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June Casagrande

@junecasagrande.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
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Best-selling author, copy editor, grammar columnist, comedy fan. I expect my posts will be mostly about preserving #democracy, #writing, #editing and […] [bridged from mastodon.social/@junecasagrande on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]

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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/11/2024
@SteveThompson @potus It would be funny to see Trump have to change all his cheesy "47" swag to "48."
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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/11/2024
Still stunned that the man who believes — who really believes — childless women have too much power in our country is about to be one heartbeat from the presidency. Yes, Trump's horrible to women. We're meat to him. But Vance truly hates us.
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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/11/2024
On top the many, many things I'm worried about, I just remembered another one: Poland.
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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/11/2024
It worked. Voters can no longer weight information like "Trump sat watching TV while the mob tried to hang Mike Pence" against information like "Janet Jackson said Kamala Harris isn't black" or weight the fact of that little 4-year-old girl dying at the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
Screenshot of 2016 Garry Kasparov tweet says: The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.
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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/11/2024
He's a real-life fascist who said he's coming after "the enemy from within" and specifically named a California Congressman. Thinking we're in any way insulated here is whistling in the dark. Trump will do what he feels like to California and if anyone […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
Screenshot from Los Angeles Times Mastodon post says: California, it's going to be OK. This i our moment The California-as-disaster-epic narrative is back. Here are a few reasons not to buy into it, and instead to embrace the state as a bellwether for the country. #press latimes.com/california/story/2. «o = Yo 0
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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/11/2024
One of the things I'm grappling with right now, as I know many of us are, is where to focus my energy in the long term. In particular, between the grand (opposing and resisting large evils) and the mundane (doing my daily job well and keeping things going). The answer is surely going to be […]
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Warner Crocker @warnercrocker.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/11/2024
@TheGuardian has more guts than any so called journalism organization in the US. #politics #journalism #media
An image featuring Donald Trump, with a backdrop of blue and gold decorations, accompanied by a headline about the US election stating he has defeated Kamala Harris to become the first convicted criminal elected as US president.
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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/11/2024
Doing my little part by engaging with Mastodon posts to let people know they're not yelling into a void if they're not on the bird site.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
I could just turn everything off until sometime tomorrow but I enjoy suffering too much.
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Warner Crocker @warnercrocker.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/11/2024
From a friend working the polls in Chicago: "I’ve been the Election Coordinator in a north side precinct for a decade. Almost 20 elections. I have never seen an Election Day turnout anywhere *close* to this. We had a line of 30 people when we opened the polls at 6:00am. That is unprecedented […]
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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/11/2024
Act. Of. War. (Still free with email, link via @JosephMenn […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
Screenshot of Nov. 5, 2024, Washingon Post headline: Russia blamed for bomb threats at Georgia and Arizona polling sites
Federal officials say the false threats, which led to temporary shutdowns, follow bogus fraud claims and won’t threaten the orderly voting process.
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Warner Crocker @warnercrocker.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/11/2024
Lighten the tension a bit. h/t @anneapplebaum youtu.be/9qI0LTmSr38?si=SLM2nAP4uOs…
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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/11/2024
Reminder that America's enemies love it when he discredits democracy and are always willing to pitch ideas. (And note that he claimed there was cheating *even after he won*.) www.newsweek.com/wikileaks-told-tru…
Screenshot of 2017 Newsweek headline: Wikileaks Told Trump Jr. To Tell His Dad To Not Concede If He Lost On Election Day 

Wikileaks urged Donald Trump Jr. to tell his father to not concede if he lost on Election Day, according to a bombshell report from The Atlantic that alleges the president's eldest child and the transparency organization secretly corresponded in private direct messages on Twitter during the U.S. presidential campaign.

The messages were turned over to Congress and copies were obtained by The Atlantic.
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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/11/2024
@GottaLaff He wouldn't even have to think much about it. Putin has already created an easy-to-follow blueprint. www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/…
Screenshot of 2016 Guardian headline: The murder that killed free media in Russia

A decade after the assassination of Anna Politkovskaya, news organisations increasingly avoid topics that could anger the Kremlin
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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/11/2024
Hey, remember 2020 when Joe Biden kicked Donald Trump's ass with virtually none of the amazing enthusiasm Kamala Harris has generated? And remember how Donald Trump couldn't pull off a coup *even though he controlled the military and the executive branch and had the Senate and SCOTUS in his […]
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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 05/11/2024
Part of what we do as a Voice of America correspondent in the field is to go live on TV/radio news programs for VOA’s 50 language services, our affiliates and other broadcasters globally. I’ll be doing that 20+ times from Gwinnett County, Georgia as part of our election coverage.
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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/11/2024
"What a few million dead and crippled kids if I can trade their health for political support?" Our government is currency to him. Our lives are currency to him. Our democracy is currency to him. Our kids are currency to him […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
Screenshot of 11/3/2024 NBC News headline: Trump doesn't rule out banning vaccines if he becomes president.
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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/11/2024
"Just sign this and you'll be entered into a random drawing to win $1 million" — if true — is a lottery. If untrue, it's fraud. #ElonMusk
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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/11/2024
I just accidentally clicked a link for a certain Chinese e-commerce site and now I'm worried no amount of browser history cleansing with get them out of my life.
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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/11/2024
James Singer: GALLUP: Democratic enthusiasm higher than it was in 2008, 10 points higher than GOP Matt Bennett: This is a massively underreported fact. You can see it in the rallies, the field offices, and online. It could be decisive. h/t […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
Screenshot of Matt Bennett tweet says Dem enthusiasm is a massively underreported fact. ... It could be decisive.
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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/11/2024
" Pastor Joel Webbon—a white nationalist whose bigotry often goes viral—argued recently for repealing the 19th amendment, and instead allowing for a ‘family’ vote decided by men. “Where women get their voice is from their father, from their husband. If […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
Screenshot from Jessica Valenti's Abortion, Every Day Substack says: Why the GOP is joking (in quote marks) about women's right to vote.
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David August ❌👑 @davidaugust.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 01/11/2024
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Screenshot of a post by Taylor Schumann @taylorsschumann: 

Obsessed with this comment from TikTok.

[screenshot of a TikTok comment by the user YupitsAK] 

I saw a video of a man here saying 'the right wing is upset because they are currently being judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin.'

10:14 AM on 10/30/24
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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/11/2024
I just gave a Twix to a 3-foot-tall taco. #Halloween
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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 31/10/2024
Elon Musk ordered by a judge to show up in court tomorrow morning in Philadelphia after he was sued by District Attorney Larry Krasner over the Trump supporter’s $1 million giveaway to voters. www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/e…
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dogzilla @dogzilla.masto.deluma.biz.ap.brid.gy · 31/10/2024
Speak Out Now Republicans, Or You’ll Regret It www.thebulwark.com/p/speak-out-now-…
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/10/2024
Trump's corrupt Supreme Court just gave Virginia's Trumpist governor the right to cancel the voting registrations of people who are absolutely legal, eligible voters. They're collateral damage in a war on essentially nonexistent non-citizen voting […]
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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/10/2024
In the last two days I've order like 6 things online from 2 different stores (conditioner, cleaning products, etc.) and got free shipping on all of them and now I'm wondering: Why TF did I ever waste all that money on #AmazonPrime ?
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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/10/2024
When I was 18, I had never read a newspaper, knew nothing about politics or issues or what either party stood for. But a friend told me that Ronald Reagan was taking steps that would force Florida to up the drinking age from 19 to 21. I was so outraged at the notion that a right I cared about […]
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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/10/2024
Stumbled on this 2002 column I wrote about stuff disappearing from office refrigerators at the hands of "The Cleaninator." www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/n…
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 29/10/2024
UPDATE: More than 250,000 Washington Post subscribers—approx. 10% of all paid circulation—have now canceled their subscriptions since Friday's reporting that owner Jeff Bezos was blocking the paper's endorsement of Kamala Harris
David Folkinflik of NPR tweets: 

UPDATE: The number of cancellations since Friday’s revelation now exceeds 250,000, NPR can report. 

That represents approximately 10 percent of all paid circulation.
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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/10/2024
I'm usually wrong about these things, but I find it hard to believe that after Jan. 6 and the classified documents scandal Trump can hold on to all the voters he won in 2020 when Biden kicked his ass with virtually none of the excitement Harris has generated.
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