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January 29, 2022
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https://twitter.com/middleageriot/status/1487078115235016714?s=20&t=pLgik7oL4AWx6yzLWdJApA
Joe Biden has the easiest task an American president has ever had:
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https://twitter.com/middleageriot/status/1487078115235016714?s=20&t=pLgik7oL4AWx6yzLWdJApA
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January 29, 2022
BREAKING: Kid Rock has decided to pull his music from the cassette player in his pickup truck.
that is all...
https://twitter.com/johnpavlovitz/status/1487265849807360001?s=20&t=v2jiioN0mDva4KYj-Np0aA
https://twitter.com/middleageriot/status/1487141853069774857?s=20&t=pLgik7oL4AWx6yzLWdJApA
January 27, 2022
Dear Members, Donors & Supporters,
We are writing to let you know the National Butterfly Center will be closed Friday, Jan. 28 - Sunday, Jan. 30, due to credible threats we have received from a former state official, regarding activities planned by the We Stand America event, taking place in McAllen, TX, this weekend.
This MAGA, mid-term election rally, hosted by Trump's former National Security Advisor and pardoned-criminal, retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, is the national, kick-off event for what they are calling their "Take Action Tour."
You may visit the website to see the rogue's gallery of featured speakers and presenters at what is sure to be an inflammatory exercise in free, hate-speech.
We were alerted to this event on Friday, Jan. 21, following a visit by a congressional candidate from Virginia. She appeared with a friend, who claimed to be a Secret Service agent, and demanded access to the river so they could "see the rafts with the illegal crossing" our property. (See fake photo of rafts at our dock composed and disseminated by Kolfage & crew.) When asked to leave, they attempted to film Marianna, while reiterating the malicious and defamatory lies of Steve Bannon and Brian Kolfage, whose concerted, public attacks against the North American Butterfly Association, the National Butterfly Center, and our director, Marianna, remain the subject of the lawsuit we have brought against their "dark money" fundraising organization, We Build the Wall. (See false Kolfage tweet claiming butterflies swarming a decomposing body.)
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MORE:
https://mailchi.mp/nationalbutterflycenter/v4jla7bmp9-5505325?e=15f8f8f2a5
First they came for the Butterfly Sanctuary
Dear Members, Donors & Supporters,
We are writing to let you know the National Butterfly Center will be closed Friday, Jan. 28 - Sunday, Jan. 30, due to credible threats we have received from a former state official, regarding activities planned by the We Stand America event, taking place in McAllen, TX, this weekend.
This MAGA, mid-term election rally, hosted by Trump's former National Security Advisor and pardoned-criminal, retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, is the national, kick-off event for what they are calling their "Take Action Tour."
You may visit the website to see the rogue's gallery of featured speakers and presenters at what is sure to be an inflammatory exercise in free, hate-speech.
We were alerted to this event on Friday, Jan. 21, following a visit by a congressional candidate from Virginia. She appeared with a friend, who claimed to be a Secret Service agent, and demanded access to the river so they could "see the rafts with the illegal crossing" our property. (See fake photo of rafts at our dock composed and disseminated by Kolfage & crew.) When asked to leave, they attempted to film Marianna, while reiterating the malicious and defamatory lies of Steve Bannon and Brian Kolfage, whose concerted, public attacks against the North American Butterfly Association, the National Butterfly Center, and our director, Marianna, remain the subject of the lawsuit we have brought against their "dark money" fundraising organization, We Build the Wall. (See false Kolfage tweet claiming butterflies swarming a decomposing body.)
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MORE:
https://mailchi.mp/nationalbutterflycenter/v4jla7bmp9-5505325?e=15f8f8f2a5
January 27, 2022
What does this say about "decent people"?
HAPPENING NOW: Judge MEHTA is sentencing a husband/wife who were in the Capitol on Jan. 6. After describing their culpability, he also says they were "victimized" by others.
"You were told lies about election fraud, about the country being taken from you. They were lies."
"I think you are both decent people," Mehta says before sentencing them Zachary and Kelsey Wilson to 24 months of probation with 30-45 days of home incarceration.
https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1486752854652198918?s=20
https://twitter.com/MacFarlaneNews/status/1486753452982165507?s=20
January 27, 2022
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bible_and_slavery
If we're gonna ban books that talk about slavery, we're gonna have to ban the Bible first.
https://twitter.com/lawindsor/status/1486511624156495872?s=20https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bible_and_slavery
January 27, 2022
Ronald Reagan, striving to refute charges that he is insensitive to women's rights, said today he would name a woman to "one of the first Supreme Court vacancies in my administration."
"It is time for a woman to sit among our highest jurists," Reagan said in a prepared statement to a news conference here. "I will also seek out women to appoint to other federal courts in an effort to bring about a better balance on the federal bench."
the rest:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1980/10/15/reagan-pledges-he-would-name-a-woman-to-the-supreme-court/844817dc-27aa-4f5d-8e4f-0ab3a5e76865/?tid=ss_fb&fbclid=IwAR1ma2vd_q3-3PIUHs5M152T0ofImfYpR6Mmrw9ozPTsPT7ow1TQPMhUdlY
October 15, 1980 - Reagan Pledges He Would Name a Woman to the Supreme Court
Ronald Reagan, striving to refute charges that he is insensitive to women's rights, said today he would name a woman to "one of the first Supreme Court vacancies in my administration."
"It is time for a woman to sit among our highest jurists," Reagan said in a prepared statement to a news conference here. "I will also seek out women to appoint to other federal courts in an effort to bring about a better balance on the federal bench."
the rest:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1980/10/15/reagan-pledges-he-would-name-a-woman-to-the-supreme-court/844817dc-27aa-4f5d-8e4f-0ab3a5e76865/?tid=ss_fb&fbclid=IwAR1ma2vd_q3-3PIUHs5M152T0ofImfYpR6Mmrw9ozPTsPT7ow1TQPMhUdlY
January 27, 2022
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Luckovich: One reason Thomas doesn't ask questions from the bench (his wife has the answers)
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The claim that the Justices’ opinions are politically neutral is becoming increasingly hard to accept, especially from Thomas, whose wife, Virginia (Ginni) Thomas, is a vocal right-wing activist. She has declared that America is in existential danger because of the “deep state” and the “fascist left,” which includes “transsexual fascists.” Thomas, a lawyer who runs a small political-lobbying firm, Liberty Consulting, has become a prominent member of various hard-line groups.
MORE:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/01/31/is-ginni-thomas-a-threat-to-the-supreme-court
MORE:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/01/31/is-ginni-thomas-a-threat-to-the-supreme-court
January 27, 2022
Rep Raskin: "We have filled in a lot more evidence that he wasn't just inciting an insurrection,..."
Rep. Jamie Raskin on Trump to CNN: "We have filled in a lot more evidence that he wasn't just inciting an insurrection, he was working to organize a coup against the democracy ... I can't imagine that the Dept. of Justice would not have evidence at this point to that effect."
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1486692971223396353?s=20
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