Leo Bebb

Leo Bebb

@leobebb.bsky.social

Proud never-Trump RINO, retired math prof. Quadriplegic, but at least I'm not paralyzed from the neck up. Even during the darkest times, life is still good.

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Leo Bebb reposted

If still debating whether Donald Trump or Elon Musk willfully crippled Ukraine's missile defense, helping to slay innocent civilians, you are a rube. If the U.S. President had no role, then an oligarch governs national security. If not, the U.S. President serves Russia. Both answers are mortifying.

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Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

Allowing one unelected man to have control over crucial aspects of the US military, allied militaries, the US space program, and so many other aspects of human life is absolutely insane. We were stupid to allow this to happen and it must be fixed ASAP.

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Replying to @atrupar.com

Sometimes, I worry that my hating Donald Trump (even though I'm neither transgender nor a witch) takes away too much of my time that could be devoted to hating Ted Cruz.

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I swear to god so much of this is literally just people confusing measles and chicken pox

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Minnesota Republican state Sen. Bill Lieske: "Back in the day when the measles vaccine didn't exist, measles was a joke! ... yes, there are increases cases. How many of those are actually resulting in deaths? Are they just going home with the sniffles? Back in the day, people had measles parties."

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Of all the many evil betrayals I’ve seen in the last 60 years I’ve been alive, I’m struggling to think of any that match what Trump and Musk did to innocent Ukrainian citizens while Putin was sending missiles this way. A trio to live on in infamy well after I am gone

Sick fucks. There is no bottom.

Zach Everson@zacheverson.com

Trump and Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the USA" is promoting its pink Bible for Breast Cancer Awareness month in October. No mention of any proceeds going to charity. $74.99 preview.mailerlite.io/emails/webvi...

Robert Kagan, who served in the State Department in the Ronald Reagan presidency, said, “The United States doesn’t have a foreign policy now. The United States today is a predatory criminal enterprise. Our allies need to wake up to that reality quickly.”

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This is disgusting, but not unexpected. The Trump administration is putting their thumb on the scales for Putin, despite the fact that it’s Russia violating the energy ceasefire. 

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The DOJ has never been perfect. There has always been plenty to criticize. But the DOJ today, after not even two years of Trump, is a rotten shell of what it once was; untrusted by sizeable portions of the federal judiciary, hollowed out at the core, and run without principle.

emptywheel@emptywheel.bsky.social

We've been boiled frogs for so long this never gets mentioned. But this violates DOJ policies that have been in place for decades, ones that Defense Attorney Todd Blanche said should have extended for the entirety of the time his client had declared his candidacy. (Tho I think this was DHS.)

Ukrainian officials said Monday that Russia has continued to strike Ukraine’s energy facilities even after U.S. President Donald Trump announced a day earlier that the warring countries had agreed on an “energy ceasefire” in the 4 1/2-year-old war.

Joe Walsh@walshfreedom.bsky.social

Trump has ALWAYS been on Putin’s side. Quit acting like what he’s said & done the past few days with Putin and Zelensky is anything new. It’s not. Trump has ALWAYS been Putin’s whore.

Especially if they manage to hold Congress.

Matthew Gertz@mattgertz.bsky.social

They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.

Leo Bebb reposted

Please stop overestimating what a democratic Congress can do. The oligarchs are spending money to make you think a Dem Congress can arrest people and hold trials and pass laws without a POTUS signature so that you’ll be disappointed when they don’t do stuff they can’t do. Don’t fall for it.

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“‘Now it will be easy,’ [Joseph Goebbels] wrote…‘to carry on the fight, for we can call on all the resources of the State. Radio and press are at our disposal. We shall stage a masterpiece of propaganda. And this time, naturally, there is no lack of money.’” - Rise & Fall of the Third Reich, 314

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The FCC will allow the sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, & Abu Dhabi to own nearly 50% of a merged Paramount-Warner Bros — potentially giving them sway over our media. This of course comes after Trump received gifts or struck business deals with these countries. See the problem?

variety.comFCC Approves 49.5% Foreign Ownership of Paramount-Warner Bros.The FCC has approved Paramount's petition to allow 49.5% ownership by Gulf state sovereign wealth funds as part of its W

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As I keep explaining to my students: federal judges have law clerks who pull the motion and immediately begin pulling the cites to read them. So, you will find an AI cite pretty quickly. The same thing is happening in law review land as well.

Rachel Maddow@maddow.bsky.social

"Kennedy's department cited seven articles, two of which were apparently made up entirely and three of which did not exist in the journals to which they were attributed..." www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

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Largest Republican donor (by far): we should have a race war against non-whites. Corporate Media: Democrats really need to answer some hard questions about this Twitch streamer almost no one has ever heard of.

David Roberts@volts.wtf

For a certain kind of white man, there is no fear more primal than the fear that the people they have abused will gain power and treat them the same way.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

RADDATZ: You attacked the Maduro regime as a "socialist dictatorship." Delcy Rodriguez was the VP of that regime. Why do you trust her? CHRIS WRIGHT: We have a lot of leverage over Venezuela. We control the sale of oil outside of their country. Right now they are forced to work in partnership w/ us

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Most American have zero interest in the US government treating one of our most important historical allies and trading partners like this. But the worst among us is running the country, thanks to the worst and most irresponsible voters among us.

In little-reported news, Comstock Resources just sold major US shale gas assets to Azerbaijan's authoritarian gov't. Meanwhile, Iranian President Pezeshkian said Monday that Tehran seeks to broaden ties with Azerbaijan across all fields, calling for deeper economic, trade, and regional partnerships.

Fear mongrels?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Markwayne Mullin: "The Democrats throw out all these fearmongels to try to make ICE and President Trump's administration look as worse as possible" 🥴