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Mark Shore@markshore.bsky.social |
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Interested in many things, from climate and Earth sciences to politics. 2024 update: Thought about re-subscribing to the New York Times just to enjoy cancelling it again. But no.
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Taniel
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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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Will Stancil
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Biden didn’t get up and perform athletic feats but it seems like a pretty normal interview from an old guy? This is the single greatest moment of political derangement I have ever witnessed in this country. The president gives a normal interview and everyone says… he must join Nixon and resign?
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Mark Shore
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Charlton Heston, of all people, had a handy metaphor that could be reused.
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Gwen McNamara
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Rapist and convicted felon Trump brushed off his incessant lying debate performance in a high-stakes interview after he defiantly declared on the stump that he'll stay in the 2024 race. Follow live updates.
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David Ho
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By not being at the bad place, y’all are missing this absolute banger of a thread from @volts.wtf. Like him, I don’t care who is the Democratic nominee.
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Mark Shore
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I've always thought the one failing people won't forgive in their leaders is abject cowardice. But based on who keeps getting reelected over and over, I may be wrong.
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Mark Shore
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I had subscribed to all three, and have canceled them all. The NYT in early 2017, the Post 9 months ago (runs out soon) and the Atlantic 6 months ago. I'm subscribing to other papers/magazines now.
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Shiv Ramdas
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aaand predictably, Sulz has started the anti-Kamala attacks ,guy really thinks he can swing the election to whoever won't raise his taxes, this POS needs to be put back in place the American people ASAP
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Mark Shore
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And almost guaranteed that the ~40% negative ratings in Canada and western Europe are largely due to a closer view of Trump and Republicans than other countries have
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Mark Shore
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maybe you're just too positive
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Mark Shore
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Sadly, that's the last I'll see of it after accidentally hitting the block button.
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Mark Shore
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Her race and gender will also be closely but fairly scrutinized
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Mark Shore
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The media being what it's shown itself to be, for now I'd take care not to put too much weight on "according to the [two] people familiar with private conversations who spoke on the condition of anonymity to speak freely"
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Mark Shore
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Nonzero chance Robinson is going to raise Stein's religion in a subtly* derogatory way soon * given Robinson, subtle would be "I'm not saying my opponent *personally* killed Jesus, our Lord and Savior, but his people did"
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Mark Shore
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"Senior moment here" time to step back from the grueling role of Bluesky poster, where every comment has to be perfect
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Mark Shore
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Like the NYT, I can only cancel the Washington Post once. With the WaPo, an annual subscription isn't refunded on a pro-rated basis, but runs out at the end of the subscription period. So there's a long time to keep reading and A) change your mind or B) not. It's mostly been a solid B
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Mark Shore
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39 for soccer forwards is like 81 for politicians
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Mark Shore
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don't know if it used to be a thing with those two papers (they both pay interns now), but elsewhere unpaid internships do a great job at keeping out the wrong type of young staffers
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Mark Shore
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I wonder if either of them are NYPD officers who park illegally in NYC
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Mark Shore
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I have just learned the devastating fact that with every passing hour Joe Biden gets 3600 seconds older.
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Mark Shore
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Spoke too soon, there was a German player on the six yard line, standing still but IMO in the line of play.
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Mark Shore
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No, that should have been a handball normally. But I think there was another German player between Cucurella and the GK who would have been offside if considered in play. No repeat replay though, so [shrug]
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Mark Shore
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??? Was the German forward offside?
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Kirk Murphy
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I'm a brain doc (Consultation-Liaison psych). For *years* Trump has shown uninterrupted, increasingly severe cognitive symptoms: he's incapable of linear thought *at baseline*. Whatever disrupted Biden's linear thought in the debate is at worst intermittent. Bonus: he's not an overt fascist.
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Mark Shore
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Based on my observations and family in different countries, very few expect this, but sometimes it's used for partisan attacks. The (US) president being head of the executive branch, head of state, de facto head of their party, and commander in chief of a global nuclear military may play a role.
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Mark Shore
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I notice the NYT predictably didn't mention Trump's own debate debacle, a firehose of lies, bullshit, abuse, and incoherence.
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Mark Shore
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and spoken with a sense of complete impunity
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Don Moynihan
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Sinn Féin now Northern Ireland's largest party in the UK Parliament.
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Mark Shore
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I forgot Athens and deliberately left out Mexico because I was thinking of the country, not city. With Syracuse I always think of the NY one first (for other readers, Syracuse is a city in eastern Sicily founded by Greeks 2700 years ago)
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Mark Shore
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I like the "dangled in front of them like a set of keys" analogy. It's also worth noting that both are wealthy failsons and rapists (proven with Trump, alleged but likely with RFK Jr.)
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Karen K. Ho
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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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A.R. Moxon
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This will be one about hope, though maybe not "hope" as it is usually meant.
Hope is a defiant act taken against those who would sabotage any act of reparation—and sabotaging repair is exactly what fascism does.
For this reason, hope is what is needed right now.
www.the-reframe.com/a-fools-hope/
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Mark Shore
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I suspect you'll be able to count the number of Republican politicians (state or federal) who publicly call on Robinson to withdraw or for voters to vote for Stein on the fingers of one hand, with room to spare.
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Mark Shore
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The Shrekfather
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Mark Shore
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you're correct, both from Trump attacking mail-in voting in general and in his appointed Postmaster General Louis DeJoy ordering mail sorting equipment disabled or removed in the weeks before the election
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Mark Shore
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the NYT, WaPo, WSJ, networks: facing deep concerns of her disloyalty, inexperience and gender, light-skinned Indo-Afro-Jamaican-American Kamala ("it's pronounced comma-la," she scolds) Harris struggles to fill the giant shoes of the beloved mentor and father figure she forced out of the job he loved
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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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Mark Shore
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Black Republicans leave me baffled anyway, so this particularly crazed one calling for lynchings doesn't shock me as much as it might have.
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John Pfaff
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You don't see GOPers publicly pulling their hair out over Trump praising Hannibal Lecter at every speech. They just push ahead to get their guy--their policy goals--in power. Dems need the same monomaniacal focus. Is Biden old? Yes. Does it suck? Yes. Does it actually matter here? No.
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Mark Shore
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oh wait, he specifically said "public" never mind
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Mark Shore
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ah, maybe he was referring to Britons *with* titles... so that take is much less offensive
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David Noll
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Just in time for July 4, my colleague Sarah Swan has posted her stunning new paper (forthcoming in Yale Law Journal) on police suing people they are supposed to protect.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Mark Shore
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it's a bipartisan committee!
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Mark Shore
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the first step to solving a problem is acknowledging you have one one reason many voters don't think there's a crisis of democracy is because their political leaders don't act like there is
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Mark Shore
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Which beloved American sport is better, basketball or baseball? The Presidential Better B-Ball Commission has been tasked to determine this, and welcomes its appointed committee members: LeBron James Michael Jordan Larry Bird Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Stephen Curry
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Mark Shore
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Biden moved uncharacteristically fast (EO April 9, 2021) to appoint a Presidential Commission on SCOTUS, but it was implicitly engineered to fail to come to any conclusions and was not empowered to make recommendations. So reform wasn't going to come from the top.
www.whitehouse.gov/pcscotus/
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🔞Neph, Changeling Fucker Surpreme
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He has arrived.
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Mark Shore
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some key norms that must be broken that still hold sway among many in the media, the senior ranks of the Democratic Party, and some of its voting base and the general public, namely that the Republican Party values democracy and that the judiciary is mostly nonpartisan, and you can't say otherwise
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Ann M. Lipton
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This is marvelous. Class action alleges Walmart systematically puts one price on the shelf, and charges a little more at the cash register. Walmart claims consumers can see the prices actually charged, so no harm. CA7 rejects.
www.law360.com/securities/a...
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Anthonius van ʘo!o
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The NYT editorial everyone’s talking about today
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