For anyone who missed it yesterday, Alex Jones is a conniving liar and I called him out: July Fourth Civil War – The Democratic Civil War launches on Independence Day.

Alex Jones tweeted that Democrats were planning a civil war on the Fourth. I got truly pissed off and made a thing. Please share widely.

July Fourth Civil War – The Democratic Civil War launches on Independence Day.

Suddenly annoyed AF at everyone too young to know why 212 is a preferable area code to 202. Atlas Obscura

“A political strategy based on the idea that being unfailingly polite will somehow lull Trump supporters into a non-voting stupor is ridiculous. The assumption must be that Trump’s most loyal followers will indeed vote in November. Democrats need to understand that walking on eggshells — being unfailingly nice, declining to call out racism masquerading as economic anxiety, never uttering the word “impeachment” — isn’t going to make the people at those rallies like them.”

Opinion | Trump treats politics like a knife fight. Democrats can’t pretend it’s a garden party.

Shameless promotional tweet: my book sales are lower than I was hoping for (and IMO lower than the book deserves; it’s really quite good), so asking again for people to share this link far and wide. Follow @jeffporten on Twitter, as I’m tweeting productivity tips from the book every few hours.

In other news, my sales are 37% international and 14% to non-English speaking countries, which I think is pretty damn cool.

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Retweeting the middle of this thread because it’s broken from #1. It’s a former CIA analyst describing how to maintain your mental health while dealing with a barrage of depressing world news WITHOUT disengaging.

Cindy Otis on Twitter

https://twitter.com/profmusgrave/status/1011401871188250624?s=20 Paul “Abolish ‘Nice’” Musgrave on Twitter

Attention people who don’t follow @jeffporten on Twitter: I’m trying out an experiment where I’m tweeting tips from my book every few hours. Thrill to my self-deprecating humor!

https://www..twitter.com/jeffporten/status/1010689721473929216 Jeff Porten on Twitter

“Skeptical employee union leaders promptly accused the White House of gutting programs to turn federal jobs over to the private sector.” Oh, that’s so 2002. I mean, yes, they’ll do that too, but only as an aside while they tackle their real goals of gutting social services and regulations Trump donors don’t like. White House proposes federal government overhaul, including a consolidation of safety-net programs

One legal aid organization, the Texas Civil Rights Project, is representing more than 300 parents and has been able to track down only two children. “Either the government wasn’t thinking at all about how they were going to put these families back together, or they decided they just didn’t care.”
?Further complicating matters are bureaucratic errors that could leave government officials unaware that a child’s parent is detained in the United States. Attorneys also worry that some toddlers, or children who speak indigenous languages, might not have been able to give officials their parents’ complete names.?Because of such complications, attorneys and former U.S. officials have begun speaking about the possibility of “permanent separations.”
?In the case of one Guatemalan family, the Border Patrol failed to note in its apprehension report that a mother and daughter crossed the border together, according to Wesevich. Without that information, government officials might not be aware that the child’s parent is detained in the United States. The chaotic effort to reunite immigrant parents with their separated kids

My book is published! And for anyone who associates me with “well organized and productive” the way you might for “home and beauty tips,” well… yeah. 25 years of trial and error made me good, and what not to do.

$15 at the link, any friend who buys one, I’ll buy you a beer with my cut. Tell a few friends, and I’ll buy you a *good* beer. 42 page excerpt (out of 168) at the link. (And seriously, I greatly appreciate word of mouth.)

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Now that I know she lives on 400 acres and has drones, I assume this video was taken by Suzanne Jackowski.
Jon Levine on Twitter