"Everyone shall have the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law...." Article 16
"Everyone shall have the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion...." Article 18
3/
"No one shall be held in slavery; slavery and the slave-trade in all their forms shall be prohibited. [...] No one shall be held in servitude...." Article 8
"No one shall be imprisoned merely on the ground of inability to fulfil a contractual obligation...." Article 11
2/
Non-derogable human rights, for starters (ICCPR):
"Every human being has the inherent right to life..." Article 4
"No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment..." Article 7
1/
Food banks are not part of a safety net. they are proof we do not have a safety net.
Dear Media:
Blindly quoting the President without fact-checking or context is just misinformation with a press pass.
We don’t need stenographers; we need journalists. Do your job.
Peace, but only during trading hours
Okay folks, midterm elections aren’t that far off, let’s Budapest this motherfucker.
"...We share our wisdom with those who seek it. It's a life of quiet dignity..."
Nineteen years and counting...
Out of the "work around" using short range radio transmitters (no license needed) for community broadcast (1970s) that Abbie Hoffman described in "Steal This Book". Low power community radio or political news blog - these days, few are listening or reading.
"That's not enough, we need a majority."
I do that every once in a while at Show Me Progress. We're read by dozens...
To paraphrase Adlai Stevenson - "That's not enough..."
Just calling balls and strikes...
They didn't stand up for decades when they were republicans, but they expect Democrats to embrace their ideological whims as they wander in from their self-created wilderness. Yeah, no. Those gated community partisans want Democrats to cater to their vision of a ballroom society. Not gonna happen.
"The rent is too damn high" was already taken.
The Last Supper.
"I'd like to gavel in today's board meeting of the American Medical Association...."
The deity looks after fools and idiots. It's everone else who gets to experience the suffering part.
"...Center right candidates belong in the GOP. They don't belong in my party."
Amen.
Regret to inform everyone that Peter Magyar beat the world’s smartest illiberal populist in large measure by working incredibly hard for 2 straight years, meaning the rest of us are just going to have to get off our asses and do shit rather than just complaining.
I’ve seen enough. God is 1) real 2) nonbinary 3) primarily motivated by a deep hatred of JD Vance
TRUMP MUST GO!
It's scary to think that if anything happens to Bibi Netanyahu, JD Vance would become president of the United States.
Converting to Catholicism and then threatening the Pope with military action because you don’t like that he uh, *checks notes* is following Catholic belief is absolutely insane behavior
