1/14🚨Dissecting SCOTUS decision for answers to the 3 judges to decide that way on procedural grounds and not merit/evidence. Perhaps builds credibility for a future decision that more people would accept and more time to present the intelligence and evidence to American people

2/14 (either through continued hearings, EO or both). You can now have multiple suits from work their way through lower courts for a look again when it's undeniable to even the staunchest wide eyed liberal. The TX one was nice because states bs states go straight to top.

3/14 That's the courts. Either way, the Texas suit was like a bonus or winning the 2nd showcase. Would have been nice to have, but you can still be a winner.

4/14 DONT think Trump's plan and for him to say he will absolutely not concede, was all hinging in the hope that an AG in another state files a lawsuit on the swing states where fraud is most rampant.

5/14 IMPORTANT 🚨 January 20th is the only Date in Constitution and only ultimate date. So here's where you see a few paths. Most paths rely on people in state and national congresses to do the right thing, which they've consistently proven they cannot do (see republicans in GA)

Following the First Minister’s decision to keep Edinburgh at level 3- I have today written a joint, cross-party letter to the First Minister
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urging her to reconsider this decision. I’m grateful to @DJohnsonMSP, @MilesBriggsMSP and @andywightman from all opposition parties, representing the city who have signed it.
The text of our letter is as follows: 2/

Dear First Minister

Your decision to keep Edinburgh in Level 3 of Covid-19 lockdown restrictions

We write to you on a cross party basis as MSPs representing the City of Edinburgh. Yesterday you announced your government’s decision to keep Edinburgh at level 3,
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the 2nd highest classification of Covid-19 lockdown restrictions. We now understand that this was contrary to recommendations of public health officials who had advised you that a move to L2 would now be appropriate given the continued suppression of the virus in the capital. 4/

Edinburgh has existed at level 3 for 2 months and yet we have kept infection rates to level 2 parameters for several weeks.

In your statement yesterday, you stated that your reason for retaining Edinburgh’s Level 3 classification was your concern that the city’s
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The hardest thing to overcome is the popular notion of "that can't happen in America", even while it's been happening all of your life.

Dear friends, nothing is as it's presented, what you have accepted as reality has been a mirage.

They LIE ABOUT EVERYTHING.

Dear Senators
Jacqui Lambie
Senator Rex Patrick,
I am writing to ask that you both vote against the legislation to extend the Indue card trials to any further sites and to end those currently on foot.I outline my reasons in the body of my letter and ask that you give my words

2. your serious consideration.
The Liberal and National parties have an ideological obsession with paternalistically controlling the lives of our First nations peoples and the unemployed. Demonizing both groups by constantly referring to their alcohol and drug abuse

3., gambling addiction and supposed high incidence of domestic/family violence. Other vulnerable groups have already been added to this list, those in receipt of a disability support pension (DSP) and students on Youth Allowance who also apparently need to have their income

4. controlled by Indue.
Without having any conclusive evidence that quarantining 80% of an individual’s social welfare payment to the Indue debit card prevents the purchase of alcohol or participation in gambling the Morrison government wants to continue the so called

5. "Indue card trials" and extend them to other sites experiencing social disadvantage.
More troublingly they also wish to extend the use of the Indue card to other social security recipients such as Aged Pensioners. There are only two groups who will benefit from

So, I've been having a squizz at the latest politicians' expenses claims

Not sure if you've noticed the glaring anomaly but I did @ipeaAusGov

You might want to take a second look at @senator_sam's expense claims, particularly her 'Travel Allowance'
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I noticed @senator_sam claimed travel allowance for 98 nights July-Sept qtr

Bit odd given there's only 91 days in the July-September quarter! (Then I worked out she back-dated some travel allowance expenses)

Total claimed $24,676 for travel allowance for the qtr
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Sometimes it's a bit hard with Senators, they're usually all over the state, committees & lots of things, so I thought I'd compare Senator Sam with all the other senators.

Yep, just as I thought, no other Senator came within cooee of Senator Sam

Topped the list
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I notice Senator Sam stays a lot at Girraween, NT & claims 'Electorate Duties'

Not sure why, there's not much there, not even a motel that I can find.

Maybe @Senator_Sam can answer: What is the hotbed of electorate activity going on in Girraween, NT?
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Interesting to note that during the time in question the Northern Territory had an election (22 Aug 2020)

Michael Gunner won, Senator Sam campaigned against him. She also said lots of horrible things about him during lockdown, she wanted the borders open.
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A lot for Democrats to like in the early voting data over the last few days, as they are now running ahead of where they stood at a similar point of the general election--thanks to a stronger Black turnout

The Black share of in-person early voters was basically identical to the general election over the first few days of voting, but that began to diverge late last week--and even more so over the weekend, which is typically a strong period for Black turnout in Georgia

As most of you know, the Black turnout in Georgia (and nationwide) was relatively weak v. other groups in the general election. That's been a matter of some consternation for progressives who wish it weren't so, but it's also the big source of upside for Democrats in this runoff

At the moment, the higher Black share of in person early voting is enough to cancel out the smaller share of mail-in absentee voters, who were overwhelmingly Democratic in the general--giving Democrats, in my view, a slightly more favorable electorate at this stage of voting

Looking ahead, we're about to lose a certain amount of clarity in our day-by-day comparison, since the holidays will dampen (and outright eliminate) turnout on GOP-friendly days. We'll probably watch the Dems expand their lead v. the general, and then the GOP try and claw it back

@SW6life 3) these values are contradictory to what the rights stand, especially the republican party under trump, from here on now refered to as "Trumpists" - a new, US brand of Fascism.

4) Here is the lists of traits that make out fascist regimes commonly agreed, written by Umberto Eco, who lived under Mussolini. He explicitly stated that each country is prone to their own type of Fascism, let me go through this point by point.

The first two are actually the same; Irrationalism & Tradition over everything. You hold up a poster of what your country/ideal living once was and claim to bring it back.
Say; Make america great again. Ignoring hereby that Obama restored the economy which was hurt by Bush

Cult of Action; Killing a General on an Ally soil without informing anyone? Sueing even though there is no evidence.. and yeah, proud stance on anti-intellectualism!

Disagreement is treason; that is why every time the media fact checks something, its somehow misrepresenting him.
Which is why everbody who disagrees is a bad person inherently, without giving arguments *WHY*

1/ When will America wake up to the evil that has seized the Republican Party?

2/ We’ve seen it around the world and throughout history: when a political party or government exists solely to serve the very wealthy, and begins to lose power, they inevitably turn to authoritarianism and police violence.

3/ We saw this in Florida when Gov. Ron DeSantis sent State police with guns drawn to intimidate the family of whistleblower Rebekah Jones, who he’d earlier fired for refusing to lie about Florida coronavirus statistics and is publishing a daily “Florida coronavirus dashboard.“

4/ We see it with Donald Trump committing a felony for which you or I would immediately go to prison, trying to tamper with the outcome of a legitimate election by threats, intimidation, and offering bribes to government officials.

5/ We see it in Michigan where the Macomb County GOP seems to share an address with the group that showed up, armed, to threaten and intimidate the Secretary of State and her four-year-old son as they were preparing to watch “The Grinch Who Stole Christmas.”

Some committees in the Republican-controlled Senate have started the process of vetting Biden’s Cabinet picks, as his transition and Democratic allies press for quick confirmations amid the

w/@DanielPFlatley @jeneps @jendlouhyhc @elwasson

Who would be using someone in Germany to switch votes in elections

The reason a reactionary, cyclical analysis of politics is wrong isn't because "muh fascism" or "muh morals", it's because it doesn't account for the fundamental systemic changes wrought by the capitalist mode of production. A single dictator can't control anarchy of the system.

The dictatorship is one of the bourgeoisie as-a-whole. The reason I liked Trump is because he illuminated that. He ripped the mask off the horrible ruling class, and exposed the inability of populism, left or right, to turn a capitalist dictatorship into a meaniful democracy.

He had a few counter bourgeois impulses re war, borders, and tariffs, and despite riding in executive driver's seat, he couldn't do shit. They went full HAM against him from the jump, & he wasn't even a major threat to anything. The bourgeoisie's grip on power isn't weak.

We just watched them run an election where "Socialists", Republicans, alt-righters, dissident nrx people, and ultraleftists, were all backing Biden and shitting their pants about a Trump coup. They burned half the country down, and locked down the other half just to secure a win.

The Republican Party is a shell of its former self, because the mere threat of Trump style divergence from the neoliberal order caused half its flunkies to run to the Democrats, including Charles Koch & half the Bush administration. The realignment is over. A new GOP will emerge.

Pennsylvania state legislature on the move, urges US Congressional Delegation for PA to sustain objections to Biden’s electors on January 6th 2021 per 3 USC section 15 during the joint session of House/Senate.
VP Pence presides, per 3 USC § 18.
I told u for weeks this was coming.