BACKING OFF?
Evangelical figures who previously supported Donald Trump are backing off now that he’s announced his third bid for the presidency. “Donald Trump can’t save America,” Mike Evans told the WaPo. “He can’t even save himself.” Evans was part of a group of evangelicals who met with Trump at the White House, & at one point gave him an award. Now, he says he’s done with Trump.

One of the very rare times I agree with Henry Olson. On balance, Biden has done a fine job of rallying the world to support Ukraine.

Gift article:
https://wapo.st/3hRA1wm

Iranian protesters set fire to Ayatollah Khomeini’s ancestral home
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/18/iranian-protesters-set-fire-to-ayatollah-khomeinis-ancestral-home

A Tweet from The Tori Atheist
#ResistChristoFascism

The prosecutor is prone to grandstanding, but is not wrong.

"The county commonwealth's attorney laid into Richard Dalton Simpson, 55, after the sentencing hearing, saying the defendant was "an immoral deviant" and "infested with a perversion.""

We are paying attention, Iran. This also needs to make many Americans feel serious about our elections and the severity of what's at stake in our future if we don't vote. Iranians are fighting just for an education and the ability to be able to get one as a woman [along with many other things] - We manifest safety and protections for those opposing this dictatorship.

#Iran #News #Breaking #LGBTQIA #Protests #Protesters #Activism #UnitedNations #WorldNews #AntiFascist #WitchesWhoReportOnThings

#VOTE

The limitations of gerrymandering

#News
#CoSoNews
#Politics

https://www.axios.com/2022/11/06/gerrymandering-competitive-districts

The interesting things you see when you’re taking a walk through your neighborhood.

Oh, one last thing. There are a lot of very smart people here so this might not even need to be said, but I will anyway.

If you're not paying for it, you become the product.

Go ahead and pay for this service. Think of it as your insurance policy against your data being used and monetized. I'm confident that won't happen here. But as a former product manager, building a platform costs real money. Let's spread the costs.

LIVE: Biden delivers remarks on the state of democracy after attack on Paul Pelosi

https://youtu.be/nJfFPaKiew4

In November 2021, Mr. Vance gave a speech at the National Conservatism Conference entitled “The Universities are the Enemy.”

“We have to honestly and aggressively attack the universities in this country,” said Mr. Vance, whose mother-in-law is a college provost at the University of California San Diego. “The universities do not pursue knowledge and truth,” he added. “They pursue deceit and lies.”

#Ohio #politics #education.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/01/style/usha-jd-vance-ohio.html

PSA - for new COSONAUTS - you can customize your view as you please, you can pin your friends, direct messages, lists, searches, and more as columns and re-order them too. Here's what my rig looks like >>

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“The most astonishing and heartening coral rebirth the world has ever seen." In 2015/16, the strongest El Niño on record moved across the coral reefs of the Pacific Line Islands, killing half of them. Six years on the reefs are thriving, with more than 43 million colonies per square kilometre. Nature will recover if we let it.

https://archive.ph/DTQKa

Lots of new people today!

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Take your time getting to know the place. You can customize which columns you have pinned. (Check the user guide, which is in my profile.)

You can also select "ostrich mode" (edit profile, preferences) to turn off a lot of the extra moving bits, and make things a lot less overwhelming.

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Billionaire in a midlife crisis... 🤔