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Frmr White House Communications Director Alyssa Griffin
frmr White House deputy press secretary Sarah Matthews
and frmr White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson:

"A second Trump term could mean the end of American democracy”

"We don't need to speculate what a second Trump term would like because we already saw it play out”

"This is a fundamental election to continue to safeguard our institutions and our constitutional republic."

Vote.

Or you will never have to worry about voting again.

Take note (especially journalists who are getting this wrong): The technical lead for the COVID-19 response at the World Health Organization is still (correctly) calling COVID-19 a pandemic.

My daughter just returned from a Mini vacation with her father, and she is furious with him. Apparently he tested positive for on the first day. He never isolated or masked since they’d been together all week. My daughter is now testing daily so she can come visit here without worries of spreading covid.

Comcast Xfinity data breach affects over 35 million people. A Citrix vulnerability was exploited, leaking names, contact information, partial social security numbers, and birth dates.

#security

theverge.com/2023/12/18/240070

-- Sen. Bernie Sanders' email --

Today in America, it will not surprise you to hear, the people at the top have never had it so good. The top 1% now own more wealth than the bottom 92% and the 50 wealthiest Americans own more wealth than the bottom half of American society—165 million people.

Republicans seek a tax break of $1.75 trillion by completely repealing the estate tax.

The estate tax only applies to the wealthiest of the wealthy

#JenaGriswold Colorado AG
“Within three weeks of it being filed, I received 64 death threats and over 900 non-lethal threats of abuse. I stopped counting after that.”
“Donald Trump is a major threat to American democracy, elections and stability. He uses threats and intimidation against his political opponents. When he doesn’t win elections, he tries to steal them.”

huffpost.com/entry/colorado-se

“The fact that the Bible and other religious texts are exempted from the law makes the problem even worse, as it communicates that religious books with descriptions of sex acts have value after all, while all others do not.”

~ Federal judge Stephen Lochner blocking an Iowa law that bans books with LGBTQ and "sexual" content from school libraries

#BookBans #education #censorship #Republicans #LGBTQ #Iowa #Bible

thedailybeast.com/judge-tears-

As @JoyceVance puts it:

"The opening paragraph of the Special Counsel's brief in the immunity appeal in the Trump prosecution. Words that are meant for history as well as for today."

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Here's what's going to happen.

Places are going to federate with Facebook, it's going to go terribly because it's Facebook, and the same white guys that are advocating for it are going to come up with some longwinded apology about how they were wrong and their bullshit put thousands of people in danger and fucked up many a decent instance.

They will be praised as LEADERS while I sit over here being harassed by people who say blocking a notorious bad actor on the web is destroying the fedi, struggling for funding to complete projects that actually center the needs of human beings rather than algorithms that productive our attention.

Because that's how racism works.

#BookmarkThis

Don't tar all Gazans with the brush of Hamas.

Don't tar all Jews with the brush of Netanyahu.

Don't tar all Americans with the brush of Trump.

:mastodon:

We’re never going to see medical marijuana here in Alabackwards.

Judge temporarily blocks issuance of Alabama medical cannabis dispensary licenses - al.com al.com/news/2023/12/judge-temp

Luttig: The Constitution itself tells us that disqualification of the former president is not anti-democratic. Rather, the Constitution tells us that it is the conduct that can give rise to disqualification under the 14th Amendment that is anti-democratic.
politico.com/news/magazine/202

#PolandIsNotAFriend
#Article7Poland
⚡️🇵🇱Polish President convenes urgent meeting of the National Security Bureau due to unidentified flying object from Ukraine but says nothing about his countries ongoing attack on Ukrainian supply routes at borders (more) pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/12 #Press #News #russia #russiaUkraineWar #9yrInvasionofUkraine #BoycottMusk #AxisOfEvil
#NoUSRepublicans2024 #PunchAPolishTrucker

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