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#Please #sell #more of your #cool #stuff and #services and #art and #music en la #fedi.

I will — in #solidarity with your #crass #SelfServing effort to get monetary #permission you use to let others know they're #allowed to give you #food to eat and #housing to sleep under a roof and such without themselves #increasing their #risk under #capitalism of having neither — at least block people who complain about it.

Don't mistake this for endorsing #advertising and #sponsorships, because I do not.

In Arlington cemetery fracas, Team Trump shoved a woman and called her crazy
-- because that’s what they do

When the event took place on Aug. 26
— the third anniversary of the bombing that killed 13 U.S. service members
— just one journalist raised questions.

Esquire’s Charlie Pierce
— a relic from journalism’s lost golden era
— wrote a scathing pieceheadlined:
🔥“How The Hell Was Trump Allowed To Use Arlington National Cemetery As A Campaign Prop?” 🔥

Two NPR reporters — Quil Lawrence and Tom Bowman — went to work answering Pierce’s question
and learned two things, one of them stunning.

They reported
a) no one except cemetery staff is #allowed to take pictures or shoot video in Section 60, and
b) a woman staffer from Arlington who tried to enforce those rules said she was physically confronted by Trump campaign staffers and #shoved #aside during the altercation.

More than a week later, #Democrats on Capitol Hill are calling for more public information about what actually happened,
#veterans #groups are expressing outrage over the idea that fallen heroes were used for props by a politician who’s long shown disrespect for soldiers and their sacrifices,
and #Team #Trump has fought back with statements of support from pro-Republican Gold Star Mothers.

The mainstream media that botched the initial coverage should be pushing for answers on key unanswered questions,

including the identity of the alleged shover.

But despite a week of headlines, there’s one critical aspect to this story I feel is being ignored, even though it is central to the very essence of Trump’s warped campaign:

The people closest to Trump allegedly shoved and verbally abused a woman
— because that’s what they do.
inquirer.com/columnists/attyto

The Philadelphia Inquirer · The ugly truth we’re missing on Trump, Arlington | Will Bunch NewsletterBy Will Bunch
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@SourceRolls Yes indeed it is and for the rest of you trying to get past 3:45 or so #YouTube is pulling you out with an #ad and then queing you up for the next video of their choosing...for the purpose of the next #ad served. Not sure re the randomizer alg that is supposed to make it look like someone cares but probably 34% or so...
#YourBeingTooled and can't #OptOut. Under current regulation this is #Allowed. #Artists are the one's paying the freight

""#aborted #fetuses are not #technically #lives and it's #harmful and not #medically #accurate to refer to them that way" and "#people who have early #miscarriages of wanted #pregnancies are still #allowed to grieve and consider them their #child" are two #statements that can and should #coexist"

""people who made the difficult #decision to have an #abortion #because it's right for them and their #situation are still allowed to grieve how things could have been if their #circumstances had been different" is another statement that should be added"

#ausgov #politas

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