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@Ihavenousefora1 @shipman96 She equated Jimmy D.'s simple "F you AOC" on youtube w/ actual violence. Which was a response to her gaslighting activists on forcing a M4A floor vote. And she seems to have an army of "shut down" trolls who speech-police people on the left for challenging her - 1/

@shipman96 not via logical argument, but fallacious ad hominem & strawman attacks. Trolling, basically. And I've been noticing her own rhetorical tactics lately. She engages in a lot of disingenuous dissembling, which I find pretty creepy in a kind of foreshadowing sense as to where 2/

@shipman96 this is heading for her, politically. All her bullshit over tossed salad on home video RE VZ, too, along with her "I haven't decided yet about Assange." I mean, I'll say it too: fk you, AOC. 3/

@shipman96 On VZ she was literally spouting CIA and Big Oil talking points for overthrowing an elected gov for OIL. And she's supposed to be all about a GND? But she's plugging for an oil coup d'etat? And then she's so horrified by this storming at the Capitol bldg? 4/

@shipman96 What does she think she's promoting for Venezuelans? Someone posted today she follows Guaido's account & we've seen her post in response to anonymous VZ coupist accounts -obsequiously thanking them for their *erudite* political advice; i.e. the same way she fawns over Pelosi
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@LuluLemew
“Every person I've ever known about that's been a white supremacist has left the movement through an act of compassion or love. They didn't leave it bc someone convinced them their belief systems were wrong.”

Daryl sounded the alarm back in 2009. His report was politicized by the GOP. He warned that white supremacy was on the rise.

He knows of what he speaks.

I strongly advise reading Hateland by Daryl Johnson & Breaking Hate by @cpicciolini to understand

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@LynwoodTalks
"Feel free to copy/paste, I did." ~ @lex31555

Here it is, abridged, and with pictures:

"I have listened to everyone else’s hatred, rhetoric and outright lies for the last four years, so now I am having my say.
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Joseph M. Firestone
Joseph M. Firestone
@joefirestonephd
@IndLeftNews @BenSpielberg @jimmy_dore (1) The #ReplacePelosiJan3 & negotiate w/other Speaker candidates 2 THEN #ForceTheVote + get more changes campaign was drowned out by the FTV movement. Today, the FTV ppl on the ground in DC r condemning Squad votes 4 Pelosi. Way too little & way 2 late.

@BenSpielberg @jimmy_dore (2) But, a more important 1, is that the Squad felt free 2 decide how 2 vote on Pelosi w/o consulting the ppl's movement. These advocates of bottom-up democracy did not practice it all when it came 2 the most important decision they would make during the next 2 years.

@BenSpielberg @jimmy_dore (3) They're not the only ones of course. Bernie Sanders did the same thing when he dropped out of the pressidential race. His "Not me. Us!" movement suddenly turned into an "it's my decision alone", affair. That enraged me at the time. It still does. After extracting all that ...

@BenSpielberg @jimmy_dore (4) work & money, often from poor ppl, he didn't feel he had to consult w/anyone else but, at most, his inner circle about whether it was time to support Biden or not. Going beyond progressive "leaders" however, I think all our politicians in our "democracy" feel free 2 take ...

@BenSpielberg @jimmy_dore (5) support of all sorts from us w/out involving us in decisions they are taking that are critical to our lives. Very few of them talk bottom-up democracy, but even those who do, practice top-down democracy, in which they mobilize us for fundraising & 4 coming out to vote 4...
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Al Jazeera English
Al Jazeera English
@AJEnglish
Citing unfounded claims of voting irregularities, at least 140 Republican House members and 13 senators have said they will vote to object – not enough to toss out a state’s electoral votes.

Crowds gather as US Congress meets to certify Biden's victory in the US elections

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"They say we lost, we didn't lose" - Trump addresses supporters as US Congress meets to certify Biden's election victory. https://t.co/BGvVUE4vtx

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President-elect Joe Biden selects Judge Merrick Garland for attorney general.

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US Senate majority and minority leaders address joint session of Congress as protesters push past barriers at Capitol building https://t.co/NTwVecwByL
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1. Thread: Making a New Political Alignment Work
 
There has been much speculation, in light of recent events in Perak, that Pakatan Harapan could forge some kind of cooperation with UMNO and Barisan Nasional.
 
Anything taking place in Perak will have national repercussions

2. A development of this kind will naturally be a major, if not earth-shaking event in Malaysian politics.
 
As a KEADILAN MP, I firmly believe that PH is the best platform to achieve a progressive, equitable Malaysia

3. Any new alignment must have the interest of the rakyat at heart—this is non-negotiable.
 
However, it must also be recognised that political realignments are nothing new in Malaysia

4. After the May 13 1969 tragedy, the National Consultative Council was created by Tun Abdul Razak, in part to restore socio-political as well as economic normalcy for Malaysia

5. Except DAP, all the other main Opposition parties took part in the NCC – PAS, the People’s Progressive Party and Gerakan. DAP was protesting the detention of its Secretary General Lim Kit Siang.
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Lauren Jauregui
Lauren Jauregui
@LaurenJauregui
Rampage? They literally committed sedition & insurrection..it’s amazing to me the mass media’s strategic use of rhetoric to demonize the left & justify the right. This government & those who truly possesses the power in this country know exactly


what they do when they call us rioters and looters (unarmed protestors asking for police brutality to be held accountable) and them mobs and protestors (heavily armed and refusing to accept the election results of a “democratic” process) We need to stop asking why they do this

And understand that it’s a tool. Propaganda and misinformation and rhetoric. They program us to be outraged and stay exhausted and fighting the seemingly arbitrary and “insignificant” uses of words. The media is the picture painter, the visuals released with a single if you will

They are all owned by the same people and then they slightly sqew the POV of their proposed audiences. So something like Fox knows that their main audience (viewer count=profit) is alt-right “conservatives” and CNN knows that it’s main audience is more liberal. All of these news

Sources will give out the same exact messaging with different angles so as to keep their viewers watching as long as possible. THEY MAKE MONEY OFF OF SENSATIONALIZING, CENSORING, SKEWING the truth and making it more entertaining. If y’all look at Ancient Rome and their tactics
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Syamkrishnan Kamath
Syamkrishnan Kamath
@Dharmi2020
Through a law lobbied by the SGPC & #AkaliDal the @narendramodi government had disenfranchised the relatively liberal Sahajdhari Sikhs who consist mostly of Vaishya - Arora Sikhs in 2016 giving Akalis full control over the Gurudwaras, & giving rise to TRUE sikh narrative. https://t.co/WJaZjdqJDN


Udasis the monastic wing of Sikhism that was started by Guru Nanak's son Sri Chand was expelled from Gurudwaras, their murtis thrown out & declared non sikh along with Nanakpanthis & several other Sikh sects that were close to Hinduism.


If Khalistan terrorism was not anti-Hindu should explain why one after the other each & every sect in Sikhism that is similar to Hinduism was thrown out since Akali movement of 1925? Sehajdharis are latest, in 2016 to be


Why were the the 1984 riots always mentioned by leaders across political spectrum, leaders in India & abroad. But have you ever heard anyone talk about those hindus who were killed by


One of the most ancient sects of Sikhs founded by Guru Nanak's son Sri Chand the Udasis, enjoyed state patronage & support under the sikh Empire of Ranjith Singh. How did they go from there to not even being sikhs in a matter of a few decades?
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Janet French
Janet French
@Jantafrench
A few noteworthy things came out of a legislative committee meeting today.

First, we learned Alberta’s chief electoral officer asked the gov’t for a four-month extension for a complex investigation during the pandemic. The government said no. #ableg

https://t.co/CJtx0vFGkG


Elections AB won’t say what the case is the timelines suggest it could be the investigation into the UCP leadership race. The office has handed out more than $200,000 in fines connected with election financing irregularities in the 2017 race.

Several people have appealed those fines and findings to the court.

You may also recall leaked documents suggested Jason Kenney and Jeff Callaway’s leadership campaigns shared strategy and information https://t.co/NX91cdQQsN

And the RCMP are investigating. #ableg

The NDP says the government needs to come clean about whether it turned down the chief electoral officer’s application to extend the time to investigate the governing party.
#ableg

Also at today’s committee meeting, seven independent officers of the legislature had their budgets up for approval. The committee approved six of them.
MLA Brad Rutherford then moved to delay a decision about the auditor general’s budget. He says he wants more information. #ableg
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Michael Harris
Michael Harris
@MichaelH_PhD
So I'm not the first, & won't be the last, to be irked by this. But anyway, here goes.

What Murph's reporting (& opining) on is a survey that showed, in a time of international crisis where Australia has performed relatively well, politicians benefit from a "competence dividend"


That's neither a surprise, nor something to be sneered at. But it's a one-paragraph story. It's what you'd expect to see.

The journalist's role, you'd think, would be to critically unpick that. Work through what premiers & the PM did to deserve it, or otherwise.

One case that could be made is that the premiers stepped up, acted visibly & decisively on behalf of their respective states, & the PM is largely riding on their coattails.

Murph, though, has been on a weird campaign to position Morrison in particular as a statesman-in-waiting.

Once the federal government authorised Job Seeker/Lover/Keeper, Murph was convinced this was (bound to be) the end of Ideological Warrior Morrison and we'd see the emergence of pragmatic Morrison who could govern reasonably, in ways atypical of the way his party had been trending

LOL

And LOL again.

The early economic interventions were made with a gun to his head. The idea he'd suddenly become a learning learner who learns was something Murph seemed desperate to hold on to, like it was important for her sense that federal politics could work properly.
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Sigimund A Jagiellon
Sigimund A Jagiellon
@AugustusSigi
Weeks before the election, a bombshell story broke with the release of Hunter Biden's laptop. The contents contained two scandals; one salacious and disturbing, one a clear outline of foreign corruption involving his father. The stories were spiked and censored to protect Biden.
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Adri\xe0 Ariste
Adrià Ariste
@adria_ariste
Voting for @Dynconference sessions closes next Friday 22. @juanan169 and I have submitted a session in Spanish about using Azure DevTest Labs to create build VMs! You can vote it now! https://t.co/vT9ZTypBom

#XppGroupies #DynamicsCon #MSDyn365FO #MVPBuzz

But if you don't speak Spanish I've selected 17 other sessions in English that I've found interesting. Let's start with @FaisalFareed's "D365 FO Environments

"Quality Development Practices with Finance and Operations"

Tanya Regna with "Eliminate Legacy Batch Interfaces and Move to Dual Write"

with some AI "Dynamics 365 Finance
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Joe Pike
Joe Pike
@joepike
BREAKING: @BorisJohnson confirms National Lockdown in England until mid Feb.

-Key message: Stay At Home.

ONLY leave home for:

A) Work (if WFH impossible)

B) Shopping for necessities

C) Exercise with 1 other person (either your household or 1 person, not both)

D) Care/ helping vulnerable person

E) Medical care or threat of harm/violence

NEW: Clinically extremely vulnerable should begin shielding.
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Sandra Simmons
Sandra Simmons
@sandrasimmons
I tolerated Obama for 8 years & kept quiet.
Here's my issue with the “let us all be a UNITED States again” that we heard from the crime family syndicate of @JoeBiden. For the last 4+ years, you Dems have gone scorched earth; you salted the fields and now you want to grow crops.

The problem for you Democrats is that 72+ million of us have memories longer than a hamster.

We remember the women’s march (vagina hats and all) the day after inauguration.

We remember the 4 years of attacks and impeachments.

We remember “not our president” & the “Resistance"

We remember Maxie Walters telling followers to harass us in restaurants.

We remember the President's spokesperson being kicked out of a restaurant.

We remember hundreds of Trump supporters physically attacked.

We remember Trump supporters getting Doxed, and fired from jobs.

We remember riots, and looting.

We remember “a comedian” holding up the President’s severed head.

We remember a play in Central park paid for with public funding, showing the killing of President Trump.

We remember Robert de Niro yelling “F" Trump” at the Tony’s and getting a standing ovation.

We remember Nancy Pelosi tearing up the State of the Union Address.

We remember the total "in the tank" move to the left towards Socialism of the mainstream media and social media.
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New York State Bar Association
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@NYSBA
The NYSBA strongly condemned the violent uprising that occurred at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, orchestrated by individuals bent on subverting the will of the voters by disrupting the certification of the 2020 presidential election

Thankfully, Congress overcame this assault and fulfilled its constitutional responsibility in certifying the Biden-Harris victory. However, we must address the root cause of this abhorrent incident, the blame for which lies first and foremost with President Donald Trump.

But the president did not act alone.

Hours before the angry mob stormed the Capitol walls, Trump’s personal attorney, Rudolph Giuliani, addressed a crowd of thousands at the White House, reiterating baseless claims of widespread election fraud in the presidential election and the Georgia U.S. Senate runoffs.

“If we're wrong, we will be made fools of, but if we're right a lot of them will go to jail,” Mr. Giuliani said. “Let's have trial by combat.”
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This Week
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BREAKING: 54% say Pres. Trump should be charged criminally with inciting a riot for having encouraged his supporters to march on the Capitol, new @ABC News/WaPo poll finds.

BREAKING: Pres. Trump will leave office with a 38% job approval rating in new @ABC News/WaPo poll; 60% of the public disapproves, matching his peak disapproval in August 2018. https://t.co/jljkHh6pF0


JUST IN: 89% of Americans oppose the actions of those who stormed the Capitol, including 80% who are strongly opposed. Among Trump supporters, 76% are opposed, including 60% strongly opposed. https://t.co/jljkHh6pF0


BREAKING: Pres. Trump’s career average approval rating is the lowest for any president in modern polling dating back to 1939. He is the first president in that time never to achieve majority approval at any point. https://t.co/jljkHh6pF0


JUST IN: 56% in new @ABC News/WaPo poll favor removing Pres. Trump from office and barring him from holding elected office again—exceeding the 47% who supported his removal in his first impeachment last year. https://t.co/jljkHh6pF0
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Marine Glisovic KATV
Marine Glisovic KATV
@KATVMarine
NOW: Sen. Bob Ballinger is presenting his stand your ground bill in the Senate Judiciary Committee. This bill would end the duty to retreat. #arnews #arleg #arpx @KATVNews


Ballinger, present with an NRA representative, has introduced an amendment that cleans up the language he says. (The amendment passes)
Now he's presenting his bill w/ amendment to the committee. #arnews #arpx #arleg @KATVNews


Ballinger: In short, you're going to hear this is a license to kill - that isn't the way it is in California or Illinois or other jurisdictions. We have worked with AG's office, prosecutors, law enforcement... #arnews #arpx #arleg @KATVNews

NRA Rep: SB 24 does not encourage violence or give anyone a license to murder. This is a very narrow concept that simply protects victims of violent crime that choose to defend themselves before attempting to flee. #arnews #arpx #arleg @KATVNews


Sen. Stephanie Flowers: A convicted felon has the right to have a weapon at their dwelling and use it to defend themselves?
Ballinger: It's saying they don't have the duty to retreat, but you can still prosecute for felon in possession of a weapon #arpx #arnews @KATVNews
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Pashinyan spoke in the parliament amid opposition protest outside of the building. He answered the question of the deputies.

(Pashinyan's block holds the absolute majority in parliament)


Only the people can speak on behalf of the people, not separate groups - Pashinyan

Voices of individual groups cannot be considered the voice of the people - Pashinyan

It is not the media who decide who the prime minister is, people decide - Pashinyan

The question arises as to why the opposition does not demand early elections. Why do political forces have only one goal - to decide without the will of the people? Pashinyan
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Tom (not from MySpace)
Tom (not from MySpace)
@TomDoesMemes
I know that most VCU students--really most college students in general--do not pay attention to their local politics.

Well, I'd like to enlighten them on something that is happening in RVA City Council ... something all VCU students should be aware of (THREAD)

1/ We're talking about Ordinance # 2020-117 ... Which would continue and expand an agreement between RPD and VCU that allows the school's police force to use RPD's records management system.

It was first introduced on May 11, 2020, by Mayor @LevarStoney

2/ It has since bounced around council for several months. The last motion was made on Jan 11, 2021, where it was tabled for an upcoming subcommittee meeting on Feb 8.

You can read the whole bill by clicking the link

3/ Now, some important context:

-VCU has the largest campus police force in VA
-VCUPD has assisted RPD and VSPD with crowd control at protests
-VCU is seeking leads on the $100,000 of windows broken at protests

These are all facts that have been verified publicly.

I'd like to also state that, while the information presented below may seem authoritative, a lot of this is a guessing game because the bill is written so vaguely. There's only so much a person can actually understand about this ordinance.

So, do your own research.
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Bethani Cameron
Bethani Cameron
@BethaniCameron
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