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Michan Connor@michanconnor.bsky.social |
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Ex-academic (Cities, Culture, and CRT), current budding curmudgeon. Not a six-figure beltway political consultant. Argue with me in replies=cool Argue with another rando in my replies=block Opinions do not reflect those of my day job or anyone else
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Tom Scocca
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"Executive Time" fell out of the coverage of Donald Trump in the most incredible way. Nobody writing about his quest to become president again ever mentions the fact that he hated the job when he had it and he couldn't and wouldn't really do it!
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Michan Connor
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IDK what was up with the “TRUMP/KENNEDY 2021” flag I saw in Sea Isle NJ last week but it was at least flying from the back of the house….
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow
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ok I went to grab the link to give the latest cartoon one more end-of-week bump and ... I had this weird moment of dissociation, it couldn't possibly have been less than a week since I wrote this
tinyview.com/this-modern-...
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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we’re in danger
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Michan Connor
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PSA take the edible when you leave work and don’t drink any wine for 2-3 hours after and you’ll be fine. Plan a simple dinner. Nobody makes it through a whole movie anyway under any circumstances
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Michan Connor
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Heavy is the head that wears the crown. #murrica
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Michan Connor
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Who the fuck did Matthew Walther blow to keep getting op-ed space at the Times? Did he and the Sulzberger brat kill a drifter and dump the body in the woods and Walther secretly recorded the whole thing?
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Michan Connor
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Tablet is completely fash and not bothering to hide it
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Faine Greenwood
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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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The Almighty Tallest
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Seems important idk
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J.M. Berger
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I'm old enough to remember when everyone agreed it would be unprofessional and unethical to diagnose Trump as a sociopath
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Michan Connor
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Both down-kicking, left-punching bullies. They wouldn’t go Epstein either except to beat a left rival in a primary
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Max Kennerly
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One thing that annoys me about the Democratic consultant class is how they act like they're brass-knuckle streetfighters and yet don't have the stones to run nonstop ads about Trump's extensive connections to Jeffrey Epstein. It's all true! It's documented! There are photos!
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Philip Bump
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If the right is fighting a "second American Revolution," as Heritage's guy put it, it's worth identifying what they are rebelling against. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Twitter's Bobby Big Wheel
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Orange Man Bad explains far more than many comparative politics PhDs care to admit
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The Fig Economy
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Like this shit isn’t what we “need to hear.” It’s doing a he said she said on the abetting of open fascism and the weaponization of our government by a criminal while saying those fears are just claims that liberals made.
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Kevin M. Kruse
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The States Project is one of the best bang-for-your-buck options for your campaign donations. Even beyond it, though, state legislatures deserve your attention. Next time you're tempted to send money to whoever's going to lose to MTG, send it instead to a contested state leg seat.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow
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fuck man, I don't even know what to say anymore. One political party wants to burn everything to the ground and institute theocratic, kleptocratic autocracy. I think this is bad, just one man's opinion.
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Daniel Feldman
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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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Michan Connor
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It comes in handy for explaining why law schools hire a stream of conservative dipshits tho
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Adam Serwer
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I do not regret analogizing these people to the men who took photos of themselves at lynchings www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...
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Michan Connor
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Uhhhh
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Michan Connor
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Hey, his mentor was Tiger Mom so I think he knows more about the law than we do
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Sen. Gogurt taking notes on a criminal conspiracy
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the conservative theory of law in one headline
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Michan Connor
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Yelling at Netanyahu fucking rules. More of that
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Kate Shaw
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The more you read yesterday’s immunity decision, the more appalling it gets. My take:
www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/o...
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Jamison Foser
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LEFT: Wall-to-wall coverage RIGHT: Paragraph 20 of one of the articles
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Popehat
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/8 At any rate, congratulations to the Federalist Society for an achievement beyond the reach of the British, outside the grasp of bloody civil war, impossible to Nazis and Soviets and terrorists: defeating the American idea.
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David_j_roth
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I keep coming back to "all this for literally Donald Trump," but it fits. There's not some more competent aspiring autocrat who'd somehow "earn" or "win" this. This is how it has always gone: feckless/evil elites attaching themselves to the sociopath they believe will get them where they want to go.
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Michan Connor
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Or like Louis XVI
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Radley Balko
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It's just hilariously disingenuous. Imagine looking at, say, ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY and concluding that the biggest threat to liberty isn't abuse of power, but powerful people refraining from sufficiently wielding their authority out of fear that they might one day be held accountable.
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Jamison Foser
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I think my thing about “Whenever the President and Vice President discuss their official responsibilities, they engage in official conduct” is that this would satisfy the plain text of that standard: TRUMP: Let's violate our official responsibilities and rob a bank. VP: Okay!
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Matt Gabriele
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Part of the liberation of higher ed involves destruction of the AP
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Michan Connor
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I have to go to work tomorrow morning after a week of vacation but at least I beat the thunderstorms and grilled three dinners’ worth of flank steak and fish
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Michan Connor
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I think the country could rally around the dangers posed by smugglers
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Michan Connor
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That imaginary author can only be VP, the country isn’t ready for a female front persona president yet
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Grudgie the Whale
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God help me I’ve been reading up on Le Pen’s grotesque policy preferences and I can’t find literally anything Trump is to her left on and she’s a literal Nazi
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Michan Connor
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The question is whether you want a government that is capable at a basic level of *governing* or whether you want the president to fluff you. It should not be a difficult choice and yet
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Michan Connor
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I didn’t know Nick Kristof was a primary care doctor
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Michan Connor
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Here’s where a lot of people are gonna ouroubouros…
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Michan Connor
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This is big “semester abroad in UK vibes”. Pulling an election together in six weeks isn’t how this political system works. There isn’t an infrastructure of multiparty favor-trading or even party rules for backing the candidate. Or, like, any history whatsoever of surprise elections
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Michan Connor
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More to the point, Tapper is a Republican and Bash is an imbecile who doesn’t eat enough protein to have cerebral function, so they did what they do
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Michan Connor
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Kruk as a broadcaster could have gone exactly two ways so glad it went the good one
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Michan Connor
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My mom wanted to hear an “r” every now and then….
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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis
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God Bless Paul Davies and the @PhillyInquirer: "The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump...There was only one person at the debate who does not deserve to be running for president. The sooner Trump exits the stage, the better off the country will be."
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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Yup. the bizarre notion that Trump is somehow friendlier to Palestinians than Biden (or in general is 'the peace candidate') has been an explicit down-is-up propaganda effort pushed by nazis and it's telling who has fallen for it and why!
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Michan Connor
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I get a bright red dot on Worcester, Mass. Despite my Detroiter mom’s best efforts
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Steve Silberman
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How the Republican thugs, grifters, and crooks on the Roberts Court declared themselves victorious over expertise itself in one of the most dangerous and shamefully corrupt decisions in Supreme Court history. [gift link] wapo.st/3VBMZi0
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Michan Connor
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He has a remarkable ability to not call Bret Stephens a simpleton a dozen times during the course of this discussion
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