OTD in 1906 Hannah Arendt was born.
"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact & fiction and the distinction between true & false no longer exist".
MAGAts using the
#tampontim
to try and deride Tim Walz' character for supporting funding for free hygiene products in schools.
Wow. It's like periods exist and sometimes they arrive when least expected. Another example of how HELPING people is antithetical to the MAGA mindset.
@jfreewright
We have a Black Santa here in Oklahoma who is becoming very popular. Came up from homelessness at one time. He helped light our City Christmas Tree this year. Meet
@TheSantaBlair
. Finest Santa you ever did see!
@MeidasTouch
Yes! Got my 85-year-old devout Republican mom to vote Blue for several key races. She wouldn’t go down-the-ballot, but she is PISSED about Roe, and about the rampant corruption of the leaders in my state and in Congress. She looks at Trumpism as “just sick, and not who we are.”
@RonFilipkowski
Ashley Babbitt was an insurrectionist who was breaking through a window and trying to get to the chambers where some congresspeople were still holding out. She was shot on site by an armed officer doing his job. It wasn’t murder.
@CarlGND1
@cbouzy
This. It is all connected. Take away the one worldwide platform effectively used to combat disinformation and organize against fascism, and you have your answer. Control the message? Control the people. And corporate media is mostly owned by RW billionaires. SA ans RU are happy.
@KevinMKruse
@elonmusk
@SenMarkey
@washingtonpost
He doesn’t care. The blow-up here is inevitable. It was an acquisition meant to destroy since twitter has proven itself a great platform for pro-Democratic voices to activate and organize. That goes against Edumb’s goal for right-wing anti-Western control - like his buddy Vlad.
@Popehat
Kidding aside - I’d LOVE to see a
@PBS
/
@NPR
collab to air their “Historic Desk Concerts” with all manner of artists and musicians playing these instruments. What a cool way to teach about history while also encouraging kids to learn about music. Someone make this happen!
@71ALHB
@fairlyspiritual
Because adultery doesn’t have the convenience of creating a common “enemy” which they need to grow their base. They can use the sin of adultery to excuse their own bad behavior. Homosexuality gives them a group to rally against.
@cbouzy
Because the fire is the purpose. It was never about the money. It was about de-platforming a tool used by activists, journalists and every day folk to push back against authoritarianism, and to organize. When platforms are de-commissioned, and media centralized, fascism thrives.
@JaneMayerNYer
@MaxBoot
There’s a nationwide effort to fill every elected seat from school boards, city councils, county seats on up with far-right candidates. This is not a drill but a larger, concerted effort to push moderate and left-leaning voices out of the political process.
@Blackmoor_Film
@acnewsitics
@BurntHickory1
If not now, when? After Sandy Hook? Too late. Aurora? Too late. Vegas? Too late. Parkland? Too late. Working to reform gun laws in this country will not take away your grief. Nor will working to stop racism. This has finally come home to you. Sit with that and think.
@thejackhopkins
Yup. Let us know how this goes. That’s a straight up Fox talking point.
I’d assertively and directly let that teacher know this was inappropriate under no uncertain terms.
@MonaKearney7
@joncoopertweets
@SouthwestAir
Free speech = government can’t intervene, but his workplace can limit speech. He is free to speak his mind at home, on the streets, in the Public Square, but not when 100+ are forced to be subjected to his message and he holds their safety in his hands. Speech has consequences.
Just saw another local business using “Oak City,” in their name.
If you grew up here, you should know better.
If you’re a transplant, welcome! But please stop trying to make “Oak City” stick. It’s not a thing. Our name has nothing to do with trees.
Make it stop.
@washingtonpost
Living in Oklahoma, I’ve seen this coming for years, and it’s been in the works for decades. I once heard the patriarch of the Hobby Lobby/Greeene family tell a small group he was working to “win back the country for Christ” with a Evangelical dominant culture and government.
@BKesquire
@cbouzy
Let’s put it this way.
Michelle Obama dared bare her arms in a dress and she was called classless, tacky, “mannish,” and worse.
Melania Trump had posed NUDE embracing other women for money in “modeling” photography, and she was extolled as an example of class and femininity.
@Kasparov63
FEDERALIST 69: "The President of the US would be liable to be impeached, tried, and, upon conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes or misdemeanors, removed from office; and would afterwards be liable to prosecution and punishment in the ordinary course of law." AH
Every time I see Repeal the 19th trending it's mostly bots or men, insecure because they didn't choose to grow with society, who would put the boots on others' necks than muster the courage to learn and change. It's a sign of weakness, not of strength.
Let's get 'em, gals!
@skinnydips44
@Angry_Staffer
@BrainLightning
Dude. This happened three days ago, and he apologized for it profusely. He also took accountability for what happened. And by the way, he wasn’t the only one who heard the same “rumor“ and put it out there.
11 GOP AGs just asked 11th Cir. to side w/Trump & Cannon over DOJ — not by arguing law or facts but by saying Biden’s gov’t dsn’t deserve the usual deference due Executive, just as Cannon said Trump deserves better treatment than other people! So much for equality before the law.
@DreamWWE
@RealLyndaCarter
Don’t change childhood memories?
Should we be mad that the Christmas Carol was remade about five times, and one time included Muppets?
Did Gonzo as Tiny Tim ruin your childhood?
@RadioFreeTom
@FPWellman
Health insurance is expensive. Birth control is expensive. Women’s health care is expensive. There are people in our government who are gleefully wishing to cut funding and access to these things. This is but the beginning, Tom. Pay heed.
@piper4missouri
Given that some men believe wiping themselves “back there” will turn them gay, and that women can turn their cycles on and off like a faucet, then I’m not surprised this kind of thing is offensive to them. Remember, they are also offended by clothing for people w/ disabilities.
A white woman FALSELY accused a young Black man of assault, and the white people bombed neighborhoods and killed hundreds of people when they stood in his defense to keep him from being lynched in jail. No. Not about race at all.
@joe_c_giles
@RonFilipkowski
Yup. And do more to suppress other people’s right to vote? Single women? Must be married to vote because single women aren’t invested in families. Between 18-21? We’ll raise the voting age? Mail-in and early voting giving Dems an advantage? We’ll crush it, too!
Anytime I see some boycott trending, I know before I venture down the # that it's likely MAGATs whining about some perceived corporate messaging that offended them.
#BoycottCocaCola
falls into that same realm.
Grow up, folks!
@ask_aubry
If I had the money I’d start a non-profit for trad wives who leave abusive husbands, and work with them to become educational and learn business skills. This is heartbreaking. Like other patriarchal dogmas, Mormonism is rot.
Not only is Hope Walz a social worker at a shelter for the unhoused but she has the world’s proudest dad hyping her up 🥹
America’s most wholesome family
@zeno33256363
@babsmarshall1
@benshapiro
He got pilloried by the media and Right Wing scabs like Shapiro, lost his career and blackballed by the NFL. So yes, similar. While he didn’t risk his own life like these players likely are, it was still an act of courage.
@rbrewer24
@RonFilipkowski
I’d raise that ceiling. I know a lot of people who work hard to achieve small amounts of “wealth” and that shouldn’t be lost just because of the Tuckers and Buckleys of this world; and in today’s world, that $1 mill doesn’t go far. But yes, point understood.
@MMcHarry
@MarkJacob16
Agree. Our civics education is grossly lacking. I work in government communications and it amazes me how little interest or understanding people have in how their government works. We are a society of bots focused only on getting by until it doesn’t meet our expectations.
@RadioFreeTom
Outside of saying this is a cult mentality, I no longer know how to define it. Mentally depraved? Beyond selfish? Entitled? I just don’t understand. It’s an illness.
@conservmillen
@elonmusk
And many of us want nothing to do with theology as we see moral imperatives outside such and believe intellect and understanding go farther in advancing human progress than do 2,000 year old pre-science mythologies.
@MamaBearOnGuard
@CrucibleOfThght
Women’s rights, healthcare, lowering taxes on the middle class while raising taxes on the rich and corporations, housing, how Trump and the
@gop
vote down comprehensive immigration reform, Project 2025, job security. They talk about a lot of things. Yes.
@NoLieWithBTC
@Meidas_Mel
“Yes they are trying to ban abortion nationwide, but they won’t go after contraception.”
Said to me literally today. We are in trouble.
Peter Thiel - Leonard Leo - Curtis Yarvin - Opus Dei
Understand the plan. Thiel chose Vance because Vance is a patsy. They want to INSTALL Vance as President (which is why he kept comparing himself to Harris, not Walz), and they will create a tech-based feudalist theocracy.
@cwebbonline
I keep telling people that a vote for Trump is a vote for JD Vance to be president. Trump is 78 & clearly batshit crazy. Republicans are watching Trump make the case to invoke the 25th Amendment on January 20th. Peter Thiel didn't pluck JD Vance from obscurity for nothing.
@Wolfie_Treats
@Esqueer_
And honestly, many many disabled people are also capable of working. It’s ridiculous that an SS supplement prevents such in many cases. The system is so very flawed.
@joshuawp
@piper4missouri
So you want the government to leave YOU alone, but are okay with the government telling women, LGBTQA folx and others what they can do with their lives and bodies. Got it.
“Equality and justice for me but not for THEE” should be our new motto since only white men need apply.
This is the push behind Vance. He is squarely in bed with Peter Thiel and Curtis Yarvin. Neither care about anything other than power and the fascist “monarchy” they seek to create. Listen and understand.
Bitcoin and crypto are worse than a scam because they aim to harm non-participants. Between devaluing the dollar, defaulting on US debt, and "ending the Federal Reserve," they are coming for YOUR life savings. It's not enough to simply avoid it, it needs to be actively defeated —
@kfor
I don’t want to hear any more children being groomed by LGBTQA folx.
Abuse in churches has happed for centuries and there’s a reason so many are pushing against women and marginalized groups today. They fear losing this power because rarely they are held accountable.
@ChampeauxMD
@rayofdiana
Women are nearly bleeding out or are being forced to carry dead fetuses for weeks, risking sepsis and other complications because of Roe’s reversal. Had GOP lawmakers LISTENED to medical science and the intricacies of pregnancy, we wouldn’t be here.
@RitchieTorres
Imagine being so upset over the loss of your wanting to discriminate against others that your are rendered to tears. Weaponized tears, but tears nonetheless.
@24baseballReed
@JasonForNC
That's where the issue is for me. Silent or no, he is in a position to make decisions about his players lives - their playing time, positions and college opportunities. He is in a position to show bias to those who don't comply with his praying. That is not speech.
@thejackhopkins
1. Their idea of “Freedom“ is that they can act this way at any given time. Social etiquette is anathema to them.
2. They have a general disdain for the arts as most fascists do, so don’t care that she acted this way.
3. Accountability means absolutely nothing to them.
@metzgov
Nate Silver, whose company is now owned by Peter Thiel, who is an Opus Dei Catholic Integrationalist and Tech Fascist, who wants a monarchy, who planted JD Vance as VP and paid for his Senate seat.
Peter Thiel, Vance's puppet master. Yeah. That guy also owns Nate Silver.
@heathergi76
@AmericanVet304
When people tell me “It’s just politics,” I say, “No. it’s about values.” We choose what we value and what we want this country to become. Dismissing this as no big deal when so many will be in harm’s way under a Trump or Republican-only Admin is a value.
@SenMikeLee
They sure as hell would not recognize Trump nor the fact that two NATO-denying insurrectionists were just appointed to our Intelligence Committee.
Putin must be so proud.
@Snoopdave2000
@Ipleadthe2ndd
@pearlythingz
Yeah. We are not going to submit. Any man who believes a woman is “lesser than” deserves to remain alone. We deserve out own agency, to have our ideas and work supported, and to not be used as domestic servants and brood mares.
@wmui1
@datingdecisions
When she said “we have chosen to live child free,” that is the end of discussion. The rest is none of your business. Say congratulations and move on.
@KinseyAndrew
@Popehat
When
#SCOTUS
decided that corporations are people and that religious “Liberty” includes discrimination against fellow citizens. It pretty much wiped any idea of equality under the law into the dustbin of history.
@MarisaKabas
@mtgreenee
She earns money for all the hate she spews. She knows shes’s wrong. She revels in the outrage. Best, honestly, to ignore her and de-platform her by not giving her the attention she craves.
@KOCOAbigail
And if a child is born inter-sexed? This is dangerous for these children, and takes away private medical decisions from the hands of parents.
@CCDude8
@RN_Atheist
Maybe because there’s a higher likelihood of her being accosted and/or harm by walking alone at night. I mean, if men would stop assaulting women, we wouldn’t have this issue now, would we? Look in your own mirrors and figure out where the problem is.
Here in OKC. This is not normal. They’re missing a K.
Also, the
@IRS_CI
needs to know about these people. It is hysterical they are next door to an MJ dispensary.
@GOVOTE0
@darkcobrabws
@YeshiBranch1998
@atlmeagsnow
@MikeArnoldLaw
Two percent of sexual assaults against women are every adjudicated. Two percent.
Judges have even said they “don’t want to ruin the young man’s life.”
Couples who limit their parter’s work activities are insecure AF. It’s an immature way to handle a problem.
@federalistfive
@kattenbarge
Verbal abuse, emotional manipulation and gaslighting are still abuse. You don’t have to strike a person for the relationship to be abusive. And often verbal altercations eventually escalate. Ask me how I know.
@JaxBeachLady222
@Bonnie93650322
@nytimes
@TheAthletic
He’s telling the truth, though. Where is the falsity in what he is saying?
Republicans are reversing child labor laws. They are lowering the age of “consent” and marriage age in states.
These things are happening.
You can’t use selective outrage here.
@CallMeAntwan
These all sound like perfect credentials to me. And being anti-Trump means he is the BEST pick for America. We do not want the boot of Project 2025 on our necks, nor Peter Thiel/Musk's Putin-allied faux Hillbilly one cheeseburger away from the hot seat.
@girlsreallyrule
This 85-year-old would like a word. You can get lifts, tucks, and fillers without looking alienesque or that your face is contorted. I respect her right to choose what she wants, but I don’t have to agree about the results.
@HardWorkingMa17
@DashDobrofsky
@laurenboebert
Can you show me evidence as to why that is what’s causing low recruitment rates? I’d say it has more to do with abysmal Veterans support than anything. And our military fights for ALL OF US, including Black folks, indigenous folks and LGBTQA, many of whom are in the military.
@fermiparasocks
@Acyn
saaaaame.
I think NOT running for president has given him leave to snap back and stay strong. This is not the same Joe we saw on the campaign trail.