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  #FromRussiaWithLev is a masterpiece, simultaneously uplifting/utterly horrifying. It was like an expert telling you, “Hey, your house is riddled w mold, but we can fix it.” Ew! Glad you took care of that, thx. But when you get up close, inside the wall, see the staggeringly disgusting mold, widespread damage, up close/personal, it’s a smack in the face, leaves you asking how much more there is, can fix it? Have to move? Tear down the house? GAA! It’s real folks, pay attention, fix it. #Maddow

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  I forgot who suggested this to me today, but I hope you see this: Via USA Today opinion columnist Michael J. Stern on the hellsite: Hey Mark Cuban, @mcuban, if you start a national newspaper with reporters from the LA Times snd Washington Post who want to maintain their journalistic integrity, I will subscribe. And I will get everyone I know to do the same.

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  Oof. Capitol police chief goes off on #ClusterFox #TuckerCarlson #Jan6 Via Kyle Cheney: JUST IN: USCP chief Manger rips Tucker Carlson in internal message to officers.

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  👇🏼 Via @marcelias: There are only 44 days until Election Day and in many states voting has begun! Please: -Make sure you are registered to vote. -Make a plan to vote. -Vote! If your vote didn't matter, Republicans wouldn't be trying to suppress it.

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  Via Will: "When a cargo ship took out a #Baltimore bridge, it also demolished the lies poisoning our #immigration debate The 6 migrant men who died weren't drug dealers or sex traffickers but hero dads filling potholes to give their kids a better life. This column meant more to me than anything I've written for a while. Here's an excerpt. Please take a moment to read the whole thing." If @willbunch wrote it, you should read it.© https://www.inquire...

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  Via K Griffin: Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner: "Anybody who thinks it's time to play militia, F around & find out. Anybody who thinks it's time to insult, to deride, to mistreat, to threaten people, F around & find out. We do have the cuffs, we do have the jail cells. We do have the Philly juries, & we have the state prisons. So if you're going to try to turn an election into some form of coercion, if you're going to try to bully...

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  Via Scott MacFarlane #Jan6 #legal FLASH: Judge Trevor McFadden sentences Capitol riot defendant Hatchet Speed to FOUR YEARS in prison Speed will serve the sentence after completing his prison term in federal Virginia firearms case

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  New #BreastCancer guidelines say to start screenings at age 40, instead of 50 https://www.nbcnews.com/health/womens-health/breast-cancer-guidelines-start-screenings-age-40-rcna83355

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  One more thread, this time by Paul Waldman, on despicable #CNN airing of fascist rapist: 1/…🪡 1 thing last night made clear is that not only doesn't "fact-checking in real time" work on #Trump, it's actually JUST WHAT HE WANTS. Allow me to explain... When he says "The election was rigged" or "I did complete the wall," gets corrected and then says the lie again, steamrolling over the journalist, it isn't about which o...

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  👏🏻 #Democrat Aaron Rouse appeared to clinch the special #election for #Virginia’s 7th state Senate district on Tuesday in yet another victory for his party, which was already riding high from a better-than-expected midterm election. https://trib.al/B647ydT

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  Keep 'em coming... "A lawsuit has been filed to remove Rep #ScottPerry, former chair of House Freedom Caucus, from ballot for violating #14thAmendment's insurrection clause. ..alleges that Perry engaged in conspiracy to incite a violent insurrection on #Jan6. It was filed by a local Dem activist & comes just weeks after #JackSmith obtained Perry's personal text messages in furtherance of his investigation into January 6, 2021" #legal https://www...

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  Via Kyle Griffin: President #Biden will cast Donald #Trump as a threat to democracy Saturday in a speech to be delivered on the third anniversary of the insurrection. "Our message is clear, and it is simple: We are running a campaign like the fate of our democracy depends on it. Because it does."

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  I think we can all agree on this. Via Ben Wexler: Not even sure why I bother to point it out, but if another politician, one day after a school shooting, said “Get over it,” and then a few days later said “I hope the economy crashes within the next 12 months,” their candidacy would be over

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  Via @atrupar (he incl clips): Liz Cheney on CNN: "When you think about Donald #Trump, for ex, pledging retribution, what Putin did to Navalny is what retribution looks like in a country where the leader is not subj to the rule of law.. you've now got a Putin wing of Repub Party" "W respect to EJeanCarroll, people need to understand...what jury found in that case is Trump was guilty of committing sexual assault -- basically that he actually had done what he sa...

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  Via Elie Mystal at dr getting vaxxed: lol. Nurse came in. I told her the news. She deadpanned: “Well, I guess I’m about to give you the last two vaccines of your life.” #RFKjr

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  Via Amanda Gorman. Yes THAT Amanda Gorman: #Florida #fascism 1/…🧵

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  Via Angry Staffer: This is happening again and a lot of you are falling for it again.

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  #VOTE

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  Via @tristansnell: Remember for voting today: - If you're in line, STAY in line - Bring your own water and snacks - Don't wear your #Harris-Walz gear to the polls - If they won't let you vote, ask nicely to cast a provisional ballot - they are required to let you

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  "Steve #Bannon associate Brian Kolfage has been sentenced to 4 years in prison for his role in defrauding donors to help privately build #Trump’s southern border wall. Kolfage...pleaded guilty last year to misappropriating more than $350,000 from the “We Build the Wall” campaign. Prosecutors said that he spent the money on cosmetic surgery, boat payments and jewellery. In addition, he also pleaded guilty to tax charges" #legal https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas...

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  Oh look. Via Aaron Fritschner: Justice #Alito says his wife Martha-Ann Alito had an altercation with neighbors about a "'Fuck Trump' sign that was within 50 feet of where children await the school bus in Jan 21." Except... FCPS and ACPS were all remote in January of 2021. No children were waiting for buses

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  Via Josh Gerstein JUST IN: Florida man has pleaded guilty to making death threats against Rep. Eric #Swalwell (D-Calif.) Michael Shapiro, 72, of Greenacres, Fla. admitted to using racial slur while threatening to kill Swalwell & his children. Sentencing set for August. Doc: https://documentcloud.org/documents/24665794-shapiroproffer051724

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  🔥 #BREAKING #Trump 1/... #WOMPWOMP #WOMPAGE via Pagliery! Breaking news, first @thedailybeast Donald Trump has been hit with a massive one-two punch in his bank fraud case. He owes $372 million for lying—and he can't borrow money from any New York bank, frustrating his ability to appeal the judgment.

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  🤞🏼 Via Kyle Griffin: More than 72.18 million Americans have already voted. At least 53% of those voters are women. —NBCNews

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  “Swedish parliament passed a law Wednesday lowering the age required for people to legally change their gender from 18 to 16. Young people under 18 will still need approval by a guardian, a doctor, and the National Board of Health and Welfare.” https://apnews.com/article/sweden-vote-legal-gender-law-minimum-age-9cfb3c6879ae03c3187f520eed308377?taid=661fd9e9dfa1d40001495a9c

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  From a day ago, but still applies, although we already knew CNN was like this: Jon Stewart: I learned nothing from this town hall about #Trump and his most ardent supporters I haven't known since 2016. I learned a lot about #CNN.

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  Via Kyle Cheney: HAPPENING NOW: A federal judge in #Georgia has thrown out the RNC's claim that Georgia counties broke the law by accepting absentee ballots over the weekend. The judge says their complaint lacked a "basic level of statutory review and reading comprehension."

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  Via Ben Wikler: Absorb this graph—but note that the final year is 2018, the year of Trump’s tax cuts. That’s #Trump’s big goal, always has been: to rip off working people and hand huge bags of cash to the ultra-wealthy, like himself and his Mar-a-Lago buddies. Rutger Bregman: Stunning graph: the plummeting tax rates of the richest Americans. For the first time in history, billionaires have a lower effective tax rate than working-class Americans.

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  #JDVance vs #CoachWalz Via Vote Vets

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  “Almost 42 million Americans – over one-eighth of the US population – are estimated to have lived within one mile of a mass shooting since 2014, according to an original CNN analysis of data from the Gun Violence Archive (GVA) and US Census Bureau.” #GunViolence https://cnn.it/3L2ptpO