November 8, 2024

The Stuttering Lede, Nov. 8th, 2024

The Resistance Frequencies

“Your body, my choice. Forever.” Nicholas J. Fuentes.

Resistance Frequencies

• Jen Rubin: “The idea we have to understand how or why Trump won to prepare to fight him is a category error.I t is 1933. Hitler is in power. No time for a fucking seminar on Democrats messaging errors.”

• How to fight back against the implementation of fascism in America.

• 10 ways to be prepared and grounded now that Trump has won.

• The “non-consecutive presidents are immune from the 22nd amendment” argument is already being made.

• “Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey said that she would refuse to assist in mass deportations in her state, and warned states of the pressure they will face to penalize and deport undocumented immigrants.”

• Trump will begin operations to deport millions of undocumented immigrants when he starts his term, campaign press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Wednesday morning.

Climate Change

• This year will be the hottest on record, and the first to exceed the target set at the Paris climate conference in 2015, according to a European Union data service. Keep in mind that the 1.5°C target is a long-term average, so this doesn't mean we've passed it. However, it's not good. Every year that we continue to emit >40 billion tonnes of CO₂ into the atmosphere and elect climate deniers to office, the world becomes a more dangerous place for everyone.

• "Across the federal government, Trump’s election has set off a scramble among political appointees and career bureaucrats alike to lock in Biden’s landmark environmental initiatives.”

• ‘A wrecking ball’: experts warn Trump’s win setbacks global climate action.

Politics

• The few restraints that held him back last time are now gone. Prepare for Trump unbound.

• After 248 years, America prepares for life under a king.

• Far-Right Donald Trump Supporters Celebrate His Victory with Violent Memes and Calls for Executions.

• Dan Froomkin blames the media. Period, exclamation point.

• We have just witnessed the greatest failure of federal law enforcement in American history.

• Texas Latino men — documented and not — are hopeful for Donald Trump. Kind of like a Jewish person in 1932 proudly announcing they voted for moustache guy, and they'll be fine because they're "one of the good ones."

• 57% of residents in conservative Montana voted to protect reproductive rights. So it became law. 57% of Floridians voted along similar lines - yet lost. Why? Because politicians and business interests have gamed Democracy in the Sunshine State. You will only see more and more of this, when democracy is no longer democratic….

• Another scary note: Every single crypto industry-backed candidate won their race.

• Hours after Donald Trump was declared the winner of the 2024 election, I got an unsolicited text from a Democrat working in the administration: "Sonia Sotomayor needs to retire right now."

• Elon Musk joined Trump's call with Zelensky.

• The idea that a second Trump presidency would basically just be more of the same, a kind of rerun of the first, is diagnostically not plausible at all, and it is politically dangerous. Written the day before the election - even more relevant now.

• Judge Tanya Chutkan granted the special counsel’s unopposed request, as a result of the election, for the briefing schedule in the Jan. 6 case against Trump in federal court in DC to be vacated. This is, in short, the beginning of the end of this case.

• Millions of Americans reportedly risk losing health insurance under Trump Trump and Republicans opposed to extending subsidies without which 4m people could be unable to afford health insurance after 2025.

• The Legal Cases Implicating Donald Trump's Conduct That Won't Go Away [Because of His Election].

• Sweden and Norway are backpedalling on plans for cashless societies over fears that fully digital payment systems would leave them vulnerable to Russian security threats, and concern for those unable to use them.

• 79% of US Jews voted for Harris. Two thirds of Jewish Israelis preferred Trump.

• Why did New York City shift red? Read every quote in this story.

• The Pentagon violated the constitutional rights of two transgender women by denying them health insurance coverage for gender-affirmation surgery recommended by their doctors, according ruling in Maine.

• Arizonans approved, by wide margin, a ballot prop that would give immigration enforcement and deportation powers to the state. Lawsuits could be coming. This is the blueprint Stephen Miller has been promoting for staffing up mass deportations.

• "Dems hoped to stave off fascism in the Trump era by never losing. That was never feasible, and now that it's failed, we face the consequences of not prosecuting Trump quickly after J6."

• The former CEO of a hedge fund beats someone who has been a reliable ally for labor.

• Become familiar with the concept of "denaturalization." (from 2018).

• Elie Mystal, with feeling: “A country that allows its environment to be ravaged, its children to be shot, its wealth to be hoarded, its workers to be exploited, its poor to starve, its cops to murder, and its minorities to be hunted doesn’t really deserve to be ‘saved.’ It deserves to fail.

• Donald Trump’s Supreme Court Majority Could Easily Rule Through 2045.

Women Rights

• Iraq is poised to lower the age of consent from age 19 to 9, allowing men to rape children.

Misc.

• Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe.

• René Magritte experimented with a variety of styles before he ever painted his famous green apples.

Humor