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[Open Minded Approach @OMApproach]

300,000 years of humans.
Only 6,000 years of civilization?

That math only works if something keeps hitting reset.

This is that something.

→ It's how house-sized boulders ended up hundreds of miles from their source
→ It's why Alaska's frozen muck is packed with shattered animals and splintered trees, buried together
→ It's why an entire continent, Antarctica, has been locked under treaty since 1959

Einstein took it seriously enough to write the foreword to the book about it.

Then, from the 1970s on: silence.

Today the richest people on Earth are quietly building bunkers.

What do they know that you don't?

[James F. Love IV @JamesFLoveIV]

Due to cuts in funding, Medicaid will no longer provide transportation to medical appointments over 30 miles for 100% disabled clients in Ohio.
Rural Ohio Medicaid clients can no longer get to OSU appointments in Columbus.

[Sassiest Minx in Minnesota 💚 🇺🇸 @SassiestMinx]

🚨‼️DEMOCRATS, PLEASE LEARN HOW IMPEACHMENT WORKS BEFORE LOSING YOUR COLLECTIVE MINDS. 🚨‼️

My feed is overflowing with outrage about yesterday's Hegseth “impeachment vote”. Unfortunately, much of that outrage is based on misinformation and a fundamental misunderstanding of congressional procedure.

WE DID NOT LOSE “THE” IMPEACHMENT VOTE. WE LOST A PROCEDURAL VOTE ON ARTICLES THAT, IN MY OPINION, WERE WEAK, SLOPPY, AND INADEQUATELY SUPPORTED BY EVIDENCE. THERE WAS NEVER GOING TO BE A VOTE TO ACTUALLY IMPEACH HEGSETH YESTERDAY, FOLKS. YOU GOT IT WRONG.

First: In the world of Congress, what does it mean to REFER something? In this case, it means sending Massie's impeachment resolution to the House Judiciary Committee for consideration. It does NOT mean referring Hegseth for impeachment, approving the articles, or voting then & there to impeach him. The committee can review the resolution, take further action, or simply let it sit without advancing it.

HERE'S WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED:
- The House did NOT vote to impeach Hegseth. They were never going to yesterday, folks. Republicans moved to REFER Massie's impeachment resolution to the Judiciary Committee. That motion passed 211–204.
- YES, 11 Democrats were absent. Seven Republicans also did not vote. Had all 18 members voted along party lines, THE REFERRAL TO COMMITTEE WOULD HAVE STILL PASSED 218–215. Had only the 11 Democrats voted against referral, it would have failed 211–215. Both scenarios matter, and neither would have impeached Hegseth.
- Defeating referral could have opened the door to a vote on the actual articles. It would NOT have guaranteed one. Republicans had other procedural options, including moving to table the resolution, which they would've done IMMEDIATELY.
- Even if an impeachment vote had occurred, Massie was the ONLY Republican to vote against referral. There was no demonstrated Republican coalition sufficient to impeach Hegseth.
- Before accusing absent Democrats of sabotage, consider that some were ill, others had the flu, and Rep. Melanie Stansbury & several others were reportedly prevented from reaching the Capitol by a major traffic accident. And please stop treating unverified AIPAC happy-hour rumors as established facts. You know better.

NOW, LET'S TALK ABOUT MASSIE.
Massie admitted he didn't whip votes. He introduced 8 articles of impeachment WITHOUT first building a comprehensive evidentiary record through committee investigations, hearings, subpoenas, EVIDENCE, or sworn testimony. Remember how the Trump DOJ slaps together filings which read like an Op Eds but have very little evidence or weak legal merit? Yah, that’s what happened here.

In my opinion, several articles also raise serious legal and evidentiary questions. Allegations are not proof, and impressive-sounding legal language doesn't necessarily make for a strong impeachment case. His articles were not supported by a comprehensive investigative record (emails, texts, videos, witness testimony, reports, written legal advice from JAG, recordings, etc.). There was no true evidentiary record!

Was Massie's resolution constitutionally permissible? Absolutely. But he could have written those exact articles on notebook paper and turned them in like answers to an essay question, and they still could have been constitutionally permissible. That's a pretty low bar.

Was it a serious, coordinated strategy with a realistic path to impeachment? I don't believe so. I consider it political theater. IMO, y'all should be irate with Massie and not all Dems. Your anger is misplaced.

However! I do understand the anger over the principle. Democrats campaigned on fighting corruption, and 11 members missing that first opportunity is frustrating. Bad optics, absolutely. But, IMO, folks are giving Massie and his articles WAAAAAAAAAAAY too much credit and weight and not asking the right questions.

AND HERE'S THE BIGGER PICTURE:
Democrats are preparing to take control of the House in January. They will have the opportunity to conduct investigations, subpoena witnesses & records, gather evidence, hold public hearings, and build carefully constructed articles of impeachment.

THAT is the kind of accountability I want. I want evidence uncovered that can be used in other investigations and proceedings. I want evidence that exposes the involvement of others. I want FULL transparency and accountability that extends beyond one individual. I want devastating and incriminating evidence shown to the world, including the UN, NATO and ICC.

And for those demanding transparency while furious about yesterday, ask yourselves what you actually want: instant gratification (or instant disappointment in this instance) from a rushed procedural vote to vote on impeachment that WAS NEVER GOING TO PASS YESTERDAY IN THE FIRST PLACE, or a thorough investigation that follows the evidence wherever it leads?

So please stop attacking fellow Democrats based on assumptions, rumors, ignorance, righteous indignation and procedural misunderstandings. You are falling for the "divide and conquer" strategy hook, line & sinker.

That being said, would you all be interested in an IMPEACHMENT PRIMER explaining how impeachment actually works, including the procedural maneuvers used to advance, delay, or kill it?

Because judging by my feed this morning, we desperately need one.

[greg @mistergeezy]

I feel this message from a 6-year-old exchange with Whoopi Goldberg and Hasan Minhaj resonates today, following the Democrats' historic midterm victory.

[HustleBitch @HustleBitch_]

🚨 THIS MAN TOOK A SIGNAL SCANNER INTO WALMART… AND WHAT HE DISCOVERED HAS PEOPLE TERRIFIED

A man walked into Walmart with a wireless scanner to find out what was happening around shoppers phones, and what he uncovered is seriously disturbing.

His scanner lit up with signals from AirTags, Tile trackers, Meta smart glasses, and other wireless devices.

His device flagged multiple Wi-Fi disruption events, with attempts to interfere with shoppers wireless connections.

And he believes unsuspecting customers are putting their personal information at risk simply by connecting to store Wi-Fi.

Are you being watched and tracked every time we walk into Walmart without even realizing it?

[Willie Ross Jr. Knee Deep @RossKneeDeep]

Mississippi is like, where there's a will, there's a way.

We ain't gonna make it easy.

🔵 Colom: 469,406
🔴 Hyde-Smith: 466,585

[👑 Mr. Weeks 👑 @WonderKing82]

Anti Blackness and colorism is when AOC hasn't accomplished a motherafucking thijg in congress and y'all calling on her to be Speaker when Lauren Underwood is out here passing legislation under republican leadership. Y'all don't vibe with hard workers but y'all love loose mouths.

[⚖️ Mind blown by the insanity✍🏾 @illusions017]

@atownsquare @cwebbonline Boo hoo! Rich kid issues! 🙄

[⚖️ Mind blown by the insanity✍🏾 @illusions017]

@eddsmitty Thank you!

[Iran Military News ☫ 🎒 @IranMilitaryEN]

Wait for the final round

[Willie Ross Jr. Knee Deep @RossKneeDeep]

It's crazy to believe that we had the measles virus/disease solved until two years ago, when we let a person with zero medical training or knowledge take over our Heath Department. Now, the measles is running rampant.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This is how a stonemason cuts a perfect circle by hand

[🔨 addythebaddy34]

[Melanie King @realmelanieking]

🚨BREAKING: Scott Colom just WON Madison county. Which means he WON the election by an even bigger margin.

Just like I said when I did the math on election night and now they dragging it.

Cindy Hyde Smith is so terrible even republicans voted for him. Absolute clownery 🤡😂

[Open Minded Approach @OMApproach]

In 1985, Michio Kushi stood at a chalkboard and told his students what Earth really is.

Not a home. A factory.

"Each planet, including this Earth, is the place of spiritual manufacturing."

In his teaching, the spiral of the universe condenses spirit into planets, and planets exist for one purpose: to grow souls. As plants, as animals, as humans. When a soul matures, it is "born" out of this world into a far bigger one.

Then he said the part nobody talks about.

Humanity forgot why it is here. So the harvest has started.

Nuclear death, he said, doesn't just kill the body. It deletes the soul's passage to the next world. No ghost. No reincarnation. Only a wave.

And he tied it straight to the Gospel: at the end of the age, "harvest time comes," and the souls that didn't mature are thrown into the fire.

His words: that time has now begun.

[⚖️ Mind blown by the insanity✍🏾 @illusions017]

@CundiffVanessa

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

They called Huawei a national security threat.

They called TikTok a national security threat.

They called the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank a national security threat.

They called a Chinese balloon a national security threat.

At some point the category loses its meaning.

Not because China has no interests or poses no competition.

But because "national security threat" has become the specific vocabulary American power uses when it wants to eliminate competition without making an economic argument it can win.

[Willie Ross Jr. Knee Deep @RossKneeDeep]

Let's not forget that farmers voted to put themselves out of business.

Why should the rest of us have to pay for your stupidity with our tax dollars?

[Dr. Allison Wiltz @queenie4rmnola]

"To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a state of rage almost, almost all of the time — and in one's work. And part of the rage is this. It isn't only what is happening to you. But it's what's happening all around you and all of the time in the face of the most extraordinary and criminal indifference, indifference of most white people in this country, and their ignorance." --James Baldwin

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

The Bernie Bros are doing exactly what many of us predicted. They’re turning on AOC.

The moment AOC showed any willingness to compromise or move toward the middle in any one issue, they turned on her. Because ideological purity matters more to them than getting shit done. If you don’t agree with them 100%, you’re the enemy.

Many of us have been on the receiving end of this for years, but it’s quite something to watch them do it to AOC.

[Scott Colom @scott_colom]

At some point, we have to talk about @CookPolitical and other “prognosticators” who had me and other southern candidates labeled as solid R for much of the campaign cycle. They made it much more difficult to fundraise and are part of the reason the South has been neglected for so long.

They’re only a reflection of the past and mysteriously avoid any accountability when they’re wrong. One of their “analysts” was extremely condescending to me (not Jessica) when I tried to make my pitch for why they were wrong about my rating like he knew something about MS politics when he’s never been to the Sip. This attitude hurt Jaime Davis & others so much.