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📅Time to pick a side. #GetWoke
We've got 1 year. That's it.

🗳️Vote accordingly.

👂🏻Listen to the women #Cassandra

Less arguing, more motivating.
Less normalizing, more resisting, calling out.

👀Looking for recommendations of good books, shows, movies, music, foods, culture, history lessons, and cool art (especially resistance graffiti)

#Houston #GenX #punk #grunge #TexMex #triplets #Astros #diversity #genealogy #history #nonfiction #grafiti #resist #GirlPower #Ally🌈
#nobot
♥️🧡💙💚🧡♥️

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lauren, to random
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Around the world, people are experiencing the once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon of a brilliant aurora display, as massive doses of solar radiation bombard the atmosphere turning it into gigantic radioactive florescent lights (nothing to see down here in L.A. though this evening, and city lights make it even less likely). Enjoy the show!

BUT REMEMBER THIS, DEAR FRIENDS!

In the 1963 horror/sci-fi classic "The Day of the Triffids", a lengthy, once-in-a-lifetime spectacular display of massive glowing meteor showers lasts long enough for the entire planet to see it at night. Everyone able to do so was urged to see this wonder!

The next morning, everyone who had viewed the amazing display was blind. And then the giant mobile man-eating plants that had arrived with the meteors, spread across the Earth.

ENJOY!

Scotter,
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@lauren
That's a happy thought... just as I am heading to bed. Maybe gonna have some interesting dreams 🛌🏻💤

gedeonm, to random
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These are straight out of the iPhone 15 Pro Max from Greensboro, North Carolina. It’s very hard to see the here with the naked eye but point the phone and shoot and WOW!

Scotter,
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@gedeonm
It's tough being blonde?

cdarwin, to random
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BREAKING:
💥Colin Allred 💥is
TIED with Ted Cruz!

Rush $5 to DEFEAT Cruz + more

And keep the Senate BLUE! 🙏🏻

>> https://bluesouth.us/TIED?t=38psQx

-BSP

Scotter,
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@cdarwin
What great news to start the weekend!

Nonilex, to Law
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Friday 10 May 2024 🧵:

Madeleine testimony resumes

A fmr White House aide who worked closely w/ returned to the stand to testify about a significant meeting between Trump & his personal lawyer that is at the center of Trump’s trial.

Cohen is expected to testify Monday.

Scotter,
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@TCatInReality @Nonilex
I just love how he spent time managing his private org when he promised he wouldn't be involved

lauren, to random
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Questions for presidential candidates and VP hopefuls:

  1. Have you ever shot a puppy?
  2. Have you ever had sex with a porn star behind your wife's back?
  3. Have you ever had worms in your brain?
Scotter,
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@lauren
When will you release your divorce documents?

dangillmor, to random
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If journalists cared about protecting democracy, they would be campaigning -- yes, in their news pages -- for free and fair elections.

Apparently that's too "partisan" for people whose fetish for balance has led them to help democracy's enemies.

So please read and pass around this piece from @marcelias, someone who cares passionately and is doing his best.

https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/when-trump-attacks-our-elections-we-will-have-no-excuse/

Scotter,
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@dangillmor @marcelias
It seems really strange to allow someone to run in an election who doesn't agree to the rules.

BrianJopek, to random
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This is brilliant.

“She grabbed him by the Eodipus-sy.” - That Liberal Atheist Nurse

Scotter,
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@selje @BrianJopek
Testimony showed the "financially frugal" guy actually paid $420,000.

cdarwin, to random
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After Hitler’s rise to power in 1933, some German Americans formed groups to support the Nazi party in Germany and attempt to influence American politics.
The most notorious of these groups was
the 🔸German-American Bund🔸, which tried to model itself as an American arm of Hitler’s Third Reich.
Although these groups wore uniforms and touted swastikas, in reality, they had few ties to Nazi Germany and their support among the larger German-American community was minimal.
Nevertheless, the group strongly promoted hatred for Jews and strove to bring Nazi-style fascism to the United States.
Initial support for American fascist organizations did come from Germany.
In May 1933 Nazi Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess gave authority to German immigrant
👉Heinz to create an American Nazi organization.
Shortly thereafter the 🔸Friends of New Germany🔸was created with help from the German consul in New York City.
The organization was based in New York but had a strong presence in Chicago.
The organization led by Spanknobel was openly pro-Nazi and engaged in activities
such as storming the German-language New Yorker Staats-Zeitung with the demand that Nazi-sympathetic articles be published,
and the infiltration of other non-political German-American organizations.
Spanknobel was ousted as the leader and subsequently deported in October 1933 when it was discovered he had failed to register as a foreigner agent.

The organization existed into the mid-1930s, although it always remained small, with a membership of between 5,000-10,000.

Mostly German citizens living in America and German emigrants who only recently had become citizens composed its ranks.

The organization busied itself with verbal attacks against Jews, Communists, and the Versailles Treaty.

Until 1935 the organization was openly supported by the Third Reich, although soon Nazi officials realized the organization was doing more harm than good in America and in December 1935 Hess ordered that all German citizens leave the Friends of New Germany;
also, all the group’s leaders were recalled to Germany.

Not long after the Friends of New Germany fell out of favor with the Nazis and was dismantled,
a new organization with similar goals arose in its place.

Formed in March 1936 in Buffalo/New York and calling itself the ♦️German-American Bund ♦️or Amerikadeutscher Volksbund,
the organization chose Fritz as its Bundesleiter.

The organization was soon filled with those calling themselves “Germans in America” and dreamed of the day when Nazism would rule the United States.

Although they were instructed not to accept German citizens in their organization,
they were not about to turn down anyone interested and many immigrants joined.

It is estimated that around 25% of Bund members were German nationals
—the rest being mostly first or second-generation Germans.

The Bund soon began to hold rallies filled with swastikas, Nazi salutes, and the singing of German songs.

The Bund created recreational camps such as Camp Siegfried in New York and Camp Nordland in New Jersey.

It also established Camp Hindenburg in Wisconsin and the group met frequently in Milwaukee and Chicago beer halls.
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/american-nazis-german-american-bund-1930s/

Scotter,
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@cdarwin
These photos are unbelievable.

StillIRise1963, to random
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When your gay friends are stripped of their marriages, tell them you didn’t vote because you wanted to make a statement about Gaza.

Scotter,
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@StillIRise1963
I don't understand this "want to make a statement" or "send a message". That's throwing away your vote. There are much more effective ways to inform the people making decisions

cdarwin, to random
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When the story of the Third Reich is told, several explanations are put forward for
how a party that gained only 2.6 per cent of votes in the German elections of 1928
was able to establish a radical dictatorship just five years later:

the Wall Street Crash, the legacy of the First World War and Hitler’s charisma, to name a few.

But one aspect that often receives less attention is
💥the influence of Germany’s elite on the events of the late 1920s and early 1930s. 💥

According to University of Edinburgh historian Stephan Malinowski, contributor to a new BBC Two series, The Rise of the Nazis, a small group of powerful actors played a critical role in the creation of the Third Reich

https://www.historyextra.com/period/second-world-war/hitler-millionaire-backers-how-german-elite-facilitated-rise-nazis-third-reich/

Scotter,
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@cdarwin
De ja vu, all over again.

Remember this when the reporters ask politicians how they will vote. They will defend it all the way down

Scotter,
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@cdarwin
"The elites thought they could ride Hitler like a horse. But they soon discovered that they were the horse and that Hitler was the horseman."

marcelias, to random
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As I told Brian Tyler Cohen, I don't compromise with Republicans because there is no middle ground between an arsonist and a firefighter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nO2nyimwCEM&list=PLOMpnzRkbFsi2yOiCKDN3fYgOzvrvfZm4&index=1

Scotter,
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@marcelias
Let's say it together...

"There is no middle ground between an arsonist and a firefighter."

CultureDesk, (edited ) to books
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"The pile beside my bed never shrinks; at the bottom of the stack are books I've been planning to crack open for months. My shelves remain full of lingering aspirations," writes the Walrus's Michelle Cyca. She looks at the problem of unread books, and the difficulty in offloading our libraries. What do you do with your unwanted books?

https://flip.it/aLVxC5

@bookstodon

Scotter,
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@CultureDesk @bookstodon
I resell to my our second-hand bookstore. Don't get much money but hoping to keep the local store. Or, I pass them to a friend.

Trying to read more e-books from the local library. I've found the due date keeps me reading quicker than my hardcopies

seth.abramson, to random

Donald Trump just told a Michigan crowd that he’s up in Michigan by as many as 11 points.

At what point is mental illness in a man who can launch nuclear weapons a dealbreaker? I know his cultists say never because they want the whole world to burn, but what about normal people?

Scotter,
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@seth.abramson
He feels that he is winning. Just like he feels that he is a billionaire. Facts don't matter

lauren, to random
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1.52e12 channels and nothing good to watch on TV.

Scotter,
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@lauren
PBS?

cdarwin, to random
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Day after day the press is gaslighting the American people:

Pathologizing Biden’s normal signs of aging, such as forgetting names,

and normalizing Trump’s flagrant signs of dementia.

That false narrative is having a real impact on the polls, and no one with the right letters after their name was stepping in to correct the record.

https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/john-gartner-trump-cognitive-decline

Scotter,
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@cdarwin @GottaLaff
It's a Russian propaganda technique. It should not be tolerated. It's lying to the voters. How is this stopped?

GottaLaff, to random
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1/... Emptywheel:

New Yorkers will be amused that nepo-kid's idea of stamina is stopping by a Bodega after a 7 hour day sitting on your ass and a USSS escort drive across town.

Eric : His stamina, I've never seen anything like it in my life. He'll be in trial all day long only to step out and do events at bodegas and go to Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. The whole world knows his toughness

Scotter,
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@GottaLaff
I expect the lying from his family. Even the defendant lied about protesters outside the courtroom. His network has been lying about reality for years. I do think it's strange that cable news keep at least one conservative person on their panels to confront others about covering up for Biden's mental health.

It's a Russian propaganda technique. It should not be tolerated. It's lying to the voters

aaron.rupar, to random

not subtle that he’s rooting for hardship

Scotter,
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@aaron.rupar
How long has he been using the avatar with flag face paint? Very disrespectful to the flag!

lauren, to random
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Many years ago I was in a bread and breakfast in London, back when there were only like 3 or 4 TV channels available. I was flipping around between them when I happened upon a thrilling game of snookers or whatever it was that was just ending (maybe around 11pm or so), I believe on BBC2. So they then run this bizarre little short with naked animated figures going after each other. They then cut to the traditional analog clock BBC logo, and the announcer says this (pretty much the exact words):

"So it's time for shutdown here on BBC2, and I hope you enjoyed that little piece. And all I can say after that is, have at it!"

Transmission ends, and I'm sitting there with my mouth hanging open staring at static.

Scotter,
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@lauren
Bread and breakfast? Sounds delicious!

GottaLaff, to random
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Via @emptywheel:

The insane wails of people lying about Merrick Garland are getting more and more ridiculous. Sidney Powell investigation overt in 9/21. By 1/19/22, DOJ had Rudy's Jan6 comms. There were overt subpoenas targeting Trump by May. Privilege fights WITH TRUMP started in 6/22.

Jonathan Greenberg:

The only reason that SCOTUS’ evil immunity delay strategy will prevent Trump's Jan6 coup trial & conviction before election is that AG blocked his prosecution for 20 mos…

Scotter, (edited )
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@GottaLaff @emptywheel
I'm thankful that there are some other terrific women on the SCOTUS who at least challenge these lame justifications. They are also great at clearly documenting their dissents

BlackAzizAnansi, to random
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What's one lesson that you learned from 2016 that you would like young people who are able to vote now but were too young to be engaged in 2016 to know?

Scotter,
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@BlackAzizAnansi
Brace yourself for October. There will be many smear campaigns. Don't believe them

aaron.rupar, to random

beyond parody

Scotter,
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@aaron.rupar
His justification was how dangerous the policies of Democrats would be. His example of forcing people to not buy cars was when I had to turn it off.

IveyJanette, to random
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From the same state that celebrates Robert E. Lee's birthday on MLK Jr. Day. And the same state that refuses to recognize Juneteenth as a federal holiday.

Fuck him. And his racist state.


https://share.newsbreak.com/6qjfqtfb

Scotter,
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@IveyJanette
Time to start teaching people the facts. Were his ancestors slave owners? Or were his ancestors the poor suckers who were forced to fight for them? Had to desert because of lack of food or equipment? Return permanently disabled?

Scotter,
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@IveyJanette
Yeah, let's see his DNA. Lol

LoganFive, to random
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You know it’s late when your feed is now in French.

Scotter,
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@LoganFive
Mine always turns to Japanese

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