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joe mama ... angie daddy

[nah fam @johnnah2000]

Dear friends, I've become increasingly disillusioned with Twitter as new ownership replatforms hate speech and bends the algorithm to boost far-right content. I think it's only going to get worse. I'll be spending less time here. I'm on https://t.co/eLkRGxv23y using my real name.

[nah fam @johnnah2000]

Update: After 1.5 years of pushing 🐳 as a twitter alternative, I see a critical mass of everyone I used to follow here now on 🔵🌤.
Find us all there. ✌️

[nah fam @johnnah2000]

Dear friends, I've become increasingly disillusioned with Twitter as new ownership replatforms hate speech and bends the algorithm to boost far-right content. I think it's only going to get worse. I'll be spending less time here. I'm on https://t.co/eLkRGxv23y using my real name.

[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

2. 13 things everyone should know about Pete Hegseth, Trump's nominee for Secretary of Defense

https://t.co/iEZRb3sxvn

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next.

I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @TimothyDSnyder.
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https://t.co/AHqpZpofIL

[CBS Sunday Morning 🌞 @CBSSunday]

Over the past six years, the parents of school shooting victims opened their doors to CBS News’ Steve Hartman and photographer Lou Bopp, inviting them to see what it’s like to live alongside their children’s bedrooms, just as they left them. https://t.co/2K0LdBYh9P

[Wendy Hasson MD @WendyHassonMD]

Have you ever watched a baby die of pertussis? I have. Several.

This is what it looks like:
A newborn baby can’t stop coughing. They can’t catch their breath and they can’t eat. They get dehydrated and stop peeing. They sometimes have pauses in their breathing. Parents are terrified so they come to the ER.

In the ER, labs show they have a dangerously high white blood cell count. Their blood has become thick from the white blood cells and doesn’t travel through organs like it should. Less oxygen gets delivered to vital organs. They start to seize. Imaging reveals they had a stroke. They can’t pump blood to their lungs and body.

A breathing tube gets placed in their trachea. They get put on a ventilator. A plastic catheter is placed in their veins and arteries to give them medicine and measure blood pressure.

If they are lucky, they can make it to a #PedsICU that provides #ECMO, or full heart lung bypass. They are attached to machines that take over all their body functions.

But it’s too late. Their hands and feet turn black because they can’t perfuse their bodies. Their faces turn grey/green. They won’t stop seizing from the brain injury.

They are attached to too many machines to hold while alive and parents lay their bodies on top of them and cry until they fall asleep then cry again.

There is nothing to do but stop the machines. Antibiotics to treat pertussis were given but were no match for the infections effects on a newborn baby.

Parents finally hold their baby after the machines have turned off and their baby is cold and lifeless.

Is this what you want? This is what RFK Jr will bring to American families.

[Tristan Snell @TristanSnell]

RFK Jr. went to Samoa in June 2018, spreading anti-vax disinfo and boosting a local anti-vaxxer

In November 2018, Samoa had a huge measles outbreak, exacerbated by anti-vax disinfo

83 people died - mostly children

How many American children are about to die because of RFK Jr.?

[Julia Davis @JuliaDavisNews]

By popular demand, here is my original translated clip from 2022, where Tulsi Gabbard was perturbed about alleged US attempts to overthrow Putin. State TV host Vladimir Solovyov described Tulsi as their "girlfriend" and agreed that she is Putin's agent.
https://t.co/tED373UvuY

[nah fam @johnnah2000]

I'm convinced that the Gaetz nomination is outrage-bait, a smokescreen meant to distract us from the other news that he's nominated Tulsi Gabbard, a person many intel experts believe to be a full-fledged Russian asset as DNI.
#TulsiSoPutiCanSeeAllOurSecrets

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Sen Mullin on Gaetz: “When he was accused of sleeping with an underage girl, there’s a reason why no one in the conference defended him. We all saw videos he was showing us on the House floor of girls he slept with & brag how he would crush ED medicine so he could go all night.”

[nah fam @johnnah2000]

@JaneMayerNYer I like Spoutible. Good content moderation. Supportive community. No waitlist or invite necessary to subscribe. It also helps that the owner is not a complete douchebag.

[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

On November 10, 1898, a shocking coup was executed in Wilmington, North Carolina, as white mobs led by former Confederate Colonel Alfred Moore Waddell overthrew the city’s elected biracial government and massacred 60 or more Black men. https://t.co/Ev3QwhoU5f

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

Lesson 1: Do not obey in advance.
Thread of lessons from my book #OnTyranny. Written in 2016.

[Ethics in Bricks @EthicsInBricks]

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing."
- Edmund Burke

[nah fam @johnnah2000]

I voted for the candidate that did not foment an insurrection after losing a free and fair election four years ago.

[Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸 @NickKnudsenUS]

I have a confession and a plea to folks who are flirting with voting Jill Stein.

When I was a 20 year old college student in 2000, I voted for Ralph Nader instead of Al Gore. I loved the progressive message Nader offered, and Bush and Gore seemed kinda the same to someone who was paying peripheral attention.

I've regretted that vote for my entire adult life.

Ultimately, George Bush won by a margin of 500+ votes in the state of Florida over Gore. And that was the ballgame. Ralph Nader peeled 97,000+ votes away from Gore. If only 600 of those 90,000 had voted for the major party candidate that more aligned with their values, things would have been very different.

When I was in my senior year of college, 9/11 happened. The country and western world rallied around Bush's resolute response to the traumatizing terror attacks. I was in NY at the time, and it was a terrifying moment for the nation.

But the consequences of Bush being in office at that moment were immense.

Bush's disdain for his dad's nemesis, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, led him to invent a rationale to invade a country that literally had nothing to do with 9/11. End result? He killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqi people, thousands of American troops, and spent over a trillion dollars of taxpayer money in the process.

Beyond the completely immoral and indefensible Iraq War, Bush was a complete disaster as a president. His "No Child Left Behind" effort turned public schools into standardized testing centers. He tripled down on fossil fuels and ignored climate change. His tax cuts for the rich helped contribute to the 2008 economic downturn that led to the Great Recession.

He was a terrible president.

In an alternate reality, Al Gore would have been president in 2001 when terrorists attacked America. Would he have gone into Iraq? Absolutely not. Would he have ignored global warming? 100% no! Gore was perhaps the preeminent proponent of fighting climate change at that time. Would he have passed massive tax cuts for the wealthy? No way.

This is a sliding doors scenario. What would have happened? We can't be sure. But one thing is for sure: those votes for Ralph Nader (in Florida in particular) were EXCEPTIONALLY consequential for the lives of millions around the world. Gore would have offered a more forward-facing, environmentally conscious & peaceful presidency that wasn't so rooted in grievance and privilege.

My point is:

Either Kamala Harris or Donald Trump will win the election. That is a fact. You might feel the need to submit a "protest vote" as I did in 2000.

Just be ready to wear it when Donald Trump wins, strips away reproductive rights from all Americans, implements an economy-destroying tariff, dismantles the entire federal government, eliminates the Department of Education, prosecutes his perceived enemies, and devolves America into chaos.

There are no perfect choices. But rest assured, there are only two.

Trust me - I've been wearing my vote for a quarter century.

[nah fam @johnnah2000]

@WUTangKids Maxim?

[Rick Steves @RickSteves]

A century ago, Germany’s democracy was hijacked by a bombastic and charismatic tyrant — and in this five-minute video, you’ll learn how he did it. Why did I produce this? Because I believe that history is speaking to us, and all too often, those who refuse to learn from it are doomed to repeat it.

As you watch, imagine filling out a Bingo card filled with Germany 1933/USA 2024 parallels: big rallies, rage-filled and hateful rhetoric, simple answers promising quick and easy solutions to complicated problems, empty promises of a great-again future, scapegoating outsiders, and political enemies silenced on day one. And notice the caring wisdom and concern from my German friends as they share these lessons from their dark history.

It’s hard to understand how Trump could, on the eve of a tight election, paint a picture of Liz Cheney before a firing squad by actually saying, “Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, OK? And let’s see how she feels about it when the guns are trained on her face.” You can’t get into the mind of a dictator with an insatiable appetite for power — but you can recognize the playbook they all seem to follow.

Just watch this clip. It’s excerpted from my hourlong public television special “The Story of Fascism in Europe,” which is streaming free (and ad-free) at https://t.co/YA10kVH0V8. If you care about our democracy and love our country, it’s hard to stop watching.

When I produced this in 2018, I hoped this day would never come in our country. But November 5th is upon us. Please share this with anyone in your life who might need a reminder that the stakes are high...and this is very real.

[nah fam @johnnah2000]

@GeorgiaFootball @Cash3Jones 💵💰

[nah fam @johnnah2000]

@Phil_Lewis_

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

Today’s conviction of a former Kentucky detective for his role in the raid that took #BreonnaTaylor’s life is a long-awaited moment of accountability. While it cannot restore Breonna to her family, it represents a crucial step in the pursuit of justice and a reminder that no one should be above the law. Breonna’s life mattered, and her legacy is a call to keep pushing for a system that values every life equally.

Let us keep pressing forward—until justice, dignity, and safety are a reality for all.

#JusticeForBreonna #Accountability #SayHerName