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Erika Wittekind
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Exactly the kind of elite maneuvering that the Democratic base just loves. Great work, guys. This will turn out fine.
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Erika Wittekind@erikalyn.bsky.social |
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Contributing writer to The Mary Sue. Freelancer. News junkie. Former nonfiction editor. She/her. Believer in democracy, science, gun control, local journalism, and empathy. Mom to two cats and two teen boys. Dane County, WI
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Erika Wittekind
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Exactly the kind of elite maneuvering that the Democratic base just loves. Great work, guys. This will turn out fine.
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Erika Wittekind
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Just got back from Michigan and want to go back already (we were further north, though, on Lake Superior)
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Erika Wittekind
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This terrible and nonsensical clickbait brought to you by Kathleen Parker. Of course.
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Erika Wittekind
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Yep! I'm not a Biden fan, I would LOVE to see President Harris, but the ideas to shake up the ticket at this point are half-baked and insane. Also I want to know what these people were thinking in 2020, when Biden was already a million years old and we all knew he'd be a million plus four in 2024.
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Nick Fleisher
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Also: even if the presidential race is your main concern, these down-ballot races can have a reverse coattails effect by getting people to the polls who might not otherwise vote at all in these key states
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emptywheel
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I want to thank Jim Jordan for asking an intelligence expert (Mike Morell) to lay out how Trump has the personality of a dictator.
www.documentcloud.org/documents/24...
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Kevin M. Kruse
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It’s a very obscure question but I did some research and it turns out that the president who led us out of the Depression and kicked Hitler’s ass was actually in a wheelchair? Who knew?
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Anna O Law
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“Screaming. Insubstantial. Hysterical. What men call banshees, women call prophecy.”
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Link is coconut-pilled. 🥥 🌴
@knilirabaj.bsky.social
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More trains please.
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Erika Wittekind
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Their biggest concern is somehow the president's hypothetical need to act decisively without having to weigh legal ramifications. Not, say, the overthrow of our entire democratic government.
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Cooper Lund
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My argument against replacing Biden is that there is nobody in the world I trust less with that decision than Dem insiders
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Erika Wittekind
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OMG. Who asked them?!? Oh. The NYT. Of course.
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Erika Wittekind
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I don't know how many people are screaming for a brokered convention specifically, but plenty of people are out there throwing out names that are not Harris, and I'm not sure how any of them would become the nominee at this point otherwise.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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super interesting to me that Harris doesn’t just do better than Biden here but does better than most of the floated alternatives www.cnn.com/2024/07/02/p...
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Erika Wittekind
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It's hard for any Democrat to break those numbers in this climate. The reason is that Republicans are a cult who unify against any Democrat, while the left is much more fragmented and prone to expressing their frustration with this or that candidate in a poll, even if they show up to vote later.
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Vikram Bath
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National pundits are doing their level best to manifest a world in which Kamala Harris does not exist
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Kevin M. Kruse
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Yeah it’s not like we’ll see a repeat of 1968, when the Democrats downshifted to a Vice President at a convention in Chicago that was plagued by protests against the party’s support for an unpopular foreign war and wound up creating an opening for a candidate they’d beat before. Totally different!
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Erin Biba
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Heartening news but extremely important to note, before getting too excited, this has only been tested in mice with a mouse-specific virus so we need to hold our horses, even though if this is proven effective in humans with human viruses that will be fucking awesome.
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John Dellaporta
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A few years ago, Jon Lovett floated a theory that media treats Democrats like protagonists - to be challenged, accounted, and forced to be behave in growth-oriented ways - while the GOP are treated like antagonists - immutable, expected to disrupt, thematic obstacles. Thinking about that a lot.
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Beadle, Society for the New Art
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Worth considering: SCOTUS can get additional resources. Whichever clerk actually fucked this up is going to go on to be a district court judge through the conservative AA pipeline within ten years. And they're going to be making factual findings! On technical topics!
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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i am not some big harris booster by any means but as i have been saying i think people are fooling themselves if they think that there is any outcome to “biden steps down” other than “Harris becomes the nominee”
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Parker Molloy
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I tried to highlight that specific part of the Project 2025 plan in this post of mine from a few months back www.readtpa.com/p/a-second-t...
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Parker Molloy
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Worth reading the first line of the screenshot and realizing that the very existence of trans people is considered "pornography" by the Project 2025 gremlins.
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Erika Wittekind
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Yeah, I don't even like Biden, but I think any nationally known Democrat is going to be similarly unpopular, due to the fact that the right is one big cult who will hate and run a smear campaign against anyone on the left, while the left is much more fragmented and harder to unify behind one person.
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Keith
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2016: How dare Dem party insiders have any vote in the nomination!! 2024: why won't Dem party insiders throw out the primary votes and select the candidate???
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Quinta Jurecic
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not saying it hasn't been covered—nyt, washpost etc have run stories about the phrasing (which trump used again at a rally the next day!!)—but it doesn't seem to have made it into the political commentator opinion topic du jour matrix
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Erika Wittekind
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Do you mean 2020? Harris didn't run in 2016.
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Philip Bump
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Trump and his allies are heavily invested in retconning “very fine people.” So here’s how it all unfolded, showing that he was, in fact, siding with the extreme right in Charlottesville.
Gift link, should it be useful: wapo.st/4cEaH47
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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him)
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We have the dumbest fucking hegemony, repeated uncritically by mainstream media, K-12, higher ed, government, & more, that makes otherwise smart people blind to the obvious on inequality across so many dimensions.
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Erika Wittekind
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I'm so annoyed at the Democrats in 2020 who insisted that only Biden could beat Trump even though he was already a million years old and would obviously be a million plus four when it came time to run again. (The idea of purposefully trying to elect a one-term president was always colossally dumb.)
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Erika Wittekind
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The bigger question is whether Black voters would accept a scenario like that. Passing over the first Black woman VP would alienate a significant part of the base, with potentially disastrous consequences.
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Wagatwe Wanjuki
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"I can excuse genocide, but I draw the line at bad debate performances."
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Joshua J. Friedman
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Kagan in dissent, writing for the liberals: "In one fell swoop, the majority today gives itself exclusive power over every open issue—no matter how expertise-driven or policy-laden—involving the meaning of regulatory law."
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Joshua J. Friedman
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SCOTUS overrules Chevron, a massive blow to the ability of federal agencies to function. The familiar 6–3, with Roberts writing for the majority www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p...
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Erin Fogg
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I am once again asking how this can be both a permitless open carry state and also a state where merely being inside a car with a gun gets u killed by police
www.21alivenews.com/2024/06/25/w...
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Erika Wittekind
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Good point. I don't know if how many people realize a lot of Hispanics in southern states predate US expansion there too.
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Erika Wittekind
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I think there are a lot of people who are still so tuned out that they don't realize how unhinged Trump sounds and/or have warped views of Biden, and those people could benefit from watching. Probably doubtful many of them will, though.
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Berni
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I am still reading The Originalism Trap. I came across this sentence and absolutely love it.
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Tim Onion
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Here’s a miracle solution: stop fuckin doing it
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Don Moynihan
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The future is terror.
Funded by Heritage Foundation, the same group creating Project 2025, a GOP activist is snooping into the background of federal employees, creating a Trump enemies list.
With Schedule F, they will fire those officials.
apnews.com/article/trum...
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Erika Wittekind
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True that people who follow news and politics closely don't need to watch, but I hope a lot of other people do watch.
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Erika Wittekind
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I think young people might surprise us, but admittedly my optimism might be skewed by my own in-house focus group (soon-to-be 18-year-old kid who doesn't much like Biden but will definitely vote for Biden in November).
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Erika Wittekind
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I definitely did not say that.
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Erika Wittekind
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This is true in every election, though.
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Anna O Law
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Meanwhile, existing in the same city as the august Grey Lady, is the CUNY system, all 25 institutions, that are being starved to death by indifference & chronic under-funding. CUNY moves more peeps into the middle class than all the ivies combined. See here:
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Gabe Ortíz
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“We do not yet know the price Gilead intends to charge for lenacapavir … I anticipate a fight to ensure true access for everyone. That's a fight I invite us all to join because, my god, we truly have the tools to end the scourge of HIV in our lifetime.”
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Erika Wittekind
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It seems like there are a lot of advantages to automated traffic enforcement: fewer traffic deaths, fewer interactions between the public and the police, reduced climate impact from better fuel efficiency. Also I'm just tired of people around me driving like maniacs.
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Lauren
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It’s so cool that cities are like “pweeease only turn your AC on if you’re actively dying and don’t go below 79 🥺🤘🏻💗” while the AI nobody asked for is slurping up the power grid to make 1 image of a girl with 5 tits
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Erika Wittekind
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He's bitter over not being allowed to spread a dangerous virus to his fellow athletes? Okay, bye!
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Hypervisible
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Put this whole paragraph on repeat.
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