Robbie Martin

retired nephrologist, expatriate 🇲🇽, senior advocate. 🚫fascism Make America Kind Again. I support 🇵🇸 human rights. Avoid Covid, esp protect kids

[Jesse Ridgway @McJuggerNuggets]

HEALTH UPDATE:

It has officially been one year since I contracted Covid-19 while on set for my movie that I’ve been working on.

I was once a very healthy 31-year old man, but now every day is a struggle for me.

A THREAD... 🧵

[Max Flugrath🗳️ @MaxFlugrath]

📣TODAY: Voting rights leaders from @FairFightAction & @BlackVotersMtr came together to call out the pro-Trump Georgia Election Board’s reckless plan to sow chaos around the 2024 election.

Here's what they had to say.⬇️

[Max Flugrath🗳️ @MaxFlugrath]

What if I told you the plot to block Georgia’s 2024 election results is largely being driven by one person?

An illegal meeting, election rule changes & a key player pushing Trump’s agenda — something big is going on behind the scenes in Georgia.

Here's why you should care. ⬇️

[TrumpFile.org @TrumpFile]

Qatar is the top financial backer of Hamas, but it’s also one of the top funders of the Kushner family, so you know. Shared interests.

[Mueller, She Wrote @MuellerSheWrote]

This is incredible campaigning. You get to be back on a winning team. It’s okay to make the switch. We’re a big tent!

[Housing 4 All is Hot @ahouse4all]

Today I met a person living in their car for the first time ever.

57 years old.

They were a factory worker until a back injury put them out of work. Then their partner died, and he couldn't afford the rent alone.

Two months after her funeral - the sheriff threw him out.

[Malena-PRO-CHOICE🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @tweetMalena]

@harris_wins Oops, his name is spelled Don-OLD Trump.

[RealHousewifeOfMichigan @RealHousewifeMi]

Rant…

I put $20 in my gas tank yesterday, because that is what I had. I’m about to head to the grocery store and attempt to get groceries to feed my 4 kids for the week with the $80 I have to put towards food.

I feel the struggle, but not a chance that makes me vote for Trump.

Republicans don’t give a shit about me and families like me. None of their policies will make life easier for me. Voting for Trump isn’t a magic fix to lower grocery prices. He shits on a fucking gold toilet…. He doesn’t give a shit about struggling families.

What we need is to elect Harris, and have a democrat controlled senate and house, so they actually can pass some meaningful legislation to help families.

For fucks sake… the republicans in Michigan voted AGAINST giving public school kids free lunch and republicans in Washington voted against the expanded child tax credit. They don’t care about you.

#StopTheBullshit

[Patrick S. Tomlinson @stealthygeek]

"In four years we'll have it fixed so good you won't have to vote again."

Dictatorship isn't the quiet part anymore. He's just plain telling us he's going to end democracy if he gets back into office.

This will be the last election of our lives if we don't beat this man.

[Sara Anne Willette ♿️🌈👩🏻‍💻𓅆 @amethystarlight]

@LauraMiers The sad thing is that push to “normalcy” has likely affected Biden’s decline, as it has done for too many Americans.

[Fred Wellman @FPWellman]

So, here is where we are as I see it. VP Harris has the delegates. The open process window is closing fast if anyone else wants to jump in. She is winning and galvanizing the Democratic coalition. The numbers are astounding. Record money raised. Record volunteers. Locked up enough delegates to clinch in 36 hours. Has hit the ground running with a stemwinder of a stump speech. The Republicans were caught flat footed so now they are resorting to lies, smears, misogyny, and all but fully open racism. When all you've got is old rumors, her infectious laugh, and her love of Venn diagrams as hits...you are well and truly fucked. So...where do we go? That's easy....WE GO HARD! Keep giving. Go volunteer. Start phone banking. Get a new sign and stick that bad boy in the yard. Help your local Democratic campaigns take the House and build our Senate majority. We can...and must...win big. All it takes is YOU to get on that bus and pour on the gas! As a great philosopher once said "LET'S FUCKING GO!"

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

This is what ethnic cleansing and war crimes look like.

Israel forcing Palestinians to move from 'safe zone' to 'safe zone', again and again, women and children included, killing many of them in the process, again and again, on what the ICJ just confirmed is occupied territory.

[Lisa Oshima @lisawhelan]

Preventing public health @CDCgov @CDCDirector @HHSGov from doing the "control" part of their job is bad for people & economy. They've already acquiesced to political pressure, digging us deeper into a perpetual infection cycle. What's your position, @VP @KamalaHarris @KamalaHQ?

[Marit Bovbjerg, PhD MS @BovbjergMarit]

@rmayemsinger We are so fucking ready. And tbh I’m really glad our first one will be a Black woman. They’ve saved our collective butts so many times. Buckle up and let’s get to work

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: The timeline of the Trump shooting, per NBC.

5:10PM: Crooks, the shooter, identified as a person of interest.
5:30PM: Crooks spotted with rangefinder.
5:52PM: Crooks spotted on roof by Secret Service.
6:02PM: Trump takes stage.
6:12PM: Crooks fires first shots.

[Mark Elliott @markmobility]

Elon Musk
Peter Thiel
Rupert Murdoch

The immigrants ruining America.

[Andy Behrman @electroboyusa]

I really want to follow you if you believe we should keep our focus on #Project2025

Or I will follow you back if you follow me @electroboyusa

We are #StrongerTogether

[Jack Hopkins @thejackhopkins]

This was far too reminiscent of the event we later learned was, in fact, staged by Trump when he returned from the hospital to the White House after having been hospitalized with COVID.

There he was, still wearing his mask...on the balcony of the White House...pausing to make sure the press was set up and in position....and then....swwissshh...the mask is ripped off in an incredibly dramatic fashion...he juts his chin up in the air...and then stands there...in defiance...working the cameras.

I still cringe as I recall that moment.

When Ronald Reagan was shoved into the car so fast and hard after he had been shot, he thought the pain he had felt might have been a cracked rib from being manhandled so roughly.

The Secret Service allowed Trump to expose himself for so long while still on stage, pumping his fist and showing a very angry-looking face... and it just doesn't add up, in my opinion.

The Secret Service allowed his entire head, neck, and torso to be exposed for 5, 6, and then 6-7 seconds, respectively, as he looked into the crowd and, at times, raised his fist in the air. Watch the video and see for yourself.

I know of no situation in which this would be a protocol for Secret Service Agents who are attempting to evacuate someone they are protecting from the scene where an active shooting just took place.

Even if other agents had radioed that a shooter had been killed, they would still have no way of verifying that there were no other shooters somewhere in the crowd, or that no explosives were on site...that the dogs and EOD had missed beforehand, or someone had made their way in with after the location had already been checked.

At all costs, you cover the head, neck, and torso. No exceptions. When you move the person you are protecting, they are walked, bent over, with agents both protecting and guiding their head with their hands...and not allowing their head to rise for any reason.

Clearly, two people are dead. There were shots fired and people killed. I don't think there is any reason to dispute that.

There are, however, elements of this that don't immediately add up. Maybe later, they will. However, I'm not sure what I could learn that would make them having allowed the full exposure of his head, neck, and torso for several seconds at a time...that would find me saying, "Ohhhhh, okay. Yeah. That makes sense. Thanks."

[Scott Squires @scottsquires.bsky.social @scott_squires]

Have you noticced an increase in number of young people dropping dead in the news?

Did you know Covid is a vascular disease that increases risk of heart attacks, strokes, and clots for 2 years after 'mild' Covid?