Sound Familiar… His People Know What’s Worked In The Past. They Have An Actual “Playbook” To Follow #Blues
Thomas Fortenberry
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Republican officials were faced with a massive backlash from outraged voters who packed the meeting room — and two overflow rooms — to demand that their voting locations remain open. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
GOP backs down from suppression scheme in Texas after voter outrage
The plan changed at the last moment, when Republican officials were faced with a massive backlash from outraged voters
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Nightmare fuel…also known as nothing to see hear speak. Go back to sleep.
Palantir hoovering up European defence and NHS contracts whilst funnelling earnings back to the US to pay negligible corporate tax is a complete failure of digital sovereignty. European states must stop enriching tech firms that drain public coffers. Is it time to ban them? #FBPE
Palantir funnels earnings to US to avoid European taxes, report finds
A new study finds that Palantir, which boasts of high profit margins in the U.S., barely scrapes a margin in Europe, which helps slash its tax bill.
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700 000 $ de bénéfices par minute. Soit 93 milliards $ en trois mois. Ce sont les bénéfices record que les huit majors pétrolières – Aramco, BP, Shell, Equinor, TotalEnergies, Eni, Chevron et ExxonMobil – ont réalisé entre mars et juin dernier. Sur le dos de la planète. Et de ses habitants.
Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis
Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage
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The difficulty people have is in distinguishing the difference between having a belief, which should of course be protected, and aggressively espousing that belief, which generally should not.
Cornyn and every other white old crusty politician needs to ve taken to the woodshed and beat when they say shit like this. Men are quickly going to find out how powerful women are- i am fucking done being rold abuse of women isn’t a big deal. www.rawstory.com/smartnews/co...
'No way to assuage them': Cornyn blows off Epstein survivors after giving Blanche a pass
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) dismissed the concerns of survivors of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein just moments after he voted to allow acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to get a full v...
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This is a new view of the bulldozed White House complex. The criminal monstrosity subhuman filth won’t stop until he destroys everything, makes me sick to my stomach.
El-Sayed: We live in an era where we continue to see a few very small people try to define America as being as small as they are. We can't control the past 250 years. What we can do is build the next 250
The head of the Dept of Education Linda McMahon, in an open letter to college leaders asked them to respond to concerns over academic standards, admissions procedures and tuition costs. University presidents and governing boards are asked to address seven subjects — in... TAT: [Attacking education]
After Colleges Reject ‘Compact,’ Trump Officials Try a Letter
The open letter from Education Secretary Linda McMahon fell far short of the attempt at a compact last year that dangled research money in return for embracing the Trump administration’s agenda.
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It doesn't take a rocket surgeon to figure out why communities don't want ANY of this around them.
After Cheyenne wastewater was contaminated, researcher raises concerns about runoff from data centers
A researcher specializing in wastewater is calling for transparency from data centers after an unidentified industrial company was cited for contaminating the Cheyenne reuse system.
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🧵I recommend Umberto Eco's full speech on [Ur-] or [Eternal Fascism] from 1995 here, since the list above is an excerpt. (It helps when ticking boxes) It's a skilled semiotician's and historian's narration since Eco experienced fascism first hand starting at a very young age.
Ur-Fascism | Umberto Eco
I think it is possible to outline a list of features that are typical of what I would like to call Ur-Fascism, or Eternal Fascism. These features cannot be organized into a system; many of them contra...
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Why do we bother obeying the law and paying our taxes when the President does neither? He is playing us all for fools!
This piece of utter scum can dream of glory, but he will never obtain it. He is not just a joke, he is a pathetically evil traitor. He desecrates everything he touches. My grandfather was a Major who served under General Patton in the Third Army. How dare Trump even pretend to be on their level.
Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 14h agoCorporal Bonespurs does the stolen valor thing again
91 days until the Midterms and the regime keeps folding every time they’re forced to prove their case in front of a judge. We're keeping score, writing it down, and fighting back against price hikes and cuts to care. Full story: #RepublicanMedicareCuts
Twelve Days Before Trump’s Bank Cut Him Off, Somebody Wrote A Memo
Capital One hasn’t released it. The Trumps’ own lawyers described it in a filing nobody read. Plus 25 states in court over the tariffs, and the nurse ICE picked the wrong fight with.
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Before today ends Join with me HAPPY 65TH BIRTHDAY TO PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA 🎂 Sending you all the love in the world and thank you President Obama Taught me the meaning OF HOPE
This piece of utter scum can dream of glory, but he will never obtain it. He is not just a joke, he is pathetically evil.
Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 14h agoCorporal Bonespurs does the stolen valor thing again
