I truly can’t help but mention at every chance I get how the sleazy republican snake most responsible for the fucked state of affairs known as “US Democracy” today is Mitch McConnell.
I’d like to point out that, at any point, the Republican party could pick someone else to be their spokesperson. They don’t. McConnell is a snake, but he’s also a figurehead and shield for the rest of the Republican party that hides behind him and amplifies him.
And why would they replace him, ya know? He’s a wildly effective tool if your goal is keeping power in the hands of the few aka maintaining the status quo for as long as possible.
He’s helped lead the charge to do such republican bullshittery as stealing a Supreme Court seat, steamrolling an impeachment hearing/disallowing witnesses(????), stocking conservative judges at every level all over the country to threaten basic rights, keeping their pockets lined by billionaires who want to write laws their way so they can keep doing shit like being the worst polluters, meticulously pandering to the lowest common denominators in local elections in order to control state legislatures which then control voting districts which are then gerrymandered to death such that whole giant regions of left leaning populations all over the country have their political power diluted completely aways.
he threatened to accuse democrats of trying to influence the election when obama wanted to tell the public russia was helping trump before election day 2016
I just learned this but Sanders’ website has an “anti-endorsements” page which I consider absolutely excellent. This is the thing that makes him tolerable for me tbh, I would love to shift the American metapolitical landscape to the point where we start recognizing that realpolitik rather than bipartisanship is the guiding principle
On the ground floor of the concrete high-rise that became the headquarters of the protest movement in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square, slogans scrawled in black and a mural of a fish dressed in a suit disappear under coats of white paint.
The young Iraqis erasing the murals are followers of Muqtada al-Sadr, an influential Shiite Muslim cleric whose support fueled the largely secular protests against government corruption that broke out last October.
Last month from Iran, where he is pursuing his religious studies, Sadr announced the protests have taken the wrong path and that he was withdrawing his support. Two weeks later, he said the protests needed to be “cleansed.”
Programmers are the greatest browsing community (SO mostly)…We can singlehandedly save the planet.
I use Ecosia and let me tell you, Google has nothing on this search engine.
It’s easy to free up your cache and delete cookies. The option is immediately viewable in settings instead of hidden away in the alcoves of who knows where.
Unless you favorite a page, it automatically clears it after 7 days, which is awesome if you hate clearing tabs like I do.
They plant trees everywhere.
Ecosia updates you on their progress- not with annoying update notifications, but with a button you can click as you type up your search if you’re curious.
The tree count is shown just beneath the search bar.
It is an app too and only takes up 18.2 MB. That’s the equivalent of nine live pictures on your phone.
You can view your own tree count. Mine’s 2,475 trees. I have had the app for six months. Do you know how much acreage that is? It’s a heckin’ ton of acres.
Boosting because this looks really cool! It doesn’t have the wildcard capabilities I need for my job, so I probably can’t use it that much, but maybe others can!
