El of LA

El of LA

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Anthropologist/Linguist/Tech Writer/IT Tech Trainer,Support/Gaming Journalist/Disabled/Liberal, just trying to live socially, responsibly, and to find hope on a planet in crisis. Lots of nature, pets & science here & less politics than TW! Stratics.com

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At the end of this eight month period (February 2024), the White House publicly put out a health summary from Biden’s physicians. It says there were “no findings consistent with any cerebellar or other central neurological disorder, such as … Parkinsons.” www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

Breaking News: A Parkinson’s expert visited the White House eight times in eight months from last summer through this spring, according to official visitor logs. The administration has said that President Biden has no signs of the disease.

Parkinson’s Expert Visited the White House Eight Times in Eight Monthswww.nytimes.com The White House has said that President Biden has no signs of the disease and that there has been no reason to update the most recent testing, conducted in February.

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It's a beautiful day for a floaty boat #SunsOutBunsOut #Monday #Summer #Dogs #PoolTime

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What’s the mainstream press up to and what will it mean for this year’s election?!? hartmannreport.com/p/yellow-jou...

Yellow Journalism Exposed: The Unfair Targeting of Biden's Flaws vs Trump's Crimes!hartmannreport.com So, to answer the question about why Trump is polling better than Biden regardless of the realities in the fact-based world: “It’s the media, stupid.”

'The natural world is the larger sacred community to which we belong. To be alienated from this community is to become destitute in all that makes us human. To damage this community is to diminish our own existence.' ~ Thomas Berry

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If you’ve never seen Dorothea Lange’s photographs of the World War II internment camps and the Japanese-Americans who were imprisoned there, today is a good day to see them and to commit to making sure this never happens again. anchoreditions.com/blog/dorothe...

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SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil's federal police indict ex-President Bolsonaro for money laundering and criminal association, source confirms.

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The CDC has finally acknowledged that SARS-CoV-2 is not a typical “winter” respiratory virus, and COVID-19 is a threat that can surge throughout the year. Source: www.cdc.gov/ncird/whats-...

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Went to the Naturalization ceremony in downtown Northampton today because my kid wanted to go & it was wonderful.

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Why I Don't Vote (OK, I Do Vote, but I Would Like to Discourage You, NY Times Reader, For Doing So For Some Reason) Via @bubbaprog.ilovecitr.us

Man, if it turns out that the right winger telling NY Times readers that they should follow his example and not vote did in fact vote in the last two elections, the Times should add this to the piece. Better than a retraction, since it illustrates a willful hypocrisy.

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Hillary headlines in 2015. Don't let the media fool you again. Image Courtesy of angry_staffer.

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History will recall that the New York Times, that bastion of "the liberal media," on July 4, 2024 chose to give prime space on their op-ed page to a theocratic absolutist who argued that people shouldn't vote, even though he himself has voted in the last 2 elections (but nowhere is that mentioned).

When I first saw this I thought "no, that can't possibly be true." But alas, the Times did indeed choose today of all days to publish a right winger's recycled piece about how they don't vote, failing to mention that the author basically thinks absolutist theocracies are cool.

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Sorry, folks, this year "no vote" is a vote for fascism, don't be that person, voting is a necessary if not entirely sufficient act

Here it is, the dumbest thing you will read today www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/o...

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Nothing says #July4 like a juicy slice of watermelon. This delicious fruit doesn't just appear on our picnic table. It takes a lot of work. An average watermelon weighs 20 lbs. It's 100+ degrees in Bakersfield today. Can you imagine harvesting them in high temps? #WeFeedYou

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Worlds going to hell but a ray of sunshine is that the Tories got obliterated in England and there’s going to be so many pictures of little fancy guys in bowties crying that it’s going to make us all feel better

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Not to be corny but I do think the ongoing aspiration to make America a pluralist democracy of equals is righteous, beautiful, and worth honoring, even if it has more often been the struggle of minorities & dissenters than the policy of the government. 🇺🇸

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Oh don't worry, all that Nazi stuff is just talk. He'll never carry out those wacky policies. [ @latimes.com, 1933]

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Asawin Suebsaeng

“key point…would be to weigh down the Dem…nominee, the…party, & their…allies in as many unique court battles & sideshows as possible —so that the Democratic Party would have to waste resources and time on those matters when liberals would want to be laser-focused on, say, the battleground states...

“‘Team Biden — or Team whoever — is going to be getting hit on all sides between now and Election Day,’ the first source says. ‘Every legal and political weapon is on the table.’”

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On this July 4, please pause to remember that one of the colonists’ complaints in the Declaration was that the Crown was paying its judges.

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first cohort of the American Climate Corps has been sworn in. 9,000 people will be deployed in the coming weeks to restore landscapes, erect solar panels, and work on environmental projects across America. #ShareGoodNewsToo grist.org/solutions/am...

The American Climate Corps officially kicks offgrist.org This month, 9,000 people will be deployed to restore landscapes and erect solar panels, helping guide the country toward a greener future.

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Presidential candidate who the far-right members of the Supreme Court just placed above the law tells voters how he will exercise his new powers.

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Jesus. Automated enforcement advocates really underestimate the potential for abuse with these cameras. The amount of information they collect is staggering, as is the ability to piece it all together to meticulously track individual people. reason.com/2024/07/01/s...

Sacramento cops shared license plate data with anti-abortion statesreason.com Sacramento authorities are not only collecting drivers' information but sharing it with law enforcement agencies in other states without a warrant.

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Just a jaw-dropper from the state whose attorney general is currently trying to execute an innocent man. innocenceproject.org/missouri-cir...

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The answer to political anxiety is political organizing.

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i think akhil amar reed captures something very important, which is that the roberts court rewrote article ii, which explicitly states that a president can be held criminally liable after impeachment (and which has long been understood to mean that he can be held liable after leaving office)

Something Has Gone Deeply Wrong at the Supreme Courtwww.theatlantic.com Jurists who preach fidelity to the Constitution are making decisions that flatly contradict our founding document’s text and ideals.

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Moreover, if the president then fails to set you free, you’d be entitled to another court order that says he’s a very naughty boy but the Founders didn’t want us to ruffle a hair on his naughty little head.

constitutional lawyers use your fucking brain challenge www.politico.com/news/2024/07...

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