Notices by ˈdälfən™🐬 💥 🌊 (dalfen@mstdn.social)

Get this:

William Lewis—publisher and CEO of The Washington Post who wrote the editorial saying the publication would no longer endorse US Presidential candidates—

is a citizen of Great Britain* and won’t even cast a vote in this upcoming election.

Democracy Dies In Darkness.

#USPol #News #NewsMedia #WashingtonPost #WaPo

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*as far as I can tell

Oh wow 👀

~Washington Post publisher Will Lewis reportedly tried to kill story about his involvement in UK hacking scandal~

(from June of this year)

#media #NewsMedia #WashingtonPost #WaPo

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https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/06/media/washington-post-will-lewis-npr/index.html

Trump ~ “met with leaders from the Jeff Bezos-owned aerospace company Blue Origin following his speech in Austin, Texas… on the same day The Washington Post would not be endorsing a presidential candidate in the 2024 election. The outlet reported Friday that Bezos, the paper’s billionaire owner, himself made the decision to yank the endorsement of Kamala Harris…”

Not that it means anything, right?

Unless (of course) Democracy Dies when billionaires need to boost their giant corporations 🤷♀️

White suprematist groups like Patriot Front “blend in among the many legitimate church or other charity workers that have rushed in to help. But these militia groups offer aid while filming propaganda videos that both amplify falsehoods about the government response and help the groups remake their image as patriotic civic organizations for men.”

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#USpol #nazis

So I guess that’s no biggie, right?

I mean, it’s just another campaign day.

#USPol

Don’t know how robotaxis can be a thing when fully autonomous self-driving vehicles aren’t yet a thing (at least not here in the US).

#tech #Tesla #Musk

@kegill So gross to see them talking about my state 🤢

Well, Maye Musk might think voting is erratic, but it is quite controlled here. We have to register ahead of time and show our ID at the polling place.

And I can’t wait to vote for Harris-Walz soon!

#Georgia #USA #USPol #VoteBlue #KamalaHarris #HarrisWalz 🌊

~ Childless GOP Candidate Borrows Family for Weird Photo Shoot ~

#USPol

https://www.thedailybeast.com/childless-gop-candidate-derrick-anderson-borrows-family-for-weird-photo-shoot

Per the article— Musk appears to be using dynamic IPs to fool ISPs and work around the ban in Brazil—

~ Elon Musk’s X and Starlink face nearly $1 million in daily fines for alleged ban evasion in Brazil ~

#Musk #X #Brazil #SocialMedia

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/19/elon-musks-x-and-starlink-face-daily-fines-in-brazil-for-ban-evasion.html

Blah blah… Vance says something dumb again..

I wish Vance would stop acting like he speaks for ALL Americans.

We don’t all think like him. In fact, a lot of us left Xitter (X / Twitter) BECAUSE Musk took over.

#USPol #NATO #X #Vance

~ JD Vance says US could drop support for NATO if Europe tries to regulate Elon Musk’s platforms ~

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/jd-vance-elon-musk-x-twitter-donald-trump-b2614525.html

Good afternoon!

Happy #Monday!

Hopefully this momma hedgehog and her babies will brighten up your day!

#greetings #animals

#Cats know.

#Caturday #USPol

Apparently, journalists are feeling they now have “permission” to question Trump’s mental state.

What was it that finally drove them to that conclusion—

🤔 How adamant he was accusing immigrants of stealing & eating pets (which he tripled down on today)?

🤔 How he is convinced that medical personnel help new mothers kill their babies after birth?

🤔 How he thinks EVERYONE adores him (incl. world dictators, who he admires)?

So many choices.

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#USPol

@TruthSandwich That’s a good thing. I just read that RawStory article and saw that a mental health professional had written that opinion in The Atlantic. Bravo 👏 — I hope there is more of that, and I hope that something good comes of it.

@TruthSandwich I think he’s terribly dangerous. By “good,” I don’t mean a helpful intervention so he can become president lol—

He needs to be nowhere near the presidency.

(I am so sick of reading things about this guy omg — I can’t wait for the election and then once he loses, he can just go away as far as I’m concerned… okay, rant over)

Yeah, so Trump signed an American flag on September 11 *

…because apparently he thought it was his to sign (?)… like a book he wrote (or had ghostwritten for him, rather)

#USPol

https://okmagazine.com/p/donald-trump-ridiculed-signing-american-flag-september-11-anniversary/

My son is hanging around me and learning more about Mastodon.

He said, “Question. If you re-toot, does it give the pre-toot more views?”

I went into full cackle mode with that one 🤣👏 (he busted out laughing too), then said, “Yes honey, it does.”

#random

When asked about how he said he said he was surprised that Kamala Harris “suddenly became Black,” Trump said, “She can be whatever she wants to be.”

Harris talked about how a US president shouldn’t be divisive and talked about how he spread. Birther lies about the first Black president of the US and how he took out a full-page ad accusing Black men committing crimes that they didn’t commit.

She then said she wants to invest in the dreams of all American people.

#USPol
#debate

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Trump responded by saying, “They’re destroying our country” and defended how he took it the ad out in the newspaper years ago.

Then he said, “She is Biden.”

Harris requested to respond to that comment and said, “Clearly, I am not Joe Biden,” then talked about specific plans she had to make Americans’ lives better (eg., healthcare, education, housing).

Trump retorted with lies like how Harris wants to take away everybody’s guns.

#USPol
#debate

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