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Formerly evilzenmuppet. Trying to shed some of the Bird App negativity.

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Unhoused person slain at national gathering of political party tied to Supreme Court justices who just criminalized living unhoused.

The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel confirms that a Columbus, Ohio, police officer detailed to the RNC shot and killed a homeless Black man (earlier reported to be in his early 20s) more than half a mile from the RNC arena. The man was known by the nickname Jehovah and took care of a pit bull named Isis.

Ohio police officer shoots, kills person in Milwaukee outside of RNC perimeter, sources saywww.jsonline.com The man killed by Ohio officers near the RNC on Tuesday was well-known in the neighborhood, several witnesses told the Journal Sentinel.

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If you like me don't do insta youtu.be/5eMMZksZSL8?...

Liberal Redneck - JD Vance Ain't Ityoutu.be Bank better at www.climatefirstbank.com/traeI actually know ol Vance a tiny little bit. Not a fan, really, believe it or not. Also, see me live: www.traecrow...

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The reason that the language of domestic abuse and the language of authoritarianism looks the same is because it's just the same thing on a different scale.

#DomesticViolenceWheel

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Breaking news: President Biden is finalizing plans to endorse major changes to the Supreme Court in the coming weeks, including proposals for legislation to establish term limits for the justices and an enforceable ethics code, according to two people briefed on the plans.

Biden set to announce support for major Supreme Court changeswww.washingtonpost.com The president has discussed the plans with constitutional scholars and members of Congress in recent weeks.

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Just a reminder: Trump inherited the lowest homicide rate of any president in 50 years. He was the first president in 30 years to leave office with a higher homicide rate than when he entered. And the rate has dropped every year since he left. www.foxnews.com/video/635815...

RNC day 2 to focus on crime and safety as victims' families speak out | Fox News Videowww.foxnews.com Erin Rachwal, who lost her son to fentanyl poisoning and Sheri and Aaron Sparks, who lost their son in the Waukesha parade attack, on the need to hold criminals accountable and stop the influx of illi...

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It also outlines the need to cut off federal funding for any school that teaches "critical race theory," in the same breath. So, teach history the jingoistic way we demand or don't get funding. And erase queer people or we will pursue legal action.

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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.

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They have such winning ideas like “why don’t we charge people who want to know if that tornado is gonna hit their house.”

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

Not surprised.

Existing Trump supporters—including political reporters privately in sympathy with him—obviously experienced a powerful galvanizing emotion from the failed assassination attempt. They assumed that emotional experience would be widespread, but so far the polling doesn’t bear that out.

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shouts to People magazine (seriously), which did this simple breakdown of Project 2025 that you can share out and your friends and family will likely read it bc it comes from such a benign source

What Is Project 2025? Inside the Far-Right Plan Threatening Everything from the Word 'Gender' to Public Educationpeople.com Donald Trump's far-right allies created Project 2025 as a blueprint for his possible second term. The controversial plan would push a Christian nationalist agenda that dramatically reshapes the U.S. g...

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MAGA gonna MAGA.

GOP Rep. Ripped For Claiming Trump Shooting Happened Due To Female Secret Service Directorbit.ly Tim Burchett claimed a "DEI hire" was responsible for the failed assassination attempt on Donald Trump.

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every day I feel like I'm losing my mind as people look at a statistically tied race where one guy is a felon with deeply unpopular positions who ALREADY LOST THIS EXACT RACE and are like "he is 100% for sure going to win"

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Everybody also needs to watch this reel from “liberal redneck” comedian Trae Crowder who has some personal experience with Vance www.instagram.com/reel/C9febBe...

Trae Crowder on Instagram: "JD Vance hates hillbillies #traecrowder #sorryIfilmedthislastnight #seemelive #linkwherethelinksgo"www.instagram.com 3,678 likes, 141 comments - officialtraecrowder on July 16, 2024: "JD Vance hates hillbillies #traecrowder #sorryIfilmedthislastnight #seemelive #linkwherethelinksgo".

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Senator Menendez is guilty on all counts. At least, he is until the SCOTUS majority gets to weigh in.

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I have no idea what the actual reality is but I assume the polls are in some sense "wrong" because logically I can't fit together: 1) Biden at 48% 2) Alternatives to Biden also at 48% 3) Dem Senate candidates running 10-15 points ahead of Biden

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ya I wonder about this too. The grifter linkedin "entrepeneur" class are all working on AI startups instead of making some awful slick startup called "Li-On-ly" or something to sell batteries. Mostly seems like its nerd civil engineer types running things in the green energy space (complimentary)

sometimes I wonder if the broader push to AI / big tech etc has actually helped the solar : battery : hot rocks revolution by keeping MBA and other folks distracted

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we're living through a generational, life-changing technological revolution and it's getting almost zero attention compared to AI spambots

Some nice copy here …apparently California now has batteries roughly equivalent to 5 Diablo Canyons (in capacity, not run time…)

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Amazing story about what happens at the VA Hospital when you ask the Project 2025 question: "How are you going to pay the utility bills when Social Security and VA benefits get cut?" tweet: x.com/FlindyD/stat...

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you know what would wake him up

Sleepy, sleepy.

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I made this into a proper response to the absolutely misplaced calls to "turn down the heat": newrepublic.com/article/1838...

My first thought this morning after I remembered the news was how many people over the last few years have put their bodies between armed far right guys and kids going to the library or a bookstore

Where Were Calls for De-Escalation When Libraries Were Being Targeted?newrepublic.com Trump’s fans seem determined to blame this shooting on their victims.

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I honestly doubt McConnell cares but it is hilarious that he is probably the man most responsible for giving these craven weirdos everything they want and they hate him

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HOLT: The question is are you seeing what they saw in the debate, which was moments frankly where you appeared to be confused BIDEN: Lester, look, why don't you guys ever talk about the 28 lies he told? Where are you on this? Why didn't the press ever talk about that?

Aaron Rupar (@aaron.rupar) on Threadswww.threads.net HOLT: The question is are you seeing what they saw in the debate, which was moments frankly where you appeared to be confused BIDEN: Lester, look, why don't you guys ever talk about the 28 lies he...

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I haven't seen anybody mention that in the Lester Holt interview, Biden directly questioned Holt on why the media is covering things so slantedly — multiple times. So I'm mentioning it. Happened to watch the whole thing and I'm not sure how many have.

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the vast majority of these critics weren't mad because outlets criticized Biden age, they're mad because the number of "Biden is old" stories out-ratio'd stories about real policy or the looming threat of fascism by like a factor of like forty to one

Big media outlets are questioning Biden’s fitness. Some of their audience is furious.www.semafor.com Liberal-leaning outlets that riveted Democratic audiences through the Trump years are facing a backlash.

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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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A great illustration of how class is just vibes is that only one major party ticket is entirely Ivy League alumni and it’s the one that yells about the elites selling you out

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Well. I guess this is what the world looks like on the other side of all those creepy social and psychological experiments Facebook was helping them with.

REVEALED: Trump campaign secret data on gunman’s familywww.channel4.com The family of Trump’s would-be assassin Thomas Crooks was among millions of voters profiled by Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign

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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.