1 Cat Past Crazy

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[Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat]

My latest about a new communist conspiracy from MAGA, just in time for the midterms.

Watch how their language and slogans align and how Communist threats to elections become the drum they beat as we head into the midterms.

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

They died serving our country. They should be honored, not erased.

Lt. Tyler James Feehan, 25, of Hawaii

Pvt. Isabella Gonzales, 19, of Texas

Sgt. Angel Rampersad, 28, of New York

Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton, 30, of North Carolina

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

The Department of Energy admitted in court it cancelled hundreds of grants "based solely on the political identity of the grant recipient's state," and NOT "based on any programmatic, statutory, cost-reduction, or performance-based factor."

This proves the White House lied.

[Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat]

Apparatchiks have their orders: conjure a Communist threat inside America, associating with it the entire Dem Party, to prepare people to accept whatever authoritarian crackdown the administration may be planning to stop elections from handing them a defeat.

[Molly Jong-Fast @MollyJongFast]

“A first-of-its-kind analysis by ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% after Texas’ near-total abortion ban went into effect in September 2021. The analysis also identified at least 120 in-hospital deaths of pregnant or postpartum women in 2022 and 2023 — an increase of dozens of deaths from a comparable period before the COVID-19 pandemic.”

[1 Cat Past Crazy @1CatPastCrazy]

@shipwreckshow In order to make sure no one would try to fill the adult dinner plate as my child transitioned to using a regular plate we only put his dinner on the small plates in our set. I still had to go over what actual servings should be so we weren’t trying to overfeed anyone.

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

🚨BREAKING: A group of 25 states is suing the Trump administration, accusing federal officials of leveraging billions of dollars in federal disaster grant funding in an attempt to coerce states into implementing the president’s anti-voting agenda. https://t.co/LecXFoG08F

[1 Cat Past Crazy @1CatPastCrazy]

@TimothyDSnyder @munkschool I listened to your first lecture in this series and sent it to my son. I found it very informative and interesting. Thank you for sharing. I also love that you have a no electronic device rule for your class. Back to pen and paper.

[Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat]

Not subtle: new party line is to associate Communists with every crime, every offense. Create a sense of Communist threat to justify a rightwing crackdown. Old playbook used with coups and Fascist takeovers.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Congress is not serious.

We are voting on a stock trading ban for members of Congress…

BUT Republicans added voter-ID in the legislation.

Not to get Dems to vote for voter-ID,

but to get them to vote against the stock trading ban, so they can use it in the Nov. election.

[Tara Setmayer 🌻 🇺🇸 @TaraSetmayer]

Here we go.
This is just the beginning of Trump’s federal takeover of the midterms.

[1 Cat Past Crazy @1CatPastCrazy]

@chiefstayvis I love this! I didn’t realize Brian was struggling with his voice so much. I wonder if they have to rework songs for tours.
I wish *NSYNC would pop up and do something fun like this.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

Hitler used “Bolsheviks” and “communists” almost interchangeably with “the Jews.” That was a relatively short time after the actual Bolshevik Revolution.

McCarthy’s red scare was during the Cold War.

Scalise’s excuse is Mamdani. It’s so embarrassing.

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

Oh well this will kill thousands of people

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

This is just locking up your political enemies, and violating their 4th, 5th and 14th amendment rights. This is what fascist governments do.

[Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat]

Bolshevik? How retro, a return to the original Fascist counter-revolutionary rhetoric and action. Read #Strongmen for this history. Conjuring Communism in all its forms is apparently the new MAGA propaganda theme.

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

Trump is pursuing this war in the HOPE that Iran carries out an act of terror in the US. And even if it doesn’t, which I doubt it will, consider the possibility that Trump's people would fake one. Please consider this essay, written back in March, as well as the last few lessons of "On Tyranny."
https://t.co/DGESK91Jse

[ada enechi @adaenechi]

Forever thinking about the women in The Odyssey:
- Penelope willing to let her kingdom crumble because she wants her man back. Real.
- Calypso meeting a man so fine she allows his CPTSD to continue so he never leaves her. Real.
- Circe hating all men because of the evil they have done so takes exposing them into her own hands. Real
- Athena haunting a man so bad his brain breaks until he can understand the error of his ways. Real
- Helen not letting people forget they were using her as excuse to move mad but are too cowardly to admit it. Real.

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court DISMISSES lawsuit to compel Connecticut to provide the DOJ its complete statewide voter registration database.

DOJ is now 0-16 in cases to gain access to state voter files. Elias Law Group remains undefeated. https://t.co/b7DauA0Kcb

[FactPost @factpostnews]

New reporting reveals the Trump administration moved original copies of the Emancipation Proclamation and 13th Amendment into defective storage cases, exposing the rare documents to harsh light and heat.