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This is the shit the media should be educating people on, but instead it's to busy beating a dead horse.
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Concerned father and citizen.
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@cmerlin.bsky.social
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This is the shit the media should be educating people on, but instead it's to busy beating a dead horse.
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@cmerlin.bsky.social
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When good people aren't mad at the @nytimes.com they're making fun of it.
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@cmerlin.bsky.social
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Hmmm nothing a sharpie can't fix.
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@cmerlin.bsky.social
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Seriously, what's the legal barrier to copying this week's ruling of broad immunity down to State governors? How long before state GOP executive branches enjoy the same license for extra judicial killings now given to GOP Presidents?
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@cmerlin.bsky.social
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The campaign against Joe Biden fits into the previously evident pattern of dismantling any Democratic front runner (gore, Kerry, Clinton twice). Moneyed interests own the press and they don't want Democrats.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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He did a big public rally literally the next day! Don't print lies in the newspaper!
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Tom Scocca
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Just like none of the bold investigators backfilling Joe Biden's feeble debate performance with punchy anonymous quotes have ever figured out why Trump was rushed to Walter Reed, claimed he wanted a spur-of-the-moment weekend checkup, and a year later declared that he had NOT had a series of strokes
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@cmerlin.bsky.social
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Boy, with words like this clearly indicating some severe mental illness, I can't see how the next 10d aren't filled with @nytimes.com pieces enjoining Robinson to step aside.
Oh. LOL.
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Aaron Rupar
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"Trump can say seven outrageous things on a Saturday, and by Monday people have forgotten about them. That’s the problem with Trump... he's a firehose of bullshit... as a result, he’s held to a completely different standard than Biden." -- Charlie Sykes
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Anil Dash
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I need to write the whole piece about this, but the thing to understand is that the NYT is now just Facebook. The platform dictates narrative to normies, is totally gamed by the right, and is still so ubiquitous as to be unavoidable even by those who see how broken it is. It's just Facebook.
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Greg Sargent
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NEWS --> Mark Robinson, the MAGA extremist GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, appeared to endorse political violence against unnamed foes in a recent speech.
"Some folks need killing!" he shouted. "It's a matter of necessity!"
Video and story here:
newrepublic.com/article/1834...
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Paul Krugman
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Wages rose 3.3 percent in 2019, 3.9 over the past year. Job growth slowing. The Fed is supposed to get ahead of the curve. Time to cut.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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Wow amazing how the Saudis keep showing up in these stories where they offer illegal support to far right politicians.
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Paul Krugman
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Labour’s campaign was extremely cautious, and given past defeats I understand why. But now the UK center-left has a huge majority in a system with many fewer choke points than in the U.S. Let’s hope they’re ready to govern like the dominant party they now are
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@cmerlin.bsky.social
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The 13 colonies to Great Britain tomorrow: "take us back!"
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@cmerlin.bsky.social
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And the convention might have to nominate Biden, because GOP states are making it clear they'll challenge any switch at this point.
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@cmerlin.bsky.social
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The Mitterrand years were terrible for democracy. Spying on journalists and opponents? Undercover operations? enemies lists? Not good.
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@cmerlin.bsky.social
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They were way more problematic in the 80s, when there's still a Soviet Union to look up to.
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Ron Hogan
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“We need a strong institution that sits outside of electoral politics, that is not at the mercy of right wing courts, that has its own inherent form of power that can be exercised on behalf of the public good, that will naturally work towards progressive goals.… [T]hat is the labor movement.”
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@cmerlin.bsky.social
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Yep. Fuck NPR.
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@cmerlin.bsky.social
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The French communist party was part of a governing coalition in the 90s and didn't erode democracy. They even had ministries. LFI has never governed and is led by someone broadly seen as antisemitic and vowing to reshape French institutions.
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Taniel
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I think I need to cogitate on what’ll likely be a complex task on Sunday: how to explain on here why the French center-right is going to treat the Communist Party as a non-far-left force with which it CAN form a national unity gov, but not the LFI party (also part of left bloc).
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ryan cooper
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"Lawsuits are slow, they are complicated, they are often decided on arbitrary technicalities or total nonsense, and being so costly they are hideously biased toward the rich and well-connected." prospect.org/justice/amer...
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hammancheez
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NYT : Biden is addled and unfit, unlike Trump, a virile and poweful titan
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can you spot the trump tax cuts that were meant to do the same?
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@cmerlin.bsky.social
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It's not going out of my way, it's finding paths to remain viable even after a convention that nominates Biden.
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Like she could at any point right now, if the current president couldn't fulfill his duties?
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@cmerlin.bsky.social
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"I'm not a spring chicken any more. I can't both be a good President and a good campaigner. I must choose one, and I choose my duty to my country " It's not that hard to message.
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@cmerlin.bsky.social
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Given that the most popular Dem is Michelle Obama,I don't think it's about Black or woman with Kamala. I think it's perceived California liberalism that's the issue. Same with newsome (yes, I'm aware, in reality they're not very far left)
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@cmerlin.bsky.social
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France is mobilizing against its far right problem in ways we've never seen in the US.
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@cmerlin.bsky.social
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3) Combo: Biden stays in but says he'll step down before midterms. Hopefully Dems win House and can confirm VP replacement.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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The only two permutations of this that work are: 1) Biden stays in 2) Biden steps aside for Harris but remains in office Everything other permutation of this idea is either a fantasy or propaganda whose discussion is designed to get the Dems to lose the election and usher Trump into power.
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@cmerlin.bsky.social
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It's really weird that we're so worried about a president who might leave his post too early at the same time the other promises never to leave.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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oh, you might say, the president can’t issue corrupt pardons. ah. but john roberts says that not only can he issue corrupt pardons, but if he tells his staff they are corrupt in the course of issuing them, that evidence is inadmissible in the event that you could somehow prosecute the corruption
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@cmerlin.bsky.social
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Why didn't navalny think of that??!
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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the world in which the president is throwing his opponents in jail is not a world where you can just ask a judge to let you out
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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constitutional lawyers use your fucking brain challenge www.politico.com/news/2024/07...
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@cmerlin.bsky.social
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By hitting exclusively Democrats, the @nytimes.com has endorsed retaliation against the ones doing real investigative work while at the same time, taking no such risk for themselves.
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Director, Basque Space Program
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This is your enemy. His pinned post is unhinged racist trash, but he is serious about the agenda
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Paul Krugman
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Finally, for those concerned inflation might get entrenched in expectations, the Atlanta Fed’s measure of business expectations is also within spitting distance of 2 percent. Hard to see anything here that justifies concerns about “sticky” inflation or a difficult “last mile” 3/
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Paul Krugman
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Underlying inflation is also low. I like the New York Fed’s measure, in large part because it’s an algorithm that doesn’t involve judgement calls and hence possible motivated reasoning. It’s within spitting distance of the 2 percent target 2/
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Paul Krugman
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I haven’t been paying as much attention as usual to inflation indicators. But we’ve been getting a string of good news. One source of inflation pessimism was the high ratio of job openings to unemployed workers. That issue has now gone away, with unemployment still very low 1/
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
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really cannot emphasize enough how plainly all this proves that the first priority of the next Democratic administration needs to be democracy reform --filibuster --electoral college --court reform --dc and pr statehood --new voting rights act --gerrymandering
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Sen. Gogurt taking notes on a criminal conspiracy
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the conservative theory of law in one headline
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@cmerlin.bsky.social
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I think this could have been argued and well accepted. It would have made a difference. Not sure though the votes were there for expelling all traitors.
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@cmerlin.bsky.social
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This is unfortunately correct.
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DodgerFanLA
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the times continues its vigorous campaign to end democracy. literally the same playbook they ran in 2016 with the emails. we're so fucked. i'm existentially depressed.
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Nied
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Someone was *just* talking about how if there are any legs to Biden actually suffering from mental issues we'd start seeing staffers leaking. Now THE biggest pusher of this story comes out with just that & the tea is so weak it might as well be warm water.
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@cmerlin.bsky.social
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How's that even constitutional?
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