Mt Pleasant

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Left, Sociology, Not Straight, IT, Data nerd/Freak in the sheets, OG GenX, Mask Wearer
Recovering from that other place

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Cruel and ghoulish Republican governors of a dozen states – Alabama, Alaska, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah and Wyoming – opted out of a program, leaving about 9.5 million students without food benefits in repressive summer heat.

Republican-led states are blocking summer food benefits for hungry familieswww.usatoday.com Money for food is especially tight for families in a dozen states where Republican lawmakers declined to accept federal food assistance.

The people do not want far right govt. Not in France. Not in USA. Not in Canada. And not having one, can be done.

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Remember what joy looks like? France just reminded us:

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yo, I wrote a thing: "Republicans are running away from Project 2025. let’s make the bastards own it" — they can run, but they can’t hide. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —

Republicans are running away from Project 2025. let’s make the bastards own itbit.ly they can run, but they can’t hide

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Any Democrat in these states who doesn’t lean on this hard shouldn’t be in office. It’s a gift.

The opting out is especially wild Like, Republican governors are being actively presented with money to feed kids and affirmatively saying 'I would like children to starve actually' (Also, if I'm a Dem campaigner, I'm making some ads and placing some op eds about this immediately)

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How do we adjust to a world where major democracies have long-term viable fascist parties? It feels like we'll just be having existential election after existential election, and we have to win every time whereas they only have to win once.

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Plymouth Brethren Alert.

Why Guardian Australia is investigating Exclusive Brethren schools

Why Guardian Australia is investigating Exclusive Brethren schoolswww.theguardian.com The sect’s OneSchool Global network has received generous support from Australian taxpayers while tightly controlling students and discouraging tertiary study Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast In the early 1990s, the Exclusive Brethren – now called the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church – set up its own private schooling system. Now known as the OneSchool Global network, the Brethren schools have 120 campuses across 20 different countries teaching almost 10,000 children. In Australia, the schools operate across six states with 31 separate campuses serving their followers. Continue reading...

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Why Guardian Australia is investigating Exclusive Brethren schools

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮

I dunno, this seems like it is a relevant story to pursue and surface if we are REALLY debating presidential fitness through anonymously sourced news stories, only this isn’t anonymous. There’s a reason this has been ignored by the Post/NYT/etc. for the last four days and it’s isn’t civic virtue.

Former Trump Staffer Shares Texts Revealing Secret Payoffsnewrepublic.com A new court filing alleges that Donald Trump’s campaign has paid to bury a number of lawsuits over sexual harassment and discrimination.

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So true.

Dennis Goris

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'Sometimes things don't go, after all, from bad to worse' Thinking a lot about this poem today.

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I am. Are you?

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I know they get rolled all the time but for the Times to get rolled by “actually they just want to reclaim the values of Western civilization as they see it … with larger families and fewer immigrants” is the Times putting the 14 words in the paper

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Organizers got enough signatures to put a measure protecting abortion on the ballot in Arkansas. In *Arkansas*. They had *no national support*. Ignore the pundits melting down over not being treated as Very Special Boys. Dobbs has fundamentally changed elections. Everything they know is wrong.

Arkansas abortion rights groups collect enough signatures to advance ballot measurewww.nbcnews.com A measure to enshrine abortion rights in the ruby red state’s constitution is now one step closer to making the November ballot — but major obstacles remain.

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NEW: updated edition of our American Autocracy Threat Tracker Shows the full range of Trump’s dictatorship would look like— including proof of his close ties to Project 2025 “He is lying when he denies it and we have the receipts.” www.justsecurity.org/92714/americ...

American Autocracy Threat Trackerwww.justsecurity.org A comprehensive catalog of the autocratic threat to democracy based on former President Donald Trump and his associates’ autocratic plans and promises.

I find pharma tv commercials astonishing. Advertising a drug that viewers don't know what it's for, based on a jingle and a lifestyle commercial. 'Ask your doctor if 'x' is right for you'... 'hey Doc, dunno what it's for but the commercials are bangin. Can I have some?' Drs must love that shit.

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David Tennant took his kids to Pride and wore this 🩵🤍🩷

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For the people who don’t have time, here’s your Readers Digest version. You’re welcome.

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Ok but I think being suspended for a year would be a very funny outcome and would show that they got the joke

Well this all seems horrible dot gif

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Just a reminder that Michelle Wolf nailed it at the White House Correspondents Dinner. NYT, I’m looking in your direction especially.

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I predict the Roberts Court will rule it's unconstitutional for attractive women to cover their drinks

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Also tomorrow in the New York Times, Bill Cosby on “Why It’s Paranoid To Watch Your Drink Carefully In Bars”

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Don Moynihan

Johnny McEntee was Trump’s bag man, carrying around hair products and other essential items before being promoted to run the Presidential Personnel Office. It is doubtful if Trump spent more time with any other aide. But McEntee, now at Project 2025, has faded from Trump’s faltering memory it seems.

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Don Moynihan

If you click on the training section of Project 2025, the first person you meet is Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s national press secretary. You can almost see the concern in her eyes as she stands by Trump, hoping that no reporters will ask her if she is troubled that he does not know who she is.