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Founder & Principal, Boat Rocker Strategies. Developer: KachiKoshi for iOS/Android, a sumo companion app. Trade unionist. John Brown enthusiast. Army vet. Diasporic southerner.

Harrison Butker needs to spend more time practicing his kicking and less time practicing an esoteric Catholicism that you can only access after watching 1000 hours of YouTube and growing a little beard.

The USA’s failure to punish Trump for Jan 6th was just an historic betrayal of global democracy. What a shameful, abject and total failure of institutions and civil society.

Last night, Flávio's campaign's internal polls began to predict Lula's victory by a larger margin than expected.

So they moved on to Plan B: disrupt the election to pave the way for a coup.

The plan: Bolsonarist mayors boycotted public transportation to prevent their voters from going to the polls; the president of the TSE, Kássio Nunes, refused to intervene; Zanin ordered the extension of voting; now the Bolsonarists are starting to claim a coup to justify the defeat.

The next few weeks will be marked by instability. Trump won't recognize the election results. And we'll need to take to the streets to defend the electoral process.

I lived a privileged life as the younger brother of an nba player. For example, one time at a fest in Toronto, we were backstage and saw earl sweatshirt, who was not yet headliner material. Earl saw my brother and goes “fuck outta here Matt Bonner, bitch ass spurs!” And he was very sincere. A treat.

They are destroying the administrative state & throwing all of us to the wolves. Doesn't matter if you voted for them or not, MAGA/MAHA are driving us into a chaotic, deadly, pre-20th century wilderness of no aid for states devastated by disasters; no regulation... share.google/0kdXsvm8ER8q...

FEMA tells states to handle disasters on their own

The Trump administration plans to cut disaster aid in as few as six months and shift responsibility to states, FEMA's administrator said in remarks obtained by POLITICO.

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People forget that J6 was successful. Everyone who participated was let out of jail and the guy who perpetrated it is President again. There were no consequences. They have plenty of incentive to do a much bigger and worse version.