GOP Gets More Pathetic By The Day – In Saner Thought

Was it over when the Benghazi investigation found nothing?  Was it nothing  about the Clinton emails?  These were the same were the same things they are accusing the Dems of doing…..but you see the GOP does stuff it is for the good of the country (read party) and not so when the Dems do something similar……that is as simple as I can break this stupidity down. The GOP no longer has a soul…..not all it is the enabler of an imperialistic presidency….PERIOD! Turn The Page!

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Bhairavi Desai On Why the Uber and Lyft Strikes are the Future of Labor

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On Wednesday, drivers for Uber, Lyft, and lesser-known services like Via and Juno will sign out of their apps and stop picking up passengers as part of a global strike against these companies’ abysmal treatment of drivers. The duration of these strikes will vary from city to city, and workers in Los Angeles,…

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Dicks, Cocaine, Racism and Sexual Harassment in the TN Statehouse

May I present to you not one, but two big-time small-time dicks: Tennessee’s Republican House Speaker Glen Casada and his chief of staff Cade Cothren, two dicks united together until Monday, when Cothren resigned. You hate to see dicks split like that.

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One Of The Top Voices For Women In Sports Doesn’t Think Caster Semenya Is A Woman – she is wrong!

Hogshead-Makar says that women like Semenya need to be kept out of competition to “give women’s bodies an equal opportunity to participate,” which isn’t true. I don’t recall seeing reports of women suddenly giving up track because of Semenya, although I do read stories about how Semenya has inspired young African girls. It’s the underfunding, sexual violence, and harassment that keep women out of sports, which Hogshead-Makar should know as she’s lobbied on those very issues. Hogshead-Makar talks a lot about how testosterone is key, but leaves out the many other factors that affect athletes’ performance, factors which are not regulated, as well as the many complicated ways testosterone acts in every person’s body. Hogshead-Makar also ignores or refuses to acknowledge that these new IAAF laws are clearly targeted at Semenya alone. Few things make this more obvious than the study which was commissioned to uphold the anti-Semenya rules: The study found that naturally occurring testosterone gave competitors some advantages in certain events, but noted that the biggest advantages were in the hammer and the pole vault—and for some reason the new testosterone limits don’t apply to the wom

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When American Financiers and Business Leaders Plotted to Overthrow Franklin D. Roosevelt and Install a Fascist Government in the U.S. (1933) | Open Culture – Deja vu 2019!

Economist and columnist Paul Krugman recently wrote about a current nominee for the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors who called cities like Cincinnati and Cleveland “armpits of America” to laughs from an audience of business leaders.

Source: When American Financiers and Business Leaders Plotted to Overthrow Franklin D. Roosevelt and Install a Fascist Government in the U.S. (1933) | Open Culture

In what became known as the “Business Plot” (or the “Wall Street Putsch”)—a group of bankers and business leaders allegedly created a conspiracy to overthrow the president and install a dictator friendly to their interests. The conspirators included investment banker and future Connecticut Senator Prescott Bush (father of George H.W. Bush), bond salesman Gerald MacGuire, and Bill Doyle commander of the Massachusetts American Legion.

The plot was famously exposed by Major General Smedley D. Butler, who testified under oath about his knowledge of a plan to form an organization of 500,000 veterans who could take over the functions of government, as you can see Butler himself say in the 1935 newsreel footage above. The members of the Business Plot believed Butler would lead this irregular force in a coup. He had previously been “an influential figure in the so-called Bonus Army,” writes Matt Davis at Big Think, “a group of 43,000 marchers—among them many World War I veterans—who were camped at Washington to demand the early payment of the veteran’s bonus promised to them.”

Woman arrested over #LGBT-friendly Virgin Mary in #Poland, where rainbows are apparently now illegal. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/06/woman-arrested-poland-posters-virgin-mary-rainbow-halo-plock?CMP=share_btn_link …pic.twitter.com/tEZB5aNCPQ

Pedophile priests and politicians fear God serving gay people!

Woman arrested over #LGBT-friendly Virgin Mary in #Poland, where rainbows are apparently now illegal. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/06/woman-arrested-poland-posters-virgin-mary-rainbow-halo-plock?CMP=share_btn_link … pic.twitter.com/tEZB5aNCPQ

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High court to rule on whether Indigenous people can be deported from Australia

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Lawyers say federal government’s attempts to deport Daniel Love and Brendan Thoms are ‘absurd’

The federal government’s attempts to deport two Indigenous men have gone before the high court, examining what lawyers for the two men have said are “absurd” circumstances.

The two men in the separate cases, Daniel Love and Brendan Thoms, were both born overseas to at least one parent who is Indigenous and holds Australian citizenship. They both have Indigenous children, and Thoms is a native title holder.

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The Eurovision boycott row confirms it: Palestinian lives don’t matter | Arwa Mahdawi

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It feels like there is no acceptable way for Palestinians to protest against oppression

Eurovision has always been an exercise in bad taste, but this year’s event takes things to an extreme. If you want to enjoy the kitschy song contest, which will take place from 12 to 14 May in Tel Aviv, Israel, then you have got to ignore the bloody political context that surrounds it. Indeed, Israel is so intent on keeping Eurovision politics-free that anyone it says might disrupt the event will be blocked from entering the country.

One of the most frustrating things about being Palestinian (I’m half-Palestinian myself) is that there seems to be no acceptable way to defend your humanity or protest agains your oppression. Calls to boycott Eurovision, for example, have been decried as divisive. Last month, celebrities including Stephen Fry, Sharon Osbourne and Marina Abramović signed a letter stating that Eurovision’s “spirit of togetherness” is “under attack by those calling to boycott [the competition] because it is being held in Israel, subverting the spirit of the contest and turning it from a tool of unity into a weapon of division”.

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241m Europeans ‘may have received Russian-linked disinformation’

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Research says malign actors online tried to craft individual narrative for each EU state

Around half of all Europeans could have been exposed to disinformation promoted by social media accounts linked to Russia before the European elections, an analysis suggests.

Evidence of 6,700 so-called “bad actors” posting enough content to reach up to 241 million users was discovered by researchers examining the scale of the threat.

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Wednesday Open Thread | Say Her Name: SANDRA BLAND

We found out yesterday that Sandra Bland recorded her encounter with the police. We find this out THREE YEARS after her death?

THREE YEARS???

HOW could it take THREE YEARS for this tape to come out and be noticed.

I asked SG2 and Ametia this question.

HOW could it take THREE YEARS?

HOW could her family not be told in all this time?

WHAT is going on with the District Attorney’s office?

WHAT level of corruption going on where a key piece of evidence is suppressed like this?

No other way to look at it other than suppression.

It is based like this which make support of District Attorney ‘s that do their job all the more important. It is obvious, with this revelation, that the District Attorney is in bed with the police department, and no one was interested in finding out the truth of what happened to Sandra Bland.

This video is compelling proof that Trooper Encinia lied, that Sandra Bland posed no threat, and that there was no basis for her arrest. This case should be reopened and justice should finally be served.

— Julián Castro (@JulianCastro) May 7, 2019

Local authorities kept this cell phone video from Sandra Bland a secret for 4 years. Local journalists @WFAA fought to get it released.

Sandra Bland knew her rights. She never should’ve been arrested and threatened in the first place. A gross abuse of power from this officer. pic.twitter.com/rtVTxQKDye

— Shaun King (@shaunking) May 7, 2019

Turns out Sandra Bland recorded her interaction with police from her 2015 arrest. But even after police discovered the video 2 months after her death, it’s only now being released to the public. Bland’s family are asking for the investigation to be reopened. pic.twitter.com/NvRZR3rV14

— Atlanta Black Star (@ATLBlackStar) May 7, 2019

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