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rebeccawatson, 2 days ago to random

men are such fucking spineless dweebs they took a meme about how women fear for their very lives around strange men and compared it to men thinking women don’t understand their fee-fees

dabertime, 1 year ago to random

I once got a fortune cookie with 2 contradictory fortunes inside.

Years later, I'm still recovering from the impact of the two universes colliding.

meidastouch, 1 day ago to random

This really does tell you everything you need to know…

ElleGray, 2 days ago to random

oh god it's 6pm on Sunday once again

cdarwin, 3 days ago to random

Donald Trump now has the most detailed policy platform of his political career -- and it's largely the work of two people you've never heard of.

Trump campaign speechwriters #Vince #Haley and #Ross #Worthington are the masterminds behind most of Trump's policy statements. The two worked under Stephen #Miller in the Trump White House.

Haley and Worthington write the first drafts of scripts Trump uses to record policy videos as well as the text on how a second Trump administration would handle issues from education to energy and immigration.

Those videos and corresponding text on his website go into far more detail than Trump, who famously has little interest in policy, does on the stump.

Trump often goes off-script in his speeches and spends just 11% of the time talking about his policy plans, an Axios analysis found.

His campaign aides frequently say that he is the most gifted politician and ultimately decides how to message on the issues.

Trump and his team are also in frequent communication with a constellation of figures on policy ideas, including Trump's former trade representative Robert #Lighthizer and former White House budget director Russell #Vought, WSJ reported.

The Stephen Miller connection:
Haley and Worthington worked under Miller in the White House speechwriting office for four years, co-managing the speechwriting shop.

"Miller would always go over speech drafts" including both official and political speeches that Haley and Worthington wrote, Worthington told Jan. 6 committee investigators in February 2022 after being subpoenaed.

Though they have next to no public presence, they are known to be very chatty on the campaign's daily internal comms call.

While Miller is not technically on the campaign, his relationship with his former subordinates and his direct line to Trump allow him to maintain a consequential role in shaping a potential Trump second term.

Between the lines: Both men have deep ties to former House Speaker Newt #Gingrich.

Haley, a lawyer by training, served as policy director and campaign manager for Gingrich's 2012 presidential campaign. They co-authored several books together and Haley was an associate producer on Gingrich's documentary Ronald Reagan: Rendezvous with Destiny.

Worthington was deputy communications director for Gingrich's 2012 presidential campaign and later authored a book with Gingrich.

https://www.axios.com/2024/05/26/trump-campaign-policy-stephen-miller-newt-gingrich

cdarwin, 2 days ago to random

Even More Ignorant Donald Trump Quotes
https://www.theroot.com/13-wild-donald-trump-quotes-that-prove-hes-really-the-v-1851433355/slides/4

cdarwin, 6 days ago to random

Another Provocative Flag Was Flown at Another #Alito Home

Last summer,
two years after an upside-down American flag was flown outside the Virginia home of Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.,
another provocative symbol was displayed at his vacation house in New Jersey, according to interviews and photographs.

This time, it was the
♦️ “Appeal to Heaven” flag, ♦️
which, like the inverted U.S. flag, was carried by rioters at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Also known as the
💥Pine Tree flag, 💥
it dates back to the Revolutionary War, but largely fell into obscurity until recent years and is
👉 now a symbol of support for former President Donald J. Trump, for a religious strand of the “Stop the Steal” campaign and for a push to remake American government in Christian terms.

Three photographs obtained by The New York Times, along with accounts from a half-dozen neighbors and passers-by, show that the Appeal to Heaven flag was aloft at the Alito home on Long Beach Island in July and September of 2023.
A Google Street View image from late August also shows the flag.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/22/us/justice-alito-flag-appeal-to-heaven.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

aaron.rupar, 14 days ago to random

Michael Cohen offered some prescient thoughts about Trump during his 2019 congressional testimony: "Given my experience working for Mr. Trump, I fear that if he loses the election in 2020, that there will never be a peaceful transition of power."

cdarwin, 24 days ago to random

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/

Nonilex, 18 days ago to Law

#TrumpTrial Friday 10 May 2024 🧵:

Madeleine #Westerhout testimony resumes

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

Cohen is expected to testify Monday.

#law #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #HushMoney #MobTactics #GagOrder #StochasticTerrorism #StormyDaniels #KarenMcDougal #NodFarter

lauren, 20 days ago to random

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?

gedeonm, 18 days ago to random

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

lauren, 18 days ago to random

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!

cdarwin, 18 days ago to random

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

BrianJopek, 20 days ago to random

This is brilliant.

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

dangillmor, 20 days ago to random

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/

CultureDesk, 25 days ago (edited 22 days ago) to books

"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 #Books #Reading #Libraries #Literature

StillIRise1963, 24 days ago to random

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

cdarwin, 22 days ago to random

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 #Spanknobel 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 #Kuhn 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/

marcelias, 24 days ago to random

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

LoganFive, 6 months ago to random

You know it’s late when your feed is now in French.

seth.abramson, 27 days ago 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?

lauren, 1 month ago to random

1.52e12 channels and nothing good to watch on TV.

cdarwin, 1 month ago to random

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