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"Gun violence for thee, but not for me."
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/gop-candidates-react-to-perry-iowa-shooting
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/07/24/key-facts-about-americans-and-guns/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/21/republicans-gun-control-trump-shooting
https://giffords.org/press-release/2024/07/house-gop-pushes-to-ban-gun-violence-prevention-studies/
https://www.wired.com/story/cdc-gun-violence-research-gop-proposal/
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/17/trump-shooting-rnc-gun-control-00169179
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/01/29/raskin-republicans-mass-shootings-manual/
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-07-25/california-gun-violence-research
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/05/29/guns-trump-and-the-gop
A handy manual for Republicans commenting on mass shootings
Copy and paste as needed.Jamie Raskin (The Washington Post)
@DRBLD2009 @jodmentum
US monetary policy is apparently determined by Blackstone?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-11/blackstone-finance-chief-chae-says-us-inflation-is-at-target
Homelessness rates are set by Blackstone?
Pension funds invest in AI boondoggle & profligate energy hogs: data centers.
Looting the economy can resume now that interest rates are due to fall...
https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/blackstone-buy-australias-airtrunk-16-billion-deal-2024-09-04/
MAGA's like "picket-fence" dentistry from impoverished supporters
https://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/2024/09/12/deca-dental-group-blackstone-ideal-dental.html
Blackstone sells 3,000 homes worth £405m to UK’s biggest pension fund
Universities Superannuation Scheme acquires shared ownership properties from US private equity groupJulia Kollewe (The Guardian)
"Sergei Brin has accepted money from #PrinceBonesaw to interfere in any election where climate action is policy.
AI is helping despots violate human rights with Google's assistance.
Saudi Arabia remains Putin's ally."
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/07/heres-a-look-at-who.html
https://www.businessinsider.com/saudi-arabia-public-investment-fund-global-investment-spree-2024-8
Fresh scrutiny of free speech in Saudi Arabia after brothers’ convictions over tweets
Crown prince criticised ‘bad laws’ for Mohammed al-Ghamdi’s death sentence months before second convictionPatrick Wintour (The Guardian)
"Republicans are required to hold the government hostage to extort largesse for their donors.
Even if it risks a global crisis, it is important to the donors that they get assurances Trump won't be prosecuted, #KochNetwork continues to hinder support for Ukraine (those petro-state alliances come 1st) & fry the planet, and the rich keep their unneeded tax cuts."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/04/21/republicans-debt-limit-extortion-moderates/
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/29/opinion/krugman-the-centrist-cop-out.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/05/03/democrats-debt-ceiling-republicans/
Democrats finally seem terrified of GOP debt limit lunacy. About time.
Democrats must accept the full implications of Republican recklessness and radicalization.Greg Sargent (The Washington Post)
"Whenever voters reject us at the ballot box, we have and will resort to violence. "
"All that work for nothing. Sad.
The GOP has worked so hard at voter suppression & making voters jump through hoops & over hurdles to register to vote too."
https://www.newsweek.com/house-republicans-cant-save-themselves-voter-suppression-opinion-1950977
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trumps-rnc-georgia-voter-purge-1235082992/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/30/gop-led-states-voting-rights
https://www.commondreams.org/news/citizenship-voting-bill
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/9/8/2267826/-GOP-chooses-voter-suppression-over-voter-outreach
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/gop-voter-purges-2024
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/mass-purges-are-new-voter-suppression
‘The chilling effect’: behind GOP-led states’ efforts to purge some voters from the rolls
Texas, Tennessee, Virginia, Alabama and Ohio want to scare off voters of color and naturalized citizens, activists saySam Levine (The Guardian)
"Republicans support Russia's acts of war in the run up to the 2024 elections."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/09/06/7-republicans-tenet-media-russia-podcast/75091650007/
https://newrepublic.com/post/183683/clarence-thomas-free-trip-putin-hometown-russia-democrats-say
https://www.newsweek.com/who-konstantin-nikolaev-money-mike-johnson-1870600
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/08/republican-mike-turner-russia-propaganda
A new reminder that Russian interference was never a ‘hoax’
It just succeeded in a way that Russia could never have predicted.Philip Bump (The Washington Post)
"Medications with poor quality standards, doubtful efficacy, and lacking scientific validation but still useful in scams & fraudulent schemes to con the gullible. "
"With Putin, Accusations are Confessions"
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68757082
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/11/world/russian-controlled-nuclear-plant-fire-ukraine-intl/index.html
Analysts Say Ukraine Strikes On Russian Power Plants Hurt Putin’s War Effort
Ukraine's latest strikes against Russian territory and to destroy Russian energy assets could deal a severe blow to Putin's ability to wage war, analysts say.Ken Silverstein (Forbes)
"Republican billionaire donors are prepared to buy a traitor another stint in the Oval Office so they can promote an international fascist movement."
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/rachel-maddow-prequel-donald-trump-elon-musk-1234886350/
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/elon-musk-threat-democracy/
https://theintercept.com/2022/12/20/elon-musk-henry-ford-extremism/
https://puck.news/inside-larry-ellisons-new-gop/
https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/01/18/billionaires-richest-doubled-wealth-poorer-oxfam/
Elon Musk’s journey from humanitarian to poster of rightwing memes
X owner has cited transgender daughter Vivian’s transition as reason for shift, blaming ‘the woke mind virus’Alex Hern (The Guardian)
"Republican chauvinists do not demonstrate decency or courtesy to social inferiors.
Those "inferior people" include immigrants, POC, LGBTQ, and especially women.
In the 19th century, women were the property of men. The GOP is funded to rebuild that."
https://nymag.com/press/article/on-the-cover-rebecca-traister-on-republican-women.html
White Southern Responses to Black Emancipation
Historians describe how white Southerners felt about black civil rights, and explain the intent of white supremacist groups.American Experience
"The GOP wants a felony disenfranchisement scheme targeting women. It'll use reproductive rights as a vehicle.
We'll dick around with this or that number to fool voters into ignoring the fact that Republicans want to control women's lives and bodies, like any other slave-owner."
https://politicalviolenceataglance.org/2022/07/05/abortion-bans-are-a-tool-of-political-repression/
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/peter-thiel-women-democracy_n_5747079be4b03ede4413f6f5
https://www.lwv.org/blog/whats-so-bad-about-voter-id-laws
https://news.wfsu.org/state-news/2020-07-03/the-fight-to-vote-part-4-the-disenfranchisement-of-women
Peter Thiel Once Wrote That Women Getting The Vote Was Bad For Democracy
The controversial billionaire actually wrote this in 2009.Emily Peck (HuffPost)
"An AI model that will hallucinate about tuberculosis, triggering expensive & unnecessary x-rays for the impoverished."