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Chuck Darwin

A growing number of House Republicans are accusing their conservative colleagues of enabling Democratic wins, especially after this weekend's foreign aid votes.

Multiple members believe they could have gotten concessions from Democrats on border policy in exchange for Ukraine funding, only to be blown up by backlash from conservatives.

GOP leadership brought up border security provisions alongside their foreign aid package — but the package was blocked by Republicansfrom reaching the House floor under normal rules.

It ultimately failed to get the two-thirds majority needed to pass the House under suspension of the rules.

"If you were a true conservative, you would actually advance border security, but what they want to do is they want to blow up border security," Rep. Andy Barr (R-Ky.) told Axios.

"[T]he members who scream the loudest about border security were actively and knowingly preventing us from getting it done," another member said.

"They're making us the most bipartisan Congress ever," a third member told Axios. "Because they are unwilling to compromise just a little bit in a divided government, they force us to make bigger concessions and deals with the Dems."

axios.com/2024/04/22/house-rep

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Richard

@serge The response should be "Jews deserve to feel safe." There is a period at the end of that and nothing needs to follow it.

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☆⋆Okie Space Queen

Heads up! New cool thing to look at soon. #nova

I'll post star charts and info on how to find these constellations next week.

blogs.nasa.gov/Watch_the_Skies

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Nicole Parsons

8. Troy Balderson - election denier, homophobic bigot

ballotpedia.org/Troy_Balderson

accountability.gop/profile/rep

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_B

Endorses Trump
nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/mee

Donors: #KochNetwork property
opensecrets.org/members-of-con

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Imogen

Here is my personal take on the Tik Tok drama.

1. The app and service is trash.

2. I personally think it should be banned along with Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, Reddit and Instagram because it’s only purpose is to harvest data.

3. Any law banning Tik Tok will most likely be struck down as unconstitutional.

4. A better approach would be creating laws codifying the right to privacy, data retention, data destruction and banning the sale of data from these services. No exceptions.

#TikTok

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Ben Royce 🇺🇸 🇺🇦

Well, I get to "delight" you with a particular post #covid twist: raw milk may transmit #avianflu to humans:

barrons.com/news/h5n1-strain-o

There is a very old, very good reason why we pasteurize milk, and it seems to be forgotten in an age when everyone thinks everything is default safe. Because everyone with living memory of the hell before #vaccines and modern medicine and, in this case, food safety and sanitary science is dead, and ignorance reigns.

2/2

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Hanse Mina

Marjorie Taylor Greene gets destroyed by Professor Timothy #Snyder regarding her lies about #Ukraine and #Russia.

threadreaderapp.com/thread/178

#US #MAGA #GOP #MTG

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Ding Dang Trevor Flowers

Friends, if Microsoft tries to squeeze you to buy a new computer to run version 11 when every new version of Windows gets worse and adds ads then please consider that more than 100 million people use Linux on their desktop computer, including people who make all sorts of projects with videos, illustrations, digital photographs, laser cuttings, animations, paper media, CAD, CAM, 3D printed stuff, circuit boards, etc.
Will it be exactly the same as Windows? No.
Can it be awesome? Yes.

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Laffy

🥳👏🏻

Via Kyle Griffin:

BREAKING:

#Democrats just won two special state House elections in #Michigan — Democrat Mai Xiong in the 13th District and Democrat Peter Herzberg in the 25th District — regaining their majority in the chamber with a 56-54 advantage and their trifecta across state government.

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Phil Landmeier

Tonight did a file sync to my server of about 1.8 GB and got 71 Mbps for several minutes. Then it dropped to about 25 for several seconds, then back up to 71. I like it.

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Matthew Sheffield

Arizona Republicans are blocking Democrats' efforts to repeal the Civil War-era abortion law that is now in effect in the state.

Shortly before the Republicans on Arizona's supreme court upheld the 1864 law, a group of Republican state senators gathered on the floor holding what looks like a gibbering seance, praying that gawd would allow them to force children to carry rapist pregnancies.

Please spread this clip. This is the true face of the Republican party.

huffpost.com/entry/anthony-ker

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Ham on Wry

If Trump had a legal defence of any kind in any of his trials he would have fought the charges in a courtroom already. An innocent man doesn’t spend $100 million in legal fees trying to delay a not guilty verdict.

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Phil Landmeier

Should add that up-speed increased to 10 Mbps. Uploading to my server I'm getting 11 to 12 sustained.

I like it when businesses don't lie. :-)

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Phil Landmeier

Upgraded my Internet here to 80 Mbps. Building a Linux system here and getting 59 to 65 megs sustained. I like it. whoo hoo!

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JL Lycette MD, author🩺📚

Me: Explains cancer treatment using #science

Patient (male): <looks at me in shock> “And you know all this?”

Me: “Sir, I have to know all of this; that’s how I became a board-certified medical oncologist”

Patient: <still clearly in shock>

(I think this is a culmination of the ease of internet “research,” where many truly cannot fathom the depths of learning over decades it takes to become an expert (compared to 5 min googling); anti-science; & worsening #misogyny everywhere)

#MedMastodon

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Nicole Parsons

@shuttersparks @StillIRise1963

You must give two things to your children
1. Roots - so they have a foundation to rely upon
2. Wings - so they can fly

Book recommendations help children do both.

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Barney

@seattletimes

How dare you publish this fucking garbage?

How dare you call student loan cancellation a "campaign promise" that Biden "failed to deliver"? That's a goddamned lie.

Biden has canceled nearly $144 Billion in student loan debt. He wants to cancel much more, but the Republicans have blocked him.

Say that. Do your goddamned job.

#USPol #Journalism

cnn.com/2024/03/07/politics/st

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Nicole Parsons

@StillIRise1963

We also know how the wealthy enabled Hitler & how their pet media companies enabled Hitler too.

Koch
nbcnews.com/politics/2024-elec

Murdoch
npr.org/2023/02/28/1159819849/

nytimes.com/2023/02/27/busines

Tim Dunn
texasmonthly.com/news-politics

John Paulson
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Don Hankey
nytimes.com/2024/04/04/nyregio

Tim Mellon
truthdig.com/articles/the-mell

The wealthy are buying an end to American democracy.

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Οἰνεύς

I mean, "Jews killed Jesus"??? Fuck you. Fuck the "Free Palestine" movement. How is this shit any different from the so-called alt-right? How is it any different from the Nazis who marched in Charlottesville??? Those pigs said the same shit, and they all love Bashar al-Assad just like these fucking commies, too!

By any means necessary, exterminate this shit.

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Thomas Zimmer

Think of the way angry white reactionaries who storm school board meetings are described as “concerned parents” – but Black parents are special interest groups and progressive educators are “activists.” 7/

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