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(((Asa Zernik)))

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Israeli-American techie scum. Almost became political operative scum, hence tweeting. RP without comment equals endorsement of post only, not source account.

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Which, to clarify, is his "defense" - that he was having "consensual" sex with an employee nearly *40* years his junior. Doing some quick math, he was 61 and she was 21 at the time.

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Maladroithe's avatar Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social
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Getting word that Larry the Chief Mouser of Downing Street has coasted to another peerless victory with no opposition and 100% of the vote, truly Britain’s greatest statesman

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Will Stancil's avatar Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social
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Then there’s the other class of people, real Democrats, who are just scared. I talk to dozens of these people every day on the doors in my district. They don’t know what the best path is, they’re desperate to win, and it’s not making them reckless, it’s making them CAUTIOUS.

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Faine Greenwood's avatar Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social
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It also makes me feel insane that the rat fuck around Biden’s age and mental capacity is being uncritically spread around by Democrats when Trump is *incredibly obviously* grotesquely mentally incapacitated, in a way that is genuinely terrifying.

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Matthew Downhour 's avatar Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social
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I’ve said this before but tofu + basil pesto is a combination that’s way better than it has any right to be. I’d go so far as to say for a pesto pasta I’d take tofu over any meat option

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drow zelensky's avatar drow zelensky @dov.bsky.social
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France could avoid this problem in future with the extremely simple modification of only allowing two candidates to proceed to the runoff in the first place.

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hilzoy's avatar hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social
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Bear in mind that Brett Kavanaugh BROUGHT HIS PARENTS to watch the decision being handed down.

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(((Asa Zernik)))'s avatar (((Asa Zernik))) @asazernik.bsky.social
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It's shorthand for the end of democracy in the United States.

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮's avatar Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com
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I just counted home page stories. The Daily Caller has five anti-Biden and six pro-Trump stories. The New York Times has seven anti-Biden stories and three that give this style of both-sides treatment to Trump. The Times really is sprinting off a cliff to satisfy their nepo-publisher’s vendetta.

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AkivaMCohen's avatar AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social
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Immunity doesn't mean that the courts will actually treat the action as valid. Just that Biden wouldn't be prosecuted. A court can turn around and say no, the student debt remains owing It can't unshoot a protester

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Popehat's avatar Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social
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Heritage: it will remain bloodless so long as the libs agree to take cyanide.

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Matthew Downhour 's avatar Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social
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First remove the log from your own the speck from your neighbor’s

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(((Asa Zernik)))'s avatar (((Asa Zernik))) @asazernik.bsky.social
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There will absolutely be a Supreme Court of some kind if the Constitution is rewritten, constitutional courts are a pretty standard democratic Thing. They just tend to have very different selection criteria and terms of service than the current US Supreme Court.

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(((Asa Zernik)))'s avatar (((Asa Zernik))) @asazernik.bsky.social
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Those extra 20 years of interregnum make it much more fictional. There were lots of Latvians who were aware individuals both in 1940 and in 1990; much fewer Georgians from 1920 to 1990.

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Jacob T. Levy's avatar Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social
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It's not the worst of it, but what I may be actually angriest about (right now) is Roberts' smarmy smugness and dismissiveness in the final two paragraphs of section IV and the whole of section V. "Fear mongering," "extreme hypotheticals," "our perspective must be more farsighted," and this.

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(((Asa Zernik)))'s avatar (((Asa Zernik))) @asazernik.bsky.social
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You absolutely can have an undemocratic federation - see the UAE or the Holy Roman Empire for examples. The real issue is that you can't have *both* federalism *and* centrally enforced ideological uniformity.

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Don Zeko's avatar Don Zeko @donzeko.bsky.social
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It's hard to even imagine the limits of the power that SCOTUS has just handed the president. If you can keep 34 senators and the military on your side, you can do anything.

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The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter 's avatar The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter @swolecialism.bsky.social
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In a lot of ways the entire Republican establishment since the 70s has been dedicated to making sure that what happened to Nixon would never be allowed to happen to one of theirs again

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(((Asa Zernik)))'s avatar (((Asa Zernik))) @asazernik.bsky.social
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Debs ran from prison, and it's good that the US allows that. In this case it benefits a bad guy, but the principle is important.

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Just the level of vetting she's gotten from being through a presidential ticket puts her head and shoulders above any alternatives. It's risky enough switching candidates, don't want to add *more* risk to that.

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man it's a hot zone,'s avatar man it's a hot zone, @mobute.bsky.social
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kamala harris running for president is currently a non-starter. now, maybe it was my correctly picking wes clark, jon huntsman, rick perry, and pete buttigieg for president, but if she can just get nancy mace as her running mate, that's a guaranteed unity ticket. i haven't had a real job in 35 years

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(((Asa Zernik)))'s avatar (((Asa Zernik))) @asazernik.bsky.social
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Forget the industry, there's an even older and deeper-rooted culture of taking a caffeine and/or nap break around that time (afternoon tea, stepping out for coffee, taking siesta, &c)

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(((Asa Zernik)))'s avatar (((Asa Zernik))) @asazernik.bsky.social
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We, as readers, care. As does our Intrepid Heroine.

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(((Asa Zernik)))'s avatar (((Asa Zernik))) @asazernik.bsky.social
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I have heard very convincing arguments from people on the spectrum. See eg the Yubi Reads thread on The Other Place. Would make sense for Austen to have met autistic people and just put that into her pile of Ways People Are Sometimes.

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(((Asa Zernik)))'s avatar (((Asa Zernik))) @asazernik.bsky.social
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This isn't the Republican Party.

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(((Asa Zernik)))'s avatar (((Asa Zernik))) @asazernik.bsky.social
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Yes. It is unwritten, but it's a firmly established norm that You Don't Primary Your Own President and the consequences are ostracism by the rest of the party.

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Napping in public during the day is actually awesome, highly recommended

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky”'s avatar pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social
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Now THIS is the Joe Biden I like to see! Welcome back, Mr President 🫡

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geoffrey's avatar geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social
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weird dynamic shaping up where all of the focus groups i'm hearing about (caveat! i follow people who want hope! maybe they're selecting for it!) are of people deeply turned off by trump and correctly identifying him as evasive, lying, and bullying, while we all freak out about biden showing his age

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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there is no world in which biden drops out and the nominee isn’t kamala harris. and i think it is very interesting that the loudest calls for biden to drop out do not acknowledge this fact.

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Pwnallthethings's avatar Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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maybe unpopular take but Europeans freaking out because of how important the US is to, say, European defense should spend less attention on Newsom and more on planning to make European defense less dependent on the US /regardless/ of who wins

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Microplastics Instrumentality Project's avatar Microplastics Instrumentality Project @bluespacecanary.bsky.social
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you literally could not pay me enough to watch that shit lol

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Democrats did that! They impeached him! It's bad that people memory hole the second impeachment and act like it's the Democrats' supposed fecklessness that is the problem, not Republicans' utter shameless partisanship.

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drow zelensky's avatar drow zelensky @dov.bsky.social
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Meticulously muting every possible keyword associated with domestic US politics questions that have no impact whatsoever on real countries to avoid even the temptation to venture into discourse that is not for me.

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i personally do not think the court should have this much discretion over the timing of its decisions.

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ManhattanJuryAppreciator 's avatar ManhattanJuryAppreciator @ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social
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An understated reason for increasing corruption in the US is the Supreme's Court trend of narrowing what constitutes legally prosecutable conduct. That, paired with low pay and decreasing scrutiny on government officials, all but ensures your average elected will be worse tomorrow than today.

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I can think of about three things that Death of Stalin could mean as a verb and I'm not sure which you're using.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li's avatar Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.bsky.social
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practical politics continues to require holding both thoughts in your head at once

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Grudgie the Whale's avatar Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social
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Trump’s support and active participation in the mass slaughter of Yemeni citizens was so senseless, Congress passed a bipartisan bill (!!) to end it and he vetoed it! Look at how the New York Fucking Times covered this blood lust:

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Are you training an LLM on the specific corpus you're searching?

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You know they're authentic Hard Left party if their names are that easy to mix up.

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It is possible to be insufferable without being the cause of actual social ills. That's what makes the skeet funny.

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Proof of Burden's avatar Proof of Burden @proofofburden.bsky.social
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I oppose the 10 Commandments mandate on principle, but it's also worth noting it's likely to have the deleterious effect of spawning another generation of insufferable 20-something atheists and for that it must be swiftly repudiated by the courts

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Matthew Downhour 's avatar Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social
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Guy who has only read Mario Puzo, encountering any kind of privileged information - "I'm getting real omerta vibes out of this"

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE's avatar GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com
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i find it incredibly weird and off-putting that the horserace press keep referring to campaign discipline from biden’s campaign in menacing and ominous terms instead of the entirely fucking normal explanation that strategy requires messaging discipline

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