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Michael Paolucci@michaelfpaolucci.bsky.social |
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Situation gets rough, then I start to panic.
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Michael Paolucci
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I really appreciate this thread and your expertise on these issues. I’m wondering if there still isn’t some valid criticism to be leveled at NY Times though. To me, they are a large media company (no longer strictly newspaper) and are acting more like a cable news channel than a serious newspaper.
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Michael Paolucci
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There really is a noticeable difference. I have no idea what the right thing to do is here
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Michael Paolucci
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Strong sportsball energy from this Facebook marketplace listing
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Michael Paolucci
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This is true in my small town too. The absolute worst thing you can be is even a smidgen closer to the center (and usually for very practical reasons like you live in the actual world and need to interact with actual people) than the purest person on the town Facebook group.
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Michael Paolucci
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When people vote for president, they think they are voting for a specific personality, but they are not. It is much broader and significantly more consequential than that.
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Michael Paolucci
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I was boarding a train back to Philly in 2017 while the Federalist Society was having their annual dinner at Union Station in DC where they honored Neil Gorsuch. These dorks have had an outsized influence on the direction of our country and it is worse off for it in every way.
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Michael Paolucci
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Residents of Philadelphia, please don’t be alarmed at the ground shaking beneath your feet, it is not an earthquake. It’s just Ben Franklin rotating in his grave
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Brendan Nyhan
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Beware the temptation to downplay the SCOTUS ruling and to deny its potential implications. We've been down this road before.
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Michael Paolucci
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Tim Onion
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CBS Special Report about the SCOTUS ruling had a hard out directly into The Price Is Right intro which got me good.
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Michael Paolucci
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Can Biden just do whatever the eff he wants now? Maybe he should lean into this.
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Michael Paolucci
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Also, Biden’s presidential campaigns never went anywhere until Obama elevated him to VP so there’s some irony there too.
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Michael Paolucci
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Trump just continues to push ahead and does not have the same self awareness as a normal person. It hurts him, but not enough. I thought the Phila. Inquirer editorial saying Trump should drop out was perfect for those reasons. It reminds us that he lied the entire debate and was a horrific president
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Michael Paolucci
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I remember back then learning that the worst thing a candidate could do was to confirm a pre-existing negative stereotype (Al Gore is boring, Howard Dean is unhinged). Obviously Biden did that big time at the debate. But so did Trump. The difference is that Trump never tries to defy his stereotypes.
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Michael Paolucci
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Philadelphia Inquirer gets it 100% correct. The NYT would never
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Michael Paolucci
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I agree, there are systemic barriers though too. I’m an elected member of my county Dem committee in NJ and we were prevented from endorsing Andy Kim for senate because the county chair agreed to support the gov’s wife who dropped out anyway. We pushed back against the party machine, but it’s tough
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Michael Paolucci
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I think there is frustration with having so much talent on the bench while watching that debate. Of course it’s not a reality but the Democrats as a national party are infuriating. Sometimes it’s unfair because they have to be everything to everybody, but one can’t help but have those thoughts.
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Michael Paolucci
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Michael Paolucci
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That pattern you described replicates itself across so many issues I wouldn’t be able to list them all. The dynamics of our public schools in our small town are wildly frustrating for that very reason. Like, listen to us, we know what we are talking about!
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Michael Paolucci
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Our school tried a policy where kids put them in numbered slots on the wall in the front of the room and it helped a lot when it was followed, but as the year went on and distractions increased, it became harder and harder to enforce and also get any learning done.
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Michael Paolucci
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We often find ourselves trying break up the fights while a dozen kids record it and it creates a very tense and stressful environment and becomes a huge distraction from learning.
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Michael Paolucci
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If you want my anecdotal opinion as an 18-year public school high school teacher, the phones need to be out of the classroom altogether. Any benefit can be made up with other devices. When fights break out because of drama that starts on social media that the school can’t keep up with in real time…
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Michael Paolucci
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I remember unfollowing him because he used a fucking siren emoji for every post. He got on my nerves well before I could suss out if he was legit or full of shit. The siren emoji and constant frantic tone definitely set off red flags though
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Velodus
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2004: Howard Dean's presidential hopes crashed and burned today by committing a gaffe he will never be able to recover from: yelling weirdly. 2024: Could Donald Trump effectively govern the country from prison? Here's why Epstein's bestie could become our first convict-in-chief.
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Michael Paolucci
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He couldn’t even muster 2 shakes of a shake weight by the looks of it
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Seth Masket
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“If a former president can be convicted for breaking the law then so can anyone” seems to me the entire ever-fucking point
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Pwnallthethings
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You want it to be punchy, and localized: "This man is a convicted felon. A fraud. He defrauded *you*. He has never stopped defrauding you. I'm sorry that so many people haven't yet come to terms with that, but it is no longer hidden, and is who he is. He belongs in prison, not in the White House"
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Pwnallthethings
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The mistake they keep leaning into is a tone of incredulity and just mushing a decade of Trump's BS together. Like "he did that thing next to putin, and also he has to pay 400m and also have you seen him and what he has to say, what are we doing here, c'mon man". And this is a comms error
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Michael Paolucci
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Nicely done
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Michael Paolucci
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It’s bout time…
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maura quint
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my fave continues to be -- if you were handed $1000 every single day, every single year since AD 1 and saved every single penny of it, you still wouldn't be a billionaire.
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Michael Paolucci
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Oh wow I just commented about that one too without seeing your post. I noted how you can see the atoms of our current media culture begin to assemble in that moment. Used to show it in my media classes. Especially compelling if you remember when it happened.
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Michael Paolucci
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Agree, and prior to that the ESPN 30-for-30 titled June 17th 1994 by Brett Morgen. No talking head interviews just footage of all the highs and lows in the sports world that day (the chase) set to music. You can see the atoms of our current media culture beginning to assemble in that very moment.
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Michael Paolucci
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I grew up in South Jersey and if you ever set foot in Atlantic City when his name was plastered everywhere only to watch him go bankrupt several times, you’d be a fool to think he was some kind of genius businessman capable of running the largest economy and most powerful military on earth.
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Michael Paolucci
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These unis are to baseball what Herb Denenberg was to pretzels
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Michael Paolucci
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I’ve seen better graphic design on ads for knockoff boner pills that used to appear on the back pages of Philly Weekly
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Michael Paolucci
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I was putting my contacts in. I needed stillness in that moment
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Michael Paolucci
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3 home runs while looking like a member of pussy riot
#bryceharper
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Michael Paolucci
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The problem is not merely with the supply side, but the demand side for sure
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Michael Paolucci
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The guy who literally became a national symbol of democratic resilience after Jan. 6th is from the next county over, is 41 years old and is running for senate and you don’t want us to back him or at least let him compete for our endorsement?
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Michael Paolucci
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It’s absurd. When the county chair dispatched people to our local meeting to placate us I said to them, “how are we supposed to differentiate our party from the GOP when we pull this kind of stuff?”
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Michael Paolucci
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I’m glad I got involved instead of saying “I don’t want to be part of the machine so I’m just gonna sit out.” There’s people pushing from the outside and you need people pushing from within as well. Kim is such a no brainer candidate. He’s exactly the kind of person we want running for office.
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Michael Paolucci
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I serve on the Camden County Democratic Committee in Collingswood and I helped lead the charge from within in support of Kim and against their bogus endorsement process. The governor’s wife even called our chair and offered to visit Collingswood. We held firm and she ended her campaign soon after!
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Michael Paolucci
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You see it with respect to presidential immunity too. Because obviously if it were true, then Biden could just seek to stay in power by inciting an insurrection. Trump voters don’t care about the inconsistency or hypocrisy but members of congress have to appear logical when making public arguments
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Michael Paolucci
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Noah, I remember Bill Moyers telling Terry Gross a few years ago that in retirement he’s been working on a documentary about Rikers. Do you have any knowledge of that or its status if it does exist?
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Michael Paolucci
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A friend of mine thought that members of congress were rich from their congressional salaries
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Michael Paolucci
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but it makes me wonder how the environment has changed since then. Today, there is a more robust infrastructure for that kind of nonsense and I wonder if he would have been embraced by conspiracists and if that would that have prevented him from changing.
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Michael Paolucci
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From what I remember about this, it was driven by the bassist Nate Mendel who read a junk book that got him hooked on the bogus claim about HIV not being linked to AIDS. For what it’s worth they seem to have course corrected (requiring COVID vaccines for their shows etc.) Doesn’t undo the harm…
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Michael Paolucci
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I’m thinking the only way he doesn’t get the money is if they don’t think he’s going to win. Could be a bellwether as to how the race is viewed by the despots he idolizes
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