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As Bob shared the latest from Trump-crotch rocket, James David Vance (once called Trump political heroin, now should have his own Breaking Bad spinoff), I'll give context to his bullshit. We don't yet know the shooter or motive for the Trump's rally shooting. What we know?

1) Paul Pelosi, husband of the House Speaker Nancy Pelois, was almost killed in an attack in his home. The vicious assault was perpetrated by a Trump fan who believed Trump that the 2020 election was "stolen." After the attack, Trump lied calling it a false flag & later orange-mug Gigantor made public jokes about it 1/ 2) Trump's made-up conspiracy about a caravan of "illegals" coming to the US, sponsored by Soros--which the media kindly amplified--was the stated motivation by both mass murderers at the Tree of Life Synogogue in Pittsburgh and a Wal-Mart in El Paso

3) Cesar Sayoc, who mailed pipe bombs to Biden, Obama, Kamala Harris, Eric Holder & other pol figures, cited Trump as motivation. He targetted those whom Trump attacked for criticizing him 2/

Most media won't give you truth, so I will. You see, I know the Sinema deal better than most. I wrote a book on John McCain in '08, so I go to know politicos on all sides there. I sat on conf panel w Sinema around that time, we got to talking.

Kyrsten Sinema was is & will 1/

https://twitter.com/SenatorSinema/status/1765094840214127068

always simply be about how much attention is being paid to Kyrsten Sinema. For her outfits or holding out her vote and her narcissism in thinking she could run for President as a McCain type figure. Hell, McCain couldn't even pull off taking on the party and he was a war hero. 2/

Here we have Azerbaijani thug/Putin puppet, Aliyev, still threatening another #ArmenianGenocide by claiming #Armenian land as his own

This includes Yerevan, capital & largest city Armenian city👇👇👇👇

https://twitter.com/presidentaz/status/1746075298863456373

Read the harrowing story by a journalism intern in Armenia as Aliyev attacked the autonomous territory of Nagorno-Karabakh unprovoked, ethnically cleansing 120,000 Armenians. The intern took in a refugee family forced to live in their car tulsaworld.com/opinion/column…

Reminder Thread: As President Biden heads to Europe he must not forget about Armenia, in particular the illegal blockade of Artsakh & attacks on ethnic Armenians by this tyrant, Aliyev, below.

Lemme explain... This is who Aliyev is

What's amazing about the Licht saga, well a few things 1) It's another reminder of how much today's MSM is just a high school cafeteria. A yr ago, Licht was a genius, Musk was Tony Stark & DeSantis was the competent Trump. Who right now do you think is smart, savvy, talented 1 etc that you may find out is gross, weird, demonstrably stupid or plan full of shit in six months? Who knows! Bc clearly they softball their coverage of all sorts of awful ppl all the time 2. How honestly fucking dumb do you have to be to think a strategy of appealing to MAGA 2

From an FB friend. See the full thread for the gut punch. Republicans are letting our kids die for their gun lust

Covenant School
Thurston High School
Columbine High School
Heritage High School
Deming Middle School
Fort Gibson Middle School
Buell Elementary School

1) Lake Worth Middle School
University of Arkansas
Junipero Serra High School
Santana High School
Bishop Neumann High School
Pacific Lutheran University
Granite Hills High School
Lew Wallace High School
Martin Luther King, Jr High School
Appalachian School of Law

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A CRAZY🤯thing just happened to us! It spotlights how hard it is to fight misinformation & how social media companies like @TeamYouTube can really try to get their algorithms right, & still end up getting it backwards. PLEASE scroll down because we'll be asking for YOUR help🙏 1/ I have a YouTube channel youtube.com/@cschecter with @MattLRobison. We did an awesome interview with celebrated undercover reporter @lawindsor talking about her work exposing people like John Eastman who spread election lies and misinformation. 2/

Enjoy the exact moment that broke Laura Ingraham, Molly whatsherface & KellyAnne Battle of Bowling Green last night And before we let this moment pass: Did we ever actually solve who wins in a battle, werewolves or vampires?

1) A 🧵& CLOSING ARGUMENT--the most important video I've ever done. Based on piece by @MattLRobison at The Editorial Board on Joe Biden's INCREDIBLE SUCCESSES. PLEASE SHARE, bc most don't even know THESE FACTS, as our media doesn't do *journalism* anymore 2) As I discuss in the video, did ya know Biden had THE GREATEST YEAR OF JOB CREATION IN U.S. HISTORY. 6 million+ jobs created in '21, a decrease of 16MM on unemployment--THE BIGGEST DROP IN THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IN US HISTORY. No HRC's emails, to be sure

Will's 💯 per usual. But, only reason it's working is bc, as usual (& Gavin Newsom pointed out!) Ds refuse to launch the easiest counteroffensive of all time. Wanna talk crime? Fine 1) Trump's a traitor who stole classified docs & likely got CIA agents killed 2) The GOP wants to

https://twitter.com/Will_Bunch/status/1576612701803274240

defund the FBI putting America under Putin's thumb, empowering organized crime, etc 3) The GOP is the party of corruption (MI Farvre escapades, congressional insider trading, Matt Gaetz trafficking, etc) coups & killing Capitol Hill police. Tell their stories! 4) The only crime

Hey guys it's 3 days from July 4th, and ya know what that means! It's the five year anniversary of when 8 Republicans thought it prudent to--on our frickin Independence Day--go to the Kremlin and prostrate themselves before Vladimir Putin, who attacked our election 8 months earlier and is currently committing genocide in Ukraine. He shares their white nationalism & hatred for democracy, so he tried to help them (& is still trying) overthrow ours. So salute The Prostrate Eight(!), as @Milbank called them: Sens. Richard C. Shelby (Ala.), Steve Daines

Hi I'm a Republican, we nominated a candidate last week who praised Roe v Wade for protecting "white life" and support Trump who called African nations "shithole countries" & Mexicans "rapists." We promoted Steve Scalise to leadership after we found out he spoke at a white supremacist conference, and since then have seen MTG, Gosar and others do the same and, nah, big deal. We'll cool when Senator Cassidy says if you take out Black women, LA's mortality rate is just dandy. And obv I could go on...& on. But that damn Rex Chapman said Clarence Thomas

Let's not pretend Republicans could give 2 f*ks about abortion as "life." Or you can ask GOP Rep. Scott Desjarlais of TN, who's so "pro-life" he pushed both his wife and mistress--a patient of his--to get abortions usnews.com/news/blogs/was… #RoeVsWade #roevwadeoverturned You could also ask former "pro-life" GOP Congressman Tim Murphy, who also pressured his mistress to get an abortion he was so devoted to his belief wrt "life." usnews.com/news/politics/… #RoeVWade #roevwadeoverturned

That anyone's even debating the legitimacy of this SCOTUS is in & of itself ridiculous. 5 of the 6 RW Justices were put on by a POTUS who LOST the popular vote. Approved by a Senate where their side is represented by millions(?) tens of millions (?) fewer voters. But that CONT wasn't enough. So they stole a seat from President Obama, not allowing him to put his choice on the Court, and shoved another one on the Court days before an election. Two of them have legit accusations of sexual harassment/abuse in their pasts, 3 were political operatives CONT

Not gonna write another long thread on guns rn, just give my personal opinion as someone who's worked closely on the issue for yrs w Everytown, Brady, etc, has written dozens of pieces on the issue & was once a competitive shooter who enjoyed target shooting. Guns are a public 1 health crisis in this country. A pandemic that beyond mass shootings kills via homicide, suicide, accident, negligence every day. Like w all public health crises, be it smoking or drunk driving, the goal is to improve health & reduce death. So AFAIC, if what we've seen so far 2

So tired of this s*t. NYT, Chuck Todd, similar stenographers..look at Chattanooga today, another mass shooting. Can you ask Republicans as part of the job-like thing you do--& I'm not being sarcastic, I want to hear their f*king answers--too many doors in downtown Chattanooga? Or was it all bc no God in the classroom, no fathers in their homes...was there not enough armed security in downtown Chattanooga & do we now need armed security on every street corner in America?? Can you ask them these questions bc getting these answers (or non-answers) is your

My thread on how we can keep all the guns but stop the killers at the one and only ONE DOOR any building anywhere can ever have for any reason. Start w the old doggy door trap Then use the ONE AND ONLY DOOR to flame the bad guy w a gun's head

As a reminder we have zero proof—ZERO—gun laws work. You know, if you don’t include Japan, U.K., Belgium, Canada, Iceland, Romania, Norway, Austria, Argentina, Netherlands, South Korea, Italy, Greece, Chile, France, Spain, Sweden, Singapore, Portugal, Israel, Czechia, Denmark, Taiwan, Switzerland, Poland, Germany, Luxembourg, Malta, Australia, Estonia, Croatia, New Zealand, Ireland, Slovakia, Latvia, Slovenia, San Marino, Andorra, Monaco, Lithuania…ignore all those obv not applicable examples & how, oh how, do we ever figure out this complex puzzle???

My 12-yr old son had a soccer tournie this weekend. He won! Which is awesome. But not why I'm writing this. From the field he played on, this pic below was a view. Just some old crappy building, right? Well, no. This was the site of the first Voice of America station that could reach the entire world. This was the '40s, so putting a station of this strength off the coasts where Nazi subs couldn't get em, we figured, made sense. Even more sense for it to be in West Chester, OH as we steered the world away from Nazism's evil totalitarian twin: Stalinism.

They're just being honest about it now. How will they enforce it? Think TX, where they incentivize friends & strangers to spy on you, share ur personal health w the state. Think of an ICE-like force created to run investigations into pregnant women, those deemed abortion "risks"

https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1525834166335684610

and those who recently miscarriaged. Think about this force tagging women w tech--chips?--to make sure they track your every movement. Harassing your friends, employers, spouse...out-of-control, abusive men using the equivalent of swatting to "make them pay." Cameras installed in

A few folks have DMd about what Steve Schmidt’s been burning down the Internet w for the past, oh, 16 hrs. Bc I wrote a book on McCain (The Real McCain) in 2008. Here’s what I’ll say 1) I don’t know @SteveSchmidtSES, in fact we’ve never once spoken. I do know folks in his orbit,

https://twitter.com/SteveSchmidtSES/status/1523184422270365696

but this is from me, my sources in McCain World then and since. 2) Everything Steve is saying about the personalities, &…I don’t have all the info he has, but it’s consistent w things I was told 3) Sadly, McCain’s behavior in Steve’s telling comports 100% w what I learned. It’s