A majority of Democrats in the House of Representatives rejected the bill on Tuesday out of fear that it could grant President-elect Donald Trump the legal tools with which to target his ideological foes, but Republicans are swiftly pressing ahead.
“This bill was designed to criminalize organizations and activists who oppose the U.S.’s unconditional support of Israel’s genocide of Palestinians and the slaughter of Lebanese civilians,” read the statement, which was signed by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, American Muslims for Palestine, and others. “We will continue to stand firm in protecting all organizations’ freedom to speak and operate without fear of political retribution.”
With pro-Israel groups lobbying for the bill, it gained popularity among House Democrats, in part due to a provision providing tax relief to Americans held hostage abroad.
Ultimately, 144 Democrats voted no, along with Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., barely meeting the threshold to block the bill from fast-track passage. Voting in favor were 204 Republicans and 52 Democrats. The narrow loss — with so many Democrats supporting the bill, opponents had no votes to spare — provoked outrage from supporters of the bill like Rep. Jason Smith, R-Mo., who had spoken in favor of it prior to the vote.
The U.S. is reconfiguring itself into a dictatorship. What a time to be alive.
The hour must be later regarding to climate change than we all imagine.
We’re a good 50 years ahead of public projections.
In all the Kyoto numbers, the part that corporate media always left out was that militaries were exempted from the tallies.
America’s military produces almost the same amount of pollution as the rest of the country, all its people, industry and businesses combined.
Besides knowing our actions would lead to climate change over 100 years ago, and having every opportunity to pivot from their winning positions to lead the way, the wealthy of the world have played reckless and wontonly with our lives, our children’s lives and the billion and billions of descendants yet to come
We can see for ourselves, every institution or apparatus, be that state or otherwise, is designed to oppress, distract and exploit us. Instead of using the technology we have discovered to benefit society writ large (which means less and less work - all tech is about making work easier, life more pleasurable or healthier) and then let ideas and art and culture arise from that raised base, they e chosen to slow progress as much as possible and tighten their grip around our throats - because that is the guaranteed outcome with them on top. Regardless of their advanced starting point, even they know they don’t deserve control of Spaceship Earth, and they’re terrified we decide to remove them from the wheel.
I vote throwing their entire bloodlines out the airlock and cleaning the genepool, but that’s just me, and I’m just one voice of many. I suppose both defenestration of their assets and bodies, couples with forced chemical castration/sterilization could accomplish the same, and at that I could be 'suaded, maybe if it comes with ostrazarion to St Helena or quarantined and embargoed down in the Florida keys or the azores. Some kind of low rising remote island. I’d give them less than a week until their power grid is permanently down and sewage is fermenting into typhus and dysentery. A fitting end for em, the whole lot have the moral character of an excrementsl.