Brendan 🐀

He/Him. #BLM 🌈 Tolerant with all. Except Mitch McConnell and Ted Cruz. 💅

[Martin Sonneborn @MartinSonneborn]

Ich habe heute versucht, die Chatkontrolle zu stoppen.

Am Wochenende mussten Sibylle Berg und ich Parlamentspräsidentin Metsola schriftlich mitteilen, dass das Durchprügeln der Chatkontrolle im Eilverfahren leider gegen die Geschäftsordnung des EU-Parlaments verstößt. Während Metsola der interessierten Presse daraufhin (fälschlicherweise) mitteilte, dass das schon alles seine Richtigkeit habe, warten wir immer noch auf ihre Antwort.

Deshalb wollte ich es ihr heute bei der Eröffnungssitzung in Straßburg noch einmal erklären. Und musste erstaunt feststellen, dass die Präsidentin doch Regeln kennt: Exakt nach 60 Sekunden hat sie mir das Mikrophon abgestellt. (regelkonform, wird aber selten gemacht)

Dabei hätte ich noch einiges zu sagen gehabt: "Frau Präsidentin, Sie wachen nach Artikel 22 über dieses Regelwerk (mit der ausgedruckten Geschäftsordnung wedelnd) - erklären Sie den Eilantrag für unzulässig. Wir sind hier schließlich nicht auf Malta! Die aktuelle Fassung der Geschäftsordnung überreiche ich Ihnen gerne persönlich. In der MEP-Bar."

Wie es nun weitergeht? Morgen wird über das Eilverfahren abgestimmt, obwohl diese Abstimmung gar nicht stattfinden dürfte. Wenn der Antrag erfolgreich ist, kommt die Chatkontrolle Donnerstagmittag zur Abstimmung ins Plenum. Um sie noch zu stoppen, müssten 361 Abgeordnete - eine qualifizierte Mehrheit - DAGEGEN stimmen.
Die schlechte Nachricht: Donnerstag ist der letzte Tag vor der Sommerpause und viele MEPs dürften bereits auf dem Weg in den Urlaub sein. Ein Schelm, wer Böses denkt bei dieser Terminierung... Smiley!

Wenn die Chatkontrolle durchgeht, dürfen die Plattformen (also die US-Tech-Bros) wieder & weiterhin fröhlich & ganz legal Ihre Nachrichten scannen. Schreiben Sie also gefälligst etwas unterhaltsamer in den kommenden Wochen... ZwinkerSmiley!

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

Tennessee House subcommittee members had state troopers physically remove gun safety activists who quietly held signs from a hearing.

We bow down to this woman who - visibly shaking - said: “You will have to drag me out.”

Moms will win.

[Justin J. Pearson @Justinjpearson]

Our democracy IS in peril! The @tnhousegop allows guns in committee rooms but not pieces of paper. They are throwing out people holding signs and weaponizing our State Troopers to do their dirty work. This is a disgusting abuse of power and shameful @GovBillLee @CSexton25!!

[Omar Rivero @OmarRiverosays]

BREAKING: Idaho’s largest newspaper humiliates Trump’s “Patriot Front” white supremacists in a devastating op-ed after they file a lawsuit complaining that they’ve lost their jobs and been shunned by their families after their identities exposed to the public.

In the brutal op-ed, the editors of the Idaho Statesman didn’t mince words and showed zero sympathy for the pro-Trump’s neo-nazis, declaring that, “What they’re really upset about is suffering the consequences of their abhorrent views — views that they feel so strongly about, they don’t want anyone to know about. The plaintiffs say they were fired from their jobs, have been threatened at their homes and have had their tires slashed, among other things.

The editorial continues, “Actions have consequences. It’s a warped view of freedom of expression when Patriot Front members attempt to completely conceal their ownership of said expression. Hiding behind anonymity has become an all-too-common feature of white nationalist and extremist trolls who lurk in the shadows of social media, hiding behind bogus accounts and fake avatars, spewing hate, sowing division, and threatening and intimidating others.

The brutal takedown continues, “It’s that anonymity that allows their putrescent views to grow and spread like a flesh-eating bacteria — except in this case, it’s more like a brain-eating disease. The fact the Patriot Front members’ main complaint is that they’ve suffered for being associated with these views is telling. The fact that employers — even their own relatives, in the case of Brown — want nothing to do with them tells you all you need to know.

The editorial ends with a bang, “If Patriot Front members believe that they are right and just, why not attach their names to their beliefs and putrid goals? Otherwise, they’re just behaving in a cowardly fashion, hiding behind ridiculous masks, fake social media accounts and in the darkness of the back of a U-Haul van."

Well said!👏👏👏

Please retweet and ❤️ to thank the Idaho Statesman for setting Trump’s “Patriot Front” straight — and consider joining the growing exodus to Tribel, a woke new Twitter competitor that banned Trump for life and is exploding in popularity because Elon Musk banned Tribel’s Twitter account — but he forgot to ban this link to download the new Tribel app: https://t.co/0c9FDbByU8

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

MAGAs out there head to toe in donald trump — they got trump hats, t-shirts, overalls, trump capes, trading cards, tire covers, cowboy boots & beer koozies, trump Snuggies, ski masks, singlets & shot glasses, trump plastic straws & paint chips.
I’m pretty sure I’ve even seen a trump sombrero.
They’ll tattoo his face on their biceps & body spray it on their boobies.
But Dark Brandon trolls them with one f’ng mug and they lose what’s left of their minds.
And it’s absolutely hysterical.

[Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris]

Extremists in Florida are banning books, attempting to erase our history, and intend to teach our students that enslaved people benefited from slavery.

It’s outrageous.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

I'll tell you this: None of us like Mitch McConnell because of the horrible things he's said and done as Senator.

But he had a medical incident today, and I saw a lot of well-wishers on our side. As it should be.

But when Senator John Fetterman had a medical episode, there were legions of Republicans who made fun and mocked him.

We are NOT the same.

[alex 🐀 @tinysnekcomics]

blue checks go away tomorrow, this is ur friendly reminder to get #RatVerified

[Brendan 🐀 @binfinland]

@gayastroids @SharpieNark @mattxiv Because his ‘unfiltered reality’ plug on his profile is a sham and all bluster. Typical of wing nuts.

[Brendan 🐀 @binfinland]

@Tonybagadoughnu @LouisWoodhill @EdKrassen @iancorzine By that logic most Americans wouldn’t go to college at all, crippling a fundamental need in our society. Further you assume as an adult with all your knowledge now, that a young adult bombarded with information and a lack of experience, takes loans offered.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

Now the poem that Amanda Gorman read at President Biden’s inauguration, entitled “The Hill We Climb,” has been banned from curriculum through 5th grade in Miami-Dade County, for not being suitable for elementary students.

For those who listened to the poem, you would know the the poem was a lecture on peace, love, unity, and freedom.

This is why laws banning critical race theory from schools are a problem. People begin categorizing anything that talks about race as falling into the realm of CRT. Or they use the law to justify removing books and curriculum that can teach real history.

This isn’t free speech. This is using the law to chill the free speech of others, in my opinion.

[Brendan 🐀 @binfinland]

What’s the point of making it even harder for us to move forward? Republicans are seemingly channeling so much hate and zero empathy for the many student loan borrows out there.

[James E. Clyburn @RepJamesClyburn]

Today House Republicans will pass a bill to retroactively charge student loan borrowers interest on their paused payments, repeal @POTUS' student loan debt relief plan, and claw back aid from public servants.

Cruelty is the point.

[Alex 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @Onlyhere4terry]

@mattxiv "men are having to learn how to treat women like human beings, and may need to acknowledge that some of their own behaviors which were normalized are actually toxic OHHH NOOOOOOOOOOO"

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

This might be the dumbest analogy I’ve ever heard. Raising the debt ceiling would not authorize new spending. It would let the U.S. pay the bills that Kevin McCarthy and Donald Trump ALREADY ran up with tax breaks for billionaires and giant corporations.
https://t.co/vlFvNj1Oia

[Brendan 🐀 @binfinland]

@BobbyDu02122490 @Frobiwan1965 @ennui365 Right? But they get ANY of it back and it’s whine or meltdown city.

[alex 🐀 @tinysnekcomics]

why would i pay $8 to get a blue check if i could put a rat next to my name for free???

i’m calling on everyone to join me in becoming #RatVerified

[Lost Ark @playlostark]

Thank you for the reports regarding game downloads timing on Steam.

Steam is aware of it and is actively looking into the issue and we will update players as soon as we have additional information.

[Brendan 🐀 @binfinland]

#LostArk being fashionably late or what now? #steam #pc #Europe

[Brendan 🐀 @binfinland]

@StobiesGalaxy "Eww why did we write this in?", the album

[Brendan 🐀 @binfinland]

@benturrubiates Haha oh man.
Ours likes to either get stuck within the office chair legs, or, conveniently, under the bed and out of reach after chewing up a cat toy. 🤦‍♂️