1. There is a Congressional election on September 10 in North Carolina and the Republican candidate, Dan Bishop, is an investor in Gab, a fringe social media network that caters to white supremacists and anti-Semites
4. In the article, Gab is presented as an alternative social network that is permissive of racism. So the idea Bishop didn't know what Gab was about is ridiculous.
Now, after another mass murder, the GOP is spending millions to send Bishop to Congress.
5. After a white supremacist murdered a protester in Charlottesville, Bishop attacked Black Lives Matter, calling the group a "violent" and "racist" movement
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6. Bishop's response to the white supremacist mass murder over the weekend is also disturbing. He did not post anything acknowledging the tragedy.
Instead, he repeatedly responded to Democrats' reactions to the massacre by calling them "clowns"
1. @Verizon's CEO @hansvestberg said the company was "fiercely committed to diversity and inclusion across all spectrums because it makes us and the world better."
THAT WAS A LIE.
The company abruptly ended all its DEI efforts last week in exchange for the Trump administration approving a merger.
2. In a letter to FCC chair Brendan Carr, Verizon said it was "ending its DEI-related policies…effective immediately."
The company said it would eliminate all positions related to DEI, scrub DEI from its website, and end "workplace diversity goals"
3. Even the June 6, 2020 speech by @Verizon CEO @hansvestberg, where he declares that the company is "fiercely committed" to DEI has been scrubbed from the website.
1. In 2018, many CEOs boycotted Saudi Arabia's investment conference in protest of the murder of Jamal Khashoggi
Since then, US intel concluded the murder was ordered by Saudi Crown Prince MBS
Yesterday, many of those SAME CEOs traveled to Saudi Arabia to lunch with Trump and MBS
Let's name names
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2. In 2018, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said: "I'm very troubled by the reports... about Jamal Khashoggi...unless a substantially different set of facts emerges, I won't be attending"
3. Qatar is also home to Al-Udeid Air Base, "the largest U.S. military facility in the Middle East" with about 13,000 American troops. The presence of the base serves as a security umbrella for the country and enhances its diplomatic stature in the region.
1. We've been told there's a federal budget crisis that necessitates gutting the social safety net and slashing funding for medical research and national parks
Meanwhile, Trump's budget includes a record $1 TRILLION in military spending
Who benefits?
Military contractors like @elonmusk
Let's dig in
2. Trump is proposing a $1.01 trillion military budget — $119 billion more than this year — alongside a $259 billion cut to non-military spending.
3. With his $1 trillion Pentagon budget request, Trump is proposing that the US spend as much on its military next year as it did annually from 1942–45.
Effectively, Trump is asking Congress for a World War III-sized military budget even though troop deployments are at a historic low.
1. Trump says imposing tariffs on nearly every nation on earth is essential to force companies to make investments in the US instead of abroad
But since January, the Trump Organization has announced new multi-billion $ development deals in the UAE, Qatar, India, and Vietnam
And NONE in the US
2. In Qatar, the Trump Organization is partnering directly with the government. This violates Trump's own, extremely weak, ethics agreement he released before returning to the White House.