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Michael P. Breen
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The US media is dominated by deeply unserious people
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Michael P. Breen@mpbreen21.bsky.social |
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Historian of early modern French law & society at Reed College. Prattles on about history, dogs, politics, soccer, & hoops. H-France Editor-in-Chief (www.h-france.net)
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Michael P. Breen
@mpbreen21.bsky.social
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The US media is dominated by deeply unserious people
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southpaw
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I just want to save this series of tweets for posterity. Hopefully, we’ll have a chance to go back over what’s going on here when tempers have cooled.
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Michael P. Breen
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Sorry. Can’t. Busy. Biden’s old.
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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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Kevin M. Kruse
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My favorite part of the West Wing fantasies about replacing Biden is the idea that there wouldn’t immediately be a new fatal flaw with whoever replaced him.
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Michael P. Breen
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Seems as though too few Americans grasp this basic concept
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Michael P. Breen
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I appreciate Deschamps trying to keep things interesting but his strategy of trying to win the Euros without any of his players scoring from the run of play might have its limitations
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Michael P. Breen
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Imagine being this bad at your job & still being paid to do it seven years later
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/cal...
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Michael P. Breen
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Like a pack of vampire lemmings
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Gail Simone
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I know nothing about PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE. I don't know the murderous aliens behind it, particularly Xarzon, who is a good friend. Anything they do, including raising the dead to destroy humanity, I wish them luck. But it has nothing to do with me. Hail Xarzon.
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Gerardo Martí
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Facts
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Michael P. Breen
@mpbreen21.bsky.social
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Imagine if the national media covered Project 2025 & Heritage’s president the way they did Joe Biden’s age
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Michael P. Breen
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Which is exactly what it’s intended to do
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Michael P. Breen
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Oh look. It is possible for national media to focus on what far-right candidates are saying & doing rather than publishing speculative hit pieces about a candidate who isn’t an existential threat to democracy & the rule of law.
You should try it sometime @nytimes.com @washingtonpost.com @cnn.com
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Michael P. Breen
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“Both parties are the same,” they said…
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Michael P. Breen
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The fact that we have one representative for something like each 750,000 people makes a mockery of the concept
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Michael P. Breen
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It’s choking on vomit. Somebody else’s vomit.
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Kevin Gannon
@thetattooedprof.bsky.social
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Yair Wallach
@yairwallach.bsky.social
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Shocking scenes as a major G7 country votes decisively for the not completely shitty option
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Michael P. Breen
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Perhaps one day the United States can have a Constitution & a political system as democratic and law-abiding as Brazil’s
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Michael P. Breen
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This is what happens after people experience life under a right-wing regime marked by xenophobia, demagoguery, corruption & staggering incompetence. Which is why the GOP, SCOTUS, Heritage, & other US conservatives will ensure no meaningful election ever happens again if they take power
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Kevin M. Kruse
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It’s a very obscure question but I did some research and it turns out that the president who led us out of the Depression and kicked Hitler’s ass was actually in a wheelchair? Who knew?
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Michael P. Breen
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Despite their own self-perceptions, they’re not the sharpest knives in the drawer
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Ann M. Lipton
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yes how unimaginable
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Michael P. Breen
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Maybe someone should explain to the @nytimes.com @washingtonpost.com & @cnn.com that enabling the people who plan to make November’s election the last meaningful one of our lifetimes isn’t great for their horse-race obsessed business model in the long run
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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Opinion | Why I No Longer Subscribe to the New York Times
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David M. Perry
@lollardfish.bsky.social
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CNN fact checked whether I in fact caught walleye while wearing a specific hat more thoroughly than the NYT checked whether the “I dont vote” guy actually voted.
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Branden McEuen
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I think it’s telling that if you search “Trump AND rape” on the New York Times website you don’t get a single article mentioning the E. Jean Carroll case but if you search “Biden AND old” you get 18,026 hits.
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Faine Greenwood
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Notice how everyone is somehow talking about Biden Too Old right now, and NOT about how the Supreme Court just legalized Trump being a dictator for life and gutted the administrative state, and how the Heritage Foundation is now issuing terrorist threats? Think that might not be an accident?
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Seth Masket
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We're in year nine of "Trump is a rapist and a racist and a tyrant and a criminal and his opponent dissed us once and we will absolutely wreck them for it" and it's hard not to notice a pattern
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Michael P. Breen
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Clearly the @nytimes.com is too old to do basic journalistic tasks anymore & needs to stop publishing for the good of the country
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Seth Masket
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I’m not saying the paper of record is trying to hound the president from office out of a fit of pique because he won’t sit down for an interview, but if it were, how different would things look? www.politico.com/news/2024/04...
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Michael P. Breen
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I have to say, the first July 4th living under a monarchy hits a little bit different
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Michael P. Breen
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As is Charles I
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Greg Pak
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On INDEPENDENCE DAY they published this. ON THE FOURTH OF JULY 2024 THE NEW YORK TIMES TOLD PEOPLE NOT TO VOTE. I'm furious.
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Michael P. Breen
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Y’all, maybe letting the @nytimes.com dictate Democratic Party political strategy isn’t the best course of action after all
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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just watched 74 people speaking at least a dozen different languages become american citizens in a ceremony at monticello, where the speakers were themselves children of immigrants. inspiring stuff and a vivid illustration of what reactionaries want to snuff out
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Kevin Gannon
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Thread. A perceptive and accurate assessment of where we are (and where we've been for a while even if lots of folks refused to see it)
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Michael P. Breen
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Not trying to be nitpicky here. As someone who can be very critical of portions of the US left for failing to work w/the center-left to defeat fascism, I think the French left deserves credit for stepping up, even as Macron proves disappointing once again.
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Michael P. Breen
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At least we’ll have something to celebrate on July 4th!
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Michael P. Breen
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It’s a bit more complicated than that. More than 200 candidates dropped out to help block the RN, but ~130 were from the leftist alliance (NFP) while only 80 or so were Macronistes. The left systematically withdrew its 3rd place candidates whereas Macron gave no such instructions.
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Kevin M. Kruse
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"Politics would be interesting again" Oh, jeez, I'm sorry that SCOTUS Team 6 waterboarding democracy to pave the way for a felon-messiah-king who's vowing to use the presidency to deport millions and imprison his foes for treason hasn't been INTERESTING enough for you. Let me jangle some car keys.
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Gravel Influencer
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Fireworks suck.
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Michael P. Breen
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Joe Biden is too old to defeat Trump. The only person who can beat Trump is the guy who’s a year older & suffered a heart attack 4 years ago.
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Michael P. Breen
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Another way to look at it is that even Trump’s lawyers underestimated the servility and corruption of the SCOTUS majority. Let that sink in for a moment.
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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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Philip Bump
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A second American Revolution, this one aimed at unwinding democracy in favor of a monarchy. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Ned Resnikoff
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These guys are traitors to the republic just like their heroes Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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i think akhil amar reed captures something very important, which is that the roberts court rewrote article ii, which explicitly states that a president can be held criminally liable after impeachment (and which has long been understood to mean that he can be held liable after leaving office)
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Michael P. Breen
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Sorry, they’re busy writing their 90th story of the week about her emails…er…his age
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