Deborah Teramis Christian

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Spirit in human form. Political/social commentary, sf/f novels, gaming, mouse mommy, channeling spirit guides. You know, the usual stuff.

"As we think, so we become." - Jean Shinoda Bolen

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Devastation as world’s biggest #wetland: ‘those that cannot run don’t stand a chance’ #wildfire www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Devastation as world’s biggest wetland burns: ‘those that cannot run don’t stand a chance’www.theguardian.com Blackened trees, dead animals and scorched earth – early wildfires have already devastated Brazil’s Pantanal and local people worry they may lose the battle to save them

If you're feeling stressed by recent current events, this is a good read with some helpful ideas for coping. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

Political Rally Shooting: Keeping Cool Heads and Warm Heartswww.psychologytoday.com How to keep balanced and righting our course.

🤣🤣😅 "Let's unify the country by saying I'm totally exonerated! That will bring us all together!" Trump really is a one-trick pony. "ME ME ME ME ME!"

NEW TONE

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If you’re gonna go out there, as a Democrat, saying that Dems should stop today saying this election is a battle between democracy and authoritarianism, you’re doing that while a) the motive of the registered-Republican isn’t even known and b) *Trump* is saying the election is a choice between…

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Scholars often ask me what they can do, and this is a tangible thing. State and local media are, in particular, hungry for opinion pieces from experts. Lots of people targeting that media is more effective than lots of people trying to land that one NYT op-ed

Junior Scholars: Project 2025 is now breaking through to public consciousness. The more people learn about it, the more they hate it. Now is a great time to search that website, go to the section of your expertise, and write an oped. Keep the drip of bad news for them coming, all the way to Nov.

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This is a big reason there will never be a better chance to flip both statehouses in Arizona. We're almost 75% of the way to our 2024 goal of picking up those four key seats. www.grapevine.org/giving-circl...

BREAKING: Advocates submit double the amount of signatures needed to put a constitutional right to abortion on the ballot in Arizona.

Abortion-rights advocates in Arizona submit needed signatures to put the issue on November ballotapnews.com Abortion-rights advocates in Arizona have submitted more than enough signatures to put the issue on November’s ballot in the key swing state.

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Almost as if you stop giving them air they do go away

Sources say the publisher Little, Brown canceled prominent journalist Jason Zengerle's biography of Tucker Carlson, partly due to Carlson's mainstream absence (Michael Schaffer/Politico) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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Anybody want to see a tiny origami frog?

This is the reality of where undocumented persons fit into our economic environment. And the right thinks they will deport more than *10 million*? They will destroy the economy. The real problem is that our immigration system is broken. Let's fix *that*.

Every few years here in Texas, a young idealistic conservative puts forth a bill in the house to punish employers $100k each undocumented worker & landlords $25k per undocumented immigrant housed in their properties. The bill is then quietly strangled before it hits the floor and the rep primaried.

Sisters in Law Pod (Joyce Vance et al) dig into a little-talked about section of Project 2025 that describes federalizing local law enforcement if they don't prosecute the "right" people. Segment starts at 56:37 minute mark. audioboom.com/posts/854089...

Project 2025audioboom.com Get tickets for the #SistersInLaw Live Show in NYC on 9/20/24 at http://politicon.com/tour

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This is a really excellent thread:

Folks, I may have a PhD in history-including US politics history-but the last several years I’ve been working in public health as a science writer. One of my areas of focus is Aging, including Alzheimer’s and related dementias (AD/RD). I find the discourse around Biden really troubling.

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Meanwhile, a football vlogger in Italy was woken up at 2 a.m. by a stream of notifications after being misidentified by Twitter geniuses as an antifa Trump assassin

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Saw “Fatherland,” a four-actor play based entirely on testimony and records from a January 6 case, about a son who turns his father in to the FBI. Tiny tiny theater. Extremely powerful and masterfully acted. It’s going to NY; catch it there if you can.

Anyone who claims to be a Christian, yet who is supporting violence by justifying it with scripture, needs to return to Sunday school & seriously ask themselves, WWJD? Then pay attention to the answer, and do the heart-searching needed to heed it. wapo.st/465qxm1

Pro-Trump Christian extremists use scripture to justify violent goalswapo.st As Donald Trump is deemed a “spiritual warrior,” extremism researchers warn of the menace embedded in Christian nationalist rhetoric.

Ever wonder why there's been a sudden furious war on transgender issues? It's a psyop pushed by *this* group of Christofascists, to activate voters otherwise tired of Trump.

Inside Ziklag, the Secret Organization of Wealthy Christians Trying to Sway the Election and Change the Countrywww.propublica.org The little-known charity is backed by famous conservative donors, including the families behind Hobby Lobby and Uline. It’s spending millions to make a big political push for this election — but it ma...

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Don't get distracted this attack against one group is against all of us. “Ziklag’s spiritual advisers outlined a plan to “deliver swing states” by using an anti-transgender message to motivate conservative voters who are exhausted with Trump.” www.propublica.org/article/insi...

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Interesting. Overambitious prosecutors hid evidence that might have helped the defense. Case dismissed, and now the armor (who has already been found guilty of manslaughter) has grounds for an appeal--and will likely win it, given the concealed evidence issue. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMqm...

Judge dismisses Alec Baldwin's involuntary manslaughter casewww.youtube.com A judge dismissed actor Alec Baldwin's involuntary manslaughter case after a motion from the actor's defense team Friday afternoon. Baldwin faced charges for...

Brian Tyler Cohen on Trump's attempts to distance self from Project 2025.

Trump’s fatal weakness suddenly exposedwww.msnbc.com There’s no sugarcoating it: The last few weeks have been bad for Democrats. But, there is a silver lining for the party. The Republican Party, including apparently Trump himself, seems suddenly worrie...

Inflation, the federal deficit, and interest rates would all be higher under a Trump than Biden presidency, the Wall Street Journal quarterly survey of economists found. Go figure. But interesting that *WSJ* is giving this particular coverage: www.wsj.com/economy/econ...

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Coup 2.0 is underway. "A 'war game' presented at the right-wing foundation imagined far-fetched scenarios for election interference to justify preemptive measures." They're not very quiet about their plans because they're jonesing to seize power, and think they have it in the bag. wapo.st/4bzSQuc

Trump allies at Heritage declare 2024 election illegitimate in advancewapo.st A “war game” presented at the right-wing foundation imagined far-fetched scenarios for election interference to justify preemptive measures.

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TO MAGA & 'PROJECT 2025' ZEALOTS: "The moral test of Government is how it treats those who are in the dawn of life: the children, those who are in the twilight of life: the elderly & those who are in the shadows of life: the sick, the needy & the handicapped." ~Vice President Hubert Humphrey - 1977

Thoughtful explainer by Thom Hartmann about why we're seeing so much anti-Biden press, beyond issues like corporate ownership of media and angst over election outcomes. Yellow journalism is dominating our media landscape.

How the Real Mainstream Media Bias Favors Donald Trumpnewrepublic.com It’s not liberal vs. conservative. It’s called “inversion of expectation,” and it poisons coverage every single day.

P2025 posts are getting labeled as disinfo because of right-leaning fact checking. Jay Kuo notes how they're being coy about their real plans with P25 (making fact checking more difficult), then goes on to parse their manifesto into useful talking points. thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/project-20...

Breaking Down Project 2025thinkbigpicture.substack.com We took on Project 2025 issue by issue so you don't have to.

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Stripped back to its core function as a big machine the electricity grid is supposed to equalize access to one of the most essential things we need to survive in a modern, digital society— electricity. Defending it and making service a universal guarantee is paramount for the climate transition.

I have been thinking about this all week. My elderly parents, who live in Houston, lost power early Monday morning. But, they are privileged enough to have a generator. Millions are not so lucky. This is yet another way we are privatizing public problems. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/11/u...

A Hurricane Divide in Houston: Who Has a Generator?www.nytimes.com In the prolonged power outage after Hurricane Beryl, many well-to-do neighborhoods are humming with generators. Other residents are struggling to afford — or even find — one.

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I want this smart, strong, wise, thoughtful, experienced, measured man, Joe Biden, as our president over the next few years given the complicated globe. Trump is dangerous, stupid, criminally insane, and has dementia. Media is selling us out and it’s sickening.

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point being here: important people telling someone to drop out or they’re cooked might have been a viable strategy up until 2016 but there’s now proof you can just ride that shit out and it’ll be fine as long as the opponent is absurdly unpopular with a very fixed ceiling

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See, using gulags to torture political prisoners to death is not Josef Stalin's plan. The Council of People's Commissars, who describe him as the "embodiment" of their efforts, made a plan *for* Stalin. Stalin, however, has sought to publicly distance himself from the effort, as reported by Pravda.

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www.defenseone.com/threats/2024...

Russian influence ops are the ‘preeminent threat’ to November's elections, US officials saywww.defenseone.com Moscow appears to still favor Donald Trump as it promotes divisive narratives and denigrates other politicians, IC and FBI officials said.

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Project 2025 is the real story in US politics right now—it's become a wake-up call for voters, so Republicans are panicking and trying to run away from it. But they can't, because they wrote it and it's on the record. Make them wear it like a scarlet letter.

Trump’s new Big Lie that he doesn’t know about Project 2025 might take him downwww.inquirer.com Republicans are in a state of panic now that voters are paying attention to Project 2025, their plan for dictatorship. They should be.