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Imagine Viktor Orbán with the world's largest military. That's Trump if he wins.

😷. #neurodivergent; #NFL Cardinals fan since 1970. Geologist, Cartographer, IT PM retired in #NewMexico. 40+ Yr denizen of the North American inter-mountain west: Received snail mail in Tucson, Springerville, Victorville, Boulder City, Carlin, Elko, Fallon, Belle Fourche, Hettinger, Billings, Gardner, Mammoth Hot Springs, Cooke City, Deer Lodge, Twin Falls, Salmon, SandPoint, Naturita, Denver, Fort Collins.

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GottaLaff, to random
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😏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!

timo21,
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@GottaLaff also a tax write off. Those frozen embryos.

Green_Footballs, to random
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The fact that every mainstream news site is now locked behind a paywall is a real boon for the spread of misinformation, because very few right wing sites have paywalls — which means their disinfo and propaganda can spread much more easily. Paywalls are a slow motion disaster.

timo21,
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@Green_Footballs That's where 'The States' newsroom comes in. https://statesnewsroom.com/

GottaLaff, to random
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Huh. Imagine that.

👀
IRS Audit of #Trump 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

timo21,
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@GottaLaff Why conservatives prefer an underfunded IRS: from the article: "That the IRS did not initiate an audit of the 2008 worthlessness deduction puzzled the experts in partnership taxation. Many assumed the understaffed IRS simply had not realized what Trump had done until the deadline to investigate it had passed. “I think the government recognized that they screwed up,” and then audited the merger transaction to make up for it, Jackel said."

GottaLaff, to random
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THE problem.

Via Emptywheel:

Criminal protection racket.

STEPHANOPOULOS: Just to sum up. You support for pres even if he's convicted in classified docs case. You support him for pres even though you believe he contributed to an insurrection. You support him for pres even though you believe he's lying about the last election. You support him for pres even if he's convicted in Manhattan case. I just want to say, the answer to that is yes, correct?

SUNUNU: Yeah. Me and 51% of America.

timo21,
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@troy_frizzell @GottaLaff with 161M registered voters, and 71M voted for Trump, that's only 45% of registered voters. Which is high enough to be scary. Only 46% of Americans are registered to vote.

StillIRise1963, to random
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I think we all should brace ourselves for how far this unhinged criminal will go to avoid prison.

timo21,
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@StillIRise1963 every time he gets one trial delayed, another one takes it's place.

StillIRise1963, to random
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A Michigan GOP member falsely labels a university basketball team as undocumented immigrants boarding a plane to create controversy. So, next time we see a group of GOP members traveling, let’s label it KKK members off to a cross burning.

timo21,
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@StillIRise1963 Rep. Maddock must have been thinking back to all the busses Ginni Thomas's group paid for to carry insurrectionists on Jan 6.

GottaLaff, to Georgia
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Wut. 1/…

“Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee wrote Wednesday in an order that six of the charges in the indictment must be quashed, including three against . But the order leave intact many other charges in the indictment and the judge wrote that prosecutors could seek a new indictment on the charges he dismissed.”

https://apnews.com/article/46e0b68c25719c404130f7e6eab69dcd

timo21,
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@GottaLaff Thanks for this sane summary of the judges ruling.

timo21, to random
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Starlink, star bright,
Only Starlink I see tonight,
I wish I may, I wish might
See an actual star tonight.
https://starwalk.space/en/news/spacex-starlink-satellites-night-sky-visibility-guide

timo21, to climate
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Here we go: "It’s so hot in Mexico that howler monkeys are falling dead from the trees."
https://apnews.com/article/mexico-heat-wave-howler-monkeys-dying-b99e0570dfb53a2fb7ebe663acecde78?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share

timo21, to random
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My whole family benefited greatly from an affirmative action program for white people: the WW2 version of the GI bill. The extended family as a whole went from auto workers in the 1940's to white collar professionals later on. I can trace all that directly back to the GI bill after WW2.

The post-WW2 GI bill would be a good place to start reparations for Americans descended from slaves. It is well documented who was left out & missed out on the family wealth building. That is easily traceable.

timo21, to random
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Here is an interesting description of MAGA churches that explains what people have observed about them, except the article is so much better than just an observation: "The most pernicious trend in the US currently is the alignment of evangelicals and followers of Ayn Rand”. https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2016/12/14/ayn-rand-and-us-evengelicalism-two-sides-of-the-same-worthless-rightwing-coin/

StillIRise1963, to random
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He was vibrant. Fuck your "old" propaganda and ageism. Know experience when you see it.

timo21,
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@StillIRise1963 the best 'out of fucks to give' speech yet by Biden

timo21, to random
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Can the media please run some artist conceptions of the camps the MAGA plan for immigrants, should they get control of the government? I bet the Heritage Foundation already has some drawn up.

GottaLaff, to legal
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📌👀 Via Josh Gerstein:

JUST IN: sets unusual, short-notice opinion release for Monday morning. Appears to signal that ruling on ballot eligibility is looming.

timo21,
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@GottaLaff The federalist society cabal is probably trying to use the court to suppress votes via the discouragement tactic. People shouldn't fall for it. Pro-democracy candidates keep winning special elections. The federalist society is unhappy with that.

timo21, to journalism
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The USA media won't call Trump an autocrat, but every mad autocrat in any other country is called 'Trump Like'. WTF?

GottaLaff, (edited ) to random
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Guess he needs the $. He’ll need even more to pay his lawyers: 1/…

sues ABC and Stephanopoulos, alleging defamation over Mace interview

Trump’s lawsuit takes aim at how Stephanopoulos at multiple points in his questioning said Trump had been found “liable for rape.” The jury had found Trump liable for sexual abuse under New York law, but not rape. https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4541257-trump-sues-abc-stephanopoulos-alleging-defamation-mace-interview/

timo21,
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@GottaLaff This was settled last year, but Trump won't stop. Ever. From the article: "
A judge has now clarified that this is basically a legal distinction without a real-world difference. He says that what the jury found Trump did was in fact rape, as commonly understood"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/19/trump-carroll-judge-rape/

lolgop, to random
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"85% of Americans have heard little to nothing about EMTALA. Once voters do learn about the federal law, however, they support it. The poll found that 78% of Americans believe that states with abortion bans should have to follow EMTALA—including 67% of Republicans!"

https://jessica.substack.com/p/the-week-in-abortion-16c

timo21,
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@lolgop from the article^^^: "Perhaps biggest anti-abortion strategy news this week is what Republicans are doing with fake ‘pro-choice’ ballot measures. Anti-abortion lawmakers know that their bans are extraordinarily unpopular and that abortion rights amendments keep winning elections—so they’ve decided to propose some of their own. Disguised as initiatives to protect abortion rights, these measures would actually trick voters into codifying Republican bans."

StillIRise1963, to random
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When Merrick Garlands tell you who they are, you should believe them.

timo21,
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@StillIRise1963 Garland letting that SP report out unedited was the last straw for me. Replace Garland with an acting. Put a prosecutor in there, the kind that will make Lindsay Graham's head explode. Citizen Donald used acting cabinet members all the time to get around the Senate.

StillIRise1963, to random
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Why is this hard? IF JOE DOESN’T WIN, you will have to move if you don’t want to die. Have you heard of WWII?

timo21,
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@StillIRise1963 I kept telling people trumps wall also keeps us in, but people poo-pooed that.

StillIRise1963, to random
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SCOTUS is a JOKE and EMBARRASSMENT. CLOWNS IN ROBES.

timo21,
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@StillIRise1963 Remember that 'catch and kill' operation Trump's FBI did on the tip line for accusations against Brett Kavanaugh?

StillIRise1963, to random
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“ 'I fainted at the top of the stairs bc my GP was quite dismissive of my low iron issues & I was frequently getting dizzy. I fell down the stairs, breaking my cllrbone & hitting my head.

A bit of cllrbone was tenting my skin in my chest & I had bld coming frm a cut on my head & had no idea if I ws concussed. It ws very scary.

I called 999. I ws told tht an ambulance wouldn’t come.’ “ "They said: ‘Well, it seems like yr OK enough to talk, so make your own way in.’ “

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/30/slow-999-response-times-forcing-more-people-to-find-own-way-to-ae-data-shows

timo21,
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@CStamp @StillIRise1963 That's the way conservatives work world wide. Starve public services until they are useless. Conservatives must be opposed.

StillIRise1963, to random
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I don’t think people understand the gravity of the SC decision. But, you WILL.

timo21,
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@StillIRise1963 Alito's opinion is a POS.

w7voa, to random
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"I would like to demand our border be closed," says Donald Trump with House Speaker Mike Johnson standing at his side. Biden "should close the border immediately."

timo21,
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@w7voa
US-Mexico cross-border trade totaled almost $800B in 2023 https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-mexico-cross-border-trade-214645669.html

futurebird, to random
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"Most of its expenses are tied to interest on debt, although TMTG also had around a $16 million operating loss for 2023."

Since the total operating losses were $58 million that's $42 million just for interest on debt! Interest. How big is the debt? How was it incurred? This is a social media company using tweaked open source software. They didn't make a new technology, there is no need for a huge investment to get a website running.

Where did they money go?

https://www.axios.com/2024/04/01/trump-truth-social-revenue-2023

timo21,
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@futurebird The salaries of the organizations board are huge. The board is composed mostly of Trump family and insiders. From the article: "Former Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) is pulling a salary of $750,000 a year as CEO of Trump Media & Technology Group, the company behind TRUTH Social, according to an SEC filing from last month."
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/a-glimpse-at-devin-nunes-comp-as-ceo-of-trumps-truth-social

StillIRise1963, to random
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McDonald’s found out no one NEEDS a fucking burger.

timo21,
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@StillIRise1963 McDonald's CEO Chris Kempczinski also accidently revealed that the actual living wage is $20/hour., since that $45K/year is apparently a cutoff for being able to afford McDonald's higher prices.

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