Huntn00 @Huntn00@talkedabout.social
#PoliticalModerate #Independent, #SocialLiberal, #Agnostic, #Unions, #Veteran, retired airline pilot. Supports level playing fields, equal opportunity, and democracy, not how to twist it to my advantage; capitalism/corporation critic, 🚫Today’s GOP, 🚫MAGA. Human species pessimist, pondering the Great Filter and do we have the Right Stuff? 🇺🇸 Citizen residing in a blue enclave of Texas.
Joined May 2023
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Chinese Legislation Takes Aim at US Trade Sanctions https://www.voanews.com/a/chinese-legislation-takes-aim-at-us-trade-sanctions-/7175546.html #voanews #voiceofamerica
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“Associated Press obtained tens of thousands of pages of emails and other documents that reveal the extent to which public colleges and universities have seen visits by justices as opportunities to generate donations -– regularly putting #SCOTUS justices in the room with influential donors, including some whose industries have had interests before the court.”
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Joyce Vance looks at what Alabama Republican senator Turbeville is doing, holding up more than 250 military promotions and, as of yesterday, causing the Marines to be without a Senate-confirmed commandant. Tuberville opposes the military's policy permitting enlistees to access reproductive health care of ouf state when necessary.
Republicans as a party supporting the military? Hardly, she concludes.
#Tuberville #Alabama #Republicans #military
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https://joycevance.substack.com/p/tommy-tuberville-whats-wrong-with
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"Trump supporters are consolidating around the former president and so-called Christian democracy. They are enforcing loyalty so tightly that the far-right House Freedom Caucus recently expelled Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) either because she is too close to House speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) or because she called Representative Lauren Boebert (R-CO) a 'little bitch' on the floor of Congress, or both."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
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http://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/jul/11 In South Carolina, where 55 Council chapters were active by July 1956, 17 Black parents were fired or evicted from their farms within two weeks of signing a pro-integration petition in the small town of Elloree. In Yazoo County, Mississippi, when 53 Black residents signed an NAACP petition for integration, the local Council published their names in a newspaper ad, leading to harassment, firing, and credit cancellation. In the end, all signers removed their names from the petition and the Yazoo County NAACP disbanded.
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At this Cleveland forum, Jewish and Black people discuss religion, politics and privilege
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Interesting results. Either the fediverse is healthier than the world in general, or the responses were way too limited.
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Why is Barbie getting so much attention?
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It ought to be stunning that #Alabama’s contract review committee on Thursday reapproved 26 deals paying up to $14.9 million to one lawyer – Bill Lunsford – to defend the state’s disgraceful prison system.
Oughta be. —John Archibald
https://www.al.com/news/2023/07/archibald-alabama-sticker-shock-leads-to-sicker-shock.html
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The biggest Federal Scam of all time related to COVID relief. Who are you going to blame? https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/covid-relief-scam-fraud-money-billions-1234784448/ You might wonder how much debt the USA can handle before we tip over? One of the fundamental problems is the GOP constantly promising to lower taxes, with the goal of eradicate social spending, that lowers the wealthy people’s taxes by millions and you average citizen get $100 off. We need a discussion about taxes and how we spend our tax money. A talk less likely from the GOP.
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"That a Republican is undermining the military belies the party’s traditional claim to be stronger on military issues than the Democrats. So does the attack of House Republicans on our nation’s key law enforcement entities—the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation—after traditionally insisting their party works to defend 'law and order.'”
~ Heather Cox Richardson
I want to apologize, I spend a lot of time ragging on humans and humanity. To clarify there are outstanding, good, mediocre, sheep, genius, ignorant, bad, and very bad people out there. And it’s complicated. Good people can be assets to our society, but still make poor environmental choices. Collectively we will produce an outcome for ourselves and the Planet. Sadly I am a pessimist about our ability to collectively make the right choices. Read up on #TheGreatFilter. 😔
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Donald Trump has boasted that if he were president again, he could end Russia’s war with Ukraine. But Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky called bullshit, saying that Trump already had his chance to end Vladimir Putin’s aggression against his country. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/zelensky-trump-claim-end-war-russia-1234785289/
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With a new CEO stepping in, Unilever must now do the right thing and exit russia
Still operating in russia currently means financing putin’s war in #Ukraine . It’s time for #Unilever to face reality, end its hypocrisy and exit the country for good
By Margaret Hodge
Yesterday, Hein Schumacher started his first week as Unilever’s new CEO. His number one priority should be reassessing Unilever’s business operations in russia.
Read more here 📎 https://www.cityam.com/with-a-new-ceo-stepping-in-unilever-must-now-do-the-right-thing-and-exit-russia
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There seems to be a great number of bee keepers and "bee allies" on Mastodon. Is this true? If it is, I find that very reassuring.
#PoliticalModerate #Independent, #SocialLiberal, #Agnostic, #Unions, #Veteran, retired airline pilot. Supports level playing fields, equal opportunity, and democracy, not how to twist it to my advantage; capitalism/corporation critic, 🚫Today’s GOP, 🚫MAGA. Human species pessimist, pondering the Great Filter and do we have the Right Stuff? 🇺🇸 Citizen residing in a blue enclave of Texas.
Joined May 2023
