They are claiming us soil, but there is no indication the person in the video is credible. https://lemm.ee/post/66966221

Then again who the fuck knows what’s going on anymore… https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/1ld959k/the_amount_of_people_trying_to_evacuate_tehran/

I mean, if only anyone could see the obvious bullshit we’re headed into.

There’s a lot of money to be made during times of war.

Unfortunately the people that are pushing us in that direction are some very short sighted individuals that genuinely believe that once their actions have driven humans to the brink of extinction, they’ll still be perfectly content in an underground bunker with shitty AI robots that break a month or so in, and all the stockpiled vacuum sealed resources they can hoard. Or alternatively, dying while attempting to colonize mars.

That’s who humanity will be relying to continue our legacy. The kind of person that thinks they are chosen elite, and there is nothing they cannot achieve. All bc they climbed mount Everest once while paying a team of Sherpas to risk their own lives and do everything for them.

A resolution Mr. Kaine introduced Monday would require explicit congressional authorization or a formal declaration of war before U.S. forces could take direct action against Iran. It faces long odds on Capitol Hill given Republicans’ reluctance to challenge Mr. Trump’s power, but it could prompt a vibrant debate as lawmakers in both parties warn against involving the United States in the escalating conflict.

The measure is a direct invocation of the War Powers Resolution, a 1973 federal law intended to be a check on the president’s power to enter an armed conflict without the consent of Congress. While it would still allow Mr. Trump to authorize military action in self-defense in the event of an imminent attack, it would compel him to seek approval before carrying out any offensive operations against Iran.

So that video claiming to be from anonymous, saying they have have knowledge a false flag attack will be used as an excuse to go to war…

Not saying that is actually anonymous or that they actually have any evidence, but also not sure how much evidence you really need to make a fairly accurate guess as to what the writing on the wall will be.

On the one hand needing congressional approval might not even matter bc Republicans have done just about everything asked of them up to this point. However, it does seem like we may be seeing some Republicans questioning if being loyalists will really help them retain their power when the midterms roll around.

If something were to happen like what anonymous/whoever is posing as anonymous is claiming, it could quickly swing in the other direction. Everybody was antiwar by the time Bush finally left office, but nobody wanted to be accused of not being a patriot in 2001.

Huh, so that’s an odd thing to do anytime, but especially given that on Friday he fired a board member on the federal agency that oversees nuclear reactors in America… Never thought I would have to say this, but hopefully these are unrelated to each other and only reflect his insane desire to ignore safety regulations…

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/us/nuclear-safety-board-firing-trump.html

Didn’t think about that. I was thinking it said “Put a” It looks like there’s a gap between the t and a

I’m in the United States

Yeesh, I’m sorry dude, that’s awful. I hope you pressed charges.

I don’t get why some people have to be such lame ass pieces of shit. Imagine you’re drunk and surrounded by music and people just having fun, enjoying themselves and trying to mind their own business, but you just can’t pass up an opportunity to be an antisemitic scumbag.

Gotta disagree with you in this particular case. Living here I see a lot of novelty sex shirts 24/7/365. Constant parties and groups of bachelor or bachelorettes. I usually don’t think twice about it.

I have to give points for:

A. Originality. I’ve seen ‘I <3 milfs’ a million times before, but can’t recall ever seeing this one. I imagine if Kenny Powers opened up a novelty T-shirts store in Daytona Beach, he would sell this shirt and attempt to trademark it.

B. Unexpectedness. When I first saw this, I was scrolling through several other pictures and hit this one. It was like rounding a corner and being taken by complete surprise. The randomness of the shirt combined with the person wearing it, and the look on her face, elicited a genuine “Guffaw,” followed by me simply holding up my phone in response to the group of people I was with asking “What?”

It simply would have been too difficult to convey the complexity of the image into words, and all 6 people had a similar speechless reaction.

C. Rather than simply making a statement, it encourages one to really stop and think.

They’re in the French Quarter. She could be looking off camera and smirking at somebody yelling in a megaphone while telling her she’s going to burn in hell, or a middle aged guy in a mustache rides t-shirt raising his cup to her bc he admires the game. Coin toss.

Right, but this isn’t that.

This is a pack of lesbians in the deep south, not giving a fuck about what anyone thinks, even as the country is being driven towards civil war by uptight fundamentalists who hate freedom.

They’re out to have a good time and enjoy themselves instead of looking to everyone else to see how they can judge them and insert themselves into everyone else’s business. Looks like an easy going group of freedom loving Americans with a good sense of humor.

Context matters, so pretty fucking alpha in my book 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲

Idk, I didn’t take the picture, just saw it and felt it would be appropriate for here.

One looks like something about titties? Maybe? No idea about the other.

I actually found out it covers 5 parishes but they only had voting locations in 3, which makes the first come first serve thing even more bizarre.

The election was for one member on a board. The only reason there was an election was because a new candidate challenged the incumbent candidate, which usually never happens. Usually people remain on the board for as long as they would like to hold that position. Why this seat in particular?

The incumbent is the only board member from Orleans, and runs community gardens throughout the city, so I would argue that if anything, Orleans has a considerable amount to do with this particular election. How did the registrar even come up with that number if this is the first of its kind of election for this district?

I believe another member of the board will have a seat that can be challenged soon. If that seat is challenged, whichever Parish that board member is from hopefully gets a lot of support behind them of the people of the parish feel they’re doing a good job.

Also find it a little suspicious, this guy challenging her seat is a commercial fishing captain, and recently Louisiana Republicans passed a bill to deregulate seafood safety and hand oversight to the department that controls this board.

Actually found out the district covers 5 parishes but they only had voting locations in 3.

There is a separate registrar for each parish, so who is the “official” registrar they mention in the article and how did she generate that expect around 20 voters at each location number?

That’s the thing though, is it just incompetence or is it an attempt to see what people are willing to let slide?

We definitely need a re-do bc otherwise it signals that we’re ok with letting it happen again and again. Will there be enough ballots when it’s time for us to vote for elections with more at stake like mayor or in the midterms?

I could see low expectations from the registrar of voters for turnout, but 60 people in the entire city? And they just didn’t have any kind of plans if more showed up?

We’re the first state to start using the DOGE voter database maintenance system. Will we end up with some kind of “glitch” that purges voters on top of being told the registrar made a miscalculation when estimating how many people would actually show up to vote?

What they’re supposed to start doing here (or at least they were when the last governor left office, not sure if they still will do it now that democracy is crumbling) is paper and then scan every ballot so it can also be included in recounts.

As of now with most elections in LA, it’s electronic only and votes don’t get included in recounts unless they’re mail in.

It’s not paper ballots I’m pissed about, (but like I said, it also seems like that could open up the door to more BS given what happened in the recount) it’s the fact that anyone would pretend 900 ballots would be enough for the entire city, and that they had no backup plan for when they weren’t.

Literally, that’s why hardly anyone in the city or even that subreddit knew about the election? Bc it’s was just being spammed sooooo hard?

Here’s a post reminding people to vote, that was allowed on that subreddit. This is where I ended up just copying and pasting the information that morning in a comment. Bc in that post, there was no helpful information included about the candidates people would be voting for.

https://www.reddit.com/r/NewOrleans/comments/1lafng3/comment/mxq3lhf/

Here is the only other post I had come across on that sub as of yesterday morning. It seems suspiciously skewed in favor of only one of the candidates:

https://www.reddit.com/r/NewOrleans/comments/1lahnax/a_rare_louisiana_election_is_happening_this/

In my opinion, making sure people in a local subreddit are aware of who/what they’re actually voting for/against or choosing to sit out and not even bother to vote for/against, is very important. When the only other posts available seem to conveniently ignore or suppress important information, I would say it’s a bit misleading to label attempts by a member of the community to simply spread factual information about both candidates “spam”

Ok dude, if you want to delete it that’s fine. I won’t bother posting here anymore bc this feels very much like the kind of gaslighting I moved from Reddit to Lemmy to get away from.

Well I guess we can agree to disagree

Also can’t find community pictures posted like the ones here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/NewOrleans/comments/1lc35n3/a_few_faces_of_pride_2025/

5th one is the best.

Bruh you’re full of shit

Why would automod remove a regular text post discussing candidates?

Bc there are still too many people depending on it to help keep them informed, so until Lemmy grows and more people move here, it’s not as useful for communicating very important information to local communities.