#Maggie Hassan

[conandaily2022]

2022 New Hampshire senate election results: Maggie Hassan, Don Bolduc, Jeremy Kauffman

2022 New Hampshire senate election results: Maggie Hassan, Don Bolduc, Jeremy Kauffman

election date: November 8, 2022 country: United States state: New Hampshire position: member of the U.S. Senate incumbent senator (party): Maggie Hassan (Democratic) term: January 3, 2023 – January 3, 2029 ELECTION RESULTS (New Hampshire senator) PARTYCANDIDATE VOTESRepublicanDon BolducDemocratic Maggie HassanLibertarian Jeremy Kauffman

[marvelsmostwanted]

I love how Republican attack ads are always like something something NANCY PELOSI TAXES CHINA something something JOE BIDEN IS OLD DID YOU KNOW THAT!! HE’S SO OLD and FRAIL he’ll probably DIE soon but before he dies HE’S GOING TO INCREASE YOUR TAXES and somethinggthdkfjklf CHINA!!!!! therefore, please vote for this 57 year old man who thinks r*pe isn’t real and incest is fine as long as his rich person taxes go down and he can pretend that stopping immigrants from crossing the us-mexico border is somehow impacting his life in new hampshire. paid for by something something freedom superpac owned by the koch brothers.

Laziest PR strategy I’ve ever seen and it WORKS!!!! Wild

[britneyshakespeare]

K. I voted democrat and got the fuck out of there.

[blood-and-foam]

i will not get into email arguments with my senator getting into email arguments with my senator is the mind-killer getting into email arguments with my senator is the little death that brings total wasting of my time

[wondereads]

Achillean Book Recs for Pride 2024

The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater

Young Adult, magical realism, 4.12 star average (my rating: 5 stars)

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

Young Adult, high fantasy, 4.52 star average (my rating: 5 stars)

Ace of Spades by Faridah Abike-Iyimide

Young Adult, mystery thriller, 4.27 star average (my rating: 5 stars)

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

Young Adult, contemporary fantasy, 4.34 star average (my rating: 4.5 stars)

Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell

Adult, space opera, 4.07 star average (my rating: 4.5 stars)

Scum Villain's Self-Saving System by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

Adult, fantasy romance, 4.29 star average (my rating: 4.87 stars)

Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

Adult, fantasy romance, 4.44 star average (my rating: 4.7 stars)

Heaven Official's Blessing by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

Adult, fantasy romance, 4.5 star average (my rating: 4.67 stars)

Blood Debts by Terry J. Benton-Walker

Young Adult, contemporary fantasy, 3.88 star average (my rating: 4 stars)

The Buried and the Bound by Rochelle Hassan

Young Adult, contemporary fantasy, 4.07 star average (my rating: 4 stars)

So This Is Ever After by F. T. Lukens

Young Adult, fantasy romance, 3.93 star average (my rating: 4 stars)

The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black

Young Adult, contemporary fantasy, 3.87 star average (my rating: 4 stars)

The Foxhole Court by Nora Sakavic

New Adult, sports/thriller, 3.85 star average (my rating: 3 stars)

The City of Dusk by Tara Sim

Adult, high fantasy, 3.72 star average

The First Sister by Linden A. Lewis

Adult, space opera, 3.93 star average

Lord of Eternal Night by Ben Alderson

Adult, fantasy romance, 3.43 star average

The Husky and His White Cat Shizun by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou

Adult, fantasy romance, 4.37 star average

A Dowry of Blood by S. T. Gibson

Adult, gothic fantasy, 4.12 star average

Darker by Four by June CL Tan

Young Adult, contemporary fantasy, 4.11 star average

Once & Future by Cory McCarthy and A. R. Capetta

Young Adult, sci-fantasy, 3.57 star average

Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White

Young Adult, post-apocalyptic horror, 4.2 star average

[kinojoy]

EMERGENCY PALESTINIAN GFM (1)

Hey everyone I'm making more Palestinian gfm list that has contacted me who have medical emergency or needed fund to evacuated.

More link bellow 👇👇

Sandy and Ahmed.

2k/70k

Sereen and her children have Hepatitis and Stomach infections. Sereen have eye infection because of the smoke of the flames and Ahmed hair turns white. Not to mention the condition of the tents along the bugs invasion that could kill them any time. They needed the funds for medical recovery.

Mohammad Almanasra

15k/40k

Mohammed have Asthma that needed expensive meds to survives. Him and his 3 children need to go back and forth from the hospital because of the deadly insect bite.

Hala's Family

9k/50k

Hala struggle to find water, foods, baby formula and diapers for her 3 year old child. She needed money for evacuations. Update, her house just got destroyed.

https://gofund.me/da3cc66a

Sally and Ala.

254/30k

5k/50k

Sally and Ala is sisters. Ala have twin boys while Sally have 3 childrens and have lost their incomes while living in a tents that lack of basic necessities such as medicine and food. Recently Sally's house has got bombed that taken her husband's family life. Her son Hassan haven't got vaccine yet. They needed the funds for basic necessities.

Jana

11k/60k

Jana is 14 year old artist, his father is a dermatologist and venereologist who clinic got destroyed. Unfortunately he also have heart disease, diabetes and high blood pressure. They have 6 family member. They needed fund to evacuated also crestor, plavix 75 and insulin for his father.

Sahar's Family

19k/50k

Sahar is 14 year old child with 8 family member. They lost their house and the gym they owned, they have live in a tent since then. They needed the funds to evacuates asap.

Siraj's Family

4k/82k

Siraj and her children house got bombed. Right now she lived in a very small tent that lack of basic necessities. She needed the funds to rebuild their house and for basic necessities.

Nozha.

2k/18k

Nozha study at pharmacy unfortunately her university has been destroyed and she unable to gain her bachelor degree. She also lost her job and needed the fund to evacuated to egypt.

Ahmed Sarhan's Nephew

25k/50k

Ahmed the oldest, manage to evacuated to egypt however. Yousef (9) and Karim (5) stuck in gaza and need evacuations along with his family. Yousef begin to have nightmares and keep waking up in the night due to the fear of explosion while Karim who once lively becomes withdrawn and anxious.

[mariacallous]

In January, the CEOs of X, TikTok, Meta, Snap, and Discord testified in front of a congressional committee about child exploitation on their platforms. “Mr. Zuckerberg, you and the companies before us, I know you don’t mean it to be so, but you have blood on your hands,” Senator Lindsey Graham said at the time.

Despite confrontational questioning from Graham and others about how many underage users were on their platforms, and what safeguards protected them, Zuckerberg and other executives weren’t questioned about the concerning practices of some parents who manage social media accounts on behalf of their young children. A New York Times investigation the month after the hearing found that some parents, mostly of girls, were amassing tens of thousands of followers for their children by posting suggestive images that can attract predators.

Now, Democratic Senator Maggie Hassan is demanding that tech companies account for the untold thousands of accounts that place girls as risk of exploitation on their platforms, through the actions of adult account-holders.

“These corporations must answer for how they are allowing young women and girls to be exploited on their platforms and what steps they will take in response,” Senator Hassan, who represents New Hampshire, told WIRED. “Young women should be able to express themselves online in safe environments that do not facilitate the monetization of potentially exploitative content.”

The Times investigation found that parents can readily bypass the age restrictions of social platforms that bar children under 13 from having accounts. Some parents use the accounts they set up for their children to essentially monetize their daughters by putting them to work as influencers, garnering discounts and sponsorship deals or pulling in advertising revenue.

More sinisterly, some of these accounts brought in money from people seeking sexual or suggestive material about young girls, some of whom were convicted sex offenders. Some of these followers are willing to pay for extra photos beyond those shared on a girl’s social media account, or for private chats or used clothing. Times reporters examined some 5,000 accounts of young girls run by their parents.

While the Times found that some of the parents also operated TikTok accounts, the phenomenon was most prevalent on Meta's Instagram. (X was not mentioned in the Times investigation, and the company claims that its underage user base constitutes less than 1 percent of its usership. WIRED has previously reported that the platform may not have the age verification systems needed to accurately make such a claim.)

“After the disturbing revelations about predators interacting with the posts of minors and even buying their worn clothing, it continues to be clear that social media companies are failing to keep our children safe,” says Senator Hassan.

Meta, TikTok, and X did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

In a statement to the Times about its earlier reporting, Meta spokesperson Andy Stone said that the company prevents “accounts exhibiting potentially suspicious behavior from using our monetization tools, and we plan to limit such accounts from accessing subscription content,” but that parents were ultimately responsible for the accounts.

In the letters sent to TikTok, X, and Meta, Hassan is asking companies to disclose whether they were aware of parents circumventing their age requirements, whether accounts of young girls are monetized—or have ads placed on them—by the platforms, and what active measures the companies have in place to detect these kinds of accounts.

The platforms have until April 8 to offer their responses.

[deadpresidents]

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[kelsonius]

At the end of April I finished It's OK to be Angry About Capitalism by Bernie Sanders and it is a great read. The whole book is of course very US-centric but tbh that is totally fair when you're talking about the horrors of late-stage capitalism (or as Sanders calls it, uber-capitalism).

There's a few quotes lined up in my queue. But with this post I want to share something about the corruption of politics as a whole because of campaign contributions and lobbying by the absurdly rich (something unfortunately not exclusive to the USA); and why Americans should still vote Democrat the next elections.

The book starts with a detailed account of Sanders' campaign in 2020 before going into his role under Biden after the Democratic victory. A nice parallel is drawn between this section and the final chapter, which consists of a detailed plan the Democrats should implement if they intend to regain support of the working class. But I'm getting ahead of myself, the start of the book illustrates why this reform of the Democratic party is vital.

How the rich make it nearly impossible to pass progressive legislation

The first major progressive bill passed under Biden was the American Rescue Plan, in which Sanders had originally included a lot of important changes such as increasing the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour (Joe Mamchin, Kyrsten Sinema, Tom Carper, Chris Coons, Maggie Hassan, Jeanne Shaheen, Jon Tester, and independent Angus King all voted against Sanders' amendment to include the minimum wage).

However, since all Republicans were going to vote against it the Democrats needed every vote their single-seat majority could offer. Because there are multiple Democratic senators funded largely by billionaires, they would never support a truly progressive bill forcing a more conservative version of the rescue plan to be presented to the Senate which then as expected only passed due to the single vote. Shortly after, the Endless Frontier Act (which gave money to the already prosperous microchip industry and to Bezos' space company Blue Origin just so it could get a contract from NASA) easily passed the Senate with a 68-32 vote.

As a European I've heard of the Build Back Better Reconciliation Act (only in general terms though, I thought build back better was some sort of slogan), which was Sanders' second attempt to create some real positive change. Examples of what was originally included in the bill:

Free community college.

Expansion of Medicare for eyeglasses, hearing aids, and dental care to seniors and people with disabilities.

Extension of the $300 per month Child Tax Credit.

Again, Republicans would be 100% against any of these measures since they so blatantly only represent the interests of the wealthy elite. But as seen above, these interests are also represented by several Democratic representatives because of the campaign contributions of the rich. Build Back Better ended up being more disappointing than the Rescue Plan with a mere $434 billion allocated to it and again just passing by tie-breaker vote. This was less than the $550 billion allocated to an infrastructure bill earlier which passed by 69-30. All because of meddling from the extremely wealthy that are profiting more than ever of off the suffering of average Americans.

Why you should still vote for the Democrats

It is of course ridiculous to have to vote for the lesser evil but as you can see above, the Republican party is beyond lost. You'll never find a candidate there that wants to improve life for anyone that earns less than a million per year and they make every sort of minority group a scapegoat except the actual cause of all your problems: the 1%.

Another popular sentiment is to just not vote, since none of the parties will provide the change needed. Remember though, that real change usually doesn't come from the top and it is still important to prevent things from getting worse. Which is what happens when a Republican majority gives giant corporations even more tax breaks, increasing wealth inequality even more.

You should still vote for the Democrats in the next election because despite the atrocities they still allow to happen, people like Bernie Sanders are trying their hardest to make even the smallest increments of progress. Look at some of the things the Rescue Plan and Build Back Better bills DID manage to provide:

Direct payments during the pandemic.

Cut the unemployment rate by nearly 50% by creating approximately 4 million jobs.

From on 2026 Medicare will be allowed to negotiate with the pharmaceutical industry to lower some drug prices.

The price of insulin for Medicare recipients got capped at $35 a month.

A minimum tax on corporations of 15% and resources for the IRS to collect up to $1 trillion in taxes that they are currently owed by the wealthy.

Other proposals of Sanders include the 99.5 Percent Act and the Corporate Tax Dodging Prevention Act to make sure the obscenely rich pay their fair share in taxes. Naturally these would never pass the current Senate, but I mention it here to show which party still contains those fighting to improve the state of the country.

This post can't live up to the book though, so I highly recommend reading it yourself. At the very least the final chapter, as it takes all of the most important messages from the book and puts them into an actionable improvement plan for the Democratic party.

[bighermie]

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[beardedmrbean]

Sexual assault survivor Chessy Prout has slammed a judicial nomination by President Joe Biden.

She was 15 years old when she was assaulted by an older student at St Paul’s School, an elite institution in New Hampshire in 2014.

She anonymously testified against the perpetrator, Owen Labrie, at his trial, but she and her family were still the subjects of threats. She also faced off against the school as it tried to reach a settlement in a civil suit. The school’s strategy enraged Ms Prout to such an extent that she chose to share her story with the public, according to The Boston Globe.

Despite how it changed her life, Ms Prout told the paper that she feels like it has been worth it to speak out.

The lawyer who utilised the tactic that angered Ms Prout has now been nominated to be a federal judge, prompting her to speak out yet again.

“I am determined to have some sort of good, or some sort of change, come out of all the horrible things that have happened to me and my family,” she said.

Mr Biden nominated the former New Hampshire Attorney General Michael Delaney to take a seat at the US First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston.

When Mr Delaney was in private practice, he represented St Paul’s in the civil lawsuit and filed a motion rejecting Ms Prout’s request that she remain anonymous in the event that the dispute went to trial.

The strategy was controversial and criticised as being intended to force a settlement.

Ms Prout and her family ensured that the Biden White House and the senators representing New Hampshire were aware of Mr Delaney’s actions when they became aware that he was being considered for the role last year.

But Mr Biden still proceeded to nominate Mr Delaney.

“I feel like bad actors get rewarded all the time,” Ms Prout told The Globe, which reported earlier this month that the family opposition has created problems for Mr Delaney’s nomination.

“I’m pretty jaded, even at the age of 24 ... but at the same time, I did have higher hopes for this White House,” she told the paper.

Ms Prout was inspired by Mr Biden’s efforts to fight sexual violence, such as the “It’s On Us” programme launched by the Obama White House in 2014 following her assault when Mr Biden was vice president.

“To see this issue be brought up in a really public and noticeable way right when I was going through this issue personally, it felt like kismet, it felt like it was meant to be,” she told The Globe. “I felt like the tides were turning.”

She added that she took part in a conference call in 2017 with Mr Biden after he left the White House during which he said he would continue to work on the issue.

Ms Prout now says she’s “extremely disappointed” by Mr Biden’s nomination of Mr Delaney.

“It is really disheartening that it’s this political party that has been so vocal about supporting survivors, and the fact that they now are throwing their wholehearted support behind a nominee who basically practiced ... victim intimidation tactics,” she told The Globe.

“It just blows my mind that there isn’t a better option,” she added.

The White House said last month that the administration “expects senators to take Mr Delaney’s full record into account when considering his nomination”.

New Hampshire’s two Democratic Senators, Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan, have said they support the nomination but they also voiced support for Ms Prout, something she said is meaningless if Mr Delaney’s nomination succeeds.

“There’s so much talk you can do, there’s so many posters you can hang, so many social media posts you can do to support survivors, but that means nothing – nothing – unless you support them ... in real life,” she told The Globe. “It’s been a lot of talk and not so much action.”

“I know that judge appointments are totally political and it’s all about ... how many judges the president can appoint,” she added. “I just wish that it didn’t have to be this way, which is pretty naïve and idealistic of me to say.”

Mr Delaney told senators at his confirmation hearing last month his motion wasn’t intended to intimidate Ms Prout and he asked the committee to “consider the totality of my record over nearly 30 years as it reviews my qualifications”.

The Independent has reached out to the White House, Mr Delaney, Ms Hassan, and Ms Shaheen for comment.