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"Writing is the way I fight."  ~ James Cone 

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2024-09-13 12:14:44

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“'If a patient presented to me with the verbal incoherence, tangential thinking, and repetitive speech that Trump now regularly demonstrates, I would almost certainly refer them for a rigorous neuropsychiatric evaluation to rule out a cognitive illness,' he wrote."
#Trump #age #MentalDecline #media #sanewashing
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2024-09-13 12:14:08

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"Psychiatrist Richard A. Friedman wrote in The Atlantic today that Trump is showing signs of cognitive decline. His tangents and inability to get to a point suggest 'a fundamental problem with an underlying cognitive process.'”
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #age #MentalDecline #media #sanewashing
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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-12-2024

2024-09-13 12:11:43

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"So naturally, after Trump‘s frantic debate meltdown that even Fox 'News' said Kamala dominated, I expected to see the same headlines calling for Donald to leave the race. Or at least have him committed somewhere.
But they must not have watched the debate."
#Trump #age #MentalDecline #media #sanewashing
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2024-09-05 18:18:45

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@npub1llw…vkpl You're right.

2024-09-05 18:18:23

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@npub1kk5…e0ds Thanks for sharing.

2024-08-27 14:39:12

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@npub1zll…jyt8 Thanks for explaining. Yes, I agree: definitely coordinated.

2024-08-17 22:56:03

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@npub1heg…0d20 Well-stated.

2024-08-17 22:13:33

Noting that he's been following “what’s wrong with the press?” complaints for a long time, James Fallows says "what's happening now seems more coherent and urgent than at other times." He explains:
"I think several conditions are focusing attention on the press at this moment. They involve varieties of emperor’s-new-clothes situations:"
#KamalaHarris #Trump #media
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https://fallows.substack.com/p/election-countdown-80-days-to-go

2024-08-17 22:09:02

"It’s clear to me that Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Erik Prince have been called up to serve their fascist alliances. Why else would they openly become central figures in this moment?"
~ Heidi Siegmund Cuda
#PeterThiel #ElonMusk #ErikPrince #Trump #JDVance #Russia #MAGA
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https://www.bettedangerous.com/p/creeps-on-film-thiel-musk-prince

2024-08-17 16:23:57

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@npub1znv…9gqv No need to say sorry! I caught that, too. The misuse of the nominative case of that first-person pronoun when the objective case is called for is one of my pet peeves.

2024-08-17 13:35:11

"What the Harris and Walz ticket understands is that the best way to take down a bully with the kind of power Donald Trump has, the kind of unimaginable power he hopes to seize, is to mock him and encourage others to laugh at him.
'She actually called me weird,' Donald whined Thursday. 'He’s weird.’ And it was just a soundbite. And she called JD and I weird. He’s not weird.'"
~ Mary L. Trump
#KamalaHarris #Trump #JDVance
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https://www.marytrump.org/p/trolling-the-troll

2024-08-15 20:28:55

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@npub15ea…a2ud Isn't it amazing how, over and over, the most bitterly homophobic men turn out to be closeted, self-loathing gay men?

2024-08-15 13:15:47

Meanwhile, speaking of policy, of which Trump has none, J.D. Vance DOES have policies in mind, and they're not good, especially for women. As Jill Filipovic reports, a recently unearthed audio of him shows his policy for women unambiguously:
"The whole purpose of the postmenopausal female” is to raise children.
Imagine having your WHOLE life summed up that way — by someone else. By J.D. Vance.
#JDVance #women #misogyny
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https://jill.substack.com/p/what-are-females-for

2024-08-09 15:09:35

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@npub106x…jwkg Yes, J.D. is waiting in the wings and seemingly salivating for the job. For a hyper-narcissist like Trump, that's extremely threatening, I'd think, and may produce a rabid reaction that Vance won't appreciate.

2024-08-03 13:00:13

J.K. Rowling has shown herself to be a garbage human being.
That's it. That's the toot.
#JKRowling #ImaneKhelif #ytrans #intersex #Russia #Olympics #transphobia
https://www.them.us/story/jk-rowling-imane-khelif-paris-olympics-boxing

2024-07-30 16:13:37

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@npub16lu…5aha Thanks for the notice. I don't think I got your previous tot.

2024-07-29 17:19:09

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@npub1rkj…ufed Can you please point us to those reports — links — the rest of us seem to have missed? Thanks.

2024-07-20 21:12:20

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"What is consequential about Trump’s entire political persona is the surreality of it all. After nearly a decade of being subjected to it, to those for whom Trump’s litany of grievances isn’t emotionally resonant, his persona has induced a sense of disorientation and demoralization."
~ Jonathan Weiler
#Trump #Biden #media #MediaFail
/11
https://jonathanweiler.substack.com/p/the-day-or-two-after

2024-07-15 12:19:54

"From encouraging his supporters to beat up protesters at his rallies, to invoking the possibility of 'Second Amendment people' attacking Hillary Clinton, to glorifying police brutality, to inciting an insurrection, to suggesting military leaders he doesn’t like should be executed, to mocking Paul Pelosi after he was assaulted by one of his supporters —"
~ Aaron Rupar
#Trump #violence
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https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-shooting-butler-pennsylvania

2024-07-13 20:15:46

"I will do all that I can to see that President Biden is re-elected. Why? Despite my disagreements with him on particular issues, he has been the most effective president in the modern history of our country and is the strongest candidate to defeat Donald Trump — a demagogue and pathological liar."
~ Bernie Sanders
#Biden
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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/13/opinion/joe-biden-president.html

2024-07-07 17:34:47

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@npub1jsg…ua3x But unless this hasn't been disclosed, media outlets haven't tried to press him for an interview in the way they've hounded Biden to do.

2024-07-06 15:58:17

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"The failure of the media to confront Trump the way that they are confronting Biden now is dangerous malpractice of the highest order. ...
So I ask: When will there be a real interview of Trump?"
~ Steven Beschloss
#Biden #Trump #age #MediaFail
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https://www.americaamerica.news/p/when-will-there-be-a-real-interview/comments

2024-06-29 14:30:05

"Faithful audiences of this program will know that I have, in every presidential campaign season, insisted repeatedly that the so-called debates that were invented by and for television do not test anything that is actually part of the daily job of the presidency. No one ever runs into the Oval Office and says, ‘Mr. President you have two minutes to explain your position” on some subject."
~ Lawrence O'Donnell
#Biden #Trump #media
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgjyHwQOUoo

2024-06-24 13:25:36

"Before evangelical leaders say a word about the upcoming election, abortion policy or drag queens, they must look at why sexual abuse is occurring in congregations."
~ Nicole Russell
#evangelicals #SexualAbuse #LGBTQ #abortion #DragQueens #Trump
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2024/06/23/evangelical-leaders-sexual-abuse-gateway-church-sbc/74127494007/

2024-06-19 21:00:23

"Read the warnings Trump's own officials have given about electing him to a second term. No one sees the danger Trump poses more vividly than aides and advisers who worked with him. …
Last year, NBC News reached out to 44 of the dozens of people who were part of Trump’s Cabinet at some point during his first term. Only four at the time had said they would vote for him again."
~ John Harwood
#Trump #democracy
https://zeteo.com/p/trump-officials-warnings-second-term

2024-06-18 10:11:35

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"Trump reportedly promised the CEOs he’d cut corporate taxes even further and curtail business regulations if elected president. ...
The greedy cynicism of America’s corporate elite is now on full display."
#Trump #taxes #CEOs #SuperRich #wealth #EconomicElites
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2024-06-06 13:02:01

"Today was an important day to be paying attention. In many ways, we seem to be going backward. Only our votes can ultimately change that."
~ Joyce Vance
#Republicans #Trump #contraception #AileenCannon
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/going-retrograde

2024-05-30 06:45:27

#Alito #SupremeCourt #insurrection #ethics #corruption
https://open.substack.com/pub/joycevance/p/instructing-a-jury

2024-05-29 18:20:18

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Froomkin writes,
"I believe that by sticking to the traditional both-sides format of political news coverage – rather than constantly sounding the alarm over Trump and MAGA --- the elite media has created a permission structure for those low-information voters to throw up their hands and say 'whatever.'"
#Trump #Biden #media #BothSidesism
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2024-05-29 13:44:34

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@npub1sej…p32v What's the silly metaphor Paul Waldman is using here? I don't spot it.

2024-05-28 21:55:43

Paul Waldman asks,
"How'd you like to win an election with just 4% of the vote?"
"Under the GOP proposal [in Texas], a candidate could win a statewide race with just 4 percent of the vote."
#Texas #Republicans #democracy #MinorityRule
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https://paulwaldman.substack.com/p/the-texas-gops-bonkers-attack-on

2024-05-24 14:59:58

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@npub1fau…yvd8 And under Trump – who is inevitably bolstered by those attacking and downplaying Biden's achievements in righting the economy – things would be better?

2024-05-24 14:58:33

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@npub13xr…evnd Where you see blackmail and fear, I see abject, craven obeisance to a cult leader.

2024-05-24 14:52:08

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@npub1gdt…fd90 Yes, I doubt seriously that there will be movement in the direction Reich calls for. I still think it's important to on the record calling for that movement.

2024-05-24 14:51:29

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@npub1t7u…zdhu We – our behavior and "thinking" today – surely do prove that the notion of automatic progress over the course of history is bunkum, don't we?

2024-05-24 14:48:07

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@npub1kmk…mtuy Yes, I agree. This is well-noted and well-stated. I share your concern and fear.

2024-05-24 14:47:38

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@npub1r4j…d8j0 Yes, I actually read David Roberts to be making that same point – and you make it well.

2024-05-24 14:46:51

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@npub12eg…vl7s Well-stated. You're right!

2024-05-24 14:45:31

"By the age of 14, he had survived the Holocaust; by 44, he was an Israeli diplomat; now, at the age of 94, Theodor Meron recommended the International Criminal Court seek arrest warrants of Israeli and Hamas leaders for war crimes and crimes against humanity."
~ Andrew Silverstein
#Israel #Netanyahu #Hamas #WarCrimes
https://forward.com/news/615961/theodor-meron-international-criminal-court-amal-clooney-netanyahu-khan/

2024-05-24 13:21:40

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"To watch the party of Ronald Reagan embracing isolationism and following Trump in truckling to the Butcher of Ukraine, Putin, is bewildering. Mind-bending, also, is that, despite Trump’s fire hose of lies, 71 percent of Republicans describe him as 'honest and trustworthy.'”
#Trump #morality #values #Republicans #WhiteChristianNationalism
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2024-05-24 13:19:31

"Call it anomie or call it airsickness—we find ourselves in a land of confusion. Trump pays off a porn star and yet is hailed as a champion of Christian values. He mocks prisoners of war and calls dead soldiers 'suckers,' and his MAGA base is thrilled by his patriotism."
~ Charlie Sykes
#Trump #morality #values #Republicans #WhiteChristianNationalism
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https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/05/the-trumpian-vertigo-of-american-politics/678473/

2024-05-24 12:30:49

"Something future historians will struggle to explain is that, in the 21st century, all of human knowledge became instantly available to anyone in the world, and the primary effect was to make everyone dumber.”
~ David Roberts as quoted by Margaret Sullivan
#disinformation #politics #LowInformationVoters #Trump #Internet
https://margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/the-odds-the-stakes-and-the-scariest

2024-05-17 18:26:04

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“They’re part of a revolutionary vanguard that’s going to transform society into a right-wing theocracy whether the people want it or not (they don’t). As such, they see breaking the normal rules as part of their duty to their movement, and they see nothing wrong with having a wife who flies a MAGA flag or, in the case of Ginni Thomas, engages in ceaseless radical political activity.”

2024-05-17 18:24:48

“These people [Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas] are such a disgrace to America. And it’s worth remembering that unlike Trump, they’re not really fascists. They’re more Leninists than fascists.”
~ Michael Tomasky
#SamuelAlito #ClarenceThomas #SupremeCourt
/1
https://newsletter.tnr.com/index.php?action=social&chash=3cf166c6b73f030b4f67eeaeba301103.566&s=cdd6377d8462caad2b4695418c877aea

2024-05-17 13:04:55

“It turns out that you can assault the criminal justice system and the rule of law, and call for defunding the police, as long as you are well dressed. Wear the right suit, and suddenly a phalanx of microphones appears. The cops are there to protect your criticism, not pepper-spray you.”
~ Don Moynihan
#Trump #crime #criminals #LawandOrder #Republicans #privilege
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/style-rule-for-radicals-dress-well

2024-05-09 22:02:15

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@npub1swy…snpj I hadn't known that. Thanks for telling me!

2024-05-08 22:45:04

Peter Beaumont reports on the men who have Netanyahu's ear: national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and finance minister Bezalel Smotrich.
Ben-Gvir is invoking God to justify Israel's attack on the Palestinians, as in God is on our side.
Smotrich calls himself a "proud homophobe" and wants Torah law established in Israel's judicial system.
#Israel #Netanyahu
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/08/cant-you-kill-some-netanyahus-political-survival-in-hands-of-far-right

2024-05-08 22:39:25

Why does Josh Marshall think Arkansas governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders might be on Trump's short list as a v-p candidate?
"She’s an effective bully. She’s nasty. She’s not nice. …
In other words, SHS is really the worst American politics has to offer: crooked, a big liar and an enemy of all accountability. But that’s what Trump likes."
#Trump #SarahHuckabeeSanders #Arkansas
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dark-horse

2024-05-07 13:41:00

Noting that Trump and Netanyahu are cut from the same strongman authoritarian cloth, Robert Reich says,
"If Trump continues to badmouth witnesses and jurors, Merchan should jail him. If Netanyahu orders an invasion of Rafah, Biden should cut off all military aid to Israel.
It’s time to stop coddling these authoritarians."
#Trump #Netanyahu #Bibi #authoritarianism #strongman
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/standing-up-to-trump-and-bibi

2024-05-06 18:46:05

"Hicks’s emotional breakdown tends to show that she knew she was betraying Trump with her testimony but had no real alternative. The fact that she was still a big fan of his, even praising him during her time on the stand, shows that she actually had no motivation whatsoever to lie about what he had said to her or to throw him under the bus."
~ Jay Kuo
#Trump #HopeHicks #trial #crime #ElectionInterference
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https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/did-hope-hicks-help-sink-trump

2024-05-02 10:58:11

"Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) cited one of the most prominent historical antisemitic narratives as her reason for not approving legislation aimed at combating antisemitism on Wednesday. Greene posted on the site formerly known as Twitter to explain her thinking."
~ Hunter Walker
#MarjorieTaylorGreene #antisemitism #WhiteChristianNationalism
/1
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/mtg-cites-antisemitic-conspiracy-theory-jews-handed-over-jesus-to-be-killed

2024-04-26 14:34:33

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“Today’s GOP controlled Supreme Court is nothing more than an arm of the Republican Party focused on imposing their right-wing agenda upon us--from ending fundamental rights like abortion and marriage equality to undermining voting rights and more.”
~ Dean Obeidallah
#Trump #SupremeCourt #crime #immunity #Constitution #democracy
/10

2024-04-23 22:20:36

"Palestinian solidarity protests and encampments are appearing on college campuses from Massachusetts to California to protest Israel’s attacks on Gaza and to call for divestment from Israeli apartheid. This week, police have raided encampments and arrested students at Yale and New York University."
~ Democracy Now
#Palestinians #Israel #Gaza #students #StudentProtests
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/23/columbia_university_joseph_slaughter

2024-04-22 20:58:03

"The New York Times reported there are at least nine court officers and additional Secret Service agents in the courtroom today, a much larger security presence than normal.
Outside the court, a local park has been turned into a stage by Trump supporters."
~ Dan Rather
#Trump #trial #crime
https://steady.substack.com/p/things-we-never-thought-wed-see

2024-04-14 23:38:44

"There’s no better issue than abortion to remind us what America under a second MAGA Administration would become. …
Roe’s fall has laid bare the America that Trump and the MAGA Right want, and how catastrophic a second Trump presidency would be for America."
~ Melissa Ryan
#Trump #Republicans #abortion #fascism #women #ReproductiveRights
https://www.altrightdelete.news/p/fascist-hellscape

2024-04-11 21:33:27

"On April 8th, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene publicly declared that the Ukrainian government was 'Attacking Christians' and that the Russian government was defending Christianity.
Marjorie, what planet are you on? …
The reality is that Marjorie Taylor Greene already decided long ago that she was going to support Putin."
~ Alexander Vindman
#MarjorieTaylorGreene #Putin #Russia #Ukraine
https://alexandervindman.substack.com/p/marjorie-what-planet-are-you-on

2024-04-03 13:57:51

"They're not humans. They're animals ... I'll use the word 'animal,' because that's what they are."
~ Donad Trump speaking to devoted followers in Michigan this Easter week about migrants
#Trump #Republicans #migrants #immigrants #WhiteChristianNationalism
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-expected-highlight-murder-michigan-woman-immigration-speech-2024-04-02/

2024-03-31 14:18:48

"Donald Trump's campaign on Saturday pushed President Joe Biden's administration to apologize to 'Catholics and Christians,' prompting insiders to wonder why Trump drew a distinction between the two denominations of the shared faith."
~ David McAfee
#Trump #Biden #Catholics
/1
https://www.alternet.org/trump-catholics/

2024-03-31 13:29:57

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"And definitely no need to worry about that Jesus guy, with all his notions about 'loving thy neighbor' and 'welcoming the stranger.'"
#Trump #bibles #blasphemy #grift #huckster
/3

2024-03-27 17:53:30

Jemar Tisby provides valuable backstory to Trump's blasphemous peddling of a Christian nationalist bible combining American political texts and the biblical text. The idea for this blasphemous project started several years ago with a man named Hugh Kirkpatrick of Elite Source Pro.
#Trump #bible #ChristianNationalism #blasphemy #grift
/1
https://jemartisby.substack.com/p/three-years-ago-we-stopped-harper

2024-03-25 17:51:14

"This is an awkward, to put it mildly, subject for Putin, given the warnings that the West made publicly, through that U.S. Embassy notice that you read, and there were also clearly private warnings that now the U.S. National Security Council is talking about, in which the U.S. shared some intelligence about the prospect or likelihood of an attack."
~ Joshua Yaffa
#Putin #Russia #Ukraine #terrorism #ISIS
/1
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/3/25/moscow

2024-03-25 15:38:20

"Of all the negative reactions to my writing, 99.99% of the racist comments come from white men. Aside from their inability to resist the urge to explain Black culture to me, these individuals rarely argue the facts. Bigotry and racism are such an essential component of their identity, that they don't even notice the backwardness of their point of view."
~ Marlon Weems
#WhiteMen
https://thejourneyman.substack.com/p/the-king-of-all-blacks

2024-03-24 15:14:55

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@npub1e92…js9h Yes, precisely – and parallel in some ways to the situation Netanyahu faces in Israel and his attempt to divert attention from how his corruption has left the whole nation of Israel weaker and more exposed to danger.

2024-03-24 13:53:02

I"n December 2021, writer Thomas Harding interviewed Brigitte Höss, daughter of Rudolf Höss, SS commandant of the death camp at Auschwitz. Harding's Jewish great-uncle arrested Höss when WWII ended. Höss was hanged for his crimes against humanity.
Harding pressed Brigitte to condemn what her father did, overseeing a death camp in which countless numbers (there's no full documentation) of people were tortured and systematically murdered.
#Auschwitz #RudolfHöss
/1
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/24/brigitte-hoss-auschwitz-zone-of-interest-rudolf-oscar-winning-thomas-harding

2024-03-22 15:48:30

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@npub1c6a…4fdh I'm trying to understand your point, but not sure I do so. You mean that for many people, there's an unspoken (or often vocalized) assumption that Christians own the U.S., and to be American is to be Christian? That seems right to me — and, of course, it's all based on the lie that this nation was founded as a Christian nation for Christian purposes. Yes, a whole lot of people absolutely do believe this and want to force the rest of us to believe it, and that's a big problem.

2024-03-22 13:38:15

As Jason Sattler notes, with the IVF debacle, Republicans are trying to lie re: what their "life begins at conception" mantra really means. But supporters like Lila Rose won't let them lie: shey says,
“Politicians cannot call themselves ‘pro-life,’ affirm the truth that human life begins at the moment of fertilization, and then enact laws that allow the callous killing of these preborn children simply because they were created through IVF."
#Republicans #ProLife #IVF
https://thecause.substack.com/p/they-dont-want-want-my-daughter-to

2024-03-22 13:22:40

"Trump wants everyone to believe that Jews=Israel, but this is an extraordinarily dangerous idea. It’s not an accident that it’s exactly what today is being used to justify antisemitism directed against Jews. …
Trump himself seems to believe that if he says this often enough, eventually Jews will start moving toward the GOP."
~ Paul Waldman
#Trump #Jews #Israel #antisemitism #Republicans
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https://paulwaldman.substack.com/p/dual-loyalty-used-to-be-a-slur-now

2024-03-20 14:42:18

Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner has said — out loud — that Israel should "just bulldoze something in the Negev [desert]," and move Palestinians there.
In the same breath, he spoke of how valuable Gaza's "waterfront property" would be if Israel "cleans up" the Gaza strip.
~ Patrick Wintour
Yet some claim Biden is the problem with Israel and Gaza and who are willing to return Trump to the White House by voting third-party or abstaining?
#Kushner #Israel #Gaza #Trump
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/19/jared-kushner-gaza-waterfront-property-israel-negev

2024-03-20 14:16:44

Brian Beutler says Trump isn't running a presidential campaign:
It's a campaign for immunity from the law…. He might become president in spite of this, but his efforts are overwhelmingly fixed on evading justice or mooting judgments he’s already lost by any means necessary."
#Trump #crime #LawandOrder #DotheCrimeDotheTime #ChoicesHaveConsequences
https://www.offmessage.net/p/donald-trump-isnt-running-presidential-campaign

2024-03-19 14:20:01

If you want a glimpse of the "pro-life" white Christian dystopia Republicans collaborating with white Christian nationalists are preparing for all of us, look at Kentucky: as Paige Oamek and Rohan Montgomery report,
"The state is making it easier to kill homeless people on private property—and that’s just one part of one of the most draconian crime bills in recent history."
#Kentucky #homeless
/1
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/kentucky-crime-bill/

2024-03-17 15:03:16

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@npub14dw…qwrc Yes, he has a cunning sense of how to reach people in their most primitive and primal places and to urge the ugly id to manifest itself. He's a walking exercise in that himself.

2024-03-17 14:51:25

"A Vice President not endorsing his former boss should be a bigger deal."
~ Dan Pfeiffer
#Pence #Trump
https://www.messageboxnews.com/p/why-pences-refusal-to-endorse-trump

2024-03-17 14:43:15

"Racist pseudo-science is making a comeback thanks to Elon Musk. Recently, the tech billionaire has been retweeting prominent race scientist adherents on his platform X (formally known as Twitter), spreading misinformation about racial minorities’ intelligence and physiology to his audience of 176.3 million followers—a dynamic my colleague Garrison Hayes analyzes in his latest video for Mother Jones."
~ Arianna Coghill and Garrison Hayes
#ElonMusk #WhiteSupremacy
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/03/elon-musk-racist-tweets-science-video/

2024-03-17 14:07:42

Chitown Kev on how Trump didn't choose his followers: they chose him:
"Trump is a known quantity; ever since he rode down that escalator in 2015, he’s been saying progressively more and nastier and dangerous political rhetoric.
He simply wouldn’t say that much nasty and mocking rhetoric if he didn’t have an audience for what he says.
I always remember: Trump didn’t choose his audience, his audience chose him."
#Trump #authoritarianism #violence #revenge
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/3/17/2229883/-Abbreviated-Pundit-Roundup-Trump-didn-t-choose-his-supporters-his-supporters-chose-him

2024-03-16 22:10:54

"Trump’s appearance in Georgia … reflected a man not rooted in any kind of reality, one who struggled to remember his words and who was, by any definition, incoherent, disconnected, and frequently malicious. …
Watch his speeches. Share them widely. Don’t look away."
~ Susan Glasser
#Trump #fascism #autocracy #MentalDecline #lies
https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-bidens-washington/i-listened-to-trumps-rambling-unhinged-vituperative-georgia-rally-and-so-should-you

2024-03-16 13:44:44

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He writes,
"There’s a deeper, unresolved issue here which goes more towards what they say Christian nationalism is: the idea that a very narrow, specific view of Christianity should define our country, and should play a supreme role in grounding national policy. …
What they want, and as SACR said, is for their group to be in control: the wealthy Christian men of yore."
#SACR #men #white
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2024-03-16 13:42:53

Josh Kovensky asks what white men are complaining about. He's looking at the secret society about which he recently produced a blockbuster report, the Society for American Civic Renewal. It's comprised of powerful white Christian men (heterosexual only) who claim that the power of straight white Christian men in the US is being eroded, and they're mad as hell. This society was founded for them to rule, and they intend to take it back.
#SACR #men #white
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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/sib-archive/tpms-the-weekender-why-are-the-white-men-complaining

2024-03-16 13:13:09

"In other countries like Norway and Japan, older people are revered and respected. In America, not so much. The advertising industry has contributed to the disparagement of us old folks through derogatory portrayals that reinforce outdated stereotypes. The wisdom, experience, patience, and empathy older people bring to the table are character traits you can’t have when you’re younger because you simply haven’t lived as long."
~ Susan Niemann
#ageism
https://adchick.substack.com/p/aging-with-an-attitude

2024-03-15 21:58:33

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@npub1sej…p32v I agree. Well-stated.

2024-03-15 21:58:10

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@npub1t4a…xx69 That deserves consideration, but I think Robert Reich's point is very well-taken.

2024-03-15 18:51:36

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@npub1s67…xpvd I hear you, especially as someone now 73 and soon to be 74 if I live to the end of this month!

2024-03-15 18:50:37

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@npub1s67…xpvd Yes, I think he makes excellent points, and we should be angry at the betrayal of justice, lack of respect for equality, undermining of democracy.

2024-03-15 18:09:09

From Lisa at the All Hat No Cattle blog:
#WhiteChristianNationalism #Republicans #MinoritarianRule #Christofascism
https://all-hat-no-cattle.blogspot.com/2024/03/manhattan-da-asks-to-delay-start-of.html
https://files.toad.social/media_attachments/files/112/101/031/542/287/999/original/937e87f44481beeb.jpg

2024-03-15 17:44:52

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"Our highest court dramatically and dangerously betrayed its obligation to enforce what once was the Constitution’s safety net for America’s democracy. The Supreme Court has now rendered that safety net a dead letter, effectively rescinding it as if it had never been enacted."
#SupremeCourt #Constitution #insurrection #LawandOrder
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2024-03-15 17:44:02

"The Supreme Court of the United States did a grave disservice to both the Constitution and the nation in Trump v. Anderson.
In a stunning disfigurement of the Fourteenth Amendment, the Court impressed upon it an ahistorical misinterpretation that defies both its plain text and its original meaning."
~ Michael Luttig and Laurence Tribe
#SupremeCourt #Constitution #insurrection #LawandOrder
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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/03/supreme-court-trump-v-anderson-fourteenth-amendment/677755/

2024-03-15 17:33:25

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@npub15dm…nd6f To say that money is power is not to say that money must be power. It's to say that money functions as power and to provide power in many cases because this is how we have set our cultures up.

2024-03-15 17:32:46

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@npub1m7d…5gx7 Yes.

2024-03-15 17:30:51

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"Corporations pay fines, usually not that large when considered against their bottom line, and they admit no wrongdoing, even after their practices have killed people. Poor people, meanwhile, get pushed around by the system constantly.
There is no such thing in this country as equality before the law, and everyone knows it."
#democracy #courts #law #inequality #Trump
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2024-03-15 17:29:13

"When we talk about what’s wrong with our democracy, we talk about our political structures and processes. …
We don’t talk about our legal system. We should. The American legal system doesn’t uphold the values of democratic rule like equality. It far more often corrupts and perverts them. Rich people like Trump twist the system into a pretzel and win delay after delay after delay."
~ Michael Tomasky
#democracy #courts #law #inequality #Trump
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https://tnr248.activehosted.com/index.php

2024-03-15 15:28:20

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@npub1u75…u72k Definitely a concern, a huge one, in big swathes of the US where people have no nearby hospitals except Catholic ones — and those refuse to provide lots of reproductive medical services.

2024-03-15 15:27:39

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@npub1v6j…azzl Thanks for telling me about that video. I will look for it!

2024-03-15 15:27:13

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@npub1se2…wyku Absolutely.

2024-03-15 15:27:03

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@npub199d…xwjc The US supplies a large amount of weapons used against Gaza and its alliance with Israel makes it very much responsible for what Israel does. Biden can most certainly address this.

2024-03-15 15:26:06

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@npub1m3y…lm5r You're looking in the right direction! And then there's the Senate and the disproportionate representation it gives to sparsely populated states, and the Supreme Court, which seems accountable to nobody.

2024-03-15 15:25:21

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@npub15dm…nd6f Yes. Money is power.

2024-03-15 15:24:38

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@npub1zg8…79hl Absolutely. Well-stated.

2024-03-15 15:24:23

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@npub1w2l…nfh7 I think we can never underestimate what loyal cult followers will do when told by their cult leader to do it.

2024-03-15 15:23:47

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@npub1tmz…vsgn Yes, frustrating in the extreme, isn't it?

2024-03-15 14:26:48

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"The real issue here isn’t whether China or some American billionaire should own these platforms. It’s how to make them publicly responsible, regardless of who owns them."
#TikTok #billionaires #tech #Musk #Twitter #Facebook #Google
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2024-03-15 14:26:27

"We need to have a totally different conversation about TikTok — as well the other giant platforms now scraping up our personal data and feeding us dangerous lies. Is TikTok really any more worrisome than X (formerly Twitter), Google, Facebook, and Amazon, and their billionaire owners?
~ Robert Reich
#TikTok #billionaires #tech #Musk #Twitter #Facebook #Google
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https://robertreich.substack.com/p/who-do-you-trust-more-with-tiktok