mookie

mookie

@mookiedokie.bsky.social

swore an oath to defend the innocent

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🚨 BREAKING: Travis County judge granted Gina Hinojosa's request to inspect Greg Abbott's unredacted Musk emails. Judge Mauzy set Thursday 10 AM as the DEADLINE for Abbott to let her see them. Abbott tried to keep them hidden, calling them "intimate and embarrassing."

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Fintan O'Toole: Kushner’s political and financial relationship with the UAE’s president, Mohammed bin Zayed ...constitutes what must surely be the worst case of US foreign policy being conducted outside the law and democratic oversight since the Iran-contra scandal...

nytimes.comBook Review: ‘Princes and Thieves,’ by Matthew ColeThe new book by the reporter Matthew Cole connects $2 billion in slush funds from gulf state leaders to Trump’s son-in-law in an effort to influence U.S. policy.

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Robert F. Kennedy Sr. spent his time in government fighting *against* racist bigots who said these exact same things, except their rants were against “Africans”

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

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."

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🚨BREAKING: We have moved for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction enjoining Trump from continuing to unconstitutionally impose themselves upon election administration procedures that the Constitution and federal law assign to the States.

Trump admin and DOJ DOES NOT understand the law. They’re spoiled brats trying to enforce their way, Just like all right wing roaches do across the world.

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This is what putting South Carolina first looks like. I’m honored to have the support of two former governors — Republican David Beasley and Democrat Jim Hodges. We may not agree on everything, but we share a belief that matters most: S.C. deserves leaders who will always put its people first.

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yup.

thehandbasket.coRepublicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problemA spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same.

This week’s main story is about how more and more white nationalists, antisemites, and Nazi sympathizers seem to be integrating into the Republican Party, how some of them are currently running for office, and how old you can be for JD Vance to consider you “a very young boy.”

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In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

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pretty clear evidence that republicans in the US losing any election going forward are going to always beg for a coup if they lose. lots of people will have to go to jail

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NEW: this is so bizarre

Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com

JS: Seems as if the US is relying on data from outside the federal government. Did you purchase a private list of CA voter rolls? DOJ: no, but we were supplied a list that was purchased from California. 21/

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Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

Rafa Sales Ross@rafiews.com

We are watching a coup d’état attempt unfold in real time in Brazil. I’m consumed by desperation.

lanorris sellers wont take a hit or tackle. he's playing for himself. he doesnt care if gamecocks win. sellers has to show me that he wants to win for us.

boomers paid 4x income to own a house. today its 20x.

Unusual Whales@unusualwhales.bsky.social

The American dream now costs $5.32 million over a lifetime, per a new Investopedia analysis reported by Fox Business.

terrible choke for michigan vs indiana. had the game in their hands, just needed to run rb Marshall at the end of regulation. that being said, Carr looks good for first start.

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The pedophile protection party’s president is laundering right-wing conspiracy theories through the most corrupt DOJ in American history. Whenever the news turns bad, this creep reaches for one name: mine. So let’s make it crystal clear. My name has always been Ilhan Omar.

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"They are unanimous in their hate for me -- and I welcome their hatred" -- FDR, October 31, 1936

James Talarico@jamestalarico.bsky.social

You wanna know why billionaire mega-donors are spending $200 million against me? Because I don’t take their corporate PAC money — and I never will. I don’t work for them. I work for you.

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Jared Kushner’s hacked iPhone revealed he promised MBS and MBZ he would push their agenda with Trump if they participated in a secret fund, with the two royals initially discussing over $10B before ultimately placing at least $2B into his accounts. Paywalled, use archive. archive.ph/FHGAt

Very concerned about this too. Especially for smaller banks and credit unions.

Sen. Adam Schiff@schiff.senate.gov

The threat of rogue AI agents taking unauthorized actions within our financial institutions, utilities, health systems and more has long since stopped being a hypothetical. If Congress doesn't swiftly act, these already significant risks will only get worse.

goes without saying: DO NOT BUY musk. He cannot enforce his product here.

Unusual Whales@unusualwhales.bsky.social

BREAKING: SpaceX, $SPCX, is seeking access to at least 80,000 US cell tower sites as it prepares to launch a nationwide wireless carrier, per Bloomberg

FCC Carr also posts that most the prediction polls are fake. Setting up their defense.

Aaron Parnas@aaronparnas.bsky.social

Dolly Parton's sister claims voting machines in Tennessee changed her vote to the Republican candidate.