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Clip with video showing it even more than the freeze frame https://xcancel.com/MeidasTouch/status/1846746612980199817
Photo from the Washington Post: [Trump sways and bops to music for 39 minutes in bizarre town hall episode](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/14/trump-music-sways-town-hall/)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20941822
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You love to see it. > Data obtained by Just Security sheds light on exactly why Richer's filing concerned Arizona Republicans so much. > >Overall, registered Republicans represented 37 percent of the voters affected by the glitch, while registered Democrats made up 27 percent and unaffiliated voters represented 29 percent. > >Democratic Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes tells Just Security that the GOP's reversal on this issue shows how little they care for actually maintaining election integrity.
abcnews.go.com
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/28787534 > Dan Osborn has a chance to break Republican control of the senate with an extremely labor-friendly and human rights friendly policy book. He may not be "liberal" liberal but Nebraska is unlikely to ever flip otherwise.
Kamala Harris is running for president, stating that she will support a bill to legalise abortion in the US and override the decision of the supreme court. But why, if the democrats with Joe Biden are in power now, don't they already do that?
A congressman intervened to help former President Donald Trump’s social media company jump the line for a difficult-to-obtain foreign-worker visa to bring a company executive to the U.S., according to interviews and records reviewed by ProPublica. A former staffer for Rep. Don Bacon, a Nebraska Republican, said the congressman personally instructed her to help Trump Media, even though she thought it was inappropriate to mix politics with the office’s constituent services duties.
www.commondreams.org
>"You are currently arming, funding, and defending a genocide in Gaza. That is how history will remember you." >U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was accused of stark hypocrisy on Saturday after he condemned the Myanmar military's genocide against the Rohingya people while simultaneously aiding Israel's genocidal assault on the Gaza Strip.
caitlinjohnstone.com.au
> The empire has weaponized the insight that the only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing, so spreading awareness of the reality that the Democrats are not good people and are not doing good things helps take away that weapon. > “[The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing](https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/12/04/good-men-do/?amp=1).”
www.newsweek.com
>In a double boost for Donald Trump, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Friday afternoon threw his backing behind the former president in the 2024 presidential election while Jill Stein unequivocally stated she will not drop out of the race.
www.washingtonexaminer.com
>West spoke with the Washington Examiner’s Christian Datoc at the Abandon Biden convention, hosted down the street from the Democratic National Convention. He denied in strong terms that he had ever been a fan of “top cop” Vice President Kamala Harris and accused her of complicity in genocide.
www.nbcnews.com
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18926849 > >Polls show that a Kennedy withdrawal would probably help Trump more than it hurts him. But if it does, it’s at the margins — though small margins have ended up deciding recent presidential elections.
thecradle.co
>The US presidential election is a toss-up between a ‘soft-on-Palestine’ Democrat whose boss has armed Israel’s genocide and an unabashedly pro-Israel Republican who doesn’t like war or war budgets. >This has led to the loss of crucial constituencies, including young voters, Arab and Muslim communities, and many progressives. Additionally, many younger and left-leaning Jewish voters “no longer see unequivocal support for Israel as a litmus test.” >While the Democratic party is well aware of this vulnerability, many wonder whether its candidate, Kamala Harris, can win back disappointed voters and bring a new approach to policy toward Gaza – at this late date.
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18852624 > No articles from western owner-class media, yet. > > Please reply with better source if you find one, I will update post ASAP. > > --- > > >ALBAWABA - Egyptian comedian Bassem Youssef went viral on Musk's X (formerly known as Twitter) when the individual's account was removed from the platform after criticizing Israelis using "Antisemitism" as a fear tactic to shut down conversations and scare people into talking their minds. > > >Users claimed that the post in question was the reason Bassem Youssef was allegedly removed on X and yet again judged Musk for promising "freedom of speech" on the platform but censoring pro-Palestine accounts but not pro-Israel ones. > > --- > > https://www.timeturk.com/en/x-account-of-pro-palestinian-egyptian-comedian-disappears/news-102411 > > >The X account of Egyptian-American comedian Bassem Youssef disappeared on Tuesday. --- Edit: added UAE funded source below Bassem Youssef's X account removed following post referring to Israel-Gaza war [Razmig Bedirian | 20 August, 2024 | The National(UAE)] https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/2024/08/20/bassem-youssef-twitter/ >Comedian had criticised weaponisation of the term ‘anti-Semitism’, saying it was being used as a “fear tactic” to “shutdown conversations”
>Former President Trump’s campaign raised nearly $139 million in July, it announced Thursday, following a tumultuous few weeks of the election season. >Trump and its authorized committees raised $138.7 million last month, which brings its total cash on hand to $327 million, the campaign announced. The announcement said the latest numbers “reflect continued momentum with donors at every level and provide the resources for the final 96 days until victory November 5th.” >Harris’s campaign said it raised $200 million in just the first week of her campaign as Democrats rallied behind her and enthusiasm grew among voters. Her campaign also said it signed up more than 170,000 volunteers in the first week. --- Kamala numbers form July 28 2024: Harris Campaign Says It Raised $200 Million Since Biden Dropped Out [ Maggie Astor | July 28, 2024 | NY Times] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/28/us/politics/kamala-harris-fund-raising-week.html
>Newsmax's Mark Halperin reported Thursday afternoon that President Biden will drop out of the 2024 presidential race, will not endorse Vice President Kamala Harris, and instead call for an open convention in Chicago. Halperin told 'FRONTLINE' host Carl Higbie that advisers around Harris are fine with this because she will be seen as independent of the president. Bidenworld is contradicting this report. See below. >"They do not want what some of my sources have been calling a Kamala coronation, that the problem, in part, that they found themselves in was that President Biden was not seriously challenged for the nomination," Halperin reported. "At least one of her allies said to me, this is better, better to not be anointed by Joe Biden, better to show independence, better to show with a strong ticket, the capacity to win the nomination on her own."
Cross-posting here, as the content under discussion is political in nature, and I feel as if the question might be of similar concern to other posters. Most probably don't care; data miners harvesting information to sell to HR departments and hiring managers are a real thing, though, so I think answers are relevant. cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/14464872 > A friend of mine would like to post an op-ed style political essay about the current turmoil in the Democratic Party about Biden's fitness. They are concerned about it affecting their career, should it be linked back to them; the US is highly divided and they know some of their peers are Republicans, and they're not sure about the affiliations of people in their upward chain of command. My friend is concerned that posting an emotional opinion piece might -- if attributed to them and seen -- negatively affect their career. They want to stay anonynmous. > > I think getting something posted anonymously in Lemmy would be fairly easy; no-one is going to trying legally coercing an email out of a Lemmy instance over an op-ed. And getting a boost in Mastodon would be simple. I was hoping that there'd be something like WriteFreely where they could post, but anonymity appears to be not even a consideration by the main developers. > > And then there's the question of how to get links to the essay **out** of the Fediverse, where 90% of the people are. I don't have a Xitter account anymore, and have never had a Facebook account. > > What suggestions does Lemmy have? How, in today's world, does someone anonymously post content? > > Subscript: I do not mean political anonymity -- not in the way that protection from law enforcement is needed. My friend lives in the US where freedom of speech is still more-or-less ensured, and the content is not illegal, incidiary, inciting, or even unusual. However, they want anonymity sufficient to guard against data miners, correlators, and brokers. They need to get something off their chest, express an opinion, but not at a risk to their career.
robertreich.substack.com
cross-posted from: https://mbin.grits.dev/m/politics@lemmy.world/t/233112 > It’s vitally important that Democrats now ask one question and one question only: Does Biden have the best chance of beating Trump, or is there someone else readily available who has a better chance?
www.propublica.org
This Wisconsin pastor was once a political pariah. But now his book is being quoted by politicians and former Trump officials. One activist is using it to disrupt elections.
>Former U.N. ambassador John Bolton said Tuesday that disarray over President Biden’s campaign is helping former President Trump, as Democrats question Biden’s health and mental ability.
>Damon Lindelof, a co-creator of “Lost” and a notable Democratic Party supporter, called on fellow donors to withhold their money until President Biden ends his reelection bid, citing his struggles in the CNN debate against former President Trump last week.
www.independent.co.uk
A teenage stripper and various adult-entertainment businesses are suing Florida over the state’s newest law that raises the minimum age for workers. On July 1, a new Florida law aimed to crack down on human trafficking took effect. Part of it called for those working at adult-entertainment businesses to be at least 21 years old. The businesses include sex shops, adult bookstores and strip clubs. That led to a flurry of lawsuits including one from Serenity Bushey, 19, a dancer at a Florida club. Two strip clubs and a sex shop also filed a lawsuit over the law, according to WKMG. Bushey argues in her lawsuit the law is in violation of her First Amendment rights to allow freedom of expression. The dancer said she and eight other workers at her club lost their jobs because of the new bill.
Since 2017, Wikipedia editors have compiled a list of news sources from which articles are highly likely to employ systematic bias, lack professional editing and/or journalistic standards, regularly misrepresent sources, and/or fabricate information. While its list is by no means a complete list of publications with the aforementioned problems, it has helped make Wikipedia articles more reliable by basing them off of sources covering the same events and information from a more objective and factual point of view. To make Lemmy news communities better than their Reddit counterparts, I think avoiding links to those sources in favor of more reliable alternatives would be worthwhile.
>President Biden brushed off concerns about his debate performance against former President Trump Thursday despite widespread panic among Democrats about how the night played out.
