A new investigation by @conflictarm in Kyiv revealed that microchips and other parts made by companies based in the U.S. and other Western nations are found in almost all captured Russian weapons and equipment, from encrypted radios to cruise missiles https://t.co/F9ytGU4I8B
PA Gov nominee Doug Mastriano has been a speaker at “Rod of Iron” events. Rod is a Moonie church offshoot that worships the AR-15. https://t.co/iLW8flKMWF
Relationship advice: Find someone who loves you as unconditionally as the NRA board loves Wayne LaPierre. There seems to be nothing he can do to shake their devotion--no amount of corruption or incompetence removes the stars from their eyes.
Nixon on his secret tapes,, May 1972:
“I don’t know why any individual should have a right to have a revolver in his house….Can’t we go after handguns, period?...I know the rifle association will be against it, the gun makers will be against it…People should not have handguns.”
The federal government has found no evidence that flaws in Dominion voting machines have ever been exploited, including in the 2020 election, according to the executive director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. https://t.co/yFeYmqHYM9
I spent a few days in Uvalde. One thing that became clear: this is not Newtown or Parkland.
Guns are part of the identity of this town. Almost everyone I talked to owned one, for hunting or protection.
But even here, people are begging for change.
https://t.co/e1dGGzkSHv
In our day, conservatives invoke culture simply to avoid responsibility, to deny agency, and to foreclose debate.
Culture is the opiate of the conservatives.
More sad news for Jefferson County, the only school district in Florida to be privatized.
Only 19% of its third graders passed the state's reading test this year — by far the worst in the state.
Last year it was 28%, also the worst.
It’s precisely *because* they cannot legislate murder out of the human heart that civilized societies regulate the instruments of murder in human hands.
It is now clear that in an effort to lionize the law enforcement response after a shooting that killed 23 people, state leaders gave incredibly inaccurate information to the public about the shooting's timeline.