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[Scott Rothschild @srothschild1]

Imagine if KS legislators took your tax $$ to build a private road that only wealthy people could drive on. This is what vouchers are, taking your tax dollars to pay for private school education of only some children. Please support #ksleg candidates who oppose vouchers #ksed

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In 2017, I paid Cards Against Humanity to protect a pristine plot of border land from Trump’s racist wall. But then an even richer, more racist billionaire—Elon Musk—stole my land and dumped his shit all over it. @ElonMusk owes me $100. #ElonOwesMe100Bucks https://t.co/616lvu9tqr

[John Fugelsang @JohnFugelsang]

-Trump bombed Syria.
-Trump also bombed Yemen.
-Trump also bombed Somalia.
-Trump dropped the "mother of all bombs" on Afghanistan and bragged about it.
-Under Biden-Harris, fewer soldiers have died in combat than in any administration since Jimmy Carter.
-Trump assassinated a foreign military leader.
-In Iraq and Syria alone, Trump drone strikes killed an estimated 13,400 civilians, per Airwars.
-Trump INCREASED troop levels in Afghanistan by 25%.
-Trump bragged abt relaxing "rules of engagement" in Afghanistan, which nearly doubled civilian casualties.
-Trump freed 5k Taliban, including the terrorist now running Afghanistan.
-Trump pulled out of the INF Treaty.
-Trump pulled out of the Open Skies Treaty.
-Trump LOVES Putin's slaughter of Ukraine civilians, calling it "genius" and "savvy."

Trump pulled out of the Iran nuke treaty, even though our military insisted Iran was complying. So any future Iranian nukes will be 100% thanks to Trump.

And Trump lied to everyone you love that it was safe to "fill the pews on Easter" in 2020;
he's on tape telling Bob Woodward it's a "deadly" "airborne killer" the exact same week.

[Auon’tai M. Anderson @AuontaiAnderson]

Today, I attended a press conference at the apartment complexes where national and local media have falsely reported that gangs have taken over.

Instead, we heard from residents who debunked this narrative and called out the slumlord responsible for forcing them to live in inhumane conditions.

This is a thread of what I saw and heard.

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[Josh Cowen @joshcowenMI]

Periodic reminder that when Koch groups like Ginny’s push vouchers as a solution to COVID learning loss, vouchers have actually caused up to 2x the academic harm as the pandemic itself.

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

As hard as this is to believe, I don’t think enough people, including many business leaders understand how seriously dangerous Donald Trump would be if he returned to the White House. At his crazy press conference today, he gave a glimmer of how bad it’s going to be once again if he somehow returns to power.

At first glance, it appears that he has pro business policies, but he’s also suggesting that he wants to take away the independence of the board of governors and chairman of the federal reserve as it relates to interest rate policy. He is also suggesting openly that he would like to raise tariffs as high as 20% on a lot of goods and services and likely more than that. This would be a disaster, of course for our economy, and it would cause investors around the world to lose confidence in our capital markets.

When he discusses this with his anti-free trade representatives they want to bring the United States back to the 1890s. They often cite Presidents like Benjamin Harrison or William McKinley. It was a different country back then and it was a very different world. It is a more beautiful world now. There is no going back.

These policies would be an absolute disaster for America and it would be an absolute disaster for the world. Please listen to Trump very carefully when he is talking. He does not like people. He has very few friends if at all. If someone tells you they are friends with Donald Trump, it’s because they honestly don’t understand the relationship. He sees these people as objects in his field of vision. They are to be used as levers to get what he wants. They are then to be completely discarded when they no longer serve his purpose. If you don’t believe me, ask the loyal supporters of his that were sent over to project 2025 that have now been told that Trump doesn’t even know who they are.

Trump‘s view is to convert the United States into an Oligarchic state. That is his go to form of leadership. His rich acolytes believe that democracy is too messy, and the average person is not capable of being involved in the decision-making a result of which these supposed know it all oligarchs should be running things and of course they should be getting more rich and more powerful.

Is that what we really want for America? I know I personally don’t want that. I want an aspirational America. One of equal opportunity for everyone. I want in America for people who have nothing right now to think they can grow up and aspire to greatness. To love America the way our grandparents did. Every time Trump insults America the way he does from the podium, It’s a direct insult on our grandparents. Shame on him for saying that we are in shambles because we are very far from shambles. We are still what Lincoln said the last best hope on earth. When I hear him denigrate us he is attacking the legacy of our ancestors.

I am not sure what is going happen in the election, but it feels like Trump isn’t just going to be defeated. It’s not clear to me that Trump will be the standing candidate for the republicans in November. He is very weak. He is very old and he is very brutal and his act has grown very tired at a time when the American demography wants better leadership and wants more inclusive leadership.

Trumpism is a Frankenstein monster and is not even anything representative of a center right coalition.

His oligarchy isn’t going to happen. We will work tirelessly to defeat him. I grew up with no money and I may have some now but I understand how important it is for people that have no money to feel that they have an aspirational opportunity in this country and that they’re not controlled by a group of know it all jackasses. After he is defeated out of the embers of the freak show that he’s created, I am hoping that a new center party can be rebuilt that looks more like the beautiful colorful mosaic of the American people.

[Scott Dworkin @funder]

This video 😂

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[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Every now and then it’s nice to remember this orangutan’s reaction to this trick.

[Sarah Taber @SarahTaber_bww]

You know how people are worried about foreign investors buying up US farmland?

There's a company that helps them do that! It's like Uber for buying US farmland.

And who's one of its key investors, profiting off of every sale?

J.D. Vance.

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[Karin Chenoweth @karinchenoweth]

I finally read the Project 2025's proposals for education. It's easy enough to say "abolish the department of education." I mean, who outside of Washington actually cares about how the federal government organizes its education programs? But what you might care about is that

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Holy shit. Every single word of this from @ColinCowherd on Taylor Swift is 🔥

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

Elon's got me shadowbanned 5 ways to goddamn Mars so imma need you guys to retweet he harder than usual tonight. The safe word is #TrumpSmells

[Prez @PrezLives2022]

The 2nd Amendment does not read as many would have you think...in fact only with the rise of the NRA has it become what it is today...for 200 years it was never as those on the right claim it to be...Let's break it down

The Founders never intended to create an unregulated right for people to own guns, yet somehow we live in a society where more than half the population believes it did. So how could this be?

In 1990 former Chief Justice Burger relayed the words of a longterm "consensus of historians and judges alike." A fraud on the American public" he called it. We now live in a society where states are competing to see which one will have the most absurd gun rights possible.

It wasn't until 2008 that the SC ruled in favour of gun ownership when it said the DC law banning guns in the home was unconstitutional. Never before was this question answered, which suggests it was never really in the Constitution, but there was never a reason to answer it until Heller. So why would they answer it in Heller? I think it was because it was unreasonable to state that no one could have the right to protect themselves in the home, but they also stated that the 2nd amendment was not unlimited. All amendments have limits on them. For example, you cannot yell fire in the movie theatre as a 1A right because it might cause a stampede and kill people. I will come back to this for reference.

The National Rifle Association has spent decades beating down the courts attempting to shove their version of the Constitution down the throats of the American people and the American Justice system. It basically brainwashed the American people into believing it was so until they got the court that was ripe to make it so...they spent a ton of money influencing politicians with cash while also influencing them to find SC Justices who would agree and add them to the bench.

For 2 centuries "a well regulated militia being necessary for the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed" has been completely ignored because no one believed what the Far Right would have you believe today.

When the Constitution was created there was worry that a federal standing army would disarm the the militias of each state. When Madison wrote the 2A it was not what we think today as evidence by his notes from the Convention, because there is no mention of such rights in those notes...the overwhelming use of "bear arms" in those days referred to military activities and most of these gun nuts have never served in the military, although a good number have that's true, but none of them serve an active role in the military now.

"When the House of Representatives marked up the first draft of the Bill of Rights, it was never discussed because there were no notes on the markup."

State militias were eventually dissolved and over time each state had their own National Guard which is the legal professional militia in each state.

As a SC Justice said in 1840 "A man in pursuit of a deer, elk, and buffaloes might carry his rifle every day for 40 years and it would never be said that he bore arms."

A hunting rifle or a pistol would never be misconstrued as bearing arms as these are accepted as common practice as far back as the 1600's. Even in the Wild West with all their lawlessness it was pistols, rifles, shotguns, and knives. These were not weapons for military activities but weapons for protection and in some cases to commit crimes. There weapons of the military then, but these weapons in the hands of civilians were not used for military activities.

In 1994 Bill Clinton lost the House and the NRA was a big reason why as they managed to succeed in filibustering a background check bill in the House, but the NRA was just beginning.

The NRA was created because union officers wanted to create clubs to teach their officers to shoot better, so even the NRA in its inception was for military activities.

"In 1977 the NRA was retreating from politics when activists from the 2A Foundation and the Citizens Committee for the right to bear arms revolted at the Convention ("Revolt at Cincinnati") and pushed their way into power."

This new organisation was ideologically focused on one idea and that was that 2A was sacred and the gun movement exploded into the political conversation. That was the beginning of language like insurrection and tax revolt and the beginning of a Libertarian movement. Reagan was elected partly because he saw the gun activists as a potential ally and even wrote in Guns and Ammo Magazine.

In their Headquarters in Langley on the wall you see "the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." What's missing is the part of the well regulated militia. I find this an interesting omission. The idea of a well regulated missing and it has been replaced with a mind set that they are now domestic terrorists if need be. That is just my opinion and it is supported by their use of the words, insurrection and tax revolt. As someone said to me today "you are missing the point, we are at war with the government." In any other country they would be labeled as domestic terrorists, but here we don't dare give them that label.

From 1888-1959 every single article on 2A concluded that 2A did not guarantee the right to bear arms. It wasn't until a student from William and Mary stated that 2A enforced the right to revolution. By the seventies the NRA had hired attorneys and professors to write law review submissions and they single handedly worked to re interpret the Constitution. They abused the Justice system into believing that all this time that the historians and Justices had been wrong and two hundred years of consensus was wrong...the NRA used their funds to buy a new interpretation of the Constitution and it is one that I think will face a day of reckoning and not in the favour of the NRA or any other gun activists... these decisions were born out of corrupt intent and corrupt Justices as we see now with Alito, Thomas and the late Anthony Scalia.

All amendments have limits and if the first amendment has limits on speech for the safety of lives then it seems the 2A will also be qualified for limitations to save lives.

The Constitution was not written for the likes of the weapons we have today. it was written for personal protection, hunting, and military activities. The laws we have today regarding weapons of war, lawful carry without a license, refusals for background checks have made America a dangerous place to live and it has made a subset of the population very dangerous to our Democracy. They exist to introduce Fascism.

Fascism is what David Koch the Libertarian has sought for 50 years. Him and his brother have always felt that the government was intrusive to their needs and it was something to be feared. He was responsible for legitimizing anti government ideology. The Koch believe the government was a detriment to the free market. What that means is they did not want to be taxed, regulated, or told they could not own a monopoly. They hated campaign finance laws because they could not simply pay for a candidate they wanted. The thought that the Bureau of Land Management was in the way of them acquiring government land on the cheap. They were not a fan of OSHA, so if you got hurt at work it wasn't their problem. Finally, they wanted to do away with all social safety nets and privatize all public schools. This your Deep state. The massive amounts of money and the massive amounts of guns may very well be gearing up for war and if Trump wins we might see it and if he doesn't the odds are even higher. To the Far Right the next election is their Armageddon if Trump doesn't win, and the media is playing into their hands.

This idea that Trump is beating Biden is an absolute media narrative. They show manipulated polls showing Biden is performing poorly and allowing Trump and his supporters to think they are winning and when he loses the media will get to broadcast the fallout and if you think that J6 was bad, wait until we kick Trumps a** next election we may see violence we have never seen in this country in 160 years. That is their play what is ours?

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[Go Shockers @GoShockers]

WITH 7,202 FANS IT’S THE LARGEST CROWD IN TBT HISTORY ‼️🔥

Shocker Nation SHOWED OUT for the AfterShocks once again and sets yet ANOTHER attendance record in The Roundhouse!

Charles Koch Arena: a place like no other…

[🥥🌴Tina- Vote Freedom vs Fascism @trcfwtt]

It’s unfair to say trump didn’t contribute to our society. I had to learn about The Emolument Clause, The Hatch Act, how to spell subpoena, what the Atomic Powers Act and Espionage Act was written for. Never thought I’d be reading the Presidential Record Act, but here we are.

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

If you're a corporate marketing officer concerned over what's happening with Target, let me make something abundantly clear: you will never appease anti-LGBTQ extremists. They don't want *some* concessions. They want all of them. But there's a colder truth at play here.

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[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

You should stop what you’re doing and watch this entire clip from @TheProblem.

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@Mrs_CHibbard @heymrsbond In Kansas all funds go to the state for disbursement. There is a base rate and then funds added for weightings (rural, high risk). The rich districts are having to contribute to schools in other parts of the state. I feel our system creates more equity.