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David Habbel
@DrDavidHabbel
Communication professor, leadership & diversity consultant, media pundit, campaign strategist in two Cong. races, made political ads; Music 🎸art 🎨culture
Dec 21, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
“Trump's response when criticized for using Hitler's language, was to acknowledge the criticism and then to use it again. Whether he is telling the truth about not ever reading "Mein Kampf," there have been multiple reports of Trump privately admiring Hitler. Trump reportedly complained that America's military leaders were not "totally loyal" to him, telling his chief of staff, retired Marine Corps Gen. John Kelly, "Why can't you be like the German generals?"
As reported in "The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021" by Peter Baker and Susan
Mar 5, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
1-“Long before he was called a Nobel Peace Prize laureate a humanitarian & the 39th president of the US Carter was known as something else: a "Goddamn n***er lover." That's the racial slur a White classmate of Carter's at the US Naval Academy assigned to him right after World War 2-II when the future president befriended the academy's only Black midshipman.
He repeatedly refused to join a segregationist group called the White Citizens' Council despite threats to boycott his peanut business. A delegation representing the council confronted Carter at his
Mar 5, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
“Through that period after Brown vs Board of Education, when white terrorism surged in the South, Carter ducked, & was not a part of the Civil Rights movement because he was ambitious in politics,” says Atler.
“He told me at one point, ‘I could either be governor of Georgia or I could be an outspoken supporter of civil rights. I decided to be governor of Georgia.’ & he actually panders to segregationists to get there in 1970 when he was elected governor. Then on the day of his inauguration as governor of Georgia in 1971, he says in his inaugural address”
Mar 5, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
“After two decades of planning & talks that culminated in a grueling race over the past few days in NY a significant majority of nations agreed on language for a historic UN treaty that would protect ocean biodiversity. As marine life faces threats from climate change overfishing the possibility of seabed mining & other dangers the treaty would make it possible to create marine protected areas & enact other conservation measures on the “high seas,” the immense expanse of ocean covering almost half the world. “Today the world came together to protect the
Mar 5, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
“In the 1970s Heumann attended Camp Jened a summer camp in upstate New York for disabled teens, many of whom would go on to lead the disability rights movement. The story was later chronicled in the 2020 documentary “Crip Camp,” produced by Barack & Michelle Obama. A few years later in 1977, Heumann led a sit-in that sought to pressure then-Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare Joseph Califano to sign Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, establishing the first federal civil rights protections for disabled Americans.
Mar 4, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The Nazis move one step closer to gas chambers!
If you’re not paying attention you need to.
“Michael Knowles right-wing political commentator associated with the Daily Wire said “for the good of society...transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely” at the Conservative Political Action Conference Saturday afternoon.”

(Me-need more of evidence that it’s the annual NAZI party Congress?)

“The transphobic comment has prompted reactions of horror, with Tech expert & author Alejandra Caraballo writing that Knowles was “openly calling
Mar 4, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
“Q:Technology that can read our minds sounds terrifying. But it is also way ahead of where things are. Aren’t you jumping the gun?
A: I don’t think so & furthermore, we dismiss it at our peril. While the technology can’t literally read our complex thoughts, there are at least some parts of our brain activity that can be decoded. There have been big improvements in the electrodes & in training algorithms to find associations using large datasets & AI. More can be done than people think. There are a lot of real-world applications & major tech companies
Mar 4, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
1-““I think he will win. I think he’s our strongest candidate,” Congressman Pete Aguilar, House Democratic caucus chair said on Thursday at an event with Punchbowl News. Aguilar added: “I think that he can & should run, and he’s going to have the support of the House Democratic 2-caucus.” That sentiment was echoed by progressive leaders in the House who have occasionally clashed with Biden over policy matters. Rep. Pramila Jayapal, chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC), said on Thursday that she hopes Biden will announce his re-election
Mar 4, 2023 • 22 tweets • 4 min read
SPOT ON-MUST READ!
1-“The professor who is a leading voice on CRT has warned that the rightwing battle against racial justice education not only threatens US democracy but encourage a revival of segregationist values and policies. Kimberlé Crenshaw is among top American academics 2-& authors recently stripped from the latest draft of the advanced placement (AP) African American studies course being piloted in US high schools, after Florida’s rightwing governor DeSantis, led an aggressive backlash against it. The Columbia University a& UCLA law professor &
Mar 4, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
“In a deposition taken earlier in the Dominion case that was released Monday, Fox Corp. Chair Murdoch testified that “some of our commentators were endorsing” former Trump’s big lie that the election was stolen from him. “I would have liked us to be stronger in denouncing it, in hindsight,” he said. Now one of those same commentators, courtesy of the speaker of the House, has been handed the opportunity to rewrite our history and do further damage to our country. The footage turned over to Carlson could compromise security for members & employees of
Mar 4, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
“GOP strategist Mike Murphy slammed the CPAC for being “a scam, pure & simple, top to bottom” in a fiery message during an MSNBC appearance on Friday. Murphy weighed in on the state of CPAC after a clip aired of Donald Trump Jr. calling on the crowd at its annual conference this week to use the Christian conservative cellphone service Patriot Mobile. Murphy took his own jab at Trump Jr. along with the CPAC gathering he admitted he used to attend. “First of all, I join fellow patriot Donald Jr. in urging our listeners, the true patriots out there,
Mar 4, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
“Donald Trump Jr. repeated his cruel line of attack on Sen. Fetterman during his speech at CPAC in Maryland on Friday.”
(Me-actually it was the annual Nazi party Congress)
“The eldest son of Trump again described Fetterman as a “vegetable,” echoing an ugly comment he made to far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) during a February episode of To the CPAC audience, Trump Jr. dismissed accusations that he was being ableist ― then sank even further when he suggested:
“I’d love for John Fetterman to have like good gainful employment. Maybe he could
Mar 4, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
1-“Federal prosecutors investigating efforts to overturn the ‘20 election have asked witnesses extensive questions about the actions of Giuliani including where he got his info about alleged fraud, what he did in the days around Jan. 6 & what he knew about the actions coming that 2-day, people who have appeared in front of the grand jury say. Investigators looking into classified documents taken to Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s Florida home & private club have sought to force testimony from another Trump lawyer, Evan Corcoran, by saying there is evidence that the
Mar 4, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
1-“Aguilar, the chair of the House Democratic Caucus, pointed to a number of bills Biden signed into law last Congress: 
-the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package
-the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill and
-the gun safety legislation.
Time and time again he was able 2-to deliver with House Democrats & Senate Democrats so I think that he can & should run & he’s going to have the support of the House Democratic Caucus,” he added.
Rep. Kuster (D-NH) chair of the center-left New Democrats Coalition said that based on the current political map,
Mar 4, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
THIS IS ANOTHER BIGGIE:
“Two progressive groups want the FEC to investigate Fox Corp. & Trump's 2020 campaign for breaking campaign finance laws. On Friday, End Citizens United PAC filed a complaint with the FEC arguing that Fox Corp. chair Murdoch broke the law when he shared Joe Biden's campaign ad & debate strategy with Trump adviser Jared Kushner.
The exchange of confidential information was first made public this week in the Dominion Voting Systems defamation case against Fox News and the Fox Corp. According to a filing citing
Mar 4, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
1-“In “Desert Revisited” Labibidi renders images of the earth & sky using letters & vowels which generate an enigmatic unknowable universe. The poet plumbs the depths of existence to produce images that evoke eternity emptiness & the yearning to return to the source of all things 2-“under a whirling skirt of sky
streaming light and stars
groping for that tremendous hem
gingerly over quicksand
as though steadied
beneath some tongue and dissolving
not the absence of sound
but the presence of silence
or, as if transfixed
by a gaze, stern-serene
Mar 3, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Let’s be crystal clear the vast majority of this has been unleashed by Trump & the hate filled Maga:
1-“I find it very, very surprising," Spielberg said. "Antisemitism has always been there, it's either been just around the corner & slightly out of sight but always lurking, or it 2-has been much more overt like in Germany in the '30s. But not since Germany in the '30s have I witnessed antisemitism no longer lurking but standing proud with hands on hips like Hitler & Mussolini, kind of daring us to defy it.
Mar 3, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
The rotten GQP Nazis are at the core of an evil that could destroy our culture.
1-“The case, which was publicized by Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel who said the FBI confirmed she was one of the targets, contains a toxic brew of many of the 2-ingredients poisoning American society: conspiracy theories, poorly moderated social media platforms & a country awash in weapons…The result is not only a surge in antisemitic incidents & crimes- in keeping with a historic pattern of Jews becoming the central targets of all
Mar 3, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
“Some oil and gas drillers operating on U.S. public lands are diverting natural gas to power cryptocurrency mining operations without paying federal royalties, according to a government watchdog report published on Wednesday…the IG said cryptomining units in Colorado had been located on or near federal lands leased for oil & gas development & were diverting gas from those leases. The mobile units may be undetected for long periods of time by federal officials responsible for overseeing large areas of public land, the report said.
“These activities
Mar 3, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
1-““African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals” has much in common with its predecessor. Like “Albion’s Seed,” it is more than 900 pages long, encompassing an almost unimaginable breadth of research, information & ambition. “African Founders” employs the same framework of analysis in its focus on migrations to specific regions, which Fischer believes came to define American culture in the centuries to follow. But these migrants were arriving from Africa & were forced rather than free. Fischer has revised his conception of American
Feb 18, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Turns out Jan.6 wasn’t the first time that lunatic racists attacked our capital:

1-“As construction proceeded, the society raised funds & interest by having states foreign countries Masonic lodges, & other entities donate commemorative blocks of stone to be displayed inside the 2-shaft of the obelisk. These were mostly patriotic statements (“Illinois. State Sovereignty. National Union” reads one).
But when Vatican City sent a stone in 1854, it unwittingly helped bring the whole project to a dramatic halt. The slab of variegated marble came from a