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Author: THE BOYS IN THE BOAT, FACING THE MOUNTAIN, THE INDIFFERENT STARS ABOVE, and UNDER A FLAMING SKY. I write about the American character, as it once was. Fie on fascists, racists, and misogynists. https://www.danieljamesbrown.com/books/

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i don’t understand how, psychologically, a person gets to a place where they interpret sign language as some kind of attack or imposition on their life. like, what the fuck is wrong with you?

11.01.2025 00:46 πŸ‘ 42014 πŸ” 6544 πŸ’¬ 2316 πŸ“Œ 412
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They want us to memory hole tearing down the American flag to fly Trump’s.

07.01.2025 03:10 πŸ‘ 8972 πŸ” 3389 πŸ’¬ 310 πŸ“Œ 184

β€œMcConnell laid the blame for Jan. 6 squarely at the feet of Trump. In private, he said things like: β€˜If this isn’t impeachable, I don’t know what is’ and indicated he expected bipartisan support for a vote to convict Trump … And yet…McConnell refused to vote to convict.”

06.01.2025 14:31 πŸ‘ 393 πŸ” 124 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 10

Say what you want about Biden, he’s not out there claiming he actually won the election and sending a mob to the US Capitol to β€œfight like Hell” or they won’t have a country anymore. Republicans rightly condemned Trump on this day in 2021. He was unfit then. He is unfit now.

06.01.2025 12:57 πŸ‘ 1531 πŸ” 245 πŸ’¬ 48 πŸ“Œ 9

TouchΓ©.

05.01.2025 18:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public.

He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit.

Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.

04.01.2025 16:08 πŸ‘ 64841 πŸ” 30929 πŸ’¬ 1039 πŸ“Œ 1120
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Adjudicated rapist says what?

01.01.2025 10:28 πŸ‘ 281 πŸ” 82 πŸ’¬ 32 πŸ“Œ 18
Elon Musk’s new profile on X. Is shows Pepe the Frog as the profile pic and his name is changed to Kekius Maximus

Elon Musk’s new profile on X. Is shows Pepe the Frog as the profile pic and his name is changed to Kekius Maximus

Elon Musk has changed his X profile.

His avatar is now Pepe the Frog, a mascot adopted by white supremacists.

His name is a Latinisation of β€œKek”, a phrase used by neo-Nazis.

Musk has also backed AfD in Germany, the political home for racists.

The man is telling us explicitly what he’s about.

01.01.2025 12:31 πŸ‘ 3703 πŸ” 1550 πŸ’¬ 256 πŸ“Œ 397

in a world of Donald Trumps, be a Jimmy Carter

29.12.2024 21:28 πŸ‘ 6109 πŸ” 1027 πŸ’¬ 106 πŸ“Œ 42
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Musk in Die Welt It did not take long for Eva Marie Kogel, the opinion editor at Die Welt, Germany’s paper of record, to decide what the right thing for her to do was.

Musk's opinion piece for the German paper Die Welt, endorsing a right-wing extremist political party, matters a lot more for us than you might think, so I spent some time putting together a look at German politics, Musk's views, and the reaction to them. joycevance.substack.com/p/musk-in-di...

29.12.2024 03:09 πŸ‘ 6405 πŸ” 2251 πŸ’¬ 237 πŸ“Œ 142
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This is so cool

29.12.2024 05:27 πŸ‘ 6671 πŸ” 746 πŸ’¬ 193 πŸ“Œ 117
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Elon Musk and JD Vance's Support of Germany's Nazi-Loving AfD Party Should Be Much Bigger News Elon Musk & J.D. Vance tweeted in support of the AfD Party whose racist, anti-immigrant ideologies are shared by a terrorist who just killed 5 people in Germany. Maybe it's not "economic anxiety."

My latest.

I wanted to take today off but I think more Americans need to know this before it's forgotten by tomorrow.

"Elon Musk and JD Vance's Support of Germany's Nazi-Loving AfD Party Should Be Much Bigger News"

thelefthook.substack.com/p/elon-musk-...

21.12.2024 22:09 πŸ‘ 7644 πŸ” 3083 πŸ’¬ 251 πŸ“Œ 173
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus: The message I’m hearing from people across Canada is this: they’re not afraid of you. They know you’re a convicted felon. They know that the people you’re bringing in to run your, let’s call it an β€œorganization” rather than a government, are grifters, thieves, and thugs.

20.12.2024 21:41 πŸ‘ 53325 πŸ” 12754 πŸ’¬ 1505 πŸ“Œ 1091

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Rand Paul floats Musk for speaker The unconventional suggestion from one of the least conventional senators comes amid a conservative revolt over government funding legislation.

This is ridiculous. Republicans might as well cut out the middle man and make Putin Speaker.

19.12.2024 15:31 πŸ‘ 590 πŸ” 170 πŸ’¬ 70 πŸ“Œ 7
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Just a reminder that in 2019, RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine misinformation campaign helped cause a measles outbreak in Samoa that killed 83 people, mostly kids.

Do you really want him to lead the Department of Health and Human Services?

17.12.2024 22:14 πŸ‘ 45687 πŸ” 13478 πŸ’¬ 2114 πŸ“Œ 731

This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.

11.12.2024 22:43 πŸ‘ 7274 πŸ” 2288 πŸ’¬ 153 πŸ“Œ 284

When Trump says "we want our FBI back" what he really means is, he wants to make sure they can never investigate or prosecute him again. This is not democracy.

11.12.2024 20:52 πŸ‘ 7531 πŸ” 1923 πŸ’¬ 411 πŸ“Œ 89

A reminder that Christopher Wray, a lifelong Republican, was appointed FBI Director by Donald Trump but later became a target of Trump and MAGA after refusing to follow Trump’s illegal orders, lie on his behalf, and his role in the investigation of the Jan. 6 inssurection

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We Can’t Just Tune Out Donald Trump Exhaustion is understandable after a bitter election, but ignoring what’s happening won’t make it go away.

β€œWe are a country that stands on the precipice, just six weeks away from swearing in, for the second time, a wannabe β€œdictator” with ambitions to wildly reshape our democracy. There is a desire to tune out. I get it.”

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/w...

10.12.2024 19:19 πŸ‘ 9871 πŸ” 2766 πŸ’¬ 775 πŸ“Œ 189
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A little louder for the folks in the back:

The development of vaccines is likely the greatest achievement of mankind.

www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...

09.12.2024 02:31 πŸ‘ 31603 πŸ” 7698 πŸ’¬ 576 πŸ“Œ 305
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My daughter and I are obsessed with Patrick O'Brian's "Master and Commander" books. There is much drinking of grog in these books, so we whipped up a batch. Not bad, though quite apt to make you start belting out sea shanties at the top of your lungs if you indulge in more than a single glass.

07.12.2024 22:38 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Cassidy Hutchinson is one of the many people on Trash Patel's hit list.

Her "crime"?

She testified before the j6 committee. She was pressured by Trump's camp to downplay what she knew. She did not.

This is one of the many reasons Trash Patel cannot have any role in law enforcement.

05.12.2024 22:54 πŸ‘ 25438 πŸ” 5659 πŸ’¬ 519 πŸ“Œ 142

Will do!

05.12.2024 22:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks so much!

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I would subscribe to all of Candice's suggestions and I've assembled a few more in a Narrative Nonfiction starter pack here: bsky.app/starter-pack...

02.12.2024 00:20 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Aye!

28.11.2024 20:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Post by Musk:

Vindman is on the payroll of Ukrainian oligarchs and has committed treason against the United States, for which he will pay the appropriate penalty

Post by Musk: Vindman is on the payroll of Ukrainian oligarchs and has committed treason against the United States, for which he will pay the appropriate penalty

Elon Musk thinks HE won the election and gets to be the autocrat. Fascist and delusional to the core.

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