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1:36 AM
@Jolenealaska she will be only known in the history for her handy work at the Beetlejuice. Pretty much sums up her career.
 
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7:10 AM
If this has been mentioned here, I didn't see it:
> “It is imperative to guarantee that women have autonomy in deciding their preference of having children, based on their own convictions, free from any intervention or pressure from the government
> “Why should anyone other than the woman herself have the power to determine what she does with her own body? A woman’s fundamental right of individual liberty, to her own life, grants her the authority to terminate her pregnancy if she wishes.
> “Restricting a woman’s right to choose whether to terminate an unwanted pregnancy is the same as denying her control over her own body. I have carried this belief with me throughout my entire adult life.”
 
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1:45 PM
> If Florida becomes more solidly Republican in 2024, it suggests that the upheaval during and after the pandemic has had a lasting effect on American politics.
> This poll, after all, is far from the first indication of Republican strength in the Sunshine State. Republicans won a landslide victory here in the 2022 midterms, as the state was ground zero for the conservative reaction against lockdowns, vaccine mandates and “woke.”

These same issues didn’t do nearly as much to help Republicans elsewhere in the country. In fact, there were other states — like Michigan, Kansas and Pennsylvania — where the backlash against Mr. Trump’s stop-the-steal campaign and the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade seemed to outweigh them and propelled
> What’s telling, though, is that the basic political pattern from the midterms still seems evident in the polling today. If the poll is right, Florida really has gone on a different path from Pennsylvania and Michigan. And since the paths diverged several years ago, the most straightforward explanation is that the fights over the pandemic, “woke,” abortion rights, crime, Mr. Trump’s effort to overturn the election and so on left a lasting mark on the electoral map.
> Importantly, the pattern is consistent with the idea that Mr. Trump’s edge in the Electoral College relative to the popular vote has shrunk somewhat since 2020.
> when it comes to Israel, Mr. Biden hasn’t supported equality under the law. The war in Gaza has made that contradiction impossible to ignore. It is most glaring when Biden expresses deep empathy for Israeli suffering but relative indifference to the far larger number of dead Palestinians, or when his administration seems to distinguish even between American citizens, showing more concern for those murdered by Hamas than for those killed by Israel’s military.
> No wonder, according to a September survey by the Institute for Global Affairs, Democrats consider Mr. Biden’s policy on Gaza his greatest foreign policy failure. Young Americans are especially alienated by the chasm between Mr. Biden’s actions and his stated ideals.
> In the war’s first seven months, the Biden administration vetoed four resolutions concerning Israel and Palestine. Mr. Biden denounced the I.C.C.’s chief prosecutor for requesting warrants for the arrests of Hamas and Israeli leaders. While Mr. Biden has warned against Israel’s “indiscriminate” bombing of Gaza and the loss of civilian life, he has also repeatedly reiterated his support of Israel and supplied the country with vast quantities of arms.

Whatever chance Mr. Biden had of convincing large numbers of foreigners that the United States believed that international law applies to al
 
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5:02 PM
> Vladimir Putin urged Donald Trump not to tell anyone after the then-U.S. president secretly sent COVID-19 test machines for the Russian leader’s private use during the pandemic, according to a bombshell new book by Bob Woodward.

Woodward also claims the two men continued their relationship after Trump left the White House with “maybe as many as seven” secret calls since 2021
> The book suggests Biden has a very different relationship with the Russian leader. Woodward quotes the president as saying to Oval Office advisors after the Ukraine invasion: “That fucking Putin. Putin is evil. We are dealing with the epitome of evil.”
 
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6:37 PM
From that article
> The Watergate journalist writes that Trump sent a “bunch of Abbott Point of Care Covid test machines” to Putin in 2020.

Putin reportedly warned Trump that he’d make people “mad” if he admitted to sending the equipment.

“Please don’t tell anybody you sent these to me,” Putin said to Trump, according to CNN, which has obtained an advance copy of the Woodward book, War.

“I don’t care. Fine,” Trump is said to have replied.

“No, no. I don’t want you to tell anybody because people will get mad at you, not me. They don’t care about me,” Woodward quotes the Russian leader as saying.
 
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8:56 PM
This is a big one:
The book is by Bob Woodward, so it's going to be seen.
> As the coronavirus tore through the world in 2020, and the United States and other countries confronted a shortage of tests designed to detect the illness, then-President Donald Trump secretly sent coveted tests to Russian President Vladimir Putin for his personal use.
> Putin, petrified of the virus, accepted the supplies but took pains to prevent political fallout — not for him, but for his American counterpart. He cautioned Trump not to reveal that he had dispatched the scarce medical equipment to Moscow, according to a new book by Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward.
Not that it'll matter to his supporters
Hopefully swing voters will take notice
The worst of the MAGA hats would probably see that headline as positive. But if there are still people out there who plan to vote for Trump who can still be reached, that story might do it for them.
Both of them
9:55 PM
@Jolenealaska and the GOP are refusing to send aid, since they hope it'll make the democrats look bad
Gas stations are running out of fuel, 20% of stations are out. The Democrats will do absolutely everything they can to help these people and the Republicans will use them as pawns. And Florida will still vote red.
> Milton is due to become the 10th major hurricane – category 3 or higher – to make landfall along the US’s Gulf coast since 2017, gaining power from the warm seas in the Gulf. Milton was the third fastest-intensifying storm on record in the Atlantic Ocean, the agency said.
Weather and climate experts attribute such a high rate of powerful, destructive storms to the climate crisis, spurred by the burning of fossil fuels.
> The governor is pro-fossil fuels and has criticised climate action as being led by “radical green zealots”.
The same radical green zealots who are actually working in good faith to help the very people who are going to vote against them to support the politicians who support the industry that is at this moment threatening their homes, livelihoods, and lives. Got it
10:25 PM
@Jolenealaska especially since they seem to want to be more aligned with Russia now because it's "anti-woke"

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