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wdlindsy

@wdlindsy@toad.social

Interested in building a better world and standing in solidarity with others who share that goal.

For biographical information, please see https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/109539508828689842

"Writing is the way I fight." ~ James Cone

#solidarity #democracy #HumanRights #LGBTQ

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wdlindsy, to Law
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"The American law system is becoming increasingly broken in two key ways. The perennial problem, always there but now magnified by Trumpish impunity, is that there’s one legal system for the poor and another for the rich. Trump might well be convicted of felony fraud, but with money for lawyers and appeals, he’s unlikely to face punishment anytime soon, if ever."

~ Nina Burleigh

#justice #Trump #law #SupremeCourt
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https://www.americanfreakshow.news/p/americas-priest-kings

wdlindsy,
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"The second crisis is newer and more menacing: the Supreme Court and a swath of the lower federal judiciary have been infiltrated by militant Catholics, trained by Leonard Leo, a knight of the religious Sovereign Military Order of Malta and billionaire dark money purser. …

The real emergency in our legal system is the militant Catholic takeover of the federal court system, led by Leonard Leo, K Street’s Knight of Malta."

#justice #law #SupremeCourt #LeonardLeo #FederalistSociety
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wdlindsy, to random
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"As noted by commentator Lindy Li on Twitter, New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman has written 265 stories about 'Hillary’s emails' and 141 articles about Joe Biden’s age. Certainly, Trump's Nazi leanings deserve as least as much coverage as the non-story about Hillary’s emails. To date, the Times has published one story on Trump's use of Hitler’s language."

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#Trump #Nazis #ThirdReich #NewYorkTimes #MediaFail

https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/taking-trump-and-alito-at-their-word

wdlindsy, to Women
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"For nearly two decades, one woman stood up to the Southern Baptist Convention, forcing it to face its sex abuse crisis. She was gaslit, maligned, and threatened with legal action. But she didn’t back down and on this podcast, you’ll hear her story."

~ Julie Roys


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https://julieroys.com/podcast/baptistland-christa-browns-story-of-abuse-resiliency/?mc_cid=2943f99b3e

wdlindsy, to random
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"Shortly after the Times story [about Alito and the insurrectionist flag] ran, Republicans on the House Committee on the Judiciary posted on X a picture of Alito and Thomas with the all-caps caption, 'AMERICAN HEROES.' They’re praising Alito and Thomas because it triggers the libs, those beleaguered folks who foolishly believe that norms and rules matter."

~ Lisa Needham


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https://www.publicnotice.co/p/alito-upside-down-flag-january-6-explained

wdlindsy,
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"Republicans correctly view Alito and Thomas as partners in a project to remake America into a hyper-conservative Christian state rather than as part of a separate branch of government that acts as a check and balance on the legislature.

Republicans also correctly view both justices as people who don’t believe any rules should apply to them. … The only thing that will fix this is court reform, enshrined into law by Congress."

#Alito #ClarenceThomas #SupremeCourt #insurrection
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wdlindsy, to Russia
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"Tucker Carlson has long been full of praise for Vladimir Putin, and apparently someone in the ranks of Russia’s state-run TV has taken notice. Rossiya 24 is now running episodes of Carlson’s show, complete with a Russian voice-over, that were posted to X and YouTube days prior…."

The show is called Tucker. Rossiya 24.

~ Bess Levin

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/tucker-carlson-comes-full-circle-with-show-on-russia-state-tv

wdlindsy, to random
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"There is no doubt 'Project 2025' would transform America into a much nastier, much more dangerous, much more hostile place for anyone who dares to deviate from what the Right deems the ;natural order. In a very real sense, that’s what’s on the ballot in November."

~ Thomas Zimmer

#Trump #Project2025 #authoritarianism #democracy
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https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/project-2025-thomas-zimmer-trump

wdlindsy,
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"The election isn’t really about Biden vs. Trump; it’s a referendum on whether the effort to finally realize the promise of a truly democratic, pluralistic, multiracial society should be continued or abolished altogether. Those are the stakes."

#Trump #Project2025 #authoritarianism #democracy
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wdlindsy, to random
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"A new report released Tuesday by States United Action, a group that targets election deniers, said nearly one-third of the lawmakers in Congress supported in some way Trump’s bid to overturn the 2020 results or otherwise cast doubt on the reliability of elections. Several more are hoping to join them, running for election this year to the House and Senate."

~ Nicholas Riccardi and Lisa Mascaro

#Trump #Republicans #Congress #BigLie #insurrection #MAGA

https://apnews.com/article/congress-election-lies-2024-certification-president-460cde281d48e62e09e24c7573d6a9ff

wdlindsy, to random
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Kevin Necessary on Alito's defense of his highly offensive flying of an insurrectionist flag after the January 6 insurrection attempt.

https://davidpepper.substack.com/p/cartoon-tuesday-546

wdlindsy, to journalism
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"If President Joe Biden had faced hecklers or worse when he gave the Morehouse College commencement speech on Sunday, you would know about it. It would have led every newscast and dominated headlines in every paper, another dire portent of his alleged troubles with Black voters coming in November."

~ Joan Walsh


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https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/biden-harris-morehouse/

wdlindsy, to random
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"Billionaire mega-donor Timothy Mellon, who has poured millions into a super PAC supporting Donald Trump, gave another $5 million to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in April, according to newly released campaign finance filings."

~ Mini Racker and Noah Kirsch

But, sure, Trump and Biden are the same and voting third-party is an effective, laudable way to express your anger at the two-party system and contempt for Biden.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/billionaire-tim-mellon-a-trump-megadonor-gave-another-dollar5m-to-rfk-jr

wdlindsy, to random
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"The Trump Media and Technology Group on Monday reported a net loss of $327.6 million last quarter, sending shares of the Truth Social owner down about 5%, closing at $48.38. And yet, that means the money-losing company is still worth north of $6 billion! 'I can’t emphasize enough how unusual it is for a company with this little revenue to have this high a valuation,' analyst Matthew Kennedy told CNN's Matt Egan."

~ Oliver Darcy

#Trump #TruthSocial

https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/171625728400521ae5b6a6721/raw

wdlindsy, to random
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In the powerful graduation speech Biden gave at Morehouse College, an HBCU, he stated,

"Let’s be clear what happens to you and your family when old ghosts in new garments seize power. Extremists come for the freedoms you thought belonged to you and everyone."

When the KKK began wearing white robes, it did so with the explicit thought of striking terror into its targets, by appearing as a ghost army.


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https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/news-orgs-fumble-bidens-powerful

wdlindsy, to random
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"A second Trump administration would bring about the end of American democracy, full stop.

Academics who study authoritarian movements, scholars of fascism, foreign correspondents and government employees who work in other countries and know first-hand what corrupt autocracies look like—I’ve interviewed quite a few of these experts on my podcast over the last three years—are in consensus on this."

~ Greg Olear

https://gregolear.substack.com/p/rough-beast-slouching-towards-dictatorship

wdlindsy, to random
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"The former president's vow to deport 15 million people is the cruelest, most illiberal, most openly authoritarian campaign promise in modern U.S. history. Oh, and it would also destroy the economy. ...

The pre-World War II Jewish population of Europe — including the Soviet Union — was about 9 million."


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~ Radley Balko
https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/trumps-deportation-army

wdlindsy,
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"So just in terms of transporting people, we’re looking at an operation that would need to be two thirds larger than the Nazi transport of Jews during the Holocaust — if they’d managed to get to every Jewish person on the continent.

The Trump immigration plan would be the second largest forced displacement of human beings in human history, on par with Britain’s disastrous partition of India, and second only to total forced displacement during World War II."


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wdlindsy, to Guns
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"A vote for Trump is a vote for more gun violence. It got lost in the coverage, but Trump promised the NRA that he would repeal all of Biden's gun safety actions. …

Trump promised, 'In my second term, we will roll back every Biden attack on the Second Amendment.'

This is a huge deal with deadly consequences."

~ Dan Pfeiffer

https://www.messageboxnews.com/p/a-trump-win-more-gun-violence

wdlindsy, to random
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Heather Cox Richardson writes,

"It is not clear to me how anyone can any longer deny that Trump is promising to destroy our democracy and usher in authoritarianism.

But it is also not clear that he is still a figure that any but the extremes of his base will follow to that end. Hence his emphasis on turning them to violence."

#Trump #violence #authoritarianism #fascism #democracy
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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-20-2024

wdlindsy,
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She notes that on Friday in Minnesota, he used fascist rhetoric when he

In Minnesota Friday, Trump echoed fascists when he told supporters that their opponents are corrupt communists to whom the US does not belong: it belongs to MAGA.

Saturday at the NRA meeting in Dallas, he threw out the idea of nullifying the constitutional amendment limiting a president to two terms. He also urged his followers there to "be rebellious."

#Trump #violence #authoritarianism #fascism #democracy
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wdlindsy,
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He told the same crowd that if Biden were Republican, he'd have been given the electric chair.

He continues to lie grossly about having won the 2020 election — when he did not do so. He said yesterday that the courtroom for his trial is like Fort Knox, with police everywhere blocking people from coming near. "This is, quite simply, a lie," and the reality is, his supporters have not turned out to support him.


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wdlindsy, to random
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"HOW MANY LAST STRAWS can there be? When it comes to the Supreme Court, the supply appears to be infinite.

The Court needs an extreme makeover ASAP, and that is far from an extreme idea. It’s the only path back to a high court that is trustworthy, balanced, logical, and durable."

~ Jill Lawrence

P.S. I'll second this assessment despite Lawrence's obligatory mendacious "conservative" both-sidesism.

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/enough-already-its-time-to-reform-supreme-court

wdlindsy, to journalism
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"[The New York Case] may be the least serious of the four criminal cases against [Trump], and I’m worried that Trump’s successful stalling of the other three cases will cause the news media to sideline coverage of those charges – involving the plot to overturn the 2020 election and the theft of secret documents."

~ Mark Jacob


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https://www.stopthepresses.news/p/media-must-not-ignore-trumps-other

wdlindsy,
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"If news outlets don’t keep those cases front-and-center in the run-up to the 2024 election, they’ll be playing into the hands of the MAGA Republicans who are desperately delaying justice. …

The right-wing propagandists who say Trump is the victim of 'lawfare' and a 'witch hunt' won’t stop trying to undermine the credibility of our courts, so honest journalists can’t stop bringing the facts either."


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