George Williams
@gpww.bsky.social
Progressive; space & science geek, futurist; spiritual, not religious; guitarist, sound engineer, retired computing technologist, AI researcher, and programmer. Ex-X. Alumnus of Georgia Tech, Intergraph, Boeing. 🚫DMs🚫crypto🚫GoFundMe
The question for whoever wins is what they will do to try to curb corruption. Otherwise we will be sentenced to one election after another where parties club each other with populist anger, alternating in power with little changing. brennancenter.substack.com/p/the-midter...
The Midterm Issue Nobody Can Ignore
Candidates say they’ll curb corruption, but are the plans strong enough?
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“Never did I think that if I was wounded that these things would happen,” said Bearman. “Some sacred trust that I thought would never be broken was broken.” newrepublic.com/post/216274/...
Soldiers Wounded in Iran Say DOD Made Them Get Their Own Treatment
The service members were left to fend for themselves.
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Election deniers Cleta Mitchell and Tina Peters want Trump’s commerce secretary to seize voting machines
The problem? No federal official can seize control of election administration from the states and counties, who hold the power run elections under the U.S. Constitution.
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Susan Collins isn’t working for Maine; she is working for Trump. Her voting record proves it. #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdaySUSAN COLLINS: I was successful in getting road salt removed from the Canada tariff list TROY JACKSON: What about everything else? We can't eat road salt
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Tommy Tuberville is big on data centers too, and that's a losing position in Alabama. Doug Jones has a very good chance of beating him in the AL gubernatorial race. Even AL could turn blue this year! www.contrariannews.org/p/data-cente...
Data Center Backlash Is MAGA’s Comeuppance
🚨 27 Days to the Midterms 🚨
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In Austin, a 9-year-old watched ICE detain and drive away with his mother, leaving community members to scramble to find him care. Senate Republicans just blocked a bill that would bar ICE from making arrests at school bus stops. Their cruelty is endless.
'It Has to Stop': Community Members Condemn ICE Arrests at Bus Stops After GOP Blocks Bill to Protect Kids | Common Dreams
Republicans in the US Senate blocked a bill to protect school bus stops from ICE arrests, leading to outrage in Pennsylv
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Biden checks his watch at a ceremony and Fox does nonstop segments on it for weeks. But Trump falls asleep repeatedly at the 9/11 ceremony and they won’t even show it. But national broadcast news networks won’t show it either because that would be impolite.
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THe gloves absolutely must come off. No politeness. No respecting treasonous "Colleagues" on the other side of the aisle. Rules? Screw the rules. Since when has the gOP respected any of our rules/laws/judicial rulings? newrepublic.com/article/2161...
The Long and Extremely Urgent To-Do List if Democrats Take the House
If House Democrats don’t use every tool at their disposal to name names, kick ass, and stop further destruction, there will be hell to pay with the base.
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Of course the surge in illness and death will occur after trump and his lunatic minions will be gone - and the democrat president and congress will take the blame. www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
Florida on Cusp of Measles Outbreak
A mathematical model finds vaccination rates have dropped below the herd immunity threshold and are likely to decline even further, sparking an epidemic.
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"About 70% of the antibiotics that matter most to medicine are sold for use in food animals and most of that is not treating sick livestock. It is keeping healthy animals alive in the crowded, stressful confinement that industrial meat production depends on." www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...
Opinion | We Keep Treating Resistant Infections. We Rarely Ask Where the Resistance Came From.
The farm-to-clinic pathway is not theoretical
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New Fox poll shows Trump coalition collapsing in Texas. GOP is sinking money into Iowa and Kansas. The horrors of Late-Stage Trumpism are creating space for a new anti-corruption, anti-cruelty politics to emerge. On the pod, @aselrod.bsky.social is brilliant on this: newrepublic.com/article/2161...
Fox Drops Brutal Poll on Trump as Leaks Reveal MAGA Panic: “Wake Up!”
As the Trump-GOP position worsens, political theorist explains why Trump-MAGA’s corrupt and depraved misrule has created space for a new, values-based liberal-Democratic politics to emerge.
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“Nobody knows more about demonstrating the Dunning–Kruger effect than me.” —Donald Trump
This is MAPLE MAGA and MAGA❕They don’t know how to tell the truth and get caught and then just spew more lies 🤥
The Justice Department’s complaint should be rejected. Federal judges must remain impartial in deciding the cases before them. But they need not — and should not — remain silent about threats to the rule of law itself. www.contrariannews.org/p/we-object-...
We Object! DOJ’s Latest Attack on Our Heroic Federal Judges
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