Echinocentric @Echinocentric@social.cleverlibre.org

If you're outraged about the Chinese spy balloon, wait till you hear about the former US president who stole tons of top secret documents, hid them at his home, and may have kept them so he could trade them for leniency from the US government -- or help from foreign governments.

@godlessmom @Qdropped

In the 70s it was vulnerable young people sucked into cults. 50y later that same generation is getting hit by round 2 — but they have more money now.

It's easy to give in to fatalism & think #COVID advocacy has achieved nothing, but that's wrong. Vaccine access, free tests & masks, funding #LongCOVID treatment, & even the reinstatement of mask mandates in some essential settings, is all the result of organizing & speaking up!

It's true that the government's #COVID response is far from adequate. And we could do with a lot more people and orgs helping us fight back. But we should be appreciative of the organizing that has happened, which has slowed policy from backsliding more and kept more people safe.

Thank you to everyone who has been organizing and continues to speak up for the need for COVID protections. You have kept so many safe, and made society more accessible to everyone. Don't give up, you are making a difference!

“If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.”

Marcel Proust
#Quotes #EmotionalIntelligence

“The DeSantis playbook on race & education is just an updated edition of what I saw in the South in the 1960s.”

—Dan Rather

“As a proud Jew & proud friend of Ilhan Omar, I don't need any of my Republican colleagues to defend me against anti Semitism.

Ilhan Omar should not have been removed from the Foreign Affairs Committee.”

—Rep Jan Schakowsky

“Some seconds are longer than others.”

Albert Einstein
#Quotes #Physics

40 years ago, a cleaner burner was created for gas stoves but you can't buy ranges with those burners because the industry never manufactured those appliances for sale.

Now, the industry appears ready to revisit this idea as tighter restrictions loom.
https://t.co/3LaQaN0RW2

It seems the only hope left for gun control in red states is to hide all the bullets in books written by Black people, Wajahat Ali writes.

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/florida-gov-ron-desantis-pushes-guns-state-rcna68938

The US appeals court just ruled men under domestic violence orders can own guns

Every day in America, three women die from domestic violence

This country won’t stop at taking our rights, they want to take our lives

Another dangerous headline from the mainstream media

“Journalist Reports Pro-MAGA GOP Insiders Secretly 'Can't Wait Until [Trump] Dies'”

As if all of their racist, transphobic, antisemitic, traitorous rhetoric was based on one man.

As if one man came along and changed them all

What Donald Trump did to republicans was embolden them to say the heinous things they believe out loud

There is no factor that plays a bigger role in partisan control of the U.S. House than how congressional districts are drawn. With the volume of redistricting lawsuits still ongoing, control of Congress could come down the courts, @marceelias@twitter.com writes.
https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/redistricting-lawsuits-could-impact-control-of-congress/

I was in the hot tub yesterday after my swim and there was a guy there I hadn’t seen a while. He asked how things were going, so I told him about the Q-Dropped Podcast and said it’s going pretty well. He said, “people can’t seem to just disagree and still have a relationship these days” and I couldn’t help it, my face turned ferocious and I replied 👇🏻

“yeah except that’s not what’s happening with QAnon. It’s one thing to disagree on government spending or school curriculums or what should be done with the empty lot off Main st., but when someone believes you’re literally consuming the flesh of children because you’re a demon, it’s not just a disagreement. When a father accuses his school shooting survivor son, a literal child, of being a crisis actor, it’s not just a disagreement. 👇🏻

When your SO becomes convinced you’re a demon possessing her children, and threatens to have you killed, this is not just a disagreement and I highly doubt you’d put up with it either.” He looked at me like someone who thought I’d just been a sweet, polite little girl and suddenly realized I had thoughts of my own, didn’t like that and excused himself from the tub. Kinda felt like he couldn’t handle a disagreement.
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West Virginia’s Senate just passed a bill *requiring* public schools to display “In God We Trust” in every building

We need a BatSignal for the Satanic Temple.

And more Baphomet statues to go around

NEW: The Arizona Republican Party asks the Arizona Supreme Court to review a lower court ruling that dismissed the GOP's lawsuit seeking to strike down the state's 1991 no-excuse mail-in voting law.
https://www.democracydocket.com/cases/arizona-mail-in-voting-challenge-ii/