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I'll continue to implement my executive order on accountable and effective policing and strengthen public trust and safety.
But meaningful change at the state and local level requires Congress to act.
Send the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act to my desk, and I’ll sign it.
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“As the X-date approaches, the U.S. Treasury’s cash balance has dipped below $49.5 billion. That means ‘there are 24 individuals on the Bloomberg Billionaires list who have more money than the Treasury does right now,’ per Bloomberg’s Kailey Leinz.”
My thought: This is obscene
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Again:
Was Hitler a fascist 10 minutes before the Holcaust started? Was Hitler a fascist before he became Chancellor? Was Hitler still a fascist when he was in jail writing Mein Kampf and establishing the tenants of what would become Nazism? Yes?
Then your argument that "it's not fascism yet because hasn't invaded Poland" is every bit as reductive and childish as I'm treating it.
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Kristi Noem pushes for South Dakota college board to prohibit drag shows, pronoun preferences on campuses https://www.alternet.org/kristi-noem-2660709363/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin calls Tuberville’s inner city teachers comment ‘dog whistling’ - AL.com https://apple.news/ARj0TweeOO_6yJk3WRvdjPA Yes. Because what Tuberville really wants to say is Black teachers.
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The owner of newsie.social has previously said that transphobic speech is allowed if it's "respectful and in good faith." This is an unsurprising development, except for how fast it has happened.
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“It’s become a routine occurrence to see media personalities, think tankers, and others whose large platforms give their rhetoric weight, call for a dictatorship in America.”
We’d better take these people seriously even if they are, well, batshit crazy.
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What I as a white person understand about the Aboriginal Voice To Parliament is that a YES result means something changes, and a NO result means nothing changes. The current situation is unacceptable, so I’m voting YES.
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DOG WHISTLE POLITICS
Republicans don’t say they hate Jews. They say George Soros backed.
Republicans don’t say they hate gay people. They say groomers.
Republicans don’t say they hate Hispanic people. They say illegal aliens.
Republicans don’t say they hate Black people. They say ban woke.
Republicans don’t say they hate Asians. They say kung flu.
Be very wary of a political party that consistently uses dehumanizing language. Eventually, they’ll come for you.
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Many people with a #disability could live independently, but are stuck in nursing homes they don't want to be in.
A new lawsuit in #Massachusetts could change that. https://www.wgbh.org/news/local-news/2023/01/26/a-lawsuit-could-force-the-state-to-help-thousands-of-people-with-disabilities-find-housing #housing
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So, from what I understand, McCarthy and Biden are not in “debt ceiling negotiations.” Because the debt ceiling is non-negotiable, we are in Democrat vs. Republican budget negotiations. They are not “getting closer to agreement” on the debt ceiling, they are discussing the details of the budget for the upcoming g year. McCarthy keeps framing it as a debt ceiling duel, but he lost that battle a longtime ago.
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With SCOTUS now allowing developers to fill in wetlands, people who live in places not currently considered flood risks are in for a bit of a surprise when the waters rise.
There are consequences when judges ignore science in favor of bribes. People will lose their homes. A lot of people.
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Right now, antisemitic incidents are at a record high in America.
It's despicable. And silence is complicity.
Under my presidency, we’ll continue to condemn hate wherever it rears its head, including by putting forward the first-ever national strategy to combat antisemitism.
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Just a reminder that the same people who protested removing #confederate statues from places of honor because they wanted to "preserve history" are the exact same people who want to remove #books from #schools and #libraries where they belong because they make certain people uncomfortable.
Do Republicans not believe in recusal? Ever?
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How will the #Fediverse break #Meta’s monopoly on social media?
Same way the IESA broke IBM’s monopoly on PCs.
Same way HTML5 broke Adobe’s monopoly with Flash.
Same way open Internet standards broke Microsoft’s monopoly with Internet Explorer.
Open standards and protocols have a habit of breaking monopolies.
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