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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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Personally, I’d much rather pick the slightly addled friendly old man over the actively deranged addled old man who talks all the time about ushering in a bloody authoritarian reign of global terror. It makes me feel insane that this does not seem to be obvious to a lot of other people.
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Thomas Zimmer
@thomaszimmer.bsky.social
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Kevin Roberts believes he’s a noble defender of “real America” against a totalitarian “woke,” “globalist” assault from without and within.
“Project 2025” is his declaration of war on multiracial pluralism.
I wrote about his extremist worldview here:
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thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/project-20...
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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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I am absolutely scared shitless by this moment and I’ve been scared shitless of this moment coming for over a decade, but I’ve also concluded that the LAST thing we can collectively afford to do is projecting indecisive shrieking cowardice to everyone less politically plugged-in than we are.
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Amanda Marcotte
@amandamarcotte.bsky.social
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Looks like Biden's campaign is taking the "weather the storm" approach, hoping the media coverage dies down and he can stay without it ever being conclusively litigated.
Terrible plan! First, that won't improve his polls.....
x.com/ec_schneider...
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a head full of serpents and a mouth full of spiders
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"This is important: the nature of the First Amendment is that sometimes it protects the speech of people you dislike or distrust. Because if you don’t protect them, then those same authorities will suppress, stifle, and silence the speech of people you do support and do agree with."
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Andrea Junker
@strandjunker.bsky.social
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The fact that I know more about Joe Biden’s one bad debate night than I do about Donald Trump’s years of raping and sexually assaulting girls within Jeffrey Epstein’s child sex trafficking ring shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.
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Susan Rinkunas has a newsletter
@susanrinkunas.com
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If people don't understand how crucial local abortion funds are to folks actually getting their procedures or pills, here's the latest example: National Abortion Federation and Planned Parenthood are slashing patient grants from 50% to 30% of what callers need. Thirty percent.
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Hens Breet
@monospace.com
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The key to defeating Trump and fascism is turnout. More specifically, it's overcoming voter suppression in battleground states. There are way more of us than there are of them, and that's why they are obsessed with making voting as difficult as possible.
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ryan cooper
@ryanlcooper.com
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"Essentially, the Court in Trump v. United States is declaring the Constitution itself unconstitutional." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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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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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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one thing democrats need to understand is that in this moment transparency is their ally
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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this case against biden's resignation makes sense. i do think that if biden decides to step away from reelection, he should explicitly say that he is doing this because House Republicans are too corrupt to confirm a replacement for Harris.
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Very Very Common Mike Dunford
@questauthority.bsky.social
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The State of Missouri is suing New York, in an original action in the United States Supreme Court, seeking an injunction to lift Trump's gag order and postpone his sentencing until after the election. Yes, I typed that. Yes, it's a real thing that a real lawyer filed in actual court.
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Josh Chafetz
@joshchafetz.bsky.social
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1/ I'm agnostic as to whether Biden should withdraw from the race. It's a genuinely tough question IMO. But I have clarity on one thing: He should absolutely not step down as president. If Harris becomes President, the Vice Presidency is empty. Under the 25th Amendment ...
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Stephen Wolf
@stephenwolf.bsky.social
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Mississippi news from Tuesday, not 1966:
1) Conservative white officials threatening journalists who exposed massive corruption www.nbcnews.com/investigatio...
2) A federal court overturned conservatives' legislative gerrymanders for discriminating against Black voters www.wlbt.com/2024/07/03/f...
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conor
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i cannot stress how relieving it is to see the president of a major creative tech company like nintendo voice concerns about generative ai and say they’re not interested
www.tweaktown.com/news/99109/n...
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s. e. smith
@sesmith.bsky.social
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Anyway here’s a read about a civil rights attorney risking her freedom to tackle racist policing.
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L O L G O P
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I don't know how you lose running against a Court that wants to prosecute the pregnant and preemptively pardon that perpetrator.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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this entire crusade against diversity in hiring and admissions is based on the supposition that all white men are necessarily more qualified than any nonwhite person or woman who might be considered for the job. like, this lawsuit more or less states that outright.
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Gabe Ortíz
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“When Daniels was asked if she feared Trump returning to the WH, she envisioned him trying to make an example of her. She suggested his followers may be ‘more bold’ in the future because they could perhaps obtain a presidential pardon from him for any illegal acts." www.huffpost.com/entry/stormy...
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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast)
@brainnotonyet.bsky.social
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I really wish people listened to those of us who have spent years studying and writing about the far right and the coup they have been planning for decades. Because now they are just straight up telling you their plans because they are so emboldened by the fascist captured courts.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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these people do not intend to ever lose power again
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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social
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Honestly still in shock that the most crooked American President in history said "I need immunity" and the GOP Supreme Court said "well, it's nowhere in the constitution, but sure, why not? Whats the worst that could happen?"
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@bjkeefe.bsky.social
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On Trump's proposal to cut taxes (for the rich) and raise tariffs, here is a chart from @pkrugman.bsky.social on what to expect.
In words: "The net effect would be negative for 80 percent of the population, especially for the bottom 60 percent, while extremely positive for the top 1 percent."
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Leslie Molson
@lesliemolson.bsky.social
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Street vendors and the unhoused in New Orleans are subject to an exclusion zone for the duration of Essence festival.
The city calls it a "clean zone": www.nola.com/news/politic...
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Director, Basque Space Program
@scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz
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This is your enemy. His pinned post is unhinged racist trash, but he is serious about the agenda
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🏳️🌈Gosh Darnit of the New Jersey Darnits😷
@goshdarn.bsky.social
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The number of Google searches for Project 2025 skyrocketed after Taraji P. Henson mentioned it during her BET Awards appearance and encouraged the audience watching to Google it. That single black woman did more for liberal causes than all the current DNC leaders and the candidates themselves.
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@lokicharms.bsky.social
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Kind of the point.
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Jen Bendery
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NEW: "Richard Nixon would have had a pass": John Dean, former Nixon White House counsel, stunned by Trump immunity ruling.
“Virtually all of his Watergate conduct” could easily fall into what the Supreme Court now says is official conduct. www.huffpost.com/entry/richar...
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮
@joshuafoust.com
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It can’t be repeated enough: transphobia is a warning sign for fascism. The rights of trans people are a canary in the mine, and when they’re assaulted it means we are all under assault.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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A conspiracy against the law and constitution, entering its final stages.
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Daniel Feldman
@dfeldman.bsky.social
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Mississippi is the poorest state in the US.
Even though the state gets federal welfare funds, it is difficult to get welfare.
The money was all getting stolen, and they got away with it.
Now the journalists who exposed the story are facing a lawsuit and jail.
www.nbcnews.com/investigatio...
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Popehat
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Classic American political dialogue is premised on the idea that we share fundamental values but disagree on how best to promote them. I haven’t believed this for a while. Other than “I prefer to be alive and not dead” and “I like pudding,” I do not share values with these people.
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Badfairy. MINERS DO NOT INTERACT 🚫⛏️
@otorhinosaur.bsky.social
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Even as recently as 2018 in ENT residency, I gave a lecture to my department about transgender medicine and the response was largely “huh, interesting, I didn’t know any of that!” I literally could not give such a lecture today.
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Katie Mack
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Keeping Trump out of the White House isn’t the only thing that needs doing and it isn’t enough to solve all problems facing the country & world but if it isn’t done then all those problems get exponentially worse in ways I don’t even know how to express and it scares me when people pretend otherwise
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Jamison Foser
@jamisonfoser.bsky.social
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Things I *am* confident of: 1) Whoever the Democrats nominate is better than Trump 2) Trump & the GOP are the most significant threat to America since the civil war 3) the news media is obscuring #2 So those are the kinds of things I'm focused on, fwiw.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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He's right. They're stealing the country from us and ending democracy. "Bloodless if the left allows it to be" is a threat to kill anyone who fights back
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Sean
@publichealth.bsky.social
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sure it’s heritage being heritage, but their continued escalation of the violent rhetoric and threats is not to be taken lightly. especially not after j6
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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Heritage: it will remain bloodless so long as the libs agree to take cyanide.
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Seth Cotlar
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This guy with full immunity for “official acts,” plus the unlimited ability to pardon any official who would implement such orders = “limited government” Republican style.
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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Lot of people on here seem to assume that the US military is basically as bad as US police when it comes to “being totally dominated by frothing MAGA freaks.” This is absolutely NOT the case.
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Chad Loder
@chadloder.bsky.social
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French far-right candidate to withdraw after photo emerges of her wearing Nazi cap.
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Gillian Branstetter
@gbbranstetter.bsky.social
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Must be nice to have choices
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Samantha biobabbler
@biobabbler.bsky.social
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Incidentally, the forecast for Fresno, which is in the San Joaquin Valley, the most agriculturally productive region practically anywhere ....
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Joe Katz
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To wit: Donald Trump on Thursday claimed a) he had never had sex with a porn star, b) everyone wanted Roe overturned and c) he has evidence the election was stolen that he will present at a press conference this week. Now to me, that presents some pretty clear questions about his cognitive state.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow
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on the one hand, SCOTUS has ignored precedent, taken away rights, consolidated their own power and declared Donald Trump a special boy who can do all the crime he wants, but on the other hand, we must respect our sacred norms
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Sean
@publichealth.bsky.social
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these are deeply personal decisions, but
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Robot Monkey Pants
@robotmonkypants.bsky.social
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Some good MTV news, for a change? Internet Archive now hosts MTV News content
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