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fluxt [née fluxed]
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Trump is "distancing himself" from Project 2025...
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fluxt [née fluxed]
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Trump is "distancing himself" from Project 2025...
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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Wow amazing how the Saudis keep showing up in these stories where they offer illegal support to far right politicians.
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fluxt [née fluxed]
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"Hope Clinic... is located in Illinois right across the river from St. Louis... 80 percent of the patients that they are seeing are coming from states with more extreme bans... coming from 28 different states across the country, five countries from around the world."
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
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fluxt [née fluxed]
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"There are real and serious reasons to be deeply concerned about Judge [John] Roberts' record. Many of his past statements and writings raise questions about his commitment to equal opportunity and the bipartisan remedies we have adopted in the past." - Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., 2005
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fluxt [née fluxed]
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"Roberts compared judges to baseball umpires who 'don't make the rules, they apply them... it's my job to call balls and strikes and not to pitch or bat... Judges... operate within a system of precedent shaped by other judges equally striving to live up to the judicial oath.'" (Sep., 2005)
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fluxt [née fluxed]
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Jonathan Ladd
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The 14th Amendment says if you were involved in an insurrection you can't be president. SCOTUS said they won't allow anyone to enforce that because of reasons they made up. The Constitution doesn't say the president is immune from criminal law. SCOTUS decided he is because of reasons they made up.
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fluxt [née fluxed]
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"The Supreme Court, in ordering Nixon to release his White House tapes - the action that speeded his resignation in 1974 - said in no sense is a president 'above the law.' Aides on trial for Watergate abuses were not permitted to use presidential sanction as a defense."
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Asawin Suebsaeng
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“Plans are already in motion to use this new, historic court decision as a legal shield to help a potential second Trump administration implement his extreme policy agenda with less concern for rules and laws, sources with knowledge of the matter say.”
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Mitchell Epner
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1/ Let me explain one way that today's Trump immunity decision threatens the survival of the Republic. Under today's ruling, a President would be immune for any way in which he used the military (a "core function"), even to kill American citizens in America. Theoretically, the soldiers who . . .
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis
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Something I think about a lot lately is how much Nazi support there actually was in the US and if things had gone slightly differently we would not have been calling ourselves the good guys of WWII
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fluxt [née fluxed]
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"Chancellor Hitler retires to his Country Home for a much-needed rest after a strenuous week in Berlin. So will many a Business Man, over the week-end, after a busy week in Appleton."
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fluxt [née fluxed]
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Moore "couldn’t breathe."
"'There’s a system, pattern and practice of racist and unconstitutional abuse in the Missouri Department of Corrections, and especially within the Jefferson City Correction Center,' Stroth said, adding: 'It’s George Floyd 3.0 in a prison.'"
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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fluxt [née fluxed]
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B. Klaas: "You don’t see Priuses adorned with Biden flags or bumper stickers depicting him riding a giant eagle. It’s embarrassing in a rational political party to fuse your identity with a man rather than his message. Republicans long ago jettisoned that shame."
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Philip Bump
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Gun deaths by state over time and then with overdose deaths overlaid. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Sean
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christ
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fluxt [née fluxed]
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"That the...bad manners & culture-war demagogy of the American right has the...business elite clamoring to purge the GOP of its authoritarian leader...[is] in bald defiance of the business elite’s cozy accord with strongman fascist rule throughout the 20th century."
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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fluxt [née fluxed]
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Hillary Clinton: "In 2016, Mr. Trump refused to say whether he would accept the results of the election. 'I’ll keep you in suspense,' he said. 'That is not the way our democracy works,' I responded. 'Let’s be clear about what he’s saying and what that means.'"
Gift:
www.nytimes.com/2024/06/25/o...
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fluxt [née fluxed]
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A new 30-second Biden ad hits all the right notes for a successful spot - with Trump looking like the mobster he is, and Biden busy enacting his presidential agenda. It's scheduled to run on television in battleground states and cable/online nationwide.
View it:
thewillisreport.com/biden-ad-sla...
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fluxt [née fluxed]
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Seth Cotlar
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Starting a new organization called Doormats For Trump! Bill Barr, Marco Rubio, JD Vance, Lindsey Graham, and Nikki Haley are the charter members.
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fluxt [née fluxed]
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"Cale fell under the influence of the... Fluxus movement, which counted... Yoko Ono among its members... with the support of... composer Aaron Copland, he relocated to New York...[A] chance meeting with [Lou] Reed led to the formation of the Velvet Underground."
www.theguardian.com/music/articl...
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fluxt [née fluxed]
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Last night I joined the beta of Foto, a new instagram alternative app devoted to still photography for hobbyists & pros alike - a very clean, uncluttered interface that highlights the work and minimizes bells & whistles. A modest $5 contribution gets you in.
fotoapp.co
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fluxt [née fluxed]
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"Some of Australia’s most celebrated scientists... along with doctors, historians, anthropologists... advocated breeding out 'lower' and 'deficient' 'races', particularly Aboriginal people... exhumed, collected and later concealed Aboriginal remains, [or] supported nazism, even after [World War 2]."
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fluxt [née fluxed]
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Elie Mystal: Gun violence is rife because "Republican [SCOTUS] operatives welcome violence...they simply won’t allow us to protect ourselves from violence; because they would rather watch children die than risk Congress or the president laying a finger on the NRA."
www.thenation.com/article/arch...
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fluxt [née fluxed]
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Large companies are falling short in their efforts to keep plastic packaging out of landfills or from littering the environment - too few have quantitative sustainability goals, and those that do either set the bar too low or fail to make significant progress, or both.
grist.org/accountabili...
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fluxt [née fluxed]
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Gen X attended the most racially integrated schools in U.S. history, but a SCOTUS ruling, white flight and charter schools took their toll. In the U.S. South, the share of Black students in majority-white schools peaked at 43% in the 1980s, but declined to 16% by 2021.
www.axios.com/2024/06/15/g...
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fluxt [née fluxed]
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And here's a 1971 obit for Countess Guardabassi (nee Rosalind Wood), which despite its brevity, managed to get in a mention of one of the key defining aspects of her character:
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fluxt [née fluxed]
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In 1936, the countess' hubby Mario reported thusly: "Mussolini is annoyed at what he regards as the United States' failure to 'appreciate' fascism, Count Francesco Mario Guardabassi said Wednesday. Count Guardabassi, who has talked with Il Duce about it, is the husband of the former Rosalind Wood."
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fluxt [née fluxed]
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Agreed, 100%. And yet with Trump, at base... "Most people stayed with me in the bad times, but I had some people who were disloyal. And those people I'm going to destroy. Just for the sake of destroying them. If I ever have the opportunity." (Donald Trump, 1993)
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fluxt [née fluxed]
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“The Democrats apparently hoped to convince moderates that Alito would overturn the 1973 [Roe v. Wade] ruling, and in fact the group Republican Majority for Choice, which Specter belongs to, came out against Alito.”
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Jeff Lazarus
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I nominate Jacob to write ad copy for the Biden campaign.
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Sean
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totally forgot about the secret strategic national chicken/egg stockpile, which is seriously important! here’s why:
from scientificamerican.com/article/do-we-have-enough-bird-flu-vaccines-for-a-potential-pandemic/
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fluxt [née fluxed]
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"On a 6-1 vote Thursday, the Florida Supreme Court gave its governor all-but-unfettered power to remove locally elected prosecutors — a power that could quickly render Floridians’ 'freedom' to 'vote' for a prosecutor a fiction unless federal courts step in." 5 of 7 justices are DeSantis appointees.
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fluxt [née fluxed]
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“Right-wing power-mongers have long expounded the theory of a ‘unitary executive’ as the most… potent way to achieve a policy agenda that remains deeply unpopular with the American electorate… Vought seeks to transform that theory into a comic book plot arc.”
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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fluxt [née fluxed]
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"House mice have become the latest mammal to become infected with H5N1 bird flu, sparking fears that the almost omnipresent pests could spread the virus to humans...
Their excreta – urine, droppings and saliva – can carry and transmit a wide array of pathogens."
www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
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fluxt [née fluxed]
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"Advanced technological civilization was laying waste to the cultural traditions & belief systems that allowed people to orient themselves in the world and find meaning in it. All modern people...faced some version of the dislocation undergone...by the Omaha."
www.thenewatlantis.com/publications...
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fluxt [née fluxed]
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"Trump’s attorney, David Warrington, sent ProPublica a cease-and-desist letter demanding this article not be published... that if the outlet and its reporters 'continue their reckless campaign of defamation, President Trump will evaluate all legal remedies.'"
www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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fluxt [née fluxed]
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In other news, one candidate running for office in the Italian village with 46 residents and 30 local election candidates says, "of course" he'll accept the outcome of the election, but only if he wins.
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Parker Molloy
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Original headline vs. headline after social media went all "wtf are you doing wapo" on them
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fluxt [née fluxed]
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With the 2024 Trump/Biden vote just five months away, it's worth taking a 2-minute look at what happened on CNN one day (just one of many) in April, 2021, and contemplating the role of Big Media in influencing the outcome this November.
From @fixmedianow.bsky.social
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fluxt [née fluxed]
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Writer Murray Kempton on Donald Trump (1989): "The man demeans anything he touches... [and] dresses his hatred up as though it were a peacock's feathers... We are assured that God does not make trash, which thought disposes of the impression that Donald Trump is not altogether a self-made man."
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Esther Schindler
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Scientists in China have turned regular old bamboo into a transparent material that’s also resistant to fire and water, and suppresses smoke. www.eurekalert.org/n...
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Helen Kennedy
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This is shooting fish in a barrel but sometimes the fish need shooting. Today's Memorial Day messages to the populace from our three most recent commanders in chief:
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Katharine Hayhoe
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How is climate change increasing the risk of heavy rainfall? It’s basic physics: warmer air holds more water vapour. So when a storm comes along today, there’s a lot more of it available for that storm to sweep up and dump than there was 50 or 100 years ago. A LOT.
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Mara Wilson
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It’s a fucking cult. Palestinians are nothing but kindling to them, and I don’t think they even realize how many Palestinian Christians there are! Jews they see as useful idiots, who will one day be kindling themselves, come the apocalypse. More people need to speak out against this.
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fluxt [née fluxed]
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The press freedom organization Reporters Without Borders says it "has reasonable grounds for thinking" that some IDF killings of Palestinian journalists in Gaza were deliberate, and that others were the victims of "deliberate IDF attacks against civilians."
www.commondreams.org/news/journal...
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fluxt [née fluxed]
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Thom Hartmann draws stark contrasts between blue & red states and highlights the perpetual Republican desire to maintain - as slaveholder Sen. James Henry Hammond said in 1858 - the locked-in presence of a bedrock class of people to "do the menial duties” in society.
newrepublic.com/article/1819...
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fluxt [née fluxed]
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"Mexico City gets about a quarter of its water from the Cutzamala system, a series of reservoirs, water treatment plants and lengthy canals & tunnels...
Some say the system could be unable to provide water by June 26, known as 'Day Zero' in the metro area of 22 million."
gift link: wapo.st/3KoXIHb
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fluxt [née fluxed]
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"Venezuela had six glaciers in the Sierra Nevada, located about 16,000 feet above sea level. By 2011, five had already disappeared...Scientists believe [Humboldt Glacier's] disappearance makes Venezuela the first country...in modern history to lose all its glaciers."
www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...
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