peppermintjack

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According to Project 2025, which is the heart of Trump's campaign and platform, if you teach or talk about the existence of LGBTQ people then you are a sex offender and should be 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.

10,000 americans dying in a hurricane in the next couple of decades because trump dismantled the NOAA & farmed out weather forecasting to a for-profit company (whose CEO is a major trump donor) and its executives decided to lay off 90% of the meteorologists in order to juice their quarterly profits

I can't stop thinking about how Trump would eliminate our free, public weather service, NOAA. It's an institution that goes back 53 years and protects Americans everyday with warnings for tornados, thunderstorms and more. That's the Project 2025 plan. www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

The MAGA Plan to End Free Weather Reportswww.theatlantic.com Project 2025 would all but dissolve the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

that's up there with david zaslav hijacking "the stuff dreams are made of" quote from The Maltese Falcon and making it the motto for the company

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.

the would be trump assassin turning out to be a prototypical right wing mass school shooter type took all the excitement out of the story; cable news gonna do their damnedest to breathe life back into it by finding a way to make iran the enemy again

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En Buen Ora

pining for the good ol days like the oklahoma sheriff who was caught on tape waxing nostalgically for the days when they used to be able to lynch black people

the republican party wants to make it illegal for people to know that there are paths in life where they aren't required to be straight, married, & christian & the GOP is going to use the coercive power of the state to intimidate and imprison people who share that knowledge, starting with librarians

why are Democrats so divisive, they need to calm down their rhetoric about Republicans also, "Bill to arrest librarians filed for 2025 session" www.alreporter.com/2024/07/10/b...

Bill to arrest librarians filed for 2025 sessionwww.alreporter.com A bill that could have led to the arrest of librarians narrowly missed becoming law last session, but sponsors have already filed a follow-up.

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Materialist Gnostic

jd vance taking on eliezer yudkowsky as his top cybersecurity advisor and when he succeeds trump as the guy with his finger on the button immediately launching air strikes on every data center in the country

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"devout Republican" really gives away the game. not committed or principled, but instead religious in his conviction.

donald trump already pulled a 'will no one rid me of this troublesome member of antifa?' and got a left wing protester gunned down by a posse of cops who worked under a policy of shoot-first-ask-questions-never violently intimidating people they don't like is simply a core plank of the modern GOP

The “Some folks need killing” guy just gave a primetime speech at the RNC.

donald trump went looking for the most qualified man for the job and jd vance had the skills and commitments that trump finds to be the most valuable

The Republican Party has nominated a man for Vice President who says he would have ended American democracy if he’d had that role in 2021. abcnews.go.com/Politics/jd-...

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The populist, working man ticket will be led by a Manhattan real estate mogul who owns a bunch of exclusive country clubs, and a Yale grad, ex-venture capitalist whose rise was funded by Bay Area billionaires.

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Trump-Vance isn't designed to win over more voters, but ensure the next coup attempt proceeds more smoothly

The Republican Party has nominated a man for Vice President who says he would have ended American democracy if he’d had that role in 2021. abcnews.go.com/Politics/jd-...

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This’ll never make me a regular on msnbc, but people should be ashamed to admit they support Trump. He is a hideously bad person proposing to enact a vast expansion of cruelty and human suffering. The erosion and collapse of social sanctions for supporting someone so indecent is a big problem.

*sigh* Time to find a new sticker manufacturer.

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It’s all 100% masks off at this point, lads.

Judge Cannon went and did it. She has dismissed the stolen documents case against Trump on Clarence Thomas’s (nonsense) appointments clause rationale.

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The Constitutional Crisis is already here. You are living inside it. No way back, for better or worse. Either fight to win the future or concede to fascist tyranny taking over our country, the world's largest economy and mightiest military.

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This is getting a little ridiculous. True loser shit. It’s basically tied. What do these people think their jobs are?

A senior House Democrat says efforts to replace Biden at the top of the ticket have stopped because, “We've all resigned ourselves to a second Trump presidency."

Trump rally shooting upends congressional Democrats' crisis over Biden's candidacywww.axios.com Rep. Dean Phillips said it would be "unpatriotic and unprincipled" to focus on anything besides the shooting.

so many in the press have internalized the idea that trump is ordained to be president that they're out there writing wild headlines like this

I feel like there's at least a few other people they're supposed to protect

love this message from AOC dem leadership vastly underrates how much voters like people who are fighting like hell on their behalf, mind boggling since that's a core element of trump's appeal this sort of democratic pre-emptive surrender is poison & the people saying it need to leave politics

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a couple years ago an aspiring mass shooter murdered a cop but good news! a good guy with a gun intervened & killed the shooter except, oops! the cops killed the good guy with a gun; turns out when the cops feel danger they're gonna shoot anyone they see w/ a gun www.denverpost.com/2023/09/28/f...

Family of “Good Samaritan” Johnny Hurley settles $2.7 million lawsuit against Arvada policewww.denverpost.com The family of Johnny Hurley, the 40-year-old mistakenly shot and killed by an Arvada police officer after he stopped an active shooter in Olde Town Arvada in June 2021, will settle a federal civil …

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oh man I missed this fucking gem just casually platforms (unchallenged in headline and synopsis) the authoritarian lie that the people opposing authoritarianism are the ones responsible for violence

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Two months ago Greg Abbott pardoned a murderer who texted a friend "I might go to Dallas to shoot looters" then drove into a BLM protest in Austin and killed a protester. The universal response from conservatives to the pardon was "Yeah! Woo-hoo!" Now they say liberals should turn down the rhetoric

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MSNBC just interviewed a Trump supporter who was at the rally and she said “There is too much hate” and we need to pray for the country. She is wearing a “Know Your Parasites” t-shirt. These people have no self awareness.

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This is how you do it.

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VoidBurger (AKA Jess)

vivi (the cat) wearing the hat vivi (the black mage) wears except inverted and see through

c'mon, pointing to the shirt a guy wore as he was carrying out an assassination attempt at a trump rally and using that to claim you know what his politics are is incredibly weak reasoning. we should all be a bit more circumspect and admit there's a heck of a lot that we don't yet know

video and photos show a white male wearing a t-shirt with an all-black american flag, positioning and size consistent with shirts sold by a right-wing gun range i could be wrong but his politics are almost assuredly right-wing based on that visible evidence alone

just remembering the mass scale of riots which broke out across the country when Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated

Really, really worried about what happens next.

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as an aspiring 'good reply guy' i appreciate seeing them recognized

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Again, qualified immunity is one of those things that if you describe it to someone who has never heard of it in simple factual terms they will think you are entirely full of shit

are you fucking kidding me