ItsBrilliant

@ItsBrilliant@mstdn.social
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Music agent, news junkie - worked in news in former life, travel fan. Hoping intelligence and kindness get major reinforcements to thrive in our country. Nancy Pegel
So strange radio just won't play poor Lara's song. The struggle is real. https://twitter.com/williamlegate/status/1709943919851737226?t=qqEss4EDPSAJCVEIALPBpQ&s=19
LeGate š• on X

Lara Trump sings her new original single "Won't Back Down" (which totally wasn't stollen from Tom Petty) live on air… it goes about as well as you'd expect 😳

X (formerly Twitter)
..and if a schoolgirl's skirt was too short, gay characters in a sitcom, the Beatles saying they were bigger than Jesus, award winning books (a go-to target for snowflakes for a millennia), Teletubbies, and a ridiculous amount of science. Oh, and Happy Holidays! šŸ’„
Delta House has nothin' on Repubs.
"This situation absolutely requires that a really futile and stupid gesture be done on someone's part. And House Republicans are just the guys to do it."
https://twitter.com/BFichter/status/1701719608510599544?t=5R1YdaqilSp2esFLeVDGsQ&s=19
Bryan Fichter on X

"This situation absolutely requires that a really futile and stupid gesture be done on someone's part. And House Republicans are just the guys to do it." @RadioFreeTom @TheRickWilson

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"I covered a lot of political campaigns.

I never covered a single one where one candidate’s age would have been a bigger deal than another candidate being called a rapist by a judge." Sam Youngman, via Xitter

"Maybe it’s just me but if you’re mad the government suggested you wear a mask to prevent the spread of a deadly disease but fine with government telling women they have to take a pregnancy test just to travel between states, ā€œgovernment overreachā€ isn’t really your problem." Mikel Jollett
Pa. Democrats sweep 3 Allegheny County special elections and win the state House

Democrats declared victory in three special elections for the state House, putting the party on the brink of controlling the lower chamber of the legislature for the first time since 2010.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
This is a great essay on how marginalized any efforts to making the pandemic less destructive are. How different it was just a year ago when we were all in this together. Now, clearly, we are each on our own, and ignoring the disease is socially and lawfully required.
https://jessicawildfire.substack.com/p/this-is-your-permission-to-be-angry
This is Your Permission to Be Angry

You have every right.

OK Doomer

https://mas.to/@kityates/109726226180394012
"I'm sorry, but you can't *always* be experiencing a higher volume of calls than average.

That's not how averages work."

Kit Yates (@kityates@mas.to)

I'm sorry, but you can't *always* be experiencing a higher volume of calls than average. That's not how averages work.

mas.to
RT: Jack E. Smith āš–ļø
@7Veritas4
(Parody)
"It’s like McCarthy asked them what their criminal superpower was and matched them to committees where they could do the most damage."

Republicans rewarding coup plotters for coup plotting

RT @Jordanfabian@twitter.com

"Republicans are handing the keys of oversight to the most extreme MAGA members of the Republican caucus who promote violent rhetoric and dangerous conspiracy theories," WhiteHouse spokesman @IanSams46@twitter.com says in a statement https://twitter.com/Olivia_Beavers/status/1615442997369266186

Olivia Beavers on Twitter

ā€œOversight members include: Gosar, MTG, Boebert, Mike Turner, McClain Freshmen: Anna Paulina Luna, Russell Fry, Nick Langworthy, Chuck Edwards, Eric Burlison. Also includes: Sessions, Perry, Armstrong, Timmons, Burchett, Clyde, LaTurner, Donalds, Palmerā€

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