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ildon@ildon.bsky.social |
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Monica Rooney
@monicarooney.bsky.social
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Also worth mentioning that if both Biden and Trump are unfit to do the job, I’d rather have whoever Biden chose to really run things rather than the Nazis at the Heritage Foundation. Hell, it doesn’t even matter if Trump *can* do the job because we all know he *won’t*.
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Monica Rooney
@monicarooney.bsky.social
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Everyone complaining about Biden maybe not being at peak form if he has to be woken up by an emergency forgets that Trump didn’t do anything until about 11 am daily except shitpost. He also didn’t pay attention to any briefing unless his name was in it. And that was 7 years ago.
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ildon
@ildon.bsky.social
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The net effect of how the Internet works now is that people will see 100 snippets of text or video saying people think Biden should drop out and just assume that's the conventional wisdom without really looking into it.
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ildon
@ildon.bsky.social
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More people will see a stream of out-of-context op ed headlines that they don't realize aren't actually news headlines (and also will not read) than watch the debate.
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Daniel Feldman
@dfeldman.bsky.social
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Biden has a bad debate night: calls to step down Documents released that show two underage women accused Trump of raping them on Epstein’s island, under oath: total media silence except in a few blogs and foreign news The media double standard is incredible to see
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ildon
@ildon.bsky.social
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By the time the Jaydens are old enough to be president, the previous generation will have figured out immortality and will never release their grip on power
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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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ildon
@ildon.bsky.social
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The only polls I saw either didn't change or only dropped within the margin of error. It's far enough away from election day that it's barely different from random noise. Obama saw a bigger drop after his first debate in 2012. Where was the party calling for him to drop out then?
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Materialist Gnostic
@walmsley.bsky.social
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This is true though. Every day Biden will be a new age that is older than any age he was previously, so reporting on his age will always be breaking news.
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southpaw
@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
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I just want to save this series of tweets for posterity. Hopefully, we’ll have a chance to go back over what’s going on here when tempers have cooled.
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Will Stancil
@whstancil.bsky.social
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We spend dozens of hours per week inside a hallucinatory bubble in which factual reality provides little or no check on how the world is depicted to us.
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Will Stancil
@whstancil.bsky.social
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This is the fundamental problem we’re facing, with Biden, with Trump, with politics. We spend many hours a day consuming media. But the content of that media is increasingly determined not by WHAT IS TRUE, but by WHAT EARNS AUDIENCE ATTENTION. Factoids are harvested and rebuilt into those stories.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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really great that prominent political journalists won’t just say that trump is lying and here’s why
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Seth Cotlar
@sethcotlar.bsky.social
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Johnny McEntee, one of Trump's most loyal deputies who is in regular contact with him, is literally one of the people collecting resumes for staffers who would implement Project 2025. Shame on any journalistic outfit who takes this "truth" at face value.
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Gregory Hays
@aristofontes.bsky.social
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Wow, real banana republic stuff. I'm glad our presidents can launder money and associate criminally without worrying about this kind of thing.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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very much the words of a man who has never once worried, not for a moment, that he would be outside the law
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Daniel Feldman
@dfeldman.bsky.social
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Mississippi is the poorest state in the US.
Even though the state gets federal welfare funds, it is difficult to get welfare.
The money was all getting stolen, and they got away with it.
Now the journalists who exposed the story are facing a lawsuit and jail.
www.nbcnews.com/investigatio...
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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social
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Constitution: People involved in insurrections should not be President. Roberts court:...hmm, no, I don't see it. Constitution:.... Roberts court: but the president should have immunity for crimes
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Assigned Media
@assigned.bsky.social
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Hillary Cass, whose Cass Report has further damaged the ability of young trans people to access quality healthcare in the UK, is on a grand tour saying a bunch of ignorant transphobic things.
More from @alyssaur.bsky.social here:
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
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Philip Bump
@pbump.com
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If the right is fighting a "second American Revolution," as Heritage's guy put it, it's worth identifying what they are rebelling against. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
@golikehellmachine.com
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they outsourced outreach and mobilization to charlie kirk, RNC has very few field offices in any state, their ad buys are both anemic and late, state parties are in complete disorder, trump’s rallies are way below attendance from even 2020 and the RNC purged the few experienced pros they had
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The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter
@swolecialism.bsky.social
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goddamn, lol
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The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter
@swolecialism.bsky.social
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it does strike me that a lot of the people certain that biden should drop out, that trump is unstoppable, etc, are also the same people who thought desantis would cruise to the nomination.
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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The ghouls are wasting no time on this
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Prisonculture
@prisonculture.bsky.social
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You don't say... Who will be the disproportionate targets AGAIN, Black people esp Black men who make up 40% of the houseless?
boltsmag.org/grants-pass-...
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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"Balance" means printing obvious Republican lies about Biden and also printing obvious Republican lies about what Republicans think.
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Joel Mathis
@joelmathis.bsky.social
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I've been thinking about this post from the Claremont Institute, a Trumpist think tank, ever since the SCOTUS immunity ruling. Wonder what "unpleasant things" the Trumpists have in mind. open.substack.com/pub/joelmmat...
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ildon
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By your logic we'd still have slavery because Lincoln was still a racist despite thinking maybe slavery was bad. We'd still have Jim Crow and school segregation. We wouldn't have the ACA because it wasn't single payer. I'd argue "avoid much worse" has actually worked every time it's tried.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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but they know this too. their belief is that white men ought to be entitled to the most valuable and prestigious positions irrespective of whether they can actually perform in them.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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it’s why you have people still blaming affirmative action for why their kids couldn’t get into harvard et al. it’s not legacies or the fact that these places are hyper-selective. it’s that there is *a* black person who took *your* spot.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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for these people the mere presence of any nonwhite person, and especially any black person, in a desired and prestigious position is on its face evidence of anti-white discrimination and unfair preferences.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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this entire crusade against diversity in hiring and admissions is based on the supposition that all white men are necessarily more qualified than any nonwhite person or woman who might be considered for the job. like, this lawsuit more or less states that outright.
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Tom Scocca
@tomscocca.bsky.social
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Just even within the lines of the ruling you can't have your lawyer inquire into his motives for throwing you in jail!
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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the world in which the president is throwing his opponents in jail is not a world where you can just ask a judge to let you out
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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before they go after the 64 CRA they are going to weaponize it to make it illegal to address discrimination.
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Kaitlin Has Had Enough
@gothamgirlblue.com
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This wasn’t hindsight either. A lot of us argued at the time that they should be expelled. Then Joe Biden didn’t even mention it in his inaugural speech two weeks later. Not expulsion. Not the coup attempt itself. Just…nothing.
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Jamison Foser
@jamisonfoser.bsky.social
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Things I *am* confident of: 1) Whoever the Democrats nominate is better than Trump 2) Trump & the GOP are the most significant threat to America since the civil war 3) the news media is obscuring #2 So those are the kinds of things I'm focused on, fwiw.
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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There is no depth to which Jonathan Turley will not sink. He’ll say that Trump will never do the outrageous things Trump threatens to do, and that there are laws in place to prevent it, then when Trump does them he will say the laws don’t apply and that Trump was forced to do the things by woke.
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hammancheez
@hammancheez.bsky.social
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SCOTUS legal interpretation chart leaked
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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him)
@nathankalmoe.bsky.social
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'We'll kill you if you try to stop us' is terrorism.
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Ed Burmila
@edburmila.bsky.social
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Things are going very well when we've reached the "Don't worry, the military won't obey orders to kill civilians" stage of democratic backsliding. It's the sweet spot, where good things happen. Right where we want to be.
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Brooke Binkowski
@brooklynmarie.bsky.social
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They also coordinated funds to Clarence Thomas and probably others on the Supreme Court. They are thoroughly corrupt and horribly powerful. In short, if you want a villain to go after, it's Heritage and all its shell groups.
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Brooke Binkowski
@brooklynmarie.bsky.social
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This is the group behind Moms for Liberty, the state house takeovers, coordinating the Proud Boys, and most of the disinformation about the border and about immigrants and asylum-seekers. They're also involved with the anti-Palestinian disinfo campaigns nationally and are connected to John Hagee.
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ildon
@ildon.bsky.social
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You know the one.
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AkivaMCohen
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I get why people are eager to find the silver lining here by going "well, can't Biden use this too?" No. He can't. This is literally only useful to help a President get away with committing crimes. What crime do you think it would be helpful for Biden to commit right now?
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Matt Novak
@paleofuture.bsky.social
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“Justice Department officials plan to pursue the criminal cases against Donald Trump past Election Day even if he wins, under the belief that department rules against charging or prosecuting a sitting president would not kick in until Inauguration Day in January…”
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Link is coconut-pilled. 🥥 🌴
@knilirabaj.bsky.social
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I hate this piece of shit.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie
@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social
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!! literally
I didn't get into this much in the book but I did suggest that folks are not thinking through the consequences of rendering all nonviolent tools nonfunctional
tinyurl.com/originalismtrap
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luke the myoclonic jerk
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The Epstein grand jury records that were unsealed today contain some entirely unsurprising revelations
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ildon
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This poll falls into that category as well. Literally no one is talking about Harris. Not even the people trying to replace Biden.
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