CNN found corroboration for key elements of each of the women’s claims, including the former staffer who said she was sexually assaulted.

I think that part’s the exclusive

I feel like if this was just a GOP plot they would hold off until Swalwell won the primary and the Dems were stuck with him

Hasn’t he taken AIPAC money?

It’s more than allegations, this person worked for Swalwell, people saw them together, theres copies of texts they sent a friend at the time saying Swalwell assaulted them, and medical records showing this person got a pregnancy and STI test around that time too. It’s circumstantial evidence and not smoking gun stuff, but it’s more than just allegations.

Not really, could be that this person just hoped this would go away and tried to forget about it but when they saw his name in the news and realized he could become governor and do what they claimed he did to someone else they felt the need to act

I’m kinda tempted to whip out that community meme with a “human rights violations I can stand, but I draw the line at market destabilization!”, but I’m pretty sure we’re imprisoning and brutalizing more Latinos and other migrants than China is Uyghurs and other marginalized communities over there at this point

The first step of the campaign was getting the average person to hate “politics” “the government” “Washington dc” etc., vague ideas instead of specific people and policies

Then it’s easy to sell people on the basic idea that “the government is too dumb and evil to help anyone even if it tried, but it can punish your enemies pretty good”

demonstrators face violent crackdowns by Israeli police — while opposition lawmakers are still nowhere to be seen.

As an American that feels all too relatable

THE POST DOESN’T SAY ANYTHING ABOUT ISRAEL ITS JUST A PICTURE OF JEWS

“… and then he responded ‘Never has been,’ and that’s the last transmission we got from Artemis II.”

a) This headline forgets W losing Afghanistan

b) Fuck Nixon, but Eisenhower deserves the blame for Vietnam (admittedly one of the reasons he did that was because he thought it would give him political cover to shut McCarthyism down, but still)

One of the most infuriating aspects of western imperialism and corruption is how douchebag leaders in non-western countries can point at it and say “See? This is why you need the kind of strong ruler who is willing to massacre unarmed protesters.”

Kind of an empty news story when DOJ is simultaneously fighting over half the states in court to even get this data in the first place and likely to lose that fight, but I’m not surprised CBS is pretending this is a done deal to scare people away from voting

It’s not relevant until it is. Self described democracies that are unable to respond to popular sentiment get unstable.

Exactly. It’s anecdotal but most people I have met in my American life are quietly good people. Their biggest problem is finding the courage to speak up when a loud jerk is doing their thing.

I know there are some members of this community who are at least as surprised that anybody living in Arkansas has a moral compass

I think it’s less a matter of people clinging to anything than just not knowing what to do because of everything you mention in that final paragraph. I think more people are willing to sacrifice for a greater good than is commonly realized, but nobody wants to sacrifice themselves for nothing, and that’s almost certainly what would come from trying to take forceful action at this point. I sympathize with being deeply frustrated, but honestly I think the best thing a good comrade can do for the revolution right now is to try to survive for long enough for a better opportunity to present itself.

So it costs the Pentagon $435 to purchase a $15 hammer, maybe, but it all depends on which numbers they choose to present because their accounting practices are a total mess. Yay?

I would include these CEOs of private prison companies in the group of grifters who need some sort of criminal punishment, but if they’re willing to give testimony against the government officials they worked with some sort of leniency may be appropriate.

It’s all awful, but in terms of the scale of awfulness the systematic human rights abuses are worse than the graft imo.