silence7

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[–] silence7@lemmy.world 8 points 11 hours ago

The way you achieve more is typically showing up at your local Democratic Club meetings or county party meetings.

[–] silence7@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

I'll be at one near me. Hope everyone else is too

[–] silence7@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

He published a new one calling for the same thing now

The NYT article is old; the WSJ one new

 

Under Louisiana’s 2024 CAMRA law, community groups now fear they could face fines of up to $32,500 per day – or even $1 million for ‘intentional’ violations – for talking publicly about evidence of airborne pollution, except under a narrow set of circumstances.

 

In addition to the impromptu ones, the No Kings protests on Saturday June 14 have been in the works for weeks.

 

Title comes from the article version of this newsletter which is otherwise identical.

[–] silence7@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

It's very efficient at funneling money to contractors.

 

Senator Cotton is basically calling for mass murder of Americans:

The solution now is the same as I said then: an overwhelming show of force to end the riots.

[–] silence7@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago

The cruelty and harm is the point of these kinds of policy

[–] silence7@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Its when the Sharpies give you a bad trip

[–] silence7@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

More importantly, its about building public opinion in favor of impeachment in the here and now

[–] silence7@lemmy.world 34 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Its who the US military was allowed to randomly kill in Vietnam.

[–] silence7@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Mostly, an effort to shift public opinion against the federal attack on citizens, to in turn pressure Trump

[–] silence7@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago (3 children)

They do. Slowly, imperfectly, and some of the time.

It's worth doing in parallel with other efforts.

[–] silence7@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago (7 children)

It takes active recruitment if we want the military on the side of the people.

[–] silence7@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Even the big operations break in unexpected ways. Facebook accidentally broke the authentication for their door locks when they took the site down a few years back and had to fly people to a datacenter and break down a door to get to servers and restart things.

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