Bruce McFadden
@bmcfajdden.bsky.social
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I'll never get over that felony convictions can bar you from voting but not running for PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
A reminder as people go vote: Millions of people are barred from voting due to convictions.
In some states, this accounts for up to 10% of voting-age population! Just a startling amount.
Harshest are states with lifetime bans — you can lose your right for life for any felony.
In some states, this accounts for up to 10% of voting-age population! Just a startling amount.
Harshest are states with lifetime bans — you can lose your right for life for any felony.
October 31, 2024 at 10:17 PM
I'll never get over that felony convictions can bar you from voting but not running for PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
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But this is the larger point: It really is the GOP that did this. Want a villain? His name is Mitch McConnell. Want another one? His name is John Roberts.
Tl;dr: Everyone is angry at 43 GOP senators who were cowards & violated their oaths of office & should have been removed & barred from polite society forever. The rest is noise & misplaced anger at people who are not really the ones to blame for this national shame.
www.politico.com/interactives...
www.politico.com/interactives...
Here’s how senators voted on Trump's second impeachment
Seven Republican senators joined Democrats to convict the president.
www.politico.com
October 30, 2024 at 11:43 PM
But this is the larger point: It really is the GOP that did this. Want a villain? His name is Mitch McConnell. Want another one? His name is John Roberts.
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This is what it looks like when you've found the right person in the right place at the right moment.
Kamala Harris after she is interrupted by a demonstrator: "Ours is about a fight for democracy and your right to be heard. That is what is on the line in this election. Look, everybody has a right to be heard, but right now I am speaking."
October 30, 2024 at 9:01 PM
This is what it looks like when you've found the right person in the right place at the right moment.
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The reason folks think we don’t need the EPA is because we have the EPA.
October 29th, 1948:
A historic smog event occurred in the town of Donora, Pennsylvania. The smog killed 20 people and sickened 7,000 more. The image, taken at noon on October 29th, shows the deadly smog blanketing Donora. The image is from the NOAA Ocean Service Education.
A historic smog event occurred in the town of Donora, Pennsylvania. The smog killed 20 people and sickened 7,000 more. The image, taken at noon on October 29th, shows the deadly smog blanketing Donora. The image is from the NOAA Ocean Service Education.
October 29, 2024 at 1:02 PM
The reason folks think we don’t need the EPA is because we have the EPA.
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"The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself."
-FDR , Message to Congress of Curbing Monopolies
www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/me...
-FDR , Message to Congress of Curbing Monopolies
www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/me...
October 25, 2024 at 4:33 PM
"The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself."
-FDR , Message to Congress of Curbing Monopolies
www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/me...
-FDR , Message to Congress of Curbing Monopolies
www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/me...
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“Never has there been such a chorus of officials who served a president telling the nation that under no circumstances should he be elected again.”
Gift link: wapo.st/4dZaokD
Gift link: wapo.st/4dZaokD
Opinion | The double standard for Harris and Trump has reached a breaking point
One candidate can rant about gibberish while the other has to be perfect.
wapo.st
October 25, 2024 at 10:34 AM
“Never has there been such a chorus of officials who served a president telling the nation that under no circumstances should he be elected again.”
Gift link: wapo.st/4dZaokD
Gift link: wapo.st/4dZaokD
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next weeks are gonna be butt-clenching as hell, but even if Harris wins, the US will still be a place where half the voting population is ok with fascism and that's, ughhhhhh, fucked up
50% of America views Trump as a fascist (which is why he's tied in the national polling, because apparently Americans are split on whether they want fascism.)
October 25, 2024 at 12:26 PM
next weeks are gonna be butt-clenching as hell, but even if Harris wins, the US will still be a place where half the voting population is ok with fascism and that's, ughhhhhh, fucked up
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Washington Post editor-at-large Robert Kagan told @maxtani.bsky.social that he has resigned from the newspaper over its decision not to endorse a presidential candidate
October 25, 2024 at 6:05 PM
Washington Post editor-at-large Robert Kagan told @maxtani.bsky.social that he has resigned from the newspaper over its decision not to endorse a presidential candidate
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Big news: For years I've been investigating Jared Kushner's business deals with foreign governments. He's masquerading as an investment manager, but the evidence I've seen makes him look like an unregistered foreign agent. Rep. Jamie Raskin and I are calling on the DOJ to appoint a special counsel.
Wyden, Raskin Call for Department of Justice to Appoint a Special Counsel to Investigate Jared Kushner for Acting as an Unregistered Foreign Agent | The United States Senate Committee on Finance
Wyden, Raskin Call for Department of Justice to Appoint a Special Counsel to Investigate Jared Kushner for Acting as an Unregistered Foreign Agent
www.finance.senate.gov
October 24, 2024 at 8:10 PM
Big news: For years I've been investigating Jared Kushner's business deals with foreign governments. He's masquerading as an investment manager, but the evidence I've seen makes him look like an unregistered foreign agent. Rep. Jamie Raskin and I are calling on the DOJ to appoint a special counsel.
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"We must not be neutral about this."
Wesleyan's Michael Roth telling it like it is about institutional neutrality.
I’m a College President. Universities Aren’t Ready for What’s Coming.
“Institutional neutrality” is all the rage. But right now we should be anything but neutral.
slate.com
October 24, 2024 at 6:00 PM
"We must not be neutral about this."
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I find myself thinking about this 2012 image produced by Mr. Fish far more than I'd like to. clowncrack.com/2016/11/16/l...
October 24, 2024 at 7:35 PM
I find myself thinking about this 2012 image produced by Mr. Fish far more than I'd like to. clowncrack.com/2016/11/16/l...
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Tom Edsall's 1984 book "The New Politics of Inequality" pointed to where things were headed and Hacker and Pierson's 2010 "Winner Take All Politics" is a good observation of the trend in progress
October 21, 2024 at 6:41 PM
Tom Edsall's 1984 book "The New Politics of Inequality" pointed to where things were headed and Hacker and Pierson's 2010 "Winner Take All Politics" is a good observation of the trend in progress
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The Biden admin finalized a rule to make it easier to cancel subscriptions, which would be the most popular thing since ice cream, and barely bothered to tell anyone about it.
They should have had Biden and Harris do a press conference and told every Dem to talk about nothing else for days.
They should have had Biden and Harris do a press conference and told every Dem to talk about nothing else for days.
October 22, 2024 at 1:16 AM
The Biden admin finalized a rule to make it easier to cancel subscriptions, which would be the most popular thing since ice cream, and barely bothered to tell anyone about it.
They should have had Biden and Harris do a press conference and told every Dem to talk about nothing else for days.
They should have had Biden and Harris do a press conference and told every Dem to talk about nothing else for days.
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tonight Trump gave up the game when he said we go back to the alien enemies act of 1798.
It allows the president to
Arrest, relocate, or deport any male over the age of 14 from a foreign enemy country
Target immigrants without a court hearing
He’s coming for anyone he pleases.
It allows the president to
Arrest, relocate, or deport any male over the age of 14 from a foreign enemy country
Target immigrants without a court hearing
He’s coming for anyone he pleases.
October 22, 2024 at 1:33 AM
tonight Trump gave up the game when he said we go back to the alien enemies act of 1798.
It allows the president to
Arrest, relocate, or deport any male over the age of 14 from a foreign enemy country
Target immigrants without a court hearing
He’s coming for anyone he pleases.
It allows the president to
Arrest, relocate, or deport any male over the age of 14 from a foreign enemy country
Target immigrants without a court hearing
He’s coming for anyone he pleases.
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One dynamic of this I've been tracking is this: Harris SHOULD NOT be talking nitty gritty abt Jan6 bc of the prosecution. Well, Cheney is the expert. And she speaks it well.
As she did, guy in back was nodding over and over.
As she did, guy in back was nodding over and over.
October 21, 2024 at 8:41 PM
One dynamic of this I've been tracking is this: Harris SHOULD NOT be talking nitty gritty abt Jan6 bc of the prosecution. Well, Cheney is the expert. And she speaks it well.
As she did, guy in back was nodding over and over.
As she did, guy in back was nodding over and over.
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Liz Cheney, Maria Shriver, and Kamala Harris sitting on a stage talking about bipartisanship.
www.c-span.org/video/?53938...
www.c-span.org/video/?53938...
October 21, 2024 at 8:35 PM
Liz Cheney, Maria Shriver, and Kamala Harris sitting on a stage talking about bipartisanship.
www.c-span.org/video/?53938...
www.c-span.org/video/?53938...
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yes, that was on purpose, it's what Republicans wanted to happen
Infants died at higher rates in the US following the Supreme Court decision that revoked the federal right to an abortion, new research finds
Infants died at higher rates after abortion bans in the US, research shows | CNN
In the year and a half following the Supreme Court Dobbs decision that revoked the federal right to an abortion, hundreds more infants died than expected in the United States, new research shows. The ...
www.cnn.com
October 21, 2024 at 4:19 PM
yes, that was on purpose, it's what Republicans wanted to happen
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“It’s an ambitious and highly motivated group, powered by self-interest and self-regard and unencumbered by self-doubt.”
Trump is merely an empty sail waiting for the next stiff breeze, these guys are true believers- and exceedingly dangerous.
Trump is merely an empty sail waiting for the next stiff breeze, these guys are true believers- and exceedingly dangerous.
Gifting this article from the NYT about this SV TechBro Billionaires are going full hog to elect Trump.
www.nytimes.com/2024/10/18/m...
www.nytimes.com/2024/10/18/m...
How Silicon Valley Billionaires Became Trump’s Biggest Donors
Elon Musk and a group of Silicon Valley allies have built a shadow campaign to put Donald Trump back in office.
www.nytimes.com
October 18, 2024 at 1:59 PM
“It’s an ambitious and highly motivated group, powered by self-interest and self-regard and unencumbered by self-doubt.”
Trump is merely an empty sail waiting for the next stiff breeze, these guys are true believers- and exceedingly dangerous.
Trump is merely an empty sail waiting for the next stiff breeze, these guys are true believers- and exceedingly dangerous.
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Trump's last line here - "they couldn't get me because i said it had to be peaceful" - is such a perfect encapsulation of his weaselly little method for encouraging political violence
This guy whose full time job is in construction just did a better job asking Trump about Jan 6 than every mainstream journalist in this country for the last 9 years, Chuck Todd should resign his job in shame and appoint this guy instead
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAUm...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAUm...
Trump asked about Jan 6 by Florida construction worker
YouTube video by Nimrod Kamer
www.youtube.com
October 18, 2024 at 2:44 PM
Trump's last line here - "they couldn't get me because i said it had to be peaceful" - is such a perfect encapsulation of his weaselly little method for encouraging political violence
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October 18, 2024 at 1:58 PM