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PROTECT YOUR VOTE—DEMAND VBM or PAPER BALLOTS AT POLLS. Hand Marked (ball point-blue/black) Paper Ballots. All else hackable.
Feb 8 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Reagan’s real legacy—A dramatic increase in poverty and homelessness, and the consolidation and deregulation of the financial industry that led to the mortgage meltdown, foreclosure epidemic and lingering recession.
Image Indeed, Reagan’s most important domestic legacy is our government’s weakened ability to do its job protecting families, consumers, workers and the environment.thenation.com/article/archiv…
Oct 9, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
1/ “These 6 media companies are known as The Big 6.
While independent media outlets still exist (& there are a lot of them), the major outlets are almost all owned by these six conglomerates. To be clear, “media” in this context does not refer just to news” webfx.com/blog/internet/…
2/“outlets — it refers to any medium that controls the distribution of information. So here, “media” includes 24-hour news stations, newspapers, publishing houses, Internet utilities, and even video game developers.”
May 13, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
“The North Carolina court’s undoing of its own precedents did not stop at Holmes v. Moore. It also reversed its decision in Harper v. Hall, endowing lawmakers with unbridled power to redraw legislative and congressional maps and engage in extreme partisan gerrymandering...” “And in a separate decision, the court also revoked the voting rights of 56,000 North Carolinians with prior felony convictions who had completed their terms of incarceration and had been re-enfranchised less than one year ago following a lower court ruling…” #DisenfranchisingNC
Jan 14, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
1/#KevinMcCarthy #PutinsPayrollGOP “There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump," McCarthy quipped, a conversation quickly nipped in the bud by House Speaker Paul Ryan. "No leaks," he immediately interjected. "This is how we know we're a real family here." 2/ GOP leadership believed DJT & #Rohrabacher on #PutinPayroll—Next, DJT secures GOP nomination, as Russia interfering in pres election for DJT—and as nation's Intel agencies had info & presented it to congressional leadership, Senate Majority Leader MITCH MCCONNELL COVERED IT UP
Feb 3, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
“I watched wonderful, thoughtful children turn into nasty, vicious, discriminating little 3rd graders,” Elliott explained in PBS documentary about her work. The next day, she reversed the roles. Now brown-eyed students were superior & had perks & blue-eyed students were inferior” pbs.org/wgbh/pages/fro… “A Class Divided is an encore presentation of the classic documentary on third-grade teacher #JaneElliott's ‘blue eyes/brown eyes’ exercise, originally conducted in the days following the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968. LOOK AT FACES”
Feb 2, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
#IndictFlynnFamilyTraitorsMikeCharlesJoeBarbara 1/ Then we have Charlie, who we think ordered a stand down to allow congress to be attacked in what we now know to have been a poison gas plot. And the Army brass MILLER, ETAL, WHO LIED ABOUT CHARLES FLYNN SECRETLY ON PHONE CALL WHEREIN AIDE TO CAPITOL UNDER ATTACK WAS DENIED.
Dec 8, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
1/ Having a gun in your home significantly increases your risk of death — and that of your spouse and children.

And it doesn’t matter how the guns are stored or what type or how many guns you own. minnpost.com/second-opinion… 2/ If you have a gun, everybody in your home is more likely than your non-gun-owning neighbors and their families to die in a gun-related accident, suicide or homicide.
Dec 6, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
1/ ZIMMERMAN DEFENSE IN REALITY FL GOP NRA #StandYourGround COURTESY MARION HAMMER—THE ARCHITECT OF STAND YOUR GROUND—MURDER AT WILL, ANYWHERE, ANYTIME, IS GOP FLORIDA NRA LOBBYIST FOR DECADES—PROMOTE GUN RIGHTS OVER HUMAN RIGHTS FOR DECADES—MARION HAMMER AND HER FL GOP FLUNKIES. newyorker.com/magazine/2018/… 2/ NRA Lobbyist Marion Hammer on propose assault weapons ban:
“How do you tell a 10-year-old little girl who got a Ruger 10/22 w/pink stock for b-day that her rifle is an assault weapon & she has to turn it over to govt or be arrested felony possession?”
Dec 5, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Strategies used by Big Tobacco, successors & various controversies: 1) the coal industry & black lung disease, 2) the sugar industry & both cardiovascular & metabolic diseases, 3) the agrochemical business & chemical pollution, and 4) the fossil fuel industry & climate change. /1 They found that all of the industries would use *disinformation* tactics like: 1) gaining support from reputable individuals, 2) misrepresenting data, 3) attacking study designs, 4) using hyperbolic & absolutist language and (of course) 5) trying to influence lawmaking. 2/
Dec 4, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Franklin D. Roosevelt called out the American Liberty Lobby for attempting to impose a fascist government during his final speech in the 1936 presidential campaign. irishtimes.com/opinion/fintan… #2021GOPMirrors1931Nazis #TrialRunsForFascismInFullFlow
Dec 4, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
1/ “Having a gun in your home significantly increases your risk of death — and that of your spouse and children.

And it doesn’t matter how the guns are stored or what type or how many guns you own...” minnpost.com/second-opinion… 2/ “If you have a gun, everybody in your home is more likely than your non-gun-owning neighbors and their families to die in a gun-related *incident, suicide or homicide...”
Dec 4, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
“Having a gun in your home significantly increases your risk of death — and that of your spouse and children.

And it doesn’t matter how the guns are stored or what type or how many guns you own...” minnpost.com/second-opinion… “If you have a gun, everybody in your home is more likely than your non-gun-owning neighbors and their families to die in a gun-related incident, suicide or homicide.”
Dec 3, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
#IfYouHaveAGunInYourHome Having a gun in your home significantly increases yr risk of death — & that of your spouse & kids & other people.

And it doesn’t matter how the guns are stored or what type or how many guns you own. minnpost.com/second-opinion… #IfYouHaveAGunInYourHome If you have a gun, everybody in your home is more likely than your non-gun-owning neighbors and their families to die in a gun-related *incident, suicide or homicide...
Dec 3, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
“Having a gun in your home significantly increases your risk of death — and that of your spouse and children—and others...!

And it doesn’t matter how the guns are stored or what type or how many guns you own.” minnpost.com/second-opinion… “Furthermore, there is no credible evidence that having a gun in your house reduces your risk of being a victim of a crime. Nor does it reduce your risk of being injured during a home break-in.”
Nov 2, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
#GOPFoxKochCNPDomesticTerrorists #TrumpGOP2021MirrorsHitlersNazis1931 newyorker.com/books/page-tur… #GOP2021MirrorsNazis1931
Nov 1, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Hitchcock called this “red herring” the #MacGuffin — A red herring or “MacGuffin” is a false clue intended to throw you off track so you do not suspect the real villain, or it leads you to a false conclusion...IE, #GOPShinyObjectCRT news cycles, distraction #GOPMustLieToSurvive salon.com/2019/10/12/rep… Repub Party must lie. It has no choice. It must conceal its true inner core. This is a matter of life or death for GOP. The survival of Republican Party itself depends upon lying. It cannot exist without creating a false impression about its true purpose.
Aug 27, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Both Reagan & Trump wildly successful in roles as pitchmen for GOP. They both enacted enormous tax cuts for the wealthy. And they both slashed & undermined interests of the working class, all while remaining popular and convincing many people in the working class to vote for GOP. salon.com/2019/10/12/rep… Just imagine the stump speech. “Vote for me and I will slash your health care! In fact, I’ll do even better — I'll fight like mad to completely eliminate your health care!”

“Vote for me and I will get rid of your pensions...
Jun 13, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
“Three Russian doctors working to treat coronavirus patients have mysteriously fallen out of windows in recent weeks, underscoring the country’s struggling health care system — and leading to suspicions of foul play.” #Putinesque. 1/5 “On April 24, Natalya Lebedeva, the chief of emergency medical services at a training base for Russian astronauts, fell out of a window at the hospital where she was being treated for a Covid-19 infection and died. “ #Putinesque. 2/5
Jun 12, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
#GOPOwnedManchin #ManchinEpiPenCrimeFamily T
Nov 6, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
#GOPAttemptedCoup2020 #GOPCoup2000InstalledBushWH Surprised to learn? #GOPCoup2000 co-conspirators include Roger Stone, Matt Schlapp, Joel Kaplan, etal—and, now sitting, future SCOTUS Judges—John Roberts, Brett KVanaugh and Amy Barrett. washingtonpost.com/history/2018/1… #GOPCoup2000ElectionInstalledBushWH
Nov 6, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
#GOPAttemptedCoup #GingrichBetrayedUSAforMurdochBookDeal washingtonpost.com/history/2018/1…