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Gail Simone
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Best dogs we have ever had. We are currently on our fourth retired racer greyhound.
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101 followers 62 following 437 posts
He/him
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Gail Simone
@gailsimone.bsky.social
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Best dogs we have ever had. We are currently on our fourth retired racer greyhound.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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Yes. Trump is lying and his fans are laughing at any of the members of the media gullible to repeat his lies for him.
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Jacob T. Levy
@jacobtlevy.bsky.social
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*There's* the schmuck I've disliked since 1988. I don't know what the right thing to do is, but good lord is that now what this is about. The correct answer is "defeating Donald Trump is a matter of the gravest national importance. I'm the one who has done it and I believe I'm the one...
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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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Mike Boylan-Kolchin
@mbkplus.bsky.social
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The biggest issue with Biden coverage is that he’s now The Story, which means that most of the press is focused on The Story and not any of the context or consequences. If we were having a serious discussion about qualifications for presidency, age, and the two main candidates, I’d be fine with it.
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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Like, yes, ok, the media owns some of this. But also ... if you have a campaign, literally any of those are gigaquake events to change the tide and frame what you're going to do and take that message to the voters, and how exactly is it the campaign can't capitalize on it? That's the issue
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Pwnallthethings
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This week SCOTUS killed Chevron deference, gave Trump total immunity, and Trump was credibly tied to Epstein, and it seems to me if your campaign somehow seriously can't find a way to then change the topic of conversation in the newspapers or stop your party panicking, what are we doing here exactly
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andy™
@andylevy.net
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what are we doing here? he accidentally said million instead of billion and then immediately knew it and corrected himself. he didn’t “flub a line” and then “make an effort to correct himself,” he did the speaking equivalent of a typo that you know you’ve made and instantly correct
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Willie Fitzgerald
@williefitz.bsky.social
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I'm not the Step Dad, I'm the Dad from the Steppe—and my Scythian Brethren and I Will Teach this Child the Way of the Horse
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Sen. Gogurt taking notes on a criminal conspiracy
@ugarles.bsky.social
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AND he can pardon them proactively! He can give blanket pardons for categories of officers before he leaves office that the next President can't revoke.
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Taniel
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I’ve been critical of Attal and his rhetoric over the last 3.5 weeks: but if the RN loses on Sunday, he should be remembered as the one in the Macronist bloc who maneuvered to avoid the president’s bonkers gamble result in a far-right government.
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Taniel
@taniel.bsky.social
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Explosive reporting in Le Monde confirms what was apparent all week: Macron resisted the emergence of anti-far-right front after round 1. His PM, Attal, forced it as a fait accompli, & pressured for drop outs to block RN. Even then, Macron made some phone calls to undercut it.
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Tom Scocca
@tomscocca.bsky.social
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Just like none of the bold investigators backfilling Joe Biden's feeble debate performance with punchy anonymous quotes have ever figured out why Trump was rushed to Walter Reed, claimed he wanted a spur-of-the-moment weekend checkup, and a year later declared that he had NOT had a series of strokes
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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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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social
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Sinn Féin now Northern Ireland's largest party in the UK Parliament.
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Karen K. Ho
@karenho.bsky.social
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I feel bad for the journalists inside the NYT, the WSJ and Washington Post trying to do excellent work in spite of leadership decisions and terrible op-eds that undermine those ongoing efforts
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Brendan Nyhan
@brendannyhan.bsky.social
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Extremely frustrating to hear legal experts analyzing the SCOTUS ruling on immunity like just another case - it's an inherently normalizing act. People need to stop playing constitutional Calvinball and treat them like political actors.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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but you also just can’t overstate the extent to which these kinds of small business owners are not just risk averse but genuinely dimwitted
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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the other thing is that people have no sense of how much space cars and so they imagine that a road full of cars must be a lot of people when it very often is not. a well-used bike lane transports like twice as many people during a given time as does a road
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
@sjshancoxli.bsky.social
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every supreme court ruling these days
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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we’re in danger
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Joe Katz
@joekatz45.bsky.social
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"They're just fearmongering about Project 2025," brought to you by the people behind "They're just fearmongering about a coup" and "they're just fearmongering about abortion bans"
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Noel Murray
@noelmu.bsky.social
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The best thing to happen yesterday (a low bar to clear but still) was a dog named Peanut Butter winning a game of SNES Ken Griffey Baseball in under 30 minutes at the Games Done Quick convention -- in a 12th inning walkoff, no less. (I've cued it, but it starts around 31:10.) youtu.be/m2FZKJ4QBdA...
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Cooper Lund
@cooperlund.bsky.social
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It will never cease to amaze me how little business owners understand how their customers reach their business
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emptywheel
@emptywheel.bsky.social
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Amanda talks about how if you factually describe that the SCOTUS immunity ruling permits the President to kill his rivals if done as CinC, they accuse you of TDS. I even had Catturd do that to me!
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emptywheel
@emptywheel.bsky.social
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Brazil Charges Coup-Plotter Bolsonaro for Saudi Gifts as Trump Org Unveils New Saudi High Rise
www.emptywheel.net/2024/07/05/b...
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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Tory party's strategy of having their entire talent pipeline just be being rich and having had your empathy beaten out of you as a child by the South England Boarding School For Making Monstrous Children apparently not helping them connect with voters
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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ngl sure is a weird history reversal that the UK chose July 4 of all days to throw off the yolk of their entitled and incompetent government, and over in the US the NYT and supreme court have spent the past week deciding that presidents are kings and voting is bad actually
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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️🌈
@chimeracoder.bsky.social
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there's a certain irony that liberals who have spent four years yelling at leftists who criticize Biden at all for any reason have now, in one week, done more damage to Biden's candidacy than all those leftists combined
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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just watched 74 people speaking at least a dozen different languages become american citizens in a ceremony at monticello, where the speakers were themselves children of immigrants. inspiring stuff and a vivid illustration of what reactionaries want to snuff out
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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Anyway, billionaires spend a lot of money on depriving their opponents of the right or will to vote, and they aren't opening their wallet out of the kindness of their hearts. It's because it does, when all is said and done, matter quite a lot
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Pwnallthethings
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This is a dumb article, but also isn't the author's first rodeo, and his other writing shows the real reason he doesn't vote
"But my principal reason for declining to take part in elections is moral. It involves, I suppose, a private objection to democracy itself." theweek.com/articles/802...
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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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Alex Blechman
@alexblechman.bsky.social
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July 4th is very rough on my dog (he is a royalist and considers George Washington a traitor)
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Jonathan Cohn
@jonathancohn.bsky.social
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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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Sarah Weinman
@sarahweinman.bsky.social
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The thing about the march to fascism is that aside from the terror and the consequences it’s also so goddamn embarrassing
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Colossal
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Artist Hitomi Terasawa drew a meticulous cross-sectioned rendering of Hong Kong's infamous Kowloon Walled City before it was razed in 1994. Now we have rare scans revealing the inner workings of the labyrinth-like metropolis.
www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/07/kowl...
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Greg Pak
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Twelve (12) articles about Biden's age on the NYT home page. Scroll down for a good while and at the bottom of the right column you can find just two (2) articles about the Supreme Court's immunity decision, neither of which state in the headline that the president is now a king.
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Radley Balko
@radleybalko.bsky.social
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Just a jaw-dropper from the state whose attorney general is currently trying to execute an innocent man.
innocenceproject.org/missouri-cir...
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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Maybe we should be talking about credible allegations of Trump sexually assaulting twelve year olds with the assistance of Epstein!
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Klep
@klep.bsky.social
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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i think akhil amar reed captures something very important, which is that the roberts court rewrote article ii, which explicitly states that a president can be held criminally liable after impeachment (and which has long been understood to mean that he can be held liable after leaving office)
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Nick
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Also a lot of artists have dogshit estates controlling their rights posthumously, unfortunately. Obviously there's nothing legal to be done about that in most cases, but it's useful to bear in mind. (also, it's not like the dead could have reasonably predicted having to take a stance on this issue)
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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for example, is the Uniform Code of Military Justice unconstitutional under this separation of powers doctrine?
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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given the roberts' courts expansive (and frankly extra-constitutional) notions of "separation of powers," i do wonder if they would eventually turn their eyes toward any congressional regulation of presidential power, even that which is specified under congress' article i powers
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NaniCoolJ
@nanicoolj.bsky.social
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But you're not presented with that. You're presented with "look at this nostalgic thing that'll give you a dopamine hit in this stressful world we live in now!" And there's a bigger conversation to be had about media literacy and whatnot but...
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NaniCoolJ
@nanicoolj.bsky.social
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Because Judy Garland cannot consent to her voice being used this way, she's dead. Her estate can, but with this technology being new, and there not being clear laws about it there's a risk involved with that. Also that technology could be used to make her say awful things.
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NaniCoolJ
@nanicoolj.bsky.social
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Using Judy Garland's voice to read The Wizard of Oz is a calculated choice. It's pulling on heartstrings. Who doesn't want to hear the person who starred in probably one of their favorite childhood movies read the book it was based on. It's sweet. It's wholesome. It's a lie.
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NaniCoolJ
@nanicoolj.bsky.social
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So years ago when those robot dogs started showing up on social media there were folks talking about how the cute videos of the dogs dancing was basically marketing, and how making people think they were cute was being used to hide the fact that they're war machines. I didn't get it then but...
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