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Interesting Factoids:
The city of Utqiaġvik, Alaska—the northernmost town in the United States—recently experienced its first sunset, after 83 days straight of sunlight this summer. At approx 71.3° N latitude, Utqiaġvik is located about 320 miles north of the Arctic Circle. pic.twitter.com/cdY54FIAJj
— NowThis Impact (@nowthisimpact) August 8, 2022
Updates:
It's biggest drop ever. https://t.co/2il69iAgx0
— Jeff Zients (@WHCOS) August 8, 2022
#BREAKING: Travis McMichael, the man who fired the gun and killed Ahmaud Arbery, is sentenced to life plus 10 years in federal hate crime case. His punishment is largely symbolic, as he was sentenced earlier to life without parole in for Arbery’s murder. https://t.co/8o79FVKSGo
— 10 Tampa Bay (@10TampaBay) August 8, 2022
President Biden/Biden Administration:
Thank You to Democrats for
— KP 💙🇺🇲 (@Fam4Fun) August 7, 2022
Passing The Inflation Reduction Act! pic.twitter.com/5Unl61E7JA
Congress:
Over the weekend, the Senate passed a major piece of legislation that includes new climate and healthcare spending, as well as efforts to reduce the deficit.
— NPR Politics (@nprpolitics) August 8, 2022
Here's what's in the bill: https://t.co/XwlU6I6Aql
Elections/Voting/Campaigning:
49% of Americans said they would be more likely to support a candidate who would keep access to abortion legal compared to 27% who would be more likely to support the candidate who favors limiting abortion, per a new @ABC News/Ipsos poll. https://t.co/z1FuVvueTf
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) August 8, 2022
“If you take away the football player, celebrity part, what do you have left? There’s nothing.”
Holy shit. "…the first time he held a gun to my head…" https://t.co/vNQ6WiPoG7
— Jeff Timmer (@jefftimmer) August 8, 2022
Michigan Republican Tudor Dixon admitted Donald Trump lost in 2020.
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) August 8, 2022
Dixon: “Donald Trump had just lost the election.” pic.twitter.com/D9IZecSuYa
Minnesota Republican congressional candidate Royce White spent thousands in campaign funds on purchases at Bed Bath & Beyond, Nike, Lululemon, Nordstrom, Dick's Sporting Goods and the Guitar Center. https://t.co/64NH9Gcn9x
— Ryan Faircloth (@RyanFaircloth) August 8, 2022
Speaking at Freedom Fellowship Church in Wildeood, Florida, far right Republican candidate Laura Loomer likened the “persecution” she has received to that of Jesus. pic.twitter.com/ZFd0mno0vR
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) August 8, 2022
Ohio’s’ ‘Finest:’
Ohioans, hide your teenagers. @JDVance1 & @GovRonDeSantis are coming to Youngstown with Turning Point USA, known child predators.
— Steve (@mdshare24) August 8, 2022
These groomers are dangerous. pic.twitter.com/4Pr2L2nnBg
“What is @JDVance1’s political agenda? @TimRyan was at the Ohio State Fair on Friday. Vance was in Dallas for a speech about “racial purity” by Viktor Orban. Orban is a fascist who came to Dallas to declare war on US democracy.” https://t.co/MX6ytmQHL3
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) August 7, 2022
60% of Ohioans consider themselves pro-choice.
— Nan Whaley (@nanwhaley) August 8, 2022
Mike DeWine knows his position on abortion is cruel, extreme, and out-of-step with the majority of the rest of us.
Ohio voters deserve better and we deserve to know who and what Mike DeWine really stands for. pic.twitter.com/Wbq2vmuVCZ
Judges in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Ohio have found that Republicans illegally drew congressional maps along racial or partisan lines, or that a trial very likely would conclude that they did.
— The New York Times (@nytimes) August 8, 2022
All four states are using the rejected maps anyway.https://t.co/rBo5AQPT5a
Post Roe:
In red states, doctors and pharmacists are denying female patients a crucial drug for autoimmune disorders because it can also terminate a pregnancy.
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) August 8, 2022
Another horrifying example of abortion bans’ devastating impact on women’s health. https://t.co/JgXK6kTJLn
Media:
Axios has agreed to be bought by Cox Enterprises https://t.co/lKvGYXQbNI
— Bloomberg (@business) August 8, 2022
The Worst People in the World:
She is The OG of stupid https://t.co/Kei88R1R0f
— Chris Meloni (@Chris_Meloni) August 7, 2022
Pro-Trump clothing maker fined by FTC for replacing “Made in China” tags with “Made in USA” ones. pic.twitter.com/mtWUh4bRNC
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) August 8, 2022
Ethan Schmidt, a self-proclaimed “good friend” of Arizona Republican Kari Lake, blames “the LGBT community” and “pride month” for monkeypox, wants “all the businesses that are affiliated with LGBT” and pride month “to be shutdown” claiming they are “spreading the virus.” pic.twitter.com/pqBMmF4HF0
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) August 8, 2022
Craven Assholes:
Democrats tried to create a price cap on consumers' insulin costs. Senate Republicans voted to kill it. (via @MaddowBlog) https://t.co/ZxRStQkkz6
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) August 8, 2022
I don't understand this willingness of Senate Republicans to ruin the lives of people who voted for them in order to own the libs. https://t.co/tZuIIf0tAF
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) August 7, 2022
Thinking of starting a GoFundme for whitey https://t.co/ghwS2iM4N6
— Chris Meloni (@Chris_Meloni) August 8, 2022
TFG:
And CPAC cultists LOVE this guy https://t.co/wUY6IIue8P
— Chris Meloni (@Chris_Meloni) August 8, 2022
"Milley feared Trump’s 'Hitler-like' embrace of his own election lies would lead him to seek a 'Reichstag moment' … Milley envisioned a declaration of martial law or an invocation of the Insurrection Act, with Trumpian Brown Shirts fomenting violence" https://t.co/gh0c53lZnZ
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 8, 2022
Donald Trump: "Manchin […] is going to lose West Virginia and I'll go down and campaign against him as hard as anybody can." https://t.co/QFREYI1E7X pic.twitter.com/m54Hd3CIYj
— The Hill (@thehill) August 8, 2022
World News:
"I didn't expect to live": A 9-year-old girl was among the injured when Israel conducted an airstrike in a Gaza refugee camp on Saturday. The attack, which buried the girl and her grandfather in rubble, killed an Islamic Jihad commander and five civilians. https://t.co/wDzxP7apNJ pic.twitter.com/kxKx05hMvX
— CBS News (@CBSNews) August 8, 2022
State News:
4-year-old killed on highway after wandering away at night, Indiana cops say https://t.co/Wd2KqDpjSb
— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) August 8, 2022
The new baby hippo born last week at the Cincinnati Zoo is a boy, the zoo announced.https://t.co/48xvb8Y6mw
— CNN (@CNN) August 8, 2022
Ohio man Richard John Steinle, 77, has been arrested for sending poop in the mail to Rep. Jim Jordan and other Republican lawmakers. pic.twitter.com/mfbK094DOa
— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) August 7, 2022
