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Melissa Whitler@mwhitler.bsky.social |
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public school parent, hobby potter, part-time education reporter, #UglyDogs
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Madame Hardy
@madamehardy.bsky.social
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If you're a crafting person, or if you just enjoy knowing how things are made, WaPo has an in-depth article on how US 2024 women's gymnastics unions are designed and made. Gift link: wapo.st/4byCCkR
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Brandi Buchman
@brandibuchman.bsky.social
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lawandcrime.com/high-profile...
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Asawin Suebsaeng
@swin24.bsky.social
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even the dumbest man on the face of the earth who also happens to be the leader of the GOP can sense if you created a single document enveloping every policy that you and the GOP are plotting to execute if you win, & were honest about it, it would feel resoundingly diseased to normal people
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Andrea Grimes
@andreagrimes.bsky.social
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The 19th's coverage of the GOP's abortion platform is literally the only accurate news coverage I have seen in a mainstream publication in the last 24 hours
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Craig M. Ranapia
@craigmranapia.bsky.social
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Looking forward to the @washingtonpost.com publishing dozens of stories and op-ed calling on Clarence Thomas to resign, because his inability over decades to fully complete a simple financial disclosure form raises serious questions about his cognitive ability to do his job.
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Dave Levitan
@davelevitan.bsky.social
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It will be very funny if this counter never gets higher than six and they just have to leave it up there
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Chris Henjum
@chrishenjum.bsky.social
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locally, it is ridiculously cheap to subscribe to @mnreformer.bsky.social , @minnpost.bsky.social , @racketmn.bsky.social and southwest voices
nationally, @bolts.bsky.social and @flaminghydra.com and @404media.co are awesome
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Andrea Grimes
@andreagrimes.bsky.social
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CLASSIFYING ABORTION AS A 14TH AMENDMENT ISSUE IS NOT "TEMPERING" LANGUAGE ON ABORTION, IT IS EXPLICITLY IDENTIFYING FETAL PERSONHOOD AS A PARTY GOAL THAT'S WHY THE GOP AGREED TO IT THEY LIKE IT IT DOES WHAT THEY WANT IT TO DO: ALLOW THE PROSECUTION OF ABORTION AS HOMICIDE
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Gravel Influencer
@gravelinfluencer.bsky.social
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At the risk of posting something stupefyingly obvious: If you're among those canceling a New York Times or Washington Post subscription, I guarantee you have a great nonprofit media outlet or local paper in your area that could use some revenue. And that coverage is absolutely vital right now.
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southpaw
@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
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Not big on labels but when a person does not have a neurodegenerative disease according to detailed medical studies, it seems pretty wrong to keep implying he does
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Philip Bump
@pbump.com
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Personnel is policy — particularly when your campaign assiduously avoids policy and your past and your future personnel is publicly endorsing robust policy proposals. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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southpaw
@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
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At the end of this eight month period (February 2024), the White House publicly put out a health summary from Biden’s physicians. It says there were “no findings consistent with any cerebellar or other central neurological disorder, such as … Parkinsons.” www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
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emptywheel
@emptywheel.bsky.social
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Gonna start a rumor that LePen couldn't pull it off bc Bannon was in prison. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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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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Miranda Yaver
@mirandayaver.bsky.social
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Just a reminder that Michelle Wolf nailed it at the White House Correspondents Dinner. NYT, I’m looking in your direction especially.
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Asawin Suebsaeng
@swin24.bsky.social
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Bush condescendingly spoke of the “soft bigotry of low expectations”, a thing he and his party and fellow pathetic president Trump have only benefited from
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Asawin Suebsaeng
@swin24.bsky.social
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If the (highly legitimate)question is “do we want a president with a functional brain” then let’s have that debate. we might want to apply scrutiny to both candidate equally, and not grade one in particular on a MASSIVE curve
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The Washington Post
@washingtonpost.com
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White House officials have confirmed that they believe a Russian satellite named Cosmos 2553 is designed to test components of an “anti-satellite capability,” which could cripple orbital technology, potentially by a nuclear detonation in space.
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Melissa Whitler
@mwhitler.bsky.social
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This is too cute.
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Melissa Whitler
@mwhitler.bsky.social
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Congratulations JEEMS! Congratulations WICKSY!
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emptywheel
@emptywheel.bsky.social
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Since we're talking about how shitty NYT is, Eric Lipton is still doing the day job, reporting on Trump getting free money from Gulf $$-bags again.
www.nytimes.com/2024/07/01/u...
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Melissa Whitler
@mwhitler.bsky.social
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I’m so old that I remember last week when everyone was saying the president had the type of dementia that could be cured with a little cocaine. Simpler times, back in the day.
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Philip Bump
@pbump.com
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What’s the best Fourth of July movie to watch in which the Confederacy gets completely obliterated in the manner of the Nazis at the end of Inglourious Basterds?
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ApocalypticaNow
@apocalypticanow.bsky.social
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Imagine the high the nation's columnists would feel if they could push out not just another president, but THE president.
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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“SEE DAD? I’ve destroyed two and a half centuries of America. WHO’S NEVER GOING TO AMOUNT TO ANYTHING NOW?”
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Jamison Foser
@jamisonfoser.bsky.social
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John Roberts pretends not to know what Donald Trump will do with the immunity Roberts just gave him just like John Roberts pretended not to know what Republicans would do when John Roberts gutted the Voting Rights Act.
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Anna Merlan
@annamerlan.bsky.social
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Just saved a friend $500 by referring her to this program; please refer to it if you get prescribed Paxlovid and get quoted a crazy price! www.paxlovid.com/paxcess?cmp=...
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Laura Helmuth
@laurahelmuth.bsky.social
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This is predictable but so important: Pasteurizing milk kills the H5N1 bird flu virus that is circulating widely in dairy cattle. It's easy to take a 150-year-old technique that has saved countless lives for granted, but don't fool around with unpasteurized dairy products. 🧪
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Mitchell Epner
@mitchellepner.bsky.social
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1/ I often write: The only thing I know *for certain* about the future is that it has not happened yet. Yesterday’s SCOTUS ruling is a perfect example of how much I need to heed my own mantra. For years, I heard Donald Trump was saying that he was certain that “his Supreme Court justices” . . .
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Jamison Foser
@jamisonfoser.bsky.social
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is this a particularly weighty decision given Trump's well-documented intellectual and emotional instability, or is that the kind of thing you overlook when there's an R next to his name on the ballot?
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Jeff Yang
@originalsp.in
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The Supremes ruled that a POTUS has immunity for actions directly related to his office, but not personal actions (without defining what those are) so Trump is trying to erase his felony convictions by claiming that paying porn stars hush money for sex is “official POTUS business,” as expected
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Melissa Whitler
@mwhitler.bsky.social
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😔I hope the new traps and treatments work. We had to put all of our pantry food in glass containers when we had mice. We tried plastic but they ate through some of them.
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Melissa Whitler
@mwhitler.bsky.social
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Not sure what critters you’re dealing with, but I know it’s extremely stressful. My first house had mice. We were v clean but it was an old house w/lots of gaps where they could enter from outside. Lots of traps & some repairs eventually solved the problem. Hope you have a quick resolution.
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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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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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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There are two elements to the immunity decision that are particularly extreme in a way that many will miss: (1) motive is irrelevant and (2) immune acts are not just excluded from prosecution, they’re excluded from evidence. /1
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Jamison Foser
@jamisonfoser.bsky.social
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There's a simple and obvious but essential order of operations here: 1) Elect pro-democracy Democrats to WH, Congress 2) Get rid of the filibuster, without which you can't do anything else 3) Expand/rebalance the court, without with the Court will block anything else 4) Lots more democracy reforms
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Cooper Lund
@cooperlund.bsky.social
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You heard it from NPR - this election is now a referendum on if Donald Trump can do crimes or not. Time to hammer that home to the American people!
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southpaw
@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
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The president is himself forever immune from prosecution for crimes committed using his official power, and he can pardon anyone for helping him to commit federal crimes, explicitly including an actions in furtherance of a coup to illegally hold onto the office of the presidency. That’s the upshot.
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Don Zeko
@donzeko.bsky.social
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It's hard to even imagine the limits of the power that SCOTUS has just handed the president. If you can keep 34 senators and the military on your side, you can do anything.
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Philip Bump
@pbump.com
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From May. www.cnn.com/2024/05/24/p...
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southpaw
@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
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An unfairly maligned formulation of the true meaning of the separation of powers, according to today’s Supreme Court majority.
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Kashana
@kashana.bsky.social
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The Supreme Court just overthrew the country and I’m still seeing headlines that are like “did you know Joe Biden is like, months older than his opponent?”
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Jesse Berney
@jesseberney.bsky.social
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"While the Constitution technically forbids a president from serving more than two terms, it does not include a provision to enforce this limitation, thus making it meaningless."
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Phil Lewis
@phillewis.bsky.social
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DANBURY, Conn. (AP) — Trump ally Steve Bannon is officially in custody to serve 4-month sentence on contempt charges, Bureau of Prisons says.
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Roxane Gay
@roxanegay.bsky.social
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I guess the British won after all.
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Lydia Polgreen
@polgreen.bsky.social
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The number of replies to this post that game out the actuarial table possibilities for the current justices of the court simply underscores my point. Waiting for people to die is not a solution to a problem this profound.
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Roxane Gay
@roxanegay.bsky.social
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The Court ruling today is terrible but expected. I will just gently remind everyone that the election hasn’t happened yet. We shouldn’t assume the worst outcome as a foregone conclusion. That only encourages more apathy than many are already feeling.
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Asawin Suebsaeng
@swin24.bsky.social
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It is wildly, unquestionably maddening how the Republican nominee is a widely and intensely loathed figure who is also a convicted criminal who is awaiting trial for stealing state secrets & staging a bloody coup attempt, and oh by the way he got hundreds of thousands of Americans killed & oversaw…
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Moira Donegan
@moiradonegan.bsky.social
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Going public with an experience like this is life-altering for a woman, so when you read these stories remember both the extraordinary amount of courage involved and also the likelihood that there are many others you’ll never hear.
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Adam Serwer
@adamserwer.bsky.social
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Not enough reporters who used to work for tips
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