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Rick Wilson
@TheRickWilson
He walked into court with a swagger and grin,
But the hearing is long and the air is thin.
Trump appears to be sleeping, his head keeps dropping down,
And his mouth goes slack when the judge looks around.
In the land of the free, where the brave still tread,
Trump’s dreaming of Stormy while resting his head.
11:13 AM · Apr 15, 2024
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He's sedated so that his hyperactive mouth doesn't keep throwing bombs that his attorneys have to throw their bodies in front of. This will continue to show with extreme variations between his highs and lows. Give it a couple of days, while his handlers post frantically to keep up the facade, and the drugs and desperation will show their toll.
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This reads like $0.00001 scam stock board talking about diamonds in the sky.
Small-time investors in Trump’s Truth Social reckon with stock collapse
Some Trump supporters who invested in his social media company have seen their share values plunge -— and see it as a test of faith
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/04/14/truth-social-investors-faith-trump/
By Drew Harwell
April 14, 2024 at 8:00 a.m. EDT
Always the same old bs.
Heads-up: Per spokeswoman, Del. James Moylan (R-Guam) was added as a co-sponsor to Matt Gaetz’s “Trump did not engage in insurrection” resolution WITHOUT the delegate’s permission. The delegate’s office spoke to the clerk and he’s being removed from bill “as soon as possible” https://t.co/HTOLjeWHvK
— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) April 15, 2024
Ding ding ding. Other than purposefully trying to release witness names to the public, the reason trump is appending motions with sensitive material is to trigger time-consuming litigation that Cannon will oblige. https://t.co/3vsOY8mjGH
— Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) April 14, 2024
Funny;
New York Times Pitchbot
@DougJBalloon
We didn’t have ex-presidents shamelessly selling bibles, gold sneakers, and meme stocks when Trump was in the White House.
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Trump Hailed as 'Destroyer of America' on Russian State TV
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-hailed-destroyer-america-russian-state-tv-1791560
Published Mar 30, 2023 at 12:28 PM EDT
Updated Apr 13, 2024 at 8:14 AM EDT
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Nice! My puts are way in the money. And this will secure the party continues. Just sorry the DJT grifters will take in millions from shareholders in order to get my cut.
https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/0001849635/000114036124019745/ny20026576x1_s1.htm
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Follow along the bouncing ball with the ballad of Traitor trump.
It’s a beautiful morning at 100 Centre Street in Manhattan.
— Tyler McBrien (@TylerMcBrien) April 15, 2024
I’m waiting in line with members of the press to attend the first criminal trial of a former president, Donald Trump, for @lawfare.
Follow this thread for updates 🧵⚖️ pic.twitter.com/WE43CFEucZ
Guardian crew covering jury selection for Trump’s criminal case in New York from 100 Centre St and Trump Tower today: @vicbekiempis @LaurenAratani + me
— Hugo Lowell (@hugolowell) April 15, 2024
Back in court at 100 Centre for #TryingTrump
— Norm Eisen (#TryingTrump out now!) (@NormEisen) April 15, 2024
I’ll be sitting with my @just_security colleague @KlasfeldReports & the great @gtconway3d to LIVE TWEET. Plz follow along
Appreciate the kind words from them & others in line for my new book about the case👉 https://t.co/4M6OQvujCP pic.twitter.com/9V3DCf2ABP
I was a prosecutor & criminal defense lawyer for 29 years spending nearly every day in courtrooms with over 250 jury trials. I will do my best to give you the perspective on this trial from a practical, real-world point of view while cutting through the BS, games & smokescreens.
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) April 15, 2024
Everything that is connected with trump is a lie or a grift. I'm sure a lie went on the request form. There's a lot of "non profit" organizations that are in disguise that only supports a desired politics. The Marines would have to have anything that is at trump's palace be classified political in order to deny the request. Anyway, rules aren't meant for that crowd, that's been obvious.
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Just a part of a BIG problem that needs to be dealt with, like right now.
Trump calls his globe-trotting ex-diplomat ‘my envoy.’ Neither is in office.
Richard Grenell is meeting with far-right foreign leaders, attacking President Biden and offering a glimpse at what U.S. foreign policy could be like in a second Trump term
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/28/richard-grenell-trump-envoy-serbia-guatemala/
By Beth Reinhard, Jon Swaine and Aaron Schaffer
March 28, 2024 at 5:00 a.m. EDT
He's in control of a big portion of our congress. Whatever goes through legislation on any important matter has to pass his approval first. Even he was saying "we're" going to do this, we're going to do that making up bills that are already law just to get in front of MSM so they can spew lies and Russian propaganda. He constantly breaks any and all rules of law with courts, yet never suffers any consequences that every other criminal would suffer.
Trump et al has been the most corrupted and traitorous of any other presidency in US history.
Former Obama adviser: Kushner engaged in ‘level of corruption that we’ve just never seen’ with foreign relations
BY FILIP TIMOTIJA - 04/11/24 8:23 PM ET
https://thehill.com/policy/international/4589465-former-obama-advisor-kushner-engaged-in-level-of-corruption-that-weve-just-never-seen-with-foreign-relations/
Traitor trump is responsible for thousands of women and children and their homes and infrastructure demolished and mutilated in Ukraine, supporting and growing our enemy, Putin, power and strength.
All by a guy that is mentally and emotionally deranged, fired from his job, and is not elected by the people controlling so many lives. Yeh, I say something seriously needs to be done about it.
Watch Mike Johnson try to walk in front of Trump and Trump tells him to get behind him. Then Mike goes to touch Trump and thinks better of it. This is a party with one autocratic strongman that everyone fears. pic.twitter.com/AZ6Rpwv1wm
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) April 12, 2024
On April 11, 2024, a @marforres unit, 4th Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, supported a nonpolitical event hosted by a civic organization at the Mar-a-Lago Club by providing a color guard and static display.
— U.S. Marines (@USMC) April 14, 2024
The civic organization, Grey Team, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit based in…
The reality is that it is the "normal" for millions, and unless we correct the situation, it will only get worse and be a worse "normal" for millions more in the future. Yes, it shouldn't be a normal, nor should it have been ever normal, at least our normal that we have been accustomed to. Pepper gets into that in his column. Our normal has been created by an entirely different environment. That environment is gone.
Pepper explains this pretty well and continues with a path forward view and writes;
https://davidpepper.substack.com/p/mr-pepper-this-is-normal-to-us
............................Add it all up, and if you’re 20 or 25 today, watching JD Vance and Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley and Vivek Ramaswamy rise to high heights by doing little to no service (and hardly pretending to) while making tons of right-wing noise (including changing their views on a dime), you’d be excused for thinking that politics today has absolutely nothing to do with public service. It’s just a wild, nasty, ugly free-for-all—nothing to do with service and everything to do with extremism and power and endless disrespect for others.
You’d also be forgiven for believing that idle talk of civil war and defying election outcomes, open talk of violence and racism and conspiracy theories like replacement theory and rampant voter fraud by voters of color, are all part of usual political discourse. Because all of that poison and bile have permeated politics since you came of age.
“For us, this is normal. It’s all we’ve ever seen.”
So our challenge goes beyond simply not normalizing Trump’s current wave of disturbing and anti-democratic behavior.
Once you listen to what that young woman told me—and realize her insight applies to all who’ve come of age since—you see we have a far higher hill to climb.
We have to convince an entire generation of Americans that there is—that there can be—a different normal than the one that’s been baked in for most of their lives.
While we look back and remember a normal we may want to return to, they’ve never seen it or experienced it. Their lived experience is that it doesn’t even exist.
If they’re seeking normal, at least, politics and even democracy is not where they’re going to find it.
Finding A New Normal
One other thing: time is of the essence.
As every year goes by, the “normal” we once experienced fades further into the past—forgotten. And every year, millions more Americans will have only experienced the chaos of today as their “normal.” Not knowing it can be better, many won’t expect or demand anything better going forward.
Those of us who know only have so much time to show these younger generations that there was once a different normal, and can be again.
But there’s one other caveat.
While someone like me may look back at those old days in the TV room and recall a better, calmer “normal,” we’re not going back to that either. Nor should we try.
If you look at the people I listed as part of that old “normal,” you’ll see it’s mostly male and mostly white. And as I look back at my own young life, I viewed it all and felt comforted by it all from my own privileged position.
I know now that beneath that surface of “normal,” many Americans were struggling, many policies were dividing people, other policies were holding people back, and many voices were left out. That old “normal” also played a role in sanitizing realities and wrongs and injustices that needed more exposure. More animated discussion. More solutions.
So our answer can’t just be to pine away for the old normal.
It’s to create a new one.
Of course, a dramatically better “normal” than what young Americans have experienced, but also a better, more open, more honest and more inclusive “normal” than the one I experienced growing up. That honesty will necessarily make it more spirited—more challenging and complicated, and real—than what I saw on those Sunday mornings, and that’s only healthy.
And it also can be a normal where politics is indeed about public service. About solving problems. About lifting people. That’s why you enter it, and that’s the work you do when you get there.
It must be a normal that adheres to the principles of a rule-of-law democracy, truth, and respect for fellow Americans. Which means that Trump’s dangerous talk and actions—pushing authoritarianism, lies, lawlessness, racism, misogyny, exclusion and division—are all viewed (again) as way out of bounds, and called out as such (just as Molly Jong-Fast wrote). And one where attacks on freedom and core American principles are viewed as disqualifying for public office.
But also, more than the one I experienced, it can be a normal not just of surface-level civility, but of humanity. An open and honest addressing of problems and injustices in our country by the broad and diverse voices that make up our country—and not a sanitized conversation while those issues go unaddressed and too many voices aren’t part of the conversation.
“Mr. Pepper, for us, this is normal. It’s all we’ve ever seen.”
She’s right.
The clock is ticking. Years are passing. As memories fade, today’s normal is cementing into place for millions.
Let’s get to work creating something far better.
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It was all just satire. Some dry humor. Just made up and wasn't meant to be checked for accuracy. Well, except maybe the part about the state of our politics and how the trumplicans are taking America down in the mud. I'm sure they will be coming up with some conspiracy theater to distract their masses that we have to look forward to. They get more desperate as the election grows nearer and more of trump's crimes become apparent to many (at least we hope). Their defense of such a list of debauchery and crime is astounding.
On a more serious note, another couple of republican members in the 99.95% club.
Husband and wife evangelical MAGA traveling pastors and big supporters of Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn @MarshaBlackburn have been indicted on NEW charges of child rape. https://t.co/tXXyULaXZH
— Bruno Amato (@BrunoAmato_1) April 13, 2024
David Pecker is due to testify in trump's criminal trial paying off a porn star. America and the state of the republican party is going to roll around in the mud next week.
Trump fucked around, literally, and going to find out Monday. Stormy weather ahead.
Mr Pecker is going to be the star witness and the jokes are already cumming.
Judge Merchan: “Mr. Pecker, please rise.”
Lauren Boebert: “I will closely watch President Trump’s hush money case, especially to see if Pecker’s testimony provides hard evidence.”
After Pecker’s testimony on Monday, I hope the jury comes to a quick verdict.
The groaning can stop now.
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How many LBGTQs are child sex offenders? 0.05%. Who's the other 99.95%?
Chaz Chinsethagid, 33, now former Riverview Baptist Church in Bixby youth pastor & worship leader, has been charged w attempted coercion or enticement of a minor, receipt and distribution of child sexual abuse images & sexual exploitation of children.https://t.co/arKxE5AIbC pic.twitter.com/qEuDQRCUZG
— 𝐁𝐞𝐤𝐬 (@antifaoperative) April 12, 2024
The affidavit showed that during the 2020-2021 school year, the 67 yr old Beacon Christian Academy teacher, Steven Houser, began showing favoritism to one of his 3rd grade girls, giving her answers to tests so she’d pass and telling her that he loved her.https://t.co/FBThK3Hejl
— 𝐁𝐞𝐤𝐬 (@antifaoperative) April 11, 2024
Steven Carles, 36, now former Newark police officer & school resource officer, has been charged w menacing by stalking & 3 counts of disseminating harmful material to a juvenile.https://t.co/ftPYO1Dt4k pic.twitter.com/yHFQkU5G0Z
— 𝐁𝐞𝐤𝐬 (@antifaoperative) April 10, 2024
The Mormon Church has at the least 2,481 Boy Scouts Child Sex Abuse Survivors that are Claimants in the @BoyScouts $2.46 Billion Bankruptcy! https://t.co/8AB9vyaqM5
— SOSCSA.org (@SOSCSAorg) April 11, 2024
Watch the documentary “Scout’s Honor: The Secret Files of the Boy Scouts of America”… https://t.co/5A7Z5LT2Bx pic.twitter.com/4UA5dka1S5
Phoenix police officer, Alaa Bartley, has been arrested for receiving & possessing images of children being sexually abused.
— 𝐁𝐞𝐤𝐬 (@antifaoperative) April 11, 2024
Bartley possessed 49,000 images & over 700 videos. pic.twitter.com/NrNXo95FC2
Just in: 🧵The Louisiana Supreme Court ruled that priests have an absolute "property right" that shields them from lawsuits related to allegations of child sexual abuse. pic.twitter.com/aCvsZ7Zq9O
— Brian Allen (@allenanalysis) April 12, 2024
Rate of sterilizations in US jumped after overturning of Roe v Wade, study shows
Number of people seeking permanent contraception increased after 2022 decision, in particular among women, research reveals
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/12/sterilizations-roe-v-wade
Jessica Glenza
Fri 12 Apr 2024 11.44 EDT
Rates of people seeking permanent contraception – such as tubal ligation or vasectomies – shot up after the supreme court overturned Roe v Wade in 2022, in the Dobbs decision.
Although both procedures increased, the rate of increase was double for tubal ligations, commonly known as a woman getting her “tubes tied”.
“The major difference in patterns of these two procedures likely reflects the fact that young women are overwhelmingly responsible for preventing pregnancy,” Jacqueline Ellison, assistant professor in the department of health policy and management at the Pitt School of Public Health in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, said in a release.
People capable of getting pregnant “disproportionately experience the health, social and economic consequences of abortion bans”, she said.
Researchers are only beginning to grapple with the health effects of the Dobbs decision, which has allowed 21 US states to severely restrict or almost entirely ban abortion.
Another research letter in Jama Internal Medicine found that more than 65,000 US rape victims could not get an abortion in their own state because of bans. Some experts also expect abortion bans to increase the rates of babies born with severe genetic abnormalities and worsen maternal mortality rates, particularly among Black women and especially in many deep south states that have among the worst rates in the nation.
The new research letter was published in the journal Jama Health Forum. Ellison and her co-authors used the TriNetX platform, which gathers data largely from major academic medical centers, to perform an analysis of de-identified patient records that contained the procedure codes for tubal ligations and vasectomies.
Researchers studied the period leading up to the supreme court’s decision, from 2019 to 2022, and then afterward from 2022 to 2023. They focused specifically on people aged 18-30 – a group in their prime reproductive years. This group is also more likely to regret undergoing sterilization compared with people older than 30.
Researchers found an increase of 58 tubal ligations or five procedures a month after Dobbs. They also found an increase of about 27 vasectomies after Dobbs, but no significant increase per month.
The study was unable to look at specific regions of the country, because TriNetX does not collect identifying information about facilities. Similarly, researchers were unable to explore the experiences of racial minorities, low-income and disabled people through the data. Those groups are known to suffer worse health outcomes overall, and are likely to be more susceptible to the coercion of abortion bans.
Researchers said the higher rate among women and people capable of getting pregnant may “reflect the disproportionate health, social and economic consequences of compulsory pregnancy” on them.
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SMOKING GUN: Mitt Romney revealed Donald is actively telling Republican Senators and members of Congress to vote against Border legislation to make Biden look bad:
— Mary L. Trump (@MaryLTrump) April 12, 2024
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6/ Kremlin officials, particularly Putin, are increasingly contextualizing the war in Ukraine as part of a long-term geopolitical confrontation between Russia and the West in order to justify Russia’s long-term war effort in Ukraine and future Russian aggression against other…
— Institute for the Study of War (@TheStudyofWar) April 12, 2024
Dear @P_Kallioniemi
— 𝑫𝒓𝑱𝑯 (@drjhamsterdam) April 8, 2024
The Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders is the keynote speaker together with this anti-Semite and neo-Nazi Jack Posobiec at a CPAC Congress organized by Victor Orban in April.
Mr Omtzigt en Ms Yeşilgöz are trying to form a new government with Wilders. https://t.co/wpeYDctVX5 pic.twitter.com/zxwf4cLznB
Yes it is. Has been happening for years.
A former CIA officer explains how a vast, pro-Putin corruption network uncovered in Europe is a warning sign for the U.S.
— The New Republic (@newrepublic) April 12, 2024
From @alexzfinley: https://t.co/1pREiRMnTT
A few days ago, I tweeted about how a 19-year old student once corrected me when I told a group of college students that what we were experiencing w Trump wasn’t “normal”…
— David Pepper (@DavidPepper) April 12, 2024
“Mr. Pepper, for us, this is normal. It’s all we’ve ever seen.”
She was right.
The tweet took off, so… https://t.co/nwkLWz0rDp
Belgium will investigate suspected Russian interference in upcoming EU elections
https://apnews.com/article/eu-elections-russia-interference-f0962ec30ba2ec3833f755ccdc8bc6b2?
BY LORNE COOK
Updated 5:25 AM MDT, April 12, 2024
BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo announced on Friday an investigation into suspected Russian interference in Europe-wide elections in June, saying that his country’s intelligence service has confirmed the existence of a network trying to undermine support for Ukraine.
“Belgian intelligence services have confirmed the existence of pro-Russian interference networks with activities in several European countries and also here in Belgium,” said De Croo, whose country currently holds the rotating presidency of the European Union.
De Croo said that Belgian agencies are working closely with the Czech authorities after a pro-Russian influence operation was uncovered there. He said that probe showed that members of the European Parliament were approached and offered money to promote Russian propaganda.
“According to our intelligence service, the objectives of Moscow are very clear. The objective is to help elect more pro-Russian candidates to the European Parliament and to reinforce a certain pro-Russian narrative in that institution,” he told reporters.
Europe-wide polls are being held on June 6-9 to elect a new EU parliament.
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Russian interests have taken over republican congress.
Russia has defeated America, get ready for a VERY different world. pic.twitter.com/XuIcoeZlFm
— Jay in Kyiv (@JayinKyiv) April 12, 2024
David Pepper
@DavidPepper
Overall, I agree that all that we’re seeing from Trump is not “normal.” And we should not let it become normalized.
With one caveat….as a 19-year old student corrected me a few years ago when I told a group of college students that what we were experiencing w Trump wasn’t “normal”…
“Mr. Pepper, for us, this is normal. It’s all we’ve ever seen.”
She was right.
All the younger generations have seen is insane politics and right-wing extremism, from birtherism (when many were not even 10) to today.
We’ve got work to do to show these generations what normal even is, or could be…because they’ve never seen it.
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But, but look over there at Biden's son's dick pics. Already known, but just a reminder of some of the shady people that are getting their cut and/or owed favors.
🔥The blank check DWAC that joined the Truth Social venture, is tied to Jair Bolsonaro - who alongside Trump and both of their sons plotted TOGETHER to overturn the Presidential elections in the U.S. and Brazil. https://t.co/TXhWvOPdQr
— Venture Capital (@kelly2277) April 11, 2024
💥BOOM💥It is VERY likely that the 2020 U.S. trade deal w Brazil and Trump’s endorsement of Jair Bolsonaro were quid pro quos to get Bolsonaro’s future VP to put up the DWAC to help Truth Social go public. See key dates👇@SECGov @HouseDemocrats pic.twitter.com/ZiIS0HDwte
— Venture Capital (@kelly2277) April 11, 2024
Ouroboros in action: The chairman/CEO of Digital World Acquisition Group that is merging with Trump’s new media company, is also CEO of Yunhong International, a Cayman Islands incorporated blank check company with headquarters in Wuhan, China. pic.twitter.com/a4ljUETFg9
— Kara Swisher (@karaswisher) October 21, 2021
🚨 The European Parliament took a stand, voting 515-62 to block funding for the European Council until 7 Patriot systems are delivered to Ukraine. Europe has 100 Patriot systems. The European Council is a set of regular meetings between government ministers of member nations. pic.twitter.com/pTsLtNLhIy
— Igor Sushko (@igorsushko) April 11, 2024
This you? https://t.co/Eunev6EXID pic.twitter.com/o0ncoOnBxT
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) April 11, 2024
Republican Suggests Thousands of Seniors Shouldn't Be Voting
https://www.newsweek.com/eric-hovde-nursing-home-residents-voting-1888417?
Published Apr 09, 2024 at 9:10 AM EDT
Updated Apr 10, 2024 at 7:10 AM EDT
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Prosecutor assigned to probe Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones in Trump election interference case
BY ELLA LEE AND ZACH SCHONFELD - 04/11/24 11:00 AM ET
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4588090-prosecutor-assigned-to-probe-georgia-lt-gov-burt-jones-in-trump-election-interference-case/
A Georgia prosecutor has been assigned to criminally investigate the state’s Republican lieutenant governor, Burt Jones, for his alleged role in former President Trump’s attempt to subvert the state’s 2020 election results......
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Elon Musk Leads Far Right Propaganda Blitz On Brazil’s Democracy
https://www.brasilwire.com/elon-musk-leads-far-right-propaganda-blitz-on-brazils-democracy/
By BRASILWIRE
Post date April 10, 2024
With all the bullshit money can buy, the Tesla billionaire is instigating a digital proto-coup, reminiscent of what happened on social networks in early 2013 – but this time those behind it are in plain sight.
January 8 2023 was not a new coup attempt as is most often depicted, but the desperate, failed last stand of the one fomented and consolidated between 2013 and 2018. A year later Brazilians have taken to the streets to demand that there be no amnesty for its perpetrators.
The Supreme Court effectively halted a coup attempt, designed to prevent elected president Lula da Silva from taking office, lead by his defeated adversary Jair Bolsonaro, far-right generals and the former commander of the Brazilian navy. Only hesitance elsewhere in the Armed Forces prevented the situation becoming far worse.
In the wake of Supreme Court investigation and prosecution of the key plotters, a new proto-coup is being fomented.
In early April 2024 Elon Musk-allied journalist Michael D. Shellenberger launched “Twitter Files Brazil”. Billed as a bombshell leak it was in fact a tepid fantasy, built using cherry picked information from the company’s own emails, misinterpretation of Brazilian law, and blatant journalistic malpractice. These messages were reassembled, haphazardly, and in bad faith, to reach desired conclusions, and then spread by an army of far right flacks to generate maximum online repercussion, in an effort to intimidate both the Supreme Court and Lula administration............................
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US imposes first-ever limits on levels of toxic PFAS in drinking water All of earth's water in a sphere pic.twitter.com/63Kn3HcVFJ
EPA takes action for first time in 27 years against ‘forever chemicals’ feared to be contaminating water for over 200 million
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/10/pfas-forever-chemicals-limits-drinking-water
Analysis
EPA has limited six ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water - but there are 15,000
Tom Perkins
Rules celebrated for reducing exposures, but experts say it’s not enough and will lead to ‘an endless game of Whac-a-Mole’
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/11/pfas-limits-epa-drinking-water
Strong new limits for some PFAS compounds in drinking water set by the US Environmental Protection Agency this week are being celebrated for how far they go in reducing exposures to the dangerous chemicals.
But public health advocates say the rules merely represent a first step that is limited in its impact on the broader PFAS crisis because they do not directly prevent more pollution or force the chemical industry to pay for cleanup.
a person in a white coat and purple gloves pour water into a small glass bottle
US imposes first-ever limits on levels of toxic PFAS in drinking water
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The rules also address only six compounds, although about 15,000 PFAS exist, and the vast majority remain unregulated or unstudied. Meanwhile, drinking water represents only about 20% of human exposure, the EPA estimates, and diet is likely a larger problem.
The PFAS crisis is so vast and complex that the only way to address it is to regulate the chemicals as a class and strongly limit their use, public health advocates say.
“The EPA is not going to succeed this way – they have to define PFAS broadly and ban all non-essential uses. Otherwise, we’re not getting out of the contamination crisis,” said Kyla Bennett, a former EPA official now with the non-profit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (Peer).
PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, are a class of chemicals often used to make products resistant to water, stains and heat. They are called “forever chemicals” because they do not naturally break down, and are linked to cancer, liver problems, thyroid issues, birth defects, kidney disease, decreased immunity and other serious health problems.
Local municipalities will be financially responsible for meeting the new limits, and the upgrades can cost larger water districts tens of millions of dollars. Initial class-action lawsuits brought against chemical makers have generated around $15bn for upgrades, but experts estimate the national cost closer to $400bn.
For that reason, many water districts opposed the new rules.
“I agree that it’s not fair to have [the public] pay for this, but clean water is such a fundamental necessity that we can’t fiddle around and not regulate PFAS because it’s going to be too expensive – people literally will die,” Bennett said.
However, the new limits will have a “ripple effect” and make it easier for governments, water districts or individuals to sue PFAS polluters because finalizing the rules effectively represents closure on the debate around the chemicals’ toxicity, said Bob Sussman, an attorney who litigates PFAS issues. That will provide powerful evidence in court.
“The EPA is being very definitive about the adverse effects of PFOA and PFOS … so that will definitely play a role in lawsuits,” he said. “The legal liability has definitely gone up.”
That risk may motivate some industries to use fewer PFAS, and 3M, one of the world’s largest producers of the chemicals, announced last year it would no longer make the compounds, citing in part the regulatory and legal environment.
The upgraded water systems will clean much more than just the six compounds, but the EPA still has virtually no regulations in place restricting PFAS discharges into the air or water, and that does not change under the new rules....
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One of the world’s highest cities starts rationing water for 9 million people
By Stefano Pozzebon, CNN
5 minute read
Updated 8:31 AM EDT, Thu April 11, 2024
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/11/climate/bogota-water-rationing-drought-climate-intl/index.html
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A reminder that there are US "citizens" that are terrorist, that are spies, and some like citizen trump are traitors working with known foreign adversaries trying to dismantle America that are already being watched by the US security system. If those homegrown terrorist, spies, or a traitor trump doesn't want to be watched by US security, they shouldn't be dealing with or helping our adversaries attack America.
This is the kind of nonsense that happens when you replace a political party with a clown show. Let’s unpack this a bit: pic.twitter.com/QY41zkQh3w
— Sean Casten (@SeanCasten) April 11, 2024
Meet the other Donald Trump, whom candidate Trump once called ‘the more important’ one
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2016/10/17/meet-the-other-donald-trump-an-admired-cancer-doctor-whom-the-candidate-once-referred-to-as-the-famous-one/
Trumplicans vs Republicans; congress chaos continues directed by one mentally deranged guy that was fired from the job constantly causing turmoil.
GOP rages over FISA as deadline inches closer
BY MYCHAEL SCHNELL, MIKE LILLIS AND REBECCA BEITSCH - 04/10/24 8:09 PM ET
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4587023-gop-rages-fisa-702/
Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee for president, urged Republicans to "KILL FISA" in a 1:43 a.m. post to his Truth Social account this morning. pic.twitter.com/oryEEJqFXf
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) April 10, 2024
This is unsettling. I asked historian Daniel Ziblatt if previous examples of conservative and financial elites allying with authoritarian and/or fascist movements should help us understand today's corporate elite accommodation with Trump.
— Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) April 10, 2024
His answer:https://t.co/pvXlYHm6CR pic.twitter.com/ujAXF4aymJ
Just part of the scam. Traitor trump didn't pay a dime for those shares, even if the shares go down to a buck, he's profited that amount all for just being a mentally disabled fascist kleptocrat. Besides, if you don't believe trump has already gleefully had his fingers covered in the pie, I've got a slightly used Francis Scott Key Bridge to sell you cheap.
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GOP Co-Author of Arizona's 1864 Anti-Abortion Law Fled After Taking Bribes
Coles Bashford was a founder of the Republican Party
J.D. Wolf
https://www.meidastouch.com/news/gop-co-author-of-arizonas-1864-anti-abortion-law-fled-after-taking-bribes
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Have you all been in a coma since 2016?
— BoehlertMediaBusters (@MediaBusters6) April 10, 2024
Many of us especially @MalcolmNance @grantstern have shown US over & over that Trump& GOP is now a wholly owned subsidiary of the Kremlin
Over $400M money- laundered via NRA into Trump & GOP Campaigns https://t.co/qT9buscNFQ#GOPTraitors https://t.co/dODUYLhlea pic.twitter.com/t1EaiKDA3B
She's only there to help traitor trump. Delay, delay, delay. She worked in the acclaimed appeals court and knows exactly what it takes to appeal and she knows exactly how far she can push and delay something before she has to back down and stop any reason to appeal or have reason for her removed from case. Delay is the only way trump wins, he only looks at that way, he hardly ever wins against the laws, he only wins with delays. Been that way most of his life.
How Judge Cannon Is Quietly Strangling Jack Smith’s Case Against Trump
Aileen Cannon is signaling her intent to kill the special counsel’s prosecution of Donald Trump for stealing classified documents—and her shilling has only just begun.
https://newrepublic.com/article/180427/judge-cannon-quietly-strangling-jack-smiths-case-trump?
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At the time there were no women legislators, and it was against the law for women to vote for any legislators and couldn't vote on any laws or have any say in the matter. Times were good, women didn't have to worry about any of that man stuff making laws and such. As long as women did what they were told, they were fine.
This was the Speaker of the House for AZ when their abortion law was passed, which is now in effect. 3 days after the legislative session ended, Jones married a 15 year old girl. He was 49. From the grave, he has decided reproductive rights for women in Arizona, thanks to Trump. pic.twitter.com/qPIuZ9Wt9O
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) April 9, 2024