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@midwest.socialhttps://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/18/republicans-endorse-harris-over-trump.html
Kamala Harris' campaign has netted Republican endorsements from numerous Trump administration officials as well as from figures such as Dick Cheney.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/19/josh-shapiro-forgot-id-denied-cocktail
Josh Shapiro tried to celebrate law allowing convenience store sales of canned boozy drinks but left empty-handed
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/scientific-american-endorse-harris-trump-election-b2614153.html
‘The US faces two futures,’ according to editors at top science magazine
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/19/intelligencer-pro-russia-website-trump
George Papadopoulos and others involved in Intelligencer, increasingly popular source of news in rightwing circles
https://www.courier-journal.com/story/entertainment/2024/09/16/i-hate-taylor-swift-posts-donald-trump-social-media-reactions-bad-blood-shake-it-off-kamala-harris/75247716007/
Famous presidential rivalries:\n“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” -Ronald Reagan, 1987.\n“I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!”\n-Donald Trump, 2024.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAALquBIa8I
https://truthout.org/articles/gop-senator-tells-arab-american-witness-to-hide-your-head-in-a-bag-in-hearing/
The Republican repeatedly spoke over the Arab American expert to badger her with Islamophobic and racist tropes.
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/09/18/kosa-advances-out-of-house-committee-but-cracks-are-showing/
This morning, the House Energy and Commerce Committee held a pretty long markup about KOSA, COPPA 2.0, and other bills. The quick summary is that both of those bills passed out of committee and cou…
https://www.ft.com/content/5f68cc51-f608-4fab-bfa3-8a9187236116
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/09/18/house-looks-to-make-kosa-and-coppa-worse/
If you had that Congress was going to take bad “protect the children” bills and make them worse on your bingo card, congratulations, you’ve won this week’s easiest prediction. This seems like a not…