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Sciences, Flute 🌍 :verified:Heat death. So, what's the point?<a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#physics</a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/universe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#universe</a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/heatdeath" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#heatdeath</a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/demoralizing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#demoralizing</a>

Led By Fools<a href="https://c.im/@cdarwin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@cdarwin</a> Charlotte Clymer reads the room"...we need y'all to get angry. We need y'all to be pissed""We need y’all to remind us why we voted for you in the first place." Otherwise, we're going to assume we are on our own, and proceed as though your tepid words don't matter.<a href="https://charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/comms-advice-for-democratic-lawmakers" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/comms-advice-for-democratic-lawmakers</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Lackluster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lackluster</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Tepic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tepic</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Uninspiring" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Uninspiring</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Demoralizing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Demoralizing</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Embarrassing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Embarrassing</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Excuses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Excuses</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Weak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Weak</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Subdued" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Subdued</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Dispassionate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Dispassionate</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Platitudes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Platitudes</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pathetic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pathetic</a> : <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Democrat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Democrat</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Democrats</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Democratic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Democratic</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DemocraticParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DemocraticParty</a>

Nonilex<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RussVought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RussVought</a> does not hide his agenda or shy away from using <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/extreme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#extreme</a> rhetoric in public. But the apocalyptic tone & hard-line <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/policy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#policy</a> prescriptions in the two private speeches go further than his earlier pronouncements. As <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/OMB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OMB</a> dir, Vought sought to use <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a>’s 2020 “<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ScheduleF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScheduleF</a>” executive order to strip away job protections for nonpartisan <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#government</a> workers. But he has never spoken in such pointed terms about <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/demoralizing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#demoralizing</a> federal <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/workers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#workers</a> to the point that they don’t want to do their jobs.

Alpha1Nine :funkwhale: :sofia:From Mary L. <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> Not only did Vice President <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Kamala" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kamala</a> Harris expose my uncle’s <a href="https://aus.social/tags/weakness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#weakness</a> on the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/debate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#debate</a> stage last night, which left him seething with rage and reduced to sputtering <a href="https://aus.social/tags/incoherence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#incoherence</a>, she also gave millions of us something we have needed for almost a decade — catharsis.And Harris did it in a way that was not just masterful, it was almost surgical. She <a href="https://aus.social/tags/dominated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dominated</a> Donald from the outset, crossing the stage to his lectern and forcing him to do something he did not want to do—shake her hand. (I confess, I did not want her to shake his hand—not because I thought it was a tactical mistake, but because I didn’t want her to have to touch him.) And then, while addressing policy issues and giving us substantive answers to the moderator’s questions in a way that underscored how incapable Donald was of doing the same, she slid the knife in again and again. She told him to his face in front of the world that he is a <a href="https://aus.social/tags/disgrace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#disgrace</a>. She looked at him with bemused condescension, pity, and outright <a href="https://aus.social/tags/contempt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#contempt</a>. She called out his lies and, worst of all for him, she <a href="https://aus.social/tags/mocked" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mocked</a> his rallies:“I'm going to invite you to attend one of Donald Trump's rallies because it's a really interesting thing to watch. You will see during the course of his rallies he talks about fictional characters like Hannibal Lecter. He will talk about windmills cause cancer. And what you will also notice is that people start leaving his rallies early out of exhaustion and boredom.”Donald never recovered from that accurate and damning assessment of one of the most important metrics by which he measures his worth This bit of rhetorical evisceration, which happened at about the 25-minute mark, undid him and he spent the next hour defensive, desperate, and flailing.We needed someone to call out Donald’s lies in a context he did not control. We needed someone to set the record straight while he had to stand there and listen. Harris did that while laying out his decades’-long patterns of <a href="https://aus.social/tags/racist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#racist</a>, <a href="https://aus.social/tags/corrupt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#corrupt</a>, and <a href="https://aus.social/tags/disturbing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#disturbing</a> behaviors that are utterly disqualifying.For over nine years, this country has been in thrall to a cruel and deranged man who cares only about himself. His constant war on truth and basic human decency has worn us down, <a href="https://aus.social/tags/demoralizing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#demoralizing</a> those of us who care about other people, who want a better world, and who crave a leader who exhibits empathy and understanding.We’ve been waiting for somebody in a position of authority to stand up to Donald in a way that would matter, that would loosen Donald’s grip on power and perhaps even undo him. Instead, we’ve watched helplessly as the entire Republican Party bent its knee to him; as corrupt judges give him a pass; and as the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/illegitimate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#illegitimate</a> super-majority of the Supreme Court ripped up the Constitution in order to give him, this man who has earned nothing and deserves nothing, more power.<a href="https://aus.social/tags/auspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#auspol</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPol</a>

Ruth Malone BollardGranny™️Great piece. Read it and weep. <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ZeroVision" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ZeroVision</a> from <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/SanFrancisco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SanFrancisco</a> leaders who committed so long ago to <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/VisionZero" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VisionZero</a>. <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/demoralizing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#demoralizing</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/bike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bike</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/SafeInfrastructureNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SafeInfrastructureNow</a> <a href="https://scott.mn/2023/04/26/bike_transit_car_streets_valencia/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://scott.mn/2023/04/26/bike_transit_car_streets_valencia/</a>

Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Demoralizing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Demoralizing</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Destructive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Destructive</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Delusional" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Delusional</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Fascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fascist</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Florida" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Florida</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Governor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Governor</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/RonDeSantis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RonDeSantis</a> Has Gone Too Far. His <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Unconstitutional" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Unconstitutional</a> pet project, "<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/DontSayGay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DontSayGay</a>," now expands to <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/highschool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#highschool</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/students" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#students</a>.<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Women" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Women</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Transgender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Transgender</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/LGBTQIA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LGBTQIA</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Florida" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Florida</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/TransKids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TransKids</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/GayKids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GayKids</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Education</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/RepublicanParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RepublicanParty</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Hate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hate</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Bigotry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bigotry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Violence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Violence</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Genocide</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Discrimination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Discrimination</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Homophobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Homophobia</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Transphobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Transphobia</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ThePartyOfHate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ThePartyOfHate</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SayGay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SayGay</a><a href="https://www.advocate.com/voices/demoralizing-destructive-delusional-desantis-has-gone-too-far" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.advocate.com/voices/demoralizing-destructive-delusional-desantis-has-gone-too-far</a>

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