Republicans made a guy who dresses like Paul Ryan but acts like Sidney Powell their Speaker. Perhaps this will delight deep red MAGA types, but more mainstream voters may be turned off by a political leader who says, “Go pick up a Bible….
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/10/maga-mike-johnson-speaker
@AlliFlowers Because there are a dozen Muslim nations across a vast area of the world that (purport to) protect Muslim people and values, but there is but one tiny nation that is explicitly to support Jews.
@tadbithuman @AlliFlowers Ruled by various Islamic caliphates after the Byzantine Empire. No independent state of Palestine has ever existed.
In general (note that), parents have as much of a right to tell teachers how to practice teaching as they do to tell doctors how to practice medicine: none. Zero. Zip. Zilch. The big fat goose egg. Nada. Both teachers and doctors are trained professionals who know best. School boards who tolerate this need to shut it down or be replaced with people who will shut it down at the source.
Jerusalem Post reports the evacuation of Paris Jewish schools today after bomb threats https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-770820
NRA Proudly Shares Clip Of Mike Johnson Opposing Gun Laws After Maine Shooting #NRA #MikeJohnson #GunControl #NoRepublicansEverAgain #VoteBlueIfYouWantToLive https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nra-mike-johnson-guns-second-amendment_n_653f889ae4b0a78a26a3f049
Way too many people don't get that christian dominionism is an apocalyptic accelerationist doctrine VERY LITERALLY SEEKING to hasten their vision of the Biblical end of the world.
That is not hyperbole or misinterpretation or a joke.
And they have VERY CAREFULLY worked their way into the halls of U.S. power.
Mike Johnson as speaker in THIS moment is almost everything these "End Times" cheerleaders could have wanted, and I genuinely believe that there needs to be an internal audit and then reinforcement and potential reorganization of the president and vice president's secret service details.
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🎶🎶I'm not kidding!🎶🎶
New York AG Considered Investigating Giuliani Over Ukraine (Jose Pagliery/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-york-ag-considered-investigating-giuliani-over-ukraine
http://www.memeorandum.com/231030/p9#a231030p9
Amid some dangerous and extremely disappointing statements from student organizations about Israel and Gaza, I am impressed that University of Ottawa law students from Muslim and Jewish student associations came together to make this thoughtful and united statement. While their statement leaves much unsaid, it is commendable that they focus on common ground, in shared pain and mutual respect.
#Ottawa
Yay! April 15, 2024. Ken Paxton has been under investigation since the Spanish-American war. Finally, a trial date. #KenPaxtonForLifeInPrison #Texas
Judge sets trial date in Texas AG Paxton's long-delayed fraud case https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4283414-texas-ken-paxton-trial-date/
JUST IN: United Auto Workers union reaches tentative contract agreement with General Motors, potentially ending weeks-long strike at Detroit's Big Three automakers. #UAW #GM #strike #autoindustry https://thereportify.com/to/169052https://thereportify.com/uaw-reaches-tentative-contract-deal-with-gm-ending-strike-us/
Hamas' war of aggression against Israel
Overnight, the #IDF has reportedly rescued fellow soldier Ori Megidish from #Hamas. She was kidnapped and taken into #Gaza by the terrorist organization during their invasion of #Israel on October 7th. https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/idf-says-captured-soldier-rescued-from-gaza-during-overnight-operation/
Cornell University Receives Antisemitic Threats https://www.voanews.com/a/cornell-receives-antisemitic-threats/7332635.html #voanews
DEJA VU: Judge reinstates gag order & Trump promptly breaks it — TWICE https://washingtonpress.com/2023/10/30/deja-vu-judge-reinstates-gag-order-trump-promptly-breaks-it-twice/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
It's time to pull the handle on the Republican toilet. It may need a plunge too. #GOP #MAGA #NoRepublicansEverAgain #EndTheGOP #DefeatMAGA
Kevin McCarthy gets MAGA primary challenger https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4283327-mccarthy-maga-gop-primary-challenger/
@AlliFlowers #ivory can go to the page on the post's home instance. Open the specific post, then either:
* click on the timestamp
* click on the sort of @ underneath the post, like you were going to bookmark it, and "open link to post"
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