New York Times gift articles

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/14780109

Howard Lutnick told CNN that he believed Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who could have a position in a possible Trump administration, was right about debunked vaccine claims.

They're literally running on Bring Back Measles

graph source

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/14774247

Polls show Donald Trump is already facing a significant deficit with female voters in his race against Vice President Kamala Harris.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/14763169

The report itself is here

A storage facility in Norway built to safeguard crop diversity recently received more than 30,000 samples as concerns grow about climate change and food insecurity.

The police charged an 18-year-old man with aggravated assault after he confronted two older Harris supporters outside a library in Neptune Beach, Fla.

If voting didn't have an impact, they wouldn't work so hard to keep us from doing it.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/14739304

“Hothouse,” at Irish Arts Center, fends off despair with loopiness; “In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot,” at Playwrights Horizons, is a fuzzy world lacking depth.

Many of those who served in former President Donald J. Trump’s administration — especially his generals, ambassadors and other national security officials — have since turned on Mr. Trump.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/14732927

If you want to stop him, that means voting for Democrats up and down the ticket, not just President, and volunteering as well

Video of her speech is here

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/14718643

For context, the author is one of the more influential members of the Federalist Society, the right-wing judicial takeover group. If you've lost him, you've lost a huge chunk of people who have historically funded the Republican party patronage machine.

In a speech in Washington where organizers are planning for up to 40,000 attendees, she will argue that she represents generational change. But her rival will remain at the spine of her case.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/14708540

Carmen Yulín Cruz’s cellphone started buzzing on Sunday while she was at the airport in Connecticut, waiting for a flight to Puerto Rico. A standup comic at former President Donald J. Trump’s rally in New York had called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage.”

If you want to stop him from rolling back environmental and climate protections, like he did last time then don't just vote; actively volunteer for the Harris campaign

The truth is that to the extent that Trump’s policy plans — or, in some cases, concepts of plans — differ from G.O.P. orthodoxy, it’s because they are even more antilabor and pro-plutocrat than his party’s previous norm.

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If Trump has broken with standard G.O.P. economic policy, he has done so by intensifying efforts to redistribute income upward. For he is proposing higher taxes on the working class in the form of a large national sales tax — which is essentially what his tariffs would be. And this tax would be highly regressive — a large burden on middle- and lower-income families, a trivial hit to the 1 percent.

To describe his approach in an nutshell: he pushes people to hate each other and blame minorities so that they don't notice the billionaires ransacking their pockets.