Josette

Nov 6, 2024: Welcome to the He-Man Woman Haters Club, formerly known as America.

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

60 people have now died in ICE custody since Trump's return to office. Our country is set to spend $268 BILLION on mass deportations and detentions through the end of Trump's term. Instead of death and cruelty, imagine what we could have invested that money in instead?

The bad: measles cases in the U.S. are more than double what they were last year, with 96% of cases being unvaccinated. The good: Pennsylvania has so far administered 14,000 more vaccines this year than last. The dream: The anti-vax movement is deservedly shunned and everyone gets vaccinated.

When the next US Congress investigates corruption, Trump's oil-deal-of-the-century with Alejandro Betancourt, the face of Venezuelan corruption, should be top of its list. Two kleptocracies working together. Brilliant essay by @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

youtu.be/hRmEh_pc0pE?... #USDemocrcy #ProudBlue Vivek Ramaswamy is the poster boy for the rot in the the Republican Party. He made his money by ripping off investors with fraudulent claims of Alzheimer’s drug. Then he released the most despicable ad in US history Ramaswamy is a vile evil man

Reuters: TRUMP ADMINISTRATION'S FIRING OF PROSECUTOR MAURENE COMEY WAS UNLAWFUL, JUDGE RULES

To all you seniors on fixed incomes who disproportionately voted for Trump thinking he’d protect your healthcare interests. I will not lie to you about your chances of surviving his negligent abandonment but, you have my sympathies.

More than 165,000 New Yorkers cast ballots during the first two days of early voting in the 2026 general election, with Brooklyn leading the five boroughs in turnout. Read more: http://specne.ws/TpfKZo 

right wing nationalist authoritarians on the run: first Hungary, now Serbia and Brazil, next Israel, and then America. Let's do this.

It’s so much worse than you think. Ex-DOJ official Liz Oyer: “The Justice Department has been totally captured by the president.” CORRUPTIONLAND is released tomorrow @ corruptionland.org. Next week, Americans can do something about it.

A large nighttime march is moving through Tbilisi, Georgian flags raised above the crowd. Protesters carry a wide banner in Georgian at the front, with blue-and-yellow flags visible farther back. The protests against Georgia’s Russia-friendly government are growing again.

NEWS --> Dems are planning novel ways to wield power of the purse against Trump's corrupt prosecutions of critics like Ilhan Omar if they win House. Reps Pramila Jayapal and Jamie Raskin tell me a range of aggressive tactics will be deployed. Details in my new piece: newrepublic.com/article/2171...

“The Department of Justice is putting its formidable thumb on next week’s elections in a way that seems clearly intended to call into question the legitimacy of any result that is especially unfavorable to Republicans—before those results have even come in.” Me on DOJ’s California and Alaska suits:

Election interference, Russian oil deals, voter fraud, Brazil protests, press suppression, and unlawful troop deployments. #TheDailyBeans Headlines of the Day! 🫘 with @muellershewrote.com & @dgcomedy.bsky.social #MSWMedia More: www.muellershewrote.com/p/headlines-...

Jon Stewart on Mike Rogers: “He was a real pain in our ass in 2010 when we fought for the Zadroga Act for 9/11 first responders. He called it a New York problem and voted against it, all while claiming to respect the heroes of 9/11. It was all bullshit.”

BOOM!!! Lula wins! Bolsonaro loses! So does Trump! In the end, it wasn’t even close.

Homeland Security agents knocked on doors in nine states asking people about voting. Some carried guns. Nurses sued. A federal judge ordered DHS to stop until the polls close. Trump’s regime needed a court order to quit scaring voters. Think about that.

They have nothing.

Obama: "We've seen this movie before. I starred in it. I've got a long-form birth certification to prove it. This stuff didn't work on me. It's not going to work in Michigan on Abdul."

Floridians deserve honest government and someone who will work for them, not one beholden to Trump! Byron Donalds is a crook with no integrity or regard for the citizens of Florida. David Jolly is the man who has the vision and experience to lead Floridians into a better future. #SheShed #Pinks

“Ramaswamy’s ad embraces a woman who enabled sexual abuse—and uses the language of ‘parental estrangement’ to mobilize MAGA voters who can’t understand why their children won’t take their calls. But they know the reason. They just don’t want to accept it.” www.liberalcurrents.com/editors-note...

A carefully planned Russian propaganda operation is underway. Having starved people in Oleshky for months, Russia, with the 'intervention' of Melania, will allow people to leave and pretend Ukraine was at fault. Read @zarinazabrisky.bsky.social www.kyivpost.com/analysis/88041

I don’t get it. If the tariffs are great for America and are bringing back manufacturing and are one of Trump’s signature policies, why won’t the Republicans who refused to overturn them even mention them?

Albania's Flamingo Revolution began over a Jared Kushner-backed luxury resort project, but “it has developed into huge anti-corruption protests," says organizer Boba Mema.

New tonight from @andrewperez.bsky.social and me for @zeteo.com zeteo.com/p/venues-sta...

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Thousand have entered lines stretching around the Cleveland Public Auditorium and Mall B Saturday morning ahead of former President Barack Obama's campaign rally.Obama is in Cleveland to support Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton and U.S. Senate candidate Sherrod Brown.

Election Homestretch! Thanx, Randy! 💙@southerngayteacher.bsky.social💙 @josettewea.bsky.social @decker2000.bsky.social @sedahr.bsky.social @princess-vimentin.bsky.social @gigiangel.bsky.social @licketysplit6.bsky.social @mace-duggan.bsky.social @billthornbro.bsky.social @northjules.bsky.social

OBAMA: That just feels a little bit different… where people are so sick and tired of being sick and tired. After 2 years of chaos. and cruelty. and corruption. and incompetence—you get a chance to say enough's enough.

Trump’s approval rating is sinking towards 30%. But in this Moscow diner, that number feels much higher.

The New York Times describes this as a “Republican rift over Ramaswamy’s attack ad.” But this does not fully grasp what is actually happening, because we are not witnessing a “rift,” but an abyss; A vast, yawning, gaping moral abyss in our politics. charliesykes.substack.com/p/we-stand-w...

SCOOP: Spokesperson for Sen. Ron Wyden told me he is investigating 2 for-profit companies running new ICE facility for unaccompanied children set to open in Louisiana. LaSalle Corrections and 'humanitarian response' firm Anovaeon LLC are facing Wyden's scrutiny. www.thequeenzone.com/scoop-top-se...

RFK Jr. suggests Americans can more easily afford groceries if they start eating liver instead of beef: "Most of the cheap cuts of meat are very inexpensive. You can buy liver or the cheap cuts."

The whole role of Rupert Murdoch TV as a fount for fact-free partisan political disinformation is really amazing. As reported in media around the world, Pope Leo placed calls to Putin and Zelenskyy and got them to agree this ceasefire for relief to the encircled city.

JENKINS: “.. Trump says and does whatever, in his cynical mind, he thinks will benefit Mr. Trump in the next five minutes. This is a universal theory of Trump behavior to which I have yet to find a significant exception.” www.wsj.com/opinion/amer...

Trump is literally killing Americans—you!—to increase profits for his corporate cronies. Putting greed—not America—first and making Americans gasp (for clean air) again. Good work, NYT.

We’ve gone from “Are you better off than four years ago?” to “Are you still alive?”

Amy Acton and Abdul El-Sayed winning would send a LOUD message that MAGA's bigotry and cruelty no longer works!

CEO of Alaskan gas company resigned after he was misled. Now they're calling him a "disgruntled former employee." Whistleblower Joel Riddle: “It’s not only unlawful, but it’s not in the U.S. interest to have Russian technology controlling the commercialization of Arctic gas in the North Slope."

1. I am very tired of being asked to be stupid. I know that is not the most important thing right now. There are many more serious consequences to electing a criminal president who is burning up the economy.