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Skeeter Rankins retweeted
The Fifth Circuit formally put into effect a ruling allowing Mississippi to count mail ballots that arrive after Election Day. The order follows the Supreme Court’s ruling that upheld the state’s grace period for ballots postmarked by Election Day. democracydocket.com/news-ale…
Skeeter Rankins retweeted
Stop what you’re doing, @bryanandrews_ has something to say! 👀
I co-sign every single word Bryan Andrews said in this video.
I’m admittedly not the biggest country music fan. However, I have a small list of artists in my playlist. This is someone I can support and give money to.
It would be cool if we could all go support this artist. We need to get back to lifting up the right people. 🇺🇸🙏🏼
YouTube: youtube.com/@bryanandrewsmus…
Spotify: spotify.link/CKdv7xkruXb
Twitter: teapaw.org/bryanandrews
Source: @couriernewsroom
Skeeter Rankins retweeted
Calling this an “insurrection against sovereignty” isn’t just overheated—it’s intellectually dishonest. A crowd surrounding a detention center in protest of immigration enforcement isn’t a coup; it’s a constitutional act of dissent. We don't have to agree with the message to recognize the right to send it. Protest has always been part of America’s story—it’s how we expanded the vote, ended child labor, and demanded civil rights. Rebranding it as sedition to score political points cheapens the term and disrespects the gravity of real threats to our democracy.
Let’s not confuse volume with violence or disagreement with disloyalty. There’s a world of difference between storming the Capitol to overturn an election and demonstrating against policies you believe are unjust. If words still matter—and they should—then calling this an “insurrection” isn’t just wrong, it’s reckless. Because if protest becomes treason, then democracy becomes theater. And some of us still believe this country is more than a stage.
This sh** is insane. Ppl like this have no business being ANYWHERE near power in a DEMOCRATIC system if they believe only 1 view of "democratic power" belongs to them.
North Carolina GOP gov nominee Mark Robinson endorses political violence in June 30 video surfaced by @newrepublic: "Kill them! Some liberal somewhere is gonna say that sounds awful. Too bad! ... Some folks need killing! It's time for somebody to say it." newrepublic.com/article/1834…
Everyone should read this.
Narcissistic Personality Disorder in the USA
flip.it/mv_kez
Add to this members of Congress and the Senate who have bought/sold securities in the stock market without the public's prior knowledge, thus benefitting from what effectively is crony insider trading.
School voucher idea started in the later 1950s as a way around Brown v Board's "separate is NOT equal." Additionally, a flat tax is INHERENTLY regressive.
Statehouse scraps: Flat tax and school vouchers back from the dead. Kobach owned by Secretary Pete.
flip.it/JKW6Kr
Skeeter Rankins retweeted
For the record — Donald Trump did not “allegedly” say that Mexicans were rapists, women were dogs, his political opponents were vermin and immigrants were poisoning the blood of our country.
He didn’t allegedly mock a disabled reporter, demean a POW or attack a Gold Star family. He didn’t allegedly brag about grabbing women by the pussy, didn’t allegedly sexually abuse and defame E. Jean Carroll, or cheat on his wife with a porn star and a playmate.
He didn’t allegedly ask Brad Raffensperger to “find” him 11,780 votes, didn’t allegedly tell the Jan 6th crowd to march to the Capitol or agree that the mob was right to want to hang his VP, and he didn’t allegedly wait 3 hours and 7 minutes before stopping the attack.
He didn’t allegedly remove highly classified national security documents from the White House, didn’t allegedly show them to people who had no right to see them, and he didn’t allegedly keep them in his motherfucking bathroom.
He didn’t allegedly make millions in foreign money while president, didn’t allegedly get his daughter dozens of Chinese patents and didn’t allegedly commit decades worth of egregious business fraud in the state of NY.
He actually DID all of those things, while alleging to be a devout family man patriot, while alleging to put America first, while alleging the 2020 election was “stolen” from him and alleging that he is being indicted for the many, many crimes he committed “for you.”
No matter what Trump says, no matter how the media frames & spins the truth, no matter what the angriest, loudest voices want you to believe.
There are the things Trump did, and the things Trump alleges.
We have eyes and ears.
We have facts and we have lies.
And we can never, ever lose sight of the difference between the two.
“There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”
- George Orwell, 1984
Skeeter Rankins retweeted
One of the richest men in the 1920s was Andrew Mellon — an early prophet of “trickle-down” economics.
His grandson, Timothy Mellon, is bankrolling Trump's reelection.
Timothy uses his platform to rage against social programs.
This is how dynastic wealth works.
Wealth tax now.
Private equity is also a huge issue here, too.
Skeeter Rankins retweeted
Perhaps we need a total and complete shutdown of Tucker Carlson re-entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on.
Skeeter Rankins retweeted
Taylor Swift just ended Trump's 2024 chances 🔥
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Taylor Swift never posted this, as this screenshot is from a parody account titled “TaylorSwaft13.” This is not from Taylor Swift’s real account. Her real account is below, where you can see she never posted such a thing.
twitter.com/taylorswift13