Stephen "not going back" Brown

teacher, anti-Brexit, anti-stupidity, world citizen - sadly no more of EU.

[Aaron Parnas @AaronParnas]

NEW: Epstein survivors release open letter to Senators John Cornyn and Thom Tillis urging them to vote no on the Todd Blanche nomination after meeting with Blanche.

"A vote to confirm Todd Blanche would be a vote against those survivors."

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

Christian towns around Bethlehem are surrounded on all sides by settlers who steal their water and attack their families. They cannot freely move across their land and are blocked from going to holy sites in Jerusalem.

Listen to the mayors of these towns share their stories.

[Stephen "not going back" Brown @gruncher3]

@JamesTCobbler @Anniepop2027 Thank you very much for your hard work on our behalf.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

If you’re wondering why Reform was dumb enough to accept donations from the mother of a money-laundering crypto expert and convicted criminal, it’s because the lack of any serious scrutiny of Farage created a sense of impunity.
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[Stephen "not going back" Brown @gruncher3]

@charise_lee This did not happen. It is AI. There is plenty of genuime bad stuff he does; our side does not need to lie.

[Dittie @DittiePE]

@SenFettermanPA The United States Senate has lost a war mongering drunk who kissed the ass of a fascist moron and has helped ruin this country for more than a decade
Fuck you and him

[Stephen "not going back" Brown @gruncher3]

@HunterBiden @pamelafessler You are a better man than me.

[Stephen "not going back" Brown @gruncher3]

@sarrah_bellus This is old news. Why not say so or did you not know?

[MAGAts_Exposed @MAGAts_Exposed]

The now infamous open letter from Amber Tamblyn to MAGAt James Woods, as published in @TeenVogue.

Dear Mr. Woods,

What you are experiencing is called a teachable moment. It is called a gift. It is called a humbling. It is called Jesus, I come to thee. It is called an awakening. It is called a growth edge. It is called hope.

The hope being that through this experience, you can change. You can redefine the man who will come after this moment and this man who came before.

Since you've now called me a liar, I will now call you a silencer. I see your gaslight and now will raise you a scorched earth.

My friend Billy and I were at the Roxy on Sunset Boulevard seeing a band we loved. We decided to go to Mel's diner on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood to get burgers after. I had just gotten my driver's license and very specifically remember my nervousness trying to park in the diner parking lot. Upon leaving the restaurant we were stopped by you and your friend, who both seemed very nice. At one point you suggested we should all go to Las Vegas together. "It's such a great place, have you ever been?" You tried to make it sound innocent. This is something predatory men like to do, I've noticed. Make it sound innocent. Just a dollop of insinuation. Just a hair of persuasion. Just a pinch of suggestion. "It will be so much fun, I promise you. Nothing has to happen, we will just have a good time together." I told you my age, kindly and with no judgment or aggression. I told you my age because I thought you would be immediately horrified and take back your offer. You laughed and said, "Even better. We'll have so much fun, I promise."

Here's the thing, Mr. Woods. At that time I was not a public persona. I had done a couple years on a soap opera as an actress, but you wouldn't know me from Adam. I'm sure you've racked your brain trying to remember how you could've possibly hit on the actress Amber Tamblyn at a diner almost two decades ago. You think, it's not possible, there's no way I would've been so stupid as to hit on a 16-year-old known actress. But I wasn't known then, James. I was just a girl. And I'm going to wager that there have been many girls who were just girls or women who were just women who you've done this to because you can get away with it.

The saddest part of this story doesn't even concern me but concerns the universal woman's story. The nation's harmful narrative of disbelieving women first, above all else. Asking them to first corroborate or first give proof or first make sure we're not misremembering or first consider the consequences of speaking out or first let men give their side or first just let your sanity come last.

So it is with hope, Mr. Woods, that I ask you to go inward now and ask yourself the hard stuff. The ominous unconscious stuff. The archetypal masculinity stuff. The power-play stuff. The perversion persuasion stuff. The secretive stuff. The id's most cherished stuff.

Only you and your darkness know who you are. Only you and your actions know what you've done. That means you and only you have the power to change your behavior.

Are you and your history with women and girls a part of the problem, Mr. Woods?

Go now and look in the mirror and ask yourself if this is true. Go on, I'll wait. But I won't hold my breath.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

The son of the man shot and killed by ICE:

I am Ronaldo Salgado, the oldest son of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. I want to tell you about my dad. He was a hardworking family man. Let me tell you about my father's last day alive with as much detail as possible. My dad got dressed, grabbed his lunch and coffee, hugged and kissed my mom goodbye, slipped on his hat for the day, loaded his lunch, his work boots, his coffee in his work van. He patted our dog on his head goodbye and drove off to pick up his crew for work. He should've been picking up the last of his guys before heading to finish up construction on some houses. 5 minutes later, unbeknownst to all of us, my dad had been shot inside his van by ICE agents in unmarked cars.

[Stephen "not going back" Brown @gruncher3]

@Idarabasimi Why copy others’ posts?

[Stephen "not going back" Brown @gruncher3]

@StevePodell @JPHilllllll @mehdirhasan You realize that what you have actually typed is nonsense, yes? Perhaps delete and repost without the typo.

[Stephen "not going back" Brown @gruncher3]

@jasonllevin My reaction is that I do not believe her. Not because I do not think he did the evil things many have alleged but because if she is being truthful, why is evidence not already released?

[David Ullrich @DavidUllrich202]

New research: Doomsday Glacier ice shelf could ‘give way any day now’

The thin ice shelf that keeps it in place has been cracking for some time now, and the latest research strongly suggests that ice shelf could give way at any time in the next few months. How bad could it get?

Credit: Dave Borlace ― Just Have a Think

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Intelligence once again indicates that the Russians are preparing a new massive strike. This is typical of Putin: right after America’s Independence Day and before the NATO Summit in Ankara. Russia wants to bring more evil and kill people. Please stay safe and heed any air raid alerts.

Separately, to partners: any delay with missiles for our air defense – missiles for Patriots – means the loss of lives, and it encourages Russia to continue the war. The world has the necessary quantity and quality of air defense. What is needed are your decisions to ensure real protection of lives in Ukraine.

Above all, these are, of course, decisions by the United States, decisions by the strong countries in Europe and around the world. Please be active in your decisions and protect lives. Missiles for Patriots are needed not in warehouses right now, but in Patriot units in Ukraine. I thank everyone who is providing real help.

[Stephen "not going back" Brown @gruncher3]

@damekatydenise_ They are not being criticized for being jews; rather for waving a flag and thereby implicitly supporting a country guilty of genocide.

[Stephen "not going back" Brown @gruncher3]

@IngrahamAngle So Laura, you agree that these people look like buffoons and that is why you think no sensible person would be acting this way for real, yes?

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🔵 Alex Vindman, the retired lieutenant colonel who rose to fame testifying in Trump’s first impeachment, is running for US Senate in Florida as a Democrat while refusing to call Israel’s slaughter in Gaza a genocide.

Confronted at a recent event over his support for Israel, Vindman declined to explain his support.

He faces progressive state Rep. Angie Nixon of Jacksonville in the August 18 primary. Nixon has centered the plight of Palestinians since the genocide’s early weeks, most memorably when her question on the Florida House floor, ‘How many dead Palestinians will be enough?’, drew a Republican colleague’s shout of ‘All of them,’ in a moment that went viral. She was arrested in May protesting DeSantis’s mid-decade gerrymander and accuses the party establishment of rigging the race for Vindman, who holds $6.5 million to her $178,000 and has so far declined the debates she has accepted.

The winner faces Republican Sen. Ashley Moody, appointed by DeSantis to Marco Rubio’s seat when Rubio became secretary of state. Recent general election polling shows Moody leading Vindman 47-40 per an Associated Industries of Florida survey, while Vindman’s campaign touts a Change Research poll showing him within three and tied among likely voters.

[Andy Burnham @andyburnham]

Like everyone, I want this vile criminal out of the country. Victims must come first.

I will ask the Home and Foreign Secretaries to review all possible options - and they should consider nothing is off the table.

https://t.co/u42MdjrX65