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chatham harrison is tending a new garden
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Even a tepid choice can be a momentous change when the alternative is evil
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Dan Murphy@bungdan.bsky.social |
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Ex Journalist Bloomberg/FEER/CSM. Southeast Asia, particularly Indonesia, then Iraq/Egypt with a smattering of everywhere else. Same handle over at Mos Eisley Spaceport. Made wine for a few years. Now training a blue heeler in the CA foothills.
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chatham harrison is tending a new garden
@chathamharrison.bsky.social
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Even a tepid choice can be a momentous change when the alternative is evil
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Dan Murphy
@bungdan.bsky.social
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Never seeing Ronaldo's tete a claques at a major tournament again? Yes, please.
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Dan Murphy
@bungdan.bsky.social
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Heard the Heritage goon behind the right wing junta 2025 project on NPR today. Asked why the authoritarian agenda is opposed to action to limit global warming. Answer: "Because of those poor children mining rare earth minerals in Africa. Think of the children." Shameless and sickening.
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Dan Murphy
@bungdan.bsky.social
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I've voted for him and voted against his recall. He's a loathsome worm who still exudes the unctuous, amoral charm of the party promoter he was.
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Dan Murphy
@bungdan.bsky.social
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Is it really hard to see that Mark Penn's ratfucking GOP friendly Problem Solvers Caucus is behind the push to get rid of Biden and deliver the White House to Trump and the plutocrats? Is it? No it's not. The editors of big papers are many things, but not stone cold morons. They are on board.
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Quinta Jurecic
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under Roberts's opinion, I'm not sure you could use the show as evidence of bribery. maybe you could use re-airings of the show as evidence. maybe you could use the AV Club's summary of the episode as evidence. maybe you could only use the AI aggregation of the AV Club summary as evidence...
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Dan Murphy
@bungdan.bsky.social
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If Trump is reelected, his new weekly show "Who Wants To Buy a Pardon?" is going to be a commercial smash.
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Avishay Ben-Sasson-Gordis
@avishaybsg.bsky.social
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The fact that only the president enjoys complete immunity, and that he also has the power of pardon is part of what is so terrifying about the ruling. It means that those beneath him are entirely at his good graces and arbitrary will. It's a power machine, not a check on his power.
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Dan Murphy
@bungdan.bsky.social
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Heck, not only that. He can openly sell pardons now.
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Director, Basque Space Program
@scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz
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If leadership of your org is more concerned with accelerationism than preventing fascism, then you’re not leftist or progressive in any meaningful sense. You’re a wrecker who wants to see a lot of people die unnecessarily.
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emptywheel
@emptywheel.bsky.social
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Jim Jordan Publishes Intelligence Analysis of Trump's Authoritarian Tendencies
www.emptywheel.net/2024/07/05/j...
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Anonymous policy person
@theoderic.bsky.social
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“Why won’t Dems just nominate the addled conspiracy theorist who hates them,” a true riddle for the ages
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Doug Gordon
@brooklynspoke.bsky.social
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"The roadway once carried between four and six lanes for motor vehicles, despite 88 percent of people in the area traveling on foot and squeezing into 30 percent of the space." And now Adams wants to give it back to cars?
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Dan Murphy
@bungdan.bsky.social
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My big list of lessons to be drawn from Labour's UK victory for the US election in November: .
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Abu Aardvark (on leave, allegedly)
@abuaardvark.bsky.social
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“Israel has seized control of 26 percent of the Gaza Strip.. Palestinians are barred from entering, residential buildings were destroyed, vegetation has been uprooted and the IDF built a new road with four bases. "This is an effort toward a prolonged occupation.”
www.haaretz.com/opinion/edit...
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Yechiel ⍼ יחיאל
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IMO the biggest problem with Biden's age is the fact that Trump wants to be a dictator on day one and it doesn't look like there's anything or anyone in our institutions that are willing or able to stop him.
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Judah Grunstein
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Some initial thoughts on the UK elections. 1. It confirms once again that when a center-right party veers to the hard right to weaken the far right, it ends up doing the opposite. After purging moderates and going full-on wingnuts and fever swamp, the Tories got decimated by Reform, not Labour. 🧵
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Dan Murphy
@bungdan.bsky.social
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I mean, FFS: Biden has lost a few steps? No fucking kidding! But Trump has been ranting incoherently, about his dream of becoming Caligula, for 9 years now. Biden gets tired and loses his train of thought sometimes. Trump gets tired and promises to execute immigrants to feel better.
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Dan Murphy
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I have no problem with hacks reporting on, well, anything about Joe Biden. I have a problem with hacks reporting on problems with Joe Biden at 10x the rate they report on problems with Donald Trump. THAT is the problem.
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Chris Levesque
@levesque-chris.bsky.social
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I don’t schedule events after 8 pm, and I’m almost thirty years younger than Biden.
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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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Tom Peyer
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Step down for the birthday boys
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Dan Murphy
@bungdan.bsky.social
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That lede makes my heart hurt (as in, BAD LEDE). Should be summat like: "Yellowstone rangers engaged in a firefight with an armed man at Canyon Village last night, ending in his death."
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Mike Rogers
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JFC a shootout at Yellowstone? Man, people are losing their shit. It's not good.
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Tom Pepinsky
@tompepinsky.bsky.social
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When in the course of human events something fucking something
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Dan Murphy
@bungdan.bsky.social
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A Dubya Bush appointee and two Trump appointees. But LOL elections don't matter! bsky.app/profile/chri...
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Carl T. Bergstrom
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If you’ve never seen Dorothea Lange’s photographs of the World War II internment camps and the Japanese-Americans who were imprisoned there, today is a good day to see them and to commit to making sure this never happens again.
anchoreditions.com/blog/dorothe...
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Dan Murphy
@bungdan.bsky.social
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And not for nothing, but an electorate opting for boring but capable after Boris and <waves hands at the rest of the Tory clown car> is the point. A decent hed was right there. "After years of chaos, UK turns to 'boring' Labour boss Starmer to right the ship."
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Christopher Federico
@cmfederico.bsky.social
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Big victory for Labour — so big that the NYT just gave Sir Keir his own version of ‘Joe Biden Is Old’
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Brendel
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Worlds going to hell but a ray of sunshine is that the Tories got obliterated in England and there’s going to be so many pictures of little fancy guys in bowties crying that it’s going to make us all feel better
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Dan Murphy
@bungdan.bsky.social
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I saw a bald eagle on the morning hike with the dog. Which was nice.
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Dan Murphy
@bungdan.bsky.social
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"In this election year, average Americans say they just want to put food on their family and make a better life for their children. Why can't we all just get along?" So it goes. So it goes.
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Faine Greenwood
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Suprise: unwashed fascist ghoul Matthew Walther - who wrote a column that the New York Times just published advising Americans not to vote - did in fact vote in 2020 and 2022. It’s time for us to stop tolerating these ratfucking liars.
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Dan Murphy
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Long cycle trips are great. You know what isn't great? This type of smooth-brained analytically vacant feel good pap. (And a support car for a two week, 50 mile a day trip? That's just sad.) www.npr.org/2024/07/04/n...
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Hunter Walker
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The view from Moscow
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Dan Murphy
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I found this infuriating. bsky.app/profile/bloo...
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J.M. Berger
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And it's not just that they don't create *social* benefits; they don't create *business* benefits! They don't create profits! They just consume resources! It's mystifying!
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Charlie Thomas
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I mean it’s been pointed out that the problem at the heart of it all is that Biden can do all the things people are demanding-live rallies, interviews every day, and even president at the same time but the people who don’t want to believe he’s capable still won’t no matter what. The narrative abides
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Dan Murphy
@bungdan.bsky.social
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Nah. Just a randomizer full of vague insults that only the blockee can see. "You have been blocked for being a turdweasel.... You have been blocked for being a chundering shitgibbon" etc...
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Dan Murphy
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You can pay extra for a urethane wrap (kind of like vinyl.) I am not making this up.
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Kevin M. Kruse
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"Politics would be interesting again" Oh, jeez, I'm sorry that SCOTUS Team 6 waterboarding democracy to pave the way for a felon-messiah-king who's vowing to use the presidency to deport millions and imprison his foes for treason hasn't been INTERESTING enough for you. Let me jangle some car keys.
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Dan Murphy
@bungdan.bsky.social
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And as long as Roberts and those federalist society goons run the nation's highest court, presidential immunity will only apply to GOP presidents. They left themselves plenty of wiggle room with that ill-defined "official acts" nonsense.
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Dan Murphy
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Presidential candidate who the far-right members of the Supreme Court just placed above the law tells voters how he will exercise his new powers.
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Cheryl Rofer
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The second greatest was that the opposition to Roe was because religious people wanted to save the poor little babies.
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Dan Murphy
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One of the greatest cons ever was the movement conservatives from the Reagan era convincing the rest of the beltway and their journalistic courtiers that it was all about Edmund Burke and limited government and respect for tradition and limited government and all that rot. Suckers.
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David Kaye
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well kavanaugh almost certainly has misled the senate about his involvement in and knowledge of the post 9/11 geneva and torture decisions. that era shaped his views, i'm sure. so there's at least one.
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Dan Murphy
@bungdan.bsky.social
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I can't shake the feeling the GOP justices were explicitly thinking of torture and creating permission to do it again.
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Jeffrey Vagle
@jvagle.me
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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"President Biden, who seemed fully conscious and did not drool on himself, warned that an asteroid would wipe out all life in three days. Though he's been long dogged by questions about his physical and mental stamina, the president remained upright as he briefed the nation on the coming apocalypse"
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Dan Murphy
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You know who else we need term limits for? Nina Totenbergs.
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