I am truly surprised at the number of people that can't recall a time in very recent history when trusted politicians, journalists, media outlets and notable public figures wittingly and unwittingly conspired to use overblown news reports & wild reactions to those reports in a feedback loop to prevent the best Presidential candidate for the American people being elected, handing the election to the best candidate for the American oligarchs instead.

#politics #journalism #Election2024

If you are a U.S. resident and kind of down about the various Supreme Court decisions, the corruption of many in power and complicity of others, do not despair. Pick one thing even a small thing to do today and do it. Even just writing your members of Congress -- even if they are Republicans! maybe especially! -- to ask them to do something helps. It's not everything and no one thing you can do will fix any of our problems. But something, anything, helps.

Why is it a bad thing to have a "no politics" policy? Well, because some people *existing* is considered political and therefore excluded. Here is a dev saying that the pronouns they/them are political and it's instead non-political to only use he/him: https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/24647#issuecomment-2203925118

How do 20% of people still vote for Macron. WERE YOU GUYS ALIVE IN 2023 DURING THE SIX MONTHS OF PROTESTS WE HAD ?! I feel like I'm living in an alternative dimension.

#FrPol #FrenchPolitics #PolitiqueFrançaise

The two candidates in today's primaries that received substantial backing from cryptocurrency PACs both won their primaries.

1. John Curtis defeated Trent Staggs in the Republican Utah Senate primary, with the help of $5 million in crypto industry funding.

2. George Latimer defeated Jamaal Bowman in the Democratic primary for NY H-16, with the help of $2 million in crypto industry funding.

#USpolitics #crypto #cryptocurrency #CryptoLobby

If you're wondering what the gambling gate news stuff is being used to cover. It's this.

"Tories instruct lawyers to fight release of Universal Credit documents ahead of election"

And remember the UK has the lowest welfare benefits of any European country. Universal credit is already spec'd to be punitive. Cutting it only punches down on the weakest and most vulnerable in our society.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/tories-instruct-lawyers-fight-release-33089620

I see you Valérie Plante...

Montréal gets a Fête Nationale parade w/ no red tape politics. https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/thousands-brave-the-weather-for-montreal-s-fete-nationale-parade-1.6938994

Canada Day parade cancelled b/c of red tape politics: https://www.cp24.com/news/organizer-cancels-montreal-canada-day-parade-citing-red-tape-politics-1.6938117 #polMTL #MTLpoli #cdnpoli #polcan #valerieknowsbest #BS

"Someone who made $10M in salary last year criticizing the capital gain changes is kind of making the Liberals case for them." - Greg McEachern, CBC Power & Politics

Under Mulroney's Conservative govt the capital gains inclusion rate (the portion of your gain that is taxed) was 75%. Today's inclusion rate is 50% and is being raised to 66%

Most Canadians never have capital gains income, so many don’t clearly understand what it is. #Poilievre is scoring again with misinformation.
#lying #cdnpoli

Who paid for Nikki Haley's staged & intentionally inflammatory photo op? AFAIK tourists aren't typically allowed to visit artillery units in combat zones and get hands on with live munitions.

What is going on here? Why does the press seem disinterested in how this eye-candy for pro-genocide Americans came to be?

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/nikki-haley-finish-them-bomb-israel-gaza-1235028702/

#politics #journalism

The 2025-27 Bike Plan is a big disappointment considering four cyclists were killed this year & it falls short of our TransformTO climate goals. My latest blog post discusses the plan & calls on Mayor Olivia Chow to demand more. #BikeTO #TOpoli #VisionZero http://www.twowheeledpolitics.ca/2024/05/torontos-bike-plan-recycling-act.html