Liveblog - Weekend Wrap-Up: November 17, 2024

Today’s blog will consist of both news and a free chat of sorts. As usual, post the headlines we may have missed and feel free to chit and chat and enjoy one another’s company! 

Comic Relief:

2024 Election:

Democrat Derek Tran pulls ahead of GOP’s Michelle Steel by 36 votes in the 45th House District

The vote count in the 45th Congressional District keeps tightening. After shrinking for days, GOP Rep. Michelle Steel’s lead over Democratic challenger Derek Tran disappeared with a release of new tallies from Orange County on Saturday.

Tran now leads by 36 votes, although new numbers from L.A. County have not been released since Friday. The district crosses county lines.

Race is one of 5 still being decided

The Fascist Guy:


Recommended Reading: How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world

In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance

More Recommended Reading: Is Trump trying to kill us? Authoritarian expert says yes. Here’s how

There are five key areas that authoritarians want to control when they attempt to decapitate a democratic state, authoritarian expert and author Timothy Snyder writes: health, law, administration, defense and intelligence.

And in each of these arenas, the goal is to consolidate power, create chaos — and yes, even death. Authoritarians with power over these areas, Snyder says, “can make America impossible to sustain.”

🚨 Donald Trump is planning to court martial military officials involved in the 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal. This is as scary as it gets. meidasnews.com/news/trump-t…

Aaron Parnas (@aaronparnas.bsky.social) 2024-11-17T18:27:28.639Z

When You Lost Fox ‘News:’

The Worst People in the World:

Not the Onion. Not SNL. Conservative America.Welcome to the #kakistocracyh/t @thetnholler.bsky.social

Bryan Dawson (@bryandawsonusa.bsky.social) 2024-11-17T18:12:55.308Z

The Worst People in the World:

From the MarKODA Files-Joe’s Shithole Pals Edition:

Craven Assholes:

Wow, his rebuttal is really just like: 'Yeah, but have you seen the gay people Biden picked?'The only consistency in their ideology is hatred.

MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.bsky.social) 2024-11-17T15:56:00.261Z
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