Jon Farrington

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The Republicans are projecting inevitability to create a situation where their base becomes incredibly violent if they lose as much as they are using it to try and demoralize and demotivate Democratic votes and weaponize the press.

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Today marks 10 years since Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was shot down. All 298 civilians on board lost their lives. Using open sources, we helped to uncover who was accountable, amongst a wave of disinformation. You can listen to our investigation here: www.novel.audio/shows/the-be...

The Bellingcat Podcastwww.novel.audio Bellingcat, a group of open-source investigators, painstakingly uncover the truth about flight MH17, which was mysteriously shot down in 2014.

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According to JD Vance “the devil is real” and Alex Jones is a brave truth teller. www.propublica.org/article/jd-v...

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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lol the alt text on this photo says Trump is making a Gary Shandling face which is painfully accurate

this is the lamest shit i've ever seen SHOW US THE EAR

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"Since Trump stuffed the judiciary with FedSoc true believers, those courts are nothing but Calvinball. There are no longer fixed rules. Precedent doesn’t matter. What's important is ensuring that a hard-right evangelical worldview becomes law & Trump is protected at all costs" - @snipy.bsky.social

Special counsels are unconstitutional if they make Trump sadwww.publicnotice.co Or so says Aileen Cannon.

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I can’t believe this is a real quote from Trump sitting down with Bloomberg. I saw it on Twitter and figured it was a joke. www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

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This election, everyone must confront it. We know who Trump is. We know how damaging he is and was to the fabric of society. He wants to target your neighbors. He's shattered basic institutions and checks on his power. Is that what we want America to be? Because this time it will not be repairable

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Remember, if the government can obtain a conviction against Bob Menendez for taking bribes and stuffing gold bars into his closet that he was given for working on behalf of a foreign government, there's nothing stopping them from indicting you for the same thing.

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We can't let the despicable shooting "cow us into not talking about" the true nature of the "crisis in American democracy," says @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social. Warnings about the threat Trump poses to democracy remain "true." On the pod we dig deep into this idea: newrepublic.com/article/1838...

Trump Assassination Horror: “America Is Not Ready For What Comes Next”newrepublic.com After the despicable attempt to kill Trump, a reporter who writes regularly about political violence explains how deeply unprepared we are for the terrible escalation that may now be coming.

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You can’t make this up

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Posobiec’s glow up from “crying Pizzagate streamer” to “conservative movement power broker” explains so much about political developments over the past ~8 years—especially what has become mainstream Republican politics

Oh, I totally forgot: Vance also blurbed Jack Posobiec’s “Unhumans” book, the one that casts leftists as agents of “unhumanity.” Unity, folks! 🙃

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"Despite countless past warnings, the Secret Service failed to heed the real threat posed to the former president by the hundreds of millions of firearms in the hands of everyday Americans."

Investigation Finds Secret Service Failed To Account For Nation’s 393 Million Gunswww.theonion.com WASHINGTON—In a damning report that raised pointed questions about the federal agency’s security procedures, an investigation by the House Committee on Homeland Security concluded Monday that the Sec...

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Criticizing Trump in the starkest terms is not wishing him personal harm, and those who assert otherwise are engaging in a cheap attempt to silence the just accusations of Americans who are genuinely concerned about Trump’s dark vision for their country. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

MAGA World’s Reckless Point-Scoringwww.theatlantic.com Prominent Republicans turned up the temperature within minutes of Saturday’s shooting.

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President Biden tried to call the widow; she wouldn't talk to him. Trump didn't bother. www.cnn.com/2024/07/14/p...

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From the archives. @radiofreetom.bsky.social has a couple of words about J. D. Vance, and one of those words is “asshole”. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The Moral Collapse of J. D. Vancewww.theatlantic.com 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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Vance was Heritage's pick so don't forget about Project 2025, which proceeds apace

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it's not that he's changed his mind about trump, really. it's more that he's changed his mind about hitler.

I get that he’s taken it all back, including when he said he feared Trump would be America’s Hitler, but I guess my position is… I have never gone to work for someone I’ve ever in any point in my life compared directly to Adolf Hitler… and it’s a fair question… www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Trump Taps J.D. Vance as Running Matewww.rollingstone.com Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that he has selected Ohio Senator J.D. Vance as his 2024 running mate.

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The number of people Trump says he'll deport keeps going up. It's now 20 million, 50% higher than the largest estimates of the undocumented population. It's clear sign that distinguishing legal from illegal won't be a priority. They're just going to round up people they don't want to be here.

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The rapid response cartoon that ate my Sunday. www.dailykos.com/stories/2024...

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In all seriousness: the very idea that someone can take highly classified documents, store them in a public place, defy any number of requests, subpoenas, etc., and then face NO CONSEQUENCES AT ALL is genuinely shocking, and should terrify anyone who cares about national security.

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District Courts and Circuit Courts repeatedly upheld the constitutionality of Special Counsel Mueller’s appointment. Defendants were convicted and served time in prison based on prosecutions he brought. The Supreme Court never said a contrary word.

The latest Aileen Cannon power grab does two things that Trumpland will love: Declare that Jack Smith's appointment was unlawful while suggesting over and over again that Robert Mueller's appointment was unlawful, too. "Private citizen" Mueller, she suggests, was doing lots of unlawful things.

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And this is how fascism wins. It convinces moderates to stop using the correct language to name what our enemy is and make no mistake. Trump and the Republicans are a fascist anti-democratic enemy to every real American who believes in the Constitution and rule of law. Do not stay silent.

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absolutely brilliant. the cataloging of violent imagery from the right is incredible. i mean, we all know this, but it’s striking to see it in one paragraph.

Well I'm given to understand that today & for a VERY limited time, our nation's political violence party is shocked—shocked!—to learn that we currently live in a world of normalized political violence, and would like very much to know who is to blame. Full Essay: www.the-reframe.com/gambling-in-...

Gambling In Casablancawww.the-reframe.com Being blamed for a world of political violence by the people who force us to live in it, and are now shocked-shocked!—by it. Navigating the daily trauma of living in a bully's paradise.

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The mass deportation scheme is probably the most immediately scary part of Trump 2025. It’s not just the just the forcible deportation of millions of people and accompanying family disruption That’s bad enough. Nor is the let’s-see-what-pulling-this-lever-does-hurr economic recklessness./1

Full quote from ex-ICE director Tom Homan: "Trump comes back in January... I will run the biggest deportation force this country has ever seen. They ain’t seen shit yet. Wait until 2025.” Tonight in Florida Trump pledged to bring Homan back. Homan, BTW, is a listed Project 2025 contributor.

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It's time to cover Trump's serial lying as a sign of his profound temperamental unfitness for the presidency. Central to this is explaining *why* Trump's lies render him unfit. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1837...

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I learned at an engineering conference recently that one crypto mine in TX, 100s of MW, makes more money off ERCOT demand response markets than it does off crypto repeat: TX ratepayers pay them more to sometimes stop mining than they make by actual mining just bananas misuse of power markets 🔌💡

Crypto-mining accounts for 2% of all U.S. electricity usage. (Bitcoin alone consumes the same amount of energy as the entire state of Utah.)

Crypto Mining Consumes a Mind-Boggling 2% of U.S. Electricityheatmap.news Bitcoin alone consumes roughly the same amount of energy as Utah.

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I'd like to suggest a crucial distinction, one between "mental" unfitness for the presidency and "temperamental" unfitness for it. Some polls use the former language, and there Biden loses. But when it's polled as the latter, Biden leads Trump. 3/ newrepublic.com/article/1837...

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Think about which groups fall under "unhuman." Those are the stakes.

“We will hold investigations to identify the neo-cultural Marxists in seats of power all across Washington,” Posobiec said. “We don’t negotiate with un-humans. Because that’s the stakes of this battle: humanity versus un-humanity.” inthesetimes.com/article/nati...

Onward, Christian Soldiers—To War!inthesetimes.com At this year’s National Conservatism Conference, a right-wing army prepares to rise.

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i kind of love sheldon whitehouse and his relentless drive to expose who’s taking what money. gift link.

Opinion | About time: Senators demand special counsel to investigate Clarence Thomaswapo.st For once, Attorney General Merrick Garland should act quickly.