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getting a lot of weird assholes in my replies lately so i am afraid i’m forced to tap the calendar page that reads “OCTOBER” and put out my lawn sign. there is a time for being a weird asshole about politics and it is not 34 days before we vote on whether to do immigrant pogroms.
"[Trump] personally set the fraudulent elector plan in motion in early December, ensured that it was carried out by co-conspirators and Campaign agents in the targeted states, and monitored its progress.""[Trump] personally set the fraudulent elector plan in motion in early December, ensured that it was carried out by co-conspirators and Campaign agents in the targeted states, and monitored its progress."
that he did this is not in serious dispute; the argument is, basically, that he was right to do so and that he cannot be prosecuted for it it is existential, for this country, that he is
he tried to overthrow the government, we all saw him try to overthrow the government, and if overthrowing the government is an official duty then we do not, by any reasonable standard, HAVE a government
Disaster researchers have been talking about this (we call them indirect deaths) for literal decades but I’m glad the economists have caught on… Now do literally all the other hazards too!
"Hurricanes are hundreds of times deadlier than anyone has realized." @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social on the new study that could radically shift how we think about hurricane deaths:
New research published today in Nature shocked even the study’s own authors.