iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Joy Criner

Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Obedience always emboldens the oppressor. They're using the threat of lawsuits to silence their critics, mute damning facts about his cabinet nominees, and pave the road to a state-controlled media. buff.ly/3ZVM0wC

buff.ly

Trump Team Threatens More Defamation Suits

President-elect's lawyers and allies issue warnings to news media over coverage

33036831246

Reposted by Joy Criner

Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Hell was cold that day, my friends... the day Donald Trump honored ethics guidelines in DC.

4345585

Reposted by Joy Criner

KJ doesn't obey in advance 🇺🇸 🇨🇦🇮🇨✌🏼 @katemjackson.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

When he talks about abortion, or tariffs, or trans people, or concentration camps, or Ukraine, or Gaza, he flatters himself, telling us how great he’s doing, but offers few details, and when he does, those details are almost always conspiracy theories and lies. open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...

open.substack.com

Trump's Time interview provides a sobering reminder

He's staggeringly unfit. Always has been. Always will be.

26123

Reposted by Joy Criner

Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget

487213056074

Reposted by Joy Criner

George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Some people will react in horror. But the more idiotic and frivolous suits like these that he brings, the better. Because he will lose and make an even bigger ass of himself. His narcissistic and psychopathic compulsion to overreach can actually do some good. www.cnn.com/2024/12/17/m...

cnn.com

Trump sues Des Moines Register and top pollster over final Iowa survey | CNN Business

President-elect Donald Trump is escalating his legal campaign against media outlets by suing renowned pollster J. Ann Selzer, her polling firm, The Des Moines Register newspaper and its parent company...

89171651329

Reposted by Joy Criner

Mark Hertling @markhertling.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Wrote this piece when the partnership between Russia and N.Korea was announced. Now N.Koreans are dying in waves on the front lines in Ukraine. www.thebulwark.com/p/north-kore...

thebulwark.com

North Korea and Russia: A Match Made in Hell

The odds of a successful partnership are slim.

1430174

Reposted by Joy Criner

ReneeJ 🇺🇸🇵🇱🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌻 @rjnietubyc.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

“It will fall to us to be more courageous than ABC or Meta or Republicans in the US Senate. We each must act in a way that makes sense for us and our families.” For hope and inspiration, please read and share David’s article. We have work to do and we are up to the challenge do it.

05114

Reposted by Joy Criner

Lori Coleman @democracystorm.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

31 days in December, 31 ways to resist. #17 Find your tribe. Surround yourself with like minded people who will lift each other up and remind each other who we are fighting for.

829492

Reposted by Joy Criner

TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

From infrastructure and clean energy to manufacturing, the Biden administration is revitalizing communities across America. Let’s make sure that Prez Biden gets the credit he deserves! And, of course, thanks to Pete Buttigieg, who I’m sure that we’ll be seeing a lot more of! #DemCast

318139

Reposted by Joy Criner

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

While hope fuels our dreams, action ensures that they have a chance to become reality. Temper your hope with resolve, and let it inspire you to do the hard work of building a future where love and decency prevail over hatred and greed. The future we envision depends on the choices we make today.

932556550

Reposted by Joy Criner

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

“Stop asking why schools don’t have bullet proof glass and metal detectors at all the doors. Ask why schools have to. That’s the question that needs to be asked.” - Police Chief in Madison, WI

12196412328

Reposted by Joy Criner

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

'Throw everything at the wall & see what sticks' is what Trump is about to do (e.g. birthright citizenship), though admittedly he can count on a SCOTUS that will rush to the wall with superglue to make sure it all stays there.

929958

Reposted by Joy Criner

The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 17/12/2024

⚡️Russia trying to hide North Korean losses in Ukraine war, Zelensky claims. "Russia is not only involving North Korean soldiers in assaults on Ukrainian positions, but is also trying to hide the losses of these people," President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Dec. 16.

kyivindependent.com

Russia trying to hide North Korean losses, Zelensky claims

"Russia is not only involving North Korean soldiers in assaults on Ukrainian positions, but is also trying to hide the losses of these people," President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Dec. 16.

15739194

Reposted by Joy Criner

Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Not just Trump. The entire GOP has been on the road to oligarchy for decades. That's a big part of why they've turned against education. Not just because ignorant people are so much easier to fool, but because education is the great equalizer, and the oligarchs don't want equality.

1220259

Reposted by Joy Criner

Stephanie Kennedy @wordswithsteph.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Absolutely everything about Donald Trump is predatory. Trump is a greed machine, rolling over and crushing everyone in his path.

421074311

Reposted by Joy Criner

Dr. Bradley Onishi @bradleyonishi.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Kakistocracy. All the way down.

315422

Reposted by Joy Criner

💙❤️💙Mia💙❤️💙 @mommamia.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

BREAKING 💥💥💥 FINALLY, a bit of good news… The guilty verdict stands! 🟠 loses his bid to toss the hush money case! The judge has ruled that he does NOT have immunity! www.cnbc.com/2024/12/16/t...

cnbc.com

Trump loses bid to toss New York hush money conviction on immunity claim

President-elect Donald Trump was convicted of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to a hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels.

882168408

Reposted by Joy Criner

Tris @trisresists.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I just opened my news feed to the story. It’s good news, but I’m skeptical of any consequences being handed down. I’m so soured Mia.

614426

Reposted by Joy Criner

Fighting for Democracy Everyday @rhopper03.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Can’t even imagine what yet more families - this time in Madison, WI - are going through. Just 2 days after the 12-year anniversary of Sandy Hook, we're mourning lives lost to gun violence again. #EndGunViolenceNow

0275

Reposted by Joy Criner

Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

FUN FACT: Donald Trump is still a convicted felon.

1303283577

Reposted by Joy Criner

CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Judge Juan Merchan served Donald Trump a dose of reality, and he's livid.

1012511476

Reposted by Joy Criner

Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes is correct: We need to stop asking why schools don’t have bulletproof glass and metal detectors and start asking why they need to have them.

18717

Reposted by Joy Criner

Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I’m a gun owner, and I respect the rights of responsible gun owners. That said, the second amendment will continue to be watered with the blood of children until the laws change.

1508490947520

Reposted by Joy Criner

nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 17/12/2024

ok i know this is troubling or whatever but do you think they have like a hanky code based on gun pin orientation

920637

Reposted by Joy Criner

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Judge Merchan rules Trump's hush money conviction won't be dismissed b/c of SCOTUS' presidential immunity decision & that evidence used in that trial doesn't run afoul of that rule but holds off on Trump's motion to dismiss b/c he was reelected. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

1274494829

Reposted by Joy Criner

Kaylan_TX @kaylan.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

So Tiffany Trump’s new father-in-law is who Trump has appointed as his new Middle East advisor, an appointment that doesn’t require Senate approval Well as it turns out, he’s not exactly the billionaire businessman he claims to be, but a truck salesman🙃 Meet the new George Santos, Massad Boules👇

The lore around Massad Boulos, Tiffany Trump's father-in-law, is that he is a billionaire dealmaker. Records show otherwise.

President-elect Donald Trump's incoming Middle East adviser, Massad Boulos, has enjoyed a reputation as a billionaire mogul at the helm of a business that bears his family name.

Mr. Boulos has been profiled as a tycoon by the world's media, telling a reporter in October that his company is worth billions. Mr. Trump called him a "highly respected leader in the business world, with extensive experience on the international scene."

The president-elect even lavished what may be his highest praise: a "dealmaker."
In fact, records show that Mr. Boulos has spent the past two decades selling trucks and heavy machinery in Nigeria for a company his father-in-law controls. He is chief executive of the company, SCOA Nigeria PLC, which made a profit of less than $66,000 last year, corporate filings show.

There is no indication in corporate documents that Mr. Boulos, a Lebanese-American whose son is married to Mr. Trump's daughter Tiffany, is a man of significant wealth as a result of his businesses. The truck dealership is valued at about $865,000 at its current share price. Mr. Boulos's stake, according to securities filings, is worth $1.53.

As for Boulos Enterprises, the company that has been called his family business in The Financial Times and elsewhere, a company officer there said it is owned by an unrelated Boulos family.

Mr. Boulos will advise on one of the world's most complicated and conflict-wracked regions — a region that Mr. Boulos said this week that he has not visited in years. The advisory position does not require Senate approval.

72642253

Reposted by Joy Criner

Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

🙄🤣🤣🤣 "𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐨𝐟 𝟏𝟖𝟗𝟑 was an economic depression in the United States. It began in February 1893 and officially ended eight months later, but the effects from it continued to be felt until 1897. It was the most serious economic depression in history until the Great Depression of the 1930s."

10301119

Reposted by Joy Criner

Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

"Since the election, Trump has bragged about his interactions with foreign leaders..." Asked about Putin, he says: “I can’t tell you.” www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

msnbc.com

Asked about alleged Putin chats, Trump says, ‘I can’t tell you’

Trump is delighted to talk about his recent chats with foreign leaders. But when it comes to Russia's Vladimir Putin, Trump's posture is ... different.

1591468428

Reposted by Joy Criner

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 16/12/2024

Nearly five decades. Literally everyone from Pope Francis to one of the prosecutors on Peltier's case have been advocating for clemency for so. long.

218757

Reposted by Joy Criner

Tris @trisresists.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

How long before maga congress dons their AR15 lapel pins again? 😢 So sick of this!

3609

Reposted by Joy Criner

FWC Indivisible @fwcindivisible.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Voters are barraged with political messages paid for by undisclosed foreign & U.S. self-interested donors. Restore accountability & transparency, by revealing corporate, PAC & foreign donors. dlvr.it/TGqH5z

dlvr.it

Support our campaign to oppose MAGA extremism

26625

Reposted by Joy Criner

@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

BREAKING: In a victory for voters, the state of #Kansas agreed to permanently stop enforcing a voter suppression law that undermined civic groups and made it harder for them to register voters. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

democracydocket.com

Kansas Agrees to Permanently Stop Enforcing Law That Criminalized Voter Engagement

Read more here.

14451126

Reposted by Joy Criner

DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Trump wants to issue an executive order to flout birthright citizenship and throw a test case for the 14th amendment before the radical right SCOTUS. Guess who are the minds behind this awful move? Folks like John Eastman and Ken Chesebro, fake elector masterminds,and the Claremont Institute.

"Several of those who, before Trump took office, pushed fringe interpretations of that history in an effort to end birthright citizenship also worked on the legal elements of his 2020 coup attempt. John Eastman, the attorney who pushed to have Mike Pence reject electoral votes in January 2021, has been a proponent of the move for decades. Ken Chesebro, seen as the architect of the fake electors scheme, co-wrote a Supreme Court brief with Eastman in May 2016 that dismissed birthright citizenship as a “vestige of feudalism.”"

70716330

Reposted by Joy Criner

DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Never mind what the Brain Worm Whalehead guy and his lawyer say- vaccines save lives. Consider polio- 17M plus lives saved since 1988 - zero cases in India after 2012- single digital incidence in US. Source: www.globalhealthdelivery.org/files/ghd/fi...

Table of polio cases and estimated cases averted by global polio vaccination since 1988

Polio Cases in India from 1995 to 2012- zero in 2011, 2012

Polio in US, 1980 to 2010- from 2000 to 2010, 2 cases - single digital per year from 1980 to 2000

431301425

Reposted by Joy Criner

Amy Axtell @amybett.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

The Police are asking the right questions after yet another school shooting. Are you? It’s. The. Guns. Easy access to guns is the ONE THING that sets America apart from other nations.

330563

Reposted by Joy Criner

Rena Korb @renakorb.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Republican lawmakers are consigning people to their deaths because they refuse to put any common-sense measures in place to prevent unstable people from having guns.

2122

Reposted by Joy Criner

Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Good lord, lol.

810017

Reposted by Joy Criner

Elli Anderson 🌊💙🇺🇸 @ellilanderson.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

There have been 83 school shootings this year.

1511136

Reposted by Joy Criner

Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

America voted for more gun violence

510819

Reposted by Joy Criner

Tiffany Muller @tiffanymuller.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Trump’s Corrupt Cabinet is chock full of billionaires and corporate executives who bought their way into federal power. Their number one priority isn’t serving the American people. It’s protecting their bottom line.

37517

Reposted by Joy Criner

DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

My brother and one of my best friends got squamous cell cancer in the throat and mouth due to HPV. If they had received the HPV vaccine as young men (then unavailable), most likely they would never have gotten cancer. Vaccines work. Don't let these trumpers tell you otherwise.

The most recent HPV vaccine protects against 90% of strains causing cervical cancer, anal cancer, genital warts, and most strains causing mouth and throat cancer.

19163081947

Reposted by Joy Criner

Mary Sweeney @mcsweeney.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

How anyone could ever think voting for Trump or any Republican is going to help them is beyond me. A world-wide recession and greed are at the heart of our troubles. A party that has had their eyes trained on removing social security, medicare+medicaid is the last place anyone should turn for help.

031

Joy Criner @shelbymay.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

I overheard teachers at lunch the other day talking about 1st graders doing body slams at recess. Kids imitating wrestling moves at recess. One teach told me that another student talked about bringing a gun to school to shoot people. FIRST GRADERS!!!

000