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Matt Vallone@mattvallone.bsky.social |
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Former Hill staffer, current defense data guy, working on a fantasy novel/wannabe writer. Native of NH and fan of all things New England-also root for Nats & THFC. Views are my own.
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Matt Vallone
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I disagree to an extent. I agree that the media has decided that no matter what Trump says/does it’s not news but Biden’s performance was legitimately concerning.
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Taniel
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The Telegraph reports that Keir Starmer, on his first day as Prime Minister, is scrapping the "Rwanda scheme,' the Tory plan to deport all asylum seekers & undocumented immigrants to Rwanda wherever they are from.
(This was a Starmer platform promise.)
www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
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Matt Vallone
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Insert joke about party lounges here…
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Matt Vallone
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We were an illiberal democracy for a very long time. The GOP is in the process of deciding how illiberal they think we should be.
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Matt Vallone
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They benefit from the phenomenon whereby most reporters view the Democratic Party as the protagonist and the GOP as the antagonist and cover it accordingly.
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Sen. Gogurt taking notes on a criminal conspiracy
@ugarles.bsky.social
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the conservative theory of law in one headline
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Oscar Goff
@theoscargoff.bsky.social
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This is what the streets of an ancient city haunted by elder gods look like.
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Tade Thompson
@tadethompson.bsky.social
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I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.
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John Dellaporta
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A few years ago, Jon Lovett floated a theory that media treats Democrats like protagonists - to be challenged, accounted, and forced to be behave in growth-oriented ways - while the GOP are treated like antagonists - immutable, expected to disrupt, thematic obstacles. Thinking about that a lot.
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Adam Gurri
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The thing about taking statutory interpretation away from the agencies is that Congress actually has power over those agencies, but does not have power over the Court. It’s power grab in the guise of helping; it’s “helping” in a paternalistic, condescending, unchecked manner.
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Itai Sher
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I think the following are true 1 The direct effect of debates on voters is small 2 Biden can’t be replaced without his consent 3 The dramatic turn of elite opinion against him is significant
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Christoph Harig
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Europe digesting the US presidential debate
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Matt Vallone
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I did not watch last night (self-preservation) but I fear that Biden’s inner circle, coming from a Senate where octogenarians are common, doesn’t understand the depth of the problem. Maybe this changes things but I am skeptical.
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homosexual overlord
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remember that train that derailed in a small community and dumped tons of toxic chemicals? the national transportion safety board has accused the company of multiple levels of bullshit, which speaks to the impunity corporations feel they have in America
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Pwnallthethings
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It's only bribery if you do it in front of a notary, shake hands with the special bribery handshake, and recite the words "this bribe of current market value $5000 or more is for a corrupt action you otherwise would not perform" and the official responds "thank you for your bribe for my corrupt act"
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Charles Louis Richter
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what a win for consumer protection! far too often a bribe is made and no quid pro quo is delivered. with this decision, a standard of post-action payment is established, ensuring an equitable system in which the consumer only pays once the deed is done
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Adam Serwer
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It is very funny how one of the Supreme Court’s big issues is making it impossible to outlaw bribery because they like being bribed
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BeefReeferLives
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RE: "Bribes" vs. "Gratuities":
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Olli Bäckström
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emptywheel
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This is quite good. What it doesn't address, though, are the allegations that Lewis is silencing (or attempting to) journalists both within and outside WaPo.
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Matt Vallone
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I have not fully updated my mental model of politics to account for the fact that one of our two parties has decided being out of power is not worth the current level of liberal democracy and actively debating the correct level of illiberalism to impose.
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Just S
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Yes, if you don’t like the choice between Trump and Biden, think of it as picking between Stephen Miller and Pete Buttigieg, Steve Bannon and Deb Haaland, Michael Flynn and Lina M. Khan, Alex Jones and Jessica Rosenworcel, or Brett Kavanaugh and Ketanji Brown Jackson. Both sides are not “the same”
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hilzoy
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Every since I read this ProPublica piece a few years ago, I use this "pretend we're talking about a guy named Bob" test all the time. (Here it's about antitrust, but it's useful everywhere.)
www.propublica.org/article/yiel...
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Coach Finstock
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Biden will mispronounce or misremember something and the NYT and WaPo will write six stories about it the next day, and Trump will recount a fishing trip with Marlon Brando that never happened and the only people who will know are the ones who watched the debate.
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Angry Staff Officer
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Here's to the destruction of slavery and defeat of slavers! Since we don't have an Emancipation Proclamation Day or an Appomattox Day, I'm celebrating them both today going to Gettysburg, where treason and slavery received one of their death blows
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Matt Vallone
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So my Congressional knowledge is like ten plus years old in this but in 2013 it was a very weird dynamic with Comcast/Verizon on the side of the angels and the main opposition being political campaign orgs that like spamming people.
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Classy Warfare
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I think one of the biggest issues with the revolutionaries vs incrementalists is that progress doesn’t have an end point. You manage a problem and move on to the new one and keep working at it. Social progress is maintenance and patching and adjusting forever, there’s no Mission Accomplished moment
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Matt Vallone
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You know you have a revolutionary technology when companies are forcibly cramming it on to everything possible in a vague and possibly illusory hope they’ll pay for its costs.
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Matt Vallone
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I don’t know the 90s/80s relative performance but I think that was the late 90s/00s trend.
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Matt Vallone
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My birth year being in that middle picture really smarts…
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Gerry Doyle
@mgerrydoyle.bsky.social
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hey @profmusgrave.bsky.social this one's for you
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Matt Vallone
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I agree Brexit was a stupid and damaging move but the trends predate it. Basically growth has been stagnant since sometime under Blair.
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taenia
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Holding snakes by the tail isn't a safe way to avoid being bitten and is a very good way to injure the snake. If you need to move a snake and you're not sure if its venomous, squirting it with a hose from several feet away in order to get it to clear out is a safe and effective option.
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Matt Vallone
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New update only shows if you haven’t been.
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Kevin M. Kruse
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The campaign of convicted felon Donald Trump understands it’s shameful that convicted felon Donald Trump is a convicted felon so they’ll try to cow reporters into *not* calling convicted felon Donald Trump a convicted felon, but convicted felon Donald Trump is, factually, a convicted felon.
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Matt Vallone
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I swear after reading the oped that Parker was more upset about being denied a walking conversation with Martha than she was about the insurrectionist flag.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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Propaganda works, and the corporate news media is furiously busy trying to set the table for "its actually normal for a convicted felon to run for President." Their bosses all want Trump to win.
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Bryan
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There is no right answer.
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Amanda Smith
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Just a reminder: we are the ordinary people, which is why you should be calling your senators to demand that they do their job and hold hearings on Alito and Thomas.
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Seth Cotlar
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The people who gleefully chanted about locking up Trump’s opponent on the basis of no evidence in the fall of 2016 are now apoplectic that their preferred candidate might be locked up after being found guilty by a jury of his peers.
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Matt Vallone
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“D-E-M-S I-N D-I-S-A-R-R-A-Y”
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Tracy O’Connell Novick
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Boston has had only three murders this year. What is it doing right?
www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/...
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
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i’m not going to get outraged by a non-profit whose employees have been targeted for murder for being slow to change out security providers (an expensive and difficult process) after their startup provider got bought by a defense contractor *and neither should you*, this is meaningless outragebait
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southpaw
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“The conflict in the Virginia neighborhood does not explain why a second flag associated with the Jan. 6 riot, as well as with a Christian nationalist movement, later flew at the Alitos’ New Jersey beach house.”
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
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"if it were fascism, that would be very inconvenient to me. therefore it's not fascism." the anti-liberal left is a deeply, deeply unserious group of people.
thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/the-anti-l...
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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The industry also used to be significantly less centralized, even in terms of how decisions were made within studios, which helped it weather downturns and shifts in taste. bsky.app/profile/badf...
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Gabe Ortíz
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Gutierrez lived in an orphanage through his teens when he decided to set out for the US on his own. He promised his sister she would join him. “Says Lillian Cardenas, who would become his foster sister in the US: He had nothing, no money, just the will for a better life,” Time said. #MemorialDay
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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The concept of "kayfabe" from pro wrestling is weirdly useful for understanding elite DC political stuff. The Alito Flag story is causing so much consternation for DC elites not because it shows that pro wrestling is fake (they all know it's fake) but because Alito acknowledged it was fake.
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Phil Lewis
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Reposting because this story is so wild: A scientist for the company that created Scotch Tape & Post-its discovered its toxic chemicals in human blood in the ‘90s. Despite findings showing widespread contamination, her research was stopped by executives who kept the information secret
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