#poltiics

[fleapit]

hi. why is nobody talking about the porn ban in north carolina? the PAVE act is a bill that was passed back in september 2023 (came into law january 1st 2024) that effectively bans users from viewing websites hosting adult content without age verification. (link to the bill)

"-the act legally requires commercial ventures to verify users’ ages if a company “knowingly and intentionally publishes or distributes material harmful to minors on the internet from a website that contains a substantial portion of such material.”

In order to do so, North Carolina requires these sites to either use “a commercially available database that is regularly used by businesses or governmental entities for the purpose of age and identity verification,” or utilize “another commercially reasonable method of age and identity verification.” Companies are not allowed to hold records on any personally identifying information used to confirm users’ ages.

Additionally, North Carolina offers residents the right to a lawsuit if a site is found to record user identifying information, or if a minor’s parent or guardian finds that a website allowed their child to access a site purposefully hosting material “harmful to minors.”" obviously we don't want these websites having our IDs, but sites like e621 and pornhub just straight up aren't asking for them either- blocking their service to the state in it's entirety instead. even beyond the restriction of adult websites, obviously as the 'queerest place on the net' we can see how "material that is harmful to minors" is not just intentional vague wording, but a massive red flag. even if you dont care about the porn- which you should, this is a massive rights violation. how long until 'harmful material' is expanded to include transgender people? same-sex relationships? anything lgbtq? this is a serious fucking problem and it opens the door to hundreds of potentially worse bills that extrapolate on the same concept.

i have no idea what to do to fight it, but if someone smarter than me could add links to representatives or something, that would be awesome.

i'm also going to tag a few people to get this post out: @polyamorouspunk @safety-pin-punk @doggirlbreasts (i have no idea who else to tag, if any of you can think of someone who can help this post get out there, please tag them!)

#no idea what to tag this with either but uhh #poltiics #north carolina #pave act #PAVE #e621

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Theodore Roosevelt hired a milf to advise him on all his important decisions while he was president.

#dream #theodore roosevelt #potus #poltiics #president

[troythecatfish]

#instagram memes #instagram post #instagram account #instagram mention #instagram #leftism #leftist memes #leftist #socialist memes #socialist #socialism #marxism #marxist leninist #communist #communism #memes #tumblr memes #meme #poltiics #political #political memes #political posting #anti capitalism #anti facist #communist memes

[muddypolitics]

(via Daring Fireball: Holy Hell, Trump Did Use Twitter Direct Messages, There Were ‘Many’ of Them, and the Special Counsel Now Has Them)

Katelyn Polantz, reporting for CNN:

The special counsel’s investigation into Donald Trump and the aftermath of the 2020 election sought the former president’s Twitter direct messages, of which there were many, federal prosecutors and lawyers for Twitter revealed in newly unsealed transcripts from February court hearings about the search warrant. [...]

A lawyer representing Twitter, now called “X,” similarly confirmed in court that Trump’s account had several private messages between users on the platform. “X” was able to find both the sent direct messages and deleted messages for prosecutors, according to the transcripts.

“We were able to determine that there was some volume in that for this account. There are confidential communications,” a lawyer for Twitter said about @realDonaldTrump’s direct messages.

Alan Feuer and Maggie Haberman, reporting for The New York Times:

While it remained unclear what sorts of information the messages contained and who exactly may have written them, it was a revelation that there were private messages associated with the Twitter account of Mr. Trump, who has famously been cautious about using written forms of communications in his dealings with aides and allies.

The papers included transcripts of hearings in Federal District Court in Washington in February during which Judge Beryl A. Howell asserted that Mr. Smith’s office had sought Mr. Trump’s direct messages — or DMs — from Twitter as part of a search warrant it executed on the account in January.

In one of the transcripts, a lawyer for Twitter, answering questions from Judge Howell, confirmed that the company had turned over to the special counsel’s office “all direct messages, the DMs” from Mr. Trump’s Twitter account, including those sent, received and “stored in draft form.”

The lawyer for Twitter told Judge Howell that the company had found both “deleted” and “nondeleted” direct messages associated with Mr. Trump’s account.

I am not at all surprised that “deleted” DMs are not in fact deleted, but rather hidden. I am slightly surprised that Trump — famously averse not just to using email and text messages, but even to his own lawyers taking written notes in meetings, so as not to leave a chain of evidence for his lifelong criminal activity — would use, of all things, the infamously unencrypted direct messaging feature on Twitter. To be clear, this is a pleasant surprise.

Kyle Cheney, reporting for Politico, “Special Counsel Obtained Trump DMs Despite ‘Momentous’ Bid by Twitter to Delay, Unsealed Filings Show”:

Among the data the search warrant commanded Twitter to produce:

Accounts associated with @realdonaldtrump that the former president might have used in the same device.

Devices used to log into the @realdonaldtrump account.

IP addresses used to log into the account between October 2020 and January 2021.

Privacy settings and history.

All tweets “created, drafted, favorited/liked, or retweeted” by @realdonaldtrump, including any subsequently deleted.

All direct messages “sent from, received by, stored in draft form in, or otherwise associated with” @realdonaldtrump.

All records of searches from October 2020 to January 2021.

Location information for the user of @realdonaldtrump from October 2020 to January 2021.

As I speculated last week, nothing you do on Twitter is private. Not your DMs, not your “deleted” DMs, not your searches, not your location (if you’re foolish enough to grant Twitter/X access to it), not your draft posts.

Elon Musk comes out of this looking like he’d happily fellate Trump:

Ultimately, U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell held Twitter in contempt of court in February, fining the company $350,000 for missing a court-ordered deadline to comply with Smith’s search warrant. But the newly unsealed transcripts of the proceedings in her courtroom show that the fine was the least of the punishment. Howell lit into Twitter for taking “extraordinary” and apparently unprecedented steps to give Trump advance notice about the search warrant — despite prosecutors’ warnings, backed by unspecified evidence, that notifying Trump could cause grave damage to their investigation.

“Is this to make Donald Trump feel like he is a particularly welcomed new renewed user of Twitter?” Howell asked.

“Twitter has no interest other than litigation its constitutional rights,” replied attorney George Varghese of WilmerHale, the firm Twitter deploys for much of its litigation.

But Howell returned to the theme repeatedly during the proceedings, wondering why the company was taking “momentous” steps to protect Trump that it had never taken for other uses. In the hearing on Feb. 7, 2023, Howell referenced Musk, asking: “Is it because the new CEO wants to cozy up with the former president?”

The unsealed court filing (PDF) is here, for your reading enjoyment. Hope you stocked up on popcorn, like I did, for indictment season.

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[favorite quote: “Elon Musk comes out of this looking like he’d happily fellate Trump” - ed.]

#oh #there's a lot here #poltiics #twitter #DMs #turned over to the feds #trump crime family #news #tech

[princess-viola]

we seriously need a better term to refer to when people try and use their identities as a shield against criticism than 'identity politics' because idk about y'all but i just automatically associate that term with right-wing fucksticks who call like any minority rights movement as 'identity politics' because they're right-wing fucksticks

#text post #poltiics

[deadpresidents]

Which Landon would make a better President: Alf or Michael?

First of all, I'd like to congratulate you for almost certainly being the first person to ever reference Michael Landon on Tumblr. I'm guessing that two or three generations of my readers had to do a Wikipedia search to figure out who that was.

Anyway, I think the more pertinent question is which Alf would make a better President? Landon or...well...Alf?

I think we all know the correct answer to that question. However, one potential issue might be that the news about President Biden's dog biting Secret Service agents would pale in comparison to the scandal of President Alf eating scores of cats while in office.

And, someone may need to double-check this fact, but I'm pretty sure that Alf has had more Electoral votes cast on his behalf over the years than Alf Landon actually received (8 total Electoral votes) in his landslide defeat to Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936:

#Serious Questions #Alf #Alf Landon #1936 Election #Presidents Who Eat Cats #History #Genuine 100% True History #Not hypothetical #Alf 2024 #Poltiics #What if?

[this-acuteneurosis]

I just had a terrible idea while re-reading the first part and of course I had to share. I've said it before, I'm not a shipper but my brain is trash and I live on the internet so here's my terrible ida of the day: DLB in-universe shipper(s) POV segment(s).

Not exactly what I think you're looking for, but uh...

~...~

It’s an open secret that Senator Sadashassa is pursuing Senator Amidala’s newest aide.

Open in that everyone who has talked to either of their staff is aware of the frequent collaborations, everyone who has passed them in the hall has seen Leia Skywalker make the senator laugh, everyone who has spent more than a few moments around them has seen Senator Sadashassa reach out to touch Leia’s shoulder or arm and linger just half a breath long enough to almost not be just friendly.

To say nothing of what some can smell or sense or see with more enhanced senses.

It’s secret in that, like many things in the Senate, it won’t go beyond these walls until there’s more political capital to be gained by bargaining with it.

It almost reaches that tipping point every other week or so, when Senator Darsana does something—sends an aide that visits with Skywalker a little long, stops her in the hall and quickly earns an indulgent smile—but never quite goes past that point where it’s just rich, filthy gossip and speculation among the various other senatorial staffs. It only comes to the attention of actual senators if they are particular friends—or enemies—of one of the three parties involved.

Senator Sadashassa’s aides are all rolling eyes and long suffering sighs when they are asked about the progress. Senator Amidala’s handmaidens are more tricky. Eiraté will smile, Cordé will laugh once and shake her head, and Dormé with simply smile pleasantly as if she has no knowledge on the topic.

Sheltay is losing her mind.

It’s her first and most important responsibility to stay on top of staff gossip in the Senate, what with the prince being busy with actual politics. Sheltay is the one who gets to wade through the mire of torrid secrets and unpleasant half truths. Well, her and her assistants. But Sheltay has to know what’s happening, because sometimes it’s enough to tip the scales for their actual work.

Skywalker is toying with two completely different senators, keeping both lightly engaged and denying neither.

And she’s winning.

Senator Amidala’s office has gotten direct promises from both senators related to Naboo’s recent refugee focus. Concessions! From Senator Darsana!

It’s not a method Sheltay agrees with, less for any cultural or moral reasons, and more because the risks of backlash are so high.

But it’s working. And Sheltay doesn’t really know what to do with that.

Leia Skywalker is an enigma and a mystery. She’s pretty enough, but that’s not a stand out quality in the Senate. She’s smart—dangerously clever, Sheltay thinks—but that’s not it either. There are hundreds, thousands of intelligent and capable staff members from across the galaxy in these buildings every day.

There’s something else about her. Something that’s easy to miss when she’s pretending to be quiet and unassuming, a shadow in the main halls and a passing thought in full meeting rooms.

And then Sheltay is notified that Leia Skywalker is attending the negotiation dinner with Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi—rising negotiator and Jedi master to Anakin Skywalker—and all of Sheltay’s carefully constructed assumptions and plans are promptly shot.

She’s not paid enough for this.

#Don't Look Back #outsider POV #Sheltay Retrac #Leia Skywalker #Shea Sadashassa #Senator Darsana #Obi-Wan Kenobi #poltiics #Like Fire in Our Bones

[kammartinez]

#poltiics #censorship #education #books #libraries

[sadgirlweather]

The booing and clown music in his resignation speech. This is not a serious government

#uk politics #boris johnson #british politics #poltiics

[tentz]

What's up with Destiny throwing around Whataboutism on his stream and on Twitter/X, I'm so sick of these "independent thinker who hates the woke" shitheads.

#palestine #israel #فلسطين #Destiny #twitch #hasanabi #اسرائيل #poltiics

[debutart]

A recent cover of The Investor by Steve Rawlings.

#steve rawlings #collage #photo real #debut art #illustration #war #climate #government #poltiics #investor

[circleandsquarecomic]

Circle Does Something. Just... Something

#news #poltiics #current events #comic #do something #2nd amendment #gun control #statism #authoritarianism #mass shooting #uvalde #name calling #firearms #guns #futility #buffalo #using still warm corpses as political props #mental health crisis

[smashing-yng-man]

There's 435 members of the House, 100 members of the Senate, and 535 members of Congress that you hardly ever hear about. On top of that, the United States is $19 trillion in debt and Congress recently sent $40 billion to Ukraine to aid them in their war against Russia.

I can sincerely promise you that Biden, nor any other president, doesn't control the gas or food prices.

#2022 #us politics #poltiics #joe biden #gas #food #economy #the house of representatives #senate #congress #law #usa

[troythecatfish]

#leftist #socialist #socialism #leftism #marxism #marxist leninist #poltiics #political #political posting #memes #tumblr memes #meme #political memes #medieval memes #medieval meme #leftist meme #socialist memes #best memes #memesdaily #humour #humor #dank memes #dank humor #dankest memes #medieval humor #medieval shitposting #political humor #political shitposting

[thenopequeen]

When I asked if I could post these, victoria_n_j wanted me to give her the proper credit, so feel free to follow her if you have Instagram, I guess?

#welp #i have interesting friends #poltiics #maybe? #economy #i guess? #this was a dnd group chat #it will be again once I am in a more similar time zone to them and we can actually schedule a session #on an entirely unrelated note #the Shadow Syndicate are the anarchists we play as #toppling a violent and corrupt king #all the good stuff

[maaarine]

Christine Ockrent:

“On a du mal à imaginer qu'en Angleterre, le revenu moyen est celui de l'Irlande. Et qu'il est de 20% inférieur au revenu moyen français.”

Marc Lenormand:

“Ce que cette faiblesse relative du revenu moyen révèle, c'est la force des inégalités, une redistribution très inégale des richesses. 

La plus grande concentration de richesses au sud-est de l'Angleterre, dans la région londonienne, c'est aussi l'endroit où on trouve les plus forts taux de pauvreté. 

Donc on a à la fois des inégalités extrêmement fortes, elles-mêmes inégalement distribuées sur le territoire britannique, mais aussi un retour de la pauvreté de masse. 

Aujourd'hui, c'est environ 1 enfant sur 3 qui grandit dans un foyer pauvre, et 1 retraité sur 5 qui vit dans la pauvreté. 

Les personnes touchent des allocations extrêmement faibles depuis la refonte des allocations au début des années 2010.

Ceci les met dans une situation où, selon une formule qui s'est popularisée au Royaume-Uni ces dernières semaines, ils doivent choisir entre manger ou se chauffer, "eat or heat".”

Christine Ockrent:

“On n'a pas vu de Gilets Jaunes en Grande-Bretagne, et il me semble qu'on ne voit pas ces pulsions de rivalité ou de haine de classe sociale que l'on peut voir sur le continent, et singulièrement en France.”

Agnès Alexandre-Collier:

“Effectivement, c'est un peu une image assez paradoxale pour nous, parce qu'on a plutôt le sentiment d'une société britannique qui reste relativement apathique dans sa mobilisation sociale par rapport aux problèmes absolument criants.

Et ces problèmes expliquent paradoxalement aussi la victoire de Boris Johnson en 2019. 

Puisqu'il a réussi à conquérir un certain nombre de bastions ouvriers dans le nord, en leur promettant justement des investissements, une croissance de leur pouvoir d'achat, en faisant tout un tas de promesses qui n'ont pas été tenues depuis. 

C'est un programme qui continue de fonctionner, mais qui reste totalement théorique pour le moment. 

Et Boris Johnson a aussi joué sur les effets potentiels du Brexit, en mettant l'accent sur la nécessité de redonner au Royaume-Uni une certaine souveraineté et de limiter l'immigration, ce qui permettrait de relancer l'emploi britannique. 

Il y a eu tout un discours qui a parlé à ces territoires abandonnés par les gouvernements conservateurs depuis bien longtemps, et qui pourrait expliquer finalement la popularité et l'idée que le retour de Boris Johnson pourrait représenter un nouvel espoir. 

Surtout par rapport à une Liz Truss qui a tenu un discours systématiquement orienté vers les plus riches avec sa promesse de baisser les impôts pour la tranche supérieure des contribuables.

À un moment où c'était inconcevable d'imaginer que cette "création de richesse", comme elle le prétendait, pourrait rejaillir sur le reste de la population en cette période de crise très forte.”

Christine Ockrent:

“On n'a pas vu pour autant de manifestations monstres à Londres ou ailleurs contre madame Truss.”

Agnès Alexandre-Collier:

“Ça, c'est aussi lié à l'état des syndicats. 

Il y a une organisation et une structure des syndicats britanniques qui est très différente, qui est liée aux années 80, à la façon dont Margaret Thatcher a démantelé le pouvoir des syndicats, le droit de grève, et l'organisation des mouvements sociaux. 

Ça peut avoir une explication sur cette forme d'apathie.”

Source: Affaires étrangères: Londres en plein chaos politique

#affaires etrangeres #podcast #christine ockrent #marc lenormand #poltiics #brexit