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13 hours agoYeah to sum up my opinion for Dem caucus members is vote-shoo-to-Schu-no-matter-who at this point lol. If no one volunteers, then they would best end-run around any stall attempts by him or his backers.
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Sanders tends to be more reliable with bills that push the envelope to progressive policies, but yeah there’s plenty of leeway regardless. I only worry about the leader and whips of both houses, whether Schumer especially is going to slow walk any form of progress or if the progressive wing can end-run around the manufactured consent to lethargic politics that Schumer seems most comfortable with.
Even if some people don’t like Booker for his stances with respect to Israel, I think he has the energy required to actually effect the change demanded by Americans, which will still include progressive voices, whereas Schumer is using the leadership chair as if it was a retirement home like McConnell was.
If AOC wants to be President in 2028 (this is her choice and she hasn’t indicated anything yet), I think even a two-year stint as House Leader will give her enough limelight and any big achievements will be able to bridge her to becoming the Democratic nominee (over scumbags like Newsom), Ossoff is good too to potentially be set up in a similar fashion. She is presiding over some important committees already, but this is a potentially huge opportunity, not that I would be upset with Garcia, Khanna or Raskin becoming leader either.
Jeffries is set to become the first African American sworn in as House Majority Leader in January, I know many Democratic establishment don’t want to take away that moment from him, but this moment calls for way more than ceremony.
Republicans hate minorities, they can’t cope with being one again in Congress…
Actually as it stands with Sanders caucusing with Democrats, then they can afford to lose Fetterman plus one rotating “objection of conscience” position for bills they want passed, like Turek for example, if he’s trying to take a bigoted stance on trans people once in a while. MS and AK will be bonus pickups.
I honestly think Turek won’t object on Medicare bill even if it implicitly includes help for trans people, unless pressed. Similar to how Republicans rotated between Rand, Murkowski and Collins to sometimes object to a bill just for show.
It was closer to the other way around an hour ago but oh well, too bad. The fact that an alternative is even imaginable there…
Young Americans. Don’t forget tonight. Don’t ever forget what the last two years of evil that was allowed free reign in the USA and across the world.
Also. I didn’t hear a peep about Idaho this cycle, and even they’re going Independent?!?!?(Early results showed 47% I 40% R it’s no longer). Like yeah they are a bumfuck redneck state but even the guy they’re sending actually might support Bernie-style efforts to defeat anticompetitice oligarchies, billionaires, and might pass wealth taxes on them for deficit reasons…
Celebrate tonight, but deep down my thought is that if Cornyn was chosen, things might honestly be totally opposite in Texas still on all fronts. Which means the Ted Cruz replacement won’t be nearly as easy.
Good to hear some polls have been voted dry.
It’s retirees who have time to meander to the polls in their bumper stickered golf carts during the working hours. We need workers to, borrowing some sensational headline vocabulary, slam the polls as soon as the workday is done right up until close.
2·2 days agoHe was almost done perfecting… uh… the pizza-making minigame!
…or something like that
15·2 days agoTrump-connected folks bought oil stocks on Monday after they dropped the price by floating openness to peace talks, it’s time to raise them once again!
Ok. Sure, bud. I’ve been making my posts accessible because other people have shown me the work of putting transcripts, sometimes even if not OP.
If you think that simply telling people what to do and not providing an accessible alternative for people is better according to the WAI sources you shared, do things your way and don’t let me stop you, then.
It was still hours away from Tuesday in the USA but I guess it was TACO Tuesday in the middle east…
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https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG22/Techniques/general/G92
This is among one of many techniques presented at the WCAG site you linked. You putting text in a top level comment would seem to me to satisfy this, at least in intent. If the image was removed, then a long description present on the page, even in a top level comment, would appropriately describe what was there. It also alleviates the searchability issue you highlighted. It also doesn’t meet qualify under any failure criteria. Might be still only partially WCAG compliant but it would make it more accessible for users who need it.
You’re right, I’m not an accessibility expert, only taken basic AODA training in Ontario. Even then, the training said to offer and make accomodations to the best extent possible. I do put transcripts on my text heavy image posts because the version of my Lemmy app I used at the time hadn’t let me put alt text. Most of my inline images within the last year have the alt property filled. (example)
Unless you edit the post, demanding they fix it is the only solution.
Why is that the only solution to be more inclusive? That’s not helping anyone. WCAG specifically advises against requiring it to be done using their specifically defined techniques only, just that the outcome is an appropriately accessible piece for people who need it. Try this if you want to implore to edit it or do it in the future:
To help with WCAG accessibility, OP please put a transcript on this image! I’ve made one for you… [Transcript].
It took me less than two minutes to put up the transcript in my previous reply.
addendum: It does mention to be a programmatically determinable non-text alternative, it must be from author-supplied data that links to it, to specifically be conformant to this standard. You can still put in the minimal effort to take the author’s data and link it for the people who can’t so that users with assisstive technologies can easily find it on the same page when they go looking. Like I said, complain and be part of the solution to make things more accessible for people who need it. I hadn’t claimed that adding one would magically make it fully WCAG 2.2 complaint, only in that direction.
37·3 days agoWhat was
a $8.9 billion investment in US chipmaker Intel
Is now
the value of the government’s 9.9 percent equity stake crashed from almost $40 billion to well under $30 billion
, still an unrealized 200%+ gain, so I guess the government “bought the dip” in a way. Though why Republicans back their favourite President engaging in casual nationalization still baffles me. Maybe any Democratic president should employ a similar path to nationalization disguised as a bailout: to legislatively constrict the business model of any company they want to acquire at discount “market rates”, then restore something along previous regulatory conditions.
Why don’t you complain and be part of the solution?
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- Vote to lower the cost of gas.
- Vote to lower the cost of your groceries.
- Vote to end ICE’s cruelty.
- Vote to hold Trump accountable.
- Vote to ensure Epstein’s survivors see justice.
- Vote to protect our democracy,
- Vote to fund our public schoolis.
- Vote to make sure billonaires can’t run our country.
- Vote to end Trump’s war in lran.
- Vote to make healthcare affordable.
- Vote to the attacks on our public health,
- Vote to protect America’s LGBTQ+ students.
- Vote to end Trump’s vanity projects.
- Vote to protect free speech.
- Vote to stand with America’s free press.
- Vote to protect our immigrant neighbors.
- Vote to protect a woman’s right to choose.
- Vote to protect our public lands.
- Vote to take away the GOP’s power.
- Vote to end Trump’s agenda two years early.
- Vote for yourself.
- Vote for your family.
- Vote for the next generation.
- Vote for our country.
- Vote.
Sure is easy, go and vote and tell the friendly people you know to as well. The only thing you would lose by voting is up to 4 hours towards your revolution preparation.
Remember, that the USA has to be ready to mobilize, should the Republicans try to mess with the transfer of power process between November and January.
From a global allocation perspective, actually it’s quite, terrible, to have Sam Altman and a small number of rich people to have the world’s limited supply of capital sitting around in their own speculative asset holdings.
Yimbyfornia can’t come soon enough