William Melvin

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William Melvin

William Melvin

@willmelvin

Master Brewer, Bon Vivant, Political Enthusiast

가입일 Haziran 2009
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William Melvin
William Melvin@willmelvin·
People must be more comfortable saying that if you still support Trump for president today, you are not a good person and you do not wish good things for our country and fellow citizens. Theres no reason to pretend Trump represents a valid or legitimate choice.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@ReichlinMelnick·
American citizens beware: the end result of the Trump administration's mass deportation push is a world in which you are surveilled at every point, where every interaction with private industry is reported back to the government and your own rights are increasingly narrow.
Brendan Pedersen@BrendanPedersen

In a lengthy post, President Trump digs in on executive order demanding banks play a role in immigration crackdown “Access to our Nation’s Financial Systems must be limited to those who have a Legal Right to be here, and who are engaged in Lawful and Legitimate Commerce.”

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William Melvin
William Melvin@willmelvin·
@MilesSm03562554 There are potential First Amendment issues with doxxing laws, but California is actually pretty good. The "doxx-ee" has to also prove the "doxx-er" had intent to harm or harass in order to be protected.
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Miles
Miles@MilesSm03562554·
@willmelvin Thanks for the insight. I do see a couple of provisions in it, that if interpreted aggressively could be used to stifle the kind of investigative journalism that Shirley does.
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Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸
Trump has blocked new U.S. aid for Ukraine, and hasn’t condemned Putin’s recent missile and drone strikes on Ukrainian civilians — and now on an apartment building in Romania. He doesn’t even call out Putin for helping Iran target U.S. forces. How could anyone have any confidence that, if Russia were to start a war with NATO, the U.S. would come to its defense? wapo.st/4viqXkt
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The Notorious S.E.B.
The Notorious S.E.B.@bigseb31213·
Something that's especially disastrous about the red state property tax revolt is that these states have already cut all other taxes to the bone, and the GOP has abandoned any pretense of fiscal discipline how are these governments going to fund themselves?
David Schleicher@ProfSchleich

This proposal in Florida is a really big deal, basically the end of residential single-family owner-occupied property taxes, punishing renters and commercial property owners, while also reducing sales of houses governing.com/urban/could-fl…

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William Melvin@willmelvin·
Republicans saw how well the anti-property tax revolt in California worked out, and how it made the state such a model of fiscal responsibility, so they want to try it out in Florida too!
David Schleicher@ProfSchleich

This proposal in Florida is a really big deal, basically the end of residential single-family owner-occupied property taxes, punishing renters and commercial property owners, while also reducing sales of houses governing.com/urban/could-fl…

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William Melvin
William Melvin@willmelvin·
Helps that Cooper’s a decade younger than Mills.
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William Melvin
William Melvin@willmelvin·
Very ironic how Hegseth's war on the Pentagon Press corps does absolutely nothing to stop the steady stream of negative stories about Hegseth. He can ban the press but he clearly can't get his staff to stop talking to the press about his failings.
Scott Nover@ScottNover

SCOOP: The Pentagon has banned journalists from its press office, designating it a classified space. The change creates a new barrier between journalists and the public affairs officers who have traditionally answered their questions. washingtonpost.com/national-secur…

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William Melvin
William Melvin@willmelvin·
@Chris_H_Politic People who have Nazi tattoos for almost two decades aren't really complicated calls. Why would one discount that over some policies just cooked up by DC consultants for his campaign? What track record there is isn't progressive.
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Chris 🏳️‍🌈 🥥🌴Revolution 4 Big Struct. Change
@willmelvin I mean, he absolutely is. It’s pretty obvious and the fact that you use the maximus bad spent on everything that you are not coming in good faith. I thought you were a bad Faith Democrat, but seems like you’re more a republican so I really don’t care what you say
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Chris 🏳️‍🌈 🥥🌴Revolution 4 Big Struct. Change
I love that to beat Trump. I was forced to support the genocide candidate and yet centrists when a progressive to drop over sexting he’s already gotten past with his wife through marriage counseling years ago. They are so transparent and gullible.
William Melvin@willmelvin

It would be a lot better for the country and for the Democratic Party if Platner were to drop out. If he doesn't want to, Party leadership should make whatever threats are necessary to convince him to make the right choice.

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William Melvin@willmelvin·
@PuncheeBurro My takeaway talking to Leftists about politics is they essentially live in a world without Republicans, where the Libs are the "Big Bad Right-wingers" they need to defeat to win. Once they have to talk to voters who don't vote in D primaries they don't know what to do.
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Astacus Astacus 🍩
Astacus Astacus 🍩@PuncheeBurro·
@willmelvin They didn't even consider that they are actually running against Republicans or that they need to turn out Dem voters.
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William Melvin
William Melvin@willmelvin·
All this Platner stuff illustrates how the Dem's Left-fringe is no different that the GOP's MAGA-fringe. Both see their preferred candidates repeated moral transgressions as positive validators of anti-establishment views, ignoring the immorality. Both see that "bad" as a "good."
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William Melvin
William Melvin@willmelvin·
@PuncheeBurro It's so hard to get normal people to care about this stuff unfortunately. It'll really take a President who really wants it and makes it happen to build all this capacity back up.
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William Melvin
William Melvin@willmelvin·
@PuncheeBurro Ceding the field without a fight because Americans got bored and voted for a carnival barker.
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