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@ErishaAnn Is this a Lang Lang subtweet?

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@ErishaAnn Watts’ depiction of Hope as a blindfolded woman plucking at the single remaining string of her lyre often seems more realistic to me than the sunshine and rainbows typically used to symbolize it 😔

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@ericandreas80 @janecoaston Unfortunately for Moreno, it just so happens that the worst kind of maniac is president of the United States

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@JoeClarkChicago Lmao

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@credenzaclear2 They say cameron wrote au pays du cocaine about the open marriage

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It's becoming increasingly clear in the last week that not only is Platner an underqualified candidate with a long trail of questionable behavior, he's also a shameless liar.

Between him and Mills, could Maine Dems have done any worse in offering an alternative to Collins?

[Townhall.com @townhallcom]

CHRIS HAYES: The Times reported that they saw texts of Lyndsey Fifield, including a text in August. This would be before October of last year, in which she basically said that you had a "Nazi tattoo," and she joked about how she was going to go volunteer for Collins. Now, again, this is a text that got sent so we can place the time. Right? This is in August. How does she know it’s a Nazi tattoo in August of last year and you don’t know it’s Nazi tattoo in August of last year?

GRAHAM PLATNER: Well, she certainly didn’t send that text to me. So whoever she sent it to and was talking to, that’s I can’t say why, but I will say that I certainly didn’t know.

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@LauraPowellEsq @ralsina @KDansky

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It’s clear from video footage that the agent who shot Pretti had a complete and unobstructed view of the other agent who confiscates Pretti’s gun. In fact, he’s looking right down as the other agent struggles to get the gun out of its holster.

The only way the agent didn’t notice the gun was removed was if he was incompetent in his duties to a criminally negligent degree.

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Im not sure that gun went off either. The guy holding it looked back at the crowd of officers holding down Pretti in reaction to the first shot instead of at the gun he was holding.

And the movement of the confiscated gun at the moment of the first shot could easily be a startle reflex rather than a discharge.

I think it’s more likely that the officer pointing his gun at Pretti was the one who unintentionally discharged, then, in a panic, continued shooting.

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I think it’s more likely that the unintentional discharge came from the officer pointing his gun at Pretti.

If you watch other video, you’ll see the officer with Pretti’s gun instinctively glance back in response to the first shot, but none of the officers surrounding Pretti look backwards towards the departing officer.

Also, the sound of the gun that fired the first shot sounds identical to the one that fired the second shot.

I think the officer, in his haste to get his own gun out, negligently discharged into Pretti—then in a panic, continued shooting him in order to appear as if he intended the first shot all along.

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@mitchellvii Why do you assume he was planning on going to a protest? Couldn’t he have just stumbled upon the scene?

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Concealed carry holders aren’t the only ones in this scenario with a heightened level of responsibility due to their weapons.

Curious why you don’t spend any time lecturing LEOs on their duty to not unnecessarily escalate interactions with civilians and to be responsible in their use of deadly force?

Officers receive much more extensive training about handling these matters than civilians, and should be appropriately held to a higher standard than their lay counterparts. They egregiously failed to abide by that standard when they killed Pretti.

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Notice that, despite his (and others’) claim that the shooting was lawful, they always refrain from pointing to any specific action by Prewitt that would have created a “reasonable fear” in the minds of the officers.

They can only speak in generalities about the incident because the actual facts on the ground clearly don’t support a “reasonable fear” declaration.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

War is back in vogue and a zeal for war is spreading. The principle established after the Second World War, which prohibited nations from using force to violate the borders of others, has been completely undermined. #Peace is no longer sought as a gift and a desirable good in itself. Instead, peace is sought through weapons as a condition for asserting one’s own dominion. This gravely threatens the rule of law, which is the foundation of all peaceful civil coexistence.
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I can’t think of a better way to undermine the credibility and moral standing of one’s cause than by protesting in such a gross fashion.

This strategically oblivious strain of leftism, from the same activists that celebrated Oct 7th, needs to be excised from the broader progressive movement stat before it can fuel the expansion of Trumpist authoritarianism any further.

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@ErishaAnn Scriabin is hard! It’ll come back to you, though

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You can’t assume that if the scenario she was presented with was different, she would have still reacted in the same way.

She drove towards him because she thought she could at least avoid a major collision, if not avoid him entirely. If he was in line to suffer a big hit, it’s very likely she would have modified her driving to some degree, if not abandon her flight entirely.

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It should be Trump’s responsibility, first and foremost, to sell his deportation plan to the public in a way that wins popular support and minimizes pushback. Not only has he never bothered to do that, it’s always been clear that he delights in using ICE as a pseudo-occupying force who’s mission is as much to “own the libs” as it is to deport migrants.

Pointing the finger at local government for not wanting to be a part of ICE’s brutal campaign is a complete inversion of where the blame should lie.

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@shipwreckedcrew She didn’t hit the gas at that moment; the wheel spun simply because she put it in Drive and let go of the brake pedal.

All automatic transmission cars creep forward slowly while idling in Drive. The wheel would have spun more than 1/8 a revolution if she had added throttle too

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@naomirwolf Ma’am, this is a Wendy’s