Nobody would be happier than me to see that happen, but seeing how nobody's ever done something like that before I have my doubts. Can't remember the last Democrat that actually got more radical than the platform they ran on. Certainly wasn't anybody in the last 50 years.

"I believe I'm the first journalist to be arrested under this provision of the Terrorism Act. I feel that this is a political persecution and hampers my ability to work as a journalist," he said in his post.

Honestly, it's surprising if he's the first, but at least it's not (yet) something journalists can expect!

Terrorising .. with truth?

Almost like the British were the terrorists the whole time.

The commondreams article says "endorsement of taxes on ultra-wealthy individuals and large corporations" - your linked article says she's raising the corporate tax rate not even up to what it was before Trump. So, sure, I guess that technically counts as the "large corporations" part, but it doesn't meet the "ultra-wealthy individuals" language or the "billionaires tax" claim in the headlines.

I love that she says she wants to raise it somewhat. I love that she wants to give tax breaks to working class people. I don't love that this makes it out to be something it's not.

Considering these are bribery charges and "investigators found $480,000 in cash and more than $100,000 worth of gold bars" just at his home, I think he has plenty of money.

It's always amazing to me when Republicans pick bigotry over profits. They pick profits over family, friends, lives, environment, religion, you name it - feels like profits are king. And then they pull shit like this, and I'm just astonished at how much cruelty reigns supreme.

Strom Thurmond was already 53 when he did his 24-hour filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1957. I'm convinced he still could've done it at 100 years old when he left office fueled by nothing but hate.

Correct if I'm wrong here, but is this article just "Economist comments on something it has been claimed the Harris campaign team said, but is not explicitly mentioned anywhere in writing or in speeches"?

If she planned on taxing billionaires, she'd be shouting it from the rooftops. That's a popular policy. It's not going to be something she keeps in her back pocket and then when she's president goes SURPRISE MOTHERFUCKERS. Not that she could do it by EO anyway, but honestly, this is so far from a reality it just barely qualifies as news.

It's been 318 days since October 7, 2023, and a very rough estimate is around 40,000 fatalities, mostly civilians. On average, that's 126 dead per day since Israel started this attack. So 35 dead is actually a pretty merciful day.

tax of 1.7% to 3.5% to the richest 0.5% of the country's households

We could try something more like a 95% wealth tax and really fix some problems.

I like politics and news - most of my subscribed is some variant of that. There's just so much more to politics and news than Trump, and as long as you're not in the cult there's not even anything interesting or engaging that he says or does. It's just a circlejerk of "Trump bad" and I don't understand how people aren't tired of it - or maybe they think they're helping?

Came here to say this - I'm new to Lemmy, and I feel like there's this overwhelming tidal wave of Trump posts here, even moreso than Reddit or other social media. I get it, he's a shit human being. But maybe unless he actually does something, we don't have to talk about him?

Justice Antonin Scalia spoke for the 7-2 majority and said the federal law requires states to “accept and use” the standard federal form in federal elections.

Scalia looking like a good guy here is blowing my fucking mind. Dissents were Thomas and Alito, so we know where this is going next.

And nobody was surprised. I'm a little surprised wapo has a dedicated article/headline to it though.

The overwhelming majority of comments I'm seeing indicate they'd like to see it gone. Why are you opposed to listening to the people who create and consume all of the content in this space?

This isn't just climate deniers though - even those that were expecting significant climate shifts are still seeing higher than expected. This isn't "huh, things are getting hotter, who would've thought?" This is "we knew it would get hotter, but we predicted it would take longer." We thought we were fucked, but we're actually double fucked.

those doing the investigative work, away from public interaction (and possible abuse), are not the root of the problem there

They're the root of privacy problems, which is a non-trivial issue for many of us.

Yes, she can, or already has won them back. "Uncommitted" was primarily about sending a message, and it was effective at doing that. I would be surprised if the majority of them planned on not voting for Biden, and now Harris, in the general.