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A politician’s job is to make the political case to voters. And few do it better than Rep. McGovern.
Thursday. What a concept.
Donald Trump responds to John Kelly, calling him a "lowlife" and a "bad general" -- but makes no denial about the Hitler comments.

"Shootings are a fact of life," says JD Vance while standing behind bulletproof glass with the world's most capable bodyguards

#Harris #HarrisWalz #Harris2024 #HarrisWalz2024

Elon Musk Donates to Trump, Tapping Vast Fortune to Swing 2024 Race

Billionaire Elon Musk has donated to a super political action committee working to elect Donald Trump to the White House, a major gambit by the world’s richest person to make his imprint on the US political landscape.

Bloomberg
The question of what Trump does in a possible second term depends very heavily on who he puts into positions of power and how pervasively he does so. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/22/trump-second-term-extremism/
Analysis | What might happen after another inauguration of Donald Trump

Recent reports flesh out how Trump and his allies plan to reshape America.

Washington Post
Mike Johnson has also voted for some of the most hateful anti-LGBTQ bills that have come up in the House. https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/25/mike-johnson-republicans-name-anti-lgbtq-politician-as-new-house-speaker-nominee/
Mike Johnson: Republicans name anti-LGBTQ+ politician as new House Speaker nominee

The Republicans have selected Louisiana congressman Mike Johnson as their latest nominee for Speaker of the House.

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"... Even worse, their framing seeks to shut down and destroy the free speech rights of academic organizations that are studying how disinformation spreads. For all their talk of supporting free speech, the inclusion of the (misrepresented) Twitter Files is literally the opposite: an attempt to silence debate, research, and exploration in how to respond to nonsense—the very nonsense many of those who signed the Westminster Declaration make their living spreading."

Genetic testing company 23andMe said Friday that it believes some of its users' data was compromised in a credential-stuffing attack and is being circulated on a dark-web hacking forum.

https://t.co/X7MRZ3ORFC

23andMe investigating theft and leak of user data

The attacker behind the incident already leaked an initial sample of data about users with Ashkenazi Jewish heritage.

Axios

In 2019, ProPublica revealed stark inconsistencies between what the #Trump Organization had reported to #tax authorities and what it told lenders about the finances of one of its towers.

This week, a judge ruled the company had committed #fraud.

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-fraud-ruling-property-valuation-michael-cohen?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

Ruling Confirms Trump Used Fraud to Hype Property Values

In 2019, ProPublica revealed stark inconsistencies between what the Trump Organization had reported to tax authorities and what it told lenders about the finances of one of its towers. A judge this week ruled the company had committed fraud.

ProPublica