goddamn this woman would be a powerful politician if she wanted to be.

https://elk.zone/www.threads.net/@aaron.rupar/post/DBoSU1oAu_Y

#uspol #MichelleObama

huh--turns out sex pest elon musk is also an illegal immigrant:

Elon Musk, enemy of ‘open borders,’ launched his career working illegally

https://wapo.st/4e0PdyI

#GiftArticle #uspol

Hot off the presses

#uspol #theOnion

A very valuable thread about now from AR Moxon:

https://elk.zone/hachyderm.io/@JuliusG[email protected]/113369339991876760

#hope #uspol

Fucking hell. This is gonna be what makes me unsubscribe.

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/25/nx-s1-5165353/washington-post-presidential-endorsement-trump-harris

#uspol #wapo

"sure, fascism is *pretty* bad, but I have real concerns about transgender women in sports" is a hell of a take.

#uspol

On the one hand--goddamn.

On the other--is it possible the problem here is mostly that you're still on twitter?

I’m Running Out of Ways to Explain How Bad This Is

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/10/hurricane-milton-conspiracies-misinformation/680221/?gift=iGZXinMqNFNWvVnRSLFr7qkzhf4Go1cPUg7N80wfkGs&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

/nosanitize

#uspol #disinfo

LOL

src: https://elk.zone/mstdn.crispius.ca/@Crispius/113289201992317799

#uspol

This here is what it is. 🔥

https://elk.zone/beige.party/@GrimmReality/113280870267210586

#uspol

Damning.

https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/10/10/donald-trump-bednurse-to-vladimir-putin/

#uspol #russia

Despicable, plain & simple.

Saying immigrants bring ‘bad genes’ echoes Trump’s history — and the world’s

With a mishmash of false claims about crime and ridiculous race science, Trump makes explicit the racism at the heart of his politics.

https://wapo.st/4ewgSZq

#GiftArticle #uspol

Revoke Elon Musk’s Federal Contracts

https://resist.bot/petitions/PKCKKM

#musk #uspol

Mike Johnson refuses to say Trump lost 2020 election

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/republican-house-speaker-mike-johnson-refuses-say-trump-lost-2020-election-2024-10-06/

#uspol

Very interesting.

'You're a charlatan': Judge sentences defiant Tina Peters to 9 years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXqkOM5Vbbw

#uspol #BigLie

Why *of course* this isn't a transparent grift? Why would you even ask that?

'Trump Bible' one of few that meet Walters' criteria for Oklahoma classrooms

https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2024/10/04/donald-trump-supported-bible-one-of-few-that-meets-ryan-walters-criteria-for-ok-classrooms/75510021007/

#uspol

oh snap--they unredacted part of the gov's case against trump!

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/02/trump-crimes-2020-election-unsealed-filing

not much detail right now, but I bet they're reading as fast as they can...

#uspol

Hoo boy...

Trump mixes up words, swerves among subjects in off-topic speech

https://wapo.st/3zwddvv

#GiftArticle #uspol

I tell you folks--that hurricane woulda never happened on my watch. No sir--if I was president it would have stayed safely out at sea. Because I have a terrific relationship with hurricanes--all the natural disasters really. Earthquakes, tsunamis, you name it. They all love me.

Hurricanes know only I am bold enough to reach for the nuclear deterrent. They won't dare come near us. I'll nuke them back to the stone age.

#uspol

Well that's an interesting dynamic...

A quarter of the votes Trump got in 2020 in GA, FL, NC and SC came from counties that are now federal disaster areas. Take away the votes in NC in those places and Trump loses the state four years ago.

https://wapo.st/4et5Q76

#uspol #GiftArticle

More good stuff from Marcotte.

https://www.salon.com/2024/10/01/jd-vance-isnt-just-thin-skinned--he-thinks-whining-is-a-winning-political-strategy/

(for some reason this puts me in mind of the scene from Tombstone w/Billy Bob Thornton as a faroe dealer, bitching up a storm)

#uspol