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Ivanka Trump is right. 80% of Americans are ready to #findsomethingnew Image
When it comes to the handling of COVID, 67% of Americans are ready to #findsomethingnew ipsos.com/en-us/views-tr… Image
As for race relations, there 58% of Americans are ready to #findsomethingnew cbsnews.com/news/2020-dail… Image
American women are very eager to #findsomethingnew thehill.com/hilltv/rising/… Image
Truly, across the land, Americans are gasping to #findsomethingnew pbs.org/newshour/polit… Image
In Kansas and Montana, the cry goes up: #findsomethingnew axios.com/trump-biden-po… Image
American friends and allies plead #findsomethingnew pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020… Image
And with special relevance to this latest Ivanka Trump brainwave ... Americans look at the present First Family and almost unanimously agree: #findsomethingnew nytimes.com/2019/04/01/us/… Image

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Nov 18
Canadian governments - federal, provincial, municipal - better have plans ready for when displaced asylum-seekers (thousands? tens of thousands? hundreds of thousands?) attempt to cross the border from the United States into Canada.
Under present law and policy, border-crossers from the US can be refused entry into Canada. But that policy will become hard to enforce if the number of border-crosses gets very big.canada.ca/en/immigration…
The pressure of migrant numbrers collapsed the German borders in 2015. Once Germany opened, hundreds of thousands of people arrived in a very few weeks from all over the world. Brexit, Trump, all the present era of reactionary authoritarian nationalism trace back to that moment.
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Nov 15
One of my best friends in elementary school was a boy named Brian. He vanished from class during our 6th grade year: sick. No, we could not visit, the teacher said. We were encouraged to draw and write cards instead. 1/x
The card-writing became a regular ritual for our class and for Brian's friends. Then came the day when the teacher solemnly informed the class that Brian had died. He had succumbed to childhood leukemia, a hopeless killer in the early 1970s. 2/x
Today, childhood leukemia has a 90% survival rate, thanks to a sophisticated menu of treatments developed and sold by companies like Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical-technology.com/data-insights/…, Novartis novartis.com/us-en/sites/no…, and Pfizer. pfizer.com/products/produ… 3/x
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Nov 7
Everyone who endorses the false claim that the US economy of 2024 is an inflation-wracked hellscape of misery for working people ...

is doing advance comms work for the Trump administration when in 90 days time they start taking credit for the best economy since the 1960s.
On CNN (to the disgust of Tucker Carlson's website)
dailycaller.com/2024/07/24/dav…
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Nov 5
Pro-Trump political violence in 2021 was not spontaneous. It was incited by a serving president. The president also refused to protect the intended targets of violence. The violence of 2021 did not erupt bottom-up. It was organized top-down. 1/x
Those conditions do not prevail this time. Trump is out of office, any incitement will be - and will obviously appear as - blatantly an act of rebellion. The serving president will enforce the law with necessary force. 2/x
Individuals can run their mouths and lose their tempers. The United States is a big country with a lot of guns. But what made 2021 so dangerous was the complicity of the head of government. Minus that ... 3/x
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Nov 3
Closing argument in @TheAtlantic The rest is up to you.

theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
Because of Trump, America's "proud tradition of peaceful transition of power" has reset to zero. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…Image
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Oct 27
I posted the below last night in an emotional mood. It was answered by many generous comments in remembrance of my lost Miranda, and I thank every commenter. Of course there were also some other comments. A thread about those....
I'll quote one of those "others," but it stands for many: "You’re voting for the abortion of your grandchild? How exciting!"

That phrase "your grandchild" came up again and again - as if my daughter's child, had she lived to have one, would belong to *me* more than to her.
My original post didn't reference abortion at all. I was not particularly thinking about abortion when I cast my vote as my daughter would have wished. I was thinking rather of the grim and resentful drive to police and control women that seems to animate Trump/Vance.
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