Hank Linderman for Congress KY-02

Musician, recording engineer and producer. Running to ensure the 2nd District has a congressman who represents people's interests and not wealthy corporations.

[Hank Linderman for Congress KY-02 @hank4ky]

My name is Hank Linderman and I’m running for Congress in Kentucky’s 2nd.

Our elected officials aren't working for regular people. It’s time to fight for real justice and make the government serve the people again.

Can you join our fight and chip in?

https://t.co/TWLgom7XBn

[Hank Linderman for Congress KY-02 @hank4ky]

Well, you gotta pay for the Iran Not-A-War somehow...

[Axios @axios]

NEW: Republicans are considering reductions in federal health spending to help pay for a budget bill containing as much as $200 billion to fund the Iran war and immigration enforcement. https://t.co/6gLxDT7kTm

[Hank Linderman for Congress KY-02 @hank4ky]

but it's notawar...

[Center on Conscience & War @CCW4COs]

We have spoken with the spouse of an infantryman in the 31st MEU currently headed towards Iran. With her permission we are sharing some details of the conversation 👇

[Hank Linderman for Congress KY-02 @hank4ky]

There is an alternative to all of the division...

[Sheila of the Most High @sheilatebra]

Just read this beautiful story 😭❤

I live in a 12-unit apartment building. For two years, I didn't know a single neighbor.
We'd pass in the hallway. Nod. Maybe say "hey." Then disappear into our separate lives.
That was normal. That was city living.
Then someone new moved into Unit 3.
Her name was Diana. She was maybe 70, recently widowed, moving to be closer to her daughter.
The first week, she knocked on every door in the building.
"Hi, I'm Diana from Unit 3. Just wanted to introduce myself."
Most people were polite but brief. We weren't used to this.
But Diana didn't take the hint.
The next week, she left a note in the lobby: "Building potluck. This Saturday. 6 PM. Bring whatever you want. Or just bring yourself."
I almost didn't go.
But Saturday came, and I could hear voices in the lobby.
Five people showed up. Out of twelve units. We stood around awkwardly at first.
Diana had made enough food for twenty people. "Just in case," she said, smiling.
We talked. Actual conversations.
Turned out the guy in Unit 7 was a musician. The woman in Unit 10 just had a baby. The couple in Unit 5 ran a bakery.
We'd lived on top of each other for years and knew nothing about each other.
Diana made it a monthly thing.
Then someone suggested a building group chat. "For emergencies," they said.
But it became more than that.
"Anyone have a ladder I can borrow?"
"I made too much soup. Anyone want some?"
"Can someone feed my cat this weekend?"
When the woman in Unit 10 had to go back to work, three neighbors offered to babysit.
When the musician in Unit 7 had a gig, eight of us showed up to support him.
When someone's car got towed, four people offered rides.
Last month, Diana's daughter called me. Diana had fallen and was in the hospital—nothing serious, but she'd need help for a few weeks.
We created a schedule. Someone brought her meals every day. Someone else took her to appointments.
She cried when she came home and saw the system we'd built.
"I just wanted to know my neighbors," she said.
But she did more than that.
She turned twelve strangers in separate boxes into a community that shows up for each other.
All because she knocked on doors and refused to let us stay isolated.

[Hank Linderman for Congress KY-02 @hank4ky]

@ndduncan59 @fopminui The Table, in the Portland neighborhood. Wonderful food (farm to table!), wonderful people. Nice work John and Dorthea! https://t.co/Xb3RcXUiee

[Hank Linderman for Congress KY-02 @hank4ky]

Tell you what, President Trump: give back all of the money you and your family have questionably *acquired* during your time in office, & you, your entire family & your political accomplices can be pardoned. Oh - & part of the deal is none of you can ever run for office again.

[Hank Linderman for Congress KY-02 @hank4ky]

If Donald Trump can run for a 3rd term, so can Obama.

[Hank Linderman for Congress KY-02 @hank4ky]

@bungarsargon Hi Batya - not sure you're the correct person to explain why the "No Kings" rally was held and what the "The Left™" was protesting. It would be as valid as me explaining your actions as I sharpened my axe. Rs criticisms of Ds or "The Left™" have very little value: & Vice Versa!

[Hank Linderman for Congress KY-02 @hank4ky]

To those who believe it didn't happen, what would your response be if you believed it did?

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Israel tortured and sexually humiliated Greta Thunberg.

Some excerpts from her interview with the Swedish paper Aftonblatet:

"They grab me, pull me to the ground, and throw an Israeli flag over me."

"They dragged me to the opposite side from where the others were sitting, and I had the flag around me the whole time. They hit and kicked me."

"They moved me very brutally to a corner that I was turned towards. ‘A special place for a special lady’, they said. And then they had learned ‘Lilla hora’ (Little whore) and ‘Hora Greta’ (Whore Greta) in Swedish, which they repeated all the time."

In the corner where Greta was sitting, the police placed a flag.
"The flag was placed so that it would touch me. When it fluttered and touched me, they shouted ‘Don’t touch the flag’ and kicked me in the side. After a while, my hands were tied with cable ties, very tightly. A bunch of guards lined up to take selfies with me while I was sitting like that."

"They were thrown to the ground and beaten. But I could only see it out of the corner of my eye, because every time I lifted my head from the ground, I was kicked by the guard standing next to me."

Greta was then taken into a building to be searched and undressed. "The guards have no empathy or humanity, and they keep taking selfies with me. There’s a lot I don’t remember. So much is happening at once. You’re in shock. You’re in pain, but you go into a state of trying to stay calm."

Outside, she was forced to take off her clothes again, she says. "It was mockery, rough handling, and everything was filmed. Everything they do is extremely violent."

"It was so hot, like 40 degrees. We begged the whole time: Can we have water? Can we have water? In the end, we screamed. The guards walked in front of the bars the whole time, laughing and holding up their water bottles. They threw the bottles with water in them into the trash cans in front of us."

"When people fainted, we banged on the cages and asked for a doctor. Then the guards came and said, ‘We’re going to gas you.’ It was standard for them to say that."

"This shows that if Israel, with the whole world watching, can treat a well-known, white person with a Swedish passport this way, just imagine what they do to Palestinians behind closed doors."

Thunberg says the Swedish government greatly downplayed the abuse she and her fellow Sumud Flotilla activists suffered, and wouldn't even bring them water.

"We were together and told them about the treatment we received. About the lack of food, water, about the abuse. The torture. We showed them the physical injuries we had – bruises and scratches. We gave them all our contact details – I gave them my father's number and the number of our contact in the organization. We were clear: everything we say now must be released to the media."

"They didn’t do anything, they just said: ’Our job is to listen to you. We are here and you are entitled to consular support.’"

"We said over and over again: we need water. And they saw that the guards had water bottles. The embassy staff said: ’We’ll make a note of that.’ One of us, Vincent, said: ’Next time we meet you, you must bring water.’

Then it took two days before the embassy staff showed up again.

"They didn't bring any water, except for a small bottle of their own that was half empty. Vincent, who was in the worst shape, got to drink it. We kept asking the guards, 'Can we have some water?' but they just walked around with their water bottles and didn't answer."

"I said, 'Are you going to leave us like this? If you leave now, they will beat us up.' But they just kept walking."

When Aftonbladet compares emails sent by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to relatives, with what the captives describe telling embassy staff, it becomes clear that the seriousness of the situation has been downplayed.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs describes the scene at the port, where Greta Thunberg was beaten for hours, as follows: “She told us about harsh treatment and that she had been sitting on a hard surface for a long time.”

On Saturday, several media outlets published testimonies that Greta had been subjected to torture.

Aftonbladet has spoken to three other members of the flotilla who largely confirm what Greta Thunberg says and who have all experienced various types of abuse and humiliation. We have also spoken to relatives. Everyone is highly critical of how the Swedish embassy staff acted.

[Hank Linderman for Congress KY-02 @hank4ky]

It's a lot easier to be a jerk online than in the real world.

[Calm_Dr 🩺 @Bezeley_MBChB]

@AMAZlNGNATURE Arguing online vs in person 👀

[Hank Linderman for Congress KY-02 @hank4ky]

Mommy - what was Earth like before robots?

[Jordan Crowder @digijordan]

This $90,000 personal robot went berserk and tried to kill its creator.

The developer, Unitree, said it’s due to ‘imperfect coding’.

The future is gonna get weird…

[Hank Linderman for Congress KY-02 @hank4ky]

If there were a button that ended AI forever I would push it without any hesitation.

[Hank Linderman for Congress KY-02 @hank4ky]

This is good - even Rs are getting sick of this BS. Being real, they are the only ones who can stop it at the moment - unless / until we're ready for a national strike. Just sayin'...

https://t.co/BWiO4hu8EB

[Hank Linderman for Congress KY-02 @hank4ky]

It's getting close to time to talk about a national strike.

[Hank Linderman for Congress KY-02 @hank4ky]

If efficiency were truly the goal, it would be done very differently, but the goal is breaking parts of the government in order to create opportunities for profit and power.

This is a very dangerous moment for our country.

[Hank Linderman for Congress KY-02 @hank4ky]

This is a government takeover by a cabal of billionaires.
https://t.co/wDMx0T0oIR

[Hank Linderman for Congress KY-02 @hank4ky]

When things are going your way it's a good time to be generous.

[Hank Linderman for Congress KY-02 @hank4ky]

Has hell frozen over???

[Matt Jones @KySportsRadio]

I am not laughing…I am just surprised that it’s happening. Kelsey and this UL team deserve fan support and a full house. They are good

And as for the last sentence, you are correct…Thankfully

[Hank Linderman for Congress KY-02 @hank4ky]

We Dems are overdue for a deep self examination, from top to bottom. Clinging to the past ain't gonna' work... https://t.co/GUdut8HiAH

[Hank Linderman for Congress KY-02 @hank4ky]

Wow, this decade is turning out to be as exciting as the 60's... https://t.co/tERATXBFaD

[Hank Linderman for Congress KY-02 @hank4ky]

Shout out to Braver Angels...

https://t.co/9YDjOPzVSb