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Peter
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could be, but i would assume the call centers are being used for fundraising, polling, etc rather than answering inbound calls
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Peter
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could be, but i would assume the call centers are being used for fundraising, polling, etc rather than answering inbound calls
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Peter
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doing journalism (just got off a call with the woman who called Alito’s wife a cunt)
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Peter
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the unpaid interns at Heritage are, I promise you, some of the most deeply evil people on planet earth
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Peter
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maybe (how many nonprofits outsource to call centers?), but then the project of flooding the phone lines seems a little misguided anyway
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Peter
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not sure what’s going here but there is basically no way that anyone who works for The Heritage Foundation would be shaken by learning that the organization opposes abortion and Obamacare
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Max Kennerly
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Adam Liptak should be fired for this. It's not some sort of minor technical error or a debatable issue. He's simply lying.
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Peter
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why aren’t they simply pressing the “win” button
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Peter
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basically every element of this is fraught and there are no good options. the number of people pretending to be certain about the best move is obscenely high.
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Peter
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the dominant narrative on Twitter right now is that Dems are cowards for not coming out against Biden. but even if you think he should step aside, the calculus is tricky. if you call him out and he stays, all you’ve really done is hurt the party’s chances. not an easy call.
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5-4 Podcast
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This week’s premium episode is about United States v. Rahimi, where the Court’s conservatives twisted themselves into humiliating knots trying to escape the logic of their own decisions. Subscribe to listen.
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Peter
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the shadows encroaching over the cities, the ship breaking through the clouds over New York. the build up and the extended reactions from pedestrians are all so good.
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Peter
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the opening third or so is basically perfect
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Peter
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part of the NYT’s contract with Satan is that after every Supreme Court term, no matter how awful, there must be a piece sucking off a conservative justice for no discernible reason
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Mark Joseph Stern
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Still marveling at Gorsuch's Ohio v. EPA opinion, in which he confused nitrogen oxide (a pollutant) with nitrous oxide (laughing gas). He did this five times, never once getting it right—in an opinion overruling the EPA's own expert scientific analysis! s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...
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Peter
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the Eric Adams episode is an inevitability. i watch his press conferences, i read his press releases. i spend my days trying to comprehend him. it won’t be very soon, but as surely as the sun rises and the birds sing i will do an Eric Adams episode.
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Peter
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well get ready because that 30% probability just hit
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Peter
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folks this is not a joke, watch the opening 30 seconds of this video
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Peter
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Eric Adams opened this morning’s press conference by rolling a garbage bin up to the podium, placing a bag of trash in it, and saying “welcome to our trash revolution” while Empire State of Mind played in the background
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Peter
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i keep seeing videos of people acting shitty in public where a top comment is something like “wonder who they voted for 🙄.” i honestly think a winning message for Dems is just “aren’t you sick of these fucking people”
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Peter
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right. NYT leadership knows they operate in a moderate/liberal bubble, and after 2016 they decided that the only way to adjust for this is to always assume that reactionary thought is more popular than it seems to be
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jesse
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This isn't a plan to replace a presidential candidate, it's a plan to entertain journalists
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Peter
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the SCOTUS ruling held that official acts can’t even be used as *evidence* against a president, so the fact that the actual crimes here occurred after he left office doesn’t resolve the issue. that’s that John Roberts magic.
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Peter
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Cannon is a whack job, but considering the SCOTUS ruling it’s pretty reasonable to request briefing on this. The real issue here is that the SCOTUS ruling is insane.
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Peter
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i think it’s just a reminder of how insufficient he is. if you’re on the fence and asking yourself “is this a guy I’m going to go to bat for right now?” and see this shit, it might just break your resolve
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Peter
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what I’m saying is that the reaction by Trump’s base to media attacks is the output of ideological and demographic factors that you can’t just replicate on the left
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Peter
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it’s really not, because 50 million people watched the debate and a tiny fraction of that read New York Times op-eds.
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Peter
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the implied premise here is that the decline in Biden’s polling numbers is being driven by the media coverage rather than the debate itself. but several awful polls came in the days immediately following the debate. the debate itself was the problem
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Peter
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because his base is more ideologically heterodox and he has positioned himself as an opponent of the mainstream media for a decade
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Peter
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they absolutely could not just as easily do it to Trump
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Peter
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sorry but this is just wrong. yes, there’s a bad faith media feeding frenzy. but *fifty million* people watched Biden sputter his way through that debate. it is not a creation of the media, it is a real problem.
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Peter
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the real bottom line for me is that no matter how you characterize it, the media frenzy is at a point where Biden’s only hope of quelling it would be to put on a performance that he’s just not capable of putting on
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Peter
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sometimes people will be like “would you trust him to be alone with Putin” what are you talking about buddy
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Peter
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for me the Biden conversation is entirely about whether he can win in November. i’m not worried about whether he can actually do the job because i don’t think it’s a real job.
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Peter
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i think Trump’s success in distancing himself from the policies of his own people is at least partially because there’s an authenticity to it: he really doesn’t give a shit about the right wing agenda, he’s just willing to trade it in exchange for power
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Peter
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this applies across the political spectrum
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Peter
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a big takeaway from all of the Biden drama is that huge swathes of the public — including reasonably engaged people — think that political parties are a small cabal of elites who select candidates by hand
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Peter
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they don’t have a definitive position, they just think Biden’s options are (1) step aside or (2) get out in front of this ASAP, and he’s doing neither. they also have some good vision into the party dynamics at play.
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Peter
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god help me, but the Pod Save guys have some of the clearest eyed takes on the Biden situation that I’ve heard so far
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Peter
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the latest Snowden leak: his brain from his ears
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Peter
@notalawyer.bsky.social
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ok he’s toast
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Peter
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Pete buttigieg ruining the vibe by constantly interrupting to say that he’s Luke
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Peter
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“yoda was super old and died” “yoda was unable to prevent the rise of the fascists” ok that literally makes the metaphor better you idiots
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Peter
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honestly they’re kinda cooking with this
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Radley Balko
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Just a jaw-dropper from the state whose attorney general is currently trying to execute an innocent man.
innocenceproject.org/missouri-cir...
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Peter
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no this is normal
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Peter
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bzzt bzzt (i’m a little bee in the K Hive)
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Peter
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i’ll admit i thought he had the juice for the campaign until the debate, because he pulled it together every time he needed to. Every debate, every state of the union, etc. was always prefaced by people saying Biden didn’t have it and being proven wrong. but they were bound to be right eventually.
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Peter
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in 2020 “Biden is too old” was a big narrative going into the first debate with Trump, but he performed well and shut the concerns down. Ever since then, concerns about his age have had a boy who cried wolf element to them, and i think that’s part of why so many people were caught off guard.
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Peter
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if you are killed you can seek a declaratory judgment finding that you shouldn’t have been killed.
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Peter
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if you’re asking what my solution to the ascendance of fascism is i don’t have one. if you’re asking what’s better than larping and nihilism I’d say literally any form of political organization.
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