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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 random
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"The permission to be your worst self lay at the heart of Trump’s appeal in 2016. He didn’t use dog whistles or pretend to be a better person than he was; his bigotry, resentments and anger were right on the surface, and he encouraged his followers to be like him. Let your freak flag fly, stop being polite, grab ‘em by the pussy and tell those bastards what you think of them, right to their face."

~ Paul Waldman

https://paulwaldman.substack.com/p/trumps-conviction-has-liberated-the

wdlindsy, to Women
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"The twice-impeached, two-time popular vote loser, adjudicated business fraud and rapist, and convicted felon Donald John Trump hates Black people, hates strong and educated women, and hates immigrants (until Black people, women, and immigrants can do something positive for him). He is having his life changed and his legal problems increased by Black people, women, and immigrants."

~ Pamela Hilliard Owens

#Trump #racism #women #immigrants #karma #ConvictedFelonTrump

https://wearespeaking.substack.com/p/the-choice-convicted-felon-donald

wdlindsy, to random
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"Steve Bannon, onetime Breitbart honcho, onetime Trump campaign manager, onetime White House aide, current operator of a right-wing conspiracy podcast lie factory, has been ordered to jail by the judge in his contempt of Congress case. Bannon must report to an as yet unnamed federal lockup by July 1st to begin serving a four-month sentence."

~ Lucian K. Truscott

https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/arrogance-greed-and-stainless-steel

wdlindsy, to random
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"Here is the name of every Republican senator who proudly helped kill the Right to Contraception Act."

~ Talia Jane

Clicking the link below will take you to the list.

https://newrepublic.com/post/182307/list-republicans-senate-vote-right-contraception-act-birth-control

wdlindsy, to random
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Noting Mike Johnson's appointment of Scott Perry and Ronnie Jackson to the House Intelligence Committee, Maegan Vazquez writes,

"The appointments of Jackson and Perry come a day after Johnson, a staunch Trump ally, broadly outlined a 'three-pronged approach' on how the Republican majority can target the Justice Department, New York and other jurisdictions for investigating Trump — using, among other things, House oversight powers."


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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/05/perry-jackson-house-intelligence-committee/

wdlindsy, to random
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"TO PROTECT DONALD TRUMP, the Republican party has turned against every institution that stood in his way: the press ('the enemy of the people'), the civil service ('the Deep State'), presidential elections ('rigged,' 'stolen'), courts (for refusing to overturn the 2020 election),"

~ Will Saletan


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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/gop-maga-election-denialism-to-jury-denialism

wdlindsy, to journalism
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Oliver Darcy reports on Wall Street Journal's hit piece citing Republicans to claim Biden is slipping:

"The Journal's piece pointed to a continued problem roiling the news media as it covers the 2024 election. Trump is permitted to fall asleep in court and make nonsensical public statements on a routine basis without any serious questions raised about his mental acuity. Meanwhile, Biden is judged on an entirely different standard."


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https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/17176400826415a7d282e2d73/raw

wdlindsy, to random
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"Today was an important day to be paying attention. In many ways, we seem to be going backward. Only our votes can ultimately change that."

~ Joyce Vance


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https://joycevance.substack.com/p/going-retrograde

wdlindsy, to random
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"Michigan Rep. Debbie Dingell asked the doctor [Fauci] to describe the threats he and his family have faced—this being the shameful price of public service since Trump became president and empowered the worst among us to harass those trying to do good. As he spoke, Fauci choked up, struggling to hold back tears."

~ Steven Beschloss


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https://www.americaamerica.news/p/standing-up-to-bullies

wdlindsy, to random
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“Far-right conservatives are sowing misinformation that inaccurately characterizes IUDs, emergency contraception, even birth-control pills as causing abortions.”

~ Lauren Weber

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/06/05/birth-control-access-abortion-ban/

wdlindsy, to random
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"We have a trio of stories this morning from mainstream news outlets warning of Donald Trump weaponizing the justice system in a second term to go after his perceived political enemies.

The promised retribution of a Trump II reign of revenge is so open, obvious, and direct that you begin to wonder who still needs to heed the warnings."

~ David Kurtz

https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/how-much-more-warning-about-trump

wdlindsy, to geopolitics
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"Despite numerous legal obstacles to finding jobs in the United States, immigrants are more likely to work than U.S.-born workers overall and at every education level—a difference that grows significantly among the least skilled. Immigrant adults without high school degrees are about 20 percentage points more likely to work than comparable U.S.-born adults. Furthermore, nearly 97% of immigrants who looked for jobs in 2022 found them."

~ David Bier

https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/america-cant-do-without-immigrants

wdlindsy, to journalism
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"My single greatest desire – the raison d'être for the work I’ve done here on Press Watch for the last four and a half years – has been for the news industry to recognize that it desperately needs a reset. Specifically: that it has failed to properly adjust to radical and asymmetric polarization of our political and media environment."

~ Dan Froomkin


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https://criticalread.substack.com/p/beware-the-tory-takeover-of-the-washington

wdlindsy, to random
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"Research shows that immigration is linked to decreases, not increases, in violent crime. Neighborhoods with higher concentrations of immigrant populations also have lower crime rates, multiple studies found. Between 1990 and 2014, undocumented immigration, in particular, was 'generally associated with decreasing violent crime,' according to one study."

~ Judd Legum

https://popular.info/p/the-facts-about-bidens-new-immigration

wdlindsy, to random
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"The embattled Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is vowing to use the arsenal of tools at his disposal, including defunding, to target the U.S. Dept. of Justice after ex-president Donald Trump was convicted in a New York State prosecution on 34 felony charges last week."

~ David Badash


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https://www.alternet.org/johnson-gop-trump-conviction/

wdlindsy, to random
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"ProPublica has once again, and heroically, lifted the rock and revealed the worms wiggling beneath it. The Trump Campaign is so mad about the report that they have already threatened to sue. Now it’s up to our elected officials to launch further investigations and our federal and state authorities to bring witness tampering charges if the evidence, even if largely circumstantial, ultimately supports them."

~ Jay Kuo

https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/married-to-the-mob

wdlindsy, to random
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"One statement stands out in all this sound and furor: GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson’s call for SCOTUS to 'step in.'

The morning after the conviction, Johnson went on Fox & Friends to reassure Trump supporters that he has the ear of the justices."

~ Lisa Needham


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https://www.publicnotice.co/p/mike-johnson-trump-conviction-scotus-appeal-fox

wdlindsy,
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“'I think that the justices on the court — I know many of them personally — I think they’re deeply concerned about [Trump’s conviction], as we are. So I think they’ll set this straight, but it’s going to take awhile.'

Johnson went on to say 'this will be overturned, guys, there’s no question about it. It’s just going to take some time to do it.'”

Translation: we Republicans own the Supreme Court….


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wdlindsy, to random
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"The producer of the Dinesh D’Souza 2020 election conspiracy film '2,000 Mules' will cease its distribution and remove it from its platforms apparently as part of a settlement of a defamation lawsuit brought by a Georgia man whom the film falsely depicts as illegally voting."

~ David Kurtz

Because the film's a pack of lies, and given the chance to defend those lies, True the Vote ran and hid.


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https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/republicans-can-never-grovel-enough

wdlindsy,
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"The movie’s claims were immediately debunked as so patently absurd that even Fox News wouldn’t cover them. That did not stop Trump from airing the film at Mar-a-Lago and touting it as proof that he’d rightfully won the presidency in 2020. And in his bid to keep his bar license in DC, Rudy Giuliani even cited the movie as evidence that his election fraud claims were true. (Spoiler Alert: LOL.)"

~ Liz Dye


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https://www.lawandchaospod.com/p/2000-mules-gets-kicked

wdlindsy, to random
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"On Sunday morning, Trump told Fox and Friends, 'I didn't say 'lock her up,''

Aaron Rupert was quick to dig up old campaign footage of Trump in Georgia doing exactly that."

~ Joyce Vance

#Trump #Hillary #LockHerUp #BigLie
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https://joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-ahead-e7c

wdlindsy,
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As Parker Molloy notes, Washington Post (further) disgraces itself by running a mendacious headline about this story stating that Trump "agreed" with chants from his mob calling for Hillary to be locked up.

But as Peter Wade notes, there's Trump right there on video in 2020 telling his mob,

“Lock up the Bidens, lock up Hillary. Lock them up.”

Parker Molloy has links to these articles.

#Trump #Hillary #LockHerUp #BigLie
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https://www.readtpa.com/p/one-for-the-bad-headlines-hall-of

wdlindsy, to random
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A powerful statement by A.R. Moxon about the cult of "mostly male mostly white mostly Christian supremacists" that stands behind Trump and forms his power base demand reputational immunity" as they violate all canons of morality and decency to support him, while insisting that the rest of us treat the as not just moral authorities, but as the supreme moral authority — no questions asked.


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https://www.the-reframe.com/not-better-but-worse/?ref=the-reframe-newsletter

wdlindsy,
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Moxon concludes,

"I think [Trump's] sentence should be a permanent revocation of the reputational license of our self-professed moral authorities, and the cost should be the moral authority itself, and the reputational immunity it bestows."


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wdlindsy,
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"I think we can do this if we all recognize the great truth: Our nation's supremacist cult—mostly white, mostly male, mostly Christian people—are not authorities at all, but vicious greedheads and creepy, religious weirdos, people who are willing to commit any atrocity in order to control our bodies and our lives for the satisfaction of their own self-regard and personal comfort."


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wdlindsy, to Russia
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Max Bergmann, a former State Department official and now program director with the Center for Strategic International Studies, predicts Russian-fueled turbulence at the Democratic national convention in August. He foresees attempts of Russian operatives to infiltrate groups of protestors and attempt to turn protests violent.

He also notes that social media has “become way more of a cesspool than it was in 2016.”


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https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2024/05/31/russia-propoganda-democratic-national-convention-dnc-chicago

wdlindsy,
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@lin11c After folks like Maria Butina opened our eyes (or should have done so) to how Russia can use its citizens residing in the US to engage in spying, we surely have every reason to exercise caution, it seems to me. I think what Bergmann may be worried most about are people who wouldn't appear to be working for Russia, but are hidden as "ordinary" Americans.

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