usernamesAreTricky

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[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 24 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)
[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

She has been getting lots of small dollar donors. Many of the earlier headline touted figured were actually only looking at small donors. Not only that but large numbers of first time donors

From the article

But the August haul comes on the heels of largely small donors (those giving less than $200) and first-time donors contributing to Harris’ July fundraising. In the first week of her campaign, roughly two-thirds of donations came from first-time donors

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 days ago

Don't let one singular poll discourage you. Instead use it to motivate action. Singular polls bounce around with statistical noise. This is still a very winnable fight

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[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 188 points 3 weeks ago (27 children)

Ah yes the strategy of trying to court jewish Americans by *checks notes* being blatantly antisemitic. There's no real reason to mention he's Jewish here other than to be antisemitic and imply he's a "bad jew"

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 weeks ago

One problem with that is that companies could create a ton of subsidiaries or shell companies and move money around in funny ways to keep all of them at the lowest bracket

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 57 points 3 weeks ago

It's still a start, and something more likely to get though congress

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 30 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It also normalizes the idea of some criticism of Trump within their circle. Historically, they've kind of given him an auora of being 100% perfect in every way

A tiny crack into that could expand to more (and hopefully it will)

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 47 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (8 children)

The X service remains available to the people of Brazil, billionaire Elon Musk's platform said on Saturday.

Wait so what do they mean by stopping operations in Brazil then? Just the offices and staff? The article isn't super clear on it

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 71 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Not OP, but here's the original tweet with the video on a nitter mirror:

https://xcancel.com/CalltoActivism/status/1822785991192494548

 

His comments appeared to be a shift from June, when he said during a CNN debate, "I will not block it."

The idea of directing the FDA to revoke access to mifepristone is a core policy plan in Project 2025, a 900-plus page document written by conservative groups and organized by the Heritage Foundation that lays out a governing plan for the next GOP presidential administration.

 

Headline undersells how he did this during the 90’s during the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell era. Was not nearly as socially or politically acceptable then as it is now in the US to do that.

And not just for one person, he was the facility adviser of a gay-straight alliance club

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