Ardison-Gardner

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Writer, dog-lover, and avid reader.

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a prime example of DEI standing in for the n word

"Turn the temperature down on the violent rhetoric." Western NC Says

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Gun ownership is one thing, but I need someone to explain to me why all these guys have "more than a dozen" AR 15s. Much of my family in Germany are professional game wardens and hunters for the state (control deer and boar population) and have like 1 gun and one bow.

Jesus, both of Thomas Matthew Crooks' parents are licensed professional counselors. "The AR-15 rifle Crooks used was one of more than a dozen registered to and legally purchased by his father, with whom he often went to the shooting range, officials said." www.wsj.com/us-news/myst...

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has a reporter ever asked him about this to his face? Why aren’t they doing it every day, given how much of his whole deal is freaking people out about crime?

Just a reminder: Trump inherited the lowest homicide rate of any president in 50 years. He was the first president in 30 years to leave office with a higher homicide rate than when he entered. And the rate has dropped every year since he left. www.foxnews.com/video/635815...

RNC day 2 to focus on crime and safety as victims' families speak out | Fox News Videowww.foxnews.com Erin Rachwal, who lost her son to fentanyl poisoning and Sheri and Aaron Sparks, who lost their son in the Waukesha parade attack, on the need to hold criminals accountable and stop the influx of illi...

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“women should stay in violent marriages - for the kids.” —JD Vance

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Reforming this court is imperative. Ethics rules and term limits alone cannot fully restore balance and independence to #SCOTUS. But today’s announcement is a watershed moment in the fight to take back the court. Our stmt from @liptonlubet.bsky.social:

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All the Federalist Society judges gotta go if we're gonna save the country.

*TRUMP JUDGE DISMISSES FLORIDA CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS CASE

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A+ groveling

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I made this into a proper response to the absolutely misplaced calls to "turn down the heat": newrepublic.com/article/1838...

My first thought this morning after I remembered the news was how many people over the last few years have put their bodies between armed far right guys and kids going to the library or a bookstore

Where Were Calls for De-Escalation When Libraries Were Being Targeted?newrepublic.com Trump’s fans seem determined to blame this shooting on their victims.

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"weird how musk suddenly became a nazi" is the kind of thing people like kara swisher say to avoid having to acknowledge they misread the field and missed a decade worth of cues

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This should terrify people in terms of what it means not only for teachers and librarians, but for parents. Once exposure to queer content gets classified as child abuse, that will be the excuse they use to remove kids from queer homes, or even just homes that teach acceptance.

Psst: Project 2025 is terrifying for a lot of reasons but also because on page 5 it calls for teachers and librarians who grant access to books that are maligned as pornography (which just means anything LGBTQ) to be registered as sex offenders. Pass it on.

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Since Day 2 of the RNC will be largely about crime, a reminder of what has actually happened (with murders falling rapidly in 2024 so far)

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#CorruptSCOTUS

Federal prosecutors have begun moving to drop charges accusing Jan. 6 defendants of obstructing Congress’s confirmation of the 2020 presidential election results, offering plea deals after the Supreme Court restricted the government’s use of that count.

U.S. begins dropping Jan. 6 obstruction charges against Proud Boys, otherswapo.st The Supreme Court’s June ruling narrowing use of an obstruction charge for Jan. 6 defendants is leading to misdemeanor plea deals for some Capitol riot defendants.

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RNC platform writer Ed Martin confirms on a radio show that invoking the 14th Amendment is a proxy for nationwide ban: “There’s not as many words describing it, but there’s protection under the Constitution, that life is protected" via @motherjones.bsky.social

RNC official: Nothing in our platform says we won't ban abortion nationwidewww.motherjones.com “Don’t let anybody tell you there’s not protections for pro-life,” top Republican Ed Martin said on his radio show last week.

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I will never forget the interview, shortly after Ozy Media Inc. was formed, where Carlos Watson said he named it after the poem, because "the lesson you take from [Ozymandias] is that you have to dream big." So that's why liberal arts education is important.

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“Israel struck with overwhelming force, hitting it with *eight* 2,000-pound bombs… Scores of Palestinians in the area around the compound—which was home to a market, a water source and a soup kitchen serving displaced civilians—were killed and hundreds wounded.”

To Target a Top Militant, Israel Rained Down Eight Tons of Bombsapple.news Huge deployment of firepower, after years of failed attempts to kill Hamas military commander Mohammed Deif, exacted a heavy civilian toll

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I'd have to describe JD Vance's views on women's rights as "Strategic Incel."

JD Vance on Abortionjessica.substack.com Donald Trump's trad-husband VP pick wants women back in the kitchen

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In Private Speech, JD Vance Said the “Devil Is Real” & Praised Alex Jones as Truth-Teller Vance gave the speech to the secretive Teneo Network. The VP nominee has been a member of the Leonard Leo-backed group, which seeks to cultivate conservative influence in business & culture. Full video here:

In Private Speech, J.D. Vance Said the “Devil Is Real” and Praised Alex Jones as a Truth-Tellerwww.propublica.org Vance gave the speech to the secretive Teneo Network. The GOP vice presidential nominee has been a member of the Leonard Leo-backed group, which seeks to cultivate conservative influence in business a...

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trans ppl deserve to grow old together

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Menendez sad he does not have his own Judge Cannon

NEW: Sen. Bob Menendez found GUILTY of multiple charges in corruption trial

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Many people smarter than me have talked about the racial dynamic on this website, which imo is not an issue that is in conflict with the also existing transphobia on this website. So I’m just going to get a little iced coffee and keep it moving.

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I have also heard that if you object to the times’s coverage of anything, letters to the editor are basically the only thing that moves the needle

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In Milwaukee, nearly 3,000 protestors marched east the Republican National Convention, denouncing Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza, the Republican Party’s nominee Donald Trump, and what organizers describe as the GOP’s “racist and reactionary agenda.” wapo.st/3WnEZCL

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None of them care about climate change, none of them care about altruism that’s “effective”, they’re rich guys who want to be richer, they’re the same guy we’ve always had and now we don’t have to pretend otherwise

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It’s not necessarily good that the worlds richest man is going to funnel money to the worlds worst people but I unreservedly think it’s good that all these fucking assholes in Silicon Valley have fully acknowledged that they’re fucking assholes as opposed to pretending they’re saving the world

News that should shock no one: After assassination attempt, Elon Musk claims he'll donate $45 million a month to super PAC that backs Trump; Bill Ackman officially endorses; other Silicon Valley players and venture capitalists decree the "taboo" of supporting MAGA movement is gone.

More Tech and Venture Capital Execs Are Coming Out as MAGA Believerswww.rollingstone.com Elon Musk, Bill Ackman, and other tech and finance leaders used the attempted Trump assassination to declare support for his 2024 campaign.

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Republican president was shot by a Republican because of an environment of normalized violence that Republicans insist we all live in, and somehow this means that both sides need to tone it all the way down, which in practice means that Democrats and only Democratic need to stop talking entirely.

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TWISTER is such a great movie. The good storm chasers have sensors that are balls, which are round and wholesome, and the bad storm chasers have sensors that are cubes, the most evil shape.

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I really don't think people are getting just how much of this stuff he's dumped into the public record over the years. J.D. Vance is very much bonkers and doesn't make a good impression with anybody but white nationalists and cryptobros.

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JD Vance backed an incredibly unpopular initiative in Ohio last year that would have made it harder for Ohioans to amend their constitution (ahead of the abortion rights amendment vote in Nov). He very much believes decisions about abortion should be left to lawmakers instead of the pregnant person

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THE PIVOT TO MODERATION

Two out of two speakers so far have gotten applause for anti-transgender lines in their speeches. #RNC

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@donmoyn.bsky.social Did you see this? Hand count ballots on election night and can dispute any precinct?

GOP election board members press new rules over handling of Georgia’s 2020 presidential election • Georgia Recordergeorgiarecorder.com Georgia’s State Election Board approved voting rule Tuesday giving officials more authority over election certification, counting ballots