Source: https://www.thedailybeast.com/laura-ingrahams-brother-goes-to-war-against-her
More happy Thanksgiving times coming up.
«Curtis Ingraham wants people to know that his sister, the right-wing Fox News host Laura Ingraham, is the ultimate ‘hypocrite.’»
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/11/senate-democrats-mcconnell-midterms-2018-815705
Some loaded language here, but:
«Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is planning to keep the chamber in session for a significant portion of October if not four entire weeks, costing Democrats key campaign trail days and allowing the Senate to continue its work into the fall, according to five Republican officials. The Kentucky Republican wants to keep cranking through as many lifetime judicial nominations and executive nominations as he can with his majority in the balance and the GOP still with the unilateral ability to confirm President Donald Trump’s picks.»
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1039122374204026880.html
Humor. Of sorts.
Holy moly.
«Members of the state board of elections, split evenly between Democrats and Republicans, voted unanimously to fight the subpoena, which would overwhelm local boards’ administrative capacity.»
Source: http://www.shakesville.com/2018/09/mike-pence-makes-his-move.html
This sounds about right. Trump is not the problem, the entire Republican party is. (Including the Never-Trumpers and other “moderate” Republicans.) Focusing on Trump will lead us to miss the threat after he’s gone.
«Pence is an illiberal, authoritarian snake who isn’t “resisting” Trump and participating with Mueller’s investigation because he cares about this nation or its democratic institutions; it’s because he cares about his own personal ambitions for the presidency more than anything else on the planet.
It’s because he would like to be the one behind whom the Republican Party completes the consolidation of its power.»
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pranavdixit/whatsapp-destroyed-village-lynchings-rainpada-india
«In attempting to fulfill Facebook’s current mission — to “give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together” — Zuckerberg and his team of Silicon Valley–based executives failed to foresee its malignant applications: misinformation, propaganda, rumor, hate.»
Obviously, not just Zuckerberg and not just Facebook.
Yup.
https://twitter.com/ezraklein/status/1038182324515401729?s=17
«Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) Tweeted:
Trump’s voters made a rational choice based on their beliefs about, and preferences for, the country they live in. There’s a powerful impulse to absolve them of that choice, to blame it on someone or something else, but doing so is a mistake. https://t.co/QXeCNCe4we »
Ha! I FOUND it!
What, nobody’s dealt with a pathological liar before?
https://twitter.com/DavidPriess/status/1038236286304313345?s=17
«Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) Tweeted:
RT @DavidPriess: I finally read this uncomfortable @MollyJongFast tale of a trust-abusing social media predator.Be wary of anyone claimin… »
Dumb technology making me look like a fool. I saw a great thread telling a story from a woman who didn’t find out until she was around 40 that her mother’s three pregnancies ruined her life and almost killed her, that her mom’s conservative doctor told her she had to keep on getting pregnant to satisfy her husband in spite of her depression and the pregnancies almost killing her, and a doctor who replaced the first doc (who was on vacation) figured out the problem, helped her get her tubes tied, and the original poster saying that as much as she loved life, her mom and all her family, she wished her mom had had the choice instead of some man making a decision for her…
…so I posted it (I THOUGHT) from my Android device, but some piece of moronic software somewhere in the pipeline decided that “share” didn’t really mean that, so an empty article came through from my blog making me look dumb.
And now I can’t find the original Twitter thread, because it’s like a leaf on the Twitter river, lost forever in time, in spite of my search attempts.
Aargh!!!
Here, Read This 