Ron Desantis tonight says that liberal educators are โteaching kids to hate this country,โ so he is pushing for a new law so parents can โinspect curriculum,โ and sue schools if they catch teachers who โsmuggle inโ any โinappropriate content.โ
This case, where Facebook turned over chats of a Nebraska woman charged with giving her then-underaged daughter abortion pills, is exactly the kind that experts have warned we'd see in a post-Roe world. nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/fโฆ
Let's look at the NYT version of a story WSJ and WaPo had first.
Maggie is the first byline.
Before any news, Maggie tells you what to think, using a word that, as Trumpsters talk civil war, is ill-considered.
nytimes.com/2022/08/09/us/poโฆ
NEW: 5 years after Charlottesville, Facebook is still failing to remove white supremacist groups, auto-generating pages for the groups, and even profiting from searches for them.
Facebook disturbingly ran ads for Black churches in searches for KKK groups. techtransparencyproject.org/โฆ
Gen. Hertling @BrynnTannehill:
1/ Did you see thisโคต๏ธ Oct 21, 2021 PDF: DOD IG report, p 18?
"On Jan 8, 2021, an NSA employee tried to retrieve an NSA document from Mr. [Michael] Ellis that contained information of a classified, controlled...
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OK PEOPLE, IT'S TIME FOR ME TO SLAM THE ALL CAPS AND HAND OUT SOME REALITY SINCE THE MEDIA'S BULLSHIT MACHINE IS GOING INTO OVERDRIVE.
HAVEN'T DONE ONE IN A WHILE, SO IT'S GONNA BE FUN.
STOP OBSESSING ABOUT DONALD TRUMP. PUT THE REAL BAD GUYS IN PRISON.
Libertarian right wing extremists are.taking over the Republican party. It's a sad sight to behold.
These folks are dangerous. Watch out!
Kari Lake wins GOP primary for Arizona governor
washingtonpost.com/politics/โฆ
NEW from me:
How Devin Nunes and Kash Patel appealed to QAnon supporters to build Truth Socialโs user base. That has included Patel suggesting that the platform was trying to โincorporateโ QAnon โinto our overall messaging scheme to capture audiences.โ mediamatters.org/truth-sociaโฆ
HEY @TwitterSupport itโs been THREE DAYS since @AJentleson reported his account hacked and itโs still pretending to be him + abusing his followers. This is totally unacceptable!
Folks please RETWEET this for some awareness. Including a note from Adam as wellโ
Organizations tied to billionaire Charles Koch bankrolled advocacy efforts pushing the Supreme Court to curb regulatory power over carbon emissions in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency. crp.org/epka
This must be looked into immediately. Caffari must recuse himself.
Homeland Security watchdog halted plan to recover Secret Service texts, records show
washingtonpost.com/national-โฆ
She's got it right. T
Republicans don't care about her life or any other girls life either.
This is a control issue over women not a made up pro-life concern.
Girl, 12, challenges W.Va. lawmakers on abortion: โWhat about my life?โ
washingtonpost.com/politics/โฆ
This is the gun used to murder my daughter Jaime & 16 others. As hard as it was to see it in person, it is harder to deal with the reality of ongoing gun violence. I hope you watch this trial, and then decide to only vote for candidates who want to reduce gun violence.
๐จThis is a very dangerous situation we are seeing in more and more states. Republicans are publishing voter file information on public sites--including voters' names, addresses and information about the elections in which they participated.
democracydocket.com/alerts/fโฆ
โJD Vance is an extremist with a disturbing set of views about women. Yesterday, it was reported that he believes women who have been beaten, raped and abused should stay married.โ
steveschmidt.substack.com/p/โฆ
This is a sad time for women in the US. It's hard to believe but it is true. We must work together to protect women's rights and health autonomy.
Do not give up!
"Poor women and women of color will feel the brunt of new abortion bans. They will have to jump through hoops and travel long distances. The result will be more sick women, more maternal deaths and more forced births."
@JRubinBlogger, via @PostOpinions:
washingtonpost.com/opinions/โฆ
I evaluate a new election law based on whether it will improve the prospects of free and fair elections or worsen the current state of democracy in real, if not so obvious, ways. I am not convinced the current draft ECA reform passes this test.
democracydocket.com/news/refโฆ
Liz Cheney's question for GOP elites is basically this:
Trump is the leader of a movement that is more or less hell bent on destroying constitutional government. Will you say that this is disqualifying in a party leader and future presidential nominee?
washingtonpost.com/opinions/โฆ
As he was gathering his things in the dining room to leave on the night of January 6, President Trump reflected on the dayโs events with a White House employee.
Trump said nothing to the employee about the attack. He said only "Mike Pence let me down."
A right-wing think tank is now a church in the eyes of the IRS. Itโs part of a growing movement of activist groups that are seeking church status.
And itโs all perfectly legal. Hereโs how ๐