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2024-04-11 16:33:42

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@npub1v2s…mqq5
Private armies, misused National Guard units, co-opted military command, and partisan vigilantes...
Not a good sign.

2024-03-31 00:06:18

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@npub1ks7…eg5u
I wonder how long it will take for Republicans to ban such books like "Black Beauty"?
Books that teach people empathy for others are antithetical to their worldview.

2024-03-30 19:15:23

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@npub17qe…v7la
Please, no links to Bluesky

2024-03-24 00:18:46

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@npub1xr6…mddg
What this article fails to acknowledge is the role that Republican megadonors played in Ron Johnson's conversion into a Putin puppet.
Financial backers like Diane Hendricks, Dick Uihlein, and the Bradley Foundation **increased** their donations to Ron Johnson after his July 4th trip to Moscow.
We have no idea how much funding Ron Johnson gets from Putin's oligarchs via straw donors and dark money PAC's, DAF's, etc
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kylemullins/2022/08/08/meet-the-wisconsin-billionaires-spending-big-to-keep-ron-johnson-in-the-senate/?sh=44f14f853cb9
https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/ron-johnson/contributors?cid=N00032546&cycle=CAREER

2024-03-23 05:01:53

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@npub1lzz…jhl3
Remember during the height of the covid pandemic, the MAGA Qrazies were blockading hospitals?
The interviews included quotes like "Covid is a hoax. My lawn guy won't come to work!" from one old man in a red hat.
Another included a woman outraged that her Vietnamese nail salon was closed because a worker died.
MAGA became antivaxxers because covid interrupted their access to PoC who serviced them. It was a matter of indifference that POC were dying. They just wanted the cheap labor.

2024-03-23 01:11:50

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@npub18lj…80hq
Rittenhouse was led to believe that he'd be lauded for murder.
He was under the false impression that people think of him as a "hero", instead of a homicidal loon.
He expected to ride the coattails of his crimes with lucrative speaking gigs, a few book deals, and fawning from right wing media.
His acts were horrific & he deserves to be booed everywhere he goes for the rest of his miserable life.

2024-03-22 10:26:35

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@npub1yyx…qa5g
The breakup of AT&T enabled the existence of the internet in many ways.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakup_of_the_Bell_System
It's one reason AT&T funds Republicans, to regain its monopoly power.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/02/what-att-breakup-teaches-us-about-big-tech-breakup
https://newrepublic.com/article/161572/telecom-antitrust-break-up-att-verizon
https://www.businessinsider.com/att-breakup-1982-directv-bell-system-2018-02

2024-03-17 01:08:32

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@npub1xg3…nyjk
Timothy Mellon funded the Texas border wall that drowns migrant mothers & their young children.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/15/us/what-we-know-about-the-drownings-of-3-migrants-in-eagle-pass-texas/index.html
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/10/06/timothy-mellon-texas-border-wall/
Timothy Mellon is bankrolling Qrazie anti-vaxxers for public office like RFK Jr.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/a-reclusive-heir-is-giving-millions-to-help-trump-and-rfk-jr-2adf40b5
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/03/03/nation/rfk-jr-trump-donor-who-gave-millions-timothy-mellon/
Tim Mellon is a racist.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/timothy-mellon-top-donor-to-trump-super-pac-used-racial-stereotypes-to-describe-african-americans-in-his-autobiography/2020/06/18/89206c5a-a742-11ea-b619-3f9133bbb482_story.html
https://inequality.org/great-divide/mellon/

2024-03-16 19:48:01

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@npub1t5u…x0z9 @npub189n…satx
Jared Kushner did more than withhold critical medical supplies in blue states.
He actively confiscated supplies already purchased.
It got so bad that Illinois governor had the National Guard protecting shipments from the rapacious GOP.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/elanagross/2020/07/09/pritzker-says-the-trump-administration-forced-states-to-compete-for-ppe-in-a-sick-hunger-games/?sh=7565b5cc7fa0
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/air-national-guard-lands-flight-full-of-much-needed-medical-supplies-in-chicago-for-battle-against-covid-19/
https://chicago.suntimes.com/coronavirus/2020/4/14/21221459/pritzker-secret-flights-china-illinois-ppe-trump-coronavirus
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sergeiklebnikov/2020/04/18/illinois-gov-pritzker-secretly-bought-medical-supplies-from-china-and-the-white-house-is-not-happy/
That is what Republicans are: thieves in a crisis.
https://www.salon.com/2020/04/09/house-probes-role-of-jared-kushner-as-federal-government-seizesorders-of-covid-19-medical-supplies/

2024-03-16 17:16:18

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@npub189n…satx
The GOP decided to let covid destroy the economy in 2020 because they were told it hit POC harder, and seniors.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/08/texas-lt-gov-dan-patrick-laura-ingraham-fox-news-black-people-covid/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/05/16/black-communities-excess-deaths/
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/study-reveals-staggering-toll-black-america-16-million-excess-deaths-2-rcna84627
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/27/as-us-coronavirus-deaths-cross-100000-black-americans-bear-disproportionate-share-of-fatalities.html
https://www.kff.org/racial-equity-and-health-policy/press-release/recent-widening-of-racial-disparities-in-u-s-life-expectancy-was-largely-driven-by-covid-19-mortality/
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-unnecessary-deaths-covid-19
And Republicans rejoiced...
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/03/dan-patrick-coronavirus-grandparents
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/coronavirus-has-donald-trump-dan-patrick-ready-sacrifice-older-people-ncna1169126

2024-03-13 14:38:40

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@npub1psd…9sr7
The investment in AI isn't for producing content about solar eclipses.
So far, it appears to have 3 main purposes.
1. Wall Street hype for scams, just like cryptocurrency with its national security implications.
2. Wage suppression schemes.
Hedge fund managers like Chris Hohn want tech workers to be paid less, and nothing suppresses wage growth better than mass layoffs.
It also thwarts long overdue unionization drives in tech.
https://fortune.com/2023/01/23/christopher-hohn-rishi-sunak-old-boss-tci-fund-management-letter-to-alphabet-sundar-pichai/amp/
3. Automating ...
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2024-03-12 06:17:52

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@npub1lzz…jhl3
Trumpism is a permission structure to have not just petty mean-spiritedness & callousness, it's a license for a whole host of society-destroying conduct.
The conduct Putin & Fox News promotes the most is anti-democracy activity.

2024-03-08 02:54:10

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@npub17z6…4mp8
How does yelling at an imperfect ally help win elections against billionaire-funded fascists like Trump?

2024-03-06 05:25:39

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@npub1hrm…ynax
These cities were all targets of the rent-fixing algorithms used by private equity hedge funds.
https://www.propublica.org/article/yieldstar-rent-increase-realpage-rent
Why?
To alter electoral maps and profit from gentrification.
https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2024/03/price-fixing-algorithm-still-price-fixing
https://www.propublica.org/article/senators-introduce-legislation-stop-landlords-algorithm-price-fixing
https://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/wyden-and-welch-introduce-legislation-to-crack-down-on-companies-that-inflate-rents-with-price-fixing-algorithms
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1197961038

2024-03-05 16:21:23

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@npub1v2s…mqq5
Republican billionaire donors spent a billion dollars on the 2022 midterms to shield the Jan 6 insurrectionists from consequences for sedition.
These 147 members of Congress are being protected by the Court that Koch Bought, for the same reason they're propping up the puppet, Trump.
To end democracy & keep frying the planet.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/07/us/elections/electoral-college-biden-objectors.html
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/06/republican-mega-donors-lost-midterms-super-pac-thiel
The bitter sarcasm of having a legal body hijack democracy.
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/thanks-to-a-generous-donation-the-united-states-supreme-court-will-be-renamed-the-koch-center-for-justice

2024-02-24 20:05:35

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@npub1hyk…3p33
Modern hedge fund managers are like chop shops.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chop_shop

2024-02-24 20:02:23

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@npub1hyk…3p33
So much of these acts reminds you of a protection racket.
An unwanted third party inserts themselves into the existence & survival of your business, and you're providing payola to mobsters in perpetuity.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_racket
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeering

2024-02-24 19:11:17

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@npub189n…satx
The research behind "White Sight" is solid.
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262047678/white-sight/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Mirzoeff
When racists see POC, they deliberately perceive a threat to their privilege. And their phony fearful anxiety is contagious.

2024-02-19 05:48:46

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@npub1mmf…eknq @npub1zuy…a7d2
Stephen Harper is in the pocket of the oil interests getting right wing pro-oil anti-democracy parties elected around the globe.
They're bribing Netanyahu into committing genocide over Israeli oil.
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2019/08/06/Harper-Heads-Global-Org-Help-Elect-Right-Wing-Parties/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/02/16/how-is-the-proposed-ben-gurion-canal-tied-to-israels-gaza-invasion/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/01/26/how-is-gaza-offshore-gas-development-tied-to-the-israeli-invasion/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/01/12/israels-war-on-gazas-environment/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/02/02/icj-on-gaza-acting-against-israel/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/12/11/israel-gaza-and-the-struggle-for-oil/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/05/14/pipeline-politics-from-afghanistan-to-gaza/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/12/12/moscow-and-gaza-is-russia-ready-for-a-major-shift-in-its-middle-east-policy/
Regime changers
https://pressprogress.ca/stephen-harpers-global-alliance-of-conservative-parties-quietly-scrubbed-india-off-its-website/
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/harper-orban-ties-1.6898904

2024-02-18 06:46:41

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2/2
https://theweek.com/business/economy/america-avoid-recession-2023
3. Venture capitalists like Chris Hohn ordered mass layoffs to manipulate stock prices & boost management bonuses
They want dividends & stock buybacks more than revenue generating employees.
https://fortune.com/2023/01/23/christopher-hohn-rishi-sunak-old-boss-tci-fund-management-letter-to-alphabet-sundar-pichai/
4. Layoffs don't make companies efficient
It frees skilled labor for hiring by other sectors of the economy or into the arms of foreign competitors.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/tech-layoffs-hitting-companies-doing-141523174.html
5. To thwart work-from-home or unionization drives
https://hbr.org/2022/12/what-companies-still-get-wrong-about-layoffs

2024-02-18 06:44:00

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@npub1dnn…yyg8
Layoffs at profitable companies are conducted for a number of reasons.
1. Joining a canagion, a bandwagon just like the dot.com bubble to manufacture a recession.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble
2. Hedge fund managers are trying to doomcry a timely recession into existence to please Trump. Trump wants a recession to boost his election chances.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/08/politics/trump-economy-crash/index.html
https://thehill.com/business/4401101-trump-biden-economy-recession-inflation/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/18/gop-debt-ceiling-plan-financial-crisis-recession/
https://fortune.com/2023/07/05/nobel-laureate-paul-krugman-elon-musk-recession-truther-conspiracy-theory/
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2024-02-10 20:08:17

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@npub1eth…9dud
Scientists disagree about the "innocent motives" of AI corporations.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/20/shoshana-zuboff-age-of-surveillance-capitalism-google-facebook
https://onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism-8135e6744d59
https://www.cigionline.org/big-tech/cory-doctorow-true-dangers-surveillance-capitalism/
https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Data+Conscience%3A+Algorithmic+Siege+on+our+Humanity-p-9781119821205
https://nyupress.org/9781479837243/algorithms-of-oppression/
https://wwnorton.com/books/Technically-Wrong/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapons_of_Math_Destruction
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250074317/automatinginequality
https://carolinecriadoperez.com/book/invisible-women/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance_capitalism
https://theconversation.com/explainer-what-is-surveillance-capitalism-and-how-does-it-shape-our-economy-119158
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Alignment_Problem
https://chokepointcapitalism.com/

2024-02-01 20:10:37

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@npub14ax…4k97
#TranslatedFromTheRepublican
"Google has its Saudi investors like Mohammed bin Salmon urging the murder of journalists and critics.
Google Maps AI will help geolocate dissidents "
https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-google-hand-dissident-data-to-saudi-arabia-activists-say-2023-7
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/14/business/media/reality-saudi-prince-media-narrative.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/07/heres-a-look-at-who.html
https://english.alarabiya.net/News/saudi-arabia/2024/01/07/Saudi-Arabia-s-MBS-meets-with-chair-members-of-US-Senate-Intelligence-Committee
https://observer.com/2023/06/google-saudi-arabia-data-center-protest/
https://english.alarabiya.net/News/saudi-arabia/2023/12/06/Russia-s-Putin-reaches-Saudi-Arabia-on-working-visit

2024-01-29 16:11:17

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@npub1v2s…mqq5
179 members of Congress have filed an amicus brief to keep Trump on the ballot.
https://boydengray.com/boyden-gray-pllc-files-amicus-brief-at-the-supreme-court-on-behalf-of-179-members-of-congress-in-trump-v-anderson/
The kind of money that made that happen must be astronomical.

2024-01-29 03:58:29

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@npub1dpj…wgj3 @npub1ccn…czwu
Whose God? Which ones?
The Abrahamic faiths? The Hindu pantheon? The Confucian? Wiccan? Indigenous faiths?

2024-01-29 00:18:56

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@npub1ccn…czwu
What is it about Christianity that believes anyone else's faith has no validity?
The arrogance of believing indigenous peoples lacked religion or spiritual beliefs, so their lands could be stolen.
The hubris of believing Muslims or Jews or Hindus are barbarians, so their lands could be stolen.
Beginning to notice a theme here....

2024-01-25 09:20:50

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@npub1scr…teus
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/loss-of-local-journalism-through-metroland-layoffs-bad-for-democracy-1.6970406
It's almost like there is an orchestrated effort to convert tech companies into election interference machines, using generative AI.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/all-the-major-tech-layoffs-in-2024-so-far/
And an orchestrated effort to suppress news about global anti-democracy movements
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/24/business/media/media-industry-layoffs-decline.html

2024-01-25 09:00:49

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@npub1rkj…ufed
Larry Ellison participated in White House calls planning Jan 6.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/20/larry-ellison-oracle-trump-election-challenges/
Larry Ellison is one of the biggest donors to the GOP weirdos funded for the 2022 midterms.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdurot/2022/10/12/tech-billionaire-larry-ellisons-record-political-giving-funds-election-deniers-in-midterms/?sh=47bf87fa2934
Larry Ellison is training 50,000 Saudis in AI to automate election interference.
https://www.oracle.com/middleeast/news/announcement/oracle-will-train-saudi-nationals-in-artificial-intelligence-and-other-latest-digital-technologies-2023-12-14/
Larry Ellison views democracy as something to be "solved".
https://www.oracle.com/ca-en/artificial-intelligence/larry-ellison-cloudworld-genai-strategy/
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3706915/generative-ai-most-important-technology-ever-oracles-ellison-says.html
The Russian Internet Agency has been copied for 2024.

2024-01-14 07:05:19

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@npub1u3t…c6ug
The Texas border wall was funded by Tim Mellon.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisakim/2021/10/06/scion-of-billionaire-mellon-family-has-paid-for-most-of-texas-governors-border-wall-fund/?sh=4082107f5991
With Republicans, the cruelty is the point.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/10/06/timothy-mellon-texas-border-wall/
https://www.salon.com/2021/10/06/greg-abbotts-privately-funded-texas-border-wall-bankrolled-almost-entirely-by-one-billionaire/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Mellon

2024-01-13 08:49:49

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@npub1p0w…22r5
If Barre Seid's $1.6 billion in tax evasion can buy a civil rights rollback for 167 million American women...
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/08/leonard-leo-billion-donation-real-problem.html
If #KochNetwork can buy 6 Supreme Court Justices to end the EPA...
https://theintercept.com/2022/06/30/supreme-court-epa-climate-charles-koch/
https://grist.org/project/accountability/koch-oxbow-port-arthur-texas-clean-air-act-pollution/
https://www.vice.com/en/article/epx357/koch-brothers-epa-supreme-court-climate-change
https://theintercept.com/2023/06/26/samuel-alito-oil-gas-supreme-court-environment/
And Russian-aligned GOP billionaire donors can buy a presidential win...
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/15/robert-mercer-family-gave-nearly-20-million-to-dark-money-gop-fund-during-2020-election.html
Then Musk can buy the recreation of slavery...
https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN1YK24E/

2024-01-11 03:54:30

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@npub1aq2…4nfw
The SEC just approved money laundering, fraud, threat funding, tax evasion, and organized crime.
With national security implications...

2024-01-10 06:26:34

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@npub1yk6…4zz4
What your photos remind me of is the long history of expensive, glorious, yet doomed edifices, doomed because the money went away.
Instead of gifting an abandoned mall to its community, it's left to decay and crumble apart.
Instead of supporting the next generation of startups & employers, abandoned factories are left for the looters and squatters.
These facilities could have survived intact & been repurposed if their penny-pinching owners had a more generous imagination.

2024-01-06 18:15:16

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@npub1tra…npqw
@npub1g0h…yxht caters to the delusions of the wealthy, always has, always will
One of those delusions is that they will retain their wealth after a fascist takeover
Every oligarchy & every fascist coup turns into a mechanism for looting the national treasury & establishing a kleptocracy
The number of wealthy people drops precipitously
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/vladimir-egorov-putin-russia-dead-window-b2470787.html
https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-russians-fall-windows-putin-ukraine-war-1781790
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-65084344
Turning the USA into a copy of Russia's kleptocracy
https://publicintegrity.org/accountability/the-looting-of-russia/

2023-12-29 20:54:17

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@npub1ecp…59pq
Here's an interesting tidbit, in private hospitals they've contracted out cleaning services and laundry, then pressured staff to bring home PPE to launder at their homes, under the guise of "preventing layoffs"
The ways private equity finds to coerce staff and squeeze them for a few cents...

2023-12-29 04:08:11

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@npub1mlv…a74v
The 14th Amendment is "obscure" to the New York Times?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
"The amendment's first section includes several clauses: the Citizenship Clause, Privileges or Immunities Clause, Due Process Clause, and Equal Protection Clause."
https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/amendments/amendment-xiv
https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/14th-amendment
Have Daughters of the Confederacy joined the NYT?
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/aug/12/right-wing-textbooks-teach-slavery-black-immigration
https://www.uhclthesignal.com/wordpress/2021/02/10/explainer-institutional-racism-persists-through-textbook-design/

2023-12-27 01:53:02

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@npub1tzh…sp8m
Nonsense.
The alternative to Biden is someone who wants 167 million women without their civil rights to autonomy & agency.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/04/18/human-rights-crisis-abortion-united-states-after-dobbs
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2023/dec/15/neil-gorsuch-us-supreme-court-dobbs-abortion
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/12/26/1221587212/abortion-year-in-review-2023-jane-roe-kate-cox
The alternative to Biden is someone who wants to convert the government into a system of patronage nepotism hires & 54,000 "loyalists"
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-allies-vetting-loyalists-2025-1234876512/
The alternative to Biden is a political party funded by fossil fuel fascists preparing to fry the planet
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4354654-republicans-cop28-climate-summit-environmnetal-record-fossil-fuels-natural-gas-nuclear-mining/

2023-12-24 15:33:19

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@npub1lzz…jhl3
The Southern Strategy has always worked to bring in the Republican vote because the secret premise of the Lost Cause, is that slavery should be brought back.
Poor whites are made to feel half a step up on the social ladder when slavery & Jim Crow still existed.
GOP billionaires have done all they can to create a false narrative that poor whites can blame the loss of their privileges on a democracy that lets PoC and women vote.
Anything to avoid blaming the billionaires themselves.

2023-11-29 16:18:48

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@npub1nqz…838y
Nikki Haley drew the attention of #KochNetwork because of her stance on unions, education, & health care.
#KochNetwork has disguised a century of anti-union, resegregation, & anti-health libertarian sentiment as "Anti-Communism", all while helping real communists sell their oil & evade sanctions.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/30/koch-industries-russia-investment-boycott/
#KochNetwork funded the overturn of Roe vs Wade.
#KochNetwork funded the attacks on Obamacare.
#KochNetwork funded the tax cuts that blew up the national debt

2023-11-26 22:00:57

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@npub178r…qekt
Someone paid Dr. Drew, Dr. Oz, and Dr. Phil to spread covid disinformation.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-01/coronacheck-elisa-granato-is-not-dead-covid-19-vaccine/12193636
https://www.primetimer.com/item/From-Dr-Drew-to-Dr-Oz-to-Dr-Phil-Can-we-get-rid-of-TV-doctors-who-are-wrong-about-the-coronavirus-pandemic-DjSkxl
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dr-oz-shouldnt-be-a-senator-or-a-doctor/
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/10/how-dr-mehmet-oz-boosted-joseph-mercola-covid-misinformation/
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/07/dr-oz-has-ties-to-hydroxychloroquine-companies-as-he-backs-covid-treatment.html
We still don't know who paid them.
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/04/john-oliver-rush-limbaugh-coronavirus
Over 7 million people died globally of covid. 1.18 million were Americans.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

2023-11-18 07:54:34

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@npub1gmx…atcq
We are living through a Gilded Age 2.0.
All the worst parts of the 19th century reincarnated.
Child labor. People without access to the ballot. Homelessness. Antisemitism. Bigoted billionaires. Robber barons. Pollution. Food adulteration. Water contamination. Disease. War. Famine. A growing anti-democracy movement.
A war on the poor instead of a war on poverty.

2023-11-03 15:23:32

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@npub1psd…9sr7
Culture wars are a component of a blameshifting strategy.
It's a malign influence campaign to distract from real issues like war, climate change, coups, and billionaire-funded anti-democracy movements.
Culture wars buy the votes of bigots.
Pandering to homophobes bought the evangelicals vote
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/why-is-the-gop-escalating-attacks-on-trans-rights-experts-say-the-goal-is-to-make-sure-evangelicals-vote
Pandering to misogynist billionaires bought their donations
https://msmagazine.com/2023/04/11/anti-abortion-groups-era-equal-rights-amendment/
Pandering to xenophobes got the #brexit boondoggle
https://www.vox.com/2016/6/25/12029786/brexit-uk-eu-immigration-xenophobia

2023-10-25 03:06:04

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@npub1lzz…jhl3
The attacks on democracy, science, civil rights, voting, and climate action are funded by the richest tax evaders on the planet.
Fake "charitable" giving is funding an ongoing seditious conspiracy headed by Trump.
https://newrepublic.com/article/172927/fidelity-schwab-vanguard-charitable-donor-advised-funds-hate-groups
https://inequality.org/great-divide/top-public-charities/
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/donor-advised-funds-daf-us-charity-law-loophole-bankroll-hate/
https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2023/08/28/no_one_wins_when_financial_institutions_play_politics_with_your_money_975410.html
https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2023/1/30/how-the-daf-industry-controls-the-data-and-attempts-to-control-the-narrative
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/rfk-jr-anti-vax-orgs-funding-major-charities-1234857214/

2023-10-17 20:22:46

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@npub194k…j5sk @npub1grx…uxfe
The EU is beginning to consider what #KochNetwork and OPEC+ is doing an ecocide and a crime against humanity.
Big Tobacco didn't stop its flagrant conduct until class action lawsuits and regulatory agencies sued.
California is already suing the fossil fuel industry. More such suits are needed and quickly.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/california-sues-oil-companies-for-exacerbating-climate-change

2023-10-17 03:11:42

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@npub1grx…uxfe
Jim Jordan's biggest donor is #KochNetwork
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdurot/2023/10/10/exclusive-charles-koch-koch-industries-has-given-more-than-5-billion-of-his-koch-industries-stock-to-two-nonprofits/
Jim Jordan is part of a very well funded seditious conspiracy.
https://popular.info/p/charles-kochs-5-billion-tax-loophole

2023-10-01 01:46:17

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@npub1sce…9lmd @npub18gy…az9t
Musk is a Nazi funded by OPEC and #KochNetwork
The people funding Musk are also Nazis.
Follow the money.
https://www.npr.org/2022/11/30/1139964806/how-elon-bought-twitter-with-other-peoples-money#:~:text=Hourly%20News-,Elon%20Musk%20bought%20Twitter%20using%20a%20leveraged%20buyout%3A%20He%20paid,is%20called%20a%20leveraged%20buyout.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquisition_of_Twitter_by_Elon_Musk
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-63402338

2023-09-30 20:58:09

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@npub1f6a…pnql
There's lots of things that are "useful" yet imprudent to use.
Nuclear bombs ended WW2 but it started a nuclear arms race we still might not survive.

2023-09-25 02:23:56

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@npub1wky…6c6c
#KochNetwork's funded covid disinformation succeeded beyond all expectation at destabilizing democracy
Using an existing disinformation system for climate denialism & a coup, the switch to a profitable covid malign influence narrative was easily accomplished
They succeeded at reducing women voters to walking wombs without agency or autonomy
They contributed to the deaths of over 1.18 million Americans & disabling millions more
https://fortune.com/2022/03/31/us-companies-record-profits-2021-price-hikes-inflation/
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/profits-and-the-pandemic-as-shareholder-wealth-soared-workers-were-left-behind/

2023-09-23 07:47:37

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@npub1gmx…atcq
#KochNetwork developed an unparalleled climate denial disinformation system to get corrupt Republicans elected.
It was easy to shift to funding covid disinformation in order to prolong a pandemic, & further destabilize democracy.
https://www.npr.org/2021/05/13/996570855/disinformation-dozen-test-facebooks-twitters-ability-to-curb-vaccine-hoaxes
It cost over 1.18 million American lives.
https://www.npr.org/2023/05/04/1173697394/as-the-pandemic-winds-down-anti-vaccine-activists-are-building-a-legal-network
Pandemics have a long history of being used to end civilizations. The oil industry is determined to keep frying the planet unfettered
https://www.propublica.org/article/google-alphabet-ads-fund-disinformation-covid-elections

2023-09-20 07:21:23

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@npub1nqz…838y @npub1zfn…yxu0
The Confederate states waged a KKK terror campaign for 150 years over the "Lost Cause" instead of acknowledging they lost the right to own people as property in a civil war.
What's the likelihood they'll ever admit they're losing election after election because they're fascists and corrupt?

2023-09-19 03:12:39

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@npub1dqt…h0gl
In one hundred years, not much has changed in America. The erasure of identity & community by cutting off hair.
Black hair:
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/penalizing-black-hair-in-the-name-of-academic-success-is-undeniably-racist-unfounded-and-against-the-law/
https://www.naacpldf.org/natural-hair-discrimination/
Young hair:
https://www.esquire.com/uk/style/grooming/a34465402/history-of-dreadlocks/
Chinese hair:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigtail_Ordinance#:~:text=The%20Pigtail%20Ordinance%20was%20an,%2C%20braided%20pigtail%2C%20cut%20off.
Indigenous hair:
http://www.nativepartnership.org/site/PageServer?pagename=airc_hist_boardingschools#:~:text=Carlisle%20and%20other%20off%2Dreservation,made%20to%20wear%20standard%20uniforms.
https://indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca/the_residential_school_system/#:~:text=The%20purpose%20of%20the%20residential,were%20strictly%20regimented%20by%20timetables.
Sikh hair:
https://m.economictimes.com/news/international/world-news/discrimination-against-sikhs-have-increased-in-us-lawmakers-told/articleshow/90067203.cms
Women's hair:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/iranian-women-prisoners-detail-torture-death-was-like-a-desire
https://msmagazine.com/2020/07/01/tools-of-the-patriarchy-the-the-weaponization-of-hair/
Jewish hair:
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/public-humiliation
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/oral-history/abraham-bomba-describes-cutting-womens-hair-before-they-were-gassed-in-treblinka

2023-09-16 20:40:30

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@npub1v2s…mqq5
#TranslatedFromTheRepublican
"Taking bribes and giving bribes was made legal by Citizens United.
#KochNetwork bought a Supreme Court to make it so.
Get used to it. Texas-style oligarchy & public corruption goes national in 2024!"

2023-09-16 08:04:40

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@npub1aq2…4nfw
A link to the Republican billionaire donors who are funding an ongoing attack on democracy?

2023-09-10 19:02:34

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@npub1ulm…hweg
The goal of funded trolling is to coattail off a prominent woman's work & amplify their messaging.
Misogynists adore using posts from Kamala Harris or Megan Markle to spread chauvinistic talking points.
Trolls hope to drive prominent women out of public life using sock puppets, pile-ons, & swarming.
It's a coordinated targeted harassment campaign
1. Block & mute
2. Check "followers only settings" on their profile or responses
3. Report the account to moderators
Support women.

2023-08-27 18:25:42

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@npub18xy…yxws
Book deals are just one avenue for laundering the bribes and payoffs directed to conservative politicians.
In the USA, books deals for the corrupt are common. Dark money groups often bulk-buy these tomes to game the best-seller lists.
The mass publication of these right wing talking points are used to train ChatAI LLM's for online disinformation campaigns later.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jul/20/revealed-tory-donors-who-paid-7m-to-socialise-with-theresa-may
https://www.businessinsider.com/theresa-may-donors-register-of-interests-2017-7
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/gop-book-deals/2021/04/15/154f3820-9ca5-11eb-b7a8-014b14aeb9e4_story.html
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/22/republicans-bulk-bought-donald-trump-jr-triggered-book

2023-08-24 07:40:30

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@npub1aq2…4nfw
Vivek is as opposed to democracy as Trump or DeSantis and similarly a autocratic wingnut.

2023-08-16 20:46:43

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@npub1xg3…nyjk
The Republican Party is now like an organized crime syndicate.
You can never stop the payoffs.
https://www.salon.com/2022/10/27/greene-threatens-investigations-into-companies-that-cut-off-after-jan-6-riot/
https://chicago.suntimes.com/elections/2022/10/13/23399823/dick-uihlein-donor-midterms-contributions-ron-johnson-herschel-walker-election-denier-illinois-jan-6
The funding of public corruption sinks deeply into American public life.
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and-practice/law-firm-pacs-boost-gop-donations-ahead-of-tuesdays-elections

2023-08-16 20:25:38

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@npub1xg3…nyjk
Trump was * funded * by Republican billionaire donors to overthrow elections.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/27/trump-loans-axos-bank-gregory-garrabrants/
They funded over 400 voter suppression laws in 48 states.
Those donors are * still * funding the overthrow of American democracy.
Charles Koch
Harlan Crow
Rupert Murdoch
Uihlein
Ellison
Thiel
Griffin
Yass
Adelson
Schwarzman
https://theintercept.com/2023/05/25/richard-uihlein-ohio-gop-abortion/
https://www.propublica.org/article/raga-gop-jan6-amazon-walmart-comcast-contributions
Certain donors are also using #MadMarjorie to extort apostate donors
https://www.businessinsider.com/mtg-gop-led-house-probe-firms-stopped-donations-after-capitol-2022-10

2023-08-16 15:35:22

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@npub1d33…p3lv
#TranslatedFromTheRepublican
"Republican billionaire donors prefer criminals for public office.
They are cheaper to extort and blackmail.
That's all we want, a cheaper way to keep control. And money.
Buying a fascist is cheaper than buying a fascist political party."

2023-08-12 01:26:56

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@npub1ddp…2tax @npub1tf4…nzuj
They already tried that, and more than once.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/ohio-man-charged-bomb-threat-targeting-reproductive-health/story?id=80084357
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdoh/pr/columbus-man-sentenced-prison-threatening-local-reproductive-health-services-facility
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/abortion-clinic-bomber-gets-life/
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/17/us/firebomb-in-columbus-ohio-damages-an-abortion-clinic.html
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-02-25-mn-1564-story.html
https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/politics/2020/05/11/facebook-fact-check-convicted-1980s/1217535007/

2023-08-09 02:21:25

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@npub1ddp…2tax @npub19zt…l8y5
The statement about "not all Maine residents" is very similar to the "not all men" that was used to counter #metoo
Similar responses include "Not all Germans" in response to the Holocaust
Or "Not all police" in response to #BLM and George Floyd.
Or "Not all Republicans" in response to the Jan 6 insurrection
When a significant number of a group use "Not all..." to defend themselves, one wonders why they are still part of that group if they object so strongly.

2023-08-08 05:45:54

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@npub1ddp…2tax
The Susan Collins re-election was particularly odd.
Her Democrat opponent finished the election with over $14 million left in her campaign coffers unspent.
https://rollcall.com/2020/12/04/gideons-conundrum-what-to-do-with-all-that-extra-money/
I suspect fake Democrats like Andrew Yang, Kristen Sinema, and Joe Manchin are more prevalent than previously suspected.
Better vetting by Democrats is an imperative.

2023-08-08 04:30:32

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@npub1ddp…2tax @npub15qw…3p2z
The fake narratives about ambivalence, sitting out 2024, or not supporting Trump are ubiquitous. Ignore these disinformation campaigns.
What Republican billionaire donors will do is what they did to re-elect Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell.
They flood GOP coffers in the last weeks of the election to evade reporting on campaign finance until after the election.
They know most of their low-information voters ignore campaigns until the last month before election day.

2023-08-08 03:57:40

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@npub15qw…3p2z
The National Review is another front for #KochNetwork, no different than the Federalist Society, in its aims of anti-democracy, civil rights rollbacks, anti-unionism, voter suppression, climate denialism, tax evasion, & the end of American democracy.
It's a shill for the oil industry that's frying the planet.
https://theintercept.com/2020/07/05/national-review-william-buckley-racism/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Review
Without billionaires, it would have gone bankrupt years ago. Even conservatives won't pay for it.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/01/dispatch-tries-sell-real-news-right/605860/

2023-08-07 00:15:19

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@npub1zdp…vqv8
Malign influence campaigns encourage feelings of futility, impotence, disaffection, indifference, venality, self-absorption, and distraction.
Disinformation is funded to encourage disengagement.
Books by Timothy Snyder and Masha Gessen describe how Putin achieved his despotic rule through disinformation campaigns encouraging a distracted & disinterested electorate.
The same has been achieved in most democracies.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/02/19/knight-nonvoter-study-decoding-2020-election-wild-card-115796
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_apathy

2023-08-05 15:52:38

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@npub1xr8…3q0g
Russian oil interests funds anti-democracy movements in every democracy.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/russias-prigozhin-admits-interfering-us-elections-2022-11-07/

2023-08-05 03:13:42

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@npub1vym…a8a2
Malign influence campaigns don't come for free.
https://electrek.co/2017/06/27/koch-brothers-electric-cars-fossil-fuels/
https://usa.streetsblog.org/2018/04/26/koch-brothers-and-dark-money-gang-up-on-nashville-transit-referendum
Guess who owns the New York Post?
https://nypost.com/2022/01/16/mopeds-crowding-bike-pedestrian-lane-on-queensboro-bridge/
And the Daily Mail?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12358515/E-bike-battery-blew-killed-mother-four-minutes-started-charging-experts-warn-six-fires-week-caused-batteries-e-scooters-bikes-explode-TERRIFYING-force.html
Scaremongering to keep consumers hooked on toxic planet-frying oil.

2023-04-12 03:12:55

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#[0] #[1]
What an interesting way to harvest fingerprints of a young, left leaning demographic on behalf of an anti-democracy corporation like Amazon.
Guess who funded the campaigns of the Tennessee GOP and Speaker Cameron Sexton? Amazon and Walmart.
https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/revealed-whos-funding-tennessees-political-campaigns-liquor-distributors-realtors-top-list
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/susan-lynn-tennessee-qanon-statements-amazon-walmart-donating/
https://www.npr.org/2023/04/07/1168728769/tennessee-gop-rep-barrett-on-why-he-voted-to-expel-two-colleagues-but-not-the-th
https://www.npr.org/2023/01/19/1149993013/amazon-amazonsmile-charity-donation-program