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Peter Liepmann

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Family doc, Twitter refugee, son of refugee. #COVIDisAIRBORNE We're in Germany 1933 Mors Omnibus Tyrannis The outrage is to distract us from Muskrats looting the US Treasury Ad Hominem attacks =mute

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Peter Liepmann @datadrivenfp.bsky.social · Mar 27

Pritzker is pushing back DAILY, invoking patriotism and American values of fair play, community, freedom, strength, responsibility, empathy.

He coins pithy phrases:
Pritzker described Trump’s first couple of months in office as “true villainous cruelty by a few idiots.”
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Pritzker pushes back on Trump election order

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker on Tuesday had a forceful response to President Donald Trump’s executive order signed earlier in the day to overhaul elections, including requiring documentary proof…

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European Democrats @europeandemocrats.bsky.social · 5d

The Commission is investigating a Hungarian spy ring in Brussels tied to Orbán’s inner circle.
If true, this is not just espionage — it’s a Trojan horse at the heart of Europe.

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Peter Liepmann @datadrivenfp.bsky.social · 4d

A cognitive science exploration of how language shapes thought:

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Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think
by George Lakoff

When Moral Politics was first published two decades ago, it redefined how Americans think and talk about politics through the lens of cognitive political psychology. Today, George Lakoff's classic text has become all the more relevant, as liberals and conservatives have come to hold even more vigorously opposed views of the world, with the underlying assumptions of their respective worldviews at the level of basic morality. Even more so than when Lakoff wrote, liberals and conservatives simply have very different, deeply held beliefs about what is right and wrong.

Lakoff reveals radically different but remarkably consistent conceptions of morality on both the left and right. Moral worldviews, like most deep ways of understanding the world, are unconscious—part of our "hard-wired" brain circuitry. When confronted with facts that don't fit our moral worldview, our brains work automatically and unconsciously to ignore or reject these facts, and it takes extraordinary openness and awareness of this phenomenon to pay critical attention to the vast number of facts we are presented with each day. For this new edition, Lakoff has added a new preface and afterword, extending his observations to major ideological conflicts since the book's original publication, from the Affordable Care Act to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the recent financial crisis, and the effects of global warming. One might have hoped such massive changes would bring people together, but the reverse has actually happened; the divide between liberals and conservatives has become stronger and more virulent.

To have any hope of bringing mutual respect to the current social and political divide, we need to clearly understand the problem and make it part of our contemporary public discourse. Moral Politics offers a much-needed wake-up call to both the left and the right.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 5d

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 5d

Nobel Peace Prizes have often been awarded to people who fight autocracy. Maria Corina Machado fits right into that tradition

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Why María Machado Deserved the Nobel Peace Prize

The Venezuelan opposition leader shows why participation matters.

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Peter Liepmann @datadrivenfp.bsky.social · 4d

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"CBP Home representatives told them that their lack of passports wouldn’t be a problem and that the U.S. government would help them obtain the travel documents they needed. Now they are being told that they’re on their own— if they get any response at all."

“I Don’t Want to Be Here Anymore”: They Tried to Self-Deport, Then Got Stranded in Trump’s America

Venezuelan immigrants signed up for a Trump-promoted app called CBP Home, which promised a safe and easy way to leave the country, and prepared to leave on their given departure dates. Those dates hav...

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Imagineabetterworld🇨🇦🕊️ @westcoastergirl.bsky.social · 5d

Hmmm… is being fiesty and not tolerating questions that have been asked and answered in an interview disqualifying for a women? Being “nice” is not my key metric required of women leaders in this pivotal moment in time. I’ll take fierce, intelligent and courageous please.

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Craig @thelordgod.bsky.social · 5d

Yeah, she's petulant in the way she bailed but she's right about the 40%. Why would ANYONE care what the fascists want?

The Dems (one of which I have always been) keep worrying about what the fascists might say while all the fascists care about is destroying everyone else.

She's right. Fuck them.

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tonawandablue.bsky.social @tonawandablue.bsky.social · 5d

It's a pattern of a Democrat showing some backbone. The reporter was treating her unfairly with a double standard that Republicans don't seem to be subject to.

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sam1am4bg.bsky.social @sam1am4bg.bsky.social · 5d

If someone persistently put words in your mouth & refused to accept your corrections repeatedly you would get pissed too. We all would. She was being baited & provoked. No journalist in this country would do that to a Republican. But when they do it to a Dem. we all pile on just like they intend.

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motyaf.bsky.social @motyaf.bsky.social · 5d

From the new CBS, no less.

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David @ottawadavid.bsky.social · 5d

Reporters don’t interview Republican candidates like that only so called liberals get that treatment.

Good for Katie Porter I’d be sick of their bullshit too! 👊

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Clear Spies 🪬 @clearspies.fellas.army · 5d

This is manipulation. A coordinated smear effort.

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Laney Lan @laneylan.bsky.social · 5d

Interesting though that this can sink a female politician, yet male politicians who do much worse keep getting elected.

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Lysistrata @gigi54.bsky.social · 5d

Yes! It's OK for the Republicans but not for Democrats? Especially women 🤬
These days "NICE" will get you no where.

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petrachor.bsky.social @petrachor.bsky.social · 5d

Mike Johnson does this like literally EVERY day. So did Bondi.

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Lysistrata @gigi54.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you, she just acted like a man 🙄

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🙄 Kristi @disappointed55.bsky.social · 5d

It’s 💯 sexist
men get promoted for being “assertive” and standing up for themselves and holding boundaries and their temper tantrums are routinely forgiven - women are one and done and told they have a bad personality, poor temperament, aren’t fit to lead or “on the rag” “need to get laid” 🤬

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brettspets.bsky.social @brettspets.bsky.social · 5d

Go tell that bullshit to Hakeem Jeffries and Schumer who neither have endorsed Mamdani for mayor of New York.

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jbet.bsky.social @jbet.bsky.social · 5d

Obama got trounced in one of the debates. Means nothing. People seem to thing our elected people are singular. They are always supported by staff, advisors, party, etc. Getting there is a tap dance that just distracts from the Class War. And who is running on that?

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Peter Liepmann @datadrivenfp.bsky.social · 5d

'Nother CA voter here:
Asking Porter how she's going to get Nazis & Proud Boyz to vote for her is not only hostile & provocative, it's industrial strength stupid. It's demanding Dems bring a spoon to a gunfight. There are no neutrals here.

MAGA will run some QAnon fascist, and she'll bury him.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 5d

FYI: "Antifa" just means "democrats." From 9 months ago:

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · Jan 4

I’ve long assumed Trump will declare we are under “invasion”, and democrats and immigrants will become the targets of unlawful emergency powers.

Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · Jan 3

An important message from U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT):

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BeSeriousUSA 🐝 @beserioususa.bsky.social · 5d

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Matt Olson @metalson.bsky.social · 5d

They will claim that the people who want to stop ice raids are the kinds of radicals who lost the 2024 election for them.

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Peter Liepmann @datadrivenfp.bsky.social · 5d

Assault, breaking & entering, and kidnapping are all crimes.

Where are the Illinois State Police?
Do they even care about crime?
Or would they rather aid & abet?

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CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 5d

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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