Barbara Novak ☮🇺🇸

Gun safety education advocate, old house renovation hobbyist and SQL Server DBA.

[Barbara Novak ☮🇺🇸 @babs2u2]

@emzorbit Didn't Hawley say he will present legislation for a national abortion ban?

[Rick Steves @RickSteves]

America could wake up on Wednesday with all three branches of our government — the — Executive, Legislative, and Judicial — Trumpist.

With this clip, take five minutes to ponder Germany’s memorials and the price that nation paid for being bamboozled by a bombastic autocrat. Listen to the heartfelt message of my German tour guides, for whom these memorials are like ghosts of mistakes made and evils allowed… ghosts that haunt their society still. These are the same guides who clink glasses in the beer halls and yodel from the hilltops with our American tour members. They admire America. They love America. And they are worried for America.

If we vote for fascism, it’ll likely be won by one or two percent (or even less)…and perhaps just a few stadiums of people will tip the balance. And history has taught my European friends that the cost of a course correction is infinitely more heartbreaking after a wannabe dictator wins an election than before. We are all participants, we are all responsible, and we will all bear the consequences of our collective choice.

[Rick Steves @RickSteves]

A century ago, Germany’s democracy was hijacked by a bombastic and charismatic tyrant — and in this five-minute video, you’ll learn how he did it. Why did I produce this? Because I believe that history is speaking to us, and all too often, those who refuse to learn from it are doomed to repeat it.

As you watch, imagine filling out a Bingo card filled with Germany 1933/USA 2024 parallels: big rallies, rage-filled and hateful rhetoric, simple answers promising quick and easy solutions to complicated problems, empty promises of a great-again future, scapegoating outsiders, and political enemies silenced on day one. And notice the caring wisdom and concern from my German friends as they share these lessons from their dark history.

It’s hard to understand how Trump could, on the eve of a tight election, paint a picture of Liz Cheney before a firing squad by actually saying, “Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, OK? And let’s see how she feels about it when the guns are trained on her face.” You can’t get into the mind of a dictator with an insatiable appetite for power — but you can recognize the playbook they all seem to follow.

Just watch this clip. It’s excerpted from my hourlong public television special “The Story of Fascism in Europe,” which is streaming free (and ad-free) at https://t.co/YA10kVH0V8. If you care about our democracy and love our country, it’s hard to stop watching.

When I produced this in 2018, I hoped this day would never come in our country. But November 5th is upon us. Please share this with anyone in your life who might need a reminder that the stakes are high...and this is very real.

[Barbara Novak ☮🇺🇸 @babs2u2]

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[Joe Biden @JoeBiden]

Earlier today I referred to the hateful rhetoric about Puerto Rico spewed by Trump's supporter at his Madison Square Garden rally as garbage—which is the only word I can think of to describe it. His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable. That's all I meant to say. The comments at that rally don't reflect who we are as a nation.

[Irishrygirl @irishrygirl]

Today is the 50th anniversary of women gaining the right to have mortgages, business loans and credit cards in their own names. WE ARE NOT GOING BACK. #HarrisWalz #WeAreNotGoingBack

[Barbara Novak ☮🇺🇸 @babs2u2]

@piper4missouri I'm the same way. The lies are my issue.

[. @jdpoc]

Jesus, this advert hits hard.

[Laura Burkhardt @LauraAnnSTL]

A maga family night out stealing 60 Harris/Walz signs in Nixa and Springfield, Missouri.

Shoutout to @Apple AirTag! Maga sure loves being felonious.

Link to video: https://t.co/dkFCOJWtab

[Crystal Quade @crystal_quade]

🚨No-excuse early voting starts today!🚨

Help elect a pro-choice, pro-worker governor who’s fighting to make Missouri the best state to live, work, raise a family, & start a business.

Head to https://t.co/ha2OH45Atp & check for your local voting location.

Make a plan to vote!

[Elad Gross 🇺🇸 @BigElad]

Today is the first day of no-excuse early voting in Missouri, and I would appreciate your vote for Attorney General.

We need to bring good government back to Missouri. As Attorney General, I will prosecute corruption, sue scammers, protect our families and our freedoms, and get Missouri working for Missourians again. We need an Attorney General on our side.

I am a lifelong Missourian. I previously served as an Assistant Attorney General of our state. For the last several years, I’ve sued corrupt government officials of both parties to protect our civil liberties, and I’ve defended our right to see what our government is doing with our money.

Our current appointed Attorney General, Andrew Bailey, has been terrible for Missouri. He’s wasted so much of our money he can’t even tell us how much – just try to ask him. Those illegal gambling machines we’re seeing in so many gas stations throughout our state? Our Attorney General took money from illegal gaming companies and then dropped his representation of the state against them. He’s even spending taxpayer money fighting to keep innocent people in prison, like Sandra Hemme, who spent 43 years in prison for a crime she didn’t commit. St. Joseph Police opposed our Attorney General on that case. On top of the corruption, our Attorney General has entirely mismanaged the office. We have record low staffing when we should be suing scammers and prosecuting violent crime.

There are so many crooks coming to our state to exploit our home, and we need an Attorney General who will stand up for us.

As Attorney General, I will start a Public Corruption Unit to make sure your tax dollars go exactly where they’re supposed to. We will make sure our roads, our schools, and our hospitals get the funding they need to work for us. My Civil Rights Division will stop Big Government from abusing its power. I will protect our civil liberties.

I will launch Missouri's first statewide effort to prosecute and prevent violent crime. The Attorney General can play such a big role in making our neighborhoods safer and protecting our families. I will.

I will go after utilities raising rates on our families and making drinking water and electricity unaffordable.

I will enforce antitrust law and sue monopolies squeezing every dime they can out of Missourians. Family farmers won’t have to stand up alone when big foreign companies try to put them out of business, and you will have an advocate for you to protect your privacy and your wallet from Big Tech, Big Health Care, Big Pharma, Big everything.

I will stop scam calls and get our Consumer Protection Division working again. Missouri started America’s first No-Call list, but you sure wouldn’t know it today. I will sue scammers and launch a program to educate Missourians so we all can better avoid and prosecute scammers.

I will bring back Missouri’s Conservation, Agricultural, and Environmental Division that Jay Nixon started as Attorney General to protect our state’s natural resources. And you better believe we're going after abusive puppy mills. Missouri has been the capital of puppy mills in our country for over a decade. We can end these abusive scams.

And as Attorney General, I will be an advocate for you in Jefferson City. Our Attorney General shouldn’t be the attorney for the Governor, or for Big Government, or for his Big Donors. Our Attorney General should be your attorney, and I will be the most accessible Attorney General in our state’s history. We will have a watchdog in our government again.

Our Attorney General should be non-partisan. We should just elect the best attorney for the job.

This election, don't just vote for party. That's exactly what those in power want us to do. They want us divided against each other, against our friends, even against our family so that we don't realize how much we share in common and how much we've been screwed over by the very people who are supposed to be representing us.

Instead, vote for good government. Vote to protect your tax money. Vote for Missouri to be a leader in our country again.

My name is Elad Gross, and I would be honored to have your vote for Attorney General. Thank you, and please consider telling your friends!

[Spencer Toder @SpencerToder]

This is horrendous. Fuck Mike Parson. Votes matter, people! This man does not represent Missouri!

[Doc  @DocAtCDI]

I live in a "swing state," the only place where any votes seem to count according to people who defend the electoral college.

My daughter is a county clerk; she is in charge of handling elections for a large county in Michigan.

The FBI came in and told her to shut down all her social media, and if she couldn’t, to remove all references to family and change her name.

No one in her office is allowed to open any mail without gloves and a mask. They have armed security when they enter and leave the city building. They receive 2-3 letters a day filled with white powder (so far, flour or powdered sugar).

Please don’t think we’ve got this under control. There is LITERALLY a war going on, quietly, waged by domestic terrorists, to take away your right to have your voice heard.

This woman, who I can’t name because her life is in danger, goes into combat every single day to try to protect your right to have your voice heard!

Don’t let her down.

[justin baldoni @justinbaldoni]

#MarcellusWilliams faces execution on 9/24 for a crime that DNA proves he didn’t commit. Join me, @innocence, and @the_mip in taking action to prevent this irreversible injustice. #SaveMarcellus https://t.co/2IYx0VKtKg

[FLAVOR FLAV @FlavorFlav]

Pet Shop Boys better stay inside and lock the doors. You too Snoop Dogg. And Pitbull.

[Scott Charton @ScottCharton]

Key dates if you're making plans to vote in Missouri:
Oct. 9: Registration deadline.
Sept. 24: Absentee voting for specified reasons.
Oct. 22: No-excuse absentee voting.
Oct. 23: Deadline to request mail ballot.
Nov. 5: Polls open 6 a.m.-7 p.m.

#mosen #mogov #moleg

[Barbara Novak ☮🇺🇸 @babs2u2]

@JoJoFromJerz An orange

[Barbara Novak ☮🇺🇸 @babs2u2]

@thehouseofpod Mother May I

[Elad Gross 🇺🇸 @BigElad]

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey took money from illegal gambling companies he was supposed to fight in court.

He's under an ethics investigation.

He's kept innocent people in prison.

He's one of the worst AG's our state has ever had.
Fire him: https://t.co/hCdZL9A36G

[Simone Biles @Simone_Biles]

okay on the real though, the official team name is ✨golden girls✨ (because oldest olympic team)

s/o to cecile🥹🤍