Terrible Republican behavior in North Carolina

Gutting the power of the governor and attorney general who are Democrats. They also have a bad challenge to an election they lost.

1/ A Republican judge who narrowly lost a race for a seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court is trying to get around 60,000 ballots thrown out based on a theory that some election deniers worried was too extreme: http://www.propublica.org/article/jeff…

— Doug Bock Clark (@dougbockclark.bsky.social) 2024-12-24T14:51:39.796Z

The President and Vice President should publicly condemn what NC Republicans are doing as we condemn illiberal acts across the world. What NC Rs are doing is wrong, and our leaders should say so.

— Simon Rosenberg (@simonwdc.bsky.social) 2024-12-14T14:53:36.956Z

Since the Tea Party take-over of the North Carolina GOP, the state has moved to the forefront of undemocratic measures to protect minority power.

— Cas Ⓜ️udde 🤷‍♂️ (@casmudde.bsky.social) 2024-12-12T23:21:32.111Z

Among other things, the bill moves authority over elections to the state auditor—not a role that oversees elections anywhere else—simply because a Republican happened to win that race last month

— The Downballot (@the-downballot.com) 2024-12-11T22:01:09.316Z

Republicans are also trying to overturn their loss for North Carolina's Supreme Court, whose 5-2 GOP majority legalized gerrymandering & upheld voting restrictions in 2023.The only way voters can make elections fairer is electing a Dem majority, but the GOP stealing this seat would shift it to 6-1

— Stephen Wolf (@stephenwolf.bsky.social) 2024-12-11T21:54:01.690Z

🚨BREAKING: Third Count a Charm: Riggs Wins North Carolina Supreme Court Race! http://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/…

— Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) 2024-12-10T22:29:04.612Z

Everyone should know about what's happening in North Carolina. Republicans are using Trump's playbook to try to overturn an election. I wrote about it last week:

— Judd Legum (@juddlegum.bsky.social) 2024-12-08T16:56:53.385Z

CNN’s terrible description of Trump’s bullying of other countries

Looks like they have caved in, too. Cowards. They also left out Trump’s problems in Panama which could motivate him for revenge. See the last article.

CNN is hopelessly broken.1. This "expansion" would require military invasions of several allies in violation of international law.2. It would violate several treaties.3. The Louisiana Purchase was the sale of land by a colonial power (France). These are sovereign nations.

— Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) 2024-12-24T16:58:01.510Z

This is better than what I wrote.

Oh, did he “tease” seizing other countries’ territory, @cnn.com? What a little scamp he is. What an incorrigible rascal.

— Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) 2024-12-24T04:02:21.265Z

My reply:

The US bought the Louisiana Purchase from France. That’s not the same as Trump threatening other countries. Another CNN failure.

— Harris Levy (@harrislevy.bsky.social) 2024-12-24T17:23:35.899Z

US President-elect Donald Trump over the weekend suggested the US should retake the Panama Canal, an idea that was immediately rejected by the government of Panama, which has controlled the passage for decades. Here's a look back at the history of the canal.

— CNN (@cnn.com) 2024-12-23T22:28:12.641Z

You left this out:bsky.app/profile/drer…

— Harris Levy (@harrislevy.bsky.social) 2024-12-24T02:44:18.352Z

Probably left it out deliberately. The media is sucking up to Trump.

— Harris Levy (@harrislevy.bsky.social) 2024-12-24T02:45:00.497Z
https://mail.yahoo.com/d/search/keyword=polock/messages/ABGWSflVa2mXZICqJQI-OFzw_OU
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JW_Marriott_Panama

Musk supports German neo-Nazis

Not like there was any doubt at this point but Musk just is a Nazi http://www.reuters.com/world/europe…

— Adam Gurri (@adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com) 2024-12-20T12:23:13.007Z

The below statement by Elon Musk is authentic. The AfD demands a “reversal” of Holocaust remembrance in Germany and states that the Nazi Schutzstaffel were “not criminals”. More here—> amp.dw.com/en/how-much-… …and here—> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/10…

— Michael Clemens (@mclem.org) 2024-12-20T11:20:44.865Z

Elon Musk weighed in on the German election, saying only the AfD party, a group with neo-Nazi ties, “can save” the country. It was not the first intervention by Musk on behalf of once-fringe anti-immigrant parties in Europe.

— The New York Times (@nytimes.com) 2024-12-20T18:19:37.208Z

Is Musk in charge of the GOP? It’s bad news

Looks like we are heading for another Republican government shutdown. There was a deal between Democrats and Republicans until Musk stepped in. His behavior is disgraceful.

@paris.nycReminder: No one elected Elon Musk…Under pressure from Elon Musk, House GOP prepares to scrap spending bill http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/202…

— Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis (@jeffjarvis.bsky.social) 2024-12-18T21:44:54.751Z

Musk, the wealthiest man in the world, says don't worry about the impact of an extended government shutdown on members of the military, seniors who rely on social security, and other government workers.They'll be "fine" he says

— Judd Legum (@juddlegum.bsky.social) 2024-12-18T20:21:51.689Z

Elon Musk, the wealthiest man in the world who has recently decided he is an expert on federal spending, says the only acceptable course of action is to shut the entire federal government down for at least one month.

— Judd Legum (@juddlegum.bsky.social) 2024-12-18T20:17:12.889Z

It doesn't look like Mike Johnson's text thread with Elon Musk is going that well

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2024-12-18T18:42:08.925Z

BREAKING: Trump opposes the 3-month spending stopgap introduced by Mike Johnson to avoid a government shutdown.

— Axios (@axios.com) 2024-12-18T21:32:12.199Z

NEW: Elon Musk railed against the bill to avert a looming government shutdown. Any member who votes in favor of the bill should be voted out of office, Musk wrote, repeatedly characterizing it as "criminal."

— Axios (@axios.com) 2024-12-18T19:47:51.214Z

House Republicans' conservative wing is lining up against the bill to fund the government, which they say is over-stuffed with legislative hobby horses.Some are singling out the pay raise in their condemnations.

— Axios (@axios.com) 2024-12-18T20:06:48.338Z