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southpaw@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social |
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Writer, lawyer, Dodger fan, internet dog. nycsouthpaw18 at gmail.
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Materialist Gnostic
@walmsley.bsky.social
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This is true though. Every day Biden will be a new age that is older than any age he was previously, so reporting on his age will always be breaking news.
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southpaw
@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
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Perhaps we’ve recently gone fireworks crazy as a society from coast to coast
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southpaw
@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
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I just want to save this series of tweets for posterity. Hopefully, we’ll have a chance to go back over what’s going on here when tempers have cooled.
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Ed
@notdred.bsky.social
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I gotta say that people are having a lot of trouble distinguishing cognitive decline (Trump) from age-related changes in expression (Biden). Biden is elderly and talks like it. Trump literally does not have preserved reality-testing
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southpaw
@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
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Yeah this is what I remember too
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southpaw
@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
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Alright alright, I give. Most of the west coast is apparently a veritable war zone too. Where I grew up, we had really high wildfire risk, so maybe that’s why my memory isn’t of *all this.*
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southpaw
@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
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Yea. Maybe my experience was singular, but for me it wasn’t also that way on the 3rd and the 5th and the 6th….
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Marisa Kabas
@marisakabas.bsky.social
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the breadth of misinformation is unreal. a woman next to us at dinner said she went to cuba when “trump opened the border” and her date said “best president ever.” obama did that!!! trump reversed it!!!
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CindyLou
@cindynorth1.bsky.social
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THEY DID IT!!
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southpaw
@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
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If you grew up on the west coast, I think you never quite grow accustomed to the east coast thing where every neighborhood sounds like it’s having a moderately disorganized battle each evening for a week around the 4th of July.
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Stephen Webb
@stephenwebb.bsky.social
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Props to the AP for a headline that contains the whole story
apnews.com/article/trum...
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southpaw
@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
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Here’s Biden competently answering hostile questions. x.com/riegerreport...
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Mr. Am I Being Detained
@gonebabygone.bsky.social
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Compare this to when Trump says something like “we’re gonna catch Goofy and execute him for his crimes folks” and people in the press go “Mr. Trump seemingly analogized criminals to a Disney character as he called for harsher legal penalties”
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Marshall Shepherd
@drshepherd2013.bsky.social
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Hurricane Beryl is likely going to make landfall in Texas in a few days. Corpus Christi to Galveston...Pay attention as tracks have been trending eastward (and may continue so) and possible intensification over the Gulf of Mexico. Plenty of warm water and favorable shear.... The future is here
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Saeed Jones
@theferocity.bsky.social
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Anyway, if Swifties and the Outlander fandom ever set their minds to it, I firmly believe we’d have universal healthcare and a solution for climate change within a week.
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Tim Carvell
@timcarvell.bsky.social
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Friedersdorf
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southpaw
@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
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What’s the German word for reading people who know less about a subject than you do and are more confident in asserting the right answer than you are?
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Tom Scocca
@tomscocca.bsky.social
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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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Screaming into the Void
@dlliebow.bsky.social
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Let your less-informed friends and family know about this and ask them how interested they are in finding out just who he's talking about.
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southpaw
@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
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Arrogating decisions to yourself whenever your evening dose of Fox News convinces you that Trump needs protecting isn’t “statesmanship;” it’s being functionally pro-Trump.
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southpaw
@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
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Due respect to the professor, this is laughable special pleading on behalf of John Roberts—his old boss—whom he repeatedly conflates with the whole court in this piece. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/05/o...
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Philip Bump
@pbump.com
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A second American Revolution, this one aimed at unwinding democracy in favor of a monarchy. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Ed
@notdred.bsky.social
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The problem with this death spiral of news coverage is that any asshole can just throw in misinformation and it will get taken seriously
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Dan O’Sullivan
@osullyville.bsky.social
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There is a 7 foot tall guy behind Rishi Sunak who likely ran for office just to be able to hold a printed out L behind him during his concession speech.
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SwampLizard
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Can someone check if the guy who writes for the Federalist, Washington Free Beacon, and National Review printed stories telling those readers not to vote?
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southpaw
@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
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“Labour is expected to win 410 seats, with the Conservatives on 131.” www.bbc.com/news/live/cn...
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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Also tomorrow in the New York Times, Bill Cosby on “Why It’s Paranoid To Watch Your Drink Carefully In Bars”
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Nolan Hicks
@ndhapple.bsky.social
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This! Is! London! — www.bbc.com/news/live/cn...
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David Waldman
@kagrox.bsky.social
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Would a statement from the “White House physician” that Biden is perhaps the healthiest president in history, and that he’s built like a linebacker do the trick? And would you not then elect that physician to Congress? No? I don’t get it.
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Very Very Common Mike Dunford
@questauthority.bsky.social
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"Independence from Britain" is the world's most celebrated holiday.
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post malone ergo propter malone
@proptermalone.bsky.social
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1) I’d rather be up in the polls than down, all things equal. 2) I’m not sure I’d rather be Trump than Biden in the polls we actually have right now.
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southpaw
@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
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when the editors of the new york times are trying to give you a gift, but you’re all so high on the same stuff you can’t accept it
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Peter
@notalawyer.bsky.social
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honestly they’re kinda cooking with this
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Jeramy Neugin
@lostcitymagic.bsky.social
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Hillary headlines in 2015. Don't let the media fool you again. Image Courtesy of angry_staffer.
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Karen Dalton Beninato 🐦
@kbeninato.bsky.social
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Roses are red Violets are bloomin
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Chris Hayes
@chrislhayes.bsky.social
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Six pints at lunch!!!!!!!!
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Dr. SkySkull
@drskyskull.bsky.social
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So… the documents are legit, it appears. And I have no reason, based on what I’ve seen, to think that they’re false.
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The New York Times
@nytimes.com
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Breaking News: The parent company of Saks Fifth Avenue, HBC, is said to have agreed to a $2.65 billion deal to buy Neiman Marcus, further consolidating luxury retail.
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Seth D. Michaels
@sethdmichaels.bsky.social
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if only Federalist 69 were just, in its entirely, Hamilton saying super clearly “sure, this constitution has one executive leader, but I can’t stress enough that it’s different from a king because a President is accountable, including to criminal law” avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century...
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James Downie
@jamescdownie.bsky.social
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If only a Founder made this exact point, in the Federalist Papers, to explain separation of powers.
Oh wait that's exactly what Madison wrote. "It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government." constitutioncenter.org/the-constitu...
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post malone ergo propter malone
@proptermalone.bsky.social
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doesn’t count unless he earned the Medal of Honor himself
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southpaw
@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
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He should have done events. Oh okay, he did events, but he should do them without a prompter. Oh okay, he did some of them without a prompter, but he needs to take questions in the form I specify. There is not going to be any end to this series because you’re not inclined to be persuaded.
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southpaw
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This is also not true, Max. The events the night of the debate were not on prompter and obviously the time he spent with voters at the watch party and the waffle house weren’t either.
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southpaw
@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
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Except he did do a bunch of events? That night and the next day.
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ApocalypticaNow
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Imagine the high the nation's columnists would feel if they could push out not just another president, but THE president.
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Oden
@odense.bsky.social
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This is what they really want, isn’t it? Entertaining politics to write about. They beg for a brokered convention almost every POTUS election cycle. They want drama and clicks and to be relevant.
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Enron Hubbard
@euphoria5l.bsky.social
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why do they think normies want interesting politics? that was, you know, one of the knocks against the Trump admin: that the news was chaotic and awful every day!
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🤖 AP Breaking News (unofficial)
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BREAKING: Advocates submit double the amount of signatures needed to put a constitutional right to abortion on the ballot in Arizona.
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southpaw
@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
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“Politics would be interesting again,” is a hell of a thing to say generally and also, for these commentators, obviously untrue. Nothing about any replacement process will be as arousing to them as the prospect of forcing the renominated president out of the race with enough poison pen columns.
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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Mitch McConnell offers an object lesson for all the Republicans who think they can tame this tiger -- even if you do everything in your power to advance Trump's agenda and sabotage two different impeachment trials that would remove him, the Felon Messiah King will still demand your head.
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