Trump’s ties to ‘toxic’ far-right activist Laura Loomer are causing a MAGA civil war. But they go way back
Trump allies in Congress have warned that the former president’s close ties to the far-right provocateur so close to the election could backfire, writes Kelly Rissman
Trump allies in Congress have warned that the former president’s close ties to the far-right provocateur so close to the election could backfire, writes Kelly Rissman
Boris Johnson’s young peer makes millions from PR firm that advises former PM
Former Tory leader made Lord Kempsell one of the youngest members of the House of Lords at the same time as former aide Charlotte Owen
Kamala Harris was great in the debate. Will that be enough to win? by Bernie Sanders
It is important that Kamala Harris continues to define and expose Trump. But it may not be enough to secure a victory
Linda Ronstadt Rebukes Donald Trump, Endorses Kamala Harris in Blistering Letter
Linda Ronstadt rebukes Donald Trump and JD Vance while endorsing Kamala Harris in a blistering letter. See what she said.
The iconic singer is none too pleased that Trump is speaking at a venue bearing her name.
The Tesla CEO simply couldn’t resist using his own platform to say something sexist, controversial – and downright creepy, writes Ryan Coogan
Andrew McCabe says Trump-Putin interactions ‘raise questions’, as Harris says Putin would eat Trump ‘for lunch’
It is not about high time to get Ellen Musk behind bars and give all their belongings to the poor ?
In their first face-to-face meeting, the Democratic nominee humiliated the former president.
> > > Even so devoted a bootlicker as Senator Lindsey Graham declared the debate a “disaster” for the ex-president. > > > > Donald Trump is so feral and narcissistic, so unrestrained and so outside the norm of American politics, that he’s difficult to debate. It’s disorienting. Very few people have been able to stand up to him without being pulled into the muck. In the past, even when he lost debates on points, he dominated his opponents. > > > > But on a Tuesday night in Philadelphia, Kamala Harris cracked the code. > >
Who won Kamala Harris and Donald Trump’s first debate? Our panel reacts
Harris may have been light on policy, but she was able to bait an ‘unhinged’ Trump into a number of traps
With the presidential race on a knife’s edge, Trump’s support remains relatively stable
Trump will not prepare for debating Kamala Harris. He believes he’s perfect
Trump didn’t want, much less imagine, a debate with Harris. Not so subconsciously he still thinks he’s facing Joe Biden
The cat sitter told Knight that Ted had just walked through the catflap. “I didn’t believe it at first,” Knight said. “I had to get her to FaceTime me live so that I could see that Ted was actually alive.”
Knight soon realised she had paid £130 to cremate someone else’s cat. When she later went to collect the ashes, she saw the urn had been labelled “Not Dead Ted”.
Beloved pet Ted reunited with grieving North Yorkshire family after drowning mixup
You’re not paying enough attention if you think Trump winning means “too bad the rest of the world will feel the consequences.” Germany just elected their first far right government since WWII,
There were elections in two states in the east of Germany last weekend. In one of them the far right party AfD gained most votes compared to others. In the other state they finished second largest. There is nothing decisive however. Other parties have been called to set up a firewall "Brandmauer" to prevent the AfD to govern.
France had a massive right wing that is now in the EU council, Austria… well they keep making shitty right wing choices, down into South America Argentina shifted right, and other countries continue to do so as well. We’re not special or alone in this.
Exactly. In the last few decades Austria , Turkey and Hungary were among the first to shift to far right party based governments in Europe. An interesting read is this book by Turkish journalist Ece Temelkuran (Who fled the country) which is about Turkey going downhill from democracy to dictatorship. This book also reflects on Trump winning in 2016. At some point also Poland had a far-right government but the damage from that is slowly being repaired by a new government. By now among others Slovakia, Italy and the Netherlands have far-right government coalitions. Outside Europe there was Bolsonaro in Brazil. Still, Trump winning (legally or not) would be bad for the rest of the world, especially for Ukraine.
By contrast, she said, the unexpected victory of the French left in July’s snap parliamentary elections shows that “any time that the left stayed strong in its values, strong in its ambitions, we defeat the far right”.
The French structure for voting with two rounds allowed to play things in a tactical way by retreating some candidates in some areas to give voters more chance to vote successfully against the Le Pen party. This was not the case in Germany.
Young male voters are flocking to Trump – but he doesn’t have their interests at heart
Trump isn’t an icon of positive masculinity. He also did very little for young men during his four years as president
Absurd article by NYT.
According to this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_Hall_Putsch#Trial_and_prison it was not really a prison.
He got five years but got out after some eight months. During that time he also dictated his Mein Kampf book to Hess and another of his allies. See also the photo in that article of a "cozy" meeting in the "prison".
The lay judges were fanatically pro-Nazi and had to be dissuaded by the presiding Judge, Georg Neithardt, from acquitting Hitler outright.[42] Hitler and Hess were both sentenced to five years in Festungshaft [de] ('fortress confinement') for treason. Festungshaft was the mildest of the three types of jail sentence available in German law at the time; it excluded forced labour, provided reasonably comfortable cells, and allowed the prisoner to receive visitors almost daily for many hours. This was the customary sentence for those whom the judge believed to have had honourable but misguided motives, and it did not carry the stigma of a sentence of Gefängnis (common prison) or Zuchthaus (disciplinary prison). In the end, Hitler served just over eight months of this sentence before his early release for good behaviour.[43] Prison officials allegedly wanted to give Hitler deaf guards, to prevent him from persuading them to free him.[28]
In an unheroic age, Putin, Trump and Netanyahu are sick parodies of great men
These successors to Stalin, Hitler and Mao are the ones making history in an unhappy, warring world
Edited the post and included two archive copies.
Edited the post and included two archive copies.
Edited the post and included two archive copies.
Mendis, who stayed in Manchester church for two years in 1980s to fight deportation, has died aged 68 in Germany
Donald Trump is desperate to depict his White House rival as tongue-tied, inarticulate and obsessed by identity politics, writes Jon Sopel. Her first major interview in this election campaign painted a very different picture
‘You gotta vote with your stomach,’ he tells his followers
> > > The potential future president had also told the crowd, "You know they say you gotta vote with your stomach, I don't know if you've heard it but it's a little bit true," before launching into some questionable food inflation numbers. > > > > "Food has gone up at levels that nobody's ever seen before," he declared, following up his claim with some unsupported numbers. "We've never seen anything like it – 50, 60, 70 percent." > > > > The online response to Trump's odd claims has been relentless, with one X/Twitter user writing, "Operation let him talk is going exceedingly well." > >
Senior ministers set to travel in government-owned aircraft after ‘grossly wasteful’ contract axed
Event in the trip-hop pioneers’ hometown of Bristol is being hailed as the lowest carbon-emissions show of its scale ever staged
Aren't all billionaires conservative? I don't think about them for my own sanity's sake, but I cannot imagine a progressive billionaire.
Maybe there's at least one progressive billionaire. :
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/jan/23/austrian-heiress-marlene-engelhorn-who-is-giving-away-90-per-cent-of-her-wealth-im-creating-the-tax-i-would-want-to-pay
While we're at it, please sign the Tax The Rich petition for the EU :
https://www.tax-the-rich.eu/ Same petition but in Italian for Italians : https://tax-the-rich.it/
For US citizens : https://www.oxfamamerica.org/take-action/action-alert-tax-the-rich/
Looks like you need to use "add remote". I've added this the Album Art one and it does Tiled mode by default :
https://piefed.social/c/[email protected]
Try for yourself with the Film posters one :
Go here : https://piefed.social/communities Then click on Add remote -> https://piefed.social/community/add_remote and then search for [email protected] and add it.
Stephanie Grisham excoriates ex-president at Democratic convention and says ‘he has no empathy, no morals’
> > > Trump mocks his supporters. He calls them basement dwellers. On a hospital visit one time when people were dying in the ICU, he was mad that the cameras were not watching him.” > > > > She continued: “He used to tell me: ‘It doesn’t matter what you say, Stephanie, say it enough and people will believe you.’” > > > > She repeated a story she has told before: that during the January 6 insurrection, she asked Melania Trump whether she could tweet that there was “no place for lawlessness or violence”, and the first lady gave a one-word reply: “No.” > >
For US citizens there is another petition which you can sign : https://www.oxfamamerica.org/take-action/action-alert-tax-the-rich/
American billionaires are 33% richer than they were at the start of the pandemic, all while inequality has worsened and inflation has soared. Billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos pay a “true tax rate" of just 3% or less while working people around the globe pay far more.
Enough is enough. It’s time for the ultra-rich to pay their fair share of taxes.
Just a modest tax of up to 5 percent on the world’s richest individuals could bring in $1.7 trillion in a year, enough to lift 2 billion people out of poverty.
Sign your name and demand that President Biden, Congress, and world leaders address the inequality crisis globally and here at home by making multi-millionaires and billionaires pay their fair share of taxes.
For US citizens there is another petition which you can sign : https://www.oxfamamerica.org/take-action/action-alert-tax-the-rich/
American billionaires are 33% richer than they were at the start of the pandemic, all while inequality has worsened and inflation has soared. Billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos pay a “true tax rate" of just 3% or less while working people around the globe pay far more.
Enough is enough. It’s time for the ultra-rich to pay their fair share of taxes.
Just a modest tax of up to 5 percent on the world’s richest individuals could bring in $1.7 trillion in a year, enough to lift 2 billion people out of poverty.
Sign your name and demand that President Biden, Congress, and world leaders address the inequality crisis globally and here at home by making multi-millionaires and billionaires pay their fair share of taxes.
The petition is about getting enough signatures for the EU. France and Germany have already enough votes.
If the petition succeeds this could bring in a lot of money that is otherwise not used for the public.
Please sign for our climate and our future.
I wonder if you have any tips / words of advice regading things that PieFed does and Lemmy doesn't do.
PieFed has Topics which Lemmy doesn't have. So with PieFed you can subscribe to a lot of communities at once. Or you can start a post in PieFed inside a topic and then PieFed will ask you in which community you want to post. PieFed also can let you follow a user, and let you subscribe or un-subscribe from posts or comments.
More here : https://join.piefed.social/features/ -> Differences between Lemmy and PieFed
Some things I like about Lemmy, and what PieFed does not (?) yet have :
- Easy to cross-post to other communities. This is useful to avoid letting others seeing a lot of posts in a row.
- Detection of an earlier post with the same title so one can decide to stop posting a duplicate.
- Auto suggestion when wanting to mention someone with @
Watch Undercover Video: Project 2025 Co-Author Lays Out “Radical Agenda” for Next Trump Term
As Donald Trump tries to distance his campaign from Project 2025, those behind the right-wing policy blueprint to remake the U.S. government continue to brag in private about their close ties to the Republican presidential nominee and how they intend to push a radical right-wing agenda in a second T...
Article has a Transcript of the video.
Why the down votes ?
The deep-pocketed tech industry of Silicon Valley has historically voted for Democrats. But in the last month, a cadre of tech executives has risen up for Donald Trump, both on the grounds that he will be friendlier to the industry and that President Joe Biden was unfit to serve a second term.
Very sad story but let me take this opportunity to comment on part of the article quoted below. Stop using Twitter. After Musk bought it (and forced the silly name of X) moderation of Twitter is severely broken. It would be good if people move away from Twitter and use other platforms. Especially now that Musk is endorsing Donald Trump and sharing fake videos.
From the https://rogerhallam.com/5-years-in-prison story :
The judge began the next morning by bizarrely reading out my Twitter feed, which alerted my followers to the fact I wasn’t allowed to give my whole defence and called for support for a presence outside the court. But then he moved on to gleefully recounting some of the various trolls – why this was any part of a serious trial, no one could fathom. I was ordered to take them down by lunchtime or I’d be in contempt of court. This is a British judge in 2024.
A clear copy of an article from The Onion right ? Right ?