Doodle prefers the cold hard floor to a nice soft bed. To each his own.
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Republicans have introduced more than 500 anti-LGBTQ+ bills in 2023 alone, all over the country.
They're obsessed with controlling who Americans love, how they identify, and even where they can go to the bathroom. Here's why.
Reminder—if Trump's indictment was meritless every top criminal defense lawyer in America would be scrambling to defend him. It’d be the case of a lifetime.
But instead they're avoiding him like the plague b/c they know he's guilty & refuse to sink with his ship.
US law holds "when accused of a crime an attorney will be provided if you cannot afford one."
Trump may force a change to, "an attorney will be provided if you cannot afford one OR if you are so unethical no one will take your case."
Donald Trump Prosecution Will Wait on Aileen Cannon to Implode—Lawyer
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-prosecution-will-wait-aileen-cannon-implodelawyer-1805996
#Newsweek #DonaldTrumpProsecution #AileenCannon #LawyerInsights #LegalStrategy #PoliticalImplosions #Politics #News
‘This is war’: Police monitoring online far-right threats and pro-Trump protests with federal indictment
#IndependentUK #PoliceMonitoring #FarRightThreats #ProTrumpProtests #FederalIndictment #ThisIsWar #Politics #News
Jim Jordan's hands are tied despite pressure to save Donald Trump: columnist https://www.rawstory.com/jim-jordan-cant-save-trump/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
Roberts isn’t an institutionalist. He’s a weather vane. - Today's Supreme Court 99% Politics, 1% Law, 100% Credibility Shredded. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/06/12/roberts-weather-vane-supreme-court-politics/ #SupremeCourt
Rachel Maddow says "Ignore what they say. Look at what they do."
Fascists engage in an endless search for ways to end democracy and enrich themselves.
Attacks on reproductive & trans rights is to buy the Catholic & evangelical vote.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/why-is-the-gop-escalating-attacks-on-trans-rights-experts-say-the-goal-is-to-make-sure-evangelicals-vote
https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2022/08/05/catholics-kansas-abortion-vote/
https://www.npr.org/2020/11/17/935910276/the-white-elephants-in-the-room
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/christian-right-worships-donald-trump-915381/
Corrupting SCOTUS & attacks on the EPA are to keep the oil industry frying the planet.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7zqxm/how-koch-industries-fake-scientists-and-rush-limbaugh-invented-climate-denial
https://theintercept.com/2023/05/26/supreme-court-sackett-epa-clean-water-act/
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/30/us-supreme-court-epa-decision-devastating-humanity
The media is trying to say that Trump is ahead of Biden in the polls. All of them. Why is this?
It's horse shit and simple math.
Dems haven't left the party, Republicans have and they've died in large numbers due to covid. Independents are leaning left because they see Trumps damage and threat.
Don't fall for the corporate bull shit..
The GOP Implosion Is Now Complete. The Inmates Are Now Literally RUNNING The Asylum https://politizoom.com/the-gop-implosion-is-now-complete-the-inmates-are-now-literally-running-the-asylum/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
#USA, one does not need to be #SherlockHolmes to figure this.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/11/trump-indictment-republicans-rhetoric-violence
"The main thing authoritarians have to do ... is change the perception of violence in public," says Ruth Ben-Ghiat. "So what once was reprehensible ... becomes okay and even assaulting the Capitol becomes a patriotic act." #velshi https://www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/watch/-if-trump-gets-back-into-power-he-ll-never-leave-says-authoritarian-expert-ruth-ben-ghiat-181703749508
Pregnant woman and others killed as the Russians shoot at volunteers and those fleeing the Kakhovka Dam flooding https://khpg.org/en/1608812371
Tetiana Hryshko was almost 33 and pregnant when the Russians killed her in Kherson oblast as she tried to rescue her grandparents from the flooding unleashed by the destruction of the Kakhovka Dam on 6 June. As of late on 11 June, she is one of several Ukrainians reported killed as they tried to flee for their lives or help others to evacuate.
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