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Ed Peters@edpeters.bsky.social |
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Dr. Damien P. Williams (Temporarily Logged Off)
@wolvendamien.bsky.social
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Hey! Remember Republicans saying "Obamacare will make death panels to kill your grandma!"? Then you should probably go check out chapter 14 of the Project 2025 manifesto. Because every Conservative/Republican accusation is a confession.
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Angie Wang
@okchickadee.bsky.social
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OMG.
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David Kaye
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this is so gd frustrating, demoralizing, enervating. dem leadership needs to get their sh*t together and, in unison, move on to whatever is next. but stop dragging out this drama.
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Max Kennerly
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Among these, I always get stuck on the Senate filibuster. It did not exist in any form while the Framers were alive. The current form, in which a Senator can stop a bill permanently without doing anything, did not exist until the 1970s. But it's treated as sacrosanct.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow
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I mean, it's clearly further evidence of corruption of some sort, but framing a trip to St. Petersburg Russia as a trip to "Putin's home town" is just clickbait
www.thedailybeast.com/clarence-tho...
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow
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The more damning question would be, did Thomas accept a paid vacation from a Russian oligarch
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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no it didn't www.politico.com/news/2024/07...
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Phil Plait
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It's called white supremacy but assholes like this are the best they can do
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Phil Plait
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(ohpleaseohpleaseohpleaseohpleaseohpleaseohpleaseohpleaseohplease^∞)
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Seth D. Michaels
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"A majority of the Supreme Court has now made clear that if an autocratic regime ever does take power, they have no intention of standing in its way." @radleybalko.bsky.social radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-suprem...
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e.w. niedermeyer
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The phenomenon we now call "meme stocks" was prototyped by Elon Musk in the second quarter of 2013, many years before the term came into use. Every "meme stock" since has followed that template. This is one of Elon Musk's actual innovations.
www.cnbc.com/2024/07/10/b...
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Ed Peters
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It's like hiring hammers as construction workers.
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Ed Peters
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Both-sidesism is only possible when everyone abides by the rule of law. Once Trump wins, both-sidesism will disappear as its practitioners, being pseudo-intellectual cowards, will completely capitulate to lawless fascism, and from then on we'll only ever read how evil liberalism and Democrats are.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
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"What the report finds is that Biden held on to 94% of the people who said they would support him before the debate. For Trump, 86% of people who said they would support him before the debate said they would do so after the debate."
news.northeastern.edu/2024/07/09/b...
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Cathy Gellis
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I support this move. It is unlikely to succeed, but making the need for it to succeed a political issue to motivate voting is important.
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Ed Peters
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Now, every day brings a report of a new planned Trump atrocity. If he wins, every day will bring a report of an actual Trump atrocity. Then suddenly there will be no more reports of Trump atrocities because that day's atrocity will be the imprisonment of those who were reporting the atrocities.
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Aaron Rupar
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Trump: "Mothers will never again be forced to watch their children overdosing & hosp--lee. We will never allow mothers to watch their child hopelessly dying in their arms, screaming, 'What can I do? Help me God, what can I do?' We are a nation whose once revered airports are a dirty, crowded mess."
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Kevin M. Kruse
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“Colored”? They’re going to be causally saying the N word on air by September
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Chris Ingraham
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It's 2016 and Trump has a new tone. It's 2017 and Trump has a new tone. It's 2018 and Trump has a new tone. It's 2020 and Trump has a new tone. It's 2024 and Trump has a new tone.
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Gabriel Malor
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5th Cir., 2-1, holds that George Floyd protesters that were "subdued" by PepperBall rounds did not sufficiently plead that City of Dallas should have known about the officer's propensity for violence bc his 19 prior incidents were not sufficiently similar.
www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
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Jessica Pishko
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Tired: Project 2025 wants to bring back the Sabbath. Wired: Project 2025 will ban Sunday sportsball games and forget about getting beer.
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Ed Peters
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44 years ago the Jewish woman I loved asked me why "Holohoaxers" deny the Holocaust. My answer then is the same as I would give today: because they want to do it again, only more completely, and they think accusing Jews of perpetrating a hoax justifies and facilitates making it happen again.
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Seth Cotlar
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TPUSA ambassador and speaker Evan Kilgore has now taken the “brave” stand of denying the Holocaust.
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Ed Peters
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In 1972 I was 15 and it was all full service. Attendants used to tell me it was dangerous for me to do it. Three years later it was 50:50, with Arco leading the way to self serve. By late 70's, you had to know where there were still 'full serve' stations. Dads & moms used full serve. Kids used Arco.
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Ed Peters
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I am 67 and grew up in Anaheim. The change from a service man pumping your gas to self serve was largely driven by the first Arab oil embargo in 1973. Because the embargo doubled gas prices (30 to 60 cents/gal), the gas station owners cut back attendants and there was a 2-tier pricing system.
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Sarah Posner
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Josh Hawley embraces the Christian nationalism label at NatCon:
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Daniel Drezner
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That moment when a neoconservative offers up a textbook example of appeasement. www.politico.com/news/2024/07...
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laura olin
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Project 2025 is useful mostly in that a key problem Democratic campaigns have historically had is that when you tell people what Republicans actually want to do, they don’t believe you. The evil public list makes it a bit more concrete.
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e.w. niedermeyer
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Turns out Tesla's "general solution to self-driving" development actually focuses on data from Elon Musk and other "VIP" users, according to sources from Tesla's data labeling team.
www.businessinsider.com/tesla-priori...
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Liza Mazel
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Lincoln Project rightly gets a lot of side eye, and they've made some seriously bad decisions lately (and less lately), but this new ad is a banger.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpLp...
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Radley Balko
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There's definitely a techbro follymath vibe with some of the court's recent conservative opinions. Only instead of pronouncing themselves experts after reading a few Wikipedia pages, it's after thumbing through a Claremont amicus brief.
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Ian Boudreau
@iboudreau.bsky.social
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Very funny that the Times was so certain about the panic they were causing that they set up a little live update election-season scoreboard for it
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Cooper Lund
@cooperlund.bsky.social
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Oh my god the sourcing on this might be Alex Berenson
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Walter Olson
@walterolson.bsky.social
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Now up: my thoughts on Trump v. U.S. In my view the Court majority went much too far in creating a zone of formal and practical presidential immunity from criminal prosecution. "This is not what the Framers wanted. It is not what we should want either." www.cato.org/blog/court-w...
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Phil Plait
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Just found out about a massive data leak at Twitter/X. I don't use it anymore but I keep my account alive so no one else can claim my username. I just changed my password and suggest others do too. Also use 2FA whenever you can.
More:
cyberpress.org/9-4gb-twitte...
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Revan
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So this is just a full on ratfuck operation got it
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Quinta Jurecic
@qjurecic.bsky.social
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even if you can get the watergate tapes, aren't they arguably inadmissible under the court's standard in trump v us insofar as they involve official acts?
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Hal 10000
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Here's the thing: the people pulling the fire alarm on Trump v. US are people like Radley, Legal Eagle and @kenwhite.bsky.social , etc. I've followed these guys for years and they are not prone to panic-mongering. They're usually the ones saying, "Take a deep breath". It really is that bad.
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Very Very Common Mike Dunford
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Fundamentally, the legitimacy of courts depends on their commitment to the rule of law. Which, in turn, heavily relies on courts respecting their own rules and their own limits and boundaries. When the EPA or a prosecutor oversteps, the courts are there as a check. But quis custodiet?
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Seth Cotlar
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The official 2024 GOP platform makes a reference to "Christian-hating Communists" who the Republicans will keep from entering the country. Back in the early days of the America First movement, "Christian-hating Communists" would have just been a longer way of saying "Jews."
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Ed Peters
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There's also this.
bsky.app/profile/benm...
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Ben Fowler
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I got similar pushback when I remarked that the NYT could scuttle Trump's campaign if they went after him with the same ferocity and consistency as they're going after Biden. "Trump's base is more tenacious, they won't listen to the media", true, I'm not after them. Centrists or low motivated voters
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Dan Izzo
@izzos.us
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Reminder that the @nytimes.com is dogshit
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Shiv Ramdas
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This is an incredible take considering Hillary Clinton's lowest lead in these same spots in July was 6 points
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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the greatest president of all time was in a fucking wheelchair and couldn't walk!
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Max Kennerly
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It's depressing and infuriating how long we've had to pretend that Bibi is some sort of Great Man of History, rather than an obvious criminal whose every move is determined entirely by his short-term interests, with zero regard for anyone else on Earth.
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Ian Boudreau
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The thing that's obvious to everyone and that nobody can actually write in the press is that the American (and yes, I'm sure elsewhere too) right wing is led by bad people and the object is to make more people extremely bad in basically every respect. It's anti-society
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Your Pal in Ypsi
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The authoritarian right has power in America only because the majority of Americans didn't care enough to pay attention, let alone vote. The French saw the danger and stood against it.
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Max Kennerly
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Curious how France is described as political chaos because two parties with ≈60% of the seats in Parliament will negotiate a PM, whereas Netanyahu is always described as the will of the Israeli people, rather than the negotiated choice among eight parties with 53% of the seats.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow
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this guy is obviously terrible but there's also a secondary point -- I'm sure he's bullshitting but if he's claiming that he's in knowing possession of counterfeit currency, shouldn't Treasury be paying him a visit?
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