Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org

When Marjorie Taylor Greene tells others to “grow some courage” – what she really means is "conform to Trump" – which is precisely the OPPOSITE of moral (ethical) courage.

Conforming to a group is exactly the opposite of courage. To step out of one's group 'rules' requires objective thinking and courage.

Are there incentives to convert Mastodonians over to #BlueSky? I feel like I walked onto a used car lot this morning. Please stop evangelizing another Jack Dorsey product. We know where to find it. If you love it, good for you. And hey, we’ll see you on your return trip when he sells it to one of his billionaire libertarian friends!

How do I nicely tell people IRL that I don't give a fuck what they read on Twitter or X or whatever that day? I just don't. It's not part of my life any more for a reason.

Leave it to the GOP. Immigration was a potentially winning issue for them. This not only pretty much defangs the issue for the Ds, it turns it against the Rs, as it highlights that the R's "crisis" was more about political posturing and performance and pandering to their Dear Leader than policy for America. Even the border patrol union was for this.

Hopefully the media catches on.

“As His Border Deal Dies, a G.O.P. Senator Laments the Forces Against It”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/07/us/politics/james-lankford-border-deal.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Tk0.dMe0.aJkbNF4-MUnK&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Republicans want to defund the (corporate) police

"The Antitrust Division has fewer people enforcing anti-monopoly laws in a $24 trillion economy than the Smithsonian Museum has security guards."

-Matt Stoller

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/congressional-republicans-to-defund

#antitrust #corruption

#classwar

Be careful what you wish for!

#NoRepublicansEverAgain #Border #Immigration

Here's what Alessandra is listening to today:



That is the genius of the constitution, that the framers foresaw a time when a preening semiverbal rapist messiah of fuckwits would need to become king, unimpeachable and infallible, destroyer of all infidels and unbounded by the laws written to regiment his lessers, in order to protect the sacred liberties of rednecks to ethnically cleanse America and protect its precious white children from learning things from books, and that is why the constitution says that very specifically.

The best employees are the most likely to leave over return-to-office mandates, new survey says

Women surveyed also said they experienced less microaggressions and biases when working from home.

https://www.boston.com/news/business/2024/02/06/companies-lose-employees-over-return-to-office-rules-study/

#Trump on #immigration
PS I think this means #Biden can call him a "sick fuck" as much as he likes

So #Trump has lost his appeal that somehow he has a get-out-of-jail-free card for all criminal acts committed while President. The incredible irony there being that if the court somehow agreed with him, that Presidents cannot be prosecuted for crimes committed while president, then #Biden could just go assassinate Trump with impunity. After all, that's literally one of the questions put to Trump's lawyers in the appeal. I'm glad sanity prevailed, instead.

Read all the details from @chrisgeidner

https://www.lawdork.com/p/dc-circuit-immunity-ruling-trump

Where is missing Palestinian girl Hind? #UNRWA #StandWithGaza #FreePalestine #CeasefireNow #ICJ #TheHague #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide #Holocaust #NeverAgain #NeverAgainIsNow #apartheid #racism #BDS #Biden #GretaThunberg https://youtu.be/znay7LlLmSo?si=AJnDdiGzaJFZd8kS

"The GOP has put in place draconian state level anti abortion laws at the same time that they’ve doubled down on embracing a rapist as the leader of their party. A rapist is arguing that he should be elected to office so he can defend the GOP’s statewide abortion bans which make no exception for sexual assault. The GOP supports rapists."

~ Noah Berlatsky

#Trump #rape #abortion #Republicans #Biden
/1

https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/donald-trump-is-a-rapist-why-wont

Via MaTT FLaMMaBLe:

Dark Brandon warns Trump: this is on you.

#Biden: But if the bill fails, I want to be absolutely clear about something. The American people are going to know why it fails. I'll be taking this issue to the country… the American people are going to know the reason the border is not secure is Donald #Trump

Good evening, Mx. Mastodonian. Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to boost this toot. As always, should you or any of your mutuals be blocked or defederated, John Mastodon will disavow any knowledge of your actions. This toot will self-destruct in five seconds. Good luck.

Here's what we're reading today:

Border deal including aid for #Ukraine could face "death" in #US #Senate, Bloomberg reports.

If the bill is not passed on Wed, it raises the possibility that it will be postponed indefinitely, as the Senate is going on a 2-week recess this week.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-05/senate-s-border-ukraine-deal-faces-increasingly-bleak-prospects?srnd=politics-vp

https://www.rawstory.com/medicare-trump/ Hell no': Trump allies' plan to privatize Medicare draws alarm and outrage

Wtf? 😂