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Jack-of-all-trades, master-of-none, as my dear sainted mother used to say. Somewhere between Slappy the Squirrel and Dorothy Zbornak. 🏳️‍🌈✊🖤🍉

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Saeed Jones's avatar Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social
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“In the past nine months, Israeli troops have occupied at least eight hospitals, causing the deaths of patients and medical workers along with massive destruction to facilities and equipment.” “Only 13 of Gaza’s 36 hospitals are functioning, and those only partially…”

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The New Arab's avatar The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social
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Thousands of Palestinians suffered a horrible night, with many displaced, as the Israeli army intensified its attack on Gaza City by land, air, and sea. The latest dispatch from our Gaza correspondent:

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Erin Biba's avatar Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social
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Y'all need to buy @swordsjew.bsky.social new book, which I am referencing here cause I don't think you fully understand the depth and breadth of the evangelical right's depraved, evil agenda and stranglehold on the country. Talia lays it all out. It is *essential* reading for all Americans.

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McSweeney's Publishing's avatar McSweeney's Publishing @mcsweeneys.bsky.social
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The Constitution is the product of the respected intellectual minds who founded this country, minds that went on to lead government, become titans of business, and attempt surgery on themselves with a whalebone catheter despite having no medical training.
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/law...

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brentlythomas (he/they)'s avatar brentlythomas (he/they) @brentlythomas.bsky.social
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“The president must now convince voters he has the mental acuity to do the toughest job in the world. The same bar does not exist for Trump, who loses no points for incoherence or incompetence.”
www.inquirer.com/opinion/edit...

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Claire Willett's avatar Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social
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and then somehow for whatever surely unrelated reason she was absolutely pilloried in a million different articles for being mean to poor dear sweet innocent Sarah Huckabee Sanders and forced to apologize even though nothing she said about her was untrue or even THAT harsh

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Miranda Yaver's avatar Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social
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Just a reminder that Michelle Wolf nailed it at the White House Correspondents Dinner. NYT, I’m looking in your direction especially.

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CNN's avatar CNN @cnn.com
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An Israeli attack has killed at least 16 Palestinians and injured 50 others at UNRWA's Al-Jaouni school sheltering displaced people in al-Nuseirat camp in central Gaza, the Palestinian Ministry of Health in the strip said on Saturday.

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brentlythomas (he/they)'s avatar brentlythomas (he/they) @brentlythomas.bsky.social
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Good 🧵on the current media swarm My advice? Turn off the news for a while. They’ve got the bit in their teeth and aren’t letting go until they drive Biden from the race. It’s a self-perpetuating cycle of drama and I, respectfully, don’t care to watch.

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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one of the most dishonest things people in my profession do is pretend as if “the story” and “the narrative” isn’t something they have direct control over

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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pretty stunning how the billionaire class(and yes that means the legacy media) have completely turned on Biden. They'd rather have a fascist dictatorship than pay taxes and a living wage to employees. Insane power grab in front of the cameras

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Jacob Bacharach's avatar Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social
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LMFAO at NYT *not* disclosing that the guy who wrote this was a clerk for John Roberts! Honestly gotta respect the game.

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Don Moynihan's avatar Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social
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Sinn Féin now Northern Ireland's largest party in the UK Parliament.

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Dave Levitan's avatar Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social
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I have no idea the best path re Biden but I do know a solid week straight of “Biden Old” and “Rich Dems Worried” above-the-fold stories are *obscene* in the face of SCOTUS using the Constitution to wipe their asses purely in the service of reinstating a felon rapist as president. Crazy-making shit.

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Bex's avatar Bex @bexcommunicated.bsky.social
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We’ve had the rule for how ever many years but I still click and watch the video every single time. Some days it can end up in my feed half a dozen times and I will still watch every time. It never gets old. I love it every single time I watch it

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bobby (frociaggine) 's avatar bobby (frociaggine) @bobbylewis.bsky.social
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justice amy coney barrett is the girlboss legal maverick voting to destroy abortion rights and crown trump a king

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc)'s avatar Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.bsky.social
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Over at the Bad Place, I made a tradition of posting Douglass' "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth of July," and I intend to carry on that tradition here. Since most versions you read in classes or in textbooks have parts omitted, the link below has the full text of the speech.

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brentlythomas (he/they)'s avatar brentlythomas (he/they) @brentlythomas.bsky.social
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Your honor, with all due respect, I don't know this sea of neon Thousand surfers, whiffs of Freon And my new grandma Bea Arthur

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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i think akhil amar reed captures something very important, which is that the roberts court rewrote article ii, which explicitly states that a president can be held criminally liable after impeachment (and which has long been understood to mean that he can be held liable after leaving office)

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Faine Greenwood's avatar Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social
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It makes me feel very much unmoored from reality to see all this *buying into* the Biden Too Old ratfuck narrative, days after the Supreme Court ruled that Trump gets to be dictator for life, just weeks after Trump became a convicted felon (oh, and there’s the Epstein stuff that just came out).

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brentlythomas (he/they)'s avatar brentlythomas (he/they) @brentlythomas.bsky.social
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Your honor, with all due respect, it should cost a billion to look this good

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brentlythomas (he/they)'s avatar brentlythomas (he/they) @brentlythomas.bsky.social
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Except it’s the MSM doing the dirty work this time…

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brentlythomas (he/they)'s avatar brentlythomas (he/they) @brentlythomas.bsky.social
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It’s just a coincidence that John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett were on the Bush legal team for the 2000 Election dispute, right?

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Jeffrey Vagle's avatar Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me
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Popehat's avatar Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social
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/8 At any rate, congratulations to the Federalist Society for an achievement beyond the reach of the British, outside the grasp of bloody civil war, impossible to Nazis and Soviets and terrorists: defeating the American idea.

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Scott Lemieux 's avatar Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social
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"...this opinion depends on an implicit belief that the only person who would act so brazenly is Trump, and that because the majority of the justices on the Court support Trump and want him to be president, he must be shielded from prosecution."

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David_j_roth's avatar David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social
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I keep coming back to "all this for literally Donald Trump," but it fits. There's not some more competent aspiring autocrat who'd somehow "earn" or "win" this. This is how it has always gone: feckless/evil elites attaching themselves to the sociopath they believe will get them where they want to go.

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CHOAM Nomsky 💭's avatar CHOAM Nomsky 💭 @thielman.bsky.social
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Anyway here’s a Univision focus group of undecideds saying that the debate convinced them Biden is a better choice because Trump is “a crazy liar” twitter.com/realMABarret...

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David M. Perry's avatar David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social
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Reminder that there are five ways to address the current SCOTUS problem. 1. Impeach some justices 2. Impose term limits 3. Expand the courts 4. Pass legislation limiting court prerogatives 5. Keep winning the presidency for the next 16 years or so while periodically also holding the senate.

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Bruno J. Navarro's avatar Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social
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For the good of the country, Donald Trump should drop out the 2024 presidential race.

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Col. Boozy Badger's avatar Col. Boozy Badger @boozybadger.bsky.social
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A homeless shelter wrote an amicus brief in the Grant’s Pass case. They argued SCOTUS should let the city arrest the homeless because, and I am not shitting you, the ban on doing so meant less people were willing to abide by their “two church services a day and no sex” requirement to sleep inside.

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James Fallows's avatar James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social
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Just as reference: At this stage in 2012, Obama/Romney a cliff-hanger. In Nov, Obama won by 5 million votes, 4% margin, 332-206 EV. At this stage in 1992, Ross Perot was runway leader over Bill Clinton and GHW Bush. See NYT story June 11 1992 below. At this stage in 2004, Kerry in lead over GWB

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Pwnallthethings's avatar Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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SCOTUS holds 6-3 that it is the executive branch now

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