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Stewart Rhodes Says He’s a Political Prisoner. Are Republicans Listening?

Stewart Rhodes, the founder of Oath Keepers, speaks during a gun rights rally at the Connecticut State Capitol in Hartford, Conn., April 20, 2013. Rhodes has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. He was sentenced Thursday after a landmark verdict convicting him of spearheading a weekslong plot to keep former President Donald Trump in power. (Jared Ramsdell/Journal Inquirer via AP)

The Separation of Powers in a Democracy has the Justice System determine whether actions are treasonous or not, not politicians or politically motivated individuals. Unfortunately in America, it seems that that separation is tenuous in that judges and judicial system is made up of party political appointees. So Rhodes who claims to be a proud American is simply stating the obvious. All prisoners in the US are political and some on a bipartisan basis.

However, not all those incarcerated committed a treasonous act when breaking American laws. Rhodes is no  Cool Hand Luke neither a victim or a hero. He and his band of Oaf Keepers are simply treasonous thugs who stood by and were ready. waiting for the call of the greater Oaf Trump who was President and believed he should be for life. Trump had brown-eyed Democracy and wanted to remain in the job as king  “America’s Shame” is their court system not separate from politics and one also slow to judge those with a degree of status and heaps of money from the wealthy and corporate donors. Wealth allowed Trump to play with the courts and remain free for 78 years. American prisons reflect that very class system within which  US citizens live and by which they’re threatened

Source: Stewart Rhodes Says He’s a Political Prisoner. Are Republicans Listening?

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The crooked timber of an unhappy, dangerous American Empire – Pearls and Irritations

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This sounds like Trump’s description and  cry for MAGA

America is not a bulletproof republic. It is the dying salesman of its own tragedy. It may have passed the point of no return. It is angrily adrift abroad in a seething multipolar world. It is beset at home by accelerating crises of climate, infrastructure, economy, society, culture, and, frankly, common decency.

what of the peoples of secondary status on the periphery of the empire? Like Australia. While the unhappiness of America reveals itself to the world, this outer reach of the empire could choose its own way, like some middle powers not suborned to America. But the haunting question remains: Is Australia as a nation-state capable of responding in a coherent and long-term fashion to disarm the vengeance of an unhappy American empire?

Source: The crooked timber of an unhappy, dangerous American Empire – Pearls and Irritations

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Drawings by Guantánamo ‘Forever Prisoner’ Abu Zubaydah Expose Details of US Torture

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A country that can’t abide by the truth of it’s own mistakes

A report published this week featuring previously unreleased drawings by Abu Zubaydah—a 52-year-old Saudi who has been imprisoned by the United States for more than 20 years at CIA “black sites” and Guantánamo Bay—offers new insight into torture suffered by a man caught up in a case of mistaken identity.

Source: Drawings by Guantánamo ‘Forever Prisoner’ Abu Zubaydah Expose Details of US Torture

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Bitter polarisation of American society undermines case for US alliance – Pearls and Irritations

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It is difficult to imagine a scenario for next year’s Presidential elections which does not increase the already bitter polarisation of American society. The level of irrationality and violence in the United States means that in the coming decades it may well veer between bellicosity and isolationism. In the face of an uncertain American polity, tying ourselves yet closer to the American alliance seems a foolhardy enterprise.

Source: Bitter polarisation of American society undermines case for US alliance – Pearls and Irritations

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Americans Are Dying and Dying … and Dying – CounterPunch.org

However, between 2021 and 2022, life expectancy in the U.S. declined from 77.0 to 76.1 years and the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) reports that this is the lowest level since 1996; for 2022, it increased to 79.05 years. In 2021, life expectancy for males was 73.2 years and for females 79.9 years, and by 2022, male life expectancy reached 73.9 and for females 79.5.

Source: Americans Are Dying and Dying … and Dying – CounterPunch.org

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Conservatives Are Banning Books in America, Not Liberals

For all we hear from conservatives about liberals’ censoriousness, data newly released by the American Library Association is a reminder that the overwhelming majority of book-banning campaigns come from the Right.

Source: Conservatives Are Banning Books in America, Not Liberals

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Have You Noticed America Is Looking Like a Third World Nation? | The Smirking Chimp

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Reagan promised us if we’d just deregulate our media and abandon local ownership requirements for newspapers, radio stations, and TV outlets that we’d end up with a flourishing, diverse, and edifying media sector. He kicked it off by ending enforcement of the Fairness Doctrine in 1987 and Bill Clinton carried it forward with the Telecommunications Act of 1996.

Instead, a small handful of billionaires and rightwing companies own virtually every consequential radio and TV station in the country; most of our local newspapers are bankrupt; more than half of the ones left are owned by a couple of New York-based hedge funds; and hate, lies, and disinformation have proven more effective at driving profits than honest information or concern for the public good so they’ve become an unscrupulous business model on the right.

Source: Have You Noticed America Is Looking Like a Third World Nation? | The Smirking Chimp

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One step away from total fascism – » The Australian Independent Media Network

It keeps getting worse. And surprise, surprise: There’s always a God-fearing, out of touch, stark raving mad, fascist-in-the-making Republican at the root of it.

Here are a handful of news items over the last couple of weeks that a perfect examples of fascism on the march.

Source: One step away from total fascism – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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A Modest Proposal for Banning Australians from Entering this Country | The Smirking Chimp

So, would it be too extreme to suggest that Aussies be banned from entering this country? If a single amoral Australian rat, with a little help from family and friends, can do so much damage to this nation, wouldn’t it be prudent to keep the descendants of British criminals and low lifes from Down Under from coming here? And though we can assume that “some of them may be good people,” as Trump once said about Mexicans, do we really want to take such an obvious risk to our security after what Australians have put us through.

Make America Great Again? Keep the Aussies Out!!!

Source: A Modest Proposal for Banning Australians from Entering this Country | The Smirking Chimp

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Why is Rupert Murdoch’s Lie Machine Poisoning American Democracy? | The Smirking Chimp

 

Australia’s American Ambassador Kevin Rudd is being quoted

“Murdoch is not just a news organisation. Murdoch operates as a political party, acting in pursuit of clearly defined commercial interests, in addition to his far-right ideological world view.”

Source: Why is Rupert Murdoch’s Lie Machine Poisoning American Democracy? | The Smirking Chimp

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End the “Citizens United” Ruling with a “Democracy for All Amendment”

In the United States government has been privatized by the Citizens United ruling of the SCOTUS. Government is now really up for sale and auctioned off to the highest campaign contributors.

Source: End the “Citizens United” Ruling with a “Democracy for All Amendment”

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Biden vs. Trump: Who Created More Jobs In Their First Two Years In Office?

 

President Joe Biden is widely expected to contest the 2024 election, especially if Donald Trump decides to challenge

Trump inherited the longest economic expansion in U.S. history. In his first two years in office, there were 4.5 million new jobs created, according to figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

“We have created a record 12 million new jobs — more jobs created in two years than any president has ever created in four years,” Biden said.

So despite Trump’s strong start, Biden created more than two-and-a-half times the number of jobs as Trump in their first two years in office.

Source: Biden vs. Trump: Who Created More Jobs In Their First Two Years In Office?

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Will Birtherism come back to bite Republicans in the Behind? On top of all his other Lies, is George Santos even a US Citizen?

Nashville (Special to Informed Comment) – Suspicions grow that not only did new Congressman George Santos (R-NY) fabricate his educational and employment record but that he fabricated a marriage in order to get a permanent residency permit (‘green card’).

Let us, as the intel people say, ‘walk the cat backwards’ — ask a series of questions, each reaching further back in time and leading to some logical conclusions.

Santos is openly gay. He says he has a husband and wears a wedding band. Fine. But why then did he marry an American women in 2012 and stay married to her

Source: Will Birtherism come back to bite Republicans in the Behind? On top of all his other Lies, is George Santos even a US Citizen?

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It Turns Out Hillary Clinton, Not Russian Bots, Lost the 2016 Election

A new study of Russia-based Twitter posts by New York University researchers buries the liberal canard that Russian bots played any significant role in swinging the 2016 election for Donald Trump.

Source: It Turns Out Hillary Clinton, Not Russian Bots, Lost the 2016 Election

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Allen Weisselberg jailed for 5 months

Trump Organisation’s former chief financial officer turned star prosecution witness Allen Weisselberg.

Corporate Crime, Corporate Punishment. If only Al Capone was incorporated like Trump. Bet Madhoff wished he was a corporation he wouldn’t have got 150 years.

Weisselberg faced the prospect of up to 15 years in prison – the maximum punishment for the top grand larceny charge – if he were to have reneged on the deal or if he didn’t testify truthfully at the Trump Organisation’s trial. He is the only person charged in the Manhattan district attorney’s three-year investigation of Trump and his business practices.

Source: Allen Weisselberg jailed for 5 months

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The American Right Is Still Showing Worrying Signs of Strength

Republicans didn’t get their predicted “red wave” in the November midterms, but the results were hardly a repudiation of the Right: most of Donald Trump’s endorsed candidates won their races, and the GOP continues to make inroads with voters of color.

Source: The American Right Is Still Showing Worrying Signs of Strength

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“Groomers,” Paul Pelosi and so much more: The most unhinged GOP conspiracy theories of 2022 | Salon.com

Lauren Boebert, Marjorie Taylor Greene and JD Vance (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Murdoch seems to have a greater grip on American than he does Australia with 36% subscriptions to cable TV. Foxtel and Sky News seem more of a joke here than in America. Only 8% watch the ABC so why is he so ineffective an influencer here?

a golden age of conspiracy theory — Republicans have endorsed all kinds of dubious, far-fetched or provably false theories, most based either in denying the validity of election results or embracing the all-encompassing online cult movement QAnon, which is now pretty much the conservative mainstream.

Source: “Groomers,” Paul Pelosi and so much more: The most unhinged GOP conspiracy theories of 2022 | Salon.com

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The MAGAfication of America Is a Prelude to Authoritarianism | The Smirking Chimp

In response, defending the interests of working people, communities of color, LGBTQ individuals and families, and other vulnerable sectors of this society will mean alliances between progressives, liberals, and, in some instances, disaffected and distraught anti-Trump, pro-democracy Republicans. There are too many historical examples of authoritarian and fascist takeovers while the opposition remained split and in conflict not to form such political alliances. Nothing is more urgent at this moment than the complete political defeat of an anti-democratic movement that is, all too sadly, still on the march.

Source: The MAGAfication of America Is a Prelude to Authoritarianism | The Smirking Chimp

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Major Newspapers Push US to Drop Assange Charges

“Twelve years after the publication of ‘Cablegate,’ it is time for the U.S. government to end its prosecution of Julian Assange for publishing secrets,” reads the letter signed by the editors and publishers of The New York Times, The Guardian, Le Monde, Der Spiegel and El País. “Publishing is not a crime.”

Source: Major Newspapers Push US to Drop Assange Charges

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Democrats’ triumph may be miraculous but US is still split down the middle | Michael Cohen | The Guardian

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American Democracy proves itself not to be “the ideal Democracy” but rather a failed experiment. Having said that, it doesn’t mean throwing Democracy out as possibly the most equitable form of government. After all Australia’s system managed to stall the over-exaggerated swing to the right this past decade.

Just as Marx predicted the coming of an ideal state of Communism, the execution of which failed, doesn’t mean Marxism is not a more equitable ideal to Capitalism which has also proved to be an increasing failure with every decade for the past 50 years. Corporations, Governments and Inheritance are institutions that have guaranteed any notion of a “free market”, “merit” or “equitable principles” could never be reached.

America is almost perfectly divided between Democrats and Republicans and neither party can cobble together an effective majority. The 2022 midterms are, on the surface, a win for Democrats, but from a deeper perspective they have simply ratified the status quo of the US as a divided and divisive country.

Source: Democrats’ triumph may be miraculous but US is still split down the middle | Michael Cohen | The Guardian

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Republicans have no excuse for their shameful midterm performance | Washington Examiner

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If Republicans cannot win against a near-octogenarian and historically unpopular president who has presided over the worst inflation in four decades, when exactly can they win? That is the question that any conservative trying to explain away the GOP’s absolutely abysmal midterm election performance must ask themselves.

Source: Republicans have no excuse for their shameful midterm performance | Washington Examiner

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Democratic early voting trounces GOP in three states — analysts see something “different” | Salon.com

"I Voted" stickers cover a table at a polling station (LOGAN CYRUS/AFP via Getty Images)

It’s unclear whether the “Red Wave” the Republicans have been talking about since early 2022 will eventually materialize, but one thing is certain: Something is happening in early voting and it’s helping the Democrats.

Source: Democratic early voting trounces GOP in three states — analysts see something “different” | Salon.com

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The ranting right is winning, from the US to Israel. The left must raise its game | Simon Tisdall | The Guardian

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The planet’s race to hell in a handbasket

Unless polls, pundits and precedents are wildly wrong, Democrats will crash and burn in this week’s US midterm elections. Given the problems he inherited, Joe Biden’s presidency was always likely to end in tears. Expected Republican gains on Tuesday herald a descent into bareknuckle political fisticuffs and legislative gridlock before the 2024 White House race.

Source: The ranting right is winning, from the US to Israel. The left must raise its game | Simon Tisdall | The Guardian

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It’s Critical to See what a Fascist America Looks Like, Before it’s Too Late | The Smirking Chimp

 We know how easily a government can be toppled and how close we came on January 6, 2021: if just five Republicans had not refused to go along with Trump we’d be in this fascist dystopia today.

We can’t pretend we don’t know what’s happening and where it will lead if it’s not stopped.

This election may well seal or determine the fate and future of democracy in the United States and, by extension, most of the rest of the world.

Vote as if it’s your last chance to have your voice heard. Because it may well be

Source: It’s Critical to See what a Fascist America Looks Like, Before it’s Too Late | The Smirking Chimp

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Cult of denial: Lies, injustice and the new American way

IT’S HAPPENING AGAIN.

There are lots of problems with cults, but one is that they’re not terribly self-aware. The Make American Great Again (MAGA) “movement”, to frame it generously, lacks even the most rudimentary self-awareness. Many of its staunchest adherents – zealots, perhaps; those who disseminate their religion with furious keyboard strokes and oddly-placed capital letters (you’ll know them from the Kool-Aid running down their chins) – are not even cognisant of the ideology they’re embracing.

We all know there are Nazis at Trump rallies. There were Nazis at Charlottesville. There were Nazis storming the barricades during the attempted coup on 6 January. We all know the KKK endorses Trump. But the people who don’t know it, the people who deny it with every misspelled slur, every comedic self-own, are Trump supporters.

It’s weird. They don’t even know what they stand for.

Source: Cult of denial: Lies, injustice and the new American way

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More than half of all daily Papers in America are owned by just 10 Syndicates, most of which don’t care about Journalism.

This has rapidly become the standard business model for American newspapering. Today, more than half of all daily papers in America are in the grip of just 10 of these money syndicates. That’s why our “local” papers are dying. It’s not a failure of journalism.

It’s a plunder of journalism by absentee corporate owners.

Source: More than half of all daily Papers in America are owned by just 10 Syndicates, most of which don’t care about Journalism.

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Will a Jury Actually Convict White Insurrectionists of Seditious Conspiracy? | The Smirking Chimp

 

In the case in question, we know the Oath Keepers followed through.

One of the turncoats, Joshua James, swore in his plea deal that he accompanied Rhodes on the run after J6 and saw him buy and distribute thousands of dollars worth of weapons that he intended to use to stop the transfer of power. James also claims that on Jan 20, Rhodes gave him an AR15-style rifle and said he would “not be taken by law enforcement without a fight.”

This is a test of whether the 19th century statute still has teeth and, moreover, whether a jury is willing to apply it to white insurrectionists.

 

Source: Will a Jury Actually Convict White Insurrectionists of Seditious Conspiracy? | The Smirking Chimp

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The most terrifying case of all is about to be heard by the US supreme court | Steven Donziger | The Guardian

The Moore case would in practice strip people of the right to fair elections by placing electoral power in the hands of a small group of officials at the state level who set district maps.

A supermajority of six, unelected ultraconservatives justice – five of which were put on the bench by presidents who did not win the popular vote – have aggressively grabbed yet another batch of cases that will allow them to move American law to the extreme right and threaten US democracy in the process. The leading example of this disturbing shift is a little-known case called Moore v Harper, which could lock in rightwing control of the United States for generations.

Source: The most terrifying case of all is about to be heard by the US supreme court | Steven Donziger | The Guardian

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Left-Wing Journalist Katie Halper Has Been Fired for Calling Israel an Apartheid State

The Hill has fired Katie Halper from its morning show, Rising, for describing Israel’s policies as tantamount to apartheid. It’s a blatant act of censorship to silence a pro-Palestinian journalist.

Source: Left-Wing Journalist Katie Halper Has Been Fired for Calling Israel an Apartheid State

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Detecting the cause of America’s collapsing economy

The dramatic decline of the once-great U.S. economy has important lessons for Australia and the world, as Alan Austin reports. AMERICANS SEEKING WISDOM about the state of their economy will gain little insight from mainstream economics writers. They are like detectives called to investigate an assault. They note boot prints in the garden, the broken living room window and the smell of gunpowder. But they fail to observe the three dead bodies. These are the cadavers:

Source: Detecting the cause of America’s collapsing economy

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US midterms: Republican senator introduces national abortion ban bill

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham.

Welcome to America’s Taliban. Fundamentalism has arrived. A Bill to ban Abortion in all States has been introduced. Education is totally privatised and is whatever you want it to be. None is fine and has been legislated in Florida and Arizona. Flat earth theory is an accepted reality and the states has no responsibility for children. The Republican Dark Ages have been directed and authorised from the top down with guns the ultimate authority just as in Afghanistan.

The introduction of such a bill is a sign of just how potent the abortion issue has become ahead of the midterms.

Women in every US state would be prohibited from having an abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy under a proposed national ban designed to galvanise Republicans ahead of the midterm elections.

Three months after the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion in America, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, an ally of Donald Trump, has introduced legislation for a federal ban, claiming that such a move would get the nation into a position that was “fairly consistent with the rest of the world”.

Source: US midterms: Republican senator introduces national abortion ban bill

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The steep decline in U.S. life expectancy raises questions most politicians want to avoid – Raw Story – Celebrating 18 Years of Independent Journalism

The steep decline in U.S. life expectancy raises questions most politicians want to avoid

We’d be a much healthier nation if we paid more attention to our life expectancy and less to the Gross National Product. A big part of our lousy performance as a country is we measure the wrong things to plot our success. Sadly, whether it be education, healthcare or housing, our system is all about preserving and amassing great wealth — and if you happen to deliver on those three, well, that’s just a happy coincidence.

Source: The steep decline in U.S. life expectancy raises questions most politicians want to avoid – Raw Story – Celebrating 18 Years of Independent Journalism

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The cult of Trump has broken America

Even gun manufactures are now blaming Trump and other politicians for the gun violence. They like Trump will scapegoat anybody rather than blame themselves and their industry.

Donald Trump’s legacy of COVID apathy, gun violence and hatred has set in motion the decay of American democracy, writes Sue Arnold.

The cult of Trump has broken America
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Republicans Advance New Theory: If Trump Even Thought About Doing It, It Is Legal | The Smirking Chimp

Plenty of us dirty fucking hippy bloggers railed for years about how not holding Bush and Cheney accountable for the laws they broke was going to come back to bite us all the next time a Republican became president. Yeah, we told you so.

But back in 2009, no one imagined this. How much worse could it be in 2024? We can’t even imagine. Which is why holding Trump accountable now is absolutely essential.

Republicans Advance New Theory: If Trump Even Thought About Doing It, It Is Legal | The Smirking Chimp
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Trump, Alex Jones and Steve Bannon: GOP goons follow a familiar playbook when accountability knocks | Salon.com

As former federal prosecutor and current defense attorney Ken White noted in a lengthy Twitter thread following the raid, the “feds do not seek search warrants lightly.” As White explained, such warrants generally require “probable cause to believe that the specified location has the specified evidence of a specified federal crime.” This one, in particular, would have been combed over by multiple high-ranking authorities, including Attorney General Merrick Garland himself. Crucially, while we the public do not know the details of what is almost certainly one of the most careful and detailed warrants imaginable, Trump himself does, because the subject of the search is given the warrant.

Trump, Alex Jones and Steve Bannon: GOP goons follow a familiar playbook when accountability knocks | Salon.com
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The fabricated claim that the FBI “planted evidence” at Mar-a-Lago is taking the right by storm | Media Matters for America

Covid and the Flu are nothing compared to the Right-Wing Media fury backing Trump and their effort to take control of America.

The baseless claim that the FBI may have planted evidence while carrying out a court-approved search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence on Monday has surged through right-wing media, as the former president’s allies continue their effort to turn their audiences against the probe and shield Trump from accountability.

The fabricated claim that the FBI “planted evidence” at Mar-a-Lago is taking the right by storm | Media Matters for America
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Trump pushes conspiracy theory about FBI agents “planting” evidence in Truth Social meltdown | Salon.com

Meanwhile Putin is doing to the Ukraine what Trump wished he could have done to America.

Former federal prosecutor Michael Stern suggested that TrumpWorld is trotting out the claim because the FBI may have found damaging evidence at his home.”I have written hundreds of search warrants. Lawyers and people whose homes are being searched are routinely not present during the search,” he wrote. “That Trump is now talking about ‘planted’ evidence means he knows there is something damning they found.”

Trump pushes conspiracy theory about FBI agents “planting” evidence in Truth Social meltdown | Salon.com
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The Most Pathetic Men in America

The Ten Worst People in the Trump Administration | by R.D. Zaha | Medium

Mark Leibovich: “Trump said and did obviously awful and dangerous things—racist and cruel and achingly dumb and downright evil things. But on top of that, he is a uniquely tiresome individual, easily the sorest loser, the most prodigious liar, and the most interminable victim ever to occupy the White House. He is, quite possibly, the biggest crybaby ever to toddle across history’s stage, from his inaugural-crowd hemorrhage on day one right down to his bitter, ketchup-flinging end. Seriously, what public figure in the history of the world comes close? I’m genuinely asking.”

Source: The Most Pathetic Men in America

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Reform the Supreme Court Unelected judges shouldn’t have the power to take away rights most Americans support.

Regardless of anyone’s views on abortion, the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson took away a reproductive right that a half-century of hard-fought judicial precedent had determined was constitutionally protected.

In doing so, the court set a dangerous precedent — that a person’s rights can be taken away.

Overturning Roe v. Wade was a triumph of politics and ideology over constitutional principles. It diminished the power and equality of women, along with transgender men and non-binary people, to make informed decisions about their own bodies without fear of government intrusion.

The opinion itself fails as an application of long-standing constitutional law. The justices arbitrarily discarded precedents they opposed, like Roe and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, threatening the role of precedent in ensuring legal stability.

They selectively reasoned in Dobbs that abortion law should be left to the states, but conveniently did not grant that same level of deference when they declared a New York law unconstitutional for limiting concealed weapons.

This is hardly the first time that the ideologies of Supreme Court justices have shaped their decisions.

 

Source: Reform the Supreme Court Unelected judges shouldn’t have the power to take away rights most Americans support.

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How the Trump Supreme Court became King George III, Depriving us of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness

But we are not actually going back to the eighteenth century, since “originalism” is a scam. We are being delivered into the hands of high-tech, 21st century authoritarians who have invented the personhood of the blastocyte and are using it for the purposes of neo-patriarchy. In that regard, this Evangelical dictatorship has some firm resemblances to the Taliban in Afghanistan, who are not “medieval” either, but very much a movement of contemporary counter-modernity. Ironically, Muslims in general have, and all along had, much more liberal views on abortion than the American Religious Right.

Source: How the Trump Supreme Court became King George III, Depriving us of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness

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56% of Muslim Americans support Women’s Right to choose, and More Muslim-Majority Nations offer Abortion on Demand than do U.S. States

Muslim-majority countries out of 47 surveyed permit abortion on demand. These are Albania, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tunisia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. Another two, Burkina Faso and Guinea, allow abortion in cases of incest and rape, which the new Texas law does not, and Sudan allows it in case of rape.

Several other Muslim-majority states allow abortion where the mother’s physical or mental health would be impaired, not just if her life was endangered . . . Even Saudi Arabia permits abortion where the mother’s health is in danger, as do all but 18 of the 47 nations Shapiro surveyed . . .

Since 43 U.S. states have some restrictions on abortion, in fact, there are more Muslim-majority countries with abortion on demand than there are U.S. states [who allow that] . . .

 With the striking down of Roe, the Federalist Society’s bought-and-paid-for Supreme Court has allowed states to dictate as they will to women over the disposition of their own bodies. Judge Samuel Alito alleged that it was ‘rational’ to protect a blastocyte, a just-fertilized human egg. No one in history ever found that rational. They might have found it doctrinally sound if they were believers (and that only recently). Let’s take a poll of scientists as to whether that is rational. It is actually the imposition of Catholic and Evangelical theology on rational people who reject

Source: 56% of Muslim Americans support Women’s Right to choose, and More Muslim-Majority Nations offer Abortion on Demand than do U.S. States

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Gun rights expanded in US after Supreme Court overturns NY handgun law

Gun rights expanded in US after Supreme Court overturns NY handgun law

Washington: In a major expansion of gun rights, the Supreme Court said Americans have a right to carry firearms in public for self-defence, a ruling likely to lead to more people legally armed in cities and beyond. The ruling on Thursday (US time) came with recent mass shootings fresh in the nation’s mind and gun control being debated in Congress and states.

About a quarter of the US population lives in states expected to be affected by the ruling, which struck down a New York gun law. The high court’s first major gun decision in more than a decade came on a 6-3 split with the court’s conservatives in the majority and liberals in dissent.

Source: Gun rights expanded in US after Supreme Court overturns NY handgun law

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Why gun control laws don’t pass Congress, despite majority public support and repeated outrage over mass shootings

Mass killings are becoming more frequent. Yet there has been no significant gun legislation passed in response to these and other mass shootings. Why?

Source: Why gun control laws don’t pass Congress, despite majority public support and repeated outrage over mass shootings

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Who is More Advanced? 29 Muslim-Majority States will Have more Liberal Abortion Laws than much of America if Roe Falls

John Howard encouraged Evangelist minorities and cults to become donors and to actively participate in the LNP and politics. He saw that ultra-conservatism influence was developing in America. The consequence of which we are seeing and feeling in Australia now. Morrison represents the erosion of our majority Democracy along with it’s central pillar the Separation of Powers. We haven’t just witnessed but felt Australia’s slide towards an ultra-right Christian theocracy leading to minority rule over the majority. The ALP is currently the only Party representative of the Australian ideal of majority representation and a government that respects all Australians equally. One we last witnessed during Rudd/ Gillard era.

Morrison’s first bill on his agenda should he win is the RDB with no protection for LGBTQI’s why? Who is he really working for?

The American Religious Right as a political force is in some ways a creation of the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that made abortion a woman’s right grounded in Americans’ constitutional right to privacy. Opposition to abortion and to a right to privacy united previously divided factions within US Christianity, Evangelicals and Roman Catholics, and galvanized the previously quietist Evangelicals to go into politics.

Source: Who is More Advanced? 29 Muslim-Majority States will Have more Liberal Abortion Laws than much of America if Roe Falls