Larry Smith

Executive Director, IIB Association Group - Certified Association Executive and attorney specializing in association management and leadership

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

Imagine this even being a question a decade ago

[Sherrod Brown @SherrodBrown]

Jon Husted looked this mother in the eye, and promised he wouldn't vote to cut her daughter's health care.

One week later, that's exactly what he did.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨HOLY SHIT: Trump suggests every American who is struggling to pay bills is LYING:

“Costs are coming way down. The food, the groceries, it's all coming down. I think we should be given an A+ on the economy.”

Republicans are going to be demolished in the midterms.

#BlueWavein90Days

[Pedro L. Gonzalez @emeriticus]

I think if you're talking about what comes closer to fascism, a better candidate would be masked federal agents executing American citizens in public and then being defended by a president and vice president who ensure that no investigation is launched to hold them accountable and then gloating about their deaths.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

The crime of the century.

10/7/16, 12:30PM ET: Jeffrey Epstein, Peter Thiel, Russian UN Amb. Vitaly Churkin meet at Epstein’s house
3:30PM: Obama’s ODNI announces Wikileaks dumps are “Russian-directed”
4:03PM: Access Hollywood tape released
4:30PM: Wikileaks releases first of 34 Podesta dumps

As detailed in the Mueller report, 600 Russians directed by Prigozhin’s Internet Research Agency were flooding social media with anti-Hillary propaganda. One of the most prolific was “TEN_GOP”.

Thiel funded “MAGA3X” a covert group set up to run psychological operations in the campaign. Soon-to-be incoming NSA Mike Flynn tweeted the hashtag over 50 times and mentioned it constantly on Trump’s campaign. Flynn also explicitly told people to “add” and “RT frequently” the Russian account “TEN_GOP.”

MAGA3X operatives went on to run psyops using the GRU-hacked. “PodestaEmails” including the horrific “Pizzagate” campaign which projected the crimes of Epstein and Trump onto Hillary. Flynn family friend Jack Posobiec targeted a pizza restaurant, which was subsequently shot up by a gunman with an AR-15.

This was a coordinated takedown of the most qualified person to ever run for president by a foreign government in direct collusion with Americans, including Mike Flynn, Peter Thiel and child rapist Jeffrey Epstein.

I will never forgive and I will never forget.

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

Seems like Governor Sherrill is handling this exactly how you'd want her to -- transparency, correcting errors, taking steps to prevent similar mistakes from happening again.

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

PURE EVIL

Stephen Miller’s worldview in one video clip.

"I think the ideal solution would be to cut off their fingers. I don't think it's necessary to kill them entirely. We're not a barbaric people. We respect life. Therefore, torture is the way to go. Because tortured people can live. Torture is a celebration of life and human dignity."

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Meta used AI to target workers with medical conditions for layoffs, according to a new lawsuit.

Twenty-six former Meta employees are suing, accusing the company of using AI that disproportionately targeted people with disabilities or workers who took medical leave in selecting people ​for mass layoffs.

https://t.co/iMKXjhkzV1

[Paola Poot @PootDibou]

There was a full manual tally then Trump asked for recount. All the ballots were scanned again.

Trump lost Fulton County three times.

[tim russ @timruss2]

Yeah. Gotta make sure those minorities aren’t recognized for their contributions to the country.

[MJTruthUltra @MJTruthUltra]

Umm… excuse me?

Ben-Gvir, Israel’s Minister of National Security (key member of Netanyahu’s coalition) says President Trump is NOT ALLOWED to make a deal with Iran

He was asked about a potential “bad agreement” with Iran “like the one that Trump” [might negotiate]. He responded:

“A bad agreement for the State of Israel can harm human life… I know that Prime Minister Netanyahu and all of us as members of the cabinet… as the government of Israel cannot allow this to happen… This is an agreement that can harm the state of Israel, and we will not allow this to happen.”

Who the hell does he think he is?

https://t.co/1Z4djOKkzV

[Eric Michael Garcia @EricMGarcia]

Among the material pulled from the Holocaust Museum's website were teaching materials about the parallels between Nazism and Jim Crow and a conversation between a Holocaust Survivor and a woman whose father was lynched in Alabama.

[Washingtonian 🌸 @washingtonian]

Many Washington Post readers have been notified via email that their subscription rates are set to increase. Nestled at the bottom of these emails, you’ll find an asterisk and the following: “This price was set by an algorithm using your personal data.”
https://t.co/YD8FHgQla3

[Joe Regalia @writedotlaw]

Justice Kagan’s opinion in FCC v. Consumers’ Research is a masterclass in handling complex doctrine, pushback from the lower courts, and high-stakes consequences—with rigorous, persuasive writing.

Here are some techniques legal writers can steal. 🧵 (1/8)

[Fareed Zakaria @FareedZakaria]

America is made stronger by its top-tier universities that produce world-class research and attract students from across the globe.

The Trump administration is attacking all of that — and thereby making America weaker.

My take:

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

There's a consensus on this site that the Covid vaccines "didn't work"

Except they did.

They saved millions of lives.

That's a fact.

Whether you choose to believe it or not doesn't change it.

[Annie van Leur @AnnevanLeur]

Remember the last time the Adams Family visited the Pope?
The Pope attempted French, Italian & German languages with Melania, and we discovered she wasn't multi-lingual AT ALL. She failed to respond to him unless it was English.

[CSPAN @cspan]

.@WHCA President @EugeneDaniels2: "We journalists are a lot of things. We are competitive and pushy. We are impatient and sometimes we think we know everything...What we are not is the opposition. What we are not is the enemy of people. What we are not is the enemy of the state."

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

TIME: “You said you would end the war in Ukraine on Day One.”

Trump: “Well, I said that figuratively, and I said that as an exaggeration, because to make a point, and you know, it gets, of course, by the fake news [unintelligible]. Obviously, people know that when I said that, it was said in jest…”

[Heath Mayo @HeathMayo]

Difficult to overstate how remarkable the Wilkinson opinion is. For seasoned readers of these opinions, the tone and substance are unmistakably unique and severe. This was not a normal opinion for Wilkinson. He knew and clearly hoped the entire country would read this—and I think it will easily be a legacy-defining opinion for his entire career.

It reads as if he knew it would be when he wrote it. He delivered. I hope the country heeds his warning.