Stanford Brown

Stanford Brown

@stanbrown.bsky.social

History adjunct, former high school history teacher, antiquarian, book collector 🇺🇦🇺🇳

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The man who has spent more money on politics in the last 2 years than George Soros has in his entire lifetime never says anything positive about his guy Ken Paxton. But he does serve up a steady diet of this stuff.

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Replying to @atrupar.com

I was just looking at these Census stats. Workforce participation among Somali-American adults in Minnesota is actually higher than the rest of the population.

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Trump *himself* filed a financial disclosure form this year that asserted he made over a billion dollars last year. That's not a claim from the fake news, or the crazy liberals. That is Trump's own filing.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

JD Vance: "I've not seen a single shred of evidence that Donald Trump participates or sanctions in that corruption ... I've not once seen evidence that Donald Trump has enriched himself"

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Ossoff: "Maybe you saw that Donald Trump was in Dalton yesterday, oblivious to the collapse of his presidency. A crowd smaller than this one enduring two hours of senile babbling while the price of oil hit its 5 month high"

Years ago, a set of audio cassettes carried over 24 hours of NBC radio from 6 June 1944 and the next day breaking news of D-Day. By 7 June, normal shows resumed. Mary Margaret McBride on her talk show interviewed Ben Ames Williams about his new book #LeaveHertoHeaven #TCMPARTY

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of all the people who should not want to play this particular game, jd vance is at the top of the list

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

JD Vance: "I love you too sir. In a totally platonic way, to be clear. I'm the vice president, not James Talarico."

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Tapper: "How worried are Republicans about Paxton losing? Well, we've apparently reached a brand new campaign stage where the VP is insinuating that the Texas Democratic Senate nominee, James Talarico, is gay ... not exactly the sign of a party convinced they can win on their record or ideas"

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Scandals this week in the Texas senate race: Ken Paxton on video with his latest mistress partying in Dubai with a wanted fugitive who committed over $300 million in health care fraud and gave $190K to Paxton. James Talarico stayed home to recover from the flu.

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JD Vance running around the country saying he’s fighting health care fraud while his nominee for the senate in TX who he completely supports is partying in Dubai with a guy whole stole over $300 million in health care fraud and gave Paxton $190,000. This is the Republican Party.

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Yes, yes, the authoritarian president is leading a hate-filled rally in which he urges his followers to physically assault protesters but do NOT call any of these people Nazis or you will make David Brooks sad.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

holy shit -- a protester at the Trump rally gets physically assaulted after they interrupt the rally by a man who punches her in the face. Trump smears the protester as a "fat guy"

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OOPS GOP ad buyer mixes up Portlands, spends money meant to help Maine Sen. Susan Collins in Oregon The PAC boosting Collins is "absolutely furious" at the "ridiculous error" made by the buyer, which takes blame and has refunded the money. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

nbcnews.comGOP ad buyer mixes up Portlands, spends money meant to help Maine Sen. Susan Collins in OregonAn outside group mistakenly spent nearly $25,000 to boost Collins in Portland, Oregon, rather than Portland, Maine. The buyer admitted to the error and refunded the PAC.

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Nothing says a country is serious about science than vanity science awards for the president who has launched a war on higher education

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

this shit is beyond parody, man. It truly is the make a wish presidency. now Trump is getting an award!

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"Yeah, sorry your kid died or whatever. What do you think about my chandeliers?"

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump on his meeting with Gold Star families: "I invited them out to check out the new helipad, check out the new ballroom, and check out the new helicopter"

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call tom cotton’s cell phone and tell him to send our children to school in the dark so golfers can have morelight???? very cool this man has the nuclear codes but people don’t have healthcare

Nikki McCann Ramírez@nikkimcr.bsky.social

Trump straight up doxxed Senator Tom Cotton this morning

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this gaffe should follow Eric Schmitt around for the rest of his political life (Jack Smith was actually in Maryland at a HAWKEYES game, not in Atlanta colluding with Fani Willis as Schmitt alleged) (Win McNamee/Getty)

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I think Smith could successfully sue Schmitt for defamation now, since he's restating the falsehood outside of the Senate hearing, and by this point he clearly knows what he's saying is false

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Eric Schmitt is on The Charlie Kirk Show (yes it's still called that) -- and believe it or not, hosts are pretending he owned Smith with his embarrassingly botched gotcha "You caught him in this NBA game too in Atlanta" "Yeah," Schmitt says There's no mention that Schmitt had all his facts wrong

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ICE shot Wilbur in his car in Austin yesterday. Now, his family doesn’t even know where he is. His family deserves answers. The American people deserve the truth. Release the body camera footage. Tell us where Wilbur is.

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"Mister Trump, there are still some MAGA voters who are stubbornly standing by you. Can you say something to alienate them too?"

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "I could've banned fishing. The power of this office is crazy. I could've banned fishing. I think I'm gonna do that."

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there is no presidential candidate jon ossoff unless keisha lance bottoms is elected governor of georgia. why? we can’t afford to lose that senate vote, so he would need a democratic governor to replace him with a democrat.

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NEW: @talkingpointsmemo.com can reveal GOP nominee for Florida legislature: -marched at deadly Charlottesville Nazi rally w/ white supremacist group's flag -has *many* white supremacist donors -appears to advocate lynching He is expected to win Nov. election talkingpointsmemo.com/news/florida...

talkingpointsmemo.comExclusive: He Marched With Nazis in Charlottesville. Now He’s Expected to Join the Florida Legislature.The Republican nominee for a seat in the Florida House of Representatives...

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The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. Big Tech buys off Congress. No action on AI safety. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

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Replying to @schooley.bsky.social

Breaking things is kind of his whole deal.

The New York Times@nytimes.com

President Trump on Saturday said it would be “fantastic” if Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland unified, breaking with decades of U.S. neutrality on an issue rooted in a long history of violence.

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Hunter Dunn@hunterisntdunn.bsky.social

Jon Husted’s staffer took part in “Nazi military exercises” & had a “Tales from Rhodesia” Spotify playlist. The fact that significant swathes of the media ignore the multiple major Republican campaign staffers outed as Neo-Nazis (to focus on Hasan Piker instead) is journalistic malpractice.

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So glad my university paid to have shaq dj a quad party before a game against Middle Tennessee State University instead of paying faculty competitive salaries or fixing its collapsing infrastructure

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My favorite thing about this poll is that ‘Accepting a luxury jet from Qatar while the Trump Organization pursues business opportunities in the Gulf’ came in last. Deeper bench than the ‘92 Dream Team.

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The drug hangover from the midterm convention must be fierce.

Gary@cytherian.bsky.social

This is such disrespect. He can't even be bothered with getting a solid night's sleep or at least taking a stimulant to stay awake. This is the 25th anniversary of 9-11. #TrumpIsAFailure #TrumpIsUnfit