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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently made headlines for calling perennial Green Party presidential candidate **Jill Stein “predatory” and “not serious.”** AOC is right. Giving voters more choices is a good thing for democracy. But third-party politics isn’t performance art. It’s hard work — which Stein is not doing. As AOC observed: “**[When] all you do is show up once every four years to speak to people who are justifiably pissed off, but you're just showing up once every four years to do that, you're not serious**.” To be clear: AOC was not critiquing third parties as a whole, or the idea that we need more choices in our democracy. In fact, AOC specifically cited the Working Families Party as an example of an effective third party. The organization I lead, MoveOn, supports their 365-day-a-year efforts to build power for a pro-voter, multi-party system. And I understand third parties’ power to activate voters hungry for alternatives: I myself volunteered for Ralph Nader in 2000, and that experience helped shape my lifelong commitment to people-first politics. --- **Register to vote:** https://vote.gov/
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newrepublic.com
**_J.D. Vance brushed off Laura Loomer’s racist comments, despite being married to an Indian American woman._** J.D. Vance would apparently rather protect Donald Trump’s decision to pal around with self-described “proud Islamophobe” and 9/11 conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer than stand up for his own wife. Trump has been seen with [Loomer](https://newrepublic.com/article/185981/laura-loomer-trump-media-criticism) several times over the last couple of weeks, with the pair getting eyebrow-raisingly close (Trump’s hand has been spotted in the small of Loomer’s back) while Melania Trump has largely remained out of the limelight. Loomer attended a 9/11 memorial service with Trump and also accompanied him to the presidential debate. In an interview Sunday with NBC News, Vance was asked directly about his and his wife Usha Vance’s opinions on some of Loomer’s overt racism, including her claim that Vice President Kamala Harris’s ascendency to the Oval Office would make the White House “smell like curry.” **But Vance wouldn’t take a stand against the alt-right ally**. … “Do I agree with what Laura Loomer said about Kamala Harris? No, I don’t,” Vance continued. “I also don’t think that this is actually an issue of national import. Is Laura Loomer running for president? No. Kamala Harris is running for president, and **whether you’re eating curry at your dinner table or fried chicken**, things have gotten more expensive thanks to her policies.” --- **Register to vote:** https://vote.gov/
www.thedailybeast.com
Reggaeton star Nicky Jam seems to be rolling back *his* support for Donald Trump after the Republican nominee mistakenly introduced him as a [“hot”](https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-mistakenly-intros-male-reggaeton-star-nicky-jam-as-hot-woman-during-rally) woman at a Las Vegas rally over the weekend. Jam initially made light of the gaffe in an Instagram post—its caption referred to himself, in Spanish, as a “hot woman,” accompanied by no fewer than 22 crying-laughing emojis. But, as of Sunday night, the post had been deleted. The comment section on his most recent post before it, which was unrelated to Trump, was also deactivated. Jam’s Trump endorsement, amplified by the buzz surrounding the awkwardly inaccurate rally introduction, has made him the subject of relentless criticism—and mockery—across the internet. --- **Register to vote:** https://vote.gov/
www.rawstory.com
The richest man in the world, who also happens to be a U.S. defense contractor, is being criticized on social media on Sunday after questioning why people aren't trying to assassinate Vice President [Kamala Harris.](https://www.rawstory.com/kamala-harris/) [Trump](https://www.rawstory.com/trump-news/) over the weekend was tackled by his own Secret Service after an individual was reportedly spotted hiding on the former president's golf course behind a bush with an AK-47. Authorities say they fired at the man, who was later apprehended and is being questioned. A graphic designer posted a question, "Why they want to kill Donald Trump?" Elon Musk, who owns the social media company that he renamed from Twitter to "X," posted a controversial statement in response. "And no one is even trying to assassinate Biden/Kamala," Musk wrote with a "thinking face" emoji. The comment did not go over well.
talkingpointsmemo.com
> But we shouldn’t run too deep into the rabbit holes of Trump’s supporters’ logic. He is himself a vortex of instability and violence. As his supporters like to put it, he likes to “stir the pot.” And he does. Attention, in his vision, is the only real currency in business or politics or media. So he keeps upping the ante and pushing new limits to get it, like a heroin addict he has to keep upping the dose to get the same fix. The externalities of that behavior have been lapping up, splashing onto countless other people for almost a decade. Now they’re also splashing up onto him. Trump’s supporters ask rhetorically, if it’s not Biden and Harris who are doing it, are you really saying that Trump is inciting people against himself? The answer is actually yes. He’s now twice almost been consumed by the fires he himself is lighting.
www.mediaite.com
Paraphrasing his psychotic post that they are discussing in this article: "Bullets are flying, the war has begun, the Immigrant Problem must be brought to a final solution!"
newrepublic.com
J.D. Vance seemingly admitted that he and Donald Trump have been spreading racist lies about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio. During an interview Sunday with CNN’s Dana Bash, Vance flailed as he attempted to downplay his ticket’s role in spreading completely discredited rumors that Haitian immigrants in Springfield were eating their neighbors’ cats and dogs. With Vance and Trump’s help, the cartoonishly racist lies made their way to the national stage, fueling right-wing hysterics and resulting in [multiple](https://newrepublic.com/post/185901/trump-haitian-migrant-conspiracy-violence-springfield-ohio) [bomb](https://newrepublic.com/post/185963/donald-trump-effects-migrants-pets-conspiracy)[threats](https://www.whio.com/news/local/bomb-threat-locks-down-springfield-hospital/CV3NS5VKUREVNGNYIDXPQE3J2Q/) in the city of Springfield. --- **Register to vote:** https://vote.gov/
Donald Trump made clear on the Philadelphia [debate](https://www.salon.com/topic/debate) stage this week, as he has throughout his three presidential campaigns, the basis of his run for office. **Trump is running on the platform that non-white immigration is an existential threat to the nation**. This time around, Trump has made his primary message, the so-called [Great Replacement Theory](https://www.salon.com/topic/great_replacement) (GRT), more vivid than ever. It is therefore of existential importance in understanding the stakes of this election to have clearly in mind what has happened in the past when GRT has been the central driving narrative both of individuals and of states. According to the Great Replacement Theory, the nation’s greatness, its traditions and its practitioners, are existentially imperiled by an influx of foreign races, ethnicities or religions. **The foreign elements are sometimes described in the narrative of GRT, as [vermin](https://www.salon.com/2023/11/15/building-the-mandate-for-maga-why-is-choosing-a-harm-offensive-over-a-charm-offensive/) or diseases**. **GRT was central to the official Nazi motivation for the genocide of the Jews of Europe**. Hitler blamed the loss of World War I on Jewish betrayal of Germany. But this betrayal, for Hitler, was intimately connected to the Great Replacement Theory, via the introduction of Black soldiers in the French army subsequently occupying the Rhineland, the so-called [*“Black Horror on the Rhine.”*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Horror_on_the_Rhine#:~:text=The%20Black%20Horror%20on%20the,Rhineland%20between%201918%20and%201930.) In Mein Kampf, Hitler writes:
www.abc.net.au
Of all the schisms that cleave contemporary America, few are more stark than the divide between those who consider themselves to be victims of US history and those who fear they will be casualties of its future.
www.thedailybeast.com
The Supreme Court was hit by a flurry of damaging new leaks Sunday as a series of confidential memos written by the chief justice were revealed by *The New York Times*. The court’s Chief Justice John Roberts was clear to his fellow justices in February: **He wanted the court to take up a case weighing Donald Trump’s right to presidential immunity—and he seemed inclined to protect the former president**. “I think it likely that we will view the separation of powers analysis differently,” Roberts wrote to his [Supreme Court](https://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/supreme-court) peers, according to a private [memo](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/15/us/justice-roberts-trump-supreme-court.html) obtained by the *Times. *He was referencing the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision to allow the case to move forward. **Roberts took an unusual level of involvement in this and other cases that ultimately benefited Trump**, according to the *Times—* his handling of the cases surprised even some other justices on the high court, across ideological lines. As president, Trump appointed three of the members of its current conservative supermajority.
newrepublic.com
_Laura Loomer insists she and Donald Trump are very close._ While Donald Trump’s allies have tried to create the illusion of distance between the Republican presidential nominee and Laura Loomer, the alt-right conspiracy theorist has continued to cozy up to him, going so far as to brag over the weekend that Trump “likes” and “trusts” her. “The media is full of shit. OK?” Loomer said on her podcast, [*Loomer Unleashed*](https://www.mediamatters.org/laura-loomer/laura-loomer-donald-trump-likes-me-donald-trump-trusts-me), on Saturday. “These people are liars. They are con artists, and all they do is lie. They are running a coordinated smear campaign because I am effective. Donald Trump likes me. Donald Trump trusts me. OK? --- **Register to vote:** https://vote.gov/
Systems based on perverse incentives to exploit human and natural resources will blame anything and everything than themselves
theintercept.com
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20362954 > Cody Bloomfield > > September 13 2024, 6:00 a.m. > > "Treating the Stop Camp Grayling protesters as terrorists is the latest episode in a worldwide trend of governments smearing climate and environmental activists as terrorists — an ongoing Green Scare. Misapplication of the terrorism label frequently serves as pretext for invasive surveillance and sustained scrutiny."
>By delaying any investigation or prosecution of Trump until almost two years after he became attorney general, Garland hamstrung Jack Smith, the dogged and beleaguered special counsel, leaving little time for the predictable unpredictabilities of two high-stakes prosecutions. Both were as solid as federal cases get, and now neither has any chance of being completed before the election, leaving voters without clear legal conclusions about Trump’s responsibility for the Jan. 6 riot and the highly classified documents he took from the White House. Archived at https://ghostarchive.org/archive/QGUMD
