silence7

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[–] silence7@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I used a gift link so people should mostly not need that.

 

For nearly 15 years, the two men socialized together in Manhattan and Palm Beach, Fla., before a falling out that preceded Mr. Epstein’s first arrest.

I'll note that the basic facts here have been public for a while — the NYT ran a story about them in 2019, but they're re-upping it in light of the WSJ's publication of a letter to Epstein

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For nearly 15 years, the two men socialized together in Manhattan and Palm Beach, Fla., before a falling out that preceded Mr. Epstein’s first arrest.

I'll note that the basic facts here have been public for a while — the NYT ran a story about them in 2019, but they're re-upping it in light of the WSJ's publication of a letter to Epstein

[–] silence7@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

The way you achieve more is typically showing up at your local Democratic Club meetings or county party meetings.

[–] silence7@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I'll be at one near me. Hope everyone else is too

[–] silence7@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

He published a new one calling for the same thing now

The NYT article is old; the WSJ one new

 

Under Louisiana’s 2024 CAMRA law, community groups now fear they could face fines of up to $32,500 per day – or even $1 million for ‘intentional’ violations – for talking publicly about evidence of airborne pollution, except under a narrow set of circumstances.

 

TL;DR; there's still one dam, and it has a fish ladder, but it turns out fish can't actually use the fish ladder on it.

 

In addition to the impromptu ones, the No Kings protests on Saturday June 14 have been in the works for weeks.

[–] silence7@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

It's very efficient at funneling money to contractors.

[–] silence7@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

The cruelty and harm is the point of these kinds of policy

[–] silence7@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Its when the Sharpies give you a bad trip

[–] silence7@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

More importantly, its about building public opinion in favor of impeachment in the here and now

[–] silence7@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Its who the US military was allowed to randomly kill in Vietnam.

[–] silence7@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Mostly, an effort to shift public opinion against the federal attack on citizens, to in turn pressure Trump

[–] silence7@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

They were filming be-afraid-of-scary-brown-people propaganda

[–] silence7@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (3 children)

They do. Slowly, imperfectly, and some of the time.

It's worth doing in parallel with other efforts.

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