Right-wing conspiracy theories about Paul Pelosi haven’t stopped

They’ve all been debunked but the Trump cult won’t apologize or stop. I’ll bet 1/3 of the country believes their disgusting lies.

It’s a weird derangement when simple human sympathy cannot be summoned for an 82-year-old battered in a home invasion. https://t.co/l2qNCFWGSg pic.twitter.com/5NHSUpqA33
— Sheldon Whitehouse (@SenWhitehouse) October 31, 2022

The DePape charges make very clear that Elon Musk spread homophobic disinformation about the Pelosi attack to downplay the role politics played in it. An absolutely shameful episode illustrating what a clown the guy is. https://t.co/5xCQZXbaZR
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 31, 2022

I think Pelosi's attacker is a lot like the guy who shot Scalise. There are two differences.

1. There seem to be a lot more unstable people motivated to violence on the right.

2. More pundits on the right celebrating the violence.

This incident feels like a turning point. https://t.co/UzoBb1po8T
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) October 31, 2022

Thread: The FBI's newly released criminal complaint against the man charged with attacking Pelosi features a summary of a Mirandized interview in which, per the FBI summary, *the man himself* essentially debunks the conspiracy theories about the incident.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 31, 2022

This puts all the conspiracy theories about the Pelosi attack not being politically motivated to rest. Political violence like this is not just normalized in the MAGA movement, it grows there. https://t.co/gv3A0Revbw
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) October 31, 2022

Over the weekend, watching the reaction to the assault on Paul Pelosi, I just gave up. We are on the very brink of handing the country over to the lost and the mad. https://t.co/lZiBHdCh6L
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) October 31, 2022

Stanford mascot suspended for holding “Stanford hates fun” sign

Yesterday the Stanford administration suspended The Tree mascot for the rest of the calendar year because it displayed a “Stanford Hates Fun” sign at a football game.

Here’s the background on what led to the sign: https://t.co/h0iARpvavo pic.twitter.com/ecwEkc4cY4
— RedditCFB (@RedditCFB) October 31, 2022

FREE THE TREE – Pathetic, 2-Ply Soft Stanford Suspended Their Iconic Mascot For Holding Up A Sign That Said 'Stanford Hates Fun' https://t.co/2COenVyPFi pic.twitter.com/ZkhsOLiJXH
— Barstool Sports (@barstoolsports) October 31, 2022

Stanford student suspended from serving as Tree mascot. High drama on mascot Twitter. https://t.co/oGMCWU6Cy6
— Jeff Plaman (@jplaman) October 31, 2022

Right-wing poisonous use of “regime”

About 2/3 of Republicans will never accept that Biden won in 2020. This is one way they show it. “Regime” makes it sound like dictators, not elected officials. Just search “Biden Regime” on Twitter to see GOP garbage.

Everyone is talking about the dumb right wing talking point that Alex Jones is being persecuted by the "regime."

So a reminder: The right's specific use of the term "regime" is much broader. It's about delegitimizing rule of law itself — at least when it's applied to them. See: https://t.co/exrhLrcyjy
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) October 13, 2022

Tweets on climate change – 10/31/22 update

Yet another way climate drives inflation, and yet another issue Republicans ignore as they gorge on fossil fuel political $$$. https://t.co/d9F9ycOWFe
— Sheldon Whitehouse (@SenWhitehouse) October 31, 2022

Five years ago, @dwallacewells wrote a magazine article about worst-case climate scenarios. But today, as he explores in @NYTMag's Climate Issue, the most likely outcome is neither relief nor apocalypse: It is warming between 2 and 3 degrees Celsius. https://t.co/xTDPSklQLj
— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 28, 2022

Coastal property owners are told its time to move or floodproof their homes — climate change costs are real and now immediate. https://t.co/SIznNSUWaC
— Sheldon Whitehouse (@SenWhitehouse) October 27, 2022

The international community needs to be six times more ambitious than it has been in the past year if it wants to avoid catastrophic climate change https://t.co/1S7m4tKPoV
— Bloomberg Green (@climate) October 19, 2022

Climate change is unlocking a new crossroads and potential center of conflict: the Arctic. https://t.co/LgT2s0rTT0
— CNN (@CNN) October 16, 2022

Climate change is making the fall allergy season longer and more intense. Here's how to cope. https://t.co/Z0ijJBAfHo
— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 8, 2022

Today's super-depressing @axios data viz:

Austin pop. has grown 167% since 1991 and our very hot days are up 553%.

McAllen's pop. has grown 118% and very hot days are up 724%https://t.co/cDcXzT1mRm pic.twitter.com/D1bZrVtXDh
— Evan Smith (@evanasmith) October 5, 2022

Horrible news: @Amtrak @PacSurfliners between LA & San Diego has been suspended indefinitely due to coastal erosion.

The route was the 2nd busiest intercity rail corridor in the US, w/ 26 daily trains & ~3M riders per year.

Climate change is here, and we are totally unprepared pic.twitter.com/wxJULUqczq
— Jacob Mandel 🚲🚋🌴 (@TallDarknJewish) September 30, 2022

Inflation has affected the world, not just the US

The main cause of inflation around the world is simple: energy supply shocks.

And I know this really hurts the GOP narrative, but: the U.S. has seen less inflation than its peers because it is far more energy independent and producing more oil and gas than anyone else. https://t.co/8hGEtLTLJb
— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) October 23, 2022

Inflation rates around the world:

Turkey: 83.45%
Argentina: 83%
Netherlands: 14.5%
Russia: 13.7%
UK: 10.1%
Germany: 10%
Europe: 9.9%
Spain: 8.9%
Italy: 8.9%
Mexico: 8.7%
United States: 8.2%

(per @tEconomics)
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) October 23, 2022

Excellent point on GOP polls

Republicans will use this as a reason not to accept election results.

They’re flooding the zone with GOP polls so they can game the polling averages and claim election was stolen if Dems do better than expected. RCP and @NateSilver538 are getting played. https://t.co/OK0PidqxNw
— Jonathan Alter (@jonathanalter) October 30, 2022

We need to start talking about the flood of GOP-aligned polls in the poll averages.

In national polling there are 5-6 GOP polls for every Dem aligned poll.

In PA 3 of 5 public polls we have from Oct are from GOP aligned firms.

Become too much of a thing to ignore.
— Simon Rosenberg (@SimonWDC) October 24, 2022

NYT/Siena finds stronger results for Dems than the current poll averages (which are largely driven now by GOP pollsters like Trafalgar) across the four most critical Senate races.

The 49-44 Fetterman lead only *partly* after the debate. https://t.co/fBSn2CNQeC pic.twitter.com/tiCPBXXEy1
— Taniel (@Taniel) October 31, 2022

GOP polls have really been flooding the zone in Georgia. There have been five GOP polls of GA-SEN released this week. Zero nonpartisan polls. Last week ECU released a poll showing Warnock up 49-47. Only nonpartisan poll we've had.
— Drew Savicki 👻👻🦇🦇🎃🎃 (@DrewSav) October 28, 2022

After a flood of GOP outlier polls in all of these races designed to create stories about an impending red wave and digging into why Dems are losing ("is it crime/inflation?"), NYT/Siena suggests not much has changed in these races in the past two weeks. https://t.co/NexzmALJcf
— Tom Bonier (@tbonier) October 31, 2022

More on antisemitism

I am 69 and Jewish. I think there is more public antisemitism than at any point in my life. I blame Trump for making it acceptable for his cult. It’s right there with their anti-Asian and Anti-Black hatred.

"For Jews, just 2 percent of the population but the targets of 55 percent of reported religiously motivated hate crimes, the trend revives centuries-old fears."https://t.co/iXE7wX0bk4
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) October 29, 2022

Totally normal stuff from the GOP in 2022. It’s all unleashed now – the antisemitism, the anti-Black racism, the incitement to violence. https://t.co/cPNse2NCzt
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) October 29, 2022

The voters of Nevada have a choice. Please, reject this.👇

"A Twitter account connected to former Laxalt staffer Michael Pecjak has compared abortion to the Holocaust and claimed that 'Jews are not a religious sect and are a cult,' among other comments."https://t.co/yrjxsQ80DR
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) October 31, 2022

As a Jew who grew up in the heartland, I remember my friends’ parents casually telling me how sad it was that my family was going to hell.

So when a gentile says they love Israel more than a lot of Jews do, I hear:

“We need Jews to housesit Israel until the rapture arrives.” https://t.co/IIqPd5kTIq
— Jason Kander (@JasonKander) October 30, 2022

It was displayed on outside of stadium at UF/UGA game in Jacksonville earlier tonight and now on outside of other Jacksonville buildings like this one. pic.twitter.com/EZ9XH7fIrU
— Daniel Uhlfelder (@DWUhlfelderLaw) October 30, 2022

At Chaffee and I-10 in Jacksonville. #AntiSemitism on another American overpass. This is horrifying. pic.twitter.com/3ICenqPR4P
— Melissa Ross (@MelissainJax) October 28, 2022

On the rise of an ever more open antisemitic discourse in the US – it strikes me that our schools should not just focus on the Holocaust, but also teach something about the many century long often brutal Christian oppression and subjugation of Jews in Europe.
— Jason Stanley (@jasonintrator) October 25, 2022

A week ago Donald Trump threatened American Jews to "get their act together" "before it is too late" on his social media website.

The right-wing media has turned up the volume on antisemitism considerably.

A non-exhaustive thread of examples: 🧵
— Madeline Peltz (@peltzmadeline) October 23, 2022

Covers: Theme from New York, New York

“Theme from New York, New York” is famous because of Frank Sinatra’s version. It was originally recorded by Liza Minnelli in the film New York, New York. Read this Twitter thread for some history.

The song New York, New York, only existing because Martin Scorsese decided to make a musical called New York, New York, and it needed a titular theme, one of Marty's most underrated cultural flexes considering the life it's had since
— John Frankensteiner (@JFrankensteiner) October 31, 2022

Terrible New York Times column

Blaming Biden for lack of media coverage is ridiculous! The media has to take responsibility for their excessive coverage of Trump and inadequate coverage of Biden.

In Opinion

"Biden has not been a strong enough communicator or presence to make Trump seem irrelevant," @ezraklein writes. https://t.co/RTRr5qeg8e
— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 30, 2022

Do you ever see regular people on TV who say the election was fair and Biden won? No. All you see is interviews with right-wing extremists spewing conspiracy theories. I guess basic facts would be boring TV by comparison. I’ve stopped watching cable news. /2
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) October 31, 2022

TV coverage of Biden’s bills focused on the Manchin/Sinema politics, not the substance of the legislation. Coverage in the New York Times and Washington Post was much better. People don’t appreciate what Biden has accomplished because TV covered political intrigue instead.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) October 31, 2022

Wisconsin’s extreme Republican gerrymandering

Obama cites chilling stat from my new article on impact of extreme gerrymandering in Wisconsin: "Democrats have to win statewide vote by 12 points just to get to 50 seats in the assembly, while Republicans could garner a majority with just 44% of votes" https://t.co/aZYAbyXasY https://t.co/YYJPAxAIvk
— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) October 30, 2022

How Wisconsin became ground zero for American polarization: Once a true swing state, election results show Wisconsin’s political divides have become more calcified along county lines as the country has polarized. (@Dchinni @chucktodd) Details: https://t.co/nyTGOg0pgP pic.twitter.com/S8YbOodvOq
— Opinion Today (@OpinionToday) October 16, 2022

In the WI competitive authoritarian state the gerrymandered legislature and the supreme court are unwilling to accept the risk that the voters might disagree with them. And so they have established a political system where it’s heads I win, tails you lose. https://t.co/ec2VVPjc0s
— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn) October 13, 2022

Wisconsin is two races away from becoming a totalitarian state. How the hell did that happen? https://t.co/LKUPC4Z6Ce
— Dan Froomkin/PressWatchers.org (@froomkin) August 15, 2022

Wisconsin is not a democracy. Given gerrymandering, the outcome of the midterms for the Wisconsin legislature is pre-ordained, despite the fact it is a purple state. It’s been that way for a decade and it will be that way for at least another decade. https://t.co/mIzV1lizCD
— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn) August 14, 2022

Other than the US Supreme Court, the Wisconsin Supreme Court is the most partisan and corrupt in America. Today's blatantly partisan decision to ban dropboxes confirms that. Outrageous and despicable.
— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) July 8, 2022