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Republicans should be nervous if this is happening in places like Texas. Sure, Paxton’s extra corrupt and it’s been ignored by the Texas legislature for too long, but accountability is what matters. And those who enabled him won’t be forgotten.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton impeached, suspended from duties |
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/05/27/ken-paxton-impeached-texas-attorney-general/
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton impeached, suspended from duties
The House voted 121-23 to suspend the attorney general and refer him to the Senate for trial on charges of bribery, abuse of office and obstruction. It was the first such impeachment since 1975.James Barragán (The Texas Tribune)
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DEA's failure to punish distributor blamed in opioid crisis raises revolving door questions
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has allowed one of the nation’s largest drug distributors to keep shipping addictive painkillers for nearly four years despite a judge’s recommendation to strip its license for turning a blind eye to thousands…JIM MUSTIAN and JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press (ABC News)
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My advice to Target and every other company ahead of Pride Month: it is bad business to give into bigots.
https://charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/what-target-needs-to-understand
What Target Needs to Understand
Listen now (8 min) | Bigots are starving for outrage.Charlotte Clymer (Charlotte's Web Thoughts)
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Yet another person dies in custody while held by @hellenicpolice in the notorious Omonia police station, #Athens. 55 year-old German tourist jumped to his death last night according to official police report.
#Greece #antireport #antireportgr @antireportgr
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Humans!
Please don't send us any more unsolicited nude pics with instructions on how to get to your house.
It's creepy.
Sincerely,
The Aliens.
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Captain Klaa Destroys Pioneer 10
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)Paramount PicturesDirected by William ShatnerScreenplay by David LougheryStory by William Shatner, Harve Bennett, David...YouTube
I have a question, isn't NASA located in Florida?
Would the head of NASA lose his job today and the builders of the probe go to jail?
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DeSantis, you're making yourself, your party and your state the joke of the world, and if he makes it to the White House, it won't just be Florida.🫣
Dear aliens,
Thank you for your well-considered response, please disregard this message as it wasn't for you but the other civilizations that have responded positively.
Sincerely,
A well-loved planet of sapents.
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If this is your thing, I can't recommend these enough.
Adastra by Echo Project https://echoproject.itch.io/adastra
Pykh Series by Eileen Glass
https://www.goodreads.com/series/234022-pykh
Claimings Series by Lyn Gala
https://www.goodreads.com/series/135562-claimings
The Golden Ratio doesn't exist in you, only Screen Aspect Ratios and Poker.
Get over it.
Yours sinceerly,
Aliens 👽
First Contact: Global team simulates message from extraterrestrial intelligence to Earth
May 22, 2023, Mountain View, CA – What would happen if we received a message from an extraterrestrial civilization? Daniela de Paulis, an established interdisciplinary artist and licensed radio operator who currently serves as Artist in Residence at …SETI Institute
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All you need to know to about today’s Turkish election:
“Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban congratulated Erdogan via Twitter for an ‘unquestionable election victory,’ and Qatar’s ruler, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani wished the Turkish president success in a tweet. Other congratulations poured in from Azerbaijan, Pakistan, Libya, Algeria, Serbia and Uzbekistan.”
https://www.inkl.com/a/dbvQVXcwYjw
#turkey #election #erdoğan #seçim
Turkey's Erdogan wins 5th term as president, extending rule into 3rd decade
Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan won reelection Sunday, extending his increasingly authoritarian rule into a third decade in a country reeling from high inflation and the aftermath of an earthquake that leveled entire cities.inkl
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Congrats pouring in from a basket of deplorables.
Such a devastating outcome.😩
Erdogan is good for the refugees and immigrants, or at least the clear and obvious lesser-evil
Try for once to see this from a different perspective. More important than ideology is the fact that there is a direct harm if anti-refugee nationalists win.
> Azerbaijan, Pakistan, Libya, Algeria, Serbia and Uzbekistan
Oh no! All the bad countries we were told not to like
@WahbAllat Let me try and see if from a different perspective. Hmm, maybe I’ll go back to Turkey and do that. Oh, I can’t because I’d be arrested for having spoken out against Erdoğan publicly.
How about you don’t try to Turksplain to me and fuck right off?
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YSK: Elon Musk’s Neuralink, which was recently approved for human trials, is under investigation by the USDA for violations of the Animal Welfare act. Reuters reported on this in December, and there haven’t been any updates since. The most damning allegations regard mistakes made, research subjects suffering, and loss of life due to Musk’s pressure on researchers to bring the product to market as quickly as possible. Human, animal - this blatant attitude that lives are disposable hurts us all. #vegan #vegetarian #twitter #neuralink #animalrights
Exclusive: Musk’s Neuralink faces federal probe, employee backlash over animal tests
Elon Musk’s Neuralink, a medical device company, is under federal investigation for potential animal-welfare violations amid internal staff complaints that its animal testing is being rushed, causing needless suffering and deaths, according to docume…Reuters
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At first glance, if it holds, it does appear to capture how a mature, shrewd President who's been to the rodeo more than once mostly held his own against a screaming drooling mob fumbling around with open cans of gasoline and cigarette lighters.
Debt ceiling deal reached in principle by Biden and McCarthy to avoid default:
https://www.npr.org/2023/05/27/1177688226/debt-ceiling-deal-biden-mccarthy-latest
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The agreement represents a compromise, which means not everyone gets what they want. That’s the responsibility of governing. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/05/27/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-bipartisan-budget-agreement-in-principle/
Statement from President Joe Biden on Bipartisan Budget Agreement in Principle | The White House
Earlier this evening, Speaker McCarthy and I reached a budget agreement in principle. It is an important step forward that reduces spending while protecting critical programs for working people and growing the economy for everyone.The White House
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@GreenFire Numerous social media users prefer not to live in reality. I’m glad Biden does.
Nobody lives a life of zero compromise and it’s ridiculous for anyone to see zero compromise as a good thing. He’s averting a world financial disaster and getting many concessions we all want along with it. Chip Roy is losing his mind about it. If anyone else is complaining in a zero fact manner, they’re helping out Chip Roy.
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IF this deal is what it appears to be and IF it actually holds, Biden has exceeded my expectations again.
Really don't think anyone could have done better.
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@GreenFire @silverhorseman Same. I really think naysayers are Freedom Caucus fans or people who didn’t think Biden was up to the job and are now wrong and would rather burn the country down than admit they were wrong.
He wasn’t even in my top 10 picks in the primary. I’ve admitted he’s exceeded my expectations. Others can do the same.
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Debt Ceiling is an artificial construct. Giving in to blackmail now opens Dems to endless Debt Ceiling standoffs and compromises.
It's still a shitty public policy deal but could have been way worse if Republicans had prevailed. @GreenFire
Compromise is one of those complicated by-products of democracy. Zero compromise really just means you're a dictator.
(Which an awful lot of conservatives seem to want - to be the dictator who says "let it be done" and that's that, no argument, no moderation, no options or lenience for the other side.)
Humans - the ordinary kind, living cheek by jowl with others who don't necessarily precisely agree with them on the details - give and take, and sometimes have to live with the lesser evil.
Compromise doesn't feel great, but it's actually good for us as people to give way and not just 100% get our own way.
(That said, I watched Beau of the 5th Column this morning, and he said something about 'work requirements (for welfare)' and OH AMERICA NO. Go look up Australia's "robodebt" if you want details: this does not end anywhere good.)
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•A lot of media is tiptoeing around identifying the Paxton impeachment as a manifestation of the inevitable GOP schism we all saw coming years ago.
Lindsay Graham said it out loud in 2016 with "If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it."
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•@AliceMarshall @jacobrogers256 @stacey_campbell I’m sorry but “Weimar Democrats” is a sick claim and I’m not dealing with that. Sick. As a Jewish person, I’m already exhausted by people constantly claiming everything they don’t like is Nazis. It’s insulting.
It definitely doesn’t apply to Democrats. That’s sickening.
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•I have deleted four, one-thousand page treatises that summarize: "OMG"
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no. bad.
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I will agree in part. I'm going to push back a bit with the 'get their act together'.
They have their act together. Democrats have been doing PLENTY of awesome things. Democratic supporters need to carry a little more good-faith than they are currently doing.
Democratic leaders will rescue us from the brink of Republican fascism and we respond with "Yeah. That the job". I believe that in error.
The acts are there... but the stage isn't a solo-act.
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We Democratic supporters need to get our acts together and properly showcase the big wins and victories that the Democrats are having.
Then we need to stop jumping into their victory laps to exclaim how we're not that impressed. (not you, just general - one)
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Sure, once they stop killing us I can welcome layered and nuanced conversation.
Until then - nope. Democrats have the majority, and even if they suck (they don't for the majority) they aren't trying to actively shoot me for trying to slide into your DM's.
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I appreciate your assessment. I'm not worried, I am not a "party line" person in general or in specific. I am painfully critical of everything, much to my own personal chagrin.
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I would personally suggest being mindful of the effort of exhaustion that happens.
Pro-Blue groups are fighting back against Pro-Red groups. Suddenly from off-stage comes Pro-Purple groups with the chair, WWE style.
Personal nuance is awesome amongst friends. I am able to easily divide the meat eaters and the veggies and make sure both groups are well fed. We can't pay attention to that nuance at the moment.
When it comes to feeding people - there are two major types generally right? Omnivores / Plant-eaters
I'm a plant-eater. Buffalo meat or whatever will actually make me very ill. I don't have the enzymes to break down the meat proteins.
If I am starving, and you don't consider my diet. I might get sick.
If you eat hamburgers, and I give you pea-protein or lentils. They won't hurt you. Unless you have another allergy - you'll likely be fine with it or bored.
Because of that difference, we should use non-meat-based
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I would personally suggest being mindful of the effort of exhaustion that happens.
Pro-Blue groups are fighting back against Pro-Red groups. Suddenly from off-stage comes Pro-Purple groups with the chair, WWE style.
Personal nuance is awesome amongst friends. I am able to easily divide the meat eaters and the veggies and make sure both groups are well fed. We can't pay attention to that nuance at the moment.
When it comes to feeding people - there are two major types generally right? Omnivores / Plant-eaters
I'm a plant-eater. Buffalo meat or whatever will actually make me very ill. I don't have the enzymes to break down the meat proteins.
If I am starving, and you don't consider my diet. I might get sick.
If you eat hamburgers, and I give you pea-protein or lentils. They won't hurt you. Unless you have another allergy - you'll likely be fine with it or bored.
Because of that difference, we should use non-meat-based food kits if we don't know the people we are swooping in to fed.
We're out here trying to save starving people. I have about 50 of these conversations a day trying to explain how to take heat out of conversations. I don't have time for complete nuance. I try when I can... but it's really hard to fight them *and* the people who say they support me.
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•@stacey_campbell @AliceMarshall @jacobrogers256 @mentallyalex I said none of that.
We are stuck in this doom loop where the right gets to enact their long term goals while the left is forced to constantly put out fires and try to keep the lights on. Changing that would be a laudable achievement but there has been little to no progress on it.
So we will be back with more corrupt officials and another debt ceiling crisis soon enough, because the system did not change.
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•@falcon You said “compromise with the far right”. Not me.
Not settling this would cause a disaster of epic proportions. Changing it with Republicans controlling the House and SCOTUS is impossible. It’s just fact. If this agreement goes through, the debt ceiling is raised until 2025. Voters can change it in 2024. That’s how it is. Sorry.
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Perhaps the Democrats should quit funding far right candidates? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/09/12/democrats-interfere-republican-primaries/
Democrats spend tens of millions amplifying far-right candidates in nine states
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Agree - it's important to note what Biden accomplished WITHOUT a clear senate majority - we had Manchin and Sinema not on board.
We lost the House and this debt ceiling issue is a consequence of that losing.
I believe a lot of Democratic leaders should have tripled-down on reproductive rights - we could have kept the House.
We know what we need to do - take the House, keep the WH, , the Senate, codify Roe v. Wade
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•@AliceMarshall @stacey_campbell Biden is extremely capable and effective, based on observable evidence, with lots of experience, legislative wins and great concrete stats to cite, and has already beat Trump once in a head to head matchup for Presidency
since then Trump's gotten more legal troubles. Biden has way more charisma than DeSantis too
he aint perfect but hes the overall frontrunner for reasons
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•@jacobrogers256 @AliceMarshall @stacey_campbell we just had a literally crazy, traitorous, lazy, ignorant, cruel President before him
I dont want an "imaginative" one now. I want a sane, experienced, steady, predictable, patriotic, trustworthy, healthy, honest family man
and being an older white man has the *bonus* quality of making it harder for GOP to mock him or demonize him because on paper he's their core beneficiary demographic in terms of messaging & policies
win & win
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•@AliceMarshall @stacey_campbell Trump couldn’t even rally support for Ken Paxton in the Texas legislature. He lost the house in ‘18, lost the presidential election and senate in ‘20, and it took a bazillion tries to get his guy elected as House Speaker (and it was likely his fault that the GOP didn’t win more seats in ‘22).
He hasn’t won anything since the election in 2016.
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•@AliceMarshall @stacey_campbell After 2016, anything is possible.
Comparing the Biden admin to Weimar Republic is hyperbolic rhetoric, though.
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•@stacey_campbell @AliceMarshall @raddude12 Not to mention pretty insulting to Jews. A lot of us are tired of people using that.
Why Holocaust Analogies Are Dangerous — United States Holocaust Memorial Museum-
https://www.ushmm.org/information/press/press-releases/why-holocaust-analogies-are-dangerous
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•Also a Jew here, and I feel that given the current situation of rising fascism & targeted attacks on the trans community make such analogies not only justifiable, but important. Don’t forget - the Nazis targeted the LGBT community first. They are using the same tactics the Nazis did, & pretending that they aren’t won’t go well for any of us.
We say “we remember” for a reason.
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•“Careless Holocaust analogies may demonize, demean, and intimidate their targets. But there is a cost for all of us because they distract from the real issues challenging our society, because they shut down productive, thoughtful discourse. At a time when our country needs dialogue more than ever, it is especially dangerous to exploit the memory of the Holocaust as a rhetorical cudgel. We owe the survivors more than that. And we owe ourselves more than that.”
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I still contend he did not win that one without fraudulent vote counts from 3 states.
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•@AliceMarshall @stacey_campbell Gotta disagree - Biden sold McCarthy a shit-sandwich and got him to eat it.
McCarthy got very little of what we was asking for and got out-maneuvered. Biden realized we don't have the house and took crashing the economy of the table. This deal also prevents Repubs from another bite at the apple in until after 2024.
Could Biden lose? Yes, I'm not taking anything for granted, but he's the only won he beat TFG and can do so again.
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•https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/5/27/2171832/-Debt-limit-deal-reached
Debt limit deal reached; Republicans hard-liners are livid
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Thanks for posting!
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•@einfeldt I found this to be a pretty cogent analysis of the debt ceiling negotiation...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/talking-stock
Talking Stock
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