dlemire60.bsky.social

dlemire60.bsky.social

@dlemire60.bsky.social

#VoteBlueNoMatterWho Atheist, pragmatist, progressive. Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts. - D.P. Moynihan

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Exactly right. This has been known for *decades*. The reason there’s been no prosecutions is because it would implicate SO many people in gov’t/media/business. How did trump get his no tax deal? What’s up w/ Resorts Int’l/The CIA/Trump? How did Epstein turn Air America into Wexner’s cargo airline?

Sarah Kendzior@sarahkendzior.bsky.social

I have court documents from a Trump and Epstein mid-1990s child rape case in my 2020 book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, which was a bestseller. Folks pretending they just learned about this are full of it. They refused to pursue it and let victims suffer in silence, fearing no one cared to hear the truth.

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In 2020, Ken Paxton’s office spent more than 22,000 hours on voter fraud cases. The result was 16 prosecutions. “That’s 16 cases in a state of 17 million registered voters,” Marc Elias says. The rules for voting keep changing. Follow us so nothing catches you off guard.

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Replying to @scolom.bsky.social

Yes, Kamala Harris’s famous words still resonate and are correct. The common goals you mention should motivate all Democrats to get out and vote. Our job is not done yet. We have to win overwhelmingly. 🗳️🇺🇸✨

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The only reason I can think of for this news not being absolutely everywhere is that large media orgs don’t want to be seen as putting their thumbs on the scales a week before election day. And that’s cowardly as shit.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

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I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

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I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

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Bolsonaro's loss is not just a loss for Bolsonaro. It's a loss for Trump. For Musk. For Milei. For Netanyahu. For Farage. For Meta and Zuckerberg. For the meat barons, the fossil fuel corporations, and the rest of the neocolonial looters. And it is a massive win for humanity and the living planet.

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Nobody's shocked that Jason Miller is the one posting Bolsonaro's refusal to concede. Trumpworld isn't just watching Brazil, they're coordinating. Same playbook, same people, different country. The authoritarian network is global, and it's poison.

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1. A group formed last week called “Progressive Alliance of Wisconsin” is attacking David Crowley, the state’s Democratic nominee for governor, with hundreds of thousands in attack mailers. A Popular Information investigation has linked the effort to GOP operatives.

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Seems like the Trump White House agrees with everyone who says the Trump White House had committed countless crimes

Jeff Stein@jeffstein.bsky.social

Scoop: White House lawyers are weighing preemptive mass pardons for junior staff, sources says Under discussion: Pardoning everyone involved in deportation, war, or trade policy www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/w...

dlemire60.bsky.social reposted

Much of What Democrats Must Do boils down to valuing the good faith opinions of millions of Americans who vote for them more than bad faith opinions in media. They’ll call truth and justice “weaponization.” They’ll say voters don’t want accountability. They’re wrong, and Dems don’t have to listen.

Schooley@schooley.bsky.social

If Democrats actually win big because people want a check on Trump corruption I expect every move to do so will be covered in the corporate media as being risky to their 2028 position.

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There was a fucking hole in our planet’s *atmosphere* Like a legit, no joke, “this will unravel our entire ecosystem” hole in the world, and then we fixed it by working together across national and political lines As a species we decided, “we will survive” Let’s do that some more

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?

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This is truly inconsistent with any rational view of America that I can conceive of.

Gregg Gonsalves@gregggonsalves.bsky.social

The plain fact of it is thus: the Trump administration wants to re-segregate higher education. It is a racist project straight-up-no-chaser. Accommodating any of this puts you on the wrong side of history, makes you a collaborator in this project. ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

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This is literally the end of the rule of law. If a President can pardon people committing crimes on his behalf - and the Supreme Court says he himself can't be prosecuted for crimes committed as part of his job - then the government becomes a lawless entity able to violate our rights without limit.

The Washington Sun@washingtonsun.com

New: White House attorneys are evaluating whether to issue mass pardons to junior staffers. https://www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/white-house-weighing-mass-pardons-for-junior-staff

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Not just the fastest, or the cheapest, or the best, but the *only* possible solution to climate change is a rapid global buildout of clean energy infrastructure. If you're standing in the way of that, you're not working on climate change & should be honest with yourself about your priorities.

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Two weeks out, Trump's FCC chair is warning TV stations that polls showing Trump & the GOP losing could count as "News Distortion" The First Amendment has no exception for polls the president doesn't like The poll that matters most is Nov 3, & Carr can't keep that one off the air -TN

reuters.comFCC chair says broadcast networks could violate regulatory obligations by airing 'fake polls'The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission said on Wednesday that US broadcast networks could violate their regulatory obligations by airing "entirely fake polls and suppression polls."

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quick reminder that “die hard republican voters” are not the only voters that exist, and that the ohio GOP’s success over the last decade rests on winning conservative and moderate independents.

jamelle@jamellebouie.net

i don't think i've ever seen a campaign do a murder-suicide before (decent chance this drags down the entire GOP ticket in the state)

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NEW: Last night, a federal judge upheld North Carolina's new restrictive measures for absentee ballots. However, ten years prior, that same judge upheld a strict voter-ID law that an appeals court later found targeted Black voters "with almost surgical precision." https://demdock.com/4shBITR

democracydocket.comJudge who approved North Carolina ballot restrictions also upheld GOP law targeting Black voters ‘with almost surgical precision’Ten years before a federal judge approved North Carolina’s new measures restricting absentee ballots, he upheld a strict voter ID law over pro-voting groups’ objections.

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You can't hold me accountable for not anticipating the bad thing that happened just because I was actively ignoring all the people who told me it would happen.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Susan Collins on Kavanaugh: "I'm very disappointed in his his vote to overturn Roe v. Wade. There was no way for me to anticipate that."

Get out and vote!

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Ossoff: "What worries me right now is complacency about this race in Georgia, overconfidence about this race in Georgia. There's no such thing as a landslide victory in the state of Georgia. This remains the crucial battleground state."

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0.00006%. That’s the share of ballots in California’s last three general elections that DOJ alleges were cast illegally, according to the charges announced Monday. We help you understand the reality of our elections. Subscribe to our free newsletters here: https://demdock.com/4z16R0D

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Trump-friendly oligarchs are buying up major media with the regime's help. They control CNN, CBS, Fox, TikTok, Meta, X and major local TV chains. Yet Mike Johnson is still claiming liberal bias. The real media conspiracy is the corporate consensus to normalize Johnson and other right-wing radicals.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Mike Johnson offers a conspiracy theory to explain away his party's dire polling: "I believe there's a concerted effort between Democrats and the mainstream media that's openly biased in their favor to discourage the Republican side"

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I see we're having a debate about whether it's okay to go back to "X," the site owned by a trillionaire fascist who is currently bankrolling the GOP's midterm, throttled Ukraine's war effort, and still winkingly allows vast amounts of CSAM on his service Answer: No, what the fuck is wrong with you

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More of this please! Also, we can take his name off buildings as soon as he is gone. (Just do it quickly before he has time to file legal challenges.) But repairing the rest of the damage he's doing is going to take a very long time.

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social

Taylor: He has turned the presidency into a side hustle. He has turned the White House into a deposit box for bribes, and he has turned your government into, forgive my words, a fucking ATM machine. So no, we don't want his name on the buildings.

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Replying to @kevinmkruse.bsky.social

Biden mixes up the presidents of Mexico and Egypt Media: he is mentally gone and 88 neurologists ran to the white house examine him Trump: I saw a baby hippo eating a lion in Zelenskyy’s yacht moored in Mars Media: Trump promotes space exploration in repudiation of Biden’s vision