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Jerry Newmark@jerryn13.bsky.social |
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Old nerd, one time sailboat racer, recovering audiophile.
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Dennis A.
@dharmadog.bsky.social
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The President Biden interview with George Stephanopoulos didn't air here. The local ABC affiliate is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group. They aired reruns of Jeopardy. 🤦‍♂️
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Dr. SkySkull
@drskyskull.bsky.social
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Well, you see, Trump was *cognitively fit* when he sexually assaulted teenage girls. … … wait that makes it worse
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Melissa Gira Grant
@melissagiragrant.com
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We need more, but credit where due: both The Nation (June 2024 issue) and Boston Review have run a breakdown of the Project 2025 “Mandate for Leadership” document. Media Matters, too. Lots of good work going on digesting this.
www.bostonreview.net/articles/ins...
www.mediamatters.org/project-2025
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Eric Rauchway
@rauchway.bsky.social
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In retrospect, the NYT Spelling Bee’s blithe refusal to care about words that are in the dictionary should have struck more word nerds as symptomatic.
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Comfortably Numb
@numb.comfortab.ly
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Comfortably Numb
@numb.comfortab.ly
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Entire front page above the fold is dedicated to "Biden old" again.
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Lawrence Hall
@lawrencehall105.bsky.social
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I’m sure all the media that spent months on Hunter Biden’s laptop will cover this with the same scrutiny newrepublic.com/post/183468/...
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Steve Silberman
@stevesilberman.bsky.social
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I spoke to a friend I knew in high school who told me he "doesn't follow politics." I asked him what he thought about the election. He said, "I hear Biden's a senile wreck." He also said he hadn't heard of SCOTUS granting Trump immunity and has never heard of Project 2025. Media's doing a great job.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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Voters just blame whoever is President for whatever happens during their Presidency, which is a major reason why allowing the situation where the Supreme Court absurdly gets to make policy across whatever issue they want to persist is so deadly to Democrats
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TW
@twesq.bsky.social
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Oh yeah, these are going on the stop signs in the neighborhood
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Joe Katz
@joekatz45.bsky.social
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This is particularly important to understand because Trumpist authoritarianism is the descendent of Jim Crow far more than say Hitler or Pinochet or Orban, and it's going to look a lot more like 1930s Mississippi than 1930s Berlin.
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Comfortably Numb
@numb.comfortab.ly
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I will never forget Trump's official White House schedule
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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis
@jeffjarvis.bsky.social
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Look at how The Times is positioning this. As they call for Biden's head but even before she might ascend to the candidacy, it's tearing down Harris. Doing her job is "trying to quiet her doubters." They write about the odds of success not the stakes of failure: fascism.
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Jerry Newmark
@jerryn13.bsky.social
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Must read stuff here.
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Ollie McClellan
@olliemcclellan.bsky.social
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Just want to be sure all the USMNT folks saw this:
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Jerry Newmark
@jerryn13.bsky.social
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Realistically, 1 or 3a are the only viable options. 2 is very risky & may face legal issues with ballot access. 3 is going to limit Harris' availability to campaign given her new day job & also removes the tie-breaking vote in the Senate which I assume Manchin & Sinema will happily exploit. 4/fin
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Jerry Newmark
@jerryn13.bsky.social
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3. and 3a. are what the press & the donors are gunning for. Make the convention a total clusterfuck and run Dems in Disarray stories. Unless the party quickly figures out that Harris is the only realistic option _before_ the convention, any candidate will be doomed. 3/
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Jerry Newmark
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If it's 1., then we muddle through with the constant attacks from the right and the NYT, WaPo, etc. questioning his fitness. 2. puts extreme pressure on the party apparatus to get Harris out on the trail, in front of the cameras, etc. with very little runway. 2/
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Jerry Newmark
@jerryn13.bsky.social
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Possible scenarios: 1. Status quo & it's Biden vs. Trump. 2. Biden resigns after the convention, Harris by default is the nominee. 3. Biden resigns before the convention, Harris is the presumptive frontrunner for the nomination. 3a. Biden announces that he won't accept the nomination. 1/
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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We’ve all watched the GOP drag rapists, criminals, florid wackos, and brain-dead white supremacists to electoral victory over and over again. Perhaps the Democrats can summon up some of that energy to save our democracy and our lives.
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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis
@jeffjarvis.bsky.social
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"The fact that we're going to hold Joe Biden to one standard and Donald Trump to another, which is really no standard at all." - @JoeNBC on The New York Times et al.
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Sean Kelly
@storyslug.bsky.social
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I do know that if there's any ambiguity at all from a legal standpoint it'll end up in front of SCOTUS. Which, you know. Ask Al Gore how that goes.
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the knife alien 🇵🇸 🇱🇧
@winemomculture.bsky.social
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i should just remind everyone that the woman formerly known as amber heard now lives under a different name in spain. that’s how poorly things have gone for her. and she won the original civil trial in the UK! almost everyone forgets that
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Boston Tom Levenson
@tomlevenson.bsky.social
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Just going to put this out there: Biden has been the most legislatively effective president since LBJ. The most pro-labor president WW2. He's done more re climate change than any POTUS. He's built an international coalition for Ukraine despite Russia-fueld GOP opposition. And yeah: he's hella old.
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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I can’t say I have a great opinion in general of Democrat senior leadership’s stalwart resolve in the face of danger, which is also informing my opinion.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
@golikehellmachine.com
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i get even more annoyed about it because dean phillips was right there. dean phillips was the centrist corporate loser that all these centrist corporate losers wanted, he ran an actual campaign, he got absolutely annihilated. that’s not evidence of malfeasance, that’s evidence of no interest
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Warren Terra
@warrenterra.bsky.social
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There is an idea called "Murc's Law" after the blog commenter who coined it: "only Democrats have agency". No-one asks Trump to be diligent, or honest, or informed, or follow the law. No mainstream outlet ever made it a national crisis for a week that he manifestly never has been any of those.
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Shiv Ramdas
@nameshiv.bsky.social
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there is a literal Business Plot afoot to unseat the most pro labour president of our lifetimes(unless youre way older than me)
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
@golikehellmachine.com
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not for nothing, but there’s something incredibly unseemly about watching the nation’s newspapers laser focused on biden old fifty times a day for over a week now, there *are* other important news stories in the world that deserve covering.
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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The fact that Trump is actually weakly attempting to pretend he doesn’t back Project 2025 = EXACTLY why you need to be telling everyone you know about their evil, violent plans.
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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The US needs to be watching the borders CLOSELY for signs of defeated Tories attempting to slither into the country to help out Trump, is all I can say
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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in case you weren’t aware of what happened the last time the Democrats dropped their candidate in July
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Micah
@rincewind.run
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Discworld QOTD, from Soul Music
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Comfortably Numb
@numb.comfortab.ly
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This is how you do it newrepublic.com/post/183493/...
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Tippy
@tiptoe39.bsky.social
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The thing I keep coming back to on this post is “bloodless if the left allows it to be.” He’s not saying “bloodless if the left doesn’t fire the first shot.” He’s saying “bloodless unless the left wins.” He’s advocating for violence if he doesn’t like the outcome of the election.
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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I keep hearing people float Gavin Newsom — his ex-wife is Don Jr’s girlfriend, and if you don’t think she’d flood the zone with wild stories about him
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ryan cooper
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report on the GOP freak running for NC gov: "he and his wife were cited for numerous violations at the child care center they operated from 2000 to 2007, including a charge that the center presented falsified certification documents to state inspectors." www.newsobserver.com/opinion/arti...
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Jerry Newmark
@jerryn13.bsky.social
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Right, if she came out today and said he's not fit, that would disqualify her since she's undermining him. If she remains supportive, then she's covering up for him. “That's some catch, that Catch-22,' he observed. 'It's the best there is' ...".
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Will Stancil
@whstancil.bsky.social
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They’re already setting up the next overblown freakout, this time to take down Harris. Nice work everyone
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Moira Donegan
@moiradonegan.bsky.social
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#Metoo ruined lives: the women’s. For the summer issue of Bookforum, I wrote about Christine Blasey Ford’s memoir “One Way Back,” the aftermath of disclosure, and what it means to be a public survivor when storytelling has proven futile. www.bookforum.com/culture/disp...
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Derek Powazek
@fraying.bsky.social
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You’ll never guess which of the two candidates is a convicted rapist.
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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast)
@brainnotonyet.bsky.social
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Heritage and Trump are now backpedaling so fast they are not going to be able to do their normal spin. Trump is project 2025 and project 2025 and the heritage foundation are Trump. Sure appears to be open coordination between the Trump campaign and Heritage.
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Jerry Newmark
@jerryn13.bsky.social
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This has gotten them steady numbers in elections which makes qualifying for the ballot easier the next time. From there, they've expanded to a consistent regional presence in the Northeast. Not sure this will ever scale nationally, but perhaps an alliance between regional parties would work 3/end
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Jerry Newmark
@jerryn13.bsky.social
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From Wikipedia, "WFP benefits from New York's electoral fusion laws that allow the party to support another party's candidate when they feel it aligns with their platform. This allows sympathetic voters to support a minor party without feeling like they are "wasting" their vote. " 2/
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Jerry Newmark
@jerryn13.bsky.social
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Another piece, related to this, is how ballot access is determined in each state. The Working Families Party (WFP) has been able to leverage NY laws to have a full slate on the ballot without having to stand up candidates for every office. 1/
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Chise
@sailorrooscout.bsky.social
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Chemistree ⚛️🧪
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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"Balance" means printing the lies republicans tell about democrats *and* the lies republicans tell about republicans
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Jerry Newmark
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Oh for pity's sake.
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Jerry Newmark
@jerryn13.bsky.social
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Note the filing date of the document, 4/26/2016. I mean, it's great that this is getting some notice now, but this shit was out there during the 2016 campaign if anyone wanted to amplify it instead of butter emails.
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