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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly
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He absolutely believed that he could be "the president" the way he was "the boss" on The Apprentice.
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I am a mortal, and liable to fall. Editor at large for Commonweal magazine; writing at www.commonwealmagazine.org/users/mollie-wilson-o%E2%80%99reilly and sometimes other places, too.
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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly
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He absolutely believed that he could be "the president" the way he was "the boss" on The Apprentice.
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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly
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Biggest loser energy.
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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly
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Aha, it was when he was "writing" his inaugural address! Hahaha what a cheap, lousy fraud this whole thing has been nymag.com/intelligence...
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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly
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Remember when he put out that photo of himself "working" at a desk at Mar-a-Lago, and there was nothing on the desk but like a phone and some blank paper? And it turned out it was actually the reception desk? Sometimes I feel like I dreamed the whole terrible farce
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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly
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It's cute when Republicans do it!
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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly
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Trump was so resistant to doing the job that he tried to get us to call Mar a-Lago "the Winter White House" to legitimize the fact that he planned to spend most of his time on vacation.
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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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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly
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This is good. It puts an official red flag on any American reactionaries playing coy with Vigano. Some will howl about persecution, of course, but there's clear disgrace here. (Gift link)
wapo.st/4ckliRX
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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly
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Here's a guest link to an opinion piece the NYT published today that is actually worth your time and attention: Gettysburg’s Lost Cause Problem www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/o...
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John Schwartz
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Who's actually pushing violence? It's Trump, writes @maggieastor.bsky.social in this great NYT takedown of Kevin Roberts' "second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”"
www.nytimes.com/2024/07/03/u...
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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly
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This exact level of pettiness motivated the Claudine Gay takedown, and they weren't embarrassed to report it then either
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Tom Peyer
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Step down for the birthday boys
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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling
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How can any non-cultist look at the possibility of a President Trump, with his clear psychological pathologies, unconstrained by politics and advisors, and immune to criminal law, and not be certain the U.S. would be a violent fascist state for at least the remainder of his life, and into the future
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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly
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For when you want your Douthat with a higher concentration of smugness.
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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly
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And then you could send a note that says, "Where I live, no one cares about your horrible illness. XO"
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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly
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If "Not caring, but pretending it's a virtue" were a person.
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Simon Pratt
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It's unclear to me how Biden could prove his fitness to the NYT and Atlantic editors or whatever. It is pointless to demand Biden prove something when this all turns on the whims and vibes of supposedly centrist commentators who have no sense of threat and mistake contrarianism for truth-to-power.
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Fuzzy Mike
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don jr: if my dad was on the Epstein list that’s all the media would ever talk about grand jury: not only was Trump on the Epstein list (which we already knew) the level of personal contact between them was incredibly frequent and contextually damning the media: BIDEN OLD
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Eric Blair
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Whatever you think about Biden, look at the New York Times. They are unabashedly cheerleading for him to drop out. We should never again think of the Times as a liberal or even a neutral paper. The NYT takes sides when they want to. When they don't take a side, that's a choice.
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Michael Hobbes
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If you're so concerned about the stakes of this election you could just... spend the next four months writing about the stakes of this election. A constant drip of articles calling the Democratic nominee unfit is also not a great strategy for winning!
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Kevin M. Kruse
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I really thought I was cynical enough about the utter corruption of the right-wing bloc on SCOTUS, but it turns out I was still giving them too much respect.
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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly
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Donald Trump is out there this very week indulging in extreme hypotheticals about what should happen to his enemies, and Roberts thinks they should become practical realities asap.
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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly
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When you're trying to find a word that means "religious" but not trying THAT hard
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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this entire crusade against diversity in hiring and admissions is based on the supposition that all white men are necessarily more qualified than any nonwhite person or woman who might be considered for the job. like, this lawsuit more or less states that outright.
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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly
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This is the same move as saying "If trans people can use the restroom that matches their gender identity, men will pretend to be trans and assault women and children!" The fact that nothing prevents that scenario from happening now is somehow not part of the argument.
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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly
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The integrity asymmetry disadvantages Democrats once again. But listen, if every single Republican can get behind Trump, even after he insulted their spouses and/or tried to get them killed, Democrats can get on board with saving the nation and feign some enthusiasm for Team Biden.
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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly
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"Without confidence that he was immune from prosecution, the president could not do his job" is a novel theory falsified by 200+ years of actual U.S. history, and there's no need to pretend otherwise just because some conservative hack wants you to.
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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly
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This is the most transparently disingenuous argument Roberts articulated, the one that exposes the whole opinion, and indeed the court's conservative majority itself, as a shameless fraud, and so of course the NYT will pretend it's sincere and compelling.
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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly
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Oh I loved those; I saved the empty sheet so I could use the little hats and speech bubbles and things around the edge long after I used all the stamps.
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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly
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They've also got Dungeons and Dragons stamps coming out. Big year for nerds in the USA store.usps.com/store/produc...
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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly
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I just found out about these CHAOTIC new Alex Trebek postage stamps and I said, Bluesky needs to see this! (Get yours starting July 22 store.usps.com/store/produc...)
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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly
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Oh I just noticed the tag, never mind. I still have questions, but not the kind anyone can answer.
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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly
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I have to know if it's supposed to be Bill Cosby or if it's accidentally Bill Cosby
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Jacob T. Levy
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A tale of two newspapers, and two very different decisions.
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Popehat
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/7 Justice Roberts smug and superior dismissal of the dissents’ concerns seems to come to us via time warp from some time that never knew Trump. The danger of lawlessness he poses are manifest — he and his followers brag of them. Only a liar or fool would dismiss them.
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Tom Scocca
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Mad Enough to Blog It™ www.indignity.net/who-elected-...
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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly
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"The Road to a Crisis: How Republicans Let Trump Take Over Their Party" is a story the NYT could still assign someone to, today, in 2024! Lotta good angles there
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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly
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The scoldings from smug white guys like Bret Stephens and Bill Maher will continue until you make better choices 😔
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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly
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Literally every day since 2015 the top story could and most days should have been "The Republican Party in crisis: this guy is now their standard bearer??" But only the Dems ever get that kind of treatment.
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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly
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Tapping sign bsky.app/profile/moll...
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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly
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AYFKM NYT
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Stacey Burns
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By the time the doctors in Boise put her on a plane for Salt Lake City, she’d already lost a liter of blood New standard of care just dropped:
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Michael
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remember when he was in walter reed with covid and they showed pics of him “working” and he was just writing his name real big with a sharpie on a blank piece of paper
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Neil Stenhouse
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The “Biden should step down” op-Ed has something I never expected to see: an explicit statement that they are focusing on the Democrat because only Democrats are capable of changing their behavior. It’s true of course that Biden is more likely than Trump to listen to NYT editorial board. But… 1/2
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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly
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This is so grounding and gratifying to read. It's terrible to have to recall all the ways Trump was a terrible president, but it's such a relief to see a news organization that's actually keeping track and willing to say it plain.
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Coach Finstock
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NYT: Joe should quit, he stutters Philly Inquirer: Trump is a fucking criminal what the fuck are we doing here
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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly
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"A section of the country is calling for school and other histories that shall write down a wicked Rebellion as a struggle for liberty, and that shall elevate its leaders on the pedestals of heroes." This guy knew what the "Confederate memorials" were really about. Tear them down; honor the union.
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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly
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It stands outside Philipse Manor Hall (Yonkers City Hall at the time the monument was dedicated, in 1891), and it was deliberately meant to counteract the revisionist Lost Cause efforts of the day. You love to see it. www.philipsemanorhall.com/blog/the-civ...
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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly
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TIL there's a Soldiers and Sailors Monument in downtown Yonkers that pulls no punches about the Civil War, and it rules.
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Jamison Foser
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Donald Trump spent years encouraging his followers to use violence to his benefit and the New York Times editorial board spent years not calling on him to step down.
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