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Autocracy vs Liberal Democracy. Pick a side.

#GloryToUkraine #ProChoice
#BlackLivesMatter

[🇺🇲 🇺🇦 @AlanRealized]

“Fox News makes $1.8 billion from the carriage fees it charges cable TV providers to include the channel in bloated, increasingly expensive cable TV bundles. But just 3 million of the nation's 90 million cable TV subscribers actively watch the channel."
https://t.co/vcnq6MFVjp

[The Recount @therecount]

“We don’t take an oath to a king, or a queen, or to a tyrant, or a dictator — and we don’t take an oath to a wannabe dictator.”

— Outgoing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley at his retirement ceremony

[Jeff Stein @jstein_star]

During a shutdown -->

Members of Congress: Get paid

Congressional staffers: No pay, but get backpay

Congress' janitorial/cafeteria contractors: No pay, no backpay

[Working Class History @wrkclasshistory]

We are seeing multiple outlets say this is the first time a sitting president has ever stood on a picket line. We are not aware of any previous such incidents. Is anyone else? What about other heads of state? Never heard about it in the UK either.

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

Well, there you go.

Biden tells Zelenskyy that U.S. sending Ukraine ATACMS https://t.co/7yNmwVYpLR

[Natasha Bertrand @NatashaBertrand]

Inbox: US Senator John Fetterman on Wednesday released the following statement on the Senate dress code:
“If those jagoffs in the House stop trying to shut our government down, and fully support Ukraine, then I will save democracy by wearing a suit on the Senate floor next week.”

[Flightradar24 @flightradar24]

The US military is searching for a missing F-35B in South Carolina after the pilot ejected yesterday and the jet kept flying. If you have seen an F-35 in the woods, please contact the US Marines.

[follow @bencollins on bluesky @oneunderscore__]

Like many things this guy says now, you have to fully turn your brain off to believe what he’s saying here. And yet so many in the executive class and government of this country still choose to play pretend with him.

The question is why.

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

"Russell seems untouchable"

Five women share their stories about Russell Brand.

Allegations of rape, sexual assault, and emotionally abusive behavior.

A joint investigation between @thetimes and @C4Dispatches

[🇺🇲 🇺🇦 @AlanRealized]

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[Christiane Amanpour @amanpour]

“The bodies are everywhere.” Thousands are dead in Libya after huge floods – with thousands more missing. The scenes are truly horrifying, as Ben Wedeman @bencnn reports.

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

Mitt Romney sent this text to Mitch McConnell on Jan. 2, 2021:

"In case you have not heard this, I just got a call from Angus King, who said that he had spoken with a senior official at the Pentagon who reports that they are seeing very disturbing social media traffic regarding the protests planned on the 6th. There are calls to burn down your home, Mitch; to smuggle guns into DC, and to storm the Capitol. I hope that sufficient security plans are in place, but I am concerned that the instigator—the President—is the one who commands the reinforcements the DC and Capitol police might require."

McConnell never responded.
https://t.co/zrnnHuZzjS

[Matthew Gertz @MattGertz]

Walter Isaacson reports in his book that Elon Musk told Bari Weiss last year "that Twitter would indeed have to be careful about the words it used regarding China, because Tesla's business could be threatened. China's repression of the Uyghurs, he said, had two sides."

[Catherine Rampell @crampell]

holy moly, child poverty rate rose from all-time low of 5.2% in 2021 to 12.4% (!!!) in 2022, reflecting end of temporary child allowance and other programs.

[Ari Drennen @AriDrennen]

NEW: In April, Matt Walsh confirmed he'd been told by YouTube that advertiser revenue would be returned to his channel if he toned down his anti-trans vitriol.
He didn't, and after three months YouTube restored $100,000 per month to his channel anyway.
https://t.co/0dHq6JAuUe

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

Aaron Rodgers lasted 1/1584th of a Scaramucci.

[Simone Del Rosario @SimoneReports]

Punctuation is important.

Patrick Mahomes on Aaron Rodgers injury.

[Adam Beasley @AdamHBeasley]

My god he didn’t last a series

[New York Jets @nyjets]

QB Aaron Rodgers (ankle) is questionable to return #BUFvsNYJ

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

Poland is not fucking around

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

I met the engineers whose sea drones were blocked when Starlink didn't function in September 2022. But they tried the same attack again a month later, and they hit several targets in Sebastopol.
World War Three did not break out.
https://t.co/drU7NZ1CZd