Chris Norton
@chrisn50.bsky.social
Seventy-six not out. Grateful for each new day. A Liberal with a social conscience. Likes puns. Are there any nice people left in this world? Norty but nice. #COYS. PLEASE NO CHAT⛔/ PLEASE NO DMs⛔/NO CRYPTO PLEASE ⛔🙏 #BlueResister #DEMOCRACY
6 weeks from the election & suddenly Republicans pretend to care more about their constituents than cultish obedience to Trump. But 5 minutes after the election they’ll be right back selling you out so they can get a signed hat in the Oval Office or a dinner invite to Mar-a-Lago.
Nate Silver’s latest Senate polling averages show Democrats ahead in TEN key races: 🔵 GA: Ossoff +9.1 🔵 NC: Cooper +8.9 🔵 NH: Pappas +5.0 🔵 OH: Brown +4.5 🔵 ME: Jackson +3.5 🔵 MN: Flanagan +2.8 🔵 MI: El-Sayed +2.8 🔵 TX: Talarico +2.7 🔵 AK: Peltola +1.7 🔵 IA: Turek +0.8
Trump Lashes Out as CNN, MS NOW, and Politico All Sue Him Trump’s White House media ban isn’t exactly turning out how he imagined.
Trump Lashes Out as CNN, MS NOW, and Politico All Sue Him
Trump’s White House media ban isn’t exactly turning out how he imagined.
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Good. I hope journalists and media outlets keep standing up to Trump’s relentless attacks on the First Amendment. The lesson of history is that capitulating to a tyrant only invites more tyranny.
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d agoBREAKING: The nation's major television networks are declining to participate in White House pool duties moving forward in response to the Trump admin's decision to bar CNN, MS NOW and POLITICO from the White House, Fox News D.C. bureau chief Bryan Boughton wrote in an email to TV pool subscribers.
I just signed the most comprehensive data center protections in America. We're making sure these companies pay the costs they create instead of sticking working families with the bill. It's about protecting communities, not cutting them out.
If you have a dollar for every transgender athlete playing college sports you'd have about $6 which just happens to be the price for a gallon of diesel now. Congrats MAGAts, you played yourselves.
I’ll be happy to see Vivek lose and disappear from politics forever.
Polymarket@polymarket.com · 2d agoBREAKING: Vivek Ramaswamy crashes to a record low in the odds to win Ohio’s governor race. Democrat Amy Acton now favored at 58%.
LOL -- Fox News cuts away from Vance's speech and a host says, "we will bring you back to this rally if he starts to make news"
This is not normal. It’s straight out of an authoritarian playbook. We change this come November. #Midterms 🌊
Fox Corp. must turn over hundreds of documents that could shed light on how founder Rupert Murdoch handled some of his media companies' biggest scandals. n.pr/3Vor80V
Judge orders Fox to hand over hundreds of documents in shareholders' case
Fox Corp. must turn over hundreds of documents that could shed light on how founder Rupert Murdoch handled some of his media companies' biggest scandals.
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I certainly hope this didn’t cut into the Defense Secretary’s fun day at the football game. Does Signal have video chat?
Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 3d agoCNN: US is preparing a large-scale military operation against Yemen's Houthis in retaliation for their strikes on Saudi Arabia, with the Camp David meeting held to review Yemen strike options, shortly before Trump left for the White House.
“Go to church. Find Jesus. Why is everyone so horny here?” Lauren Boebert The timing of this clip aged like milk in the hot desert sun. 📌 The Colorado Times Recorder reports that a sworn complaint alleges she had sexual relationships with 3 employees she supervised, and only one of them was a man.
🔥🔥 BREAKING: A major fire is burning at Moscow’s Kapotnya oil refinery following reports of a Ukrainian drone strike. The facility is Moscow’s only oil refinery and has a capacity of roughly 280,000 barrels per day. Another significant hit to Russia’s already strained refining system.
Rep. Robert Garcia demands Trump Jr.'s records on Putin-decorated oligarch Umar Kremlev, who paid for his wedding parties. Blanche and Patel refuse to take action.
Oversight Democrats open investigation into Russian oligarch's payments for Trump Jr's wedding
Rep. Robert Garcia demands Trump Jr.'s records on Putin-decorated oligarch Umar Kremlev, who paid for his wedding parties. Blanche and Patel decline to act.
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UK politics funded by billionaires, mega-donations surge as the rich buy power. £179m donated by wealthy individuals since 2019. A cap at £100,000 or £500,000 won't do. Only the rich can enter political auctions Can't end political corruption without ending donations.
UK politics increasingly funded by billionaires as mega-donations surge
Exclusive: A total £179m has been donated by wealthy individuals since 2019, research reveals
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Jim Ratcliffe, tax-dodging Brexiter billionaire living in Monaco, says the poorest and most vulnerable should have their rights & benefits removed to bolster our economy. Don’t bother telling us this rancid man’s opinions unless you say how much he’s avoided in tax and what Brexit is costing us all.
Credit to @bestforbritain.org … and to @the-independent.com for its pro-EU/anti-Brexit reporting. Good to have some organisations willing to represent us and our shared best interests, rather than those of non-dom billionaires and populist politicians who couldn’t care less. bsky.app/profile/best...
Best for Britain@bestforbritain.org · 4d agoA new mega poll by YouGov reveals that an overwhelming majority of constituencies want to rejoin the EU. Only 4 constituencies were not sure. It’s time to put EU membership on the table. https://bestforbritain.org/uk-membership-most-popular-eu-policy-in-all-uk-seats-bar-four-megapoll-finds/
The only 4 constituencies where rejoining the EU wasn’t the preferred option were those of Lee Anderson, Farage, Tice and Lowe. In those 4, the top answer was ‘don’t know’. Confirming that Brexit has no real support at all. Not surprising for a total shitshow. And makes red lines seem very silly.
I'll be on MS NOW at 6pm Eastern tonight/Saturday as Peter Alexander helms a special report on the president's decision to try to ban our network, CNN, and Politico from White House grounds. (Emphasis on "try"...) See you at 6.
Ossoff: Did you see this business about Don Jr.‘s wedding in the Bahamas? Where he received, apparently, a cash gift from a Russian oligarch connected to the Kremlin? This man, Kremlev, was apparently in China with Putin two days before he flew to the Bahamas for Don Jr.’s wedding…
“This is all Trump’s fault!” Marjorie Taylor Greene rips Donald Trump over his war with Iran and skyrocketing gas prices.
"I'm asking you to pretend I'm on the ballot." -Donald Trump https://www.commondreams.org/news/iran-war-cost-energy
US Energy Consumers Have Spent $121 Billion Extra Since Trump Launched Iran War: Moody's | Common Dreams
Moody's analysis shows Trump's illegal war with Iran has cost US consumers $1,760 per household. Energy prices spike, ad
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Fox News is now defending CNN, which is obviously the smart thing to do. Even they realize the tides always turn. They said, “Don’t ban them. Or one day, they’ll ban us.” The MAGA movement is really falling apart.
