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🧵I think it’s important to understand what disinformation like Sen. Mike Lee’s tweets are trying to do, psychologically/cognitively. In my disinfo class/Substack, I talk about how disinfo often uses “moral disengagement strategies” to manipulate people into accepting harmful conduct 1/

🏆 to whoever came up with and coordinated the No Kings protest at Ocean Beach, San Francisco.

Don’t miss it…absolute fire.

Vashon Island, WA

IDEA: Stop covering politics like its a fucking sporting event.

The GOP spending cuts don't provide an "opening" for Democrats to attack. They are either going to harm people or not. Journalism is supposed to be about informing people.

This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic

www.crabmuseum.org/visit

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Statement from Elias Law Group Chair Marc Elias

“Elias Law Group will not be deterred from fighting for democracy in court. There will be no negotiation with this White House about the clients we represent or the lawsuits we bring on their behalf."

"dei medal" you might as well just put "n*gger medal" because that's what they mean to say

Judges won't save us. Law enforcement won't save us. Democrats won't save us.

We're in it now, folks.

One thing we have going for us is that we're the majority. It'll be up to the people to organize and unite and speak up.

We're doing these racists a big favor when we pretend their project is in any way based on actual grievance with modern DEI policy. They just want to promote the belief that no non-white person has ever been worthy of any praise or qualified for any honor or position

Murphy: "If we continue to observe norms, if we continue to engage in business as usual, this democracy could be gone. I don't think we have a year to save American democracy. I think the way the president is acting ... puts out democracy at immediate risk."

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Twin brothers miss their flight to Boston, found dead 24 hours later in Georgia mountains Qaadir and Nazir Lewis' bodies were found on Bell Mountain. Their family disputes GBI's initial murder-suicide ruling, insisting the twins wouldn’t hurt each other.

It seems to me the family’s objections to the GBI’s theory of this case are quite compelling, given what’s publicly known. www.11alive.com/article/news...

WE ARE THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY Not a protest-it's reform BOLD WINNING LEADERSHIP No more weak, defensive politics BOTTOM-UP REFORM Power starts locally-senate, statehouses, city councils YEAR-ROUND ORGANIZING Permanent voter engagement, not just election cycles TAKE BACK THE NARRATIVE A people-driven agenda, not D.C. consultants STRONGER MESSAGING No more cautious, poll-tested politics - real conversations, real actions A PARTY THAT FIGHTS Take on obstruction, corruption, and media bias- without hesitation

Step Down Schumer

It gets worse. Schumer isn’t just going on a book tour—he’s charging for tickets.

Absolute insanity. While Americans are scared and in crisis mode, he’s basically saying, let them eat cake.

@schumer.senate.gov Step Down.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced the Trump administration’s defiance of an explicit court order, deporting Venezuelans to a concentration camp in a third country, El Salvador—which also happens to violate a lot of really good international laws.

On full display: the performative aspects of fascism - the deep sense of personal insult that others do not accept your demands to control their lives.

No matter how aggressive or powerful the fascist, their lifeblood is an unjustified sense of grievance.

Georgia, I’ll be holding a virtual town hall next Tuesday!

I’ll be answering your questions live on Facebook, Twitter/X, and Instagram. Leave your name, county, and questions you have for me below, and be sure to tune in next week!

Warming Trend in U.S.-Russia Relations Leaves Ukraine in Tough Spot

It's as if they're talking about the weather. This is about democracy and people's lives. The headline should reflect how dire and dark it is. "Tough spot." Really?

A billionaire who has attached himself to the federal government while sucking massive amounts of money from it thinks *other* people are “parasites”

Trump just cut off Taiwan and Ukraine.

But not Egypt, which may have sent Trump $10M in 2017 and has a history of bribing others.

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Has anyone else noticed that these people only ever equate policing with the ability to inflict force and violence rather than, say, the ability to maintain the peace?

Opinion | The Dubious History of America’s Most Famous Monarchist (Gift Article) It’s not hard to understand how Curtis Yarvin won the admiration of powerful patrons.

Jamelle Bouie. Gift link.

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Moments after defending Trump's pardons of rioters who assaulted police by saying the president has the pardon authority, Mike Johnson says Congress will investigate Joe Biden's pardons

Which house Democrat is going to go the well of the House and start listing off the various violent extremists who were just freed from jail after tasering Cap police officers, bashing their heads w flag poles, shitting on the floor in the capitol building, triggering one Cap police officers …

'Appalling': Current and former prosecutors lament Trump's Jan. 6 pardons Jason Manning, who spent years as a line prosecutor working on Jan. 6 cases, said it sent the message that "that attacking police officers like that is OK."

'Appalling': Current and former prosecutors lament Trump's Jan. 6 pardons

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Call log showing multiple calls from the dept of justice

Sergeant Gonell @sergeantaqgo.bsky.social sent me this picture. This is his call log. Each call is an automated Dept of "Justice" notification saying "The defendant you testified against is being released from the dept of corrections."
Each defendant assaulted him.

Shout out to the media who participated in the most obvious misdirection ever