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Colby

@Colby@mastodon.world

Woke, antifascist, scientist, very amateur gardner and photographer

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mastodonmigration , to random
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So, the last few days the general public has seen conclusive evidence of what many already knew. CNN and the New York Times are corrupt organizations using their power and influence to get Trump elected.

Going forward temper everything from these media organizations with the sure knowledge that they are not neutral arbiters of the news, but rather sophisticated political influence operations.

Colby ,
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@mastodonmigration
don’t just temper them - BOYCOTT THEM. They exist because we subscribe and pay them. Stop it!

GottaLaff , to random
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🪡 via @emptywheel on NYT: 1/…

NYT: must drop out bc he can't handle 's lies.

Also NYT: The lies that we, the journalists whose job it is, instead call "boisterous."

It's just confession after confession from NYT, about their own rank failures to do what they demand of Biden.

Greg Mitchell:

Disgraceful NYT headline: Trump merely "boisterous." Yesterday they said "Blustery." They do it every day.

Colby ,
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@GottaLaff @emptywheel yes yes yes. We rightly criticize the NYT every four years. They’ve brought us here. Yet most continue their subscriptions, year after year

wdlindsy , to random
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"Meanwhile, the New York Times Editorial Board did not ask Donald Trump to step down. Not after he was held liable for rape or fraud or defamation. Not after he was convicted on all 34 counts by a jury of his peers. Not even after he vomited lie after lie at the debate and refused to admit that he’d accept the results of the 2024 election."

~ Left Hook

https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/lets-ask-trump-to-leave-the-race

Colby ,
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@wdlindsy the left rightfully call at the times for bad behavior every major election. Then they continue their subscriptions

Colby ,
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@wdlindsy if now is not the time to boycott the NYT, then when ever could it be the time. Seriously

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At first it is hard to believe that most people don't pay much attention to politics. Most people don't know what "project 24" is or the significance of the phrase "obstructing an official procedure" (maybe you are such a person) --but, when I think about how tense, nervous and occasionally helpless political news makes me feel I totally get it. Also, a lot of this stuff is boring and kind of technical.

Colby ,
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@futurebird I agree with you completely. It’s blatantly obvious the Democratic Party is not doing nearly all they could be doing, especially with regard to messaging. Your hypothesis is reasonable. Another is that the really big donors - those invested in selling arms to Israel for example - will actually do as well or perhaps much better if Trump wins. Those pulling the strings do not really want Dems to win big, if at all.

Strandjunker , to random
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I need someone to explain to me why Al Franken had to resign, but Matt Gaetz is still in Congress.

Explain it to me like I’m in kindergarten.

Colby ,
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@Strandjunker because democrats suck at fighting

GottaLaff , to random
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Via Ryan Reilly:

#Biden on the impact of #Jan6 on America’s standing in the world:

= TIME I said, “Well, America's back.” Macron looked at me and he said, “For how long? For how long?” And then Schultz said to me, “What would you say Mr. President, if tomorrow you pick up The London Times and found out that thousands of people stormed the British Parliament, broke down the doors, killed two Bobbies to prevent the implement—the swearing in of a, of a prime minister, a choice of prime minister?” And it made me realize just how fundamentally what he allowed to happen sitting in this room, looking at that television for three hours and didn't do a damn thing, said about America, and how much confidence people lost in America. There's not a, there’s not a...I’m gonna, say, be careful what I say...There's not a major international meeting I attend that before it’s over—and I've attended many, more than most presidents have in three and a half years—that a world leader doesn’t pull me aside as I'm leaving and say, “He can’t win. You can’t let him win.” My democracy and their democracy is at stake. My democracy is at stake. And so name me a world leader other than Orban and Putin who think that Trump should be the world leader in the United States of America.
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    Colby ,
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    @GottaLaff yet he, and Dems at large, didn’t have the cajones to break the norms and jail the MF on day one.

    Colby ,
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    @GottaLaff you don’t respond to a coup with standard legal options. Well you do if you want to lose. You just left the US. We’re leaving too. It’s over.

    wdlindsy , to random
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    As Chris Geidner reports, Washington Post knew three years ago about Alito's wife flying the insurrectionist flag of white Christian nationalism, and buried the story.

    "As Alito provided an essential fifth vote hollowing out the Fourteenth Amendment’s bar to insurrectionists’ holding office, the Post sat silent."

    He writes,


    /1

    https://www.lawdork.com/p/washington-post-bombshell-washington

    Colby ,
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    @wdlindsy the media is complicit. They’re owned. It’s capitalism. Their primary mandate is not to inform. Let’s stop pretending otherwise and find a solution

    rbreich , to random
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    Every day the Supreme Court fails to make a decision in Trump’s immunity case is effectively a decision in his favor.

    They're acting like an arm of Trump's campaign by letting him run out the clock on his prosecution.

    Colby ,
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    @rbreich did the upside down flag clue you in?

    wdlindsy , to random
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    "Bottom line is that Trump didn’t know much and doesn’t even know how to learn more, and you can’t be good at the job without knowing much. That, even more than his disregard for the rule of law, made him a very dangerous president for four years, and given that there’s no evidence he’s learned anything it would make him a very dangerous president again."

    ~ Jonathan Bernstein


    /1

    https://goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/trump-was-incredibly-bad-at-presidenting

    Colby ,
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    @wdlindsy I hear you. I agree. But can anyone explain wtf we’re continuing to support a genocidal government AND sending them more weapons because they’d used up the ones we sent already doing genocide? Let’s see Biden explain that one without resorting to blatant lies. Then maybe people will stop with the equivalencies you’re worried about.

    Colby ,
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    @wdlindsy I don’t disagree. But I’m terrified Biden’s enthusiastic support for Netanyahu will dampen turnout and thwart his reelection

    loren , to random
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    I love columbine. Probably my favorite flower

    Colby ,
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    @loren ours are past peak but still going strong. They were amazing this year.

    mastodonmigration , (edited ) to random
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    For those following the Trump election fraud trial.

    Just wondering about the New York Times' journalistic ethics having Maggie Haberman covering the Trump election fraud trial, when she is also identified several times during the trial as a go to reporter for pushing out stories Team Trump want to favorably spin.

    Colby ,
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    @mastodonmigration I dumped my NYT subscription in 2016 when their bias was unmistakably apparent. Nothing has changed. It’s what they are.

    mastodonmigration , to random
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    For those losing their heads over today's actions by Judge Cannon, take a deep breath. This was always going to happen. The writing has been on the wall since Judge Cannon was drawn for the case. Getting all worked up about it is only going to make you crazy and desperate. The way we will rid ourselves of this menace is at the polls in November.

    For a sober discussion on this topic this exchange today between @Teri_Kanefield and @JonChevreau is highly recommended:

    https://mstdn.ca/@JonChevreau/112401937598899929

    Colby ,
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    @mastodonmigration @Teri_Kanefield @JonChevreau alternative view: Terri told us repeatedly the justice system works, be patient. Now she’s tired of explaining the system is slow. Maybe instead she should acknowledge those of us who called for mass protests demanding immediate jail for the ringleader AFTER WE WATCHED HIM LAUNCH AN INSURRECTION were right.

    breadandcircuses , to random
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    Last month was by far the warmest April that humans have ever experienced — our 11th consecutive record-breaking month. April 2024 was 1.58°C above the pre-industrial baseline.

    🚨 We are in a climate emergency. 🚨

    And yet, all we get from our “leaders” is more Business As Usual.

    Colby ,
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    @breadandcircuses
    It’s even worse than that: every single month since last May has been the warmest ever for that month. Incredible.

    StillIRise1963 , to random
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    When your gay friends are stripped of their marriages, tell them you didn’t vote because you wanted to make a statement about Gaza.

    Colby ,
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    @StillIRise1963 sure, agree 100. Now, not Nov, is the time for statements. Loud ones. Of course we’ll vote Biden, but he should hear our dissent loudly now, today, everyday until he stops enabling genocide

    Colby ,
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    @otownKim @StillIRise1963 if we supply less than 5%, as you say, then they won’t miss them

    GottaLaff , to random
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    Lawrence O’Donnell:

    “We had a monster in the presidency not because of Donald , but because of the people who voted for Donald Trump and because of the people who worked for Donald Trump’s campaign to get him there. You get monsters like Donald Trump thanks to people like Hope Hicks.”

    https://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/lawrence-you-get-monsters-like-donald-trump-thanks-to-people-like-hope-hicks-210249285691

    Colby ,
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    @GottaLaff I’m surprised some here express sympathy. Hicks was his confidant throughout the campaign and presidency, and she remains loyal. Indefensible

    flexghost , to random
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    We had 4 years to get ready for this

    We spent them saying "Merrick Garland is coming!" and "lock him up!"

    How's that going?

    Colby ,
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    @flexghost you can thank “Murder She Wrote” and all the other know it all legal yahoos who insisted those of us demanding bold action were hysterical loons

    flexghost , to random
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    That’s because TikTok’s goal wasn’t making money…

    Colby ,
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    @flexghost @ignova can you share specific examples? I’m a regular user and never get fed what you’re claiming

    Colby ,
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    @bitcodavid @flexghost god forbid anyone have fun online

    rbreich , to random
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    America's 813 billionaires now collectively hold a record $5.8 trillion.

    That’s more than the wealth of the entire bottom half of the US, roughly 65 million households.

    It's not radical to tax the rich. It's radical to allow this level of wealth concentration to continue.

    Colby ,
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    @rbreich when us minions get sufficiently angry about that imbalance, and the climate catastrophe it’s fed, perhaps we’ll finally do something to correct it. I sure hope we get there soon

    breadandcircuses , to random
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    When ocean waters become too warm, causing coral reefs to bleach and die, that imperils the entire marine food web — and ultimately a food chain that helps to feed eight billion people.

    🚨 We are in a planetary climate emergency. 🚨

    Global heating has pushed the world’s coral reefs to a fourth planet-wide mass bleaching event that is on track to be the most extensive on record, US government scientists have confirmed.

    Some 54% of ocean waters containing coral reefs have experienced heat stress high enough to cause bleaching, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Coral Reef Watch said.

    The first global bleaching event happened in 1998 with 20% of the ocean’s reef corals exposed to a level of heat stress high enough to cause bleaching. The second event, in 2010, saw 35% reaching that threshold, and the third from 2014 to 2017 peaked at 56%.

    Dr Derek Manzello, the Coral Reef Watch director, told the Guardian the current bleaching was likely to surpass the previous most widespread event soon “because the percentage of reef areas experiencing bleaching-level heat stress has been increasing by roughly 1% per week”.

    Manzello said global heating had combined with a global El Niño to push up sea surface temperatures. He said predictions made by scientists decades ago about the fate of corals in a warming world were now coming to pass.

    “The bottom line is that as coral reefs experience more frequent and severe bleaching events, the time they have to recover is becoming shorter and shorter. Current climate models suggest that every reef on planet Earth will experience severe, annual bleaching sometime between 2040 and 2050.”

    Prof Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, a pioneer of coral research who was among the first to link bleaching to global heating, said: “It’s a shock. We clearly have to prevent governments from investing in fossil fuels, or we won’t have a chance in hell to save reefs.”

    FULL ARTICLE -- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/15/great-barrier-reef-coral-bleaching-global-heating

    Colby ,
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    @breadandcircuses I appreciate it’s not a solution and agree we’re in a crisis, but I’m curious: are corals setting up new homes in parts of the ocean that used to be too cold for them?

    GottaLaff , to random
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    Grrr. My thread got messed up again. I absolutely hate using my phone for live posting

    Colby ,
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    @GottaLaff it is imperfect but still super helpful. Just takes a tiny bit of work to see it all. Thank you!

    exador23 , to random
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    Displeasure with Biden's handling of Hamas-Israel war was on display at closed-door White House meeting https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/displeasure-bidens-handling-hamas-israel-war-was-display-closed-door-w-rcna146244

    Just five minutes into a meeting with President Joe Biden, a Palestinian American doctor who has treated gravely injured patients in Gaza couldn’t bear to stay, so he left.

    Dr. Ahmad, who specializes in emergency medicine, recalled getting emotional when talking about the many Palestinians he cared for, describing the scale of death in the 6mos since the war began.

    Ahmad stressed that he wanted “to let the administration feel the way that we felt this past six months and kind of get up and walk away from them.”

    Colby ,
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    @mikeblake yes, but sadly that ship has sailed. I thought I’d vote for him proudly. Now I’ll vote for him as the lesser of two evils

    flexghost , to random
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    The teens of america are uniting!

    To end war? No

    To solve world hunger? Nope

    To stop congress from banning TikTok? Yep

    After the spyware… (ahem) after the app supplied users with numbers to call, one teen threatened “I promise you do not ban TikTok. If you want a January 6th riot, that's what's going to happen. Don't do it”

    …this, after giving their full name and address at the start of the call
    (Via Politico)

    And the calls keep coming

    We’re about to see the wackiest uprising ever 🇺🇸

    Colby ,
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    @flexghost the many on here claiming FB is not as nefarious as TikTok seemingly forgot how we got a Trump presidency

    GottaLaff , to random
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    Stay to the very end.

    Then share like crazy.

    #Biden nailed it.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6e4ruziZBI

    Colby ,
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    @GottaLaff democrats better find a way to counter program these people effectively or we are doomed. Many Americans are highly susceptible to disinfo.

    Colby ,
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    @GottaLaff the people we need to reach are not going to listen to a Biden ad. Sorry. They’re just not. We need influencers

    wdlindsy , to random
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    Robert B. Hubbell notes that we've now learned that Alexander Smirnov, key witness in the Biden impeachment inquiry, lied. And we've that the Texas-based outfit claiming voter fraud happened in 2020 in Georgia lied and never had proof of such fraud.

    He writes:

    "The major takeaway is this: The Republican party is built on lies and sustains itself through lies. They know it. We know it."


    /1

    https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/a-watershed-moment-for-the-truth

    Colby ,
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    @wdlindsy but how do Dems fight a firehose of lies? We best come up with an answer quickly, because the lie machines will almost certainly ramp up for the election

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