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alex (kamalist-restorationist) 🥥🙏🥥
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OK but what if the gay furry hackers released transcripts of their text conversations with Heritage Foundation Director and massive pissbaby Mike Howell?
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Steve Benen
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It's not every day that senators ask the attorney general to appoint a special counsel to criminally investigate a sitting Supreme Court justice.
What's more, the case against Clarence Thomas is quite credible. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
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@jordanw2382.bsky.social
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I try not to feel that. AI or no AI, what I do remains a tiny gesture in an ocean of carbon, either way. But these tiny gestures are part of creating a culture, a culture we need. Political power and control of large bad guy issues flows down from the strength and breadth of that culture
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@jordanw2382.bsky.social
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I would cancel if I could replace all that normal content, but I can't. I subsidize various indie pubs and it doesn't come close in net informational volume.
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@jordanw2382.bsky.social
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Speaking as a non-canceler, the NYT publishes a very large number of normie lib slash technocrat neutral articles every day. They are that market; they don't stop being that market because they decide to chase clicks on Biden. That's the explanation. We're all top 1-5 percent partisan/activists.
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@jordanw2382.bsky.social
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I've been thinking about this, and it feels like a topic featuring widespread situational hypocrisy (telemedicine! kremlinology!), a valid underlying point (remote diagnosis is less accurate than in person) and a lack of nuance in discussion (but likely more accurate than coin flipping!)
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@jordanw2382.bsky.social
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I think the reason this doesn't work is that in both of these cases, the most common use of the analogy is as a generic trope for generically evil people, used by normal people against, typically, non-Jewish persons, with no intended reference to religious and with no knowledge of religious status.
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@jordanw2382.bsky.social
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This.
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Quinta Jurecic
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even if you can get the watergate tapes, aren't they arguably inadmissible under the court's standard in trump v us insofar as they involve official acts?
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Katie Mack
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"Great men are almost always bad men" is a phrase that goes through my head a LOT (along with an appropriately gender-neutral-ized version when applicable)
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@jordanw2382.bsky.social
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You can see me raging at the Joe Biden resign brigade last week in my post history, FWIW, and I am still in no way convinced that this is the right move. But I'm at the point of legitimate uncertainty now. The polls aren't so bad now, but it gets harder to see them bouncing back in this frame.
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@jordanw2382.bsky.social
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He interviewed named neurologic experts, and related what they told him. It doesn't help to strawman the case. He's also observed a little reported series of recent neurologist WH visits. It was reported with appropriate caveats, and frankly it explains the elite defection we are seeing.
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@jordanw2382.bsky.social
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I've been in exactly the same place as you for the first week. What shifted me was Paul Campos's posts on LGM. I still agree about the severe political downsides and/or risk of replacing him, but a lot depends on how bad he gets, how fast, and how much candidate behavior even matters.
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Chris Levesque
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What this article leaves out is that if you hand your unlocked phone to a police officer, they can legally search it. Unless companies develop a method that allows you to show officers insurance cards and driver license without unlocking the rest of your phone, don't.
www.zdnet.com/article/digi...
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Gregg McLennan
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When you find common ground with people with whom you agree some of the time but not all of the time, you can prevent people with whom you agree none of the time from taking power. The left and the center have far more in common than either wants to admit.
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hammancheez
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Tldr Fuck : - overtime pay - osha - student loan forgiveness - trans rights - net neutrality - climate regulation - transport regulation - lab test regulation - and a partridge in a pear tree
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@jordanw2382.bsky.social
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It's going to take decades of winning lots of Presidential and Senate elections to fix, winning many to even protect blue states. Lose enough, and it will absolutely get worse, much worse.
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@jordanw2382.bsky.social
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"Trans Rights" are a good example. The bad news for trans rights that I hear about comes in the form of state legislation in Republican state legislatures. No amount of presidents can affect that. Legislation at best, but probably SCOTUS required.
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@jordanw2382.bsky.social
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I'm not trying to pile on here, but I'm going to mention that a lot of these topics are things that can only be addressed by legislation. Some of them, like gun control, can't be addressed even by that! They require a D-appointed Supreme Court majority, full stop.
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@jordanw2382.bsky.social
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An act of Congress would be a good solution, yep
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@jordanw2382.bsky.social
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Speaking as someone who has been exactly as angry as you at the Discourse, have you read this post? I found it a lot harder to dismiss than the juvenile news stories. www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/07/medi...
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@jordanw2382.bsky.social
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I'm not interested in convincing you otherwise, he sucks. But if you want to grok just how irresistible the tech has been, look into Starlink in Ukraine. It's not the kind of deal that military organizations turn down without losing wars. I don't have a good answer
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@jordanw2382.bsky.social
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Elon sucks, but SpaceX has saved the DoD gargantuan amounts of money, just sayin. Understanding this helps make plans to thwart him that would be more realistic.
arstechnica.com/science/2017...
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The Washington Post
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The Vatican excommunicated Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, exacting a severe punishment on the most vociferous internal critic of Pope Francis for refusing to recognize the authority of the pope and liberal reforms made by the Roman Catholic Church since the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s.
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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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Amanda Marcotte
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Project 2025 was from the Chris Rufo school of fascist communications, where you discuss your evil schemes out loud, confident the "normies" are not paying enough attention to notice.
But now it seems less politically engaged people are taking notice.
www.salon.com/2024/07/05/p...
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@jordanw2382.bsky.social
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Thanks for writing this. If nothing else, it feels great to read.
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Amanda Marcotte
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Why read past headlines: If you wonder why Trump and his cronies say terrible things out loud that should turn off swing voters, this article explains it.
But it's a high-risk/high-reward fascist strategy. With Project 2025, it may be backfiring.
www.salon.com/2024/07/05/p...
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@jordanw2382.bsky.social
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Yes.
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Dan Davis
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This entire conversation is the most irrational, burn-the-house-down political response I’ve ever seen. And I was here for the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago.
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@jordanw2382.bsky.social
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This is the kind of game where confidence, commitment, and loyalty are force multipliers. Acting out of fear that other people don't believe in you is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Be the change you want to see in the MSM. Please. We're not dispassionate observers. We're participants, all of us.
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@jordanw2382.bsky.social
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Anyone stepping into his place without an ironclad, pre established demonstration of being *more* popular, charismatic, and universally loved than him will carry the permanent stink of a desperate second choice. The media frenzy will intensify and stay there.
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@jordanw2382.bsky.social
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Politics is about confidence and unity. Any form or version of Joe Biden not being the nominee shatters both of those things in an unrecoverable way. Joe Biden resigning is a confession of guilt by the entire party of our own dishonesty and incompetence, as a party, in vouching for his fitness.
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@jordanw2382.bsky.social
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A lot of the more extreme suggestions here about what Joe Biden might do about any number of problems RN lead more or less directly to either SCOTUS-driven catastrophic intervention, reversal, and collapse, or to hot civil war. That's why they're bad ideas, even as a fan of playing hardball (me)
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This is why most political professionals have made only the smallest of changes to their forecast of an extremely close election. One can google Larry Sabato for an example of this, and the others are all the same.
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@jordanw2382.bsky.social
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It's completely within historical precedent for candidates to have bad media waves in a campaign, based on gaffes, bad events, or w/e, and then recover and win. In elections with close polling, it is utterly normal. An incredibly broad swathe of people have succumbed to recent panic.
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@jordanw2382.bsky.social
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I've never wanted to cancel my NYT subscription more than I do today.
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George Pearkes
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Yellow journalism. Really, if you're mad at anyone other than the oligarchy of elites here, I don't know what to tell you.
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Nied
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Trump gritting through the pussy tape is illustrative here. He refused to drop out & a few weeks later his polls rebounded & the press just dropped it. Obviously the fact that the press likes fascism & wants it to win is a factor but the fact it didn't change anything was EMBARRASSING for them.
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Nate Schenkkan
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I think it is wise and productive for people to take seriously the idea we are in a constitutional crisis in America. I don’t think it is wise or productive to assume what happens next is like what happens in semi consolidated or consolidated authoritarian systems.
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@jordanw2382.bsky.social
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Yes, but also, any such effort would require Republican cooperation, which is a pipe dream.
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Katharine Hayhoe
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It's important to note that this single-post analysis above is entirely consistent with a much more comprehensive analysis by @ketanjoshi.co showing that changes in the X algorithm and moderation policies that began in Oct 2022 have massively favoured trolls and penalized climate scientists.
See:
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@jordanw2382.bsky.social
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I haven't heard other experts talk about what a baseline Roberts court ruling on presidential immunity would have looked like in a non-Trump world. I'm with everyone else in horror, but the possibility that this is fairly close to their pre-Trump opinions anyway has occurred to me. Any thoughts?
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@mjk4mj.bsky.social
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"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. ..." bsky.app/profile/mitc...
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Popehat
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There are two elements to the immunity decision that are particularly extreme in a way that many will miss: (1) motive is irrelevant and (2) immune acts are not just excluded from prosecution, they’re excluded from evidence. /1
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executive editor, barbell quarterly
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frankly, the first defeat that we can hand them, in November, is the easiest possible one we are going to be offered, and we'd be fools not to make it happen.
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Peter Sagal
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Under today’s immunity decision, Biden could order AG Garland to immediately prosecute Thomas and Alito for corruption and insurrection. (Official act). If Garland refuses, Biden can fire him and replace him with someone who will. (Official act) I would suggest Elie Mystal.
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@jordanw2382.bsky.social
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You seem like a good person and more resilient than you think 🤝
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@jordanw2382.bsky.social
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Ain't it funny how many invisible people came out of the woods here to invalidate this seemingly reasonable take? It's like a lot. I am also in the 'best president of my lifetime' camp tho also the 'tragically not even close to good enough to save us' camp
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@jordanw2382.bsky.social
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Yep
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