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Over on the Xitter, Musk is preventing people from following Kamala Harris campaign. What do you bet his algorithm also pushes down her posts and favorable replies?
https://www.newsweek.com/kamala-harris-elon-musk-joe-biden-donald-trump-2024-election-1928403
I wish she'd come over here.
MAGA Crowd Melts Down After Mike Pence Says Something Reasonable
Trump followers were in a tizzy after the former VP thanked Biden for "putting the interests of our Nation ahead of his own" by ending his campaign. He also said Biden’s departure from the campaign and the assassination attempt on Trump suggests that it’s time for “leaders in both parties to project calm and send a message of strength and resolve to America’s friends and enemies.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mike-pence-tweet-response-biden_n_669e8f38e4b03375f56eb520
“A small political action committee that styles itself as a disaffected group of Nikki Haley supporters who are committed to keeping Donald Trump out of the White House announced their endorsement of Kamala Harris for president on Sunday.”
THAT’s what I wanted to see.
Why?
It’s important. It shows that they won’t go, “Oh, well, guess I’ll vote for Trump…”
It may seem unimportant, but never underestimate grassroots.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/pro-nikki-haley-group-throws-its-weight-behind-kamala-harris
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AI cat covers Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven
#HoldTheLine
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Fred Wellman @FPWellman
I see the new argument is that if Joe stays on the ballot people will stay home. Odd, he wasn't on the ballot in any of the elections since 2020 where Democrats have over performed on average 13 points or more. Do you think women are forgetting Dobbs because Joe is old? Do you think union members are forgetting their wins the last 3 years because Joe is old? Do you think anyone is forgetting #SCOTUS is stripping our rights because Joe is old?
All our adversaries could do "whatever the hell they want" if 45 is elected.
#politics #taiwan #nato
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-not-defend-taiwan-china-1926191
If you're interested in a more gentle, if terribly unsettling, book about growing up Appalachian than Hillbilly Elegy, this novel by Kinsolver is a good choice. It's a modern take on David Copperfield touching on many issues of rural life. The narrator of the Audible edition is excellent, his voice dripping with well earned cynicism.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60194162-demon-copperhead
J.D. Vance - another cynical elite - Yale Law School. As Steve Schmidt said they look as this and say to themselves: "I can ride that tiger. I can manipulate these rubes who actually like this guy to my own advantage." Because at the core of an autocratic movement is no morality. In fact, it's immorality or amorality, because it's about power. And in the pursuit of that power, history teaches us terrible, terrible things happen.
Did you know you can do something directly against the Heritage Foundation? As a 501c3, the Heritage Foundation is not allowed to participate in politics, let alone publish political manifestos. You can download Project 2025 from the website and attach it to IRS Form 13909 and challenge their tax exempt status.
Money is the only weapon. Here is your second American Revolution. Right here. It doesn't take that long to file.
Clarence Thomas possibly meeting secretly with Kremlin officials in Russia and then committing felony Tax Fraud to cover it up is just another major breaking news story media has no time to cover because Biden cleared his throat a few extra times 12 days ago."
https://www.newsweek.com/clarence-thomas-yacht-trip-russia-raises-questions-1923668
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