The Virginia Police Benevolent Association is backing
Abigail Spanberger,
the Democratic nominee for governor
— a switch from four years ago,
when the group favored Republicans up and down the statewide ticket.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/20…
Democrats Narrow Gap in House After Victory in Virginia Special Election (Reid J. Epstein/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/us/politics/james-walkinshaw-virginia-house.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250909/p169#a250909p169
The House passed its $892.6 billion defense policy bill Wednesday,
despite vocal criticism from Democrats
after the Republican majority denied votes to limit the Trump administration’s use of the military domestically.
The bill advanced by a vote of 231 to 196, largely along party lines.
The House now will wait on the Senate to pass its version of the annual legislation before beginning the “conference” process,
in which negotiators from both chambers reconcile …
Leden van beruchte JFVD-appgroep staan hoger dan ooit op kandidatenlijst van Forum voor Democratie. Ze moet voor een nieuw imago zorgen, maar FVD-lijsttrekker Lidewij de Vos werkte nauw samen met omstreden partijgenoten. Sterker, de mensen die verregaande uitspraken deden, werden mede door haar op een hogere plek dan ooit gezet.
#politiek
The House passed legislation to
repeal the 1991 and 2002 Iraq Authorizations for Use of Military Force (AUMF)
in a bipartisan vote on Wednesday,
moving against two pieces of legislation that have vastly expanded the president’s ability to use military force in the U.S.’s “forever wars” in the Middle East.
The amendment to the House version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)
passed easily in a 261 to 167 vote.
All Democrats and 49 Republicans v…
Helemaal gelijk natuurlijk.
Politici moeten zich verre houden van opruiing.
Juridische stappen maar?
Commissievoorzitter VNG: zorgen om politici die burgers ophitsen https://nos.nl/l/2574371
Dit lijkt me een goede zaak en dit is ook de manier om dit in een democratie te regelen, via een formele wet.
"Om de openbare orde effectief te kunnen handhaven, is het noodzakelijk dat de politie en de burgemeester meer gegevens uit publiek toegankelijke bronnen, kunnen verzamelen dan nu binnen het huidige wettelijke kader mogelijk is."
What, exactly, constitutes a “conservative idea?”
That dictatorship is preferable to democracy?
That white Christian nationalism is better than tolerance and openness?
That social Darwinism is superior to human decency?
The claim that higher education must be more open to such “conservative ideas” is dangerous drivel.
So what’s the real, underlying reason for the Trump regime’s attack on education?
Not incidentally, that attack extends to grade school.
DEI, antisemitism, and transgender athletes are not the real reasons for these attacks on higher education. They’re excuses to give the Trump regime power over America’s colleges and universities.
Why do Trump and his lackeys want this power?
They’re following Hungarian president Viktor Orbšn’s playbook for creating an “illiberal democracy”
– an authoritarian state masquerading as a democracy. The playbook goes like this:
First, take over military and intelligence ope…
Simon Rosenberg:
We have elections in 2025 that we have to really focus on first.
We need to have as big victories as we possibly can in New Jersey, Virginia, and in New York City, and to make elections
—which are only four months away, by the way; it’s very soon
—feel like clear repudiations of this politics.
Trump is already really unpopular. He’s already seen his coalition unravel.
And they just passed the most unpopular big bill in modern history.