Brooke

@Brookebk
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Life long Democrat. Mastodon is starting to feel like home 🏡
“The antidote to hate is love.” - President Biden
Brand New Florida GOP Rep. Cory Mills Jokes About Vicious Attack On Paul Pelosi

Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell retweeted the brutal note as example of the "indecency" of the new House GOP.

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American Nazis have institutionalized political power. I fear we are not taking that seriously enough. I say a bit more here: https://notes-from-calico-manor.ghost.io/american-nazis/
Today’s American Nazis Are Gaining the Same Kind of Power the German Nazis did in the 1930s

American Nazis are now a powerful bloc in the U.S. House of Representatives I neither know nor care why George Santos, the newly elected Republican Congressman from Long Island, NY flashed a white supremacist sign while voting for Kevin McCarthy to become Speaker of the House. I care greatly,

Notes from Calico Manor

REMEMBER: “Elon Musk admitted to his biographer that the reason the Hyperloop was announced—even tho he had no intention of pursuing it—was to try to disrupt the California high-speed rail project to get in the way of that actually succeeding.” — @parismarx in #Gizmodo

https://gizmodo.com/silicon-valleys-transportation-failures-tesla-waymo-bir-1849382788

#Hyperloop #ElonMusk #California #Rail #cars #cities #urbanism #transit #transportation

Silicon Valley's Push Into Transportation Has Been a Miserable Failure

The titans of tech brought plenty of disruption to our broken transportation system but delivered little in the way of innovation.

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I tried to take a picture of my big dog with the book as a sort of promotion but the little one kept getting in the way, so here you go.

None of this has anything to do with the content of the book, but perhaps you will be awwwww-ed into reading a bit more about it? https://www.pbump.com

The Aftermath | Philip Bump

Site of Philip Bump, Washington Post columnist and author of The Aftermath.

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The most corrupt president in American history, despite a law requiring IRS audits of sitting presidents, apparently ordered the IRS not to audit him while he held office. This was revealed when Trump's tax returns were released a few days ago, but Big Journalism has almost totally moved on. Here's one reporter who thinks maybe this -- and so much more in Trump's sleazy dealings -- is a problem. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-01-03/trump-s-tax-returns-reveal-murky-global-business-deals
When an alligator sees a couple of crocodiles together in the wild it sarcastically mutters “Nice Crocs.”

https://youtu.be/ynxHJBRkw-c

One might call this "political theatre."

GOP lawmaker had to be restrained while confronting Gaetz. Hear what he told him

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Even with Kevin McCarthy as Speaker, House Republicans aren’t going to be able to do most of what they’re threatening to do https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/even-with-kevin-mccarthy-as-speaker-house-republicans-arent-going-to-be-able-to-do-most-of-what-theyre-threatening-to-do/48481
Even with Kevin McCarthy as Speaker, House Republicans aren’t going to be able to do most of what they’re threatening to do

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