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wrote for the guardian, rolling stone, gawker, others. host the "It's Christmastown" Hallmark podcast with david roth & "Quaid in Full" with sarah bunting. he/him. tampa

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Michael 's avatar Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social
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regardless of what happens with the nomination, i will say this generation of dems--biden, pelosi, shumer, durbin, clyburn--have kindled a deep-seated hatred in me for them and their leadership, which is quite a feat given that i'm a lifelong dem who's voted, volunteered, and donated for 24 years

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Tyler King's avatar Tyler King @tylerking.bsky.social
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They’re gonna ban TikTok because the KPOP army made fun of his empty rally that got his internet guru fired. The right made one of the world’s richest men buy Twitter because we were bullying fascists and organizing. American journalism has become almost exclusively transcribing tweets.

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everybody knows!

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canada stuns officiating, advances

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I JUST TOOK YOUR OLD LADY FOR A RIDE ON SPACE MOUNTAIN

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i was honored to celebrate this nation again on hot dog day

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CHOAM Nomsky 💭's avatar CHOAM Nomsky 💭 @thielman.bsky.social
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yes, we boiled the planet, but it was worth it to make a machine that, instead of adding two plus two, takes the statistical average of every answer to questions containing "what" "is" "two" and "plus" from a database of illegal cell phone transcripts and returns a fake nude pic of a high schooler

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Tom Scocca's avatar Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social
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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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Jacob Bacharach's avatar Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social
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LMFAO at NYT *not* disclosing that the guy who wrote this was a clerk for John Roberts! Honestly gotta respect the game.

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Faine Greenwood's avatar Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social
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Suprise: unwashed fascist ghoul Matthew Walther - who wrote a column that the New York Times just published advising Americans not to vote - did in fact vote in 2020 and 2022. It’s time for us to stop tolerating these ratfucking liars.

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Carl T. Bergstrom's avatar Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com
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If you’ve never seen Dorothea Lange’s photographs of the World War II internment camps and the Japanese-Americans who were imprisoned there, today is a good day to see them and to commit to making sure this never happens again.

anchoreditions.com/blog/dorothe...

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It's crazy what you can do with computers now.

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Angus Johnston's avatar Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social
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Just to be really explicit about what’s happening here, the cover conflates age, physical disability, and cognitive disability, and goes on to conflate disability with unfitness for office. It’s utter bullshit.

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Christopher Federico's avatar Christopher Federico @cmfederico.bsky.social
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Big victory for Labour — so big that the NYT just gave Sir Keir his own version of ‘Joe Biden Is Old’

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from now on i will be using this site only for booms

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Gaspar LeMarc's avatar Gaspar LeMarc @gasparlemarc.bsky.social
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Editing an end-capping photo montage to “Closing Time” as we speak.

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We know we don't have much time left so we've been spending a lot of time with America for its last birthday. Plenty of hugs, taking pictures. My niece is in film school, and got the camera out and interviewed it about what it was like growing up, just trying to record memories while we have them.

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Neil Pajamas's avatar Neil Pajamas @agrippanothing.bsky.social
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Uh oh, kids, looks like Ben Franklin snuck in and ate all the hot dogs while we were sleeping! OOOOooooOooOoooo!! *ghost noises*

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Dave Levitan's avatar Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social
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Writing for the NYT requires either having or pretending to have a degree of gullibility that could not occur in the wild

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[blondie singing "atomic" voice] boombastic

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis's avatar Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.bsky.social
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One of the things Covid has made really clear is how many people are functionally unable to deal with what is.

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Bebe Neuwirth (she/her)'s avatar Bebe Neuwirth (she/her) @bebeneuwirth.bsky.social
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If you see this post a photo without explanation

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maura quint's avatar maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social
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when I was a child, I thought smart people were in charge. when I got older, I realized you didn't have to be smart to be in charge. but the piece that was hardest to learn is that no one is really in charge at all. no one's going to fix it beyond us.

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Max Kennerly's avatar Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social
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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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J.M. Berger's avatar J.M. Berger @intelwire.bsky.social
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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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ryan cooper's avatar ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com
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"viewing Trump as something like a fascist leader foresaw the violence of January 6th as a live possibility, while its critics mocked the notion as mere hysteria. Whatever its shortcomings, “Trump as fascist” remains the best guide to what Trump will try to do next"

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Radley Balko's avatar Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social
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We've now reached 200 death row exonerations. Meanwhile, the state with the most (Florida) is pushing to limit appeals, carry out executions more quickly, allow death sentences from non-unanimous juries, and impose the death penalty for crimes other than homicide.

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Ed Burmila's avatar Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social
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The electoral problem has become, as the IRA gloated to Thatcher, that the GOP only needs to get lucky once and the Democrats need to be lucky forever. Either they’re going to do something about the court - now, not eventually - or we will simply play iterations of this game until the GOP wins.

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Matt Miller's avatar Matt Miller @mattmiller.bsky.social
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because i have to wishcast to stay sane now, the funniest possible twist is Trump dying before he names a running mate and a brokered Republican convention

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Sen. Gogurt taking notes on a criminal conspiracy's avatar 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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Ed Burmila's avatar Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social
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Things are going very well when we've reached the "Don't worry, the military won't obey orders to kill civilians" stage of democratic backsliding. It's the sweet spot, where good things happen. Right where we want to be.

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remember when you didn't message me back for 16 days?

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Mr. Am I Being Detained 's avatar Mr. Am I Being Detained @gonebabygone.bsky.social
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Remembering how people would share Scalia dissents and be like “I disagree with his politics but he has a way with words!!” and they all read like if a school shooter wrote A Confederacy of Dunces

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Philip Bump's avatar Philip Bump @pbump.com
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Most Americans opposed presidential immunity. But then most voters opposed the presidents who nominated several justices to the court and most Americans were represented by senators who opposed their confirmations. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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John Pfaff's avatar John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social
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Homeless people can be arrested for sleeping, Presidents cannot be arrested for rampant graft and corruption done while in office. There is no clearer a summary of "conservative 'law and order'" than this.

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Jonathan Ladd's avatar Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social
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The words in the constitution don't give the president immunity, nor was that the intention of the authors. But you must understand that the meaning of the constitutional vibes have evolved over time in a way only I can detect. Now there are penubras and emanations that tell me he is in fact immune.

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Well, I know personally I would never allow kings in the sofa.

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Biden should simply have all conservative justices beheaded and replace them.

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On the morning of his execution, knowing that if he shivered from cold his enemies would accuse him of trembling in fear, Charles I said, "Fuck everything, we're doing five shirts."

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Our medico said that natives this malnourished could get sick if we let them have a full ramekin.

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