Conservative women are successful at peddling conspiracy theories to other women bc belief in conspiracy appeals most to people who lack power.
Conspiracy offers a way to explain the world that requires creativity & research skills but NOT access to powerful people or groups.
i want stories about how voters were turned off by republican blood and soil rhetoric and they were repulsed by stephen millers racist ads about a war on white people. i want stories about how handing the keys to the gop to tucker carlson and charlie kirk is killing the party
Republicans in Congress blocked President Biden’s attempt to cut the cost of insulin to $35 per prescription per month for everyone – including hundreds of thousands of children with Type 1 diabetes.
The tragedy of #Auschwitz shows only the painful end of a long process. It's essential to remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred slowly grew from human ideas, words, prejudice, through legal exclusion, to dehumanisation, violence and murder. It's a warning.
A man was shot in the parking lot of a Walmart. Another man Kenneth Vineyard performed CPR until EMTs arrived. A plain clothes cop starts barking orders at Vineyard to back up and violently shoves him hitting his head on the pavement.
Vineyard died. The cop wasn't arrested.
WTF
You can register to vote on Election Day in the following states: CA, CO, CT, HI, IA, ID, IL, MD, ME, MI, MN, MT, NH, NM, NV, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WY + Washington, D.C. (and ND does not require voter reg)
Don't tell me energy is low around voting.
Just received a report out of Kansas that a voter was told she couldn't vote while wearing her partisan t-shirt.
So she took it off and voted in her bra.
My mom & I just disagreed about something pivotal that happened TO ME 25 years ago
In the story I end up triumphant. We both agree on that.But,how I got there? She had a wholly different version
I said, that’s not what happened!, & suggested we trade stories
I gave my version
An important reminder: Republicans have zero plans to reduce inflation.
However they do have multiple plans to ban abortion nationally, cut Social Security and Medicare, and repeal Democrats’ efforts to lower prescription drug costs.
Twitter is owned by Republican. Fox News is owned by a Republican. CNN is owned by a Republican. OANN is owned by a Republican. Parler is owned by a Republican. Newsmax is owned by a Republican. Daily Wire is owned by a Republican. The “liberal media” is a Republican a myth.
Bad reporting: Candidate X says there was voter fraud.
Good reporting: Without proof or evidence, candidate X alleges voter fraud, inciting his/her followers in a nation with increasing political violence.
It is 2022. Get it right. Or a new job.
With Twitter's change in ownership last week, I'm probably in the clear to talk about the most unethical thing I was asked to build while working at Twitter.
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