Rhys

Mapping hearts and taking names

[Rhys @Rhys_Wheatley]

Interviewer: “Do you consider yourself to be decisive?”
Me:

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Donald Trump has earned more money in his first and second year, in his second term as president, than in the previous 60 years of his life, per Bloomberg.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Ex-wife of ICE officer who shot and killed Joan Sebastian Guerrera:

I was completely shocked by his job with ICE because I'm like, 'how do you keep getting into these jobs where you're around guns all the time?' He told me all I needed to know was that it was a justified shooting. He's like, 'I need you to lie about my character because this is what it comes down to. I don't want you talking about any of the abuse in our relationship.' I need to come out because a man lost his life. It was abuse to me and our daughter. I've dealt with harassing phone calls and threats of him wanting to kill me. I believe that this man was murdered.

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man."

A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life.

Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.

[Jon Ossoff @ossoff]

6 hours. 52 posts.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Ossoff: This is what small men like Donald Trump and JD Vance and Stephen Miller will never understand—that our national greatness flows not through our blood or our genes, but through our ideas.

Americans are not a race, we're a people united not by ethnicity, but by our shared convictions, and that is what makes us exceptional

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Tim @trouble_man90]

There aren’t adequate words to properly express the depth and scale of trump’s corruption, it’s completely on a scale of its own with no historical equivalent to point to.

[Danny Gold @DGisSERIOUS]

Been shouting this from the rooftops. One of the most important paragraphs in the world today. For culture, media, ideology, politics etc. everyone is downstream of this.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Obama: "I'm worried about the Republican Party, not just the Democrat Party. When I was president, people would ask me, 'What change would you like to see in Washington?' I'd say, I'd love a loyal opposition. I'd love a Republican Party that was conservative in some ways, believed in rule of law and judicial independence and science, and wasn't constantly tapping into our worst impulses."

[Isaac Saul @Ike_Saul]

I haven't seen anyone tracking all of the alleged (or open) Trump corruption, self-dealing, and quid pro quos in one place. For the last 15 months, I've been tracking every single tip+story I can find and organizing it. Today, I published a 6,000 word piece with every example.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Today’s Supreme Court decision effectively guts a key pillar of the Voting Rights Act, freeing state legislatures to gerrymander legislative districts to systematically dilute and weaken the voting power of racial minorities - so long as they do it under the guise of “partisanship” rather than explicit “racial bias.” And it serves as just one more example of how a majority of the current Court seems intent on abandoning its vital role in ensuring equal participation in our democracy and protecting the rights of minority groups against majority overreach.

The good news is that such setbacks can be overcome. But that will only happen if citizens across the country who cherish our democratic ideals continue to mobilize and vote in record numbers - not just in the upcoming midterms or in high profile races, but in every election and every level.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.

This is not a time to fall back into the reflexive crouch that I so often see, where the authoritarian creep by this administration is ignored in favor of some horse race piece on who will be helped politically by the president's actions. 

Donald Trump wants to use the military to occupy a U.S. City, punish his dissidents and score political points. If this were happening in any other country, we would have no trouble calling it what it is a dangerous power grab.

[Franklin Leonard @franklinleonard]

When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression. (It's not.)

[Pod Save America @PodSaveAmerica]

“We’ve got to stop treating these social media corporations like they’re these autonomous digital empires and make them accountable
to the American public.” – Rep. @JakeAuch (D-MA).

[Hemant Mehta @hemantmehta]

Trump's trying to copy Newsom's style to get attention. Just reeks of desperation.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Over the long term, we shouldn’t have political gerrymandering in America, just a fair fight between Republicans and Democrats based on who’s got better ideas. But since Texas is taking direction from a partisan White House and gerrymandering in the middle of a decade to try and maintain the House despite their unpopular policies, I have tremendous respect for how Governor Newsom has approached this. He’s put forward a smart, measured approach in California, designed to address a very particular problem at a very particular moment in time.

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Trump’s election rigging comes to an end now. California won’t stand by and watch Trump burn it all down — we are calling a special election to redraw our Congressional maps and defend fair representation.

This is a five alarm fire for Democracy. Vote YES November 4.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Carl Sagan; books remain our greatest technology

[Grant Certiorari @GrantCertiorari]

Biden understood something fundamental: No American, no matter who they are or where they come from, should ever be forced to speak to Ted Cruz

[𝕯𝖎𝖑𝖉𝖔 𝕭𝖆𝖌𝖌𝖎𝖓𝖘 @EmmaTolkin]

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