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https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2018/07/26/day-553/ :

The man who used a pickax to vandalize Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame this week was bailed out of jail [$20,000] by the man who vandalized Trump's star in 2016. (The Hill)

BRB, LOLing forever.

"Alex Jones is screaming the fuck word on the Internet."

(mostly reposted from teaotter, with permission.)

There's a petition drive to get a measure onto the 2018 ballot that would return voting rights to up to 1.6 million people in Florida.

Florida is one of the few states that permanently takes away the right to vote, even once people have served their time and returned to their communities. 1 in 10 people in Florida have had their voting rights taken away for life.

As of this writing they are about 16,000 signatures from goal, with 10 days to go.

What you can do:

If you're a registered voter in Florida, go to the link above, and they will mail you a petition for you to sign and mail back ASAP. (You can have more than one voter sign the same petition -- just don't sign twice!)

If you're not a registered voter in Florida, but know someone who might be, please pass the info along. (You can also donate at the link above, to pay for having petitions mailed out and back.)

rachelmanija:

Are you worried about nuclear war? I am too. Keep reading for a way to stop it with one simple action.

Maybe you feel small and powerless. But many snowflakes make an avalanche. If we all move in the same direction, we'll be unstoppable. We will only fail if we choose not to act.

Trump has the power to order a pre-emptive nuclear strike for any reason - or no reason at all. He's always shadowed by a man with a briefcase of codes, called the "nuclear football," to enable him to launch nuclear missiles at any time. It would take less than five minutes from his order to the missiles being launched, and no one could stop him. Republican Senator Bob Corker says Trump is leading us into World War III. I believe him.

But we don't have to stand by and let it happen. Let's pull away that football!

Both House and Senate have bills to prevent the President from launching a pre-emptive nuclear strike without a congressional declaration of war. They're both called the Restricting First Use of Nuclear Weapons Act of 2017. (S. 200 - Senate, HR 669 - House.) Passing those bills may literally save the world.

More at https://rachelmanija.dreamwidth.org/2163007.html

I'm liking this #ShePersisted thing: http://liminalbeast.tumblr.com/post/156990527714/micdotcom-people-are-turning-mitch-mcconnells

‘1984’ sales soar after Trump claims, ‘alternative facts’:

First published in 1949, Orwell’s classic dystopian tale of a society in which facts are distorted and suppressed in a cloud of “newspeak” topped the best-seller list of Amazon.com as of Tuesday evening.

Well I flippin' well hope so!

I wonder if people are buying it for themselves, or if e.g. people are buying quantities to distribute, or something like that.

eta: Apparently the publisher has ordered a new print run to meet demand. crikey.

Indivisible: A Practical Guide for Resisting the Trump Agenda: Former congressional staffers reveal best practices for making Congress listen (Google Doc - PDF)

ugh no thank you brain I do not want dreams about the primary election tomorrow bleh WHY u do the thing

enotsola: Gov Perry is calling a special session to actually vote on the bill
silveth: oh what the actual fuck
enotsola: ahhh... so,the special session was made basically for the repubs of texas to push things through.. they made it so that instead of 2/3 vote on half this stuff, all they needed was a majority
silveth: what a bunch of assholes
enotsola: so magically things they couldn't push through beforehand would be successful.
silveth: i wonder if you can recall a governor in texas, because that is a low trick there
enotsola: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57591221/texas-gov-rick-perry-calls-2nd-special-session-to-pass-abortion-bill/ - bloody hell.. at least news is covering it now though
enotsola: Eventually, he returned to the then-empty Senate chamber and declared that while the bill had passed, he didn't have time to sign it, so it wasn't approved. In return for declaring the measure dead, Democrats promised not to question the date of the vote any further.
enotsola: And ya, apparently Perry is just going to call special sessions until he wins.

(Unfortunately, I feel like there's a good chance his is the majority view in Texas and that that majority would approve of what he is doing.)

66.3% ( 16,233 of 24,491 ) precincts partially reporting as of November 7, 2012, 12:42 a.m.

Yes 30 Temporary Taxes to Fund Education 3,600,257 52.3% 3,283,989 47.7%

--Guys, this proposition directly affects how many people get laid off at my district and college and more specifically, how many may get laid off right in my department. The last "worst case scenario" cuts plan submitted to and approved by the Board of Trustees called for potential elimination (of course, it depends on more factors than this tax measure) of 6 out of 10 classified (vs. faculty or management) positions in the Library. Part of the reason the lists were done the way they were was to try to get it through the Faculty Association's heads that we cannot continue to function with a cuts-only scenario that involves no concessions from the bargaining units (pay cuts, furloughs, whatever), but still, the passage of this proposition is extremely important to turn a potential horrible clusterfuck into a still-very-bad-but-not-quite-so-impossibly-crippling situation.

Library gets hit disproportionately hard because we are considered "non-instructional", despite the fact that librarians are faculty and do do some instruction, under a law that requires 50% or more of the budget of the college to be spent on classroom instruction. So there comes a point where you cannot by law cut any more faculty and have to start disproportionately cutting into other things. I don't disagree with the purpose of the law - it's to prevent things like recently happened at SF City College where they had been spending extremely out of line amounts on administration. But in this particular case it means things, ah, suck to our particular ass-mar.