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Replying to @neiltyson @elonmusk
FUN FACT: The Nissan Leaf was was introduced in Japan and the United States in December 2010 and has sold 577,000 of this single model at an average price of $22,271. They also did so without $465 million in loans from the United States Department of Energy.
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Shocking, but not surprising. Musk put more than $130M of his own money into this election, and he'll expect to get his money's worth. I think he'll be calling a lot of the shots in the Musk-Trump administration.
🚨🚨Scoop: Elon Musk joined Trump's call with Zelensky axios.com/2024/11/08/musk-tr…
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She's right. Rather than directly addressing the needs of their own base, Democrats tried to seduce Never Trumpers instead. All 3 of them.
When you've lost Jen Psaki! PSAKI: "There was an over listening to and an over lifting up of people who left Trump, not people who left the Democratic Party...The people who left Trump, the never Trumpers, who have important voices, that is not the winning coalition."
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Wonder how the GOP establishment feel about some random ex Dem conspiracy theorist controlling their party now lol
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All of you folks who said Israel has a ‘right to defend itself,’ all of you people who said ‘But Hamas!’ in response to anything and everything, all of you who backed this stuff, this is on you, and the blood of these babies is on your hands. History will not forgive or forget.
“Vulnerable newborns and sick and wounded children in need of intensive care are being killed in tents, in incubators and in the arms of their parents.” Full statement from @UNICEFmena's @AdeleKhodr on the decimation of newborn care in the Gaza Strip: uni.cf/3UGdCm9
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They're all sucking up to Dear Leader because they see the opportunity for even more capital consolidation now. No more Lina Khans to get in the way as the centi-billionaires become trillionaires.
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The explosion of California's #MountainFire as seen on satellite. It already covers over 1,000 acres and wind gusts between 45-70 mph continue to fan the flames No a good situation
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⚠️UPDATE⚠️The fire has jumped SR-118 west of Somis and there are now MANDATORY evacuations south of SR-118. Check vcemergency.com for up to the minute details on the #MountainFire.
🔥Brush Fire🔥 Mandatory evacuations are in effect in the Balcom Canyon and Bradley Road area of @CityofMoorpark and Somis for a fast moving brush fire. Updates to follow. @VCFD @VCFD_PIO @moorparkpd @MoorparkAcorn @vcstar
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An extremely dangerous and life-threatening situation is unfolding with the #MountainFire tearing through the Camarillo Heights neighborhood in Ventura County, California. Wind gusts of up to 75 mph are pushing the fire so rapidly that firefighters are unable to protect homes.
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Based on proposals made during Trump's first term in office, here are just some of the things working class Americans can expect from the second Trump administration: propublica.org/article/donal…
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Truly do not understand how many liberals cannot put together that normalizing conservative views, believe it or not…strengthens conservatives!
when you cater to republicans they are going to vote republican
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We will stop Trump’s dangerous attacks. We will shift what’s politically possible. And we will transform the Democratic Party into a fighting force that can defeat Trumpism and win a Green New Deal. Join us tonight to talk about our plan for how to do it: smvmt.org/dayafter
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RT @PeterHotez: Many will endure hardships. For me (and committed colleagues), it means the struggle to defend science + counter antiscienc…
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I really need to know how a dude who explicitly told people they didn’t need to vote won a supposedly record breaking turnout election. What did he know that we didn’t??
I really wanted to believe that we were better than this. But I had this gnawing feeling... Why is this dude campaigning in VA in NM in NY? Why is his ground game outsourced? What do they know that we don't? What is happening under the surface? That story will be fascinating.
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BREAKING: Democratic candidate Kamala Harris has called President-elect Donald Trump to concede defeat in the #USElection2024, say reports citing one of Harris’s aides. 🗳️ LIVE updates: aje.io/98zlm2
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Despite all the chatter, Trump didn't really gain with black voters nationwide: 86% Harris, 12% Trump. Unchanged from 2020 when 87% of black voters went for Biden, 12% went for Trump. Black men? Static. 78-20% in 2024, 79-19% in 2020.
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It’s overtime in the battle for the House. Here’s where things stand: Projected/expected winners: 🔴 Republicans: 210 🔵 Democrats: 200 🟡 Remainder: 25 Rs lead in most of the uncalled CA House races, though there’s expected to be a blue shift — but how much is crucial/unknown
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Statement on Control of the House of Representatives in 2025.
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In modern era, most democracies that morph into autocracies do so through voting. Voting for an autocrat in a Democrat system doesn’t mean you support democracy, it means you support an autocrat through the means available, which is voting. “But there is another way to break a democracy. It is less dramatic but equally destructive. Democracies may die at the hands not of generals but of elected leaders—presidents or prime ministers who subvert the very process that brought them to power. Some of these leaders dismantle democracy quickly, as Hitler did in the wake of the 1933 Reichstag fire in Germany. More often, though, democracies erode slowly, in steps.”
What Tom Nichols is implying here is that the 51% of Americans who voted for Trump don’t care about American democracy, which is an odd thing to say considering that casting a ballot for your preferred candidate is the biggest democratic act a citizen can engage in. But ok.
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