🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:
The idea that 82% of pregnant women who got vaccinated against Covid had miscarriages doesn't pass the smell test. That would have been 4 out of 5 pregnancies.
Maggie Astor@maggieastor.bsky.social · 2mo agoWith my colleague Roni Rabin, I dug into the evidence around Covid vaccine safety in pregnancy, and broke down a statistic about miscarriage that has been repeatedly debunked but was still widely circulated again this week.
The caller on Rand Paul’s virtual town hall is all of us.
They gave a wife beater with mental health issues a gun and told him to go round up some foreigners. And now a man is dead. Fuck ICE
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 3mo agoICE officer who shot Colombian man in Maine has history of threatening behavior and mental illness, family and court documents say.
I see a pretty strong difference between waving a flag at a no kings rally or a protest, vs being visibly, overtly draped in an american flag other times at least among my group, having a flag shirt or bumpersticker - outside of a protest context - would be seen as one stop off of wearing a red hat
Good God, this man holds the most powerful position in the world. He has the nuclear codes. He has access to the most knowledgeable experts in any given topic. And this is the shit he not only goes through his head, but thinks is worthy of broadcasting publicly. Just a world-class embarrassment.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo agoTrump on Truth Social: "Many people don’t know, or assume, that DUMB ends in 'b'"
I have to say, removing a usurper king's name from a building really is a great way to celebrate the 250th anniversary of our founding.
We need to start demanding he release the full results of these tests. Not that I don't necessarily think he passed them. But the public needs to see, in black and white, what the hell he's bragging about passing.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo agoTrump: "No president has ever taken a cognitive test except me. I've taken three of them. One in the first administration. They're hard. The first question is easy. You have a lion, a bear, an alligator, and a squirrel. 'Which is the squirrel?'"
I'm sure I'm not the first person to observe this, but the irony of it all just hit me this morning. Donald Trump is obsessed with the Nobel Peace Prize. Why is he obsessed with the NPP? Because Barack Obama won it. Why did Obama win the Nobel Peace Prize? Because he wasn't George W. Bush.
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YOU ASKED FOR THIS! Downfall. Kristi Noem Edition:
Anyone currently involved in federal immigration enforcement, every officer, every bureaucrat, every lawyer, every judge, is a member of the most evil group of people this country has seen since Reconstruction. Darkness personified, every one. Doing this to children is beyond depraved.
Mike Hixenbaugh@mikehixenbaugh.com · 8mo agoOn Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
BONUS RULING: Judge Thomas Johnston, a George W. Bush appoiintee in West Virginia, used a recent ruling to warn of the dangers of defying due process for immigrants because of what it could also mean for Americans. It's worth a read. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
For most of my adult life, very broadly speaking, it has usually been the case that partisans and people who don’t get in the weeds of policy want to see politics through the lens of a simple, cartoonish moral binary with a good side & an evil side. And *usually* it’s more complicated than that.
"And the rush by Trump officials and their cult-like followers to justify it? That’s American too. The lies, so blatant, so obvious. These people have learned that truth doesn’t matter anymore, so long as they can repeat the lies enough on enough friendly TV networks."
Techdirt@techdirt.com · 9mo agoAn American Murder Two weeks ago, ICE agent Jonathan Ross murdered Nicole Good in cold blood. I said then that we had to abolish ICE and impeach Trump & Noem before they incited another murder. As more details have emerged, it's only looked worse. Multiple angles of video showed Good was trying to…
Things worth really hammering to any family and acquaintances whose reflexive attitude is “but we gotta enforce the law”: (1) Lots of the folks being targeted came here legally; the administration has retroactively declared them “illegal” despite having done nothing wrong
Amanda Katz@katzish.bsky.social · 9mo agoVenezuelan family seeking asylum -- entered legally, both parents with college degrees -- took their 7-year-old to the ER for a nosebleed and fever. ICE, which is now targeting hospitals as well as churches schools, blocked the child from getting care and detained them instead
New, from me: Defenders of police abuses will sometimes talk about “bad apples” spoiling the barrel. This is the wrong metaphor for ICE and CBP. The barrel itself is rotten. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/past-the-b...
Past the breaking point
The violent occupation of an American city is more than a warning
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BREAKING — Mayor of Lewiston, Maine posts on FB that ICE is coming to the city imminently. This confirms my reporting the agency is planning a surge in the city and state generally. Lewiston is home to a large Somali-American population, which made up 4.6% of the population as of the 2020 census.
New in PN: The dehumanization machine speeds up "Months after the nation and world were appalled by George Floyd’s murder, it became an event with two different truths. With the killing of Good, the right has not even deigned to admit the heinousness of the event before deciding she had it coming."
The right-wing dehumanization machine is speeding up
They're skipping right past thoughts and prayers.
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“Nail a game of screaming Simon Says with a gun pointed at you or you die” is not a free country
Fuck this administration. Fuck their supporters. And fuck anyone who buys into their bullshit.
Radley Balko@radleybalko.bsky.social · 9mo agoA 6-year-old just lost his mother. A woman was shot in the face in front of her wife. The swift, lockstep attempt to dehumanize and villainize Renee Nicole Good might be the most depraved thing we've seen yet from these ghouls and their supporters. These people are utterly fucking dead inside.