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Carol McAuley 🏴󠁧󠁒󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡ΊπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸ‡΅πŸ‡ΈπŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦
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Proud Scot. European. Music, books, quilting, history, politics, nature, science, sci-fi and fantasy, WOT, LOTR (in no particular order), she/her. No DMs please.
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Good: Jamie Raskin tells me he's formally demanding any/all internal communications between WH and DOJ on Trump's $230 million payoff.

More Dems should talk this way about Trump's criming. He's turning the presidency into a massive Bribe Delivery System.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2021...
Trump’s Vile New $230 Million Shakedown of DOJ Just Got Even Worse
It’s bad enough that Trump wantsβ€”and DOJ will likely fork overβ€”this tribute payment. Now, get this: It can probably be done at first without even being revealed publicly.
newrepublic.com
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North Carolina will be sued.
🚨 BREAKING: In a 66-48 vote, Republicans in the North Carolina House officially pass their new Trump-approved congressional gerrymander targeting the state’s Black voters. More to come.

Background:
β€˜Blatant Discrimination’: North Carolina Advances GOP Gerrymander at the Expense of Black Voters
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
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β€œCan you put two and two together about what’s going on here??”

@saikatforcongress.bsky.social connects the dots for the panel
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This is the clearest way to explain it.
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Why is a Labour Home Secretary perpetuating this myth in The Sun?

Asylum applications in the UK are significantly below the average for all European countries. The only person helped by spreading this falsehood is Nigel Farage
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Pause a while, and read...

Kenneth C. Steven
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CZ pleaded guilty to a criminal money laundering charge and was sentenced to prison.

But then he financed President Trump’s stablecoin and lobbied for a pardon.

Today, he got it.

If Congress does not stop this kind of corruption, it owns it.
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A middle finger to erasure.

More of this, please. Now do Black Lives Matter!
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Well said that man. πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘

Every word is spot on.
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β€œ1.9 Million Foreigners Are Claiming Benefits!”

Or, as a normal human being might put it:

β€œ1.9 Million Taxpayers Use The Same Safety Net They Pay For.”

Today I discuss the much needed context about The Times' regular moral panic about β€œforeigners.”
Foreigners Are Claiming Benefits! (And Other Things That Happen When They Live and Work Here)
The Times turns data into dog whistles - here's what those numbers actually mean.
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk
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If North Carolina enacts this new map, it will be sued.

I don't bluff and I usually win.
North Carolina moved closer Tuesday to dismantling a historically Black congressional district in a move one of its former representatives described as β€œblatant discrimination.” www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
β€˜Blatant Discrimination’: North Carolina Advances GOP Gerrymander at the Expense of Black Voters
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
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Honestly, the mainstream media reaction to Zack Polanski entering the elites’ own conversation space…

…with widely-held public opinions…

…tells you everything you need to know about why our mainstream media is a closed shop, broken, and no longer fit for purpose.
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More than 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding public health protections – vaccines, milk safety and fluoride – have been introduced in statehouses across the U.S. this year, part of an organized, politically savvy campaign to enshrine a conspiracy theory-driven agenda into law.
Anti-science bills hit statehouses, attacking longstanding public health protections
More than 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding public health protections – vaccines, milk safety and fluoride – have been introduced in statehouses across the U.S. this year.
www.pbs.org
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The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.