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[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

"I'm only doing this for one term. I am not a politician. I did not ever want to be a politician. I'm doing this because we need to do something now. We can't survive 32 more months of what we've seen for the past 16, full stop."

[MFWitches @MFWitches]

A lot of people are saying on social media today that a public campaign against Premier Jacinta Allen using the phrase “Ditch the Witch” isn’t sexist because they’ve heard of MFW and know we proudly use the word witches.

Please.

They must not have heard about how we started, which was as the result of an extraordinarily sexist text message sent by Peter Dutton to a mate, and which he accidentally sent to a woman journo instead.

They must not understand history, in which all women who were in the slightest way outspoken or different or not perfectly aligned with patriarchal requirements were called witches and often viciously murdered for their so-called sins.

And they must not understand parody, in which we witches have re-claimed the word “witch” to mean all women who protest the outrageous misogyny so many men practice with barely any constraint.

Because we’re here to clearly say that yes: the campaign against Allen is deeply sexist, just as it was sexist when it was used to denigrate then-PM Julia Gillard (pic in comments), and when it’s been used to stir up hatred towards any women with power or influence or anything other than simply being perfectly pretty and perfectly unheard.

What’s more, the campaign couldn’t be anything BUT deeply problematic, funded as it has been by a consortium of what appears to be a deeply right-wing group of men who want nothing more than to oust Allen from her job, and promoted widely in #NewsCorpse publications in ways which further harm Allen and her government:
“‘[Allan] doesn’t answer questions. She’s not accountable to everything … It’s just how people are feeling. That’s what they’re resorting to’ Puleo said. ‘That’s not a political ad. It’s basically what the Victorian public feel’.”
https://t.co/GQ2N1VsQiN?

The campaign is despicable, and the billboards should be banned. Today. Anything else is unacceptable, and does nothing but show the endemic hatred for women among large sections of conservative men and politics in this country (and among many progressive men and groups too, but that’s another story).

For fuck sake, ban these billboards. They’re hate speech. And us calling ourselves witches as a way to parody that hate will never make the use of the word okay in other settings and formats.

That’s all.

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[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

US ATTORNEY ESSAYLI: Is there enough fraud to sway an election? We don't know

CUOMO: No

ESSAYLI: You can't say 'no.' You haven't done an investigation

CUOMO: You are in the business of knowing! You're pointing at one case. I've covered elections for 30 years. You know how many cases of widespread fraud I covered? One. And it was the Trump administration

[Anonymous @YourAnonCentral]

Reports from people, including pro footballers, from all over the world who arrived in the US ahead of the World Cup, say that the US is dog shit and US authorities are being incompetent and rude, mistreating visitors. Meanwhile, Mexico & Canada are getting praise from everyone.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Democrats are so diabolical and ingenious at rigging elections that Republicans control the presidency, house and senate.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Dear idiots

[LanaQuest aka RosaSparks @LqLana]

I will not be distracted.

Trump’s name is all over a Pedophile File.

This is a huge story.

His name appears third to Epstein and Ghislaine.

He was more than just a pedo customer. He was a part of the enterprise.

Children as young as 9 were abused and Blanche will do absolutely anything to not reveal the abusers. #DemsUnited
#EpsteinClass

[Gene Trevino @GenoVeno73]

Dear MAGA,

It's hilarious, like cosmically comical, that you're bitching about California following THEIR election laws which allows 13 days after an election to count ballots....

But you're extremely dead silent about @realDonaldTrump NOT following the law HE SIGNED to release the Epstein files almost 7 months ago.

[TheRealThelmaJohnson @TheRealThelmaJ1]

You all might not like this but I actually understand why Donald Trump got up and left the Meet the Press interview yesterday. When I'm talking to someone and accidentally shit myself I always pretend I'm mad and walk away too.

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

In case you forgot what it looks like when a real president gets the love at a game.

You know, when the crowd actually wants the president there.

[Boston Smalls @smalls2672]

How much did it cost the tax payers for trump to go to the NBA finals last night just so he could sleep through the game.

Genuinely curious.

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In a stunning admission, Mike Johnson just told reporters that he has plan to cut Medicare and Medicaid after the midterms. We can stop this by making Hakeem Jeffries the next Speaker of the House.

[Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza]

"One of them had his fingers cut off": a captured occupier describes abuse by his own commanders.

Soldiers of the 425th Separate Assault Regiment "Skala" captured two Russian occupiers who claim they joined the assault only because they feared being killed by their own side.

For years, Russian propaganda has spread stories about alleged brutality by Ukrainian soldiers. The reality, however, turned out to be very different.

Instead, prisoners testify that it is within the Russian army itself that commanders order the torture of their own troops.

Below are the words of one captured occupier:

"We were told never to get captured under any circumstances, otherwise they would cut off our limbs and ears.

But when I was captured, my whole worldview changed."

"I had financial problems, a mortgage, so I signed a contract. I spent a year in the forested area and then went AWOL."

"They caught me, brought me back, and sent me to an assault unit."

"Right at the enlistment office I said that I wouldn't kill anyone, and they told me I'd be a driver."

But in reality, it was all a lie.

"You sign a one-year contract, but somehow it just keeps getting extended."

"One guy failed to properly maintain a vehicle, didn't top up some fluid, and it wouldn't start. As punishment, they cut off his fingers."

"A drone guided me to a position. As soon as I entered the tree line, I saw some guys and asked, 'Who are you?' They told me, 'Put down your weapon.' I put it down and realized I had been captured."

"I still had my radio with me, and immediately they told me over it that I was a '500' and that if they caught me or if I came back on my own, they would shoot me."

"Here in captivity, the treatment is completely different. Nobody has even said a bad word to me."

"To those back in Russia who are thinking about signing a contract—don't do it. And to those who are already here, if you have the chance, it's better to surrender."

...

For many occupiers, Ukrainian captivity turns out to be the safest place they have experienced during the war—a paradox created by a system in decline.

[Covie @covie_93]

The average lifespan of a female screwworm fly is 10 to 30 days, once they lay eggs in an open wound they hatch and the maggots feed for 7 days before dropping to the ground, burrowing into the soil and emerge as adult flies.

Tell me then how can the first screwworm case detected in the US on day 498 of the trump presidency be Joe Biden's fault???????

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Velshi: “What if I told you this? The Trump administraction had ALREADY spent 50 TIMES that much in taxpayer money to build his ballroom? What if I told you Trump had already taken $50 billion out of the U.S. treasury and spent it, all as part of what looks very much like a pay to play scheme to finance his vanity project? And I’m not making this up, a brand new report from the government watchdog group Public Citizen looked into the private donors who are supposedly funding the Trump ballroom as a gift. Guess what their investigation found? ‘More than half of the publicly identified donors…have won new or expanded federal contracts worth more $50 billion during the past six months.’ The report also found that most of the same companies are also facing federal enforcement actions over alleged wrongdoing and that some have had such actions suspended by the Trump administration since the start of Trump’s second term.”🙄

[ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ @LePapillonBlu2]

I wholeheartedly agree with Joe!

[Common Sense 🇺🇸💙 @commons96055467]

This little boy, who is now a decorated war veteran, told the world trump raped him. Trump is desperately changing that subject daily, by declaring wars, doing UFC shit at the White House, going to basketball finals. Trump is scared of Sascha Riley and the files. Expose him.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨ALARMING: Sen. Ron Wyden has introduced legislation to STOP Trump and Patel from gaining access to INNOCENT Americans' personal data through surveillance loopholes.

Share this if you agree Trump’s cronies should NOT have access to the private data of law-abiding citizens.