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joel hanes@joelhanes.bsky.social |
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Mr. Am I Being Detained
@gonebabygone.bsky.social
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Biden passed the most aggressive climate package in US history and probably ever again and I feel like the environmental beat is the only place we’re covering it
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Paris Marx
@parismarx.bsky.social
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Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.
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Ed
@notdred.bsky.social
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I gotta say that people are having a lot of trouble distinguishing cognitive decline (Trump) from age-related changes in expression (Biden). Biden is elderly and talks like it. Trump literally does not have preserved reality-testing
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Peter Sagal
@petersagal.bsky.social
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The very worst thing about social media, including this site and the Bad Site and every other site, is the illusion that by posting on it you’re accomplishing anything.
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Josh Rosenau
@joshrosenau.bsky.social
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Oh sorry, wrong link. But I’m really worried about Trump’s youth outreach plan: www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump...
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joel hanes
@joelhanes.bsky.social
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I haven't slept well since SCOTUS announced the immunity decision, and I expect to spend the rest of my life in waves of dread and sadness.
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joel hanes
@joelhanes.bsky.social
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I think Harris is a far better politician and candidate than she is generally credited with being -- she's sharp, and her work with college-age voters has been especially impressive. I think the press will grind her bones to make their bread.
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joel hanes
@joelhanes.bsky.social
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I had actually believed the day would never come on which you, for whom I have mad respect, would grossly underestimate the combined power of misogyny and racism in American presidential politics. We shall have to agree to disagree
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Ian Boudreau
@iboudreau.bsky.social
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Joe Biden refusing to take advice from people who have been wrong about everything for decades could be seen as an indication his brain is still working
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@peripatetic.bsky.social
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Am I fucking crazy, or has this been one shitty debate performance, followed by a week plus of story after story about "panic" etc? No new evidence that he's unable to do it, just constant "people are saying"?
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Taco Bell's Cannon
@jamtoday.bsky.social
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I said to someone else the other day, this is the most insane spasm of cowardice I have seen from Democrats in my lifetime and I lived through the Reagan years. It really is like a very specific group of people had a mass hysteria event or ate moldy wheat or got a bad batch of LSD.
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Erin Biba
@erinbiba.bsky.social
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The new COVID variant seems to be evading immunity from vaccines and past infections. COVID cases are up 250% in NYC. Remember the more you get covid your risk for long covid increases significantly.
gothamist.com/news/nyc-cov...
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suzette sommer
@suzette.bsky.social
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open.substack.com/pub/dworkin/...
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Courtney Milan
@courtneymilan.com
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MOAR TRAINS!!!!!!!!
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RainSurname
@rainsurname.bsky.social
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I do captioning for a living, & a big part of my job is cleaning up false starts & filler words. That has always been the norm at every media outlet. Print media edits Trump so carefully that you would never know what he actually sounds like. Doing this to Biden is a 180 from decades of policy.
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Scott Dworkin
@dworkin.bsky.social
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Everyone needs to see this
www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/biden-nail...
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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Reagan really losing it actually improved his Presidency since it let Nancy pull off a palace coup to depose arch-conservative and Iran Contra participant Don Regan from the Chief of Staff role and replaced him with (relative) moderate Howard Baker
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Hemry, Local Bartender
@bartenderhemry.bsky.social
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The discourse around biden needing more sleep is fully insane. Does no one remember "Executive Time," the thing Trump spent the majority(!) of his schedule on where he would just watch TV and tweet? Dude was categorically unable to fulfill any of the demands of the office and the press barely cared
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Kevin Collins
@kwcollins.bsky.social
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This — Project 2025, the Supreme Court’s legalistic usurpation of power, and Trump’s current rhetoric on the campaign trail — can only be understood as an attack on our Constitutional government itself, less violent means than those used in Jan 6 but no less threatening to our democratic republic
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Scott Lemieux
@lemieuxlgm.bsky.social
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The violence inherent in the MAGA www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/07/the-...
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Joshua Holland
@joshuaholland.bsky.social
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The GOP’s nominee to run the 9th most populous state just called for killing people who disagree with the far-right and that sentiment was echoed by the head of Heritage and the man behind Project 2025. But like 90% of all political news is about Democratic hand-wringing over Biden’s debate flop.
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Paul Waldman
@paulwaldman.bsky.social
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The Supreme Court is not waiting for Donald Trump to destroy democracy. They’re already doing it.
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Cheryl Rofer
@cherylrofer.bsky.social
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The Dobbs decision, now Project 2025. There's more than enough to beat Trump right there, and his campaign staff knows it.
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Avishay Ben-Sasson-Gordis
@avishaybsg.bsky.social
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The fact that only the president enjoys complete immunity, and that he also has the power of pardon is part of what is so terrifying about the ruling. It means that those beneath him are entirely at his good graces and arbitrary will. It's a power machine, not a check on his power.
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emptywheel
@emptywheel.bsky.social
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New Yorker wants Joe Biden, whose admin has had historical success, to resign bc he's not doing well at running for re-election. This is not, in fact, what the 25th Amendment was made for.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
@golikehellmachine.com
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if this was really about who is mentally fit to be president, trump and RFK, jr. have both, repeatedly, over many years in public life, demonstrated that they’re incapable of working through logical patterns of thought or process to establish the veracity of outlandish claims. seems important.
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Dave Levitan
@davelevitan.bsky.social
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I have no idea the best path re Biden but I do know a solid week straight of “Biden Old” and “Rich Dems Worried” above-the-fold stories are *obscene* in the face of SCOTUS using the Constitution to wipe their asses purely in the service of reinstating a felon rapist as president. Crazy-making shit.
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joel hanes
@joelhanes.bsky.social
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But not as dumb as re-electing Trump would be.
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Yechiel ⍼ יחיאל
@yechiel.me
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IMO the biggest problem with Biden's age is the fact that Trump wants to be a dictator on day one and it doesn't look like there's anything or anyone in our institutions that are willing or able to stop him.
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joel hanes
@joelhanes.bsky.social
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hilzoy
@hilzoy.bsky.social
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Thread. It's always true that when you choose Presidents, you're choosing the advisors they will appoint. This is true even if they just turned 35 and run ultramarathons for fun while not winning Nobel Prizes in physics. It's just especially true now.
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Scott Lemieux
@lemieuxlgm.bsky.social
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The Heritage Foundation and John Taney Roberts: www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/07/if-t...
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Moira Donegan
@moiradonegan.bsky.social
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Not to be corny but I do think the ongoing aspiration to make America a pluralist democracy of equals is righteous, beautiful, and worth honoring, even if it has more often been the struggle of minorities & dissenters than the policy of the government. 🇺🇸
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joel hanes
@joelhanes.bsky.social
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Free In America, Ben Sidran, 1976
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvI7...
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joel hanes
@joelhanes.bsky.social
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Fanfare For The Common Man, Aaron Copland, 1942
NY Philharmonic under Levine
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Greg Pak
@gregpak.bsky.social
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On INDEPENDENCE DAY they published this. ON THE FOURTH OF JULY 2024 THE NEW YORK TIMES TOLD PEOPLE NOT TO VOTE. I'm furious.
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Thomas Zimmer
@thomaszimmer.bsky.social
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Unfortunately, this is not just the abstract manifesto of a feverish mind. It comes with concrete plans and a detailed strategy of how to take over and transform government into an autocratic revenge machine that can impose a reactionary vision against the will of the majority. /end
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Sarah Primate
@langurlover.bsky.social
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David Dayen
@ddayen.bsky.social
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Happy Fourth! As a public service, @ryanlcooper will help you update your Constitution by showing you all of the various sections that the Supreme Court has rendered inoperative.
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Yet Another Emily
@anomily.bsky.social
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I saved this for just such an occasion.
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Daniel Drezner
@dandrezner.bsky.social
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I wrote patriotically today. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/a-republic...
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Sen. Gogurt taking notes on a criminal conspiracy
@ugarles.bsky.social
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Administrative agencies: very dangerous, must be line edited by Matthew Kaczmaryk President: operates behind a curtain, no peeking
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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social
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Also, if Biden resigns as President, there is a very good chance the House GOP would block a VP replacement to Harris.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
@golikehellmachine.com
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there is no fucking “after” if trump wins again. there is america as we know it now, and there is post-america. that’s the choice. you aren’t voting for president, you are voting for the country you have always known, or one you’ve never known.
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Bart Bonikowski
@bartbonikowski.bsky.social
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An aspiring dictator & convicted felon w history of treason may win the presidency. Profoundly corrupt SCOTUS justices undermined the constitution and gave him immunity from prosecution for past & future crimes. This is all political journalists should be writing about 24/7. We’re at the precipice.
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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Sure fucking wish we’d learn to circle the wagons one last time
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hammancheez
@hammancheez.bsky.social
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Decisions
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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It also makes me feel insane that the rat fuck around Biden’s age and mental capacity is being uncritically spread around by Democrats when Trump is *incredibly obviously* grotesquely mentally incapacitated, in a way that is genuinely terrifying.
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John Shirley
@johnshirley2024.bsky.social
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Using one of my last gift links before my subscription cancellation takes effect
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