Jamie Vernaelde

Moved to Blue Sky.

[Symone D. Sanders Townsend @SymoneDSanders]

5 minutes of Mehdi Hasan worth your time

[Arnold Schwarzenegger @Schwarzenegger]

I don’t really do endorsements. I’m not shy about sharing my views, but I hate politics and don’t trust most politicians.

I also understand that people want to hear from me because I am not just a celebrity, I am a former Republican Governor.

My time as Governor taught me to love policy and ignore politics. I’m proud of the work I did to help clean up our air, create jobs, balance the budget, make the biggest infrastructure investment in state history, and take power from the politicians and give it back to the people when it comes to our redistricting process and our primaries in California.

That’s policy. It requires working with the other side, not insulting them to win your next election, and I know it isn’t sexy to most people, but I love it when I can help make people’s lives better with policies, like I still do through my institute at USC, where we fight for clean air and stripping the power from the politicians who rig the system against the people.

Let me be honest with you: I don’t like either party right now. My Republicans have forgotten the beauty of the free market, driven up deficits, and rejected election results. Democrats aren’t any better at dealing with deficits, and I worry about their local policies hurting our cities with increased crime.

It is probably not a surprise that I hate politics more than ever, which, if you are a normal person who isn’t addicted to this crap, you probably understand.

I want to tune out.

But I can’t. Because rejecting the results of an election is as un-American as it gets. To someone like me who talks to people all over the world and still knows America is the shining city on a hill, calling America is a trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me furious.

And I will always be an American before I am a Republican.

That’s why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.

I’m sharing it with all of you because I think there are a lot of you who feel like I do. You don’t recognize our country. And you are right to be furious.

For decades, we’ve talked about the national debt. For decades, we’ve talked about comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border while fixing our broken immigration system. And Washington does nothing.

The problems just keep rolling, and we all keep getting angrier, because the only people that benefit from problems aren’t you, the people. The only people that benefit from this crap are the politicians who prefer having talking points to win elections to the public service that will make Americans’ lives better.

It is a just game to them. But it is life for my fellow Americans. We should be pissed!

But a candidate who won’t respect your vote unless it is for him, a candidate who will send his followers to storm the Capitol while he watches with a Diet Coke, a candidate who has shown no ability to work to pass any policy besides a tax cut that helped his donors and other rich people like me but helped no one else else, a candidate who thinks Americans who disagree with him are the bigger enemies than China, Russia, or North Korea - that won’t solve our problems.

It will just be four more years of bullshit with no results that makes us angrier and angrier, more divided, and more hateful.

We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that former President Trump won’t do that. He will divide, he will insult, he will find new ways to be more un-American than he already has been, and we, the people, will get nothing but more anger.

That’s enough reason for me to share my vote with all of you. I want to move forward as a country, and even though I have plenty of disagreements with their platform, I think the only way to do that is with Harris and Walz.

Vote this week. Turn the page and put this junk behind us.

And even if you disagree with me, vote, because that’s what we do as Americans. https://t.co/eHFZ723I4H

[ProPublica @propublica]

New: Josseli Barnica is one of at least two pregnant Texas women who died after doctors delayed emergency care. She'd told her husband that the medical team said it couldn't act until the fetal heartbeat stopped. https://t.co/8qxo6obNP4

[Garnet Henderson garnethenderson.com on Bluesky @garnethenderson]

A new report out today from @PregnancyJust finds that, in the first year after Dobbs, 210 pregnant people faced criminal charges related to pregnancy, birth, or pregnancy loss.

This is the largest single-year number ever, and almost certainly still an undercount.

[Esther Martinez @reclaim_esther]

This is no ordinary photo. It was taken at an @AtlanticCouncil gala, where Musk presented Meloni with the Global Citizen Award. In the past, it was usually Putin’s Russia that hosted gatherings where those who target LGBTQIA+ communities and women’s rights found their funders. The Atlantic Council likely didn’t even realize they’ve become useful idiots in this dangerous game.

[Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon]

Imagine the same article twenty years ago about Jean-Marie Le Pen

No serious media would have dared asking 'should we be worried' considering the politics and past of both the leader and party

[@DRJessieNYC 🇵🇸 @JessieNYC]

#NiceWhiteLadies making the far right more palatable for mainstream audiences

[Atlantic Council @AtlanticCouncil]

President of the Council of Ministers of the 🇮🇹 Italian Republic @GiorgiaMeloni will receive an Atlantic Council Global Citizen Award for her strong support of the EU and her becoming the first female prime minister of Italy. #GCA2024 #ACAwards

Sign up to watch the broadcast on October 3: ➡️ https://t.co/bTFClVkRdj

[Randy Rainbow @RandyRainbow]

JD, JD, gurl you’re shady. 🎶😽🛋️💖 #JDJDMarriedLady #NewVideo #Parody

[Jamie Vernaelde @jmvernaelde]

#Project2025 and the anti-climate crowd and the anti-LGBTQ bigots with a dash of corporate gluttony, who'd have imagined it? https://t.co/iBLX2qD2Yl

[The Brookings Institution @BrookingsInst]

More from Rachel M. Perera, @JonValant, and @katharinemeyer: https://t.co/lp4uQT2vu6

[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: More than 100 pregnant women were turned away from ERs or negligently treated since 2022, an AP analysis finds. https://t.co/kJo7QjWYrO

[Rep. Ted Lieu @RepTedLieu]

Project 2025 is the super creepy plan to take over the federal government written by Trump’s closest allies at the Heritage Foundation. Even creepier? Their secret 180-day action plan.

Joined @RepPressley & @RepHuffman on a letter to Heritage calling for release of the plan. ⬇️

[Tarah Demant @tarahdemant]

🧵How is #abortion a #humanright? Well, buckle-up, buttercup, it's a LONG list. You can or read all about it in @amnestyusa new research https://t.co/FbxoHcV9iz or catch the highlights below ⬇️

[Rewire News Group @RewireNewsGroup]

1/ Through Project 2025, conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation is trying to overhaul U.S. policy and government by combining conservative ideas with more radical ones.

https://t.co/C2dba710qO

[The New Republic @newrepublic]

TNR has obtained J.D. Vance's foreword for the upcoming book by Project 2025 leader Kevin Roberts. Read it here.

https://t.co/BJLkNE8lHc

[Jamie Vernaelde @jmvernaelde]

#Project2025 author Kevin Roberts in his book: rails against #BirthControl, #IVF & #abortion; says having children should not be considered an “optional individual choice”; & labels reproductive choice methods as a “snake strangling the American family.” Cool cool cool.

[Media Matters @mmfa]

We have obtained a galley copy of Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts’ forthcoming book, Dawn’s Early Light: Taking Back Washington To Save America https://t.co/GZfW6pMXi5

[Media Matters @mmfa]

We have obtained a galley copy of Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts’ forthcoming book, Dawn’s Early Light: Taking Back Washington To Save America https://t.co/GZfW6pMXi5

[Center for Reproductive Rights @ReproRights]

What the anti-abortion movement wants you to think bans do vs.
what they ACTUALLY do: