jaunte

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Artist, graphic designer, maker of objects from lost and found wood. Between Houston and Austin, a blue spot in the red country.

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…And this is the Republicans and Trump trying to act normal. :/

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Reporting from Milwaukee: tonight at day 2 of Trump’s coronation, the evening’s theme — with the crowd hooting and smiling along — was just a deluge of gore, blood in the streets, xenophobic scapegoating, terror, unstoppable bloodshed (unless we elect Trump!)… www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Trump’s RNC Revels in Graphic Demonization of Migrantswww.rollingstone.com The Republican National Convention's "Make America Safe Again" night was rife with fear-mongering over undocumented immigrants.

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Ian Boudreau

Can't sleep, parade of Dickensian Christmas ghosts visiting me at all times

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He is miserable

deranged conspiracy theorist Marjorie Taylor Greene has a prime spot for night 2 of the RNC

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Ye gods: “The CDC has controversially decided not to offer at-risk groups bird flu vaccines… the agency is not recommending a vaccine campaign at this point for several reasons, even though millions of doses are available.”

Article:

Colorado Poultry Workers Battle Bird Flu in Heat Wave as US Struggles to Contain Outbreak - KFF Health Newskffhealthnews.org So far, all nine cases reported nationally this year at dairy and poultry farms have been mild, consisting of respiratory symptoms and eye irritation. Scientists have warned that the virus could mutat...

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A Mini-Concert By Jackson Browne, Live on Dutch TV (1994)littlegreenfootballs.com Back in 1994, Jackson Browne visited Dutch television show "2 Meter Sessies" for a session. Jackson Browne is an American singer-songwriter and musician, renowned for his introspective lyrics and melo...

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The media is absolutely fucking DESPERATE to create a Trump presidency. ABSOLUTELY FUCKING FROTHING AT THE MOUTH.

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Gayer Than Thou 🏳️‍🌈

She tries to take the spotlight from him and he hates it. I remember watching him cooling his heels at some point while she introduced him and it was like he wanted to strangle her.

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Helen Kennedy

The absence of Palin from the Twitler era, while welcome, will never not be surprising to me. I’d’ve thought they’d be a natural pairing, so I can only assume some profound antipathy that I’d love to know about.

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Nicholas Wallace

something fishy here

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Tom Nichols describes Vance in one word-which starts with an "a" and ends with "e." Vance defended Nazi Nick Fuentes from a Twitter ban, "shared a thread defending election fraud conspiracies" & “mocked reporters for saying they were traumatized by the Capitol riot.” web.archive.org/web/20220730...

The Moral Collapse of J. D. Vanceweb.archive.org Instead of a truth-teller in his own community, Vance as a candidate has become a contemptible and cringe-inducing clown.

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I keep seeing surprised posts "Huh, I went to [insert event, conference, club, on an airplane, the Sphere] and got COVID!" Meanwhile CNN is running headlines saying "COVID-19's Back." Friends, it never, ever went away and I'm still masking in indoor spaces for your protection as well as my own.

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Coach Finstock

Real chin scratcher, this one

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Gee, I wonder what kind of things happen when people like AOC and Bernie are standing firm behind the candidate in the face of pressure and pushback from the more 'traditionalist' wing of the party.

Breaking news: President Biden is finalizing plans to endorse major changes to the Supreme Court in the coming weeks, including proposals for legislation to establish term limits for the justices and an enforceable ethics code, according to two people briefed on the plans.

Biden set to announce support for major Supreme Court changeswww.washingtonpost.com The president has discussed the plans with constitutional scholars and members of Congress in recent weeks.

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To steal something seen on Threads: JD Vance looks like someone who's no longer allowed to be a youth pastor.

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One thing Usha Vance loves is that her husband is fully aligned with the candidate whose campaign manager pushed propaganda saying that her parents eat human shit and should be rounded up in camps. She believes her 3 kids are an abomination & she should be punished for committing white genocide.

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Philip Bump

Republicans ALWAYS (since at least 2010) conflating ethnic groups with immigration status, in an insulting demeaning and bad-faith way. If we vote it’s because we’re legal you lowlife grifter (sorry but it gets under my skin)

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Philip Bump

Ted Cruz should be reminded every minute of every day that two women testified before a grand jury that Trump sexually assaulted them when the were barely teenagers. That Pastors get arrested almost weekly for the same offence. So who’s not protecting kids?

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Philip Bump

Ted Cruz is a lying seditious Trump ass-kissing clown 🤡 #LoseCruz #VoteBlue2024

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Michael Tae Sweeney

"How do you get around the fact the Constitution says the Supreme Court can strike down any laws they think are unconstitutional, including court reform itself?" Easy! the constitution doesn't say they can do that! Next question!

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"The rules say you can't change the Supreme Court without the Supreme Court's permission" well first of all the rules don't say that. Second of all it doesn't matter they already ripped up the fucking rulebook and wiped their asses with it and you're over here trying to unsmear the shit off of it

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so the dude with full AK-47, ski mask, ammo, etc., gets arrested after approaching the RNC, but an unhoused Black man well away from even the vehicle perimeter for the RNC, all the way across a major highway, gets shot to death by five cops. got it.

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Enabling the right for mass human migration is the only humanity-preserving way that we are going through the challenging times ahead. It’s either that or we collectively abandon all of our humanity, and we are currently marching down that second path.

Compassionate Migration Policy is the only moral and winning counter to far-right parties braying for harsher and harsher border policies. There's no enacting some atrocity and getting them to back off; you've got to do something in the opposite direction. internationalpolicy.org/publications...

Compassionate migration policies are also the right call politically - CIPinternationalpolicy.org Politicians responding to these arrivals should resist the temptation to invoke overly restrictive measures, not only because they trample on the human rights of Venezuelans in desperate situations, b...

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crowd both cheering and booing for nikki haley as she takes the stage tonight

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nikki haley is pathetic

This GOP convention is all about unity ... of right wing freakazoids. They are united as fuck.

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also and I feel like I buried the lede here: it calls for the people who CREATE queer media to be imprisoned. That'd be people like me. Or any other queer creator you love. Any queen who's been on drag race. Chappel Roan. Janelle Monae. Anyone who's made a piece of queer media. Imprisoned.

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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Biden's proposals for judicial reforms will surely bring up objections that it's political suicide because of what happened with FDR's court-packing plan, so let me repost this recent CAMPAIGN TRAILS post about how those comparisons are completely misplaced. kevinmkruse.substack.com/p/unpacking-...

Unpacking the Courtkevinmkruse.substack.com In recent months, the breathtaking radicalism and brazen corruption of the current Supreme Court has reignited the longstanding debate over reforming the Court by expanding the number of Justices. As ...

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Fable Siegel, Lackadaisy Showrunner

The Democrats in Congress FINALLY managed to remove that horrible rule that choked the USPS for decades requiring them to fund pensions for unborn postal workers (2007 Repub fuckery, thanks Bush). and still more can be done if Mr Chipped-an-Ear-and-Cry doesnt win. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

Congress passes $50 bln U.S. Postal Service relief billwww.reuters.com The U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to provide the long loss-making Postal Service (USPS) with about $50 billion in financial relief over a decade and require its future retirees to enroll in a government health insurance plan.

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Fable Siegel, Lackadaisy Showrunner

in fact, said shitty Postmaster is Trump's fault. That guy is the one raising prices thinking the USPS is a business and not a public service. So for the sake of everyone's small business, seriously do not want Trump 2 Boogaloo. Cuz that branch will crumble under him.