Ray Curren

@rjcurren.bsky.social

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Hey they let me in here finally, talking college basketball and soccer unless they need us to save democracy again (which they probably will).

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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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It's okay, guys, the institutional guardrails will save us

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I really wish we weren’t hitting essentially every single marker in the historical rise of fascism playbook

Some irony that the "The Rest is History" folk just finished a really good podcast series on Franz Ferdinand.

History is a game of inches

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yeah so

Good luck with this.

Popping on to say: A lot of rumors are about to fly about this rally. Trump's team is 100% going to try and take advantage of this situation. So will malicious foreign actors/bots/etc. Please don't auto share. Check your sources, and vet their wording/sourcing carefully.

You just described fascism, so would be great of you to call it that "Democracy Dies in Darkness" people.

Project 2025 is a comprehensive plan by former and likely future leaders of a Trump administration to remake America in a conservative mold while dramatically expanding presidential power and allowing Trump to use it to go after his critics. Here’s what it entails and how it could reshape America.

What is Project 2025?www.washingtonpost.com It’s a blueprint for what a second Trump administration could look like, dreamed up by his allies and former aides. Here are some of the proposals.

Cool, cool

TPUSA ambassador and speaker Evan Kilgore has now taken the “brave” stand of denying the Holocaust.

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Editing the Blue-Gray Lady

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"Besides MBS’s polycule with our three deputy managing editors and his torrid three-way love affair with columnists Gail Collins and Bret Stephens, several of our copy editors are in situationships with him."

‘New York Times’ Fails To Disclose That Every Editor Dating Mohammed Bin Salmanwww.theonion.com NEW YORK—Readers across the country were reportedly criticizing The New York Times Monday for publishing a positive article about the leadership of Saudi Arabia that failed to disclose that every edit...

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just so everybody knows what's happening here, this is Jack Posobiec—who spent the past week as a featured guest on InfoWars—speaking to the MAGA group of the wife of a Supreme Court justice

Yikes.

#BallDontLie #Euro2024

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Supreme Court:

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Every morning I check the news and it's like -SCOTUS Eliminates Three More Basic Rights, Only Six Remain -President Mispronounces a Word, Will Now Lose Election to Senile Hitler -New AI Company Uses Artist Blood to Let Billionaires and Racists Live Forever, Gets $45 Billion Valuation

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anyway, in conclusion, america, you in danger, girl

Belgium-Ukraine:

This is like the 5th study that has shown this, but woke something something.

Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1,000 a month. Results showed that close to half of the participants secured housing, and nearly $600K saved in public service costs due to fewer ER visits & jail stays. They also saw improved mental health.

Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1,000 a month. A year later, nearly half of participants had housing.www.yahoo.com Participants in Denver's basic income program received up to $1,000 a month. They became more housing secure and landed full-time jobs.

One of those stories where from 2027 you can say, "The warning signs were there"

News from South Carolina - all three female GOP state senators who filibustered an abortion ban lost their primaries. www.postandcourier.com/politics/sou...

Katrina Shealy, 'sister senator' and last Republican woman in SC Senate, concedes her primarywww.postandcourier.com Katrina Shealy, the first Republican woman to ever lead a South Carolina Senate standing committee, lost her seat in Tuesday night's runoff election.

🇨🇦 soccer: #CopaAmerica

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taxes

Close to the day the Sandy Hook kids should have graduated high school.

“Jones' influential Infowars show and website could be shut down by the end of the day, and his personal belongings — from his gun collection to his jewelry — could soon be auctioned to the highest bidder in something of a fire sale.” www.npr.org/2024/06/14/n...

Alex Jones faces day of reckoning over what he owes Sandy Hook familieswww.npr.org A judge is expected to tell Jones to sell off assets. But the families are likely to get only a tiny fraction of the nearly $1.5 billion in damages Jones owes for lies about the 2012 school shooting.

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School officials in Florida have banned a book about book banning

'Challenges our authority': School board in Florida bans book about book banswww.tallahassee.com Indian River County School Board members, for example, said they disliked how it referenced other books that had been removed from schools.

Not a cult

“If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide. I hope I am over wary; but if I am not, there is, even now, something of ill-omen, amongst us.” wapo.st/3yXcDpW

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It's gonna be fucking bad. Much worse than you think. Just get prepared.

Trump loyalist pushes ‘post-constitutional’ vision for second termwww.washingtonpost.com Russ Vought, the former president’s budget director, is laying the groundwork for a broad expansion of presidential powers.

Who among us hasn't taken a free trip to Indonesia from a billionaire?

NEW: Justice Clarence Thomas Acknowledges He Should Have Disclosed Free Trips From Billionaire Donor The trips include vacations in Indonesia and at the exclusive, men’s-only Bohemian Grove retreat, which were first reported by ProPublica last year. www.propublica.org/article/clar...

Justice Clarence Thomas Acknowledges He Should Have Disclosed Free Trips From Billionaire Donorwww.propublica.org The trips include vacations in Indonesia and at the exclusive, men’s-only Bohemian Grove retreat, which were first reported by ProPublica last year.

FDR was dead a year after this speech. Some of the brave souls that fought are still alive. Hope everyone studies their history.

D-Day Prayeryoutu.be President Franklin D. Roosevelt's D-Day Prayer from June 6, 1944.

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Don't worry kids, it's just an awkward coincidence that major news outlets like @washingtonpost.com and @thedailybeast.bsky.social are replacing their top editors with right-wing propagandists before the most fraught election in American history.

NEW: Daily Beast editor in chief Tracy Connor is stepping down, according to a staff memo from CEO Ben Sherwood. Hugh Dougherty, formerly of NYPost, Daily Mail, Telegraph, will be the new executive editor. (via Max Tani, Semafor)