Romania lashes out at Russia as Georgescu election ban furor intensifies – POLITICO https://www.byteseu.com/825096/ #CǎlinGeorgescu #Democracy #Elections #ElectionsInEurope #ElonMusk #JdVance #Kremlin #Romania #RomanianElections2024 #RomanianPolitics #Russia #UnitedStates #VladimirPutin
Mic. 
Fucking. Drop.
"[Gavin Newsom's recent transphobic podcast] performance was emblematic of the current wave of rightward pandering that establishment Democrats have decided to embrace with vigor after the very same strategy helped them lose the 2024 election. Democrats are positioning themselves as moderate Republicans, abandoning minority communities and vulnerable constituents in service of a fangless politics with a miserable track record of electoral failure.
The idea that hawkish Atlanticism will win over voters en masse is laughable... the Democratic establishment hews its agenda to the gods of ‘“public opinion” — until that public opinion conflicts with lobbyists and the donor class...
So when Democrats speak of shifting their agenda to reach a wider array of voters, what they mean is appealing more to base resentments that the Republicans have so successfully fostered through extensive astroturfing, fearmongering, and misinformation. Democratic leadership could offer a genuine alternative, alleviating the conditions in which revanchism thrives. They would need to present a truly transformative economic platform, taxing the rich, investing in public infrastructure, and supporting the care economy — which represents far more of the U.S. working class than the tiny percentage of manufacturing jobs that receive so much political lip service."
https://theintercept.com/2025/03/07/gavin-newsom-trans-democrats/
Congressional Republicans are pushing legislation that would make sweeping changes to voter registration, including requiring those signing up to present documents proving U.S. citizenship.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/a-republican-backed-bill-would-upend-voter-registration-here-are-8-things-to-know
#KUOW #News #Politics #Elections
Social media has given the super-rich powerful new tools to manipulate public opinion. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/03/12/world/playing-at-democracy/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #socialmedia #democracy #elections
A top Romanian court upholds the ban on far-right Georgescu’s presidential bid https://www.byteseu.com/821902/ #Bucharest #Courts #DmitryPeskov #Elections #ElenaLasconi #ElonMusk #Europe #GeneralNews #GeorgeSimion #GlobalElections #JdVance #Politics #Romania #RomaniaGovernment #Russia #VladimirPutin #WorldNews
Greenland elections: Centre-right opposition wins with 29.9% of votes.
The centre-right opposition Democrats (Demokraatit Party) have won a surprise victory in legislative elections in Greenland, more than tripling their support.
The election that will determine the leaders who will confront US President Donald Trump's effort to take control of the strategically placed Arctic country.
Portugal set for snap election as its government loses a vote of confidence.
Portugal’s centre-right minority government of Prime Minister Luis Montenegro lost a vote of confidence Tuesday evening, setting the country on course for its third parliamentary election in as many years.
Center-right party wins Greenland's parliamentary election as Trump seeks control
The centre-right Demokraatit Party has won the most votes in Greenland's parliamentary elections, a surprise result as the territory went to the polls in the shadow of US President Donald Trump's stated goal of taking control of the island one way or another.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-12/center-right-party-wins-most-votes-in-greenland/105044184
Romanian constitutional court unanimously rejects Călin Georgescu's candidacy.
Romania's constitutional court unanimously voted to uphold the decision rejecting "TikTok Messiah" ultranationalist politician Călin Georgescu's candidacy in the upcoming presidential elections in May, sparking a fresh round of protests by his supporters in Bucharest on Tuesday.
(Almost) all you need to know about electoral politics:
"The [House passage of the stopgap funding bill] sent the measure to the Senate, where Democrats are facing a political dilemma over whether to support it and hand Mr. Trump wide leeway to continue his assault on federal programs and workers, or oppose it and risk being blamed for a government shutdown.
G.O.P. lawmakers supporting it and Democrats opposing it gave the same reason: They argued that the stopgap bill gave Mr. Trump latitude to continue his campaign to dismantle and defund major pieces of the federal government through Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.
... Senate Democrats have widely criticized the measure, but some, especially those from swing states, have not ruled out ultimately voting for it."
Hey, would you believe me if I told you that the President signed an executive order on February 18th that gives Trump, a guy who tried to make election officials declare him the winner of an election he lost (and launched a coup attempt when that didn't work) and has been talking about shutting down media organizations that criticize him, essentially complete control over the previously independent Federal Election Commission and Federal Communications Commission? I mean probably not right, since for-profit media has barely covered the issue even though it has a direct impact on their industry. Unfortunately, it's true:
Independent Agencies Oversee Elections and Media. Trump’s Seizing Their Reins.
"The order states that, “The heads of independent regulatory agencies shall establish a position of White House Liaison in their respective agencies,” and goes on to say: “Independent regulatory agency chairmen shall submit agency strategic plans … to the Director of OMB for clearance prior to finalization.” In other words, independent agencies will no longer be independent but will instead be ruled over by political commissars, their every action now scrutinized to make sure they are ideologically sympatico to the aims of the MAGA movement.
Two of the agencies subject to this new system are the Federal Election Commission (FEC) — a historically bipartisan, six-member organization that helps to set ground rules for how elections are run and financed — and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which, among other things, controls access to the country’s airwaves.
Trump has been angling for control of both of these agencies since the start of his administration."
Is any of this legal? Who the hell knows; but are you willing to bet a 6-3 fascist-high Supreme Court that has already endorsed the idea that Trump is above the law and the existence of an imperial presidency, are likely to stop him? I'm certainly not. Furthermore, to mount any sort of mass resistance to this type of "classic" fascist power grab ultimately targeting elections and media criticism of the regime, you'd probably have to know it's happening and understand why this executive order might be the single most dangerous thing Trump has signed since he took office again; and clearly for-profit media and a political class doing more collaborating with fascism than resisting it, don't consider informing you about this very relevant right now.
Folks, I dunno about you but I'm getting tired of waiting around for Trump to find his Reichstag Fire and finish crafting a multi-executive order version of the German Enabling Act while Very Serious PeopleTM keep pretending we don't know if Trump is going to go full Hitler and mustn't presume he means to do everything he openly says he's doing. We all heard this guy on tape pressuring election officials and even GOP Governors to "find" him thousands of votes and effectively rig the 2020 election for him. We're all watching as his Project 2025 nazi minion Brendan Carr uses his newfound powers as head of the FCC to threaten the broadcast licenses of media orgs that criticize him, try to shut down PBS and NPR, and even investigate media companies that the regime claims "promote diversity" like that's some kind of crime. So when Trump, the imperial president, passes an executive order that gives him complete effective control of the agencies that regulate American elections and what passes for the "free press" in the United States, you'd have to some kind of credulous rube to believe he's doing so for any other purpose besides rigging elections for fascists and eliminating whatever portions of the US media there are that won't carry water for the fascist administration and the odious ideology animating it. There's not a lotta wiggle room here; either you're a complete fucking muppet, or you're willing to quietly bootlick for a fascist President while he rips pages directly from Hitler's playbook to create his very own American Pork Reich.
I guess the only question left then, is which of those two possibilities best describes an American political and media class supposedly opposed to Trump's fascist regime, that doesn't want to talk about it before it's too late to stop him?
https://www.europesays.com/1905071/ Iran accelerates production of near weapons-grade uranium, IAEA says, as tensions with US ratchet up #AbbasAraghchi #bombings #BrianHughes #Conflicts #DistrictOfColumbia #DonaldTrump #elections #GeneralNews #InternationalAtomicEnergyAgency #Iran #IranGovernment #NuclearWeapons #Politics #RafaelGrossi #SanctionsAndEmbargoes #science #SergeyLavrov #Tehran #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesGovernment #WorldNews
"Dem campaign CMTEs ask fed judge to order preliminary injunction to HALT a Trump EO that they argue would give the Pres. additional control over the FEC. Dem campaign orgs filed fed civil suit last mo challenging EO, alleging it was a power grab by Trump to assume more control over US #elections.
Seeking injunction today -campaign groups allege they’re already suffering due to order.
Case is assigned to Judge A Ali -US Dist. Court in DC -Appointed by Pres Biden in 2024."
-S MacFarlane
A federal agency has halted election security activities, ended funding for a threat monitoring system, & is taking action against certain employees who monitored election misinfo., an agency official confirmed to state officials in email obtained by Votebeat.
A CISA official confirmed to state officials in an email that #Trump’s administration has suspended or dismantled fed support for election security, at least for now.
#Coup -reconfirmed.
#Elections #USPol #Resist https://www.votebeat.org/2025/03/11/cisa-ends-support-election-security-nass-nased/
Town #elections today. There's basically never a choice of people--exactly as many people run as there are slots to fill.
But on budget items I have a policy
1. Vote *for* everything that will cost money because it is almost certainly the better option and will also piss off #fascists...
2. ...vote *against* anything the #police want
Let them have a bake sale for once.
Greenland’s independence debate intensifies ahead of elections.
Greenland has had enough – of Denmark, of Trump and of the journalists who have been coming to Nuuk for weeks.
A reckoning in three acts.
JD(U) Holds Key Meeting in Patna to Strengthen Organisation and Coordination.
https://aliyesha.com/sub/articles/news/display/bh_jdu_key_meeting_elections_2025
#bihar #patna #india #news #press #politics #JDU #AssemblyElections #Elections
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