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gratefuldread, to news
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'Trump is not winning': Strategist says 'ugliness of MAGA' is causing GOP to 'lose ground' https://www.rawstory.com/trump-is-not-winning-ugliness-rosenberg/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Npars01,
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cdarwin, to random
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Strain found in US cows flown to UK lab for testing

It is essential this virus does not escape into the wider environment: globally, H5N1 has killed millions of wild birds and thousands of mammals.

Although avian flu is widespread in the UK, the specific genome being imported for testing is the only one known to infect cattle, and the US is the only place where it has been recorded.
“We really want to know if there’s something special about this particular genotype that’s emerged,” said Banyard
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/11/bird-flu-strain-found-in-us-cows-flown-to-uk-lab-for-testing?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Npars01,
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GottaLaff, to random
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Huh. Imagine that.

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IRS Audit of Could Cost Former President More Than $100 Million

The tax agency concluded in its long-running investigation that Trump effectively claimed the same massive write-off twice on his failed Chicago tower. https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-irs-audit-chicago-hotel-taxes

Npars01,
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@GottaLaff

It begs the question, if Trump can use the same tax exemption twice and get away with it for years..

How widespread is this practice amongst the ultra-wealthy?

Is Jeff Yass, for example, financing the end of democracy & the termination of the civil rights of 167 million American women -- just to avoid tax audits?

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/03/summer-lee-primary-challenge-republican-00150278

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/tiktok-billionaire-yass-gop-donor-abortion-1234859270/

There's interesting things about TikTok ban that await investigation...
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/key-tiktok-details-trump-hopes-voters-no-longer-remember-rcna148930
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-13/who-is-jeff-yass-15-billion-tiktok-fortune-at-stake-as-ban-passes-house-vote

Npars01,
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GottaLaff, to France
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Even Lying Trump will have had enough of her lies.

Via Kyle Griffin:

's government is disputing a portion of 's book that describes a canceled meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron.

A representative from the Élysée Palace disputed Noem's account, saying there’s no record of a scheduled meeting, nor was there an invitation extended to her.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/french-official-disputes-kristi-noem-book-passage-emmanuel-macron-rcna151742

Npars01,
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@GottaLaff

I'm re-reading Rachel Maddow's book "Prequel", and the parallels to today are astonishing.

Fascist movements are replete with narcissictic grifters baselessly claiming familiarity with world leaders.

Fawners too easily become collaborators, quislings, and traitors.

peterdutoit, (edited ) to brazil
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"I don't say this lightly - but the floods in , , are looking comparable to what Katrina did to New Orleans in 2005 -- massive evacuations, water & power outages, key infrastructure damaged, parts of city, possible long-term consequences."—Brian Winter

Background heating +1.3ºC

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Npars01,
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GottaLaff, to random
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Sidebar via Polly Sigh on Xitter:

Former Trump attorney and misogynist Brennan: "Having sex with a guy you met a couple hours earlier in a Lake Tahoe lounge is untoward..."

I love, LOVE LOVE kasie for cutting in and letting Brennan have it before he was let off the hook for his slut shaming of Stormy Daniels.
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Kasie: I get that he says that having sex is untoward but I just think it's worth noting that like being married and inviting someone into the hotel room…

Npars01,
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@GottaLaff

Conservatives are so weird about infidelity.

When Trump does it, he's a virile stud, but when Stormy Daniels does it, she's a slut.

For the exact same act, one gender gets praise, the other gender gets castigated.

stshank, to TeslaMotors
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"Instead of competing, [Western automakers would] rather just shut out competition entirely. The concerns about cybersecurity don’t address the elephant in the room here: Your product sucks, compared to what China is putting out now." https://insideevs.com/features/719015/china-is-ahead-of-west/

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@stshank

China wants to get the boot of the fossil fuel industry off its neck for geopolitical reasons.

What's interesting is the North American auto industry, doesn’t want the same freedom from a planet-frying industry.

What inducements are in play to keep a planet-destroying industry on top?

The Saudi purchase of Elon Musk is certainly a factor. The bought the GOP too.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/14/net-zero-fossil-freedom-day-2047-industrial-revolution

https://theconversation.com/donald-trumps-rebrand-of-fossil-fuels-to-freedom-gas-a-pungent-aroma-of-american-liberty-with-a-whiff-of-hubris-118099

https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/freedom-from-fossil-fuels-is-good-for-your-health

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesellsmoor/2019/05/30/trump-administration-rebrands-carbon-dioxide-as-molecules-of-u-s-freedom/

w7voa, to random
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Washington Post: At Mar-a-Lago, Trump asked oil CEOs to raise $1 billion for his campaign and told them if he gets back in the White House he'll immediately reverse dozens of Biden’s environmental rules and policies and stop new ones from being enacted. https://wapo.st/3UBf4Fy

Npars01,
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pluralistic, to random
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Fun fact: "The Tragedy Of the Commons" is a hoax created by the white nationalist Garrett Hardin to justify stealing land from colonized people and moving it from collective ownership, "rescuing" it from the inevitable tragedy by putting it in the hands of a private owner, who will care for it properly, thanks to "rational self-interest":

https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/04/analytical-democratic-theory/#epistocratic-delusions

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Npars01,
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@pluralistic

"People can't manage themselves or their assets responsibly, & that's why someone else needs to take on the burden of controlling it"

Control of the internet is required to prevent its use by the commoners, & a shareholding elite needs to take it in hand. Supposedly

What's odd is how the same self-serving arguments are used to justify colonialism & wars of conquest

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Man's_Burden

And misogyny & reproductive care.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/nov/13/the-female-problem-male-bias-in-medical-trials

faraiwe, to Russia
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"Hi, I am [ ], I lve in warm waters oblast in Amerika. I am Amerikan voter. I will not be voting for Biden"

Npars01,
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Nonilex, to Israel
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#UnitedStates paused shipments of thousands of bombs to #Israel amid #Rafah rift

The #Biden admin paused the shipment of thousands of weapons to #Israel, including controversial 2k-pound bombs, amid mounting concern about the country’s plan to expand a military operation in southern #Gaza that could dramatically increase the conflict’s death toll, U.S. ofcls said Tues.

#POTUS #ForeignPolicy #MiddleEast #NationalSecurity #GlobalSecurity #geopolitics
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/05/07/biden-delays-weapons-israel-rafah/

Npars01,
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@Nonilex

It's not the first time the USA got embroiled in yet another internecine Middle Eastern war over oil and other fossil fuels.

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/3/6/israel-is-pillaging-not-just-gazas-cities-but-also-its-waters

https://m.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/energy-and-infrastructure/article-774864

No one is asking why OPEC isn't siding with Gaza & coming to the rescue of the Palestinians.

It's because Netanyahu made side deals with the Saudis & UAE.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240321-saudi-uae-among-states-fuelling-israels-offensive-on-gaza-report-finds/

This is what Kushner's $2 billion bought with the Saudis. "Middle Eastern Peace through Genocide"
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68296877

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abdalian, to random
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Gotta protect the administrators from checks notes professors.

“A group of 11 professors arrived at Gibson Hall Friday morning to deliver an open letter signed by 250 faculty members that condemned the university’s response to a pro-Palestinian encampment and demanded it drop suspensions against seven students involved.

“Nine armed police officers stopped the group from entering Gibson.”

https://tulanehullabaloo.com/66286/news/faculty-students-deliver-letters-condemning-tulanes-response-to-pro-palestinian-encampment/

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Npars01,
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@msbellows @abdalian

Post secondary education stopped being free when it started being used as a springboard for social mobility under the GI Bill with Vietnam War veterans who weren't white.

It was marketed by Reagan as a "tax revolt". It was really a war on democracy.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/made-by-history/2022/12/29/history-student-loan-debt/

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/11/new-deal-us-economy-american-dream/676051/

Republicanism is dedicated to this proposition:

The determination to destroy any mechanism that thwarts the entrenchment of a permanent underclass, with ...

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Npars01,
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...POC, migrants, & women on the bottom rung.

Republicanism isn't "conservative policy", it's the Politics of Immiseration.

GottaLaff, to random
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Npars01,
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rbreich, to random
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Judge Cannon has postponed Trump's classified documents trial and didn't set a new start date.

The Supreme Court is slow walking Trump's classified documents case, which has delayed his Jan 6 trial.

The federal judiciary is effectively acting like a MAGA campaign arm.

Npars01,
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@rbreich

Judge Cannon has been bought by the same corrupt system of patronage that bought the unqualified, yet loyal, Kavanaugh & Coney Barrett their seats on the Supreme Court.
https://www.salon.com/2024/05/07/cannons-secret-right-wing-getaway-why-didnt-we-know-about-this/

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-aileen-cannon-classified-documents-case-miami-florida-montana-trip-npr-1896480

https://www.newsweek.com/what-aileen-cannon-financial-disclosures-reveal-1817233

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/22/clarence-thomas-koch-network-donor-events

Dangling the carrot of future gains in front of Cannon must be irresistible to her

Unqualified. Temperamentally unsuited. Biased. Poorly educated. Not very bright. Venal. She's a perfect future GOP nominee

GottaLaff, to random
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Decision Desk HQ projects Mike Braun wins the Republican primary for Indiana's gubernatorial election.

DecisionMade: 7:00pm ET

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Strandjunker, to random
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Remember, the Holocaust didn’t start with gas chambers.

It started with politicians dividing the people with “us vs. them”.

It started with intolerance and hate speech.

It started when people stopped caring, became desensitized, and turned a blind eye.

Remember.

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Strandjunker, to random
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On June 1, 2020, he hid in an underground bunker like Adolf Hitler, then emerged briefly to gas his own people & clear a path for a photo op in front of a church he never attended with an upside down Bible he never read. — Don’t normalize him. Donald Trump is a wannabe dictator.

Npars01,
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@Strandjunker

Donald Trump is funded by Republican billionaires who want him to be a dictator.

This isn't about getting tax cuts for the rich, this is about ending "government by the people , for the people" and replacing it with "government parasitized by the rich, for public corruption. "

Jeff Yass
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/who-is-jeff-yass-the-gop-billionaire-donor-dominating-2024.html

John Paulson
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/19/politics/republican-billionaires-trump-fundraiser/index.html

Tim Dunn
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/01/17/texas-defend-liberty-ken-paxton-republicans/
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/billionaire-tim-dunn-runs-texas/

Paul Singer
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/18/donald-trump-megadonor-campaign-republican

GottaLaff, (edited ) to random
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1/... Via Kevinly Father on Twitter:

The Republican party is literally suing to prevent legal votes from being counted.

Bartiromo: I see that the RNC is filing a lawsuit in a battleground state to stop counting ballots past election day.

Lara : Yeah. Well, that's exactly right. You cannot have ballots counted after elections are over.

Npars01,
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@Tbsa @GottaLaff @PandaChronicle @Wileymiller

In Rachel Maddow's book Prequel, she writes about the people who funded America's last waltz with fascism.

Just like then, the wealthiest people on the planet, are funding anti-democracy propaganda.

Just like then, the wealthiest people on the planet have purchased corrupt politicians to promote fascism.

Just like then, the wealthiest people on the planet, are using bigotry to achieve their ends.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/rachel-maddow-reveals-secret-nazi-campaign-prequel-1234892734/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/10/17/rachel-maddow-prequel-fascism-book-review/

samhenrigold, to random
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the Nantucket Current has been chronicling the first cybertruck on the island and is making fun of them parking like a dick. this is the reason a free press is crucial to democracy.

Follow up post: “We have an update, believe it or not” Attached is a picture of the cybertruck stuck on a beach, its wheels sunk into the sand

Npars01,
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@CWilbur @Blinxeto @samhenrigold

Concealing the true toll of letting a pandemic run amok is one reason why Republican megadonors are funding the GOP to win at all cost.

They don't want scientific studies, DOJ investigations, or Congressional hearings on how over 1.2 million Americans died of covid, or will die of long covid in future.

Especially before they try to get their deluded hordes to vote Republican yet again.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/12/covid-deaths-anti-vaccine-republican-voters/672575/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/08/22/republicans-vaccines-polls/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10003493/

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