MMCforDemocracy
@mmcfordemocracy.bsky.social
Supporter of the Constitution of the United States of America, web developer (Python, Django, Wagtail), Clean Lab designer, husband, father, dog lover (especially Golden Retrievers).
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Three Wins Today (March 12, 2025)
1. Guantánamo Bay has been cleared out again. We don’t know why, but I’m sure it has something to do with backlash.
2. Tim Walz is headed out on a town hall tour in Red district! He is starting in Zach Nunn’s district in Iowa
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1. Guantánamo Bay has been cleared out again. We don’t know why, but I’m sure it has something to do with backlash.
2. Tim Walz is headed out on a town hall tour in Red district! He is starting in Zach Nunn’s district in Iowa
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March 13, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Three Wins Today (March 12, 2025)
1. Guantánamo Bay has been cleared out again. We don’t know why, but I’m sure it has something to do with backlash.
2. Tim Walz is headed out on a town hall tour in Red district! He is starting in Zach Nunn’s district in Iowa
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1. Guantánamo Bay has been cleared out again. We don’t know why, but I’m sure it has something to do with backlash.
2. Tim Walz is headed out on a town hall tour in Red district! He is starting in Zach Nunn’s district in Iowa
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I do feel as if we’re on the precipice of drastic change. HCR has mentioned the phrase “slowly then suddenly” before & I feel like we’re about to be saying that.
Maybe when people wake up they’ll want to work together for a better future because they finally realize how they were played.
Maybe.
Maybe when people wake up they’ll want to work together for a better future because they finally realize how they were played.
Maybe.
March 2, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I do feel as if we’re on the precipice of drastic change. HCR has mentioned the phrase “slowly then suddenly” before & I feel like we’re about to be saying that.
Maybe when people wake up they’ll want to work together for a better future because they finally realize how they were played.
Maybe.
Maybe when people wake up they’ll want to work together for a better future because they finally realize how they were played.
Maybe.
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Everyone seems to be forgetting that Bongino got his big break as a video host for the NRA. They are putting an NRA spokesman as the Deputy FBI Director.
February 24, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Everyone seems to be forgetting that Bongino got his big break as a video host for the NRA. They are putting an NRA spokesman as the Deputy FBI Director.
.@amandamarcotte.bsky.social with a searing portrait of the DOGE bros dismembering the US government. www.salon.com/2025/02/24/w...
What Musk's war on federal workers owes to Gamergate, the long-ago troll tantrum
Culture war for the stupid era kicked off with video gamers mad at ladies who have sex
www.salon.com
February 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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"A committee that has less academic expertise, spends less time digging into scientific data, and is less inclined to recommend any vaccines could, over time, erode America’s defenses—inviting more disease, and more death, all of it preventable."
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
How America’s Fire Wall Against Disease Starts to Fail
Changing the membership of an obscure advisory committee could have an outsize effect on Americans’ protection against disease.
www.theatlantic.com
January 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
"A committee that has less academic expertise, spends less time digging into scientific data, and is less inclined to recommend any vaccines could, over time, erode America’s defenses—inviting more disease, and more death, all of it preventable."
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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So let me get this straight, Rev Lorenzo Sewell gave an over the top prayer at the inauguration, and then literally launched a crypto coin after?
This is just the biggest grift in human history. Ever. OMG
This is just the biggest grift in human history. Ever. OMG
January 23, 2025 at 1:51 PM
So let me get this straight, Rev Lorenzo Sewell gave an over the top prayer at the inauguration, and then literally launched a crypto coin after?
This is just the biggest grift in human history. Ever. OMG
This is just the biggest grift in human history. Ever. OMG
Handing out paper towels.
#BREAKING The first trip for #Trump includes a stop in #AshevilleNC according to PNN sources, he will also be traveling to #LosAngeles and #LasVegas on Friday
January 20, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Handing out paper towels.
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Corporate filings in Delaware show that an LLC related to the new Trump crypto company was just created a few days ago.
January 18, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Corporate filings in Delaware show that an LLC related to the new Trump crypto company was just created a few days ago.
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Donald Trump launched a crypto currency. This is going to go down in history as the most corrupt self centered President in history. I PROMISE
January 19, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Donald Trump launched a crypto currency. This is going to go down in history as the most corrupt self centered President in history. I PROMISE
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Trump hated TikTok (because China) until it helped him win an election (as even he acknowledges) and now he’s going to save it and take a victory lap. So he’ll have X, TikTok, Insta, and Facebook all working on his behalf. That’s a big difference between now and 2017.
January 19, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Trump hated TikTok (because China) until it helped him win an election (as even he acknowledges) and now he’s going to save it and take a victory lap. So he’ll have X, TikTok, Insta, and Facebook all working on his behalf. That’s a big difference between now and 2017.
I don’t think it is a ring they are kissing.
New in PN: @jttaplin.bsky.social on our new Trumpian oligarchy
"Zuckerberg is a fool to say this is a cultural shift. Bullshit. It isn’t. It’s just people who are craven cowards bowing down and kissing the ring."
"Zuckerberg is a fool to say this is a cultural shift. Bullshit. It isn’t. It’s just people who are craven cowards bowing down and kissing the ring."
Jonathan Taplin on our new Trumpian oligarchy
"It’s just people who are craven cowards bowing down and kissing the ring."
www.publicnotice.co
January 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I don’t think it is a ring they are kissing.
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I can't imagine a better debunking of all the lies tied to the California fires. Kudos to @politicsgirl.bsky.social for creating such quality content!
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LA Fire Disinformation
YouTube video by PoliticsGirl
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January 17, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I can't imagine a better debunking of all the lies tied to the California fires. Kudos to @politicsgirl.bsky.social for creating such quality content!
youtu.be/JG1G0P0C1_s?...
youtu.be/JG1G0P0C1_s?...
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January 16, 2025
January 16, 2025
In his final address to the nation last night, President Joe Biden issued a warning that “an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power, and influence that literally threatens our e...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
January 17, 2025 at 8:01 AM
January 16, 2025
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"The bros’ and theobros’ eerily similar views of women and sex bind them together under the MAGA banner. And in Pete Hegseth, this misogynistic marriage from hell is embodied in one deeply flawed and unqualified person."
NEW from @hollybfletcher.bsky.social:
NEW from @hollybfletcher.bsky.social:
Pete Hegseth and the Pornhub–Purity Culture Coalition
What explains today’s political alliance of worldly bros and high-minded theobros? Start with the presumptive SecDef’s views on women and sex.
www.thebulwark.com
January 16, 2025 at 4:45 PM
"The bros’ and theobros’ eerily similar views of women and sex bind them together under the MAGA banner. And in Pete Hegseth, this misogynistic marriage from hell is embodied in one deeply flawed and unqualified person."
NEW from @hollybfletcher.bsky.social:
NEW from @hollybfletcher.bsky.social:
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Birthright citizenship. Pam’s unable to commit that as Attorney General she’ll acknowledge being born in America, makes you American.
Padilla: Will you defend birthright citizenship as the law of the land?
Bondi: I will study birthright citizenship
Padilla: You're asking to be considered for Attorney General and you still need to study the 14th Amendment of the Constitution?
Bondi: I will study birthright citizenship
Padilla: You're asking to be considered for Attorney General and you still need to study the 14th Amendment of the Constitution?
January 16, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Birthright citizenship. Pam’s unable to commit that as Attorney General she’ll acknowledge being born in America, makes you American.
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I made a little picture to help explain to the MAGAts why Pete Hegseth's utter ignorance about ASEAN actually matters, especially for a guy who says he wants to roll back Chinese influence.
January 15, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I made a little picture to help explain to the MAGAts why Pete Hegseth's utter ignorance about ASEAN actually matters, especially for a guy who says he wants to roll back Chinese influence.
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Issuing blanket pardons for the January 6 rioters would be an assault on the criminal-justice system—and, in particular, the judges who have worked tirelessly to handle nearly 1,600 cases, Mary McCord argues.
A Sweeping January 6 Pardon Is an Attack on the Judiciary
The federal judges who stewarded these cases deserve more respect than that.
www.theatlantic.com
January 16, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Issuing blanket pardons for the January 6 rioters would be an assault on the criminal-justice system—and, in particular, the judges who have worked tirelessly to handle nearly 1,600 cases, Mary McCord argues.
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This is an excellent piece from Phillips O’Brien on Russian sabotage and other aspects of its hybrid operations in Europe. This form of strategic coercion is a method that the authoritarian learning community is sharing with each other across the globe. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
A Wider War Has Already Started in Europe
Putin’s not-so-quiet sabotage campaign against European democracies
www.theatlantic.com
January 15, 2025 at 9:11 PM
This is an excellent piece from Phillips O’Brien on Russian sabotage and other aspects of its hybrid operations in Europe. This form of strategic coercion is a method that the authoritarian learning community is sharing with each other across the globe. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
January 15, 2025 at 7:35 PM
All of these nomination hearings in a nutshell:
Congress: “Will you break the law if the President tells you to?”
Nominee: “That’s for me to know and you to find out.”
Congress: “Will you break the law if the President tells you to?”
Nominee: “That’s for me to know and you to find out.”
January 15, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I don't know which is the better metaphor. Was it more like that incredibly loud crack when ice shifts on a cold winters lake, or the sonic booms we would hear back in the 60's and 70's when aircraft broke the sound barrier? That 5-4 decision was memorable. I'm happy, at least momentarily.
January 10, 2025 at 12:51 PM
I don't know which is the better metaphor. Was it more like that incredibly loud crack when ice shifts on a cold winters lake, or the sonic booms we would hear back in the 60's and 70's when aircraft broke the sound barrier? That 5-4 decision was memorable. I'm happy, at least momentarily.
If we allow them to get away with this, red states around the country will copy this playbook. It’s complete voter disenfranchisement.
A serious constitutional crisis is taking place in North Carolina where Republicans are trying to steal a state Supreme Court election by disenfranchising 60,000 voters AFTER the count and recount have showed the Democrat won.
Please watch and share.
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Please watch and share.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5yW...
January 9, 2025 at 1:18 PM
From 1440.com
"Meta CEO Zuckerberg announced broad changes to the social media company's content moderation policies yesterday, including ending its US fact-checking program and removing restrictions on sensitive political content on its platforms, including Facebook and Instagram."
"Meta CEO Zuckerberg announced broad changes to the social media company's content moderation policies yesterday, including ending its US fact-checking program and removing restrictions on sensitive political content on its platforms, including Facebook and Instagram."
January 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
From 1440.com
"Meta CEO Zuckerberg announced broad changes to the social media company's content moderation policies yesterday, including ending its US fact-checking program and removing restrictions on sensitive political content on its platforms, including Facebook and Instagram."
"Meta CEO Zuckerberg announced broad changes to the social media company's content moderation policies yesterday, including ending its US fact-checking program and removing restrictions on sensitive political content on its platforms, including Facebook and Instagram."
The GOP in NC is a bunch of bad faith partisans, and that’s nowhere more evident than in the state Supreme Court, which has now halted the election certification of Justice Allison Riggs over a dangerous and frankly absurd claim. My write up: https://buff.ly/4gJOTqh
January 8, 2025 at 4:55 PM
