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bluesouth.bsky.social@bluesouth.bsky.social |
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Get out the vote. she/her
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Paul Krugman
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Way back in 2021 White House economists argued that the inflation surge resembled the spike after WWII and could be ended without major pain. They were right! www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-...
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@bluesouth.bsky.social
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Isn't a shit sandwich always handed to the liberals to make better? *Every* time. Well, it's an opportunity of sorts.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Dave Levitan
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SHOTS FIRED
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@bluesouth.bsky.social
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Trump will say anything to get into power. As he did in 2016.
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Unofficial Guardian (World) Bot
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Keir Starmer: Britain’s new leader who takes politics seriously
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Natascha Strobl
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Irgendwann wenn die materiellen Nöte so evident werden, funktioniert auch der dümmliche Kulturkampf nicht mehr. Die Tories haben das gerade gelernt.
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@bluesouth.bsky.social
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sorry you missed gordon brown
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doesn't have the budget
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@bluesouth.bsky.social
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Isn't a shit sandwich always handed to the liberals to make better? *Every* time. Well, it's an opportunity of sorts.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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@bluesouth.bsky.social
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Voters never have enough patience or attention, for long-term progress. Anywhere.
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@bluesouth.bsky.social
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Well, a footnote to the political career of the politician who was Prime Minister when Queen Elizabeth II died. Voters didn't like Liz Truss' tax-cuts-for-the-rich PM agenda.
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Stephen Webb
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Well, perhaps Rees-Mogg can console himself by returning to his great grandfather's Victorian factory and chaining a street urchin to the machinery
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@bluesouth.bsky.social
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Well, a few years ago Corbyn looked...not ready to be PM.
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Lorna Richardson
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Bye bye
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He thinks some of the people who voted Labour are on loan, and Labour will have to show demonstrable results to keep them.
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Starmer: "Country First. Party Second." Hopefully the acts of the majority government will bear that out. Starmer's Labour Party sounds a bit like the 1990s' Third Way. news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/458626....
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@bluesouth.bsky.social
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Conceding elections strengthens the democratic process. As opposed to what Trump did, and may do again.
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@bluesouth.bsky.social
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Sunak: The UK government will change power in "a peaceful and orderly manner." Heard here in the US. Down with demagogues, wherever they are elected, who refuse to concede election losses. Demagogues reflect badly on the voters who elect them to office, who give them governmental power.
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@bluesouth.bsky.social
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I'm loving the Internet tonight. Streaming video with live election results in another country... Yeah.
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@bluesouth.bsky.social
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The Tory government flying asylum seekers to Rwanda & dumping them sounded so cruel I thought at first that it might be made up. Nope. Never underestimate the cruelty of conservatives.
www.bbc.com/news/explain...
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Scouse Git
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What a surprise: the Tories are doing better than the polls—including the exit polls—were suggesting. Lesson: don't trust the polls. There's only one poll that matters. Too many people didn't bother to vote. That's a problem.
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@bluesouth.bsky.social
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Jeremy Corbyn sounds like an old American hippie.
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@bluesouth.bsky.social
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Keir Starmer's red tie was somewhat disorienting to Yanks. The red colour denotes the Labour Party, whilst red is used by conservatives in the US, which is why Trump wears one.
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David Noll
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The Tories could still win if King Charles has courage.
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@bluesouth.bsky.social
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Also, "Reform" = US Trumpers. The same hoots, jeers, & belligerent intolerance.
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@bluesouth.bsky.social
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It sounds like presumptive PM Keir Starmer positioned the Labour party to meet disaffected voters where they are. Savvy of him. The party will have their work cut out for them, with no pre-Brexit reset possible.
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kilgore trout
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has he tried saying it was just official acts
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@bluesouth.bsky.social
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Stan these Scottish women.
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that would be lovely
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Josh Chafetz
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On this July 4, please pause to remember that one of the colonists’ complaints in the Declaration was that the Crown was paying its judges.
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POLITICO Europe
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Polls suggest today’s general election in the UK will smash previous records.
Here are some stats to keep your eyes on as the results start coming in 👇
We'll keep you up to date as the night unfolds: trib.al/ThZEB6b
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@bluesouth.bsky.social
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Takes years sometimes. Even though its appearance is sweet.
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Politics ain't beanbag!
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@bluesouth.bsky.social
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I don't mind checking in with the South Carolina Democrats' for their thoughts on Biden. South Carolina is a hard state for Democrats.
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Jacob T. Levy
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"The president is above the law, and the trial court judges of the Fifth Circuit are above the president" is an odd constitutional structure.
www.reuters.com/legal/us-jud...
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Daniel Gilmore
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Get in, losers. We’re getting behind the old guy and stopping fascism.
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@bluesouth.bsky.social
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that's a cowboy hat
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Brendel
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It’s amazing how much of this amounts to “we want tv to be exciting”
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@bluesouth.bsky.social
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It's not just emotion. They may also be hostile to social change, sometimes grounded in religious or racial prejudice. They may want to be a part of an exclusive advantaged social group. We also all have some amount of confirmation bias.
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@bluesouth.bsky.social
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Many Americans take our democratic values for granted. We've had these values our entire lives, so people may self-defend against feeling alarmed. Agreed that getting out the small-d democratic vote in battleground states to defeat an unscrupulous demagogue is Priority No. 1.
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@bluesouth.bsky.social
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Some conservatives don't have political opinions that are based on factual information. That's their responsibility, but it is more difficult than it was to find fact-checked information.
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@bluesouth.bsky.social
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Some of the justices are on the U.S. Supreme Court because Democrats lost presidential elections, due to the Electoral College only.
www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/u...
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@bluesouth.bsky.social
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If justices "felt chastened by the backlash over their 2022 abortion decision, the persistent questions about their ethical standards & the drop in their public approval, there were only glimmers of restraint, notably in ducking two abortion cases in an election year"
www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/u...
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@bluesouth.bsky.social
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"But the Trump majority opinion, written by Roberts, says otherwise, proclaiming that 'courts may not inquire into the President’s motives'...But such an inspection is exactly what the Constitution itself plainly calls for."
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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@bluesouth.bsky.social
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The Supreme Court has undermined US democracy
"By prioritising an 'energetic' presidency over an accountable one, the [Supreme] court’s conservative justices have chipped away at a central pillar of the American system."
www.ft.com/content/df8e...
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How the Supreme Court became a political battlefield
"In September, 58% of Americans disapproved of the way the court was handling its job, the highest level in more than 20 years, according to Gallup."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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@bluesouth.bsky.social
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I felt that way when I tried to rewatch China Beach.
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@bluesouth.bsky.social
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Here's an article following the Gore presidential election, where NY Senator-Elect Hillary Rodham Clinton has some thoughts about the Electoral College. Similar to comments made once again 16 years later.
www.cbsnews.com/news/hillary...
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Brendan Nyhan
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Official act. Immune.
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@bluesouth.bsky.social
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What else is new with the New York Times?
www.mediaite.com/news/nyts-ke...
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