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Seth Masket
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Pence’s “I would rather not be lynched, thank you” slogan seems all the more radical in hindsight
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Seth Masket
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Pence’s “I would rather not be lynched, thank you” slogan seems all the more radical in hindsight
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Seth Masket
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NYT coverage: Let’s take some stigma away from felons and apply it to the elderly
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Dave Levitan
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I have no idea the best path re Biden but I do know a solid week straight of “Biden Old” and “Rich Dems Worried” above-the-fold stories are *obscene* in the face of SCOTUS using the Constitution to wipe their asses purely in the service of reinstating a felon rapist as president. Crazy-making shit.
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Seth Masket
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It would seem that the two candidates for office are Biden (D) and Biden’s Age (R)
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Popehat
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New York Times, July 5, 2025: “Biden’s Stumbles And Gaffes During His Criticism of President Trump’s Internment Camps Vindicate Age Concerns”
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emptywheel
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Can someone tell me where NYT hid Trump's attempts to disown Heritage's fascist project? I mean, holy hell, that's the only reporting on Trump they do anymore?
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Seth Masket
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In this light, Trump not facing much of an internal challenge in 2020 was actually odd.
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Seth Masket
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The way in which the Biden freak out makes sense is that presidents with shaky reelection prospects often face challenges from within their party (Ford, Carter, Bush Sr, etc). Dems mostly protected Biden from that last year but the motivations remained.
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Seth Masket
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There’s talk here of King Charles being replaced by Gretchen Whitmer
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Seth Masket
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US: I’m worried our government doesn’t reflect our election outcomes UK: [Labor wins 63% of seats with 34% of vote]
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Seth Masket
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Medieval Commoner 2024
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Micah
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if the media could go ahead and treat this claim the way they treat Biden saying "I'm fine" - aka, as a lie that requires days on end of front page stories to debunk - that would be great we'll be over here waiting
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Seth Masket
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Also I’d happily sell out but I don’t think anyone’s buying
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Seth Masket
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You’re kind!
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Nap Gusto, Jedi/Scoundrel
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Noticing local news taking a step in the right direction having more segments that include @smotus.bsky.social
👍🏼👍🏼
Goes a long way in lessening the inevitable corporate slant.
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Seth Masket
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Lot of police activity at 10 Downing St today. If anyone tries anything I will totally Jack Ryan this shit.
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Seth Masket
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What about Sunak being too old?
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Seth Masket
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Tories working really hard to come in third in a two party system
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Popehat
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I’m sorry, I don’t mean to offend, but I really deeply dislike Mastodon’s vibe. It’s like being trapped at a party with two other people: one who demands you debate them on whether Dick York or Dick Sargent was the better Darrin, and one who becomes irate that you said the word “Dick.”
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Seth Masket
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I wrote this in 2018, and a similar dynamic is going on today. The DNC is an organization that Black Democrats have gained a lot of representation in and strength over. And media calls for Democrats to just have a do-over are a way of de-legitimizing all of that. www.vox.com/mischiefs-of...
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Seth Masket
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Celebrating my revolutionary forebears by not paying taxes
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Seth Masket
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“What we need is someone who can annihilate Trump in a debate!” Is everyone under the age of 8?
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Seth Masket
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I don’t know how to explain to our nation’s top editorial boards that the Democratic Party is an actual organization with a lot of rules and history to it, not just a store that distributes team jerseys, and it has already selected delegates to its nominating convention.
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Seth Masket
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There’s an after 8pm now?
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Seth Masket
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Trump organized an insurrection, got some of his closest allies and hundreds of supporters jailed for it, got impeached and indicted in multiple criminal cases for it, ended the US's tradition of peaceful transitions of power, and last week promised he'd do it all again. And this is the headline.
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Seth Masket
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Happy Fourth
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Seth Masket
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Not sure, but it was an Irish police captain who beat him
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Seth Masket
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He knew the police captain was corrupt beforehand but didn't care. He didn't want to make an issue of it until after the beating.
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Seth Masket
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US media has gone nuts. Let's turn on a functional news channel in a country having a national election today and OH COME ON
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Seth Masket
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We don’t talk enough about how Michael Corleone was a law-abiding war hero until he was radicalized by police brutality
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Seth Masket
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Biden being old and it affecting his public performances is the opposite of news. It has been reported almost constantly since 2019.
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Seth Masket
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In fairness, it isn't just the NYT. A search on Access World News (state and local papers) for these terms since 6/27 yields the following: "Trump accept election results" - 160 stories "Biden age" - 1,077 stories
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Michael Hobbes
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Blaming leftists for leftist bullshit or blaming centrists for centrist bullshit, anyone can do that.
But blaming leftists for the failures of a centrist politician? That takes Yascha Mounk.
www.persuasion.community/p/how-americ...
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Seth Masket
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We're in year nine of "Trump is a rapist and a racist and a tyrant and a criminal and his opponent dissed us once and we will absolutely wreck them for it" and it's hard not to notice a pattern
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Seth Masket
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I’m not saying the paper of record is trying to hound the president from office out of a fit of pique because he won’t sit down for an interview, but if it were, how different would things look? www.politico.com/news/2024/04...
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Seth Masket
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YUP
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Peter
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honestly they’re kinda cooking with this
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Karen Dalton Beninato 🐦
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Roses are red Violets are bloomin
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Seth Masket
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What a monster. May I see the president now please?
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Seth Masket
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That's defensible.
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Seth Masket
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It's possible! And it's hard to get into exactly what motivates party elites to do any one thing.
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Seth Masket
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I like mine with extra condiment
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Seth Masket
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Remember when politicians were diagnosing Terri Schiavo over videotape? And they were wildly wrong? Don't fucking do this.
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Seth Masket
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"Why do we exist? What are we here for?" are very good questions for James Carville to be asking
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Seth Masket
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Hey who doesn't love an extremely non-specific sandwich
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Seth Masket
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New at Tusk: Are we witnessing a Pundit's Veto of a party's nomination? Or a form of post hoc peer review by party leaders?
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Seth Masket
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Write your next book about the Republicans, I said. The Democratic nomination will be a snooze, I said.
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Seth Masket
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But the trunk stays briefly dry
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Comfortably Numb
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Started/Going
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Seth Masket
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In July, sure...
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