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Jonathan Cohn
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My take on the debate is that it made me very excited to vote in November….to legalize psychedelics in Massachusetts.
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Editor. Political director for Progressive Mass. Opinions are my own. Phone-banking-while-walking evangelist.
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Jonathan Cohn
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My take on the debate is that it made me very excited to vote in November….to legalize psychedelics in Massachusetts.
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Marisa Kabas
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THIS ISNT A TEE-BALL TOURNAMENT, JOE
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Joe Katz
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And to top it off it's a terrible answer politically. What happened to Trump being an American crisis?
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Jonathan Cohn
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This is shockingly solipsistic. And dangerous.
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Jonathan Cohn
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Very underwhelming actual message, Kamala
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Emissary Of Night | ليلى
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Apropos nothing else there might be a lesson in the fact that the biggest supporters of this president since January 2021 were the leftmost congresspeople and that they refrained from open criticism for the most part until he decided to aid and abet mass murder lol
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Jonathan Cohn
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I’ve been busy all afternoon moving. Is Kamala our nominee yet?
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hannah gais
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even trump’s campaign staff (i assume he didn’t write this) knows that the reactionary, authoritarian agenda that’s project 2025 is going to be unpopular with the average voter.
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Greg Sargent
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NEWS --> Mark Robinson, the MAGA extremist GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, appeared to endorse political violence against unnamed foes in a recent speech.
"Some folks need killing!" he shouted. "It's a matter of necessity!"
Video and story here:
newrepublic.com/article/1834...
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Jonathan Cohn
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I’m a millennial, Katie. What do you think the answer is?
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Jonathan Cohn
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*11:13 am on July 5* *Posts on America's Facebook wall "Happy (belated) birthday!!!"*
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Jonathan Cohn
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Who the f*ck cares who Ross Douthat and David French, both conservatives, think the Democratic nominee should be?
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Jonathan Cohn
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Glad to see the Tories get completely wiped out.
The bigger task: getting Labour to actually do anything with its huge majority www.npr.org/2024/07/05/g...
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Jonathan Cohn
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As have I! I’ll bookmark this because I’ve wanted to read a good breakdown better organized than snippets from obsessed friends.
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Paul Cornell
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Liz Truss has gone! Labour took the seat! By just 600 votes!
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Nina Metz
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Wallace Shawn on Gaza: “The Anger of the Palestinians Cannot Be Ended by Killing Their Children” The playwright, actor, and member of Jewish Voice for Peace challenges the notion that all Jews support Israel's actions Via THR
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Jeffrey Vagle
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What is Heritage rebelling against?
- Civil rights
- Regulation of financial markets, environment, consumer goods, antitrust
- Marriage equality
- Fair immigration
- Anything that they see as discriminatory against white people and their brand of Christianity
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Abu Aardvark (on leave, allegedly)
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“Israel has seized control of 26 percent of the Gaza Strip.. Palestinians are barred from entering, residential buildings were destroyed, vegetation has been uprooted and the IDF built a new road with four bases. "This is an effort toward a prolonged occupation.”
www.haaretz.com/opinion/edit...
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Jonathan Cohn
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Things Biden could do that would take attention away from the debate and his age: (1) Call for expanding the Supreme Court (2) Announce that he's ending or strictly conditioning military aid to Israel until the war in Gaza ends
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John Bull
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This will be doubly awkward as the number of NOMINATIONS required for a candidate to make the Tory Leadership ballot ISN'T a percentage. It's a fixed number. 100 MPs. I'm sure it sounded reasonable at the time. Good luck getting 100 Tory MPs to agree on something when there are only 121 of them.
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Perry Bacon
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"Plenty of us actual Midwesterners will vote for all kinds of people. If you’re worried about the bad vibes, stop creating them. If you’re worried about electability, remember that what makes a candidate electable is when you elect them into office." www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
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Jonathan Cohn
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I feel like the debate was bad, but the response is what has really convinced me that he needs to not be the nominee. Debates can get better, but if you are fully disconnected from reality, your messaging about bumps in the road will not!
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Jacob T. Levy
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It is good and normal for Joe Biden to sleep like an 81-year old, and he's a better president 6 hours a day than Trump was for the 17 minutes a day that he paid attention to anything and the other 12 hours that he was awake doing stupid crap. But still, "needs more sleep" is a disastrous message.
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Jonathan Cohn
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Easy to forget how heavy books are, but you remember clearly when you have to transport them!
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Jonathan Cohn
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I wonder if the folks in the DNC who pushed for an early debate did so because they wanted this out early. But I may be attributing too much competence.
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Jonathan Cohn
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Did a double take at the foreword, What a relic of another era this is!
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Max Kennerly
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Among the many, many issues here, it's clear that ICE has way too much money to play with.
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Jonathan Cohn
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Exit poll
Labour: 410
Conservatives: 131
Liberal Democrats: 61
Reform UK: 13
SNP: 10
Plaid Cymru: 4
Greens: 2
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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bsdtectr
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ooh. Dershowitz is terrified that more Epstein files were released. What’s that saying about protesting too much?
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CrackedLemonade
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It's crazy how government agencies are allowed and encouraged to create situations which would be a crime if anyone else did it, and if they get caught they end up settling in court and doing it again. Also ICE crackdowns are highly unethical if you have been followed them.
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costrike
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Looks like I'm gonna wear this one out.
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Al Petterson
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It really is a weird symmetry that this year the UK elections are the 4th of July and the US elections are the 5th of November.
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Jonathan Cohn
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Fortunately a presidential campaign with no events after 8 is totally viable
www.cnn.com/2024/07/04/p...
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Don Moynihan
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Why I Don't Vote (OK, I Do Vote, but I Would Like to Discourage You, NY Times Reader, For Doing So For Some Reason)
Via @bubbaprog.ilovecitr.us
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Laura Clawson
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If you’re remembering the existence of Gitmo, this story is worth revisiting for context on another prisoner there. www.nytimes.com/2019/12/04/u...
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J.M. Berger
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And it's not just that they don't create *social* benefits; they don't create *business* benefits! They don't create profits! They just consume resources! It's mystifying!
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Bill Jank
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This is bonkers - it’s like draining an iPhone battery each search. (iPhone battery is between 3 and 4 amp hours at 3.8 volts, so about 12 watt hours total)
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Jonathan Cohn
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The environmental toll of AI is obscene, especially when things like Google's AI search don't create real social benefits.
prospect.org/environment/...
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Jonathan Cohn
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Funny how Steward had the resources to spy on critics and whistleblowers but not the resources to, you know, actually pay workers well or not go under! www.bostonglobe.com/2024/07/01/m...
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Jonathan Cohn
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"Many of the people we interviewed offered an account not only of Jewish violence against Palestinians dating back decades but also of an Israeli state that has systematically and increasingly ignored that violence." www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/m...
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Jonathan Cohn
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That generals understand that a ceasefire -- rather than continued bloodshed, induced famine, etc., -- is in their self-interest shows how clearly the continuation of the war is a combination of Netanyahu's self-preservation and the settlers' maximalism. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/w...
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Jonathan Cohn
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In case you forgot (as it's easy to do!) that Gitmo is still open
www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/u...
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Laila Lalami
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The Israeli occupation of the West Bank is expanding, in violation of international law and to the indifference of the administration.
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Stephen Wolf
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The New York Times found it appropriate to publish this drivel on Independence Day just one week after the Supreme Court ruled that Republican presidents are above the law.
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Jonathan Cohn
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Yes, and that was bad!
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Jonathan Cohn
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I originally misread this headline as saying "The Conservatives Have Ruined Britain for 14 Years. How Has That Worked Out?" But, also, that's exactly what the article shows. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Jonathan Cohn
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Especially horrifying that they did this under Obama!
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Jonathan Cohn
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ICE created a fake university in order to defraud, rob, and deport students. The depths of depravity there know no bounds. www.freep.com/story/news/l...
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Jonathan Cohn
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The most interesting thing about the articles about the donor class is what it tells you about who talks to the media regularly. Also, the Democratic Party is broken if anyone was trying to recruit Jamie Dimon to run. The guy has praised Trump!
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Jonathan Cohn
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And the issue is what took so long! They should have been doing that immediately if they wanted to dispel all the chatter. And they should have been calling every single Senator and Rep.
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