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Bruce Ediger

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Poet, rincelist, and scholar. Favorite dinosaur: Parasaurolophus

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE's avatar GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com
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i refuse to believe that americans who watched the debate think that biden’s first 15 minutes are somehow stronger evidence of old age decline than falling asleep, *in public*, DURING YOUR OWN FUCKING CRIMINAL TRIAL, *IN COURT IN FRONT OF THE JUDGE AND JURY*, but, you know, i’m not a columnist.

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Bruce Ediger's avatar Bruce Ediger @bruceediger.bsky.social
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What evidence? Electing a Republican president?

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Gore Vidal Sassoon's avatar Gore Vidal Sassoon @jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social
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“More evidence”=“a Republican is elected president”

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Bruce Ediger's avatar Bruce Ediger @bruceediger.bsky.social
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You have hit it exactly. Since at least Nixon, mainstream media has striven to avoid accusations of liberal bias. By 2010 or so, they were reduced to quoting Republicans/conservatives exactly. No context, nothing but a quote. This leads to Republicans exploiting the press as you noted.

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Bruce Ediger's avatar Bruce Ediger @bruceediger.bsky.social
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Only for Republicans! Democrats - it's ok!

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ryan cooper's avatar ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com
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"viewing Trump as something like a fascist leader foresaw the violence of January 6th as a live possibility, while its critics mocked the notion as mere hysteria. Whatever its shortcomings, “Trump as fascist” remains the best guide to what Trump will try to do next"

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pee wee herman-palladino's avatar pee wee herman-palladino @markpopham.bsky.social
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the idea that it's a hyper individualistic and specifically American flaw of character to want to leave a country falling into fascism is so funny because that is like morally one of the best reasons that people have had, historically, for moving to America!

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Bruce Ediger's avatar Bruce Ediger @bruceediger.bsky.social
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This will be defunded and eventually outlawed during Trump's 2nd and 3rd terms respectively.

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tef's avatar tef @tef.bsky.social
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The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.

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Bruce Ediger's avatar Bruce Ediger @bruceediger.bsky.social
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How and why did Eastman go so far off the rails? He had some visiting scholar gig with University of Colorado. It was a conservative sop, but still, he must have had some scholarly gumption to get it.

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Daniel Malmer's avatar Daniel Malmer @malmer.com
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“Tricked.”

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Peter Sagal's avatar Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social
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Under today’s immunity decision, Biden could order AG Garland to immediately prosecute Thomas and Alito for corruption and insurrection. (Official act). If Garland refuses, Biden can fire him and replace him with someone who will. (Official act) I would suggest Elie Mystal.

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Bruce Ediger's avatar Bruce Ediger @bruceediger.bsky.social
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Welp, that's the way the Founding Fathers wanted it, so that's effective, fair, and representative government.

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Bruce Ediger's avatar Bruce Ediger @bruceediger.bsky.social
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Google "ken dilanian cia" Why does he still have a reporting job?

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Benjamin Dreyer's avatar Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.bsky.social
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Good for her. Do it.

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Bruce Ediger's avatar Bruce Ediger @bruceediger.bsky.social
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Dump all intelligence community documents on Trump, Thomas and Cavanaugh? Publish whatever they've got on Russian Pro-Trump operations?

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Bruce Ediger's avatar Bruce Ediger @bruceediger.bsky.social
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Maybe all the dox on Thomas and Cavanaugh, too.

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Bruce Ediger's avatar Bruce Ediger @bruceediger.bsky.social
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I'm in. Where do I sign the petition?

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Bruce Ediger's avatar Bruce Ediger @bruceediger.bsky.social
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I'm hoping for The Funniest Thing Possible, which I believe would be a massive intelligence community document dump with everything they've got on Trump. Then Biden announces his picks for 10 or 12 more justices. Pack the court!

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Bruce Ediger's avatar Bruce Ediger @bruceediger.bsky.social
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Totally agree. The only never Trumper that seems to realize they had a part in creating him is Jennifer Rubin. Everyone else seems to cling to movement conservatism's Sacred Values as still sacred, instead of realizing those values were bad faith lies.

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Bruce Ediger's avatar Bruce Ediger @bruceediger.bsky.social
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If I were him, I'd take the supreme Court at its word, meddle in the Hunter Biden prosecution, and dump whatever info the "intelligence community" has on Trump. And you know they've got something.

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Seth Cotlar's avatar Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social
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Apologies if this is "too soon," but it's only a matter of time before GOP messaging becomes "now that SCOTUS has said Presidents have immunity for their actions in office, can you really trust dangerous criminal leftists like Joe Biden to occupy that office?"

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Elisabeth's avatar Elisabeth @neuroticlesbian.bsky.social
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In the end posters will coalesce around this because nothing is ever a Republican’s fault.

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Jan Murphy's avatar Jan Murphy @packrat74.bsky.social
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We apparently wiped out a strain of flu while mandatory masking for COVID was in effect.

I don't get the "oh it's just a cold" argument.

My neighbors don't want my cold either. I'll keep masking, thanks.

rdcu.be/dMlcw

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Liz Sepper's avatar Liz Sepper @lsepper.bsky.social
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Bloomberg finds the silver lining in the Supreme Court's attack on regulation. Turn that frown upside down, admin law friends!

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Bruce Ediger's avatar Bruce Ediger @bruceediger.bsky.social
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That's a weird definition of "communism". Or is "communism" merely used as a synonym for "bad" here?

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Bruce Ediger's avatar Bruce Ediger @bruceediger.bsky.social
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The icon of the church of the subgenus

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Bruce Ediger's avatar Bruce Ediger @bruceediger.bsky.social
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Thanks for posting! That looks really interesting!

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Robert Reich's avatar Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social
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Once again, I just want to say that lavish gifts to Supreme Court justices shouldn’t just be “disclosed.” They should be banned, outright. This should not be a radical position.

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Bruce Ediger's avatar Bruce Ediger @bruceediger.bsky.social
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Sure that's 100% true. Which is the dilemma that any strong supporter of "Intellectual Property" finds themself in. Unless it's a physical thing, it's a copy. Keeping people from copying valuable "IP" means very intrusive surveillance.

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Comfortably Numb's avatar Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly
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Coda.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg 's avatar Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social
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Fun fact: the Rabbis removed the Ten Commandments out of our core liturgy (Shema &tc) bc the Jewish Christians were SOOPER into it & the Rabbis wanted to be clear that the 10 weren’t superior to the other 603 mitzvot in Torah. So we’re clear that this 👇 is Christian supremacy. & a 1A violation.

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Ian Carrillo 's avatar Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social
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Race is still factored in. White applicants get to keep the advantages they've accrued through systemic racism without any countervailing forces.

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Bruce Ediger's avatar Bruce Ediger @bruceediger.bsky.social
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GOLEM XIV wants to get an F in the chat

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Paul Duane's avatar Paul Duane @paulduane.bsky.social
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I think the reason Philip K Dick is still the predominant SF writer of the last century is, he was the only one who foresaw a future where everything would be boring, inconvenient and dehumanising, and where the only way you can win is to somehow refuse to give up your humanity.

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Bruce Ediger's avatar Bruce Ediger @bruceediger.bsky.social
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So SCOTUS is going to figure out a way to give Trump, and only Trump categorical immunity!

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Bruce Ediger's avatar Bruce Ediger @bruceediger.bsky.social
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I doubt they'll put it together, even in the FEMA Camp during Trump's 3rd term

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