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ECU Pirates Rule !!! Good Father, Sports Lover, RIT MBA #NotMeUs #UniversalHealthcareForAll #SinglePayerHealthcareForAll #COVIDisAirborne

[Dave 🏈🌹 🇵🇸 🇾🇪 @SandleDavid]

Joe Biden Thread :

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

Which is absolutely meaningless if Schumer and Jefferies are still running the show.

We need leadership with teeth and a spine!

[tim russ @timruss2]

It was found in Texas. It destroys cattle too. It was still in other countries and the US put in programs to ensure it wouldn’t enter the US again. 60 years of success.
Until Trump cut the funding, and now it’s back in the US. Are we Great Again yet?

[ADAM @adamemedia1]

NEW: 🚨🇺🇸 🇮🇱 THE AMERICAN AND ISRAELI MILITARY ARE TO BE MERGED

US Congress is QUIETLY moving to integrate the American and Israeli militaries under the 'United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative'

This will bring extraordinary Israeli influence to the US beyond the already extensive blackmail, lobbying and media networks.

The amount of money sent to Israel will skyrocket and you won’t be able to know how much it is.

They will also be able to set up factories in America, placing American jobs and lives at their mercy.

And any objections or oversight to Israeli actions or the endless aid sent to them will be much harder do.

The wars will never end until America is bled dry.

This is the end result of the US-Israeli military-industrial complex.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

The Trump administration has been telling you they had screwworm under control for months. Now, it's here.

What happened? Trump and DOGE slashed funding for screwworm monitoring programs.

And the entire GOP let them. Thank them for today's new hell they unleashed on you.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

This is what a broken brain looks like

[Marshall Steinbaum 🔥 @Econ_Marshall]

Main accuser is a known liar.

[Dave 🏈🌹 🇵🇸 🇾🇪 @SandleDavid]

@nypost FIFIELD IS A LYING GOP OPERATIVE https://t.co/sJ0Z78zLL8

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

She told the Times she “had not been active with the organization recently.”

She was active with them in mid-April. This is actually correction worthy.

[Dave 🏈🌹 🇵🇸 🇾🇪 @SandleDavid]

@nypost https://t.co/sJ0Z78zLL8

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

She told the Times she “had not been active with the organization recently.”

She was active with them in mid-April. This is actually correction worthy.

[Dave 🏈🌹 🇵🇸 🇾🇪 @SandleDavid]

@nypost

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

we have to get this right wing charlatan out of congress! support democratic socialist @OliverALarkin to primary moskowitz who famously said he's to the right of marco rubio when it comes to defending israel's interests!

[Dave 🏈🌹 🇵🇸 🇾🇪 @SandleDavid]

@nypost WHO SHE IS https://t.co/e97PqiIMkV

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

It's kind of wild to find out that the Republican in the NYT story that says she had a toxic relationship with Graham Platner is Lyndsey Fifield. Having been in DC for too long, I know a decent number of people who know her quite well. For a long time she was the co-host of a podcast with her best friend Bethany Mandel, called Ladybrains, though she has also worked for multiple super PACs, the Chamber of Commerce, and the Heritage Foundation.

Some background, presented without judgment: In 2014, Fifield began work as digital director for American Action Network, a Republican Super PAC that oversees House races. The next year she became social media manager for the Heritage Foundation, where she stayed for the next seven years.

In 2022, she joined the Super PAC backing Nikki Haley for president, switching to the official campaign side the next year, and staying until the campaign flamed out. She now lists herself as a visiting fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum, a prominent dark money group that is best known for helping usher Brett Kavanaugh on to the Supreme Court and giving Susan Collins the talking points she needed to make her decisive speech in his favor.

The NYT breezed past all this, saying she was "a Virginia conservative who has worked for right-leaning groups and Republican campaigns."

In an interview for a news outlet called Red Alert Politics that named her to a “30 under 30” list back in 2016, she said that she wanted to “emulate the late conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart’s approach to online activism.” Breitbart, known for pushing the boundaries when it came to political combat, is perhaps best remembered for having exposed Anthony Weiner’s penchant for sending nudes to young girls, and for his work elevating James O’Keefe.

That she worked for Independent Women's Forum recently is even wilder since IWF played a critical role in Kavanaugh's confirmation and in persuading Collins to support it.

Heather Higgins, chair of IWF, laid out the group’s role in a talk several years ago. “We wrote a memo. It was used by a lot of members of the Senate and the House, Fox News, and elsewhere. Most important, Susan Collins told me that without that memo, she would not see how to support him,” Higgins said. “And if you look at the speech she gave on the Senate floor, it’s entirely the playing out and architecture of how we said to structure the argument — what to say and how to say it, which is just so gratifying. We’re watching TV and we’re like, ‘That’s ours! That’s ours!’”

Meanwhile, the timeline Fifield gives of their relationship is confusing, because during at least some of that time she was actually dating a different person, her longterm boyfriend who became her fiancee before she called off the wedding in 2018. We all know this because she and Mandel did a podcast episode on it that went mega-viral in Republican circles back then. Apparently this is the kind of thing the NYT thinks is important now, so I guess it requires more reporting. I'll report back.

Here is Heather Higgins celebrating IWF's role in getting Susan Collins to confirm Kavanaugh:

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

So the big story:

After deployments, Graham was shitty boyfriend to some and a good one to others; many of them are still in his life today. All of which led him to seek help and in the end found the love of his life.

Not sure this is the nuke many were hoping for.

[Dave 🏈🌹 🇵🇸 🇾🇪 @SandleDavid]

@NateSilver538 https://t.co/e97PqiIMkV

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

It's kind of wild to find out that the Republican in the NYT story that says she had a toxic relationship with Graham Platner is Lyndsey Fifield. Having been in DC for too long, I know a decent number of people who know her quite well. For a long time she was the co-host of a podcast with her best friend Bethany Mandel, called Ladybrains, though she has also worked for multiple super PACs, the Chamber of Commerce, and the Heritage Foundation.

Some background, presented without judgment: In 2014, Fifield began work as digital director for American Action Network, a Republican Super PAC that oversees House races. The next year she became social media manager for the Heritage Foundation, where she stayed for the next seven years.

In 2022, she joined the Super PAC backing Nikki Haley for president, switching to the official campaign side the next year, and staying until the campaign flamed out. She now lists herself as a visiting fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum, a prominent dark money group that is best known for helping usher Brett Kavanaugh on to the Supreme Court and giving Susan Collins the talking points she needed to make her decisive speech in his favor.

The NYT breezed past all this, saying she was "a Virginia conservative who has worked for right-leaning groups and Republican campaigns."

In an interview for a news outlet called Red Alert Politics that named her to a “30 under 30” list back in 2016, she said that she wanted to “emulate the late conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart’s approach to online activism.” Breitbart, known for pushing the boundaries when it came to political combat, is perhaps best remembered for having exposed Anthony Weiner’s penchant for sending nudes to young girls, and for his work elevating James O’Keefe.

That she worked for Independent Women's Forum recently is even wilder since IWF played a critical role in Kavanaugh's confirmation and in persuading Collins to support it.

Heather Higgins, chair of IWF, laid out the group’s role in a talk several years ago. “We wrote a memo. It was used by a lot of members of the Senate and the House, Fox News, and elsewhere. Most important, Susan Collins told me that without that memo, she would not see how to support him,” Higgins said. “And if you look at the speech she gave on the Senate floor, it’s entirely the playing out and architecture of how we said to structure the argument — what to say and how to say it, which is just so gratifying. We’re watching TV and we’re like, ‘That’s ours! That’s ours!’”

Meanwhile, the timeline Fifield gives of their relationship is confusing, because during at least some of that time she was actually dating a different person, her longterm boyfriend who became her fiancee before she called off the wedding in 2018. We all know this because she and Mandel did a podcast episode on it that went mega-viral in Republican circles back then. Apparently this is the kind of thing the NYT thinks is important now, so I guess it requires more reporting. I'll report back.

Here is Heather Higgins celebrating IWF's role in getting Susan Collins to confirm Kavanaugh:

[Dave 🏈🌹 🇵🇸 🇾🇪 @SandleDavid]

@NateSilver538 https://t.co/d1Xs8dQ9Mo

[Emma Vigeland @EmmaVigeland]

Here's the chair of the Independent Women’s Forum, the right-wing group where Lyndsey Fifield is a fellow, bragging about helping draft Susan Collins's remarks when she voted to confirm Brett Kavanaugh.

Fifield is NYT's main source, and the only one alleging anything physical.

[Dave 🏈🌹 🇵🇸 🇾🇪 @SandleDavid]

@NateSilver538 WRONG AS ALWAYS ASSHOLE

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Graham Platner's primary accuser, Lyndsey Fifield, is a pathological liar (see below) whose main cause is Israel.

Make of that what what you will. I know one's views of the #BelieveWomen framework radically shifts based on the politics of the accused, but it's clearly relevant:

[Dave 🏈🌹 🇵🇸 🇾🇪 @SandleDavid]

@jbarro STFU ASSHOLE, YOU ARE THE LIAR. PUSHING OBVIOUS HIT PIECE LIES AS TRUTH.

[Dave 🏈🌹 🇵🇸 🇾🇪 @SandleDavid]

@nytimes Guide to other hit pieces by this writer: https://t.co/KOHg9UXnC4

[Dave 🏈🌹 🇵🇸 🇾🇪 @SandleDavid]

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