The Political Thread

[Samoa Looch]

I guess it never was just about freedom for these assholes... what a surprise.

Also very funny them assholes are arguments are basted on their "constitutional rights".

This timeline truly is the worst.

 

[Chris]

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/health/gun-deaths-children.html

Firearm deaths of children and teenagers rose significantly in states that enacted more permissive gun laws after the Supreme Court in 2010 limited local governments’ ability to restrict gun ownership, a new study has found.

In states that maintained stricter laws, firearm deaths were stable after the ruling, the researchers reported, and in some, they even declined.

Guns are the leading cause of death in the United States for people ages 1 through 17, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Jeremy Faust, an emergency room doctor at Massachusetts General Brigham Hospital in Boston, who was the study’s lead author, said he was dismayed to find that most of the children’s deaths were homicides and suicides.

 

[Comrade Khan]

Leading cause of death of people 1 to 17. Guns. How is this still not sinking in

 

[Barry Poppins]

Leading cause of death of people 1 to 17. Guns. How is this still not sinking in

But muh freedumbs

 

[Chris]

700 Marines deployed to Los Angeles amid ongoing ICE protests | LIVE

Amid ongoing protests in response to ICE raids and arrests in Los Angeles, 700 Marines in California have been ordered to assist.

abc7.com

Amid ongoing protests in response to ICE raids and arrests in Los Angeles, 700 Marines in California have been ordered to assist, and they're expected to arrive over the next 24 hours, a U.S. official confirmed.

The Marines are from the 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines at Twentynine Palms, California, whom U.S. Northern Command had said Sunday were on a "prepared to deploy status" if the Defense Department needed them.

Minutes before the Marines' deployment was confirmed, President Donald Trump was asked by ABC News if he planned on sending Marines to LA, and he said, "We'll see what happens."

"I mean, I think we have it very well under control," Trump said. "I think it would have been a very bad situation. It was heading in the wrong direction. It's now heading in the right direction." -ABC News' Luis Martinez and Karen Travers

 

[Barry Poppins]

"We have it under control, so we're gonna send in Marines to go and murder civilians."

 

[Chris]

2020s on course to be weakest decade for global economy since 1960s, says World Bank

Washington-based lender cuts its forecast for world GDP growth, blaming Donald Trump tariffs

www.theguardian.com

The World Bank has cut its forecasts for growth, blaming Donald Trump’s trade war and says the 2020s are on course to be the weakest decade for the global economy since the 1960s.

In its twice-yearly Global Economic Prospects report, the Washington-based lender reduced its forecast for global GDP growth this year to 2.3%, down from 2.7% in January.

That would be the slowest growth rate outside full-blown recessions since 2008, the World Bank said, pointing to the costs of “international discord – about trade, in particular”.

 

[Chris]

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/business/media/vanity-fair-editor-mark-guiducci.html

Vanity Fair has found its next editor. And it didn’t have to look very far.

Mark Guiducci, the creative editorial director at Vogue, which like Vanity Fair is published by Condé Nast, will take the top job at the glossy culture magazine at the end of the month, the company said on Tuesday.

Mr. Guiducci, 36, fills a role recently vacated by Radhika Jones, who led the magazine for seven years.

“There has never been a better moment for Vanity Fair than right now,” Mr. Guiducci (pronounced gwah-doo-chi) said in an interview. “You read the news every morning and it’s so operatic and it’s drama at scale — it feels like a co-production between Marcel Proust and Michael Bay.”

While the publishing business has been battered in recent decades, Vanity Fair remains one of the crown jewels for Condé Nast and its editorship is still one of the most coveted jobs in American journalism. The magazine, a Jazz Age publication that Condé relaunched in 1983, has been defined by its high-profile editors, Tina Brown and Graydon Carter, and its celebration of excess, Hollywood and the power elite.

 

[Chris]

Southern Baptists to Vote on Effort to Overturn Same-Sex Marriage

Motivated by their success in reversing Roe v. Wade, conservative Christian activists have a new target in Obergefell v. Hodges. They see early signs of promise.

www.nytimes.com

Southern Baptists plan to vote this week on acting to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court ruling that legalized gay marriage 10 years ago this month.

The step is part of a growing effort by evangelicals nationwide to reverse Obergefell, and coincides with a renewed campaign in state legislatures to challenge the widely accepted view that same-sex marriage has become an established civil right.

While the Southern Baptist Convention has long opposed gay marriage, the vote at its annual meeting in Dallas will be the first time that the largest Protestant denomination in America will ask representatives of its tens of thousands of member churches to work to end it.

Conservative Christian activists hope to build on their movement’s success in overturning Roe v. Wade, the now-defunct Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion, in 2022, and to apply the legal and political strategies that proved effective for that victory. Public support for legal gay marriage remains high, with more than two-thirds of American adults supporting it. As with abortion, activists hope to gain political power despite their minority viewpoints.

 

[Barry Poppins]

And they're probably going to win, because fuck this Government.

 

[Chris]

Los Angeles mayor announces curfew as anti-ICE protests continue downtown

Mayor Karen Bass announced a curfew for downtown Los Angeles as anti-ICE protests continued on Tuesday.

www.cbsnews.com

Mayor Karen Bass announced a curfew for downtown Los Angeles as anti-ICE protests continued on Tuesday.

The curfew will begin at 8 p.m. tonight, last until Wednesday morning, and apply to one square mile of downtown L.A. Bass said she issued the curfew " to stop the vandalism, to stop the looting." Bass added that 23 businesses were looted on Monday night.

"Many businesses have now been affected or vandalized," Bass said. "I think if you drive downtown L.A., the graffiti is everywhere and has caused significant damages."

For five consecutive days, protesters and law enforcement have lined the streets of downtown, resulting in nearly 200 arrests. Some of the encounters between demonstrators and police turned violent at times.

 

[Chris]

Live updates: California Gov. Newsom blasts Trump; New Jersey voters pick nominees for governor's race

Live updates and the latest news as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth testifies on the Hill and primary day arrives in the New Jersey governor's race.

www.nbcnews.com

Newsom's scathing address tonight took aim at Trump's federalization of the National Guard and use of Marines in Los Angeles and warned of what might come.

"Democracy is next. Democracy is under assault," Newsom warned.

Authoritarian regimes begin by targeting vulnerable groups and don't stop there, Newsom said.

"Trump and his loyalists, they thrive on division because it allows them to take more power and exert even more control. And by the way, Trump, he’s not opposed to lawlessness and violence, as long as it serves him," Newsom added, citing the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.

Newsom also accused Trump of taking a "wrecking ball" to the United States' foundations, adding that there are "no longer any checks and balances" and that Congress is "nowhere to be found."

“The rule of law has increasingly been given way to the rule of Don," he said.

 

[Chris]

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-consumer-prices-rise-moderately-may-2025-06-11/

U.S. consumer prices increased marginally in May amid cheaper gasoline, but inflation is expected to accelerate in the coming months on the back of the Trump administration's import tariffs.

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased 0.1% last month after rising 0.2% in April, the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) said on Wednesday. In the 12 months through May, the CPI advanced 2.4% after gaining 2.3% in April.

Economists polled by Reuters had forecast the CPI climbing 0.2% and increasing 2.5% year-on-year.

 

[Chris]

Jury convicts Harvey Weinstein of top charge in the retrial of his landmark #MeToo sex crimes case

Former movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has been convicted of one of the top charges in his sex crimes retrial.

apnews.com

Former movie mogul Harvey Weinstein was convicted Wednesday of one of the top charges in his sex crimes retrial but acquitted of another, and jurors were as yet unable to reach a verdict on a third charge.

The split verdict meted out a measure of vindication to his accusers and prosecutors — but also to Weinstein — after the landmark case was thrown into limbo.

Weinstein’s initial conviction five years ago seemed to cement the downfall of one of Hollywood’s most powerful men in a pivotal moment for the #MeToo movement. But that conviction was overturned last year, and the case was sent back for retrial in the same Manhattan courthouse.

This time, a majority-female jury convicted the former studio boss of forcibly subjecting one to a criminal sex act in 2006.

But jurors acquitted Weinstein of another criminal sex act charge from 2006. And jurors were to continue deliberating on a charge that he raped another woman in 2013. Under New York law, the third-degree rape charge carries a lesser penalty than the first-degree criminal sex act offense.

Weinstein, 73, denies sexually assaulting or raping anyone.

 

[Ricky Smarks]

Rot in hell.