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Trump flaunted CDC guidelines for COVID- led thousands, if not millions of his supporters to cavlier behaviors spreading infection- some died. Then when their recklessness at the WH causes an inevitable cluster- got state of the art treatment the regular public can't access.
2. The coddling of Trump, the Trump family, Republican politicians at both the fed and state level- all of that- must stop after this.

It can't continue w/o enablers like the presidential debate commission.

No masks/social distancing- no service

And people who are high risks
3. who are attending large rallies and in congregating and not masking, etc- these people are high risk. They should not be allowed to come into spaces with other people until they have quarantined after their last risky behavior. Stop making it easy for them to endanger innocent
4. people. Lives are on the line! If you are at the grocery store, the person in line behind you and how they are conducting their behaviors affect your probability to get this virus. Same for cashiers. Thus, having 40% of the country running around acting like there is no virus
5. is a massive risk for those of us trying to protect ourselves and our families. As @harrisonjaime just pointed out- @LindseyGrahamSC is one of these high-risk individuals. He is exposing himself to COVID deniers who are not masking and congregating and thus, its a matter of
6. when, not if, @LindseyGrahamSC gets covid. And how many innocent people will he infect in the process? Will any die. If you infect someone but did everything you could to avoid getting sick and passing it on, I assume you still feel terrible. When you infect someone and they
7. die bc you refuse to believe in science, you refuse to do what is right for your community, family, for neighbors, your co-workers, your employees, your friends, at least the ones trying to avoid getting sick then in my view if they get infected and die- you killed them. How
8. can anyone want that on their conscious? Literally, everyone involved in this "covid denialism" movement are getting people killed- bc voters trust their political leaders (from their own party) and when someone you trust, like the President you support is telling you there is
9. nothing to worry about, that wearing a mask is for the weak, that you should live your life back to normal, you believe them. So yes, Trump, these right-wing media figures, and GOP pols have been getting people killed. And when a debate commission allows them to not wear masks
10. they are enabling it. So let's be sure that we put an end to the enabling bullshit.

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Apr 29
🚨Please Stop Trying to Murder Trump
Political Assassination Is the Road to Civil War

One unstable individual commits an act of political violence, and suddenly an entire political coalition gets recast as an existential enemy in the minds of millions of angry people. And once people become convinced their families, their country, their way of life, or their movement is under attack, violence stops feeling offensive to them and starts feeling defensive. Necessary. Patriotic, even.

That is the road to political bloodshed.Image
I need you to understand something very clearly:

The assassination of Donald Trump would be one of the worst possible things that could happen to the United States of America right now.

And I don’t mean morally. I mean strategically, politically, socially, historically. I mean, as someone who studies authoritarianism, democratic collapse, political violence, and mass behavior for a living, the idea of Trump being assassinated is absolutely terrifying—not because Trump himself is good for democracy, he is a threat! Trump has purged democratic institutions, legitimized conspiracy theories, radicalized distrust, and pushed the boundaries of authoritarian politics in ways America has never experienced in the modern era.
But there is something much more dangerous than an authoritarian movement slowly losing public support and that is an authoritarian movement transformed into a martyr cult. And I really do not think enough Americans understand what would happen if Trump were successfully assassinated.

We are already got a preview of it.

The man accused of murdering Charlie Kirk left behind evidence that made his political motivations crystal clear. And the same is true with this latest suspect. The motives were there. I’m going to include his writing because I’m already watching people pretend this is somehow ambiguous when it really isn’t.Image
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Apr 16
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🔥Hell Hath No Fury Like a Woman Scorned
Elon's latest baby mama exposes the MAGA narrative machine

One of the persistent mysteries of modern politics is why the online right always seems to move in lockstep. A scandal breaks, even fake scandals like the Biden Crime Family and within minutes thousands of accounts are repeating the same attacks.

Via the GOP’s Wall of Sound, things like trans people on beer cans or fake policies like CRT become MAJOR ISSUES. A talking point appears on Twitter, and suddenly it’s everywhere—from influencers to Fox News hosts to members of Congress.

To outsiders, it looks like spontaneous grassroots consensus.
But according to former MAGA influencer Ashley St. Clair—who spent nearly a decade inside the ecosystem—that appearance is largely an illusion. What she describes (while doing her makeup for some reason, Gen Z is weird) is something far more structured: a coordinated political messaging system that runs through influencers, consulting firms, billionaire donors, and conservative media.

Think of it less like a movement and more like an information supply chain.

And here’s how it works.
1. The Command Center: Influencer Group Chats

At the core of the system are large private group chats populated by influencers, operatives, and most important, politicians and conservative media outlets.
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Apr 5
The entire world is looking at America like WTF and most Americans still have no idea anything is wrong.
Here's why:

🚨Democracy on Autopilot
America expanded the right to vote without building the civic culture democracy requires

This week brought another round of buried headlines declaring that Americans don’t understand their own government.

The latest national civics assessment shows just 22% of eighth-grade students scoring “proficient” in civics, while roughly 31% fall below basic competency. Surveys of college students find that about 60% cannot identify the term length of members of Congress, and adult civics quizzes routinely show large shares of Americans unable to answer basic questions about how the federal government works.Image
On social media we are seeing one common theme from foreigners:

WTF is wrong with you, America?!

To which I am forced to reply with the sad reality that most Americans have still no idea that any of this is even happening.

No, really. Go out in the world. Do you a get a sense people realize they are living through what is shaping up to be a historical clusterfuck of epic proportions. One commentator said the guy behind him in line at the airport didn’t understand why the TSA lines were so long, so he told him its from the shutdown.

Dude said “what shutdown?!”
Watch Good Morning America and you would never know anything is wrong. Few Americans watch news of any type, but when they do, they watch “news” that would be in the culture section in any other country.

Every time new data drops that reconfirm old findings about America’s civic crisis, the reaction is always the same: hand-wringing and a call for more civics classes. The fact is, just 5 states fail to mandate K-12 civics and yet 60% of America adults still don’t know the House of Representatives is a 2 year term, so increasing access to civics in the remaining states ain’t gonna fix it.Image
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Mar 15
🚨🚨🚨A List of Grievances
Let Facts Be Submitted to a Candid World

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be altered for light and transient causes; and experience shows that people are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by altering the systems to which they are accustomed.Image
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations reveals a design to elevate one man above the laws and institutions of a free republic—when the people’s votes are treated as obstacles, the rule of law as inconvenience, the public treasury as private opportunity, and the grave powers of taxation and war as instruments of personal ambition—it becomes the right of the people to speak plainly of the injuries they have endured, and through their votes to seek redress.
For a free people cannot long remain free when leaders impose new burdens upon them without candor, levy economic taxes upon them under false pretenses, and risk their lives and security through rash decisions made without the sober judgment such power demands.
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Mar 12
🚨The Pentagon’s Armageddon Problem
When Christian Nationalism Runs the U.S. Military

Pete Hegseth's White Christian Nationalist wet dream was to start war in the the Middle East to bring on biblical apocalypse.

And here we are. 🧵Image
As American troops were prepped to attack Iran, some were told something rather chilling.

According to complaints filed with a military watchdog group, soldiers were briefed that the conflict unfolding in the Middle East was part of “God’s divine plan.” Some commanders reportedly referenced the Book of Revelation and framed the war in prophetic terms.

Think about that for a second.

American soldiers — sent halfway around the world with rifles and drones — being told they are participating in biblical prophecy.
This isn’t a fringe sermon happening in a megachurch somewhere. These are the kinds of ideas circulating inside the same political movement that now controls the Pentagon.

And the man currently running it, Pete Hegseth, has spent years promoting exactly the worldview that makes that framing possible.Image
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Mar 9
🚨🚨🚨Iran’s Other Leverage: WATER

A couple days ago I wrote about the first lever Iran holds in this war: the Strait of Hormuz. If Iran disrupts shipping through that narrow channel between Iran and Oman, roughly one-fifth of the world’s oil supply gets caught in the crossfire. Oil spikes. Shipping markets panic. The global economy starts sweating. That’s leverage.Image
But Hormuz is only half the story. Because there’s another vulnerability sitting right across the Persian Gulf—one that almost nobody outside the region knows about.

The modern cities of the Gulf are built in the middle of a motherfucking desert. Dubai. Abu Dhabi. Doha. Kuwait City. Manama.

Like this kind of desert!!!Image
Cities like these couldn’t exist before modern infrastructure. They exist because massive industrial plants along the coast turn seawater, the only water there, into drinking water. Take those machines away, and the system holding these cities together starts to break down frighteningly fast. Which means that in a regional war, those machines become something else entirely: targets.
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