A federal judge in Texas is blocking a rule enacted by President Joe Biden earlier this year that provides overtime pay protection for roughly four million American workers.
After Trump won the 2024 election, PolitiFact asked its readers to send us their questions about his campaign promises
The economy was the most important issue for Trump voters this year, 93% of his supporters said it was very important to their vote.
“Hit and run” attacks on Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters in Amsterdam and inflammatory and violent acts by some of the Israeli fans shocked and dismayed observers around the world.
Yea I mean, Poynter is a non-profit fact checking and journalism institute... They launched IFCN. Square all those accusations you're seeing around here for me :)
Wanna know the problem? Starts with "A" and ends with "nti-intellectualism."
But don't report on those things, because it's irresponsible to do that. It's simply to fill the 24/7 news cycle, not to inform anyone (despite this being a fact checking institute). /s
What is going on in this sub?
It might be beneficial for some to understand the "what" and "why" behind the "no," no?
Thank you. The number of up votes the comments get saying that we shouldn't even bother discussing this are staggering.
Better let the misinformation go uncountered, right?
Maybe we shouldn't inform the population about this... And any other of Trump's plans since they're so obviously bad they don't need explanation?
Simply irresponsible to not do so, especially after an election where so much of the population were convinced Trump would be better for the economy. If anything we should be working harder to inform people, not looking for reasons to avoid these topics. What if someone saw that RFK would be doing this and saw no counter to his misinformation? Because it's below someone to even discuss?
It's a duty to inform people, and I'm glad poynter is taking the initiative.
The Taliban-led government in Afghanistan said it wants a fresh start with the US under President-elect Donald Trump and secure long-sought access to more than $9 billion of the nation’s foreign exchange reserves seized three years ago.
Longtime research has shown that drinking fluoridated water at the recommended levels in the US is safe and beneficial for oral health
Disinformation shaped views about the candidates, affected how voters saw leader performance, and generated widespread media attention.
Wrong.
Post is about Hamas torturing people. "But what about Israel" is whataboutism.
I will not litigate bad faith arguments with you anymore. And that description of deflation you provided definitely fits your argument. I know this because the original comment makes no mention of "both sides bad." Just Israel. Over.
Yes, by definition it is whataboutism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
Whataboutism or whataboutery (as in "what about ...?") is a pejorative for the strategy of responding to an accusation with a counter-accusation instead of a defense against the original accusation.
Not liking that doesn't make it not whataboutism.
Whataboutism
But they weren't attacking them for their religion right? So then it's not antisemitism? /s
Scary to see this kind of propaganda on Lemmy extend to the real world. People hunting various Jews in the streets and those actions get a pass from users here.
If there was a Democrat who did what Trump did, I'd not hesitate to enforce the law because I was afraid of the consequences.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/debunking-the-myth-obamas_b_1929869
Mitt Romney's at it again -- shading the truth on CBS News'. He's perpetuating the false Republican narrative that President Obama should have gotten more done during his first two years in office because he had a supermajority in the Senate.
If only we knew Trump would do something like this...
https://2017-2021.state.gov/on-the-u-s-withdrawal-from-the-paris-agreement/
That does not answer my question.
Trump has been promising that interest rates will come down on his watch — even though rates are set by the politically independent Fed.
Trump has pledged to dismantle the Department of Education, among other things.
Should we accept that the threat of violence get in the way of justice?
I'm a little confused... Did you read it?
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what-the-supreme-court-got-wrong-in-the-trump-section-3-case
Under the Court’s approach, only Congress has the power to determine which people are to be disqualified and under what procedures—at least when it comes to candidates for federal office and officials holding those offices. The majority claims that Congress’s Section 5 power to enact “appropriate” legislation enforcing the 14th Amendment is the exclusive mode of enforcing Section 3.
There are several flaws in the Court’s analysis. The most basic is that there is no good reason to believe that Section 5 is the exclusive mode of enforcing Section 3. As the Colorado Supreme Court emphasized in its ruling, Section 5 empowers Congress to enforce not just Section 3 but also every other part of the 14th Amendment, including its protections against racial and ethnic discrimination, the Due Process Clause, and more. These other provisions are considered to be self-executing, under long-standing federal Supreme Court precedent. Section 5 legislation is not the exclusive mode of enforcement for these other parts of the amendment.
Thus, state governments and federal courts can enforce these provisions even in the absence of congressional Section 5 enforcement legislation. Otherwise, as the Colorado Supreme Court notes, “Congress could nullify them by simply not passing enacting legislation.” Why should Section 3 be any different? Monday’s Supreme Court decision doesn’t give us any good answer to that question.
As the Supreme Court ruling notes, following its landmark precedent in City of Boerne v. Flores (1997), Congress’s Section 5 power is “remedial” in nature: It must be “congruent and proportional” to violations of the amendment it is intended to remedy. If Section 5 legislation is remedial in nature, including when it comes to enforcing Section 3, that implies some other entity—state governments and federal courts—has the initial responsibility for ensuring compliance with Section 3. The role of Section 5 is to remedy violations of that duty, not to be the exclusive enforcement mechanism.
Can you describe how preventing trump, who participated in an insurrection, from holding office is fascist?
Of course they won't, but damn they should.
Because of Congress’ current political makeup (Republicans control the House) — that almost certainly won’t happen by Jan. 20, when Trump will be sworn in as the 47th president.
Former Republican President Donald Trump won back the White House on Nov. 5, after he fought his 2020 election loss with
One piece left out of the abortion debate is the high transportation and medical bills facing women forced to leave their state to obtain the procedure.
Which makes no mention of confining it to religion, it supports exactly what I've said.
Who does the definition cover?
The definition applies whether Jewish identity is understood as ethnic, biological, religious, cultural, etc. It also applies in cases where a non-Jewish person or institution is either mistaken for being Jewish (“discrimination by perception”) or targeted on account of a connection to Jews (“discrimination by association”).
Thank you for confirming that, and no, I've said nothing about how the us definition is terrible.
The article and mayor are objectively correct in denouncing the antisemitism. Those are the facts, and that's it. To suggest the article or mayor is lying to further your argument is misinformation.
I will not entertain any further argument from you in this regard. The facts are against you.
The big danger is what Trump can do lawfully.
The former president weighs resurrecting Andrew Puzder for labor secretary, a scandal-ridden nominee who had to withdraw the last time he tried to join the Republican’s administration.
Comments by an adviser to the supreme leader were the latest bellicose statement from Iran amid its high-stakes tit-for-tat with Israel.
Five states have marijuana on the ballot in some form this November. But the once-bipartisan legalization movement now faces an uphill battle in states dominated by Republicans.