The Human CapybaraRE: https://newsie.social/@ProPublica/116499559705163619
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Don't let fascists control positions you could control.
Barton LorimorBREAKING: Trump rushed out of White House correspondents dinner as attendees take cover
@Reuters >>
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-removed-white-house-correspondents-dinner-attendees-take-cover-2026-04-26/
‘Millionaire tax’ proposal fails to advance in Illinois House
= Under the proposal, income earned above $1 million would be taxed at 3%. The amendment would also direct revenue generated by the tax to be split evenly between property tax relief and K-12 education. =
https://fox2now.com/news/illinois/millionaire-tax-proposal-fails-to-advance-in-illinois-house/
RE: https://mastodon.social/@FullStackStrats/116448531197610156
= For many Republican candidates, the rise in gasoline prices has upended a central campaign strategy. =
I'm old enough to remember when the central campaign strategy of attacking Democrats for civil unrest was upended by #J6.
= They still plan to focus November's elections on Trump’s sweeping 2025 tax bill... =
The Democrats would be so lucky.
Tables turn as Republicans face gas-price attacks they once used on Democrats, via @Reuters >>
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/tables-turn-republicans-face-gas-price-attacks-they-once-used-democrats-2026-04-22/
Trump's deportation push could cost Republicans in midterm elections:
= Americans generally support policies that stop people from entering the country illegally, with 84% saying it's at least somewhat important to have secure borders... =
Issues with issue poll summaries:
a) Where are the crosstabs?
b) How important was this issue to the survey pool?
c) Are respondents registered/likely voters?
d) Do they live in a competitive district?
@Reuters >>
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-deportation-push-could-cost-republicans-midterm-elections-reutersipsos-2026-04-22/
Illinois lawmakers advance bill requiring age verification on all online devices and websites
"[@civicwhitaker] said a stronger approach to the issue is to focus on data protections, like those provided in the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation. "
Evanston Roudntable >> https://evanstonroundtable.com/2026/04/16/state-lawmakers-advance-bill-requiring-age-verification-on-all-online-devices-and-websites/
= “The truth is that Mr. Trump’s attack is not just on the pope, and not just on Catholics, but on Christians and Jews and Muslims across the country,” [the Rev. Michael] Pfleger said during a news conference held after Sunday morning Mass. “This is an attack on people of faith.” =
via @ChicagoSunTimes >>
"This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road. the world has been taking.
This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron."
- U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Chance for Peace"
16 April 1953, the American Society of Newspaper Editors
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone."
Yusef Jackson to succeed his father, the late Rev. Jesse Jackson, at Rainbow PUSH Coalition.
“Our mission is to gain, protect and defend civil rights — that will continue,” Jackson said. “The way my father did it is distinctly different than how we will do it."
