates and join the movement to hold our leaders accountable to the people's will.
#PeoplePowerUnited
..."FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 2, 2024
People Power United declares that #MAGA #Republicans are relentlessly attacking reproductive freedom, undermining the rights and autonomy of millions of Americans. Their harmful agenda puts personal medical decisions in the hands of #politicians, stripping away essential #healthcare and endangering lives.
In response to recent MAGA shenanigans to harm Americans, People Power United - a progressive grassroots group - issued the following statement:
“We must stand united to protect reproductive justice and preserve the rights of all people to control their own bodies. There is no power like that of the people, and People Power United stands ready to protect our communities against any and all injustices,” said Laurie Woodward GarcĂa of People Power United.
People Power United will continue to oppose such harm to our community and champion civil rights for all.
Daily Calls-To-Action
People Power United members are committed to championing progress and power to the people. We don’t just complain, we do the work to make change happen. Join us to push back against harms to our community:
Stop Funding Anti-Choice Crisis Pregnancy Centers
Tell Your Representative: Abortion is a Human Right!
Pass the Women's Health Protection Act and Protect Abortion
Pass the Right to Contraception Act "...
#usa #trump #republicans
Mariana Trench
How low can America go?
- "It can be seen that if you dig a hole straight down from almost anywhere in the United States, you'll reach the floor of the Indian Ocean, somewhere between Australia and Africa."
See y'all there. - Girl Of The Sea
Trump can't admit he lost the debate, so #GOP calls for an investigation
#Republicans are now claiming that ABC News, which hosted the debate, provided Harris with questions in advance and promised to fact-check #Trump while leaving Harris unhindered. They’re also claiming that there is a “whistleblower” willing to detail how ABC helped Harris—though they can’t seem to decide if that whistleblower is dead or alive.
Trump’s real problem is that he’s a #loser who never wants to admit he lost. That was true in 2020, and it’s still true today. To cover up his losing, Trump employs a three-part plan:
- Insist in advance that his opponents will cheat
- Claim to have won no matter how badly he lost
- Then spread #conspiracy theories about why he lost.
Watching the 2024 election unfold, it is natural to conclude that Republicans don't care about democracy. This would be a mistake.
As observed by @jrsy@diasp.org, They do give a damn. They despise it.
Democracy in Chains
A Wikipedia article about the 2017 nonfiction book by Nancy Maclean.
FTA: MacLean argues that Buchanan believed democracy must be suppressed for capitalism to flourish, which explains why the right wing, funded behind the scenes by secretive dark money networks, engages in anti-democratic behavior and policy-making, such as opposing unions and Social Security, supporting voter suppression and privatization, and placing impenetrable barriers to popular and social democracy. The book was a finalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction. Reviewers received it mostly along partisan political lines.
Have you ever wondered why so many Republicans talk like fascists?
It's cause they are fascists. This is not metaphor. It is not hyperbole. The Republican Party is the American Fascist party.
Their fascist leanings became clear in the 2016 presidential election, and they are become fully formed and glaringly obvious in the 2024 election.
MAGA--Growing the Dem Party 100 Republicans at a time.
♲ Flipboard News Desk - 2024-08-27 18:26:47 GMT
More than 200 former Republican presidential staffers sign open letter endorsing Kamala Harris over Donald Trump.AP reports: "Several Republicans, including Mesa, Arizona, Mayor John Giles, former Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois and former Trump press secretary Stephanie Grisham, spoke in favor of Harris at last week’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago."
No analysis of the predicates for today's GOP is adequate without the context of the NeoConfederates who have passed on their forefathers' grudge about losing the Civil War, and the prominent place that Arizona plays in that. See also AZ Governor Ev Mecham.
♲ Bibliolater 📚📜🖋 - 2024-08-20 17:45:50 GMT
🔴 🇺🇸 🗳️ History professor examines Nelson Rockefeller’s career as a lens for Republican Party’s rightward shift“When Ronald Reagan left office, people like Newt Gingrich were more antagonistic and had a more ideological approach to conservatism. They kept pushing the party further and further to the right. What we see now in the Republican party is part of this long tradition during the 20th century,” Barrett said. “It will continue down this path as long as enough voters find this version of conservatism attractive.”
đź”— https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/1960461744
#History #Histodon #HIstodons #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Rightwing #Republicans #Conservatives #Politics #USPolitics #USPol #Elections @histodon @histodons
Prominent Republicans supporting Harris will speak at the Democratic National Convention
https://www.npr.org/2024/08/19/g-s1-17582/republicans-for-harris-dnc-chicago-election
#democratic #convention #republicans
Hold the phone, Leeroy.
Harris has also been abroad as Biden's stand-in, thus being already familiar on the world stage. Hillary worked her arse off as Sec. of State, but the world wasn't in a state back then like it is now, so Harris has been double-teaming with Blinken.
♲ anubis2814 - 2024-07-25 04:09:43 GMT
As someone here pointed out, and it bears repeated by multiple people that #VicePresidentHarris hasn't done a lot outside of DC that most VPs do because she had to spend all of her time in Washington breaking tie votes. She's broken more tie votes that any other VP in US history. The last VP to do even close to this much was John C Calhoun. The #vicepresident is supposed to be a boring ass job where tie breaking is rare so they go out and do stuff the president asks them to do. Instead she's had to essentially keep her senator role, and ONLY because republicans refuse to compromise on ANYTHING. Don't let people tell you she hasn't been doing anything, she's worked harder than any other VP in history. She'd love to enjoy her fun VP side projects but she's literally too busy for that. Haven't heard much from her in the past 4 years? Blame the #republicans
#kamala2024 #harris2024
Waddaya mean, "not bad at business"? He turned Twitter into a cesspool.
♲ Today's Top Quotes ✅ - 2024-07-24 02:36:30 GMT
Donald #Trump got suckered by a guy who actually is rich and not bad at business. #Elon Musk wanted #Vance as vice-president, so he did what he knew Trump couldn't resist: promised him tons of money. Now Trump is stuck with this odd, unlikeable character as his VP and Elon never delivered. I'd call that the real art of the deal — Stuart Stevens #quotes #quote #Sucker #Republicans
Trying same shit over again expecting different results.
♲ Ham on Wry - 2024-07-23 05:17:35 GMT
The #Republicans and criminal #trump are already claiming that #KamalaHarris isn’t from America.Lol … and we already know how that same tactic backfired when they tried it with #BarakObama
Parroting the words of Markwayne Mullin...or is it vice-versa?
♲ br00t4c - 2024-07-21 23:58:33 GMT
Republicans call on Biden to leave White House#joebiden #republicans
