Mitt Romney sent this text to Mitch McConnell on Jan. 2, 2021: "In case you have not heard this, I just got a call from Angus King, who said that he had spoken with a senior official at the Pentagon who reports that they are seeing very disturbing social media traffic regarding

Harris is the VP. Period. Move on. Consider the backlash to removing the first Black woman VP. Consider people don't vote for VP anyway. Get real.

Antisemitism definition used by UK universities leading to ‘unreasonable’ accusations Report says IHRA definition has led to 40 cases against people and groups – of which 38 were cleared – and is stifling academic freedoms theguardian.com/education/2023… Peter Beinart Mehdi Hasan

OTD in 1904 Stanislaus Joyce recorded in his diary that Oliver Gogarty wanted his brother out of the Tower at Sandycove. "Jim is scarcely any expense to Gogarty.... Jim is determined that if Gogarty puts him out it will be done publicly."

This!! Romney could have had an enormous political impact had he switched parties - yet he chose not to. In the end he too chose party over country, just like the worst of his colleagues.

“Walter Isaacson’s dull, insight-free doorstop of a book” - ⁦Gary Shteyngart⁩ theguardian.com/books/2023/sep…

San Francisco police officers have been caught misreporting the racial identities of people they stop by marking white when a person is actually Black in an effort to downplay racial profiling. sfstandard.com/2023/09/13/san…

“I thought to stay home and translate was more fun than playing with monkeys. I didn’t have to get dressed to go to work. I could smoke all I wanted.” theguardian.com/books/2023/sep…

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New UN report: "Israel’s administration of occupied Palestine is carried out in breach of prohibition of racial discrimination & apartheid, a peremptory norm of intl law.. Israel applies discriminatory apartheid policies/practices against Palestinians on both sides of Green Line"

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Last year, Garry Tan was mad and demanded a recall and we did, more than once, and then we had a fair election and he’s still mad. Now he hates the local “political machine” and papers, and wants to remove the judges, police commissioners, and district supervisors. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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WATCH: “Anyone who believes there should be no exceptions for rape & incest could never understand what it’s like to stand in my shoes… to tell a 12yo girl she must have the baby of her stepfather who raped her is unthinkable.” (CC: Gov. Bill Lee TNGOP)

“Most of the media is in cahoots with those elites, peddling political narratives rather than pursuing the truth.” - Rupert Murdoch proving his own complete lack of self-awareness.

3 prosecutions in 160 years and now 5 just this year?? the fucking state of the UK

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New York Times covers the story, “95% of San Francisco actually great” as residents have been saying since the beginning of this tedious cycle of bullshit aimed at the city most of us love. nytimes.com/2023/09/25/us/…

Senator London Breed

"These days, half a million Israeli settlers live in the West Bank—their shiny red tile roofs a testament to them being out of place. They live on hill summits with an eye on the Palestinians whose land was stolen to make way for the settlers’ homes." foreignpolicy.com/2023/09/30/osl…