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I think the press gets into a Beltway gossip bubble, much to the detriment of balance and fairness.
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Dual US and Canadian citizen. I fret about politics in both countries.
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@emmogene.bsky.social
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I think the press gets into a Beltway gossip bubble, much to the detriment of balance and fairness.
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This is particularly true now that Conservatives are hell-bent on privatizing services. For-profit healthcare seems more accessible at first glance, but skyrockets costs for even simple procedures. My husband has 2 insurances, but still got hounded for costs that weren't covered.
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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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@emmogene.bsky.social
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Accurate.
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Yes, and at some point, there would be a legal challenge to the ad-hoc primary process, and SC would find some way to disqualify the Democratic candidate.
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I will vote for Dems no matter who is the leader.
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They really hate women, don't they?
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OMFG
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The real power are the Heritage Foundation donors and their buds. The Citizens United ruling gave them lots of power, and they've been buying even more influence via bribes. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
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Vince Mpls
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March 23 1933, the Enabling Act becomes law in Germany, giving the chief executive power enforce his own laws without checks and balances. The passing of the Act marked the formal transition from democratic republic to totalitarian dictatorship. 6 months later, it was a 1 party state.
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Nicholas Grossman
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It sure looks like, according to SCOTUS, a president telling an executive branch official "I order you to break the law" cannot be criminal, since giving orders to people in the executive branch is an official act, and the fact that a president used this official act to order a crime doesn't matter.
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Nicholas Grossman
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Richard Nixon 1977: When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal. America 1977-2023: What, are you kidding? No way. Roberts Court 2024: Actually Nixon was right, and shouldn't have been in trouble for ordering the Watergate break-in, because orders are by definition official acts.
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Insult to injury: NYT editiors doubling down on their position.
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I was afraid of this result. Far right fascism is everywhere.
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This is like the 1930's.
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Beautiful, except that the blue ones are delphiniums.
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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC
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Three days after the debate every Sunday news shows invited an avowed election-denying fascist on the air in an overt effort to legitimize them as good-faith commentators The news media is openly pro-fascist
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@emmogene.bsky.social
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I with you on that, Brian. My countdown started in earnest circa 2001, but we're at the truly dystopian chapters now.
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I'm trying to keep my spirits up, after the press overreacts to Joe's debate performance. Worse for me, though, are the SC rulings. SC has more power than the legislature or executive branch. Checks and balances my ass.
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True, but at least the Tor Star kept this on the opinion page, instead of cloaked as news.
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I hope all goes well with your surgery. It will be such a relief when it's over!
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I check in on X from time to time. The other night there was a Twitter live presentation with the despicable Martin Shkreli. So yes, the dregs of humankind are ascendant on that platform.
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This just reinforces the notion that he doesn't believe that he is accountable at all.
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Thank you for sharing this excellent article. I'm one of those accused of "overreacting."
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Just S
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Yes, if you don’t like the choice between Trump and Biden, think of it as picking between Stephen Miller and Pete Buttigieg, Steve Bannon and Deb Haaland, Michael Flynn and Lina M. Khan, Alex Jones and Jessica Rosenworcel, or Brett Kavanaugh and Ketanji Brown Jackson. Both sides are not “the same”
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The media continues to spend most of the time covering the horse race aspect of the election, and not the stakes.
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Karyn
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Judiciary appointments and agency staffing are two huge reasons I’ll be voting for Biden despite the many, many issues I have with him. Both have impacts way beyond a presidential term & often have life or death level consequences. I’m not voting for a person, I’m voting for a path.
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Except that, in Ontario, we can't even get people out to vote in an election.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie
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Women are five times more likely to be killed by an abusive partner when their abuser has access to a gun
But according to originalism, the state didn’t try to stop people from hurting women in the past, so it can’t try to stop people from hurting women in the present
lithub.com/historical-f...
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Maybe you could hire someone who can 'read the room,' instead of harping on Biden being old, insurrectionist Alito still remaining impartial, and other both-sideisms.
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As Schumer pointed out, this ruling was just about whether anti-abortion MDs had standing to sue the FDA. Believe me, different groups will keep trying to overturn access to this drug.
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OMG, me too!!! My new computer is so annoying!
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Handsome *and smart.
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Yup, they cleverly rhymed 'flawed' and "God."
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Aaron Rupar
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"Sinclair repackaged the WSJ hit piece through its centralized news team. The segment was then pushed to dozens of local news stations owned by Sinclair, with anchors introducing it by reading from a nearly identical script."
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Flying Mezerkis
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Gifted article on critiques of the Supreme Court.
wapo.st/3x6sFgq
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Who the hell invited him?
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And the red hats who want a new civil war don't realize that they are the brownshirts of the current Fascist movement. #disposable
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I guess it's good to keep tabs on the ways that the religious right can justify support for Trump. I have stopped calling them Christians, because their support of Trump is really idolatry.
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I think of the quote at the beginning of Postman's book Amusing Ourselves to Death. He cites Huxley's belief that our undoing would be via our pursuit of entertaining diversions.
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I just read an article related to the Speaker of the House, and it really underscores your point: www.alternet.org/speaker-john...
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Sorry, that sounds worse than if AI did the redesign.
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TVO Today | The Agenda
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"Ultimately, it’s Ford who bears responsibility for this mess, and it’s Ford and his government that ought to pay the political price." — @davidmoscrop.bsky.social #onpoli
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Congratulations to Justice Samuel Alito on embracing the right to privacy for exactly one woman
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I'm more impressed that he can spell it.
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That didn't even work in Stefanik's first term, before she went ultra-MAGA. She's won her last 2 terms by a huge margin, so she openly dismisses the few in her district who disagree w/ her.
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Except....My rep. doesn't listen. Elise doesn't have open town halls, just staged photo ops with supporters. She's too busy trying to raise her national profile. Her public statements just disparage my views as "far left woke socialist ideology."
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I don't mind a messy corral, but I get really irritated when I try to pull into a parking spot where someone left a shopping cart.
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I'm so sorry. I hope that you have lots of support to help you through your stages of grief.
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