Andrew

@amac0668.bsky.social

When your party leader is a president with historically low approval ratings, who has raised prices through tariffs and wars, uses disaster relief and science grants to punish states that didn’t vote for him, and has agents shooting people in the streets, this is what you do.

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NEW from me: I think this is the perfect time to use Rachel Maddow’s oft-repeated phrase - ‘watch what they do- not what they say.’ Ignore Ellison's PR pitch, but look at what's happening at CBS News including directing reporters to add “facts” that did not exist. open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...

David Ellison can’t be trusted with CNN

We've already seen how Ellison has wrecked CBS. Don't fall for his PR push on CNN.

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MAGA types and gullible right wingers are categorizing the Moroccans pouring into Ceuta as "migrants." They aren't migrants. Morocco disputes Spain's ownership of the territory and is trucking (literally) hundreds of Moroccans to reinforce their claim of ownership. Don't be fooled.

Reminder that on his last day of his first term, Trump awarded a commendation to Dr Fauci "in recognition of his exceptional effort on Operation Warp Speed"

cap of White House page honoring Fauci

We destroyed Irans military then had to go back to fighting the non existent military but had to stop because we were using too many expensive missiles attacking the not-military because we weren’t flying over the country with no military because their non military was still a threat to our planes.

I’m trying to get the Republican messaging for the midterms straight. Is it: The economy sucks but it’s Biden’s fault and Trump’s tariffs and war has nothing to do with any of it. OR The economy is great, we’re the hottest country in the world, & Trump deserves all the credit.

It's so breathtakingly crass to treat the deaths of Americans serving in the military as some contest, a contest that, in your twisted, rotting mind, you think you can brag about winning. There is no reverence, sanity, solemnity, or decorum in this vile regime.

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19-year-old Pvt. Isabella Gonzales died defending this country. Think about that while politicians demonize immigrants and terrorize Latino communities. Americans with names like Gonzales have always fought, bled, and died for this nation. RIP to her and Lt. Tyler Feehan. 🇺🇸

Pentagon shares the names of two US servicemembers KIA Friday and Saturday in the Iranian attack on the
US base in Jordan.
1st Lt. Tyler James Feehan, 25, of Ewa Beach, Hawaii;
Pvt. Isabella Gonzales, 19, of Carrollton, Texas.
RIP

How many more soldiers have to die for Trump’s ridiculous war? How many more billions do we have to spend? How many more thousands is it going to cost American families in higher prices? When will Republicans in Congress finally stop acting like neutered cultists?

“You said the 2020 election was rigged by either Venezuela or China. When you called that fella in Georgia pleading for 11,780 votes, was that part of the rigging, or part of the 6-year investigation? Just one more thing, sir, who was president while all this rigging took place?”

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Trump's own declassified intelligence documents state that Russia spread false Burisma corruption claims about Joe Biden, advanced those narratives through U.S. officials and other prominent figures, and planned a "high-profile corruption scandal" to influence the 2020 presidential election.

Screenshot specifically supports these claims:

Russia sought to spread claims Biden engaged in criminal activity involving Burisma.
Russian-affiliated actors advanced those narratives "with US officials and other prominent persons."
They planned a "high-profile corruption scandal" implicating Biden "at the peak of the 2020 US presidential campaign."
The stated aim was to defeat Biden and help secure Trump's victory.

Following Putin's footsteps, Trump makes his attempt towards consolidating a dictatorship in the US under the pretext of "election security." Trump rambled for a full 25 minutes. Yet ironically, the released documents show evidence that Russia and China were helping Trump.

obtain or crack the passwords for targeted accounts,
As the 2020 election approaches, the IC has detected Chinese state-sponsored cyber actors targeting the former Vice President's presidential campaign, probably to gather intelligence that could enable future operations, the first instance this election cycle that we have seen them directly targeting a US presidential campaign China has also conducted cyber espionage against other US election-related entities, The IC assesses that China does not currently intend to covertly interfere to try to sway the outcome of the election, although this activity could enable such operations, if Beijing made a decision to do so.We assess that Russia is using a range of measures primarily to denigrate former Vice President Biden and what it sees as an anti-Russia establishment. For example, it is directing or encouraging proxies to spread claims about Vice President Biden. Some Kremlin-linked actors are also seeking to boost President Trump's candidacy on social media. More broadly, Moscow's efforts seek to amplify social discord in the US and undermine Washington's global standing.
We assess that China prefers that President Trump be defeated; in the past few months it has stepped up public rhetoric criticizing his Administration, which it recognizes may affect the election.
Although Beijing did not intend to try to affect the election,
online influence, and collecting