Sup, I just found out something and this needs to be talked about more. Rupert Murdoch. Owner of Fox News, Sky News (basically the Australian fox news) and the Sun in the UK. This man has influences all over the world. Whenever something fucks up in Australian, American or British politics you better fucking believe this bitch had something to do with it. Brexit and Trump getting into office are both linked. More people need knowledge about this outside of Australia. We can’t have a couple people just talking about it because it’s too easy to shut down. Our former prime minister here in Australia has already said that we should look into this more but Rupert has too many people in high places. I only learnt about this yesterday. FUCKING REBLOG THIS.
I only know about this because my parents talked about his tactics while I was growing up cause they’re lefties through and through - he’s one of those people you’d want to target as a time traveller
Today is a good day to remind people that Queen Liliuokalani was deposed by the US Government because of sheer greed, racism, and misogyny.
The Hawaiian Islands were made a territory and then a state because of greed. Because of coffee and pineapples and sugar cane. Because the US gov’t did not want to be beholden to a Queen of Hawaii, or any Hawaiian leader for that matter. And neither did the people wanting to sell those products so they pressured the US gov’t (like they continue to do).
The Hawaiian islands are seeking to become a true sovereign nation with political recognition of their sovereignty. Please consider purchasing goods from Native Hawaiians rather than the haole, outsider corporations that are selling the same thing and undercutting. Also consider supporting the various Native Hawaiian organizations (NHOA) found here and here.
i know all eyes are on the presidential candidates for this election, and rightfully so, but some very wonderful and important things are happening statewide that should be celebrated and highlighted, so here’s a few:
Florida passed Amendment 2, which will raise minimum wage to $15/hour by 2026
South Dakota, Montana, Arizona and New Jersey all passed an amendment that legalized marijuana
Utah will now be removing gendered language in the Utah Constitution and will replace it with gender-neutral language
California passed Prop 17, which restores voting rights to previously imprisoned citizens
Delaware elected Sarah McBride, the first ever openly trans state senator
Ritchie Torres and Mondaire Jones are the first ever openly gay black members of congress
Cori Bush is the first ever woman of color to win a seat in Congress in Missouri
Mauree Turner became the first non-binary state lawmaker in America and the first Muslim member of the Oklahoma state house
Oregon has become the first state to decriminalize all drugs (small amounts of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and other drugs will have lesser punishments, similar to traffic tickets, and no jail time.)
Kim Jackson is the first out LGBTQ+ state senator in Georgia
UPDATED WITH MORE GOOD NEWS:
Shevrin D. Jones is Florida’s first opnely LGBTQ+ state senator
Jabari Brisport became New York’s first gay Black member of the house
Arizona flipped blue for the first time in 24 years
Michele Rayner-Goolsby became the first Black LGBTQ woman in the Florida Legislature
Voters in Colorado overwhelmingly rejected Prop 115, a state ballot measure that would have banned abortions after a fetus reaches 22 weeks gestational age. In rejecting the initiative, Colorado remains one of the most progressive states in the country on reproductive rights
Arizona will now send two Democrats to the Senate for the first time since 1951, thanks to the win of ex-astronaut Captain Mark Kelly.
Democrats have flipped the senate seat in Colorado, with the win of former Gov. John Hickenlooper
Mississippi is removing the confederate flag from their symbology
Marie Newman, who has been titled ‘a leader of the pro-choice movement’, will now represent Illinois’ 3rd Congressional District in Congress
Nevada became the first state to protect same-sex marriage in it’s constitution
Immigrant rights activist and former public defender José Garza won the race for District Attorney of Travis County, Texas
Michigan passed Proposal 20-2, which requires police to have a search warrant to access a person’s electronic data and electronic communications.
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Washington approved Referendum 90, which requires all school districts to provide age appropriate, comprehensive sex ed at all grade levels
Colorado passed the first paid family/ medical leave program
Mississippi passed an ammendment that legalized medical marijuana
Denver overwhelmingly voted to pass Ballot Measure 2J. which lifts the city’s more than 30-year-old ban on pit bulls
New Mexico became the first state to elect all women of color to our House delegation
Vermont elected the state’s first openly transgender legislator, Taylor Small
Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, and Ayanna Pressley, all won re-election in the House
Nebraska passed a constitutional amendment to the state constitution that closes the loophole of the U.S. Constitution’s 13th Amendment that allowed slavery as a punishment for crimes
Rhode Island passed a measure to rename the state, officially naming it Rhode Island and not The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, due to connections to slavery
Oregon passed measure 109, the first state to legalize psilocybin (mushrooms) for mental heath treatments
Hawai’i elected native Hawaiian Kaiali’i “Kai” Kahele, a Democrat, to the House of Representatives. He is one of 6 Native members of the House who will be sworn in in January
Utah passed legislation that removes language from the state constitution that allows the use of slavery and involuntary servitude as criminal punishments (no more prison labor!)
Multnomah county, where most of Portland sits, just voted for tuition-free preschool for everybody ages 4-5
This statistic is being mentioned everywhere, but it bears repeating in order to emphasize the fact that the majority of the American people are continually being held hostage by a literal interpretation of a document written 233 years ago by a group that included people who owned other human beings as property.
Many of the most glaring problems with governing this country in the 21st Century are the result of a powerful minority of American leaders who interpret the Constitution as if it were some secular version of Sharia law instead of a living document meant to evolve and be shaped by time, growth, experience, and modern necessities. Any rational examination of the framing of the Constitution – and the amendments which have followed since ratification –clearly demonstrates that the intent of the Founders was to build a foundation for an always-changing nation to develop upon. They didn’t intend for future Americans to be handcuffed by outdated systems that make little to no sense for a massive, diverse, modern, industrialized, economic and military superpower.
The size and constant growth of this nation and the pace of the lives Americans live today would overwhelm the Founders if they showed up now and tried to understand it. During their time, America’s remote northwest was present-day Indiana and Ohio! It’s ridiculous and irresponsible to continue to believe that literally interpreting the Constitution as they drafted it for a fledgling, newly independent nation isn’t overwhelming our system of government at every single level in increasingly significant and dangerous ways. It’s time for a new Constitutional Convention in order to reinforce our nation’s foundation and breathe some life into a Constitution that was never meant to be chiseled in stone in 1788 and can no longer meet the challenges of the country that we have built since then.
I get it. And the memes are hilarious. However, as a native Nevadan, I also think y'all deserve an explanation. Trump is currently suing Clark County, the most populous county in Nevada, for voter fraud. So every single disputed ballot is being reviewed by a judge, and a lot of the actual counting has slowed down for diligence sake so his suit has very little to go off of. That’s why it’s taking so long. Keep making the memes, they’re hilarious, but the actual villain here is still the shitstain in the White House.
This statistic is being mentioned everywhere, but it bears repeating in order to emphasize the fact that the majority of the American people are continually being held hostage by a literal interpretation of a document written 233 years ago by a group that included people who owned other human beings as property.
Many of the most glaring problems with governing this country in the 21st Century are the result of a powerful minority of American leaders who interpret the Constitution as if it were some secular version of Sharia law instead of a living document meant to evolve and be shaped by time, growth, experience, and modern necessities. Any rational examination of the framing of the Constitution – and the amendments which have followed since ratification –clearly demonstrates that the intent of the Founders was to build a foundation for an always-changing nation to develop upon. They didn’t intend for future Americans to be handcuffed by outdated systems that make little to no sense for a massive, diverse, modern, industrialized, economic and military superpower.
The size and constant growth of this nation and the pace of the lives Americans live today would overwhelm the Founders if they showed up now and tried to understand it. During their time, America’s remote northwest was present-day Indiana and Ohio! It’s ridiculous and irresponsible to continue to believe that literally interpreting the Constitution as they drafted it for a fledgling, newly independent nation isn’t overwhelming our system of government at every single level in increasingly significant and dangerous ways. It’s time for a new Constitutional Convention in order to reinforce our nation’s foundation and breathe some life into a Constitution that was never meant to be chiseled in stone in 1788 and can no longer meet the challenges of the country that we have built since then.
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