This massive error handed MAGA a blue state — and California is set to do the same - Raw Story
The 2016 Washington State Treasurer’s race offers a cautionary tale. All candidates competed together in the primary under similar rules to California. Three strong Democratic candidates split their vote nearly evenly, totaling 51.6%. But because there were only two Republicans to divide their smaller 48.4% share, the November ballot was Republican vs Republican. Washington got a Republican state Treasurer despite Hillary Clinton beating Donald Trump by 16 points in the state.
The same could happen this year in California, where eight Democrats are running for governor.
Will California’s gubernatorial candidates realize that they could split the vote enough in the primary to create a Republican victory?The 2016 Washington State Treasurer’s race offers a cautionary tale.
Protip: leave your smartphones at home when you attend protests. In the current regime, they'll brink more risk than any safety you think they'd bring.
The GOP's warnings about violence at Saturday's "No Kings" rallies proved unwarranted, President Trump posted an AI video that depicts him doing vile things to protestors in New York City, and former Congressman George Santos was released from prison after the president commuted his sentence for wire fraud and identity theft.
"Donald Trump’s disgusting racism is what he uses to convince his supporters to ignore his pathetic job performance. And it works. Trump is objectively bad at running the government, but he’s objectively good at running a Klan rally." Nothing Works in Trump’s America—Except for Racism https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/newsletter-laguardia-tsa-baseball/
Iran's military has warned that hotels housing US soldiers across the region would be targets in its war with the United States and Israel.
"When all the Americans (forces) go into a hotel, then from our perspective that hotel becomes American," armed forces spokesman Abolfazl Shekarchi told state television on Thursday.
"Should we just stand by and let the Americans strike us? When we respond, naturally we have to strike wherever they are."
On February 28, Israel and the United States launched strikes on Iran, killing its supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and triggering a war that spread across the Middle East.
The war has since spread across the Middle East, with Iran responding with drone and missile attacks on Israel and US interests in the region.
On Thursday, Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi had accused US soldiers of using people in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries as "human shields".
"From the outset of this war, US soldiers fled military bases in the GCC to hide in hotels and offices," he said in a post on X, calling on hotels in the region to deny them bookings.
The Fars news agency, quoting unnamed sources, said Iran had sent "firm warnings" to hotels in the region, particularly in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.
It added that Iran's military had identified US forces using similar locations in Syria, Lebanon and Djibouti.
Iran accuses its neighbours of allowing US forces to carry out attacks from their territory, but Gulf states have repeatedly denied the accusations, saying even before the war that they would not allow their territory or airspace to be used to attack Iran.
France's Finance Minister Roland Lescure revealed on Wednesday that between 30 and 40 per cent of Gulf refining capacity has been damaged or destroyed by Iran's retaliatory strikes, leaving a shortage of 11 million barrels a day on global oil markets…
War is universally regarded as a scenario with no true winners, as all parties suffer massive losses in life, humanity, and resources, making victory an illusion.
The concept itself of "totalitarianism" was developed by thinkers like Hannah Arendt to describe systems that seek to control all the aspects of society and of individual life. She applied it notably to two regimes that everything opposes ideologically on paper:
Nazi Germany (extreme right) Stalinist Soviet Union (extreme left)
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