Month: January 2025

More on the disgraceful Republican election challenge in North Carolina

A three-judge panel in the North Carolina Court of Appeals will hear state Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin’s ongoing case on March 21 to overturn the results of his highly contentious election.

— Democracy Docket (@democracydocket.com) 2025-03-16T15:07:53.939Z

"This is an effort to invalidate votes, even though there is no indication that they’re fraudulent or that voters would have known they could be problematic…"www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202…

— Rachel Maddow (@maddow.msnbc.com) 2025-01-08T21:53:05.612Z
https://www.propublica.org/article/jefferson-griffin-north-carolina-supreme-court-challenge-election-integrity-network

Trump lies – say it

I have repeatedly pointed out the media’s cowardice about calling Trump a liar. The Post article cites his “penchant for rambling tangents, insults, false statements and hyperbole.”

At least the New York Times did fact-checking.

Lies. Why not say lies. Why not explore why he lies. Why all authoritarians lie. FFS

— Jen Rubin (@jenrubin.bsky.social) 2025-01-07T21:49:05.851Z

Trump declines to rule out ‘military or economic’ force to expand U.S. in a 70-minute, meandering news conference previewing his plans to disrupt global affairs and the U.S. justice system, with @KnowlesHannah @Cat_Zakrzewski http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202…

— Karen Tumulty (@ktumulty.bsky.social) 2025-01-07T21:58:20.432Z

The description below is better

https://twitter.com/Angry_Staffer/status/1876675751732298030

More on Zuckerberg/Meta sucking up to Trump

Joel Kaplan, who with Zuckerberg rolled out all these terrible Meta policies, is a not just an extreme partisan, he helped invent the notion that platforms were biased against conservative views, manipulating the algo to boost them and suppress MoJo specifically http://www.motherjones.com/media/2020/1…

— Clara Jeffery (@clarajeffery.bsky.social) 2025-01-07T16:49:27.884Z

Dana White, the CEO of UFC, which is basically an in kind donation to the GOP and Trump. We live in Idiocracy.

— Wajahat Ali (@wajali.bsky.social) 2025-01-07T00:46:54.682Z

According to Mark Zuckerberg, people who live in California are biased but people who live in Texas are objective

— Judd Legum (@juddlegum.bsky.social) 2025-01-07T15:07:31.157Z

Zuckerberg joins the surrender parade.www.mediaite.com/tv/facebook-…

— Charlie Sykes (@sykescharlie.bsky.social) 2025-01-07T15:01:57.689Z

Guys, the @nytimes.com published this just a few months ago.

— Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social) 2025-01-07T16:41:55.592Z

Mark Zuckerberg just Facebooked their fact-checking network. It's dead.

— Grant Stern (@grantstern.bsky.social) 2025-01-07T12:35:29.267Z

Facebook suppressed promotion of political content during a Democratic administration and is restoring it for a Republican one

— Drew Harwell (@drewharwell.com) 2025-01-07T12:41:18.365Z

Mark Zuckerberg is done with apologizing. Did a quick story on today’s news that Meta was ending its fact checker program, and what it says about Zuckerberg’s personal evolution: http://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01…

— Sheera Frenkel (@sheeraf.bsky.social) 2025-01-07T21:26:39.338Z

Meta is making big changes to hiring practices, sources told me and @mikeisaac.bsky.social – no more teams devoted to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion – no diversity preference for working with outside minority owned supplier businesses- no goals for hiring women and minorities

— kate conger (@kateconger.com) 2025-01-10T17:41:23.725Z

Plenty of lenses through which to view Trump's embrace by both the working class and tech billionaires, but I think one common thread is the Revenge of White Men. Covid, BLM, and gender critiques challenged their status and sense of entitlement, and they want it back. http://www.axios.com/2025/01/10/m…

— Will Oremus (@willoremus.com) 2025-01-10T18:42:14.311Z

every single one of these guys is an incel loser who thought that being rich would make them popular and well-liked and when it didn't happen they lost their minds even further

— jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) 2025-01-10T19:11:17.098Z

Republicans call us the enemy

Trump has called opponents the enemy within and vermin

Two observations:1. Mike Johnson leaks that he wants no leaks2. Mike Johnson just called Democrats and Americans in general the enemy.

— Adam Parkhomenko (@adamparkhomenko.bsky.social) 2025-01-04T21:47:45.643Z

I don’t want to hear any crap about unity from Republicans. They’re not interested in it since they think of opponents as the enemy.

— Harris Levy (@harrislevy.bsky.social) 2025-01-05T00:09:16.937Z

Republicans lie about Thomas Jefferson

I did a bit of newspaper research on the prayer that Mike Johnson falsely ascribed to Thomas Jefferson on the floor of the House of Representatives yesterday. The story of how that prayer came to be inaccurately associated with Jefferson and then became a meme is pretty wild.

— Seth Cotlar (@sethcotlar.bsky.social) 2025-01-04T17:00:56.746Z

The prayer that Mike Johnson attributed to Thomas Jefferson did not come from Jefferson. It came from a 1928 Episcopal prayer book.But the idea that *Jefferson* said it; that it is evidence the US was founded as a “Christian nation” … hoo boy where *that* came from is … well not surprising actually

— Lindsay P Cohn (@lindsaypcohn.bsky.social) 2025-01-05T12:10:56.675Z

House leader Mike Johnson read a prayer in the House, upon being voted Speaker. Johnson: "It is said" Thomas Jefferson recited this prayer publicly every day.#1 Saying prayers in Congress violates the separation of church and state.#2 Historians say Thomas Jefferson didn't say that prayer.

— Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) 2025-01-04T05:07:54.501Z