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2024-09-29 16:52:23

Because ABC News did its job, by pointing out Trump's outrageous lies during his debate, Trump threatened to shut down the entire ABC network.
Trump's threat was successful. CBS News is now refusing to fact-check their vice presidential debate.
Democracy cannot survive if the press surrenders to fascist threats like that.
#USPol #Journalism
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-demands-abc-shut-down-111238987.html
https://apnews.com/article/cbs-debate-vice-president-fact-check-7a3b31c98ab092dd44915df57a359d10

2024-09-27 15:48:18

Trump adviser Jason Miller green-lights states that want to set up menstrual surveillance departments, to help them arrest and prosecute women who might try to travel out of state to get an abortion.
#USPol #abortion
https://www.alternet.org/trump-abortion-policy/

2024-08-18 13:30:02

Here's our disastrously defective American political press, admitting to its own failure.
Donald Trump doesn't understanding anything about economics. He's cognitively incapable of comprehending how tariffs work, what causes inflation, or anything else that isn't a direct statement about his own greatness or worthlessness.
If the press were doing its job, American voters would know that.
#USPol #Journalism
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/harris-trump-poll-election-issues/story?id=112865487

2024-08-12 01:42:22

"There was nobody at the plane, and she 'A.I.'d' it, and showed a massive 'crowd' of so-called followers, BUT THEY DIDN'T EXIST!"
-- Donald Trump, gaslighting rapist psychopath
Enough. Enough of that man's gaslighting. Enough of his lies. We're not going back.
#Freedom #USPol
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/112/946/497/476/129/159/original/7eca92a13b83cdf9.mp4

2024-08-10 02:53:27

Being obsessed with other people's periods is #weird and #creepy.
#BeNormal #USPol
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/112/935/457/235/086/011/original/3ecbf92d5c36c86a.jpg

2024-08-10 02:49:36

Being obsessed with other people's periods is #weird and #creepy.
#BeNormal #USPol
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/112/935/442/804/152/429/original/2ee229a3cbac7626.jpg

2024-08-08 21:11:29

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@npub1tra…npqw
"Well, it was a rambling, confused assemblage of delusional nonsense, incoherent gibberish, outrageous lies, and racist insults. But let's just call it 'a creative and unconventional performance.'"

2024-08-08 00:45:21

J.D. Vance awkwardly retreats after bizarre attempt to storm Harris’ empty plane
That is one creepy-ass stalker weirdo, right there.
#USPol
https://www.thedailybeast.com/jd-vance-awkwardly-retreats-from-confronting-kamala-harris-on-air-force-2-after-realizing-she-wasnt-around

2024-08-07 00:19:37

Tim Walz named a highway after Prince. He signed the bill in purple ink.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2023/05/09/a-gift-to-minnesotans-princes-home-state-names-part-of-highway-after-him
#USPol #Walz
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/112/917/873/762/554/804/original/dc2f35e4c0ffb884.jpg

2024-08-04 02:03:33

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@npub1d0s…egda
This article connects the dots on who's behind the Imane Khelif outrage.
TL;DR: Putin.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/columnist/dan-wolken/2024/08/01/boxers-under-fire-olympic-gender-tests/74634233007/

2024-07-28 22:22:39

Ten years ago, if someone had told me that one day a rapist psychopath would attempt a murderous coup on national television, but still enjoy approval ratings close to 50%, I never would have believed it.
#USPol
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/112/866/448/257/691/233/original/d7384b5acc756135.png

2024-07-28 02:42:18

I have never seen anyone this coked up in my whole entire life.
This is Trump Junior, interviewing JD Vance last Thursday night. The video was posted on the bad site by Ron Filipkowski, who swears that he did not speed it up.
#USPol
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/112/861/808/637/980/523/original/64a3a3d647f95230.mp4

2024-07-25 16:18:53

Elon Musk is not religious at all. However, he is now describing himself as a "cultural Christian."
Completely nonreligious people like Musk and Trump are now embracing fanatical religious extremism as a means of achieving absolute authoritarian power.
We no longer need wonder how groups like Al Qaeda and the Taliban gain power. We're watching it happen to us in real time.
#USPol
https://theconversation.com/elon-musk-says-hes-a-cultural-christian-why-some-leading-thinkers-are-embracing-christianity-233601

2024-07-24 20:07:39

Who's to blame for the CrowdStrike outage?
According to the right-wing media, the same people who are to blame for every other problem in the world: Women and Black people.
#racism #misogyny
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/112/843/243/571/031/918/original/aaa716fe22c23954.jpg

2024-07-24 01:07:06

"Protesters were violently beating on the office doors, shouting loudly, and attempting to force entry into the office."
This is what Netanyahu hoped to achieve, when he arranged to fly to Washington and campaign for Trump tomorrow: As much violence and destruction as possible.
You can be damned sure that at least a few of these violent protests were organized by the Kremlin.
#USPol
https://www.axios.com/2024/07/23/capitol-gaza-protest-netanyahu-security-concerns

2024-07-24 00:52:49

"Uh-oh, Harris just had the best 48 hours of fundraising in the history of presidential elections. We better do a 'caravan'!"
#USPol
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/112/838/729/171/545/356/original/34ef4b6d7aad3ab8.jpg

2024-07-23 15:50:43

Biden will address the nation from the Oval Office at 8 PM tomorrow. It will be one of the most-watched and most-discussed political addresses in history. And he scheduled it for six hours after Johnson and Netanyahu's ratfu**ing stunt on Capitol Hill! He's gonna kick their fascist asses right out of the news cycle.
This is the Dark-Brandon-est sh*t ever. I love it.
#USPol
https://apnews.com/article/biden-election-2024-address-nation-11b30094dd3cd1a9dcbeefaaab057acc

2024-07-23 14:48:27

"Fake electors get tapped as GOP convention delegates."
Our country failed to respond to the Republican Party's January 6 coup attempt, and we're all just pretending that it didn't happen.
The GOP stands by the coup, has only doubled down on its support since it happened, and they've told us they're going to do it again.
#USPol
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/10/politics/fake-electors-get-tapped-as-gop-convention-delegates/index.html

2024-07-23 02:53:41

Nina Jankowicz is a disinformation expert who served on the Dept. of Homeland Security's disinformation board. Fox News attacked her personally, with lies that incited violent threats against her. So, she sued Fox News for defamation.
Today, a Trump-appointed judge threw out her lawsuit.
#USPol
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/4786974-jankowicz-fox-lawsuit-dismissed/

2024-07-22 20:14:42

"DEI hire" is the new n-word.
Don't dignify worthless scumbags like Tim Burchett by saying they're using "racist dog whistles." This is a racist slur. Period.
#racism #USPol
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/112/831/962/116/902/211/original/b2d5293bc84560b5.mp4

2024-07-21 18:37:02

The good news is, now the Democrats have an easy way to neutralize what otherwise would have been a devastating piece of underhanded ratf**king from Putin and Trump.
Biden should make his withdrawal speech in prime time on Wednesday, either during or immediately after Netanyahu's address to Congress.
#USPol

2024-07-19 02:55:25

Instead of watching our hideously defective American political press as they breathlessly amplify fascist lies tonight, let's watch British reporter Emily Maitlis, demonstrating how to interview a fascist properly.
This is how journalism is done. We don't really have journalism in the US.
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/112/810/897/107/711/081/original/85d1ccefa0d1df88.mp4

2024-07-09 00:26:54

This man obviously is not mentally fit to be president. He has to drop out.
#USPol
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/112/753/685/890/149/448/original/7579247b31b4785e.jpg

2024-05-28 23:53:36

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@npub1m07…4ltf
Things certainly will get much worse for literally everyone under a Republican administration. But they will get especially worse for the most vulnerable communities. The Palestinians will suffer first, and most.

2024-03-22 19:22:33

BREAKING: There is an ongoing major terrorist attack on a concert hall in #Moscow. BBC has the most complete coverage I've found so far.
6,200 people had tickets to the concert. It appears that the attackers are five men wearing fatigues and armed with assault rifles. Two explosions have been reported, and the building is on fire.
#Terrorism #Russia #Crocus
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-68642036

2024-03-03 14:24:43

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@npub1zak…d6uu
Hell yes. Joe Manchin is a corrupt, obstructionist, self-serving, "sick fuck" fossil fuel puppet who sometimes enables GOP fascists.
However, that kind of rhetoric caused Manchin to retire this year. His seat will now go to a Republican, almost certainly giving the GOP control of the Senate in 2024. That's bad. Very, very bad. We needed him to stay.

2024-02-11 23:39:23

"I saw men dressed up as Nazis in Charlottesville yelling, 'Jews will not replace us,'" [Patriots owner Robert] Kraft said. "There was the Tree of Life massacre. None of this should be happening in the United States of America."
It's happening here because #Kraft made it happen. He helped install a racist, antisemitic regime whose central tenet is "Jews will not replace us." His man, Trump, called the Charlottesville Nazis "very fine people."
#antisemitism #SuperBowlAd
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/columnist/mike-freeman/2024/02/09/robert-kraft-patriots-owner-super-bowl-ad/72515641007/

2023-11-25 23:58:10

Today I learned that New Zealand, of all places, has its own antisemitic, psychotic, hypernationalistic, anti-reality political party. It's called, naturally enough, "New Zealand First." I think it currently holds 8 seats in Parliament.
I'm very disappointed. New Zealand had been my dream expatriation destination.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300945108/chemtrails-911-and-vaccine-nanobots-the-digital-trail-of-nz-firsts-couldbe-mps

2023-11-13 16:30:35

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@npub1mmf…eknq
That's an extremely bizarre thing to say. It is, frankly, delusional.
Biden continually stresses the value of Palestinian lives. He restored US aid to Palestinians, and he sent extra aid when the war started. He pressured Israel into daily humanitarian pauses, allowing aid into Gazan hospitals, and limiting the ground offensive.
You can wish Biden were doing something differently, but accusing him of deriving "perverse pleasure" from children's deaths is just weird.
#uspol

2023-11-09 15:29:47

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@npub17a9…mv9a @npub1ux4…ufww
I agree. Hillary Clinton's discussion of the Israel-Gaza conflict is cogent, intelligent, and worth watching. I've downloaded the video from Twitter, and I'm reposting it here, so others can watch it without supporting a fascist disinformation platform.
It breaks my heart that we decided instead to elect a president who had never even heard of Hamas, and was cognitively incapable of understanding international relations.
#Israel #Gaza #politics #uspols #uspolitics
https://media.mas.to/masto-public/media_attachments/files/111/381/282/567/299/537/original/02d406cd4966e289.mp4

2023-11-07 00:45:39

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@npub1mmf…eknq
It is not, in fact, genocide.
Israel is not, in fact, taking away Americans' health care. This is idiotic, and it's probaby extremely antisemitic too.
If we let this garbage dissuade us from voting in 2024, then there may actually be a real genocide in Palestine. And it may even be American B-52s, not Israeli F-35s, that incinerate every one of the 2.2 million people in Gaza. Trump would not hesitate to order that, just to prove that he hates Palestinians even more than Bibi does.

2023-10-26 03:10:19

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@npub1ass…4kns
Who is reporting that he's military and a certified firearms instructor?

2023-10-16 23:20:59

Two Swedish nationals were killed today, and one was wounded, in an apparent Islamist terrorist attack in Brussels. The terrorist is still at large. Belgium has raised its terror alert to the highest level.
#Terrorism #Brussels #Belgium
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/two-swedes-shot-dead-brussels-police-2023-10-16/

2023-09-03 23:31:43

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@npub1lzz…jhl3
As we've discussed, Republicans don't really care about abortion per se. It's a fake issue that they manufactured solely in order to consolidate their political power.
Therefore, their cruelty against women has no endpoint. The GOP will never judge that abortion rights have been sufficiently curtailed and then rest on their laurels.
Anyone who says they're voting for a third-party candidate, or not voting at all, is announcing that they're okay with this cruelty.
#abortion #women

2023-08-29 21:05:59

The Republicans demanded that schools must teach "opposing viewpoints" on slavery.
Opposing viewpoints.
On slavery.
When someone says that they're not going to vote, or that they're voting for third-party candidates, they're telling you that they're okay with "opposing viewpoints on slavery." You should respond to them accordingly.
#USPol #Racism #Vote
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/education/article278582149.html

2023-08-25 17:27:38

"The facile way Christie and Barr now criticize Trump makes evident how knowingly complicit they were in his corruption and venality."
#USPol
- Andrew Weissmann (on Twitter)
https://media.mas.to/masto-public/media_attachments/files/110/951/427/840/735/381/original/f8295fd3e3629275.jpg

2023-08-22 02:44:58

It looks like the mastodon.staycuriousandkeepsmil.in instance was created solely for one user, DavidKnestrick, to pollute the Fediverse with bizarre QAnon disinformation.
I think pretty much every administrator will want to block this instance immediately.
#Fediblock

2023-08-21 18:47:01

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@npub1uxk…ptq5
I just found one article with some pretty detailed statistics on turnout in the U of Wisconsin precincts. This may be the one that you read before?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/04/11/wisconsin-liberal-youth-vote/

2023-08-21 18:24:09

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@npub1uxk…ptq5 Thank you, I am going to look too.

2023-08-21 18:21:29

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@npub1uxk…ptq5 Now I'm curious... has anyone published voter turnout statistics for the WI Supreme Court election, broken down by age? NextGen is fundraising here by listing everything that they did, and their work looks very impressive to me, but I'm wondering how much of an effect it had. It would make me happy to see any indication of increasing turnout among young voters.

2023-08-09 02:38:26

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@npub1uxk…ptq5
And, for us voters: VOTE on abortion.
When Democrats win elections, abortion rights are protected. But when we stay at home on election day, or throw away our votes on third-party con artists, then Republicans win, and women are subjected to atrocities.
We have got to start voting for the issues and the people we care about.

2023-08-08 23:48:45

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@npub10y2…rgqq
Wait... I see that Dana Rohrabacher's wife, Rhonda Carmony, pleaded guilty to multiple election-related crimes in 1997 (see link). But what is her relationship to RFK Jr.'s campaign? I think his campaign manager is Dennis Kucinich, right?
https://archive.is/T0IvL

2023-08-08 12:10:16

mRNA vaccines do NOT cause people to "shed" spike proteins that affect other people.
A widely-spread #COVID #misinformation article falsely claims that a scientific study proved this myth. But, actually, the study was about detecting antibodies, and it had nothing to do with the "shedding spike proteins" hoax.
More information here: https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2023/08/fact-check-study-does-not-show-vast-majority-of-humanity-vaccinated-for-covid-19-by-shedding-of-vaccine-from-vaccinated-to-unvaccinated.html
https://media.mas.to/masto-public/media_attachments/files/110/853/902/053/571/218/original/be7650d66ad4f5b8.jpg

2023-08-07 19:38:21

Republican billionaires who had business before SCOTUS gave millions of dollars' worth of gifts directly to SCOTUS justices.
A nonprofit foundation in Mississippi invited Justice Sotomayor to speak to children in Mississippi, and bought some of her books to give to the kids. Justice Sotomayor wouldn't even allow the foundation to pay for her lunch.
Contrary to the Associated Press' both-sidesing, these things are not the same.
#USPol #SCOTUS
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/07/sotomayor-book-festival-mississippi-ethics/

2023-08-06 00:59:00

"He beat me like a drum and I acknowledged it. We've found something in common: I've come to like him, and he likes him..."
Imagine being as pathetic and useless a cowardly little worm as Lindsey Graham is.
#USPol #Graham #Cowardice
https://media.mas.to/masto-public/media_attachments/files/110/839/952/460/177/961/original/70d2ac844dcce3f0.jpg

2023-08-05 01:52:40

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@npub1khh…lk2m @npub1tf4…nzuj
Trump has been publicly tampering with witnesses for years. He does it *because* it's illegal.
He loves getting caught committing crimes. It gives him an opportunity to demonstrate that he's above the law, and he can do whatever he wants without fear of consequences.

2023-07-19 02:40:05

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@npub1lzz…jhl3
I can't see anything like that happening. Anyone who wants to be a Republican must swear allegiance to Trump, and that has already entailed absolute rejection of the American legal system. Everyone knows what Trump did, and they support him (or, in some cases, almost worship him) because of it, not in spite of it.

2023-07-18 22:54:47

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@npub1lzz…jhl3
I don't understand what Ms. Vance is trying to say here.
Does anyone believe that any of Trump's supporters give a rat's a** about what the evidence is?
Are they suddenly going to say, "ooh, wow, are you saying, he claimed he won the election even, though he didn't? And asked people to attack the Capitol? And he said Pence deserved to be hanged? Well this is just awful. I am beside myself with sadness. I'm going to burn my MAGA hat and vote for Mike Pence now."

2023-07-18 00:19:10

RT ronfilipkowski@twitter: "You tell me if this is staged. A lone 'protester' in SC on June 2 in the first clip, and a lone 'protester' in SC today in second clip."
This is really the lamest kayfabe ever. It's like watching a cut-rate professional wrestling league at your local high school gymnasium. Barely even trying.
#USPol #WeakEffort #Pathetic
https://media.mas.to/masto-public/media_attachments/files/110/732/206/527/738/900/original/67c4fe12dea3fa15.mp4

2023-07-16 16:15:55

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@npub1kpw…xzz4
Your ostensible professional accomplishments are irrelevant to your argument, but they help explain why you chose to make that argument.
The real person's identity you claim (truthfully, I'd guess) is a stunning compendium of wildly grandiose self-promoting exaggerations and outright falsehoods. Sort of a computer-enthusiast George Santos.

2023-07-16 16:05:27

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@npub1kpw…xzz4
Your post was nonsensical. With neither logical nor empirical justification, you expressed your support for an employer's indefensible decision to ban mask wearing by employees.
This is the case whether or not you are "a research scientist who spent the last 2 years researching COVID." A critical principle of online information intake is that the logicality of an argument is a property of the argument, not of the claimed or actual prestige of the person who offers it.

2023-07-16 00:16:17

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@npub1kpw…xzz4
You've established yourself as an inauthentic pro-Republican propaganda account, but I didn't realize that your lies extend specifically into the domain of #COVID #disinformation.
Masks prevent disease transmission. There is absolutely no doubt about this. None.
Should masks be required everywhere? No! Should businesses *ban* their use by employees? Obviously not.
And by the way, "excessive nature of mask wearing in general" is not something that someone would actually say.
https://media.mas.to/masto-public/media_attachments/files/110/720/866/621/580/575/original/e7a04381654b835a.jpg

2023-07-10 19:04:31

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@npub1c32…ps3k
“This is a very high priority for the College. We have every intention of completing the facebook by the end of the spring semester.”
It's funny how things work out, isn't it? If Harvard's Residential Computing Department had hired more efficient programmers in 2004, then American democracy would still be intact in 2023.

2023-07-07 16:18:49

There's an extremely important lesson here.
From now on, for as long as the GOP continues to exist, the only way to succeed in the party will be to adopt ever more extreme levels of hatred and cruelty.
Literally no atrocity is too extreme for the GOP now. Concentration camps, nuclear bombs, destroying entire cities with poison gas... nothing. Individual Republicans will continue to discover this gradually, as they have since 2016.
#USPol #GOP #Fascism
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/07/marjorie-taylor-greene-isnt-extreme-enough-for-the-gop/674637/

2023-06-27 20:31:39

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@npub1v2s…mqq5
Well how about that. Trump's lawyers leaked the tape, and therefore they can have it excluded from the trial.

2023-06-24 14:51:18

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@npub1v2s…mqq5
I'm pleased to see this. However, Dobbs provided an opportunity for bogus pseudo-abortion rights groups like "Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights" to attack the Democratic Party with vicious lies. Those lies were amplified by the media, and they did enormous damage to the pro-abortion rights cause.
That may happen again now. Let's be vigilant.

2023-06-19 20:35:34

@npub1uac…9ewt
As you know, either Biden will be elected, or Trump will.
As you know, Cornel West is helping Trump win.
Republicans are banning books about gay people, banning saying "gay" in schools, banning gender-affirming care, legalizing torturing gay kids with "conversion therapy," and banning mere existence for transgender people.
You're on a server called "tech.lgbt," and your reaction to helping Trump win is "it's kinda interesting."
#leftist #uspolitics #antifa

2023-05-12 01:10:44

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After months of worrying that Trump might murder her children, Megyn Kelly figured out a way to protect her family.
She received permission from Fox News execs to do an exclusive fake "interview" with Trump. The questions were all softballs. She basically handed Trump a gift of a free campaign commercial, like CNN did with last night's travesty.
Trump called off his thugs, and Kelly's family was able to return home.
🤔
https://www.npr.org/2016/05/17/478455479/in-sit-down-with-donald-trump-megyn-kelly-shows-a-light-touch
@npub1ggm…7842

2023-05-12 00:55:10

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That's interesting. Trump sued CNN for $475 million, only 7 months ago.
It was a frivolous lawsuit that he could never win. But CNN giving him the gift of a 2-hour campaign rally last night would be cheaper than litigating the case, wouldn't it?
@npub1ggm…7842

2023-05-11 23:58:16

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For many women, a miscarriage is a deeply traumatic event, filled with overwhelming sadness, and often an irrational but terribly painful sense of guilt. Subjecting a grieving woman to a criminal investigation for murder at that vulnerable moment would be an act of unfathomable cruelty.
Words can scarcely describe the sickening barbarity of the Republican Party. This is why my blood boils when I hear people say "I'm not going to vote, it doesn't matter to me which party wins."
@npub1uxk…ptq5

2023-05-11 19:38:08

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Will they really, though?
How about simply noting that there are exactly two possible outcomes, and everyone who prefers one of those outcomes to the other should vote for it?
Voting is really pretty straightforward.
@npub1uxk…ptq5

2023-05-11 18:46:06

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CNN did what they did last night. The courts did not do it.
CNN put a rapist on television. They let him slut-shame the woman he raped while the audience laughed at her. They allowed him to spew violence-inciting lies for two hours.
The answer to the question of whether or not that is okay does not have anything to do with whether Biden is "a bad candidate." So I invite you to reflect, privately if you wish, on why you chose to express that opinion in this context.
@npub1kpw…xzz4

2023-05-11 00:43:06

How many rape survivors are currently sitting in airports, waiting for their planes to board, and being forced to watch a rapist slut-shaming the woman he raped? While a live studio audience laughs at her? Can you imagine how traumatic that would be? If you have not been raped, then the answer is NO.
#CNN must never, ever be shown on any airport television again. We cannot allow this sickening evil to continue.

2023-05-11 00:33:26

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CNN's business plan is putting a rapist on national television, so he can slut-shame the woman he raped. While a live audience laughs at her.
No television, anywhere, should ever be tuned to #CNN again.
#USPol
@npub1aq2…4nfw

2023-05-09 01:42:24

Louisiana man accused of shooting teen in the back of the head while she played hide and seek
#GunViolence #USPol
https://www.wafb.com/2023/05/08/louisiana-man-accused-shooting-teen-in-back-head-while-she-played-hide-seek/

2023-05-04 22:53:26

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@npub1q87…9jc9 @npub1fpz…tx5g @npub1t95…0kzy @npub1uwt…p8lz @npub1w6q…xk7c
Again, I don't see how Tarrio's conviction helps build a case against Trump.

2023-05-04 22:05:15

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@npub1t95…0kzy I don't know that Tarrio has anything to offer. If he produces a signed letter from Trump, saying "I hereby order you to kill the vice president so I can overthrow the government," that would certainly be important. But does he have something like that?

2023-05-04 21:34:46

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If Tarrio now becomes a cooperating witness in order to reduce his sentence, what information do you think he might be able to provide DOJ?

2023-05-04 16:05:01

"[Trump] is effectively running on a platform of completing the January 6 insurrection — and... media organizations are in a bind about how best to cover that without legitimizing his extremism."
I agree with the first half. However, media organizations don't see themselves as "in a bind." They think it's their JOB to legitimize his extremism.
#USPol #Insurrection #Election #Trump
https://www.rawstory.com/finish-the-coup/

2023-04-24 03:39:55

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"They hope to raise $18 million for the coming election cycle, and plan to spend all of it within the targeted congressional districts."
I appreciate the thought, but they're about to flush $18 million down the toilet.
American democracy has no chance of survival, unless and until a new conservative party is formed. $18 million could have gone a long way toward making that happen.

2023-04-23 02:33:59

"Promise me no nudes until you are old enough to be of age."
The Texas racist who murdered a BLM protester was grooming underage girls online. And Governor Abbott is still going to pardon him.
#[0] #[1] #[2]
https://www.salon.com/2023/04/21/convicted-murderer-greg-abbott-wants-to-pardon-sought-chats-to-meet-young-girls/

2023-04-18 00:24:46

A 20-year-old woman was driving to a friend's house, and she accidentally turned into the wrong driveway. While she was turning around to leave, the homeowner shot her to death.
America.
https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/washington-county-20-year-old-killed-saturday-17901499.php

2023-04-15 23:39:43

This is a filthy, despicable, outrageous lie from #[0]. As usual, those slimy scumbags are a cancer on human civilization.
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https://media.mas.to/masto-public/media_attachments/files/110/205/462/466/923/663/original/0243c1b6eb9fe31c.jpg

2023-04-06 18:01:34

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I think the law that Clarence Thomas repeatedly violated was 5 USC 13106. It's theoretically punishable by 1 year in prison for each violation. However, that would require proving that Thomas "knowingly and willfully" broke the law. That's probably impossible, and even if it weren't, Garland would never go after any high-ranking Republican.
https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title5/part4&edition=prelim

2023-04-04 23:25:55

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We maintained Dem control of the Senate in 2022. That's big! It allows Biden to continue un-stacking the federal courts at record pace.
We must remember that Pramila Jayapal tried to sabotage the last election for the Dems, by dishonestly releasing a letter about Ukraine 2 weeks before election day (see below). If we had lost the Senate, Biden wouldn't be appointing any judges now.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/25/politics/pramila-jayapal-ukraine-letter-democratic-backlash/index.html

2023-04-04 23:15:12

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Great! Let's get to work!
This proposed Constitutional amendment is not "getting to work." It's nothing.