Do you think it would be possible (and how could we get it done?) to unite millions of people who collectively agree to target an individual company for a short time unless the company meets our demands? For example, for the month of March we all pledge to not purchase anything from Apple unless Apple does XYZ... Either they do it, or we tank their stock... Move on to the next company target

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/22263596

from New York Times
Opinion - Guest Essay
by Peter Beinart
Nov. 7, 2024

Onion News Network

Fair.org

"While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change," said the Vermont Independent. "And they're right."

Everywhere you look, in all countries, there’s a burning hatred of the rich and powerful: the bankers, Wall Street, and the establishment in general. This hatred was cleverly exploited by Donald Trump. And this has appalled the serious representatives of capital.

Armed with a better understanding of government, Trump is expected to pursue a bigger agenda, faster than he did in his first term.

A Post for Posterity

To win working-class voters — and possibly today’s election — Democrats need to attack economic elites. But the Kamala Harris campaign hasn’t consistently offered an anti-elite counter to Donald Trump’s right-wing populism.

Donald Trump has been elected president of the United States and controls the world's most lethal state. The Democrat vote collapsed: here's why. —— Jason Hickel

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/22122373

https://www.rockthevote.org/how-to-vote/same-day-voter-registration/

map from: https://www.axios.com/2024/10/31/voter-registration-election-day-2024

Another note that New York is currently even weirder having only allowed same day voter registration on a single day of early voting rather than the entire period unlike North Carolina

“The only thing I really like to do is fuck the wives of my best friends,” Trump allegedly told Epstein after a tryst. “That is just the best.’”

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/22207480

Carter Sherman, Noa Yachot and Andrew Witherspoon
Wed 6 Nov 2024 06.04 EST

Like what are the practical steps to take? Stuff like universal healthcare isn't even a controversial policy. How do we form a voting bloc around that?

"The earliest testimony we have on it is from a soldier who was aware of it just a few weeks after the ground invasion began," one human rights expert said. "The latest testimony we have on this is from the summer."

firebrand.red

While other states consider implementing ranked choice voting, Alaska may be first state to repeal it.

Thunberg added that “no matter” which one of them wins, America “will still be an imperialist, hyper-capitalist world power that will ultimately continue to lead the world further into a racist, unequal world with an ever increasingly escalating climate and environmental emergency”.

The cause of increasing poverty levels continues to go unquestioned

There are a few ways to understand the political influence of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.

You can look at the big picture to grasp the immense sums of money spent by AIPAC on lobbying. You can study it more granularly, looking at specific races where the pro-Israel group has recruited and funded winning candidates.

“I interviewed Rep. Delia Ramirez at the DNC who said to me that she has had conversations with multiple people in Congress — other members — who have said, ‘I don’t want them to Jamaal me,’ referring to what happened to Bowman in his race,” says The Intercept’s Akela Lacy in this episode of The Intercept Briefing.

“Not only are they concerned about what AIPAC could do to them if they come out against Israel,” Lacy says in a conversation with The Intercept’s Jessica Washington, “but what will AIPAC do to them if they stay silent?”

One of Harris’s biggest donors and closest confidants is a billionaire for whom education “disruption” is a core cause.