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jon wexler retweeted
the general tenor of press coverage of the economy over the last couple of years has been dumb and wrong
jon wexler retweeted
A CO woman asked me to write homophobic & anti-Semitic jokes to express her hostility to gay-marriage & Jews in general to promote her non-existent web-design business. Do I have to?
jon wexler retweeted
Six mass shootings in America since yesterday. And if wasn’t woke ideology, library books, or drag shows that caused them. It’s guns. It’s always the guns.
jon wexler retweeted
Here are some things the Founding Fathers definitely did NOT support:
- any state-supported religion
- foreign influence in US politics
- 9 unelected oligarchs legislating
- demagogues with cult followings
- unregulated use of military weapons
jon wexler retweeted
BREAKING: Google has removed the vast majority of Twitter links from their search results… Elon’s decision to block the Google “bot” from crawling their site is reportedly to blame.
Twitter will now be invisible on the world’s largest search engine 🫥
jon wexler retweeted
Yes, the Republican National Committee did indeed post a Fourth of July tweet with the WRONG flag. In case you’re wondering, this is the flag of Liberia, a country in West Africa.
You can’t make this shit up. 🙄
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The image is actually a stylized American flag stock image labeled "American Independence Day" on Shutterstock:
shutterstock.com/image-illustra…
The actual flag of Liberia has 6 stripes under the blue canton, beginning with white, not 5 and beginning with red like the stock image.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_L…
jon wexler retweeted
“So an elected, and Democratic-controlled, Congress can write and pass a progressive law, but an unelected and very conservative Supreme Court can just rewrite it… These are not neutral judges. These are politicians in robes.”
My take on our rogue Court: msnbc.com/the-mehdi-hasan-sh…
jon wexler retweeted
“It is time for everybody in our legislature including the ones who would like to walk around with an ar15 lapel pin, it is time for every one of them to face the voters and if they're not going to do something, then voters are going to have to vote them out”
jon wexler retweeted
(deep sigh) All six wildfires in the Pacific Cascade Region this weekend were caused by fireworks.
ALT Wildland firefighter Michael Scott expresses disbelief that someone would be reckless with their fireworks. "When I specifically asked you not to?" he says, reflecting on how he asked SO NICELY, too.
jon wexler retweeted
Through my cancer diagnosis, I’ve seen the costs of the American healthcare system firsthand - and I’m lucky enough to have insurance. No American should have to forgo the treatment they need to fight cancer because of the cost.
jon wexler retweeted
But don't worry -- at no time will the children be exposed to a book about a family with two moms.
A major child labor rollback goes into effect in Iowa this weekend.
14 year-olds are now allowed to work in meat coolers, 15 year-olds can join assembly lines and 16 year-olds can serve alcohol.
In a few weeks, similar rollbacks take effect in Arkansas. who13.com/news/new-iowa-laws…
ALT Two migrant children photographed working at a slaughterhouse in the midwest last fall.
jon wexler retweeted
We found it: the dumbest tweet of the past 24 hours.
jon wexler retweeted
A bigger SCOTUS scandal than private planes and billionaires.
A Colorado web designer who the U.S. Supreme Court ruled could refuse to make a wedding website for gay couples had cited a request from a man who says he never asked to work with her. apnews.com/article/supreme-c…
