By the way, they now own almost every major media conglomerate, so absolutely they will downplay and sanewash it. Call your congresspeople constantly.

This is fantastic. Don’t fuck it up now, Democrats.

I volunteer with a voter advocacy group, and from our internal analysis that I just saw, Texas Latino early voting is at 2.1 M as of 2 days ago. To put it into perspective, the 2024 presidential election only had 2.0 M. Just one data point to illustrate that turnout is HUGE.

gtfo with the accelerationism. Democrats also serve the capitalist state which has committed numerous atrocities in the name of profits, but they’re way better for the common worker than the alternative.

Bozo.

Does. Not. Matter.

They’re planning shenanigans, so everyone needs to VOTE no matter what. The American experiment’s continuation depends on you voting.

Yep absolutely. All of these major phone companies work in tandem with the USG to create lots of backdoors. It’s not a secret.

Yes to most of what you’re saying, but

The US government knows everything everyone is doing

No. That’s what they want you to think. It does know a lot more than we think, but nowhere near everything. It likely does know where your phones (aka you if you’re with it) are at all times, despite having GPS on or off. It also likely collects everything or most things you do online unless you’re really careful with Tor and what not, even then it’s not clear.

Yep, and they’re already deploying ICE to polling places. I just saw an example in Florida, where they “had to pull someone over and it happened to be a few feet away from a polling place” and they “happened to stay there for a long time”.

Buckle up, stock up on necessary items for food, water, and safety, and VOTE.

Also please do some phone banks to get others to vote too. Environmental Voter Project is a great organization that I’ve done for the last few weeks.

It’s not hard at all, each session is only an hour, and you make calls at your own pace. It feels great to actually get people out to vote, because instead of just having a 1x impact by casting your own vote, you could have a 100x impact if you encourage 100 people to vote (which isn’t hard, you can hit 100 in like 3 one hour sessions). This legitimately makes a difference in elections, take a look at their results.

There will be a massive blue wave, but Republicans aren’t simply letting themselves be Constitutionally and democratically removed from power. They’re not leaving or losing, they know this is their last stand and will do anything to keep power. They’ve said they will cheat, not accept results, and essentially coup the government when they lose.

Hell they are engineering the SC seat for Lindsey Graham’s sister. It’s like the chairman of the board’s daughter in 30 Rock, just complete idiot but still installed in that role due to family.

No he won’t.

I understand the feeling, but it really does feel different this time. There’s a groundswell for the first time in my life of a real democratic socialist movement, or even just social democracy. Also as the authoritarian regime pushes more and more, there will be more and more stochastic “terrorist” attacks, like assassinations and what not. It’s not going to be some major revolution, because at least America isn’t even close to that yet, but the limited “force” will get the ruling elite to start thinking about how large the actual opposition is.

…then they’ll crack down even harder of course. Maybe that will cause even harder push back, but I’m not sure at this point.

Kings and peasants alike are just made of meat at the end of the day, and if you poke them they spill out.

I got mine from True Leaf Market: https://trueleafmarket.com/products/minute-soil-compressed-coconut-coir-blocks-organic, because there was a bulk sale like 8 months ago. I ordered a huge pallet’s worth. If you want even more, I also worked with Coir America to set up a larger bulk shipment, but I ended up going with True Leaf Market.

Yep! I just planted Austrian winter peas and fava beans as a cover crop in that area. Also when I dug out the sweet potatoes I threw out any bits of clay and soil that were too compacted.

We just built a bunch of 4x8 raised beds this year, but used them for other plants, so I’ll be doing sweet potatoes there next year for sure. We do a similar mixture as you, with 1/3 compost, 1/6 medium perlite, 1/6 large vermiculite, and 1/3 coco coir (environmentally friendly alternative to peat moss).

The clay soil area had some of the mixture above, plus local soil, plus amendments from last year.

Looks great! What kind are they?

I just harvested ours yesterday, and sadly the soil had too much clay still, so all of them were tiny and very thin. It’s sad because this is my third year of doing them, and I added so many additives to make the soil looser, and still it’s too compacted.

She’s not going to do shit. This is just asking for a payoff, and she’ll get it. She’s not releasing anything.

Not by anyone else’s doing other than his own

Who are you talking to? You’re making a fictional strawman then arguing against them. I agree with you mostly. Trump will never face a day of justice, and he’s not leaving office alive.

I typed this whole other response but lemmy didn’t save it for some reason…