#democratic package

[capitalism-and-analytics]

What do Canadian package thieves say when caught?

Sorry, I just wanted a little 'gift'-away!

#Republican #Democrat #Liberal #Libertarian #Conservative #politics #privacy #canada #package thieves

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

House Democrats made an extremely rare break with modern political norms on Thursday to rescue House Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-La.) foreign aid package.

WHY IT MATTERS: It's the starkest evidence to date that the GOP's fractured and tiny House majority has effectively yielded to something resembling a bipartisan coalition.

WHAT HAPPENED: The four Democrats on the House Rules Committee voted with five of the panel's establishment Republicans to advance the package of four bills to votes on the House floor.

• The crossover was needed after three right-wing hardliners on the panel — Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) and Chip Roy (R-Texas) — voted against sending it to the floor.

• The right-wing rebellion was enough to kill the package if Democrats did not step in.

ZOOM IN: The Rules Committee typically consists of leadership loyalists who dutifully vote along party lines on advancing legislation to the floor.

• But former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) placed Massie, Norman and Roy on the panel last year to placate right-wing hardliners who rebelled against his bid for the gavel.

• That put power in the hands of Democrats, who overwhelmingly support the package and are desperate to send aid to Ukraine.

WHAT WE'RE HEARING: This kind of party crossover on the panel has not happened "in the time that I've been here," said Rep. Dan Kildee (D-Mich.), who has served in Congress for more than a decade.

• Kildee, a member of Democratic leadership, said the move is "unprecedented."

• "I think it's highly unusual ... I don't know that I've ever seen that happen," said Rep. Joe Morelle (D-N.Y.), a former member of the panel.

WHAT'S NEXT: The committee vote sets up a vote of the full House on Friday to pass what is known as the "rule," a procedural mechanism setting the terms of debate on legislation.

• Democrats will need to bail out the rule once again, with the House Freedom Caucus taking the rare step of endorsing a "no" vote.

• That likely won't be a big deal, however, now that Democrats have already rescued the rule once: "In for a penny, in for a pound," said Kildee.

#us politics #news #republicans #gop #house freedom caucus #2024 #us house of representatives #Democrats #rep. Mike Johnson #foreign aid package #House Rules Committee #rep. Thomas Massie #rep. Ralph Norman #rep. Chip Roy #rep. Kevin McCarthy #Rep. Dan Kildee #Rep. Joe Morelle #axios

[mariacallous]

BREAKING NEWS

The House voted to raise the age for buying semiautomatic weapons to 21 and ban high-capacity magazines. The measure is doomed in the Senate.

Wednesday, June 8, 2022 7:33 PM ET

The 223-to-204 vote came hours after parents and children affected by mass shootings across the country delivered wrenching testimony to a House committee, urging Congress to act on gun violence.

Read the latest

#I kind of hate these headlines because it should read 'the measure is doomed in the Senate due to GOP blockage' #like the CNN alert was far more accurate #'Democrat-led house passes gun control package - it's unlikely to pass in the Senate due to GOP obstruction'

[avoidingdestiny]

The unions in my town put on annual Labor Day picnic, and when I went there I grabbed a brochure for a sheet metal apprenticeship. Not sure how much it pays and it’d be a five-year commitment, but if my office job keeps killing me like this I might give them a call and ask some questions.

#It is a Friday and I have been sitting at a desk with nothing to do for six hours #I could dropping off a package at the post office or getting ready for Shabbat #I have to run the Roomba and clean the windows and cook dinner #Maybe check out the Democrat fundraiser downtown this evening #Or at the very least I could be getting paid to DO something #I can’t even read because I need to at least pretend to be working #But there is nothing to do #And on Monday our desks are moving so I’m sitting right next to my manager #So I won’t even be able to fuck around on my phone #Pay and respect are way better for office work #But as far as QoL manual labor>>>>>white collar

[daughterofdessalines]

Really not so fun when you actually think about it…..

#biden economy #biden harris #biden is corrupt #biden administration #biden russia #kamala harris #40 billion ukrainian relief package #establishment democrats #mass shootings #roe v wade #twitter

[fullhalalalchemist]

internet censorship bill about to pass congress:

ao3 is facing a ddos attack from an overseas right-wing anonymous group because it contains "degeneracy and disgusting things like LGBT and NSFW".

they're not the only right-wing group that is attacking fanfiction sites because of queer & nsfw content. the Heritage foundation, the US right wing think tank that writes laws for republicans, wrote an article about how "big tech turns kids trans" in which they're advocating for the Kid's Online Safety Act to pass because it will give state attorney generals power to sue websites for "potentially harmful content towards minors". in this article they point out websites like wattpad, tumblr, tiktok, twitter as sites that GOP attorney generals can and will target for censorship if this bill passes. all places where fandom, that's mostly queer, hangs out.

if you think this bill has no chance of passing because of all the red flags it poses, think again. it currently has 38 cosponsors in the senate, and is being pushed by the democrats as a "protecting the children!!" type bill.

there are left-aligned orgs in congress rn lobbying for this bill to pass. july is extremely decisive, because if KOSA goes through to markup it'll be bundled with the Earn It act, Restrict, and all the other bad internet bills and passed as a package, completely censoring the internet forever.

if you want to learn more about the bill, go here. also sign the open letter against it here

it's ESSENTIAL that you call your members of congress, specifically Maria Cantwell (you can call from out of state) and tell them DO NOT PASS KOSA. this site here connects you to your members of congress and gives you a short simple script to read off of! super easy and doesn't take much out of your day! please do this now!!

#ao3 #archive of our own #kosa #kids online safety act #earn it act

[tieflingkisser]

Rep. Ilhan Omar To Introduce First Bill To Block U.S. Weapons For Israel Since Gaza War Began

The Minnesota Democrat is taking aim at a $320 million package of bomb equipment that the Biden administration wants to provide to Israel's military.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) will this week introduce legislation to disapprove of a multimillion-dollar package of bomb equipment for Israel proposed by the Biden administration, a source familiar with her plans told HuffPost ― posing the first congressional challenge to the U.S.’s policy of uninterrupted and expanding military support for Israel amid its deadly campaign in Gaza. Omar will by Wednesday file a bill known as a “resolution of disapproval” targeting a $320 million sale of gear for precision guidance kits for bombs, the source said, likely with a group of fellow Democratic lawmakers as co-sponsors. If the House of Representatives and the Senate both pass such a resolution, the administration would not be able to transfer the bomb equipment unless President Joe Biden vetoed the bill.

#free palestine #palestine #israel #usa #ilhan omar

[iww-gnv]

New York lawmakers proposed three new bills last week that would make it difficult for wage theft violators to conduct business in the state. The legislation would bolster the power of state agencies to crack down on wage theft by stripping violators of their liquor licenses or business licenses, as well as issuing stop-work orders against them. The legislation was prompted by reports of rampant wage theft against New York workers, including two investigations published by Documented and ProPublica. The stories revealed that more than 127,000 New Yorkers have been victims of wage theft during a recent five-year period, but that the New York State Department of Labor was unable to recover $79 million in back wages owed to the workers. The stories were based on an analysis of two databases of wage theft violations obtained from the U.S. and New York Labor departments. The databases provided previously unreported details on how much money had been stolen from workers and also shed light on which businesses had committed wage theft. “We knew from our conversations with labor and from our constituent service caseload that wage theft is a chronic problem,” said Sen. Jessica Ramos, a Democrat who sponsored the legislation. “We did not have the data to understand the scale of the issue in New York state until the ProPublica and Documented series came out last year. Having this reporting as a tool set us up to put this package together and focused our attention on” the capacity of the Department of Labor. The legislation — dubbed the “wage theft deterrence package” by lawmakers — includes three bills, which are co-sponsored in the State Assembly by Assembly members Kenny Burgos, Harvey Epstein and Linda Rosenthal.

#news #us news #uspol #us pol #new york #new york news #wage theft

[nientedal]

What progress at home has biden enacted? What policies of his show that he is making progress that prove he is actually different than trump?

I like to pretend I have faith in humanity, so I'll answer as if you're asking this in good faith.

Biden's DEA has lifted restrictions on telehealth prescriptions to make appointments and assistance more accessible.

He put a funding package into place to help unhoused people get access to mental and physical healthcare, as well as short-term and long-term housing.

He has attempted and is still attempting to get student debt relief through - this was blocked by Republican judges appointed by Trump, but he's still working on it.

Infrastructure repair - his administration has budgeted funds to actually fix some severely-damaged and frequently-traveled bridges.

Trying to expand access to healthcare to include undocumented immigrants who came to the USA as children (Dreamers) under the Affordable Care Act. Support for Navigator programs and outreach has also been increased.

He has vetoed Republican-led bills that were attempting to overturn environmental protections - one that would have forbidden investment fund managers to consider climate change in their portfolios (I have two degrees in accounting and this is actually huge), and another that would have overturned restrictions on agricultural runoff into our waterways.

He and his administration worked for ages to get rail workers paid sick days.

This is just some of what he's been doing. Meanwhile, Trump and other Republicans want to criminalize the lives of LGBT people like you and me. They want to eliminate no-fault divorce and force births that will kill parents or devastate them financially. They have stated flat out that they want to install a military dictatorship in the USA. They attempted to put that in motion on January 6th, 2021. They failed once. They will do better next time.

One party wants to house the homeless and expand social safety nets, while the other one wants to criminalize homelessness. One of them wants a future in which I might be able to vote to change how much of a war machine my country is, while the other one wants to eliminate my ability to vote entirely. Those are not the same. Those literally are opposites.

At the end of the day, all you and I can do is choose to do the least amount of harm possible. You and I cannot choose to do no harm. This is the USA, we sell war, you and I cannot choose to do no harm. I wish we could, my god do I wish we could, but that is not an option. So we grieve for the harm we couldn't eliminate and work to minimize the harm that is done. Despite all the crap they support, Democrats are the minimum amount of harm right now. Acting like they aren't is exactly what brought us to an election where our options are a future where we are either wading in blood or drowning in it.

Not voting for Biden will not help Palestine. Not voting for Biden will guarantee a Republican president who will make the situation in Palestine WORSE. AND it'll hurt a lot of other places as well, both at home and abroad, because Republicans are about business and the USA is in the business of war! And I would very much like that to change someday! I would very much like to someday be able to choose to do no harm! And I know what I have to do to try for that future, so what are YOU going to do? There is no standing off to the side in this. If you aren't helping pull, you're the dead weight we're pulling. Are you going to dig your feet into the mud and blood and drown us there? Or are you going to get the fuck off your ass, grit your teeth, and help us pull free?

#askbasket #iam-the-wild #us politics #israel #palestine #if you do not vote blue you do not get to call yourself an antifascist #i HATE that that's the case; don't mistake me #but that is the reality we're working with #there isn't any other #do nothing and kill five people or act and kill one. #so what are you gonna do? i can't choose for you. but i know what my choice is. #i'm part of this world. and as much as i hate it...turning away is not one of the options. #we fight on ALL fronts #we protest we donate we write we call #AND WE ALSO FUCKING VOTE FOR THE LEAST OF THE EVILS. BECAUSE NO EVIL IS NOT AN OPTION.

[reasonsforhope]

"Georgia Republicans bundled over a dozen measures that targeted the state’s transgender residents into omnibus packages in a desperate attempt to get them passed. In a stunning defeat for the GOP, every single one of them failed.

Legislators gutted bills that had passed through committee and instead stuffed them full of their anti-LGBTQ+ wishlist items.

Bills that would ban transgender students from playing on teams aligned with their gender identity, ban transgender students from bathrooms aligned with their gender identity, opt parents into notification for every book a student checks out of the library, bar sex education before sixth grade, make all sex-ed classes opt-in and expand obscenity laws to make it easier to ban books with LGBTQ+ content all failed.

“MAGA politicians in Georgia tried it all in service to their anti-LGBTQ+ agenda,” said Human Rights Campaign Georgia State Director Bentley Hudgins, “including silencing debate and gutting unrelated, popular bills that had bipartisan support to ram through policies that would have put young LGBTQ+ Georgians in harm’s way. They failed.”

“It’s undeniable that the tides are shifting, both here in Georgia and across the nation,” Georgia Equality executive director Jeff Graham added. “Anti-LGBTQ actors are losing their political power, and more and more Georgians who know and love LGBTQ people are standing up against their baseless fear-mongering.”

In Florida recently, nearly two dozen anti-LGBTQ+ bills were defeated in the wake of Gov. Ron DeSantis‘s (R) presidential campaign implosion, dozens of measures in Virginia were tabled [Note: In the US, "tabled" means "shelved" or "taken out of consideration - the opposite of its meaning in the UK and other places], and Ohio’s governor backed off his attempt to restrict gender-affirming care access for transgender adults and minors. 

Meanwhile, in D.C., Democrats successfully excised 50 anti-LGBTQ+ provisions in the two budget bills passed and signed by President Joe Biden to fund the federal government.

Even Fox News has been forced to acknowledge transgender issues are among the lowest-priority concerns among voters."

-via LGBTQ Nation, April 1, 2024

#united states #us politics #lgbtq #lgbtq issues #lgbtq positivity #transgender #trans issues #trans positivity #transphobia #homophobia #anti trans laws #book bans #gender affirming care #georgia #florida #virginia #ohio #d.c. #republicans #democrats #voting matters #good news #hope

[brownpuffball]

Listening to politician interviews and speeches tonight to prepare for the upcoming election and I'm just so happy at the variety we have now.

For 60 years we were functionally a one party system. Then about 15 years ago we became a two party system and we actually had a viable opposition for once.

And now? Malaysia has 4 coalitions fighting in the elections!! 4!!! It is a wealth, a luxurious excess of choices.

A Borneo party is campaigning in the Peninsular! We have new parties popping up all the damn time! Nobody is guaranteed a 2/3 majority in Parliament and they have to compromise! All parties get a platform to air their views! Automatic voter registration! Anti-hopping bills!

Change is coming, slow but steady. Better the pain of growth than the slow death of the soul.

And we have come so far. God, we have come so far.

The only thing I hope is that we continue to vote, keep our 80% turnout streak. I don't care who you vote as long as you do.

#Malaysia #Personal #GE15 #I am so happy tonight #Because we have CHOICES #Yeah they're not the best #Right wing extremism is a coalition you can vote for still #But we have come so far #Also there's an MP candidate I like for once! #I like his policies #Democratic socialist on the ballot this time round let's go #My state assembly member choices are more meh #But one of them was giving out food packages during lockdown so maybe

[lady-raziel]

Today is the only day I’ve ever been sad that Donald Trump isn’t currently president anymore, because I’m convinced that if we managed to use his massive hubris against him and got him to stare unprotected at an eclipse for a second time we might have a shot at invoking some kind of cosmic punishment from the heavens for thinking one has more power than the actual sun and getting him blinded or something, and if he was president he would be standing out on the White House balcony to watch the eclipse and therefore we could all watch this cosmic reckoning happen. Alas, sneaky Joe Biden and his network of Democratic undercover operatives stole off with the election in the night like porch robbers with an Amazon package containing dietary supplements and a replacement phone charger

#eclipse #solar eclipse

[robertreich]

The Silent Revolution in American Economics

I don't think you're expecting what I'm about to say, because I have never seen anything like this in fifty years in politics.

For decades I've been sounding an alarm about how our economy has become increasingly rigged for the rich. I've watched it get worse under both Republicans and Democrats, but what President Biden has done in his first term gives me hope I haven't felt in years. It’s a complete sea change.

Here are three key areas where Biden is fundamentally reshaping our economy to make it better for working people.

#1 Trade and industrial policy

Biden is breaking with decades of reliance on free-trade deals and free-market philosophies. He’s instead focusing on domestic policies designed to revive American manufacturing and fortify our own supply chains.

Take three of his signature pieces of legislation so far — the Inflation Reduction Act, the CHIPS Act, and his infrastructure package. This flood of government investment has brought about a new wave in American manufacturing.

Unlike Trump, who just levied tariffs on Chinese imports and used it as a campaign slogan, Biden is actually investing in America’s manufacturing capacity so we don’t have to rely on China in the first place.

He’s turning the tide against deals made by previous administrations, both Democratic and Republican, that helped Wall Street but ended up costing American jobs and lowering American wages.

#2 Monopoly power

Biden is the first president in living memory to take on big monopolies.

Giant firms have come to dominate almost every industry. Four beef packers now control over 80 percent of the market, domestic air travel is dominated by four airlines, and most Americans have no real choice of internet providers.

In a monopolized economy, corporate profits rise, consumers pay higher prices, and workers’ wages shrink.

But under the Biden, the Federal Trade Commission and the Antitrust Division of the Justice Department have become the most aggressive monopoly fighters in more than a half century. They’re going after Amazon and Google, Ticketmaster and Live Nation, JetBlue and Spirit, and a wide range of other giant corporations.  

#3 Labor

Biden is also the most pro-union president I’ve ever seen.

A big reason for the surge in workers organizing and striking for higher wages is the pro-labor course Biden is charting.

The Reagan years blew in a typhoon of union busting across America. Corporations routinely sunk unions and fired workers who attempted to form them. They offshored production or moved to so-called “right-to-work” states that enacted laws making it hard to form unions.

Even though Democratic presidents promised labor law reforms that would strengthen unions, they didn’t follow through. But under Joe Biden, organized labor has received a vital lifeboat. Unionizing has been protected and encouraged. Biden is even the first sitting president to walk a picket line.

Biden’s National Labor Relations Board is stemming the tide of unfair labor practices, requiring companies to bargain with their employees, speeding the period between union petitions and elections, and making it harder to fire workers for organizing.

Americans have every reason to be outraged at how decades of policies that prioritized corporations over people have thrown our economy off-keel.

But these three waves of change — a worker-centered trade and industrial policy, strong anti-monopoly enforcement, and moves to strengthen labor unions — are navigating towards a more equitable economy.

It’s a sea change that’s long overdue.

#youtube #Joe Biden #politics #economics #video #videos

[moyalucom]

Second Mortgages - What Are They and Can They Help?

Second Mortgages – What Are They and Can They Help?

It is a loan taken out against your home on which there is already a dominant mortgage. The dwelling equity is used as collateral for the 2nd loan. The 2nd mortgage has less anteriority in comparison to the first on the same home. So, if you default, you want to complete your first loan prior to paying back the noticeable difference on the 2nd loan. When do you select a secondary mortgage? There…

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#second debate #second democratic debate #second korean drama #second presidential debate between donald trump and joe biden #second presidential debates #second stimulus #second stimulus check #second stimulus package #second stimulus payment amounts #second stimulus payments

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Ban Fox News from TV, CRTC hears as thousands of Canadians write to regulator.

OTTAWA — Thousands of Canadians have weighed in on whether cable companies should be prohibited from distributing Fox News in Canada — and many of them appear to be in favour of a ban.

The CRTC launched the consultation after LGBTQ rights group Egale Canada asked it to ban the channel from Canadian cable packages in response to former Fox host Tucker Carlson’s comments about transgender individuals. The deadline for comments was Friday.

The CRTC heard from a number of LBGTQ and other rights groups criticizing Fox and supporting a ban. A random sample of 100 submissions from individual Canadians reviewed by the National Post found 70 per cent were anti-Fox or in favour of banning the channel.

“Fox is a propaganda outlet which undermines the democratic ideals of Canada,” one comment said. “This is not censorship, this is shielding intellectually vulnerable people from brainwashing.” [...]

Continue Reading.

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

#cdnpoli #LGBT+ #misinformation #journalism #reactionary politics

[reality-detective]

SCOOP: Chuck Schumer was just on the Senate floor bragging to other members about Speaker Johnson giving Democrats everything they wanted in the Ukraine and foreign aid packages, per senior Republican official 🤔

#pay attention #educate yourselves #educate yourself #knowledge is power #reeducate yourself #reeducate yourselves #think about it #think for yourselves #think for yourself #do your homework #do some research #do your own research #ask yourself questions #question everything #senate #government corruption #money laundering #you decide #criminal minds #news #real american news