GottaLaff

GottaLaff, 6 months ago to random

YES.

White House spokesman Andrew Bates responds to the Republican Speaker:

"We absolutely reject the offensive accusation that gun crime is uniquely high in the United States because of Americans' 'hearts.' Gun crime is uniquely high in the United States because congressional Republicans have spent decades choosing the gun industry's lobbyists over the lives of innocent Americans."

GottaLaff, 1 month ago to baltimore

Via Will: "When a cargo ship took out a #Baltimore bridge, it also demolished the lies poisoning our #immigration debate

The 6 migrant men who died weren't drug dealers or sex traffickers but hero dads filling potholes to give their kids a better life.

This column meant more to me than anything I've written for a while. Here's an excerpt. Please take a moment to read the whole thing."

If @willbunch wrote it, you should read it.©

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/baltimore-bridge-collapse-immigrant-deaths-20240328.html#loaded

GottaLaff, 2 months ago to random

😏Via Elie Mystal:

Alabama: Embryos are babies.

Me: Oh, so we can't deport mothers carrying American citizens.

Alabama: Wait.

Me: Also dudes are on the hook for child support nine months earlier.

Alabama: No. Not like that!

GottaLaff, 9 months ago to TeslaMotors

The inevitable, dangerous X factor. 1/...🧵in part, via David Frum:

NYT reports that Elon #Musk personally thwarted a #Ukraine military operation he disapproved of.

At this point, Musk's interference to thwart Ukraine battle plans is not any kind of economic action. It is an assertion of a personal foreign policy, in defiance of the United States, whose citizenship he sought and to which he swore loyalty in 2002.

https://t.co/7hWGMBKo5j

GottaLaff, 3 months ago to Zelensky

Bluff called.

“President Volodymyr #Zelensky has extended an invitation to Donald #Trump to visit Kyiv, with a specific condition attached.

Speaking with U.K. broadcaster Channel 4 News, Zelensky said that Trump would be warmly received in the capital under one stipulation: the former U.S. president must demonstrate his ability to bring an end to the war with Russia within 24 hours, as he once promised.” #Ukraine

https://kyivindependent.com/zelensky-invites-trump-to-ukraine/

GottaLaff, 3 months ago to random

Via Emptywheel:

Prince Bonesaw says he'll start jailing executives if they give American voters details about the terms of GOP Presidential candidate Donald Trump's employment with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Quote

Jordan Fabian:

Saudi Arabia has threatened to imprison the bankers and consultants it works with if they cooperate with a probe by US lawmakers into the planned merger of the PGA Tour with LIV Golf

GottaLaff, 2 months ago to random

That's some platform, GOP Fascist Party: "NO SEX FOR PLEASURE!" Should garner a whole lotta votes.

1/...

Via Adam Jentleson:

Highly influential heritage foundation, which would help staff & direct a future Trump admin, literally said that a key conserv policy goal is “ending recreational sex.” they said it, not me. IMO we should take them both seriously & literally

(Heritage quote in next toot)

GottaLaff, 7 months ago to california

Thank you.

"#California lawmakers passed a bill known as Delete Act that would allow consumers, with a single request, to have every data broker delete their personal info. Data brokers incl a variety of businesses that gather & sell people’s personal info, such as their address, marital status & spending habits. Those companies incl credit reporting agencies, people-search sites & data analytic firms that work with political campaigns." https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-09-14/california-bill-delete-online-personal-data

GottaLaff, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

Oy.

Via Victor Shi:

Holy shit. Univision, the nation's largest Spanish-language network, has decided to cancel ad-buys by the #Biden campaign in Nevada, Arizona, Pennsylvania, & Florida after #Trump met with their executives last week. Our media continues to fail us. This is how our democracy dies.

UPDATE: H/t: @LibraryofBabble
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/11/14/trump-univision-biden-election/

GottaLaff, 27 days ago to random

I won’t link to Twitter, but I had to screen grab it for you:

Via @potus: #Biden

GottaLaff, 2 months ago to Florida

#Doonesbury: “This is #Florida. Isn’t it against the law to teach us the full story?”

Entire strip here: https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2024/02/18

GottaLaff, 5 months ago to TeslaMotors

Reuters documented at least 600 previously unreported workplace injuries at #Musk’s rocket company: crushed limbs, amputations, electrocutions, head and eye wounds and one death. SpaceX employees say they’re paying the price for the billionaire’s push to colonize space at breakneck speed.
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/spacex-musk-safety/

GottaLaff, 2 months ago to Bulgaria

Via @emptywheel:

1 reason why #Trump's comments about abandoning #NATO matter are, 1st & foremost, bc he ordered GOP to abandon #Ukraine which virtually all near-Ukraine allies think makes them next

He is, in front of our faces, delivering Ukraine up to Putin as a gift.

But the other reason it matters is bc we SAW this call-and-response in '16 & '20, when Trump got help from Russian spies

This is more of same. Stop letting Trump play dumb. Stop playing dumb yourself. https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/02/12/call-and-response-putin-is-demanding-greater-russia/

GottaLaff, 6 months ago to journalism

From focus on the 'soft voice' of extremist #MikeJohnson to soft-selling #Trump's dictatorial plans to calling killing civilians 'a crater,' something's very wrong with the #media today

It's called cowardice

From Gaza City to Capitol Hill, a cowed media is chronicling the death of democracy in a passive voice

If @willbunch wrote it, you should read it.© & I thread it. 1/...🧵

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/journalism-free-press-gaza-extremism-20231105.html#loaded

GottaLaff, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

⚠️ Via @atrupar:

the loud part is getting louder

Republican Accountability:

Jack Posobiec at CPAC: “Welcome to the end of democracy. We are here to overthrow it completely. We didn’t get all the way there on Jan. 6, but we will endeavor to get rid of it.”

UPDATE, VIDEO:

https://indieweb.social/@stephenjbell/111977391928939182

GottaLaff, 3 months ago to random

Go @MichaelEMann !

“Michael Mann, a prominent climate scientist, won his long-standing legal battle against two right-wing bloggers who claimed that he manipulated data in his research and compared him to convicted child molester Jerry Sandusky, a major victory for the outspoken researcher.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/02/08/michael-mann-bloggers-defamation-trial/

GottaLaff, 9 months ago to Ohio

Via ACLU:

BREAKING: With more than 700,000 signatures submitted, the #Ohio Secretary of State announced that a constitutional amendment to protect reproductive freedom has enough valid signatures to qualify for the ballot this fall.

We have a right to #abortion care and we will vote for it.

GottaLaff, 5 months ago to random

🤬Study: 58% of world's richest companies quietly lobby against climate policies while publicly claiming to fully support the Paris Climate Agreement….consistently lobbied against worldwide climate efforts, contradicting their own commitments

…most at risk for greenwashing, including Chevron, Delta Air Lines, ExxonMobil, Stellantis, Southern Company, Nippon Steel Corp., and Duke Energy. #ClimateCrisis

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2023/11/17/net-zero-greenwashing-58-large-corporations-lobby-against-climate-efforts/7141700219198/

GottaLaff, 3 months ago to random

"A low-grade fever of misogyny is infecting an epidemic of young white right-wing men talking nonsense about Taylor Swift

A more extreme form causes death - as with the paranoid demagoguery poisoning the brain of the Bucks County beheader"

If @willbunch wrote it, you should read it.© & I thread it. 🧵 1/...

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/taylor-swift-justin-mohn-toxic-masculinity-20240201.html#loaded

GottaLaff, 2 months ago to Guns

👏🏻 Via Democracy Docket:

BREAKING: #NewMexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) signs a bill banning the open carry of #guns near polling places.

It is now illegal in New Mexico to openly possess a firearm within 100 feet of a polling place and 50 feet of a drop box.

GottaLaff, 2 months ago to random

Stay to the very end.

Then share like crazy.

#Biden nailed it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6e4ruziZBI

GottaLaff, 3 months ago to random

🤦🏻‍♀️😂

Via Matt Campbell @bluehogreport:

This is the funniest thing I’ll read all day.

GottaLaff, 3 months ago to random

😏Via Emptywheel:

Honestly would love if a media outlet sent out a poll to Republicans, asking which #Trump trial was their favorite:

1. Rape
2. Corporate tax cheat
3. Bank fraud
4. Stolen documents
5. Stolen election
6. Hush payment cover-up

GottaLaff, 5 months ago to random

“Dictators can't do it alone. They need propagandists and torturers to implement their vile agenda

America needs to know about #MikeDavis, frontrunner for #Trump 47 AG, auditioning by calling for 'gulags' and 'kids in cages'

No wonder Team Trump is eyeing him as attorney general in 2025.”

If @willbunch wrote it, you should read it.© & I thread it. 1/…🧵

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/mike-davis-trump-attorney-general-20231119.html

GottaLaff, 9 days ago to random

Via Angry Staffer:

…Project 2025 ..

• would let red states monitor & prosecute women who get abortions

• won’t commit to defending NATO nations

• wd fire attys who won’t prosec his political opponents

• suspend posse comitatus & deploy the military on US soil

• wd end pandemic preparedness office

• wd fire 1000s of civil servants

• pardon all J6 rioters

• try to make law enf officers immune from prosec

If this doesn’t scare the living shit out of you, you aren’t paying attention.