“The whole shift is gone."—9th VTA worker dies in Bay Area's deadliest mass shooting.
Paul Megia, 42
Taptejdeep Singh, 36
Adrian Balleza, 29
Jose Hernandez, 35
Timothy Romo, 49
Michael Rudometkin, 40
Abdolvahab Alaghmandan, 63
Lars Lane, 63
Alex Fritch, 49 mercurynews.com/2021/05/26/act…
VTA killer is a poster child for how deadly wrong SCOTUS was in Heller, reinterpreting 2d Am—facially about militias—to confer individual gun rights. He was known for nursing grievances, resenting coworkers, violent mood swings, alcohol abuse, sexual assault. And could buy guns.
Supreme Ct in Heller adopted the NRA's twisted reinterpretation of the 2d Amendment—as intended to guarantee gun rights to individuals. Conservative Chief Justice Burger called that view "the greatest pieces of FRAUD…perpetrated on the American people by special interest groups"
No, the Founders never intended to create an unregulated individual right to a gun. But millions believe they did. We understand now how that happens: Right-wing propaganda, media, lobbyists, money. The NRA's relentless crusade changed public opinion, laws, even the Constitution.
The long NRA crusade to mainstream its tortured reinterpretation of the 2d Amendment ls a triumph of gaslighting—a now regular RW propaganda tool.

"By the time the issue reached the Supreme Court, the desired new doctrine fell like a ripe apple from a tree,"—@BrennanCenter, 2014
@BrennanCenter It's Orwellian that an amendment that explicitly presumes regulating guns was used to overturn gun regulation, even expand gun rights. Gun control was the norm for 200+yrs! Now we're awash in weapons of war & mass shootings b/c guns are just another culture war to the right wing.

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@mkraju McConnell had the audacity to call it "slanted & unbalanced." The Jan.6 Commission— negotiated by top D & top R on DHS Cmte—has 10 independent people—5 appointed by Rs, 5 by Ds. The definition of balanced & unslanted.

GOP can't survive w/o lies. And America can't survive w/them.
@mkraju "The structure of the commission is almost an exact replica of the 9/11 Commission. Both bodies consist of 10 members, five selected by Democrats and five by Republicans."

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I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. GOP Rep. Paul Gosar should be in jail for inciting the January 6th insurrection. Instead, he's participating in the House Oversight Hearing, where he's pushing propaganda downplaying the attack from the very Capitol attacked by his terrorists.
Oh here we go again. We're living in GOP Groundhog Day hell. Rep. Jody Hice denies Trump incited the riot b/c he said the word "peaceful." Hice has the gall to say "truth matters" as he literally lies—accusing the media & Democrats of pushing "a false narrative" about January 6🤯
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@NPR ICYMI A Republican lawmaker literally opened the Oregon state Capitol to a #FarRight mob who scuffled w/ police, shattered glass doors & assaulted journalists.

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@navalny Maybe I'm too cynical. But I worry about Navalny getting injections in a Russian prison. What a convenient way to harm him. Putin is a killer after all. And Navalny wouldn't be in prison if he wasn't a serious threat to Putin. Navalny should have his doctor administer injections.
@navalny I mean, Putin already had a death squad smear a chemical weapon on Navalny's underpants while the guy was traveling. Now he's a sitting duck. Why wouldn't killer Putin use Navalny's back pain as an opportunity to kill him in prison? Want more than ibuprofen? Sure thing, Alexey.😨 Image
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"Fox took a small flame and turned it into a forest fire… sold a false story of election fraud in order to serve its own commercial purposes" cnn.com/2021/03/26/med…
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