waxwings

Activist, author, Good Trouble friend. YES to nuclear abolition, democracy, civil rights, voting rights, animals, Old Time music, Quakers. #nuclearban

[waxwings @waxwings2]

Winner of Nobel Peace Prize in grand ceremony says nuclear war is one “tantrum away.” @nuclearban https://t.co/KrD44Ogwrr

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

This grave warning about Trump’s fitness for duty is coming from his own chief of staff - the most credible source imaginable.

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

It’s one thing for some leftist group to call you a fascist. Quite another when it’s a fellow Republican. And absolutely astonishing when it’s your own chief of staff.

[PBS News @NewsHour]

WATCH LIVE: Harris kicks off swing state tour in Pennsylvania https://t.co/B9WTgrgX3r

[waxwings @waxwings2]

Emoluments Probe Concludes Trump Used DC Hotel to Enrich Himself, Fleece Taxpayers While President https://t.co/zVMNzWHjgL

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

NEW: Arkansas Supreme Court orders West Memphis to open two early voting sites for the November election after county officials previously refused to open any early polling places in the majority-Black city. https://t.co/s1RNruDGYt

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

no matter what he says and how many lies he tells and how disgustingly he demonizes immigrants, the truth is the truth:

the number of migrants crossing the border today is LOWER than during trump's term

not higher

LOWER

[Sarah Reese Jones @PoliticusSarah]

Lawrence O'Donnell on Bret Baier, "Bret Baier was functioning as a Trump campaign operative in that interview by literally playing a Trump commercial in the middle of it. Using precious minutes of an interview with a presidential candidate to run the opponents commercial."

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: The former chief marketer for NBC apologizes to the American people for giving us Donald Trump by helping to sell “The Apprentice” myth to the American people.

This is humiliating for MAGA…

“I want to apologize to America. I helped create a monster,” writes John D. Miller in a piece entitled “We Created a Monster: Trump Was a TV Fantasy Invented for 'The Apprentice'” for U.S. News & World Report.

“For nearly 25 years, I led marketing at NBC and NBCUniversal,” Miller explains. “I led the team that marketed ‘The Apprentice,’ the reality show that made Donald Trump a household name outside of New York City, where he was better known for overextending his empire and appearing in celebrity gossip columns.”

He goes on to state that his team “created the narrative that Trump was a super-successful businessman who lived like royalty” which was a “substantial exaggeration” that “created a false narrative by making him seem more successful than he was.”

Miller points out that Trump had to declare bankruptcy four times before the show premiered and at least twice over the course of its 14 seasons.

“The imposing board room where he famously fired contestants was a set, because his real boardroom was too old and shabby for TV,” writers Miller.

In a section that is certain to bruise Trump’s ego, Miller states that he was the “perfect choice” for the show because “more successful CEOs were too busy to get involved in reality TV and didn’t want to hire random game show winners onto their executive teams.”

Meanwhile, Trump “had no such concerns” and “plenty of time for filming.”

“I never imagined that the picture we painted of Trump as a successful businessman would help catapult him to the White House,” writes Miller, likening all of their advertising around the show to “fake news” because it was so “highly exaggerated.”

“I discovered in my interactions with him over the years that he is manipulative, yet extraordinarily easy to manipulate,” he goes on. “He has an unfillable compliment hole. No amount is too much. Flatter him and he is compliant. World leaders, including apparently Russian strongman Vladimir Putin and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, have discovered that too.”

Miller calls Trump “remarkably thin-skinned” and describes his adversarial relationship with the show. The future president would claim that the show was number one in the ratings, even when the numbers refuted that claim.

Not surprisingly, Trump was full of bad suggestions for the show. He wanted to make “a team of Black players compete against white players.” Miller tried to convince him against it by appealing to Trump’s greed and telling him that it would alienate sponsors.

“While we were successful in marketing ‘The Apprentice,’ we also did irreparable harm by creating the false image of Trump as a successful leader. I deeply regret that,” writers Miller. “And I regret that it has taken me so long to go public.”

“Now America is facing a critical choice. Should this elderly, would-be emperor with no clothes, who is well known for stretching and abandoning the truth, be president again?” he asks.

“I spent 50 years successfully promoting television magic, making mountains out of molehills every day,” he continues. “But I say now to my fellow Americans, without any promotional exaggeration: If you believe that Trump will be better for you or better for the country, that is an illusion, much like ‘The Apprentice’ was.”

“Even if you are a born-and-bred Republican, as I was, I strongly urge you to vote for Kamala Harris. The country will be better off and so will you,” concludes Miller.

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[Everytown @Everytown]

Don’t buy Trump’s lies.

Donald Trump oversaw the largest increase in murders ever recorded. The Biden-Harris Administration has overseen a historic decrease in violent crime.

[Newtown Action Alliance ❌👑 @NewtownAction]

A 14-year-old shooter used an AR15 to hunt and kill two students, two educators, & wound nine others in Apalachee High School in Georgia on September 4, 2024. 

Tell Your Members of Congress to #BanAssaultWeapons & Pass Ethan's Law to #KeepKidsSafe

https://t.co/LYvzh1SFKV

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Elon Musk, Dick Uihlein, and Miriam Adelson gave Trump $220 million in just the last 3 months.

For one reason.

He's promised to rig the economy to help them and the billionaire crowd. And screw us.

Heads up.

[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

On this day in 1933, a white mob of at least 2,000 in Princess Anne, MD, burned George Armwood to death. Four white men were ultimately tried for the lynching and acquitted by all-white juries. https://t.co/BRcThVxKzG

[Jay Rosen @jayrosen_nyu]

Was head marketing guy, NBC:

"While we were successful in marketing 'The Apprentice,' we also did irreparable harm by creating the false image of Trump as a successful leader. I deeply regret that. And I regret that it has taken me so long to go public." https://t.co/sYx8wlDOGO

[Veronique Christory @VChristory]

« If the nuclear weapons continue to exist, humanity may not ». The Treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons makes a crucial & effective contribution towards nuclear disarmament said the #ICRC at the UNGA. 73 states are parties to the #TPNW + 25 have signed it. @nuclearban

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

🚨BREAKING: Former Trump Secretary of Defense and retired 4-star General James Mattis calls Trump “the most dangerous person” in America after previously describing him as a threat to the Constitution.

RETWEET to thank General Mattis for standing up for democracy!

[Damaan, AKA 'Philly's Finest!' @Damaan4u33]

Repost, Repost, and Repost again! 👇👇👇

[Laurence Tribe 🇺🇦 ⚖️ @tribelaw]

An electoral system that awarded 4 votes to citizens of Wyoming and 1 vote to citizens of California would be dismissed as a transparent violation of the constitutional principle of “one person, one vote”. Yet this is just what the electoral college does.
https://t.co/EcMssuqz0m

[ICAN @nuclearban]

🗣️This week, ICAN’s @SethShelden, addressed the 79th session of the First Committee of the UN General Assembly, highlighting the urgent need to eliminate nuclear weapons and ratify the #TPNW.

Read the full statement here:
https://t.co/NKYAlcihyK

#UNGA79 #NuclearBan

[Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath]

Co-chair of the Japanese anti-nuclear weapon organisation Nihon Hidankyo—which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize—says people working for peace in Gaza deserved the award.

He cries thinking about all of the children Israel has killed, wounded, and orphaned:

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Congratulations to Nihon Hidankyo, a group of survivors of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, for winning the Nobel Peace Prize. At a time when the threat of nuclear weapons is growing – and the taboo against threatening their use is weakening – Nihon Hidankyo’s work reminds us that these weapons have a terrible human cost, and that the pursuit of a world without nuclear weapons is an essential part of making sure we leave our children a safer, more secure world. Nihon Hidankyo built a powerful movement out of personal tragedy and insists upon our common humanity.