Tim Bates retweeted
Let me redo the headline for you @nytimes:
“Criminals loot Paris, beat police and light monuments on fire.
Subhead:
“Citizens are deeply concerned and scared for their personal safety. Election odds predictably swing to law-and-order candidates on prediction markets.”
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🚨 BREAKING: Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) is facing calls to resign after openly calling for the persecution of Trump allies — specifically to intimidate young conservatives out of public service.
Her words: “I want young people to be like, lord, that may buy myself a ton of problems I don’t want, so let me avoid participating. I want deterrence.”
She’s not talking about criminals. She’s talking about college grads considering jobs in a lawfully elected administration.
Her plan: “signature cases” against “the people who enabled him” because they “have no immunity the way the president does.”
She wants teenagers scared of politicians like her.
#Gobbels #Stalin #Marx
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Well, that's a lie. If you make $100,000, your tax is 4.4%, exactly the same as it is now. Yara should read the blue book. If you make less, you get a tiny temporary tax cut, because this is not indexed for inflation. In time, all of us will be paying 8.4% income tax in Colorado because of inflation. If you have to lie to sell a proposal, maybe it's not a good proposal. #copolitics
If you make less than $500,000, you can feel good about voting to give yourself a tax cut! 🤑
Vote YES on Amendment 87 and NO on Prop 136 to *finally* deliver a more fair tax code and say good riddance to dark money lies 👋🏽
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I went to Denver, Colorado, and found homeless people living under the city in their drainage pipes. The New York Times just came out with an article this last week stating Denver has the model to fix homelessness. I disagree.
Ok Scott what are you going g to do take private property? Just like Higo did in Venezuela
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yet another great reason nobody in tech should vote for scott wiener, who either doesn’t know or doesn’t care how the satellites got there in the first place
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Voici François-Louis Artois d’Hauteville, 15 ans, un jeune Français issu d’une ancienne lignée normande.
Il manifeste contre le manque de professeurs de philosophie dans son établissement — sa matière de prédilection. L’an dernier, un remplaçant a dû condenser en un seul semestre, à marche forcée, l’ensemble du programme consacré à Hegel et à Kant.
François a été le seul de sa classe à tenir le rythme : il avait déjà lu La Phénoménologie de l’esprit. Ses camarades, eux, peinaient à suivre, découvrant à peine cette œuvre en parallèle de la Critique de la raison pure.
Il a bien tenté de les aider après les cours, mais ces séances empiétaient sur ses engagements bénévoles dans une maison de retraite et sur ses leçons de violoncelle.
Voilà pourquoi, sur cette photo, il consulte sur son téléphone un cours consacré à la lecture des partitions et aux fondements de la musique classique.😇🇫🇷
Bagdad Bob
🚨 IRGC CLAIMS ITS MILITARY POWER IS NOW 1.5 TIMES WHAT IT WAS
IRGC spokesman Hossein Mohebi says the Guards' strength is now "at least 1.5 times" what it was. He says missile and drone production never stopped and has improved in range, accuracy and destructive power.
He also says the US is in no position to start a new conflict, that most US bases in the region are inactive, and that Washington may try to "manufacture" a military success ahead of its elections.
He warns that Iran's response to any new attack would be "much more severe."
Tim Bates retweeted
Control of the senate will decide the future of America
Early in-person voting begins in Texas tomorrow.
I ask for your votes for @KenPaxtonTX.
🗓️ Monday, October 19th
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Don't miss this prior thread.
🧵🚨 MAJOR BREAKING: International actors are involved in the State Department led color revolution 🚨🚨
This is not speculation; it’s straight from a recorded call.
Ex-USAID employees describe how, before January 20, they moved internal groups off government systems and into encrypted Signal chats, then quickly linked with foreign partners and NGOs after the inauguration. This attempt at creating a color revolution isn't new news; this part was already reported in NOTUS earlier this year.
But what's not reported is the international aspect. One participant explicitly frames it as "a global anti-authoritarian movement," connecting U.S. officials with "colleagues from around the world who have dealt with this directly."
They reference coordination with Johns Hopkins, "international democracy and conflict mitigation spaces," and efforts to mobilize across borders against what they perceive as domestic authoritarianism.
At what point does this become treason?
As always, patience as I pull together this thread.
👇
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You literally can’t make this up
On Instagram a post went extremely viral, getting nearly 100,000 likes in under 24 hours, saying “ICE broke the arm of a US citizen”
His arm wasn’t broke at all. It turns out his daughter told the Long Beach Watchdog the next day, October 18. he was scraped and bruised and his arm had pain. It wasn’t broken
Instagram is amplifying fake news about ICE. The caption literally reads “ICE broke the arm of a US citizen”
This is WILD, the person who spreading this fake news actually has an entire site setup to track ICE officers, expose their faces and make their license plates public (I’ll include it at the end)
This person needs to be arrested
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I agree with this prediction. Republicans hold the senate. But GO OUT AND VOTE A SOLID REPUBLICAN TICKET.
Don’t be:
“Gas is expensive so I will vote for democrats who sexually mutilate kids”
My Final Senate Predictions.
Texas 🟥 Paxton by 2-3pts
Ohio🟥 Husted by 2pts
NC 🟦 Cooper by 5-6pts
Florida 🟥 Moody by 7pts
Georgia 🟦 Ossoff by 6-7pts
Nebraska 🟥 Ricketts by 6pts
Kansas 🟥 Marshall by 3-5pts
Michigan 🟦 El-Sayed by 2-4pts
Maine 🟥 Collins by 5pts
Iowa 🟥 Hinson by 3-4pts
Alaska 🟥 Sullivan by 2-4pts
Minnesota 🟦 Flanagan by 3-4pts
Final - Republicans hold the Senate.
🟥 52 (-1)
🟦 48 (+1)
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Elon Musk to donate one @SpaceX share to ~72 million kids in America in 2027, currently valued at $10.5 billion, presumably through Trump Accounts.
Every kid in America will then have a direct stake in a company whose mission is the most ambitious in human history: to make life multi-plantary 🚀
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By Leslie Stahl’s logic, it’s wrong to require air travelers in America to go through TSA screening because (1) very few air travelers carry out terrorist acts (indeed, “the numbers are tiny”), and (2) mandatory TSA screening tends to “sow distrust” in the safety of air travel.
“There are people who feel that the point is to sow distrust about the whole election system. There are very few people who are noncitizens who end up voting very few. Very few. And so therefore what's the purpose?” 60 Minutes asks Harmeet Dhillon, who heads the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.
“The point is actually the opposite of what you were saying. It's not to sow distrust. The distrust is there,” says Dhillon. “And so all of these kinds of crimes are being prosecuted now for the first time really in volume.”
State audits have shown that noncitizen voting is extremely rare, though it does happen. cbsn.ws/4z7X60k
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Second amendment doesn’t seem so crazy when you witness a shop keeper trying to defend their property and livelihood does it?
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The past few days, I got my hands on thousands of new transcripts and hundreds of recordings, thanks to leads from @SKDoubleDub33 and @iamlisalogan .
You've heard that the DSA is proposing structural reforms to America, including abolishing the Senate and imposing term limits.
What you not have heard is - there is an operational plan to put it all into action. If the Democratic Party sweeps 2026, then DSA will become "foot soldiers" in constant clashes with the administration to cross a "red line" or invoke a "doomsday scenario" - meaning, President Trump invokes the Insurrection Act, probably sometime in 2027.
Then, a lot of coordinated responses kick off, including delegitimizing the federal government itself and handing that legitimacy to Democratic governors. 2028 then becomes a vote on whether to keep America governance as-is or to burn it all down to appease a "young and brown" demographic.
The mysterious group who's been coordinating 50501, Indivisible, and coordinating the NoKings protests is called "United Democracy Alliance" and their intellectual leader is Erica Chenoweth who came up with the 3.5% rule of nonviolent regime change.
Patience. I know I've hyped this more than anything else. It's genuinely the biggest discovery I've had. This is an enormous archive. This is only the beginning.
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The Phil Weiser “Illegals Can Vote” Rally in Durango was spirited. #colorado #copolitics