The #Fed has satisfied its dual mandate of keeping #inflation & #unemployment low.

But the arrival at that finish line now coincides w/ #Trump’s promise to enact an entirely new #fiscal & #economic regime. While analysts are uncertain about how exactly that could materialize & how severe it might be, #markets have responded by selling off #bonds in anticipation of a return to inflation from a combo of Trump’s pro-*growth* & #combative #trade policies.

#economy #USpol
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/federal-reserve-interest-rate-decision-november-2024-post-election-rcna179025

#Skwawkbox | #Trump vote down on 2020 – but Killer #Kamala’s collapse was much, much worse

"Reality tells a very different story. In his ‘landslide’ win, neo-fascist Donald Trump’s vote actually fell by around four percent – almost three million votes."

https://skwawkbox.org/2024/11/07/trump-vote-down-on-2020-but-killer-kamalas-collapse-was-much-much-worse/

#USPol

Bittersweet.
"Desi Lydic unpacks Donald #trump's big presidential election win over Kamala #Harris and the subsequent fingerpointing from media pundits. Plus, The Best F**kin' News Team joins Desi to try to muster up some optimism."
#DailyShow #comedy #satire #humor #USPol #press #news #mourning #NaziPrez
https://youtu.be/hPHH5trgC1w

The US State Dept censors truth about Palestine

#Truth #Cdnpoli #Uspoli #Uspol #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Apartheid #Occupation #Invasion #Genocide #WarCrime #Starvation #BDS #Murder #Media

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2DlyiiMqjw

A post-election message from Interim Editor-in-Chief @gusbova to our members, readers, and the rest of our extended community.

https://texasobserver.fundjournalism.org/donate

#journalism #Media #Texas #politics #USpol #fundraiser #nonprofit #future #immigration #news

Everyone who chose to not vote for Harris should read or reread The Jungle to get a clear sense of the past that will become our literal future over the next four years.

All while Trump urges Netanyahu to be more aggressive in Gaza, and to do the same in the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, and, inevitably, Iran.

Great job y'all. Fantastic 👏🏿

I hope you'll be happy with the grave new world you've helped to create.

#TheJungle #USPol #Harris #Gaza #Trump #Netanyahu #WestBank #Lebanon #Syria #Iran

It's time for charities and for-good organisations to ditch X - a platform which helped grow and fund the Trump campaign - and move to alternatives where they aren't at the mercy of a single persons politics.

As a start, we're excited to be featured as an organisation which can help in this @BylineTimes article

There's a lot of hard work to be done, but we like hard work. Hard work is good work.

https://bylinetimes.com/2024/11/07/x-odus-charities-and-campaigners-to-abandon-musks-twitter-after-trump-endorsement/

#Fediverse #Charity #NGO #News #USPol #Politics #X #SocialMedia #Twitter

I've seen several posts about strengthening the Democrats' media presence. Chipping away at the conservative monopoly on A.M. radio would be a good start. It's not glamorous, but R's listen to it. If you want to reach them where they are, A.M. radio is it.

#USPOL #media

The void didn't give me the strength and cringe to still be on a high horse screaming at people against the Palestinian genocide after their candidate comprehensively lost the election by appealing to the genocide vote. #USPol #Genocide #Palestine

Insofar as it is practical to blame people for being uninformed due to corpo media, it is for a long time very infuriating to note that none of the shitlib comedians from Colbert, to Stewart, to the sometimes lefty Oliver, talked about Palestine genocide directly and how it was losing the Democrats enough of their voting base to tank the election.

They ignored it because it was easier to make fun of Trump, rather than taking a good long look at what their candidate was doing to her own electoral base. #USPol #Media

Inhaltswarnung: Sorry, more on Trump Zum Öffnen/Schließen klicken

Black people are getting racist text messages telling them a van will be coming tomorrow to take them to work a plantation. This seems to be happening widely, especially to college students. #uspol #usnews

https://www.13newsnow.com/article/news/local/mycity/norfolk/racist-text-message-sent-virginia-attorney-general-condemns-plantation-cotton/291-3c46b3dd-930f-4496-86d8-529f3974f3bc

Saw 2 people holding up anti abortion signs on my morning drive to a meeting (Brisbane Australia), never seen them before. Don’t fucking tell me #uspol isn’t going to bleed into #auspol

'Project Esther': The Right-Wing Group Behind Project 2025 Has a Plan to Crack Down on America's Pro-#Palestine Movement
#Gaza #FreePalestine #uspol

https://zeteo.com/p/project-esther-the-right-wing-group-trump-palestine

Harris supporters displayed a ton of self-righteousness during the US presidential campaign. Annoyed me, a natural ally. Can only imagine how much it pissed off the average apathetic voter and don't see a lot of discussion around US turnout falling from 2020.

There's a lesson there for combatting Australia's own Trumpian forces come next year's federal election. Less lecturing and assumed victory, more open discussion and willingness to listen, to engage the disengaged and hopefully bring them along.

A huge advantage of being a small and irrelevant world power is we can watch and learn, as we did with our electoral system, then adapt far faster than the larger powers stuck in their inexorable trajectories. That could be very useful in this context.

#auspol #uspol

Anyway, this is good:

#ChrisHedges | Come Ask me a Question on my Post-#Election Livestream Q&A

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/come-ask-me-a-question-on-my-post

#USPol #Corporate #CorporatePower #Oligarchy #Trump

No coincidence that annexation of #Gaza is made public concurrent with Trump's election. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/06/palestinians-will-not-be-allowed-to-return-to-homes-in-northern-gaza-says-idf

#uspol #Israel #genocide #settlercolonialism #settlerviolence

#JeffBezos #WashingtonPost #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #BoycottWholeFoods #EatTheBillionaires #USPol

Look at the numbers. 2020 vs 2024.
Yes, they are still coming in....

But basically the same as 2020 for Trump. Maybe lower.

Trump DID NOT GAIN VOTERS.

Dems LOST VOTERS.

Why?

Alienation of the left wing.

TRUMP WON MICHIGAN.

Why?

#Gaza #uspol.

LEARN

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#Privacy #Safety #USpol #Activism

One day, maybe not too long from today, historians will write about the demise of the American Experiment. And featuring large in that narrative will be legacy #media including #NYT, #WaPo, #LATimes and others, who - at our time of greatest national peril, abdicated their responsibility of truth telling and holding power to account.
The obituary for the US will begin: "Democracy Died In Darkness"

#USPol

To those who voted for chump over Harris (and or not at all) because of Gaza (I remember this being a theme of sorts here on Mastodon for certain people), you're beyond ignorant. The truth is there is nothing that Biden or Harris could've done in regards to the conflict. The only action that could've been taken is sending the US military (to occupy Gaza) in to get between the two sides. A act that would be seen as a sign of aggression, which is exactly what it would be.
#uspol #gaza #truth

Probably not a coincidence that Bezos looks more like Lex Luthor every day...

#WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #BoycottWholeFoods #EatTheBillionaires #USPol

Hmm colour me shocked #Ringwing #maga voter suppression who’d da thunk it https://www.wired.com/story/true-the-vote-votealert-app-flaw-user-emails-voter-suppression-plan/
Great investigation by #Wired
#uspol #breaking #press

At least in the US Presidential election, this time there is no Q.; with Trump winning both the electoral college *and* the popular vote, there can be no doubt what the democratic decision of Americans is....

#USpol

this, from jason hickel, says it all.
#uspol #politics #jasonhickel #trump #liberalism

#JonathanCook | It's time to stop buying into tooth-fairy #politics. No one's bringing salvation

Harris "lost because, if your political and media system – rigged by donors – limits the choice to two hardline neoliberal candidates, with anything else denounced as “communism”, the most hardline, neoliberal candidate has an edge."

https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/its-time-to-stop-buying-into-tooth

#USPol #Democracy

A new Consultancy Opportunity is Birthed by #Election2024 🤣

"Managing #PoliticalTension in the Workplace" 🤣

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2024-11-06/managing-political-tension-in-the-workplace-video #Trump #USPol

Jeff Bezos Congratulates Trump on Victory
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/06/business/media/jeff-bezos-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.X04.OOg4.UE-T29gJpsDJ&smid=url-share

#FuckJeffBezos #WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #EatTheBillionaires #USPol

“Keir Starmer’s sycophantic words of congratulation to Donald Trump are among the most dispiriting things I have read this morning. “Shoulder to shoulder in defence of our shared values of freedom, democracy and enterprise”? This is either serious delusion or utter hypocrisy. He should be ashamed”

#trump #donaldtrump #keirstarmer #starmer #labourparty #labour #uk #ukpol #ukpolitics #uspol #USPolitics #usa #electionday #election2024

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/commentisfree/2024/nov/06/sunk-by-keir-starmer-sycophantic-words-of-congratulation-to-donald-trump

Interesting if true: "If the current split holds, it would represent yet another election cycle in which Republican claims that Jews would flock to their candidate because of Israel or antisemitism did not pan out." cc: @theforward #Palestine #Israel #Judaism #Religion #USPol https://forward.com/fast-forward/671878/exit-poll-77-of-jewish-voters-back-harris-over-trump/

Anyone else wondering what Netanyahu is up to today?

It's been a bit of a pattern the last year for the israeli occupation to get even more violent while everyone's eyes are on some big event in the US

#uspol #palestine #netanyahu

Maybe I don't understand what the word really means.

#princessbride #vezzini #inconceivable #USpol #humor #humour

Afternoon Twters.

After THREE WEEKS I am finally beginning to feel better! I've got a new #tea mug that's just arrived and it's beautiful. Enjoying a brew and some upbeat music in an attempt to shield myself from the shitshow that is #usPol

Have a smashing Wednesday, folks. 😘

OK one more thing...

Further proof it is the racism here in Wisconsin.

Looks like Tammy Baldwin is going to retain her Senate seat by some 25,000 votes. Trump carried the state.

Which says to me that 25K people here in WI are perfectly fine voting for a white, openly bisexual woman, but not a Black woman. You cannot tell me there is any difference in competence or policy positions between Harris and Baldwin. It sure looks like racism to me.

This whole election looks to me like "Urban Renewal" in the 1960s.

After working in factories for 2 decades starting in WWII Black people starting buying houses. White people left in droves. After the while folks left, they made sure to "get rid of the eyesores" (Black people's neighborhoods) that remained in the cities. They would talk about "economic development" and "revitalization" but underneath it was just pure, ugly racism.

That's what drove this election. Not money, not campaign ad spending, not the economy. Just pure racism (by which I include all other "divisions," immigrants, Muslims, LGTBQ+, sexism, etc.)

#uspol #election

To all of my friends who are worried and upset that Trump and the Republicans might end up being in control, all I can say is that we've been here before.

We've seen this shitty movie, and though the sequel might be even worse we just have to stick together, fight for our shared values, stand up to fascism and survive to resist another day.

We can't and shouldn't compromise on basic values and human rights, especially not in the name of the fucking price of gasoline.

#uspol #progressivism

I blame Jeff Bezos.

#WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #EatTheBillionaires #USPol