Susan (George) Schorn

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Violence prevention advocate, specializing in groin strikes.

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Susan (George) Schorn

Look how fun shutting down fascists is. I want this for us, too

LBJ'S WIFE OWNED THE CBS STATION AND THE VHF FRANCHISE IN AUSTIN.

They tried this four years ago with varying results. The far better use of the money is by buying existing local TV stations and newspapers and staffing them properly

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They tried this four years ago with varying results. The far better use of the money is by buying existing local TV stations and newspapers and staffing them properly

if there is one thing I want to come out of this election, regardless of result, it is Dems - and the left more generally - finally understanding that they need to make their own media ecosystem and stop relying on folks who want them to lose to get their message out

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Fight against daunting odds, because it’s the right thing to do, and because sometimes you win.

BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.

Projections in France's election show voters rejecting the far rightwww.npr.org Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which ...

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Susan (George) Schorn

The authoritarian right has power in America only because the majority of Americans didn't care enough to pay attention, let alone vote. The French saw the danger and stood against it.

Fight against daunting odds, because it’s the right thing to do, and because sometimes you win.

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Our entire national political media is just a guy in a hot dog suit asking questions in a menswear store

"The preliminary results upended widespread predictions of a clear victory for the National Rally," says the NYT just now. Wait, who made these predictions of a massive victory for the National Rally again? Oh yeah, these guys did:

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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)

The governors of a dozen Republican-led states — AL, AK, FL, GA, IA, MS, OK, SC, SD, TX, UT, WY — opted out of a new federal food assistance program, leaving about 9.5 million students without the aid this summer

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.

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Take this for what you will, but while the elite commentariat is melting down about biden literally the only thing I've heard about the debate in the real world is people at the bar making fun of trump's "black jobs" line

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Helen Kennedy

Yeah, I used to think Roberts at least cared about his legacy, but now I think he's just given up.

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The gang of six runs the country until someone stops them.

Tldr Fuck : - overtime pay - osha - student loan forgiveness - trans rights - net neutrality - climate regulation - transport regulation - lab test regulation - and a partridge in a pear tree

8 policies that could be vulnerable to new legal challengeswapo.st The Supreme Court jettisoned longstanding precedent that helped the federal government make regulations. Now broad policies could be determined by judges.

Miller looks like he needs a good de‐worming.

Stephen Miller now following Trump's lead and saying he has nothing to do with Project 2025. 1. His organization is on the Project 2025 advisory board. 2. He recorded a video as part of Project 2025 training tools 3. You can see Mandate for Leadership, the Project 2025 publication in the background

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Helen Kennedy

Oh god please let them try to jump that thing over a cop car.

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Norbizness

Fairness: SO UNFAIR

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Pippin went insane because he was on a Zoom call with Sauron

Nowadays the fellowship of the Ring would have quit once they didn't have a cell signal!

Of course, "Black people winning things fair and square" is exactly the problem anti‐DEI people have with DEI programs. . . .

Girmay comes out of the World Cycling Congress Institute, a program to make cycling more accessible to riders from countries without cycling infrastructure. A gasp *DEI* program that is making the sport more exciting, more inclusive, and better for everyone.

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Hard side eye for any academics blorping on about using AI, it’s an ethical disaster in every dimension and the failure to acknowledge that vs trying to look shiny & clever for the bandwagon is frankly embarrassing.

Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.

Generative AI is a climate disasterdisconnect.blog Tech companies are abandoning emissions pledges to chase AI market share

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The discourse around biden needing more sleep is fully insane. Does no one remember "Executive Time," the thing Trump spent the majority(!) of his schedule on where he would just watch TV and tweet? Dude was categorically unable to fulfill any of the demands of the office and the press barely cared

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You’ll never guess which of the two candidates is a convicted rapist.

what

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an entire movement of wicked people who celebrate wickedness

As a side note, this is John McEntee, Trump's Director of White House Personnel and the primary architect of Project 2025. On Tik Tok he said he gives counterfeit bills to homeless people so they will be arrested when they go to spend them.

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NEW: Biden has narrowed Trump’s lead in swing states despite a widely panned presidential debate performance, the Bloomberg News/Morning Consult poll finds

Biden Narrows Gap With Trump in Swing States Despite Debate Losswww.bloomberg.com The incumbent trails his GOP rival by just 2 points across key states, a Bloomberg News/Morning Consult shows, even as three in 10 Democrats say he should leave the race.

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Joe Biden refusing to take advice from people who have been wrong about everything for decades could be seen as an indication his brain is still working

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"The members of the mainstream media are human beings (despite frequent appearances to the contrary) and human beings respond to incentives. There is an enormous personal financial incentive to another four years of Trump in the White House" www.oliverexplains.com/p/the-media-...

The Media Rigs The 2024 Electionwww.oliverexplains.com History Continues To Repeat Itself

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Very normal July 4th message from Texas AG Ken Paxton:

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Sometimes you can be proud to be British

jacob rees-mogg has to lose while standing next to a guy wearing a baked beans-themed balaclava

There'll always be an England!

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Days after the Chevron ruling a corporate healthcare system - which doesn’t pay any taxes despite being a profit-driven business - is now suing Medicare so that they can collect more *tax dollars* w/o having to meet the standards of care set by CMS. Some CMS regulations may be silly but this is bad.

Hackensack Meridian sues HHS secretary in wake of Chevron rulingwww.beckershospitalreview.com Learn about the recent lawsuit filed by Hackensack Meridian Health against HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra challenging his interpretation of Medicare statutes.

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I searched the New York Times for "Trump"

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Max Kennerly

"ICE started its undercover operation in 2015." Clearly, if there is/was any administration oversight, it's insufficient.

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It really is a weird symmetry that this year the UK elections are the 4th of July and the US elections are the 5th of November.

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2nd best thing is probably hammer how bad scotus is. Any policy question, turn it into "well we've gotta get better judges in there who know what the hell they're doing. They're saying trump has the power to storm the capitol but I don't have the power to forgive student loans for god's sake"

Probably the best thing Biden could do re: the ABC interview is crack a joke about how many people are saying with tears in their eyes that he did a great job in the debate & then discuss the challenges of debating someone who lies all the time, reminding ppl of all the insane shit Trump said