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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
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Meanwhile, at the top of AP News
apnews.com/article/pres...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social |
23038 followers 2035 following 2886 posts
political philosopher at Georgetown University. giving this a shot, I guess.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
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Meanwhile, at the top of AP News
apnews.com/article/pres...
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John Breen
@acab.dad
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I just saw on Twitter that Planned Parenthood and National Abortion Federation are cutting funding nationally for abortion funds. If you can spare it, set up a recurring donation to your local abortion fund or the National Network of Abortion Funds at abortionfunds.org
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Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren)
@gfrancie.bsky.social
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Every person I have known who has survived (and that is an important word) a civil war will tell you, "Not a fan. You do NOT want to experience this." The trauma is a pretty lasting feature.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
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makes you think!
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DB
@rebelliousdb.bsky.social
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Google's carbon emissions surge nearly 50% due to AI energy demand.
www.cnbc.com/2024/07/02/g...
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Taniel
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This amount of coalescing against the far-right by no means looked certain as of a week ago. While it can't just erase Macronists' extraordinarily equivocating 'pox on both houses' rhetoric during the campaign, it does make it a lot harder for the far-right to win on Sunday.
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Taniel
@taniel.bsky.social
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Le Monde breaks it down amazingly well:
—Left candidates:
132 dropped out
5 did not drop out in districts with an RN threat
—Macronists:
81 dropped out
16 didn't in "threat" districts
—Conservatives didn't care:
3 dropped out
12 didn't
lemonde.fr/les-decodeur...
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Taniel
@taniel.bsky.social
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FRANCE UPDATE: The near-final list of candidates who are in the French runoffs is out. Two days ago, 311 districts were going to have 3-way or 4-way runoffs. Then, 200+ candidates dropped out to block far-right. So: There'll be "just" 91 such runoffs this coming Sunday.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
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it's actually not about me at all, hence it being very weird that you responded to an extremely mild post about the state of UK elections with a "theory" of my personal character
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Torr Leonard 🧵
@torrleonard.bsky.social
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“65%:
The approximate share of Brits who say that, in hindsight, leaving the European Union was wrong.
Just 15% say the benefits have so far outweighed the costs.”
www.wsj.com/world/uk/bre...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
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every day i log on and find new extremely normal ways to talk to people
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Emissary Of Night | ليلى
@diplomatofnight.com
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You think you just fell out a coconut tree? Men make their own history, but they don't make it as they please; they don't make it under self-selected circumstances but under circumstances existing already. You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
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and fascism, obviously
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
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curious what role the cultural memory of both monarchy and revolution plays in this, if any (any France Understanders online?)
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Alex Cruikshanks
@alexsaysstuff.bsky.social
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Every day proves Thaddeus Stevens right: there should've been big Nuremberg-style public trials of leading Confederates, accompanied by seizures of the assets of all pro-Confederate large landowners and businessmen, which should then have been distributed to freed slaves as compensation.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
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"At least 200 candidates from both the left-wing alliance and President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist coalition pulled out of the contest...in order to unite behind those remaining contenders with the best chance of beating Le Pen’s nationalists"
www.politico.eu/article/fren...
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🤖 AP Breaking News (unofficial)
@ap-bot.bsky.social
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BREAKING: Advocates submit double the amount of signatures needed to put a constitutional right to abortion on the ballot in Arizona.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
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hey everybody remember to share #GoodNews too
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
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he doesn't miss
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Adam Serwer
@adamserwer.bsky.social
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www.mediamatters.org/project-2025
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Meredith Rose
@mrose.ink
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Apparently the government of the Yucatán recently erected a Poseidon statue on one of their major beaches. It’s a very heavily Mayan area, where people still pray to Chaac, the god of rainfall. They’re now being slammed with 3 hurricanes and significant flooding, leading to memes like this
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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sam alito salivating at the chance to make this life for americans
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Ian Carrillo
@iansociologo.bsky.social
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Max Berger
@maxberger.bsky.social
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France's second round elections will pose a fairly literal choice between socialism and barbarism.
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Katharine Hayhoe
@katharinehayhoe.com
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There was an even bigger difference in the comments received. All on Threads and all but one here were positive, constructive, or neutral (one person was just being a jerk, not a troll). Only 18% on X were positive or neutral. The rest were negative, many highly so.
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Melissa Gira Grant
@melissagiragrant.com
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In other Heritage Foundation news:
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JW Mason
@jwmason.bsky.social
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Glad to see this piece on the New Popular Front from Piketty and Cagé. While almost all the attention has been on the gains by the right, the success of a unified left with an ambitious program seems like just as an important story from the French elections. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social
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You can have concerns about Biden's age, but still be absolutely appalled about editorial choices that convey the issue as more important than the Supreme Court offering a pre-emptive thumbs up to a criminal presidency
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
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"Beyond the use of state violence to secure the global oil economy in international shipping, violence is also deployed against anti-fracking, anti-pipeline, and anti-mining movements...especially targeting Indigenous people to keep the fossil fuels coming out of the ground and shareholders happy."
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
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"In 2024, military force is still the foundation of the fossil fuel economy, both in terms of protecting the interests of fossil fuel firms and as an effective guarantor of demand."
turningpointmag.org/2024/07/03/t...
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Jonathan Cohn
@jonathancohn.bsky.social
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"The group’s data indicate it was the largest single appropriation approved since the 1993 Oslo accords at the start of the peace process." apnews.com/article/isra...
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Richard Waite
@waiterich.bsky.social
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1/3 (!!!) of all food produced globally is lost or wasted between the farm and the fork. What causes food loss and waste? What are the benefits of reducing food loss and waste to people and the planet? How can we reduce food loss and waste at scale? Read on: 🧪
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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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Award Winning Cartoonist Rory Blank
@roryblank.bsky.social
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man remember when yelling "hyaawwwgh" was enough to disqualify you from being president
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
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I'm going back to bed because i can't turn today off and then on again
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Gabe Ortíz
@tusk81.bsky.social
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“Taraji P. Henson made Project 2025 the talk of the BET Awards.
The host of this year's BET Awards warned viewers on multiple occasions about the far-right plan to dismantle and remake the government in Trump's image.” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/sh...
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Adam Serwer
@adamserwer.bsky.social
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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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Bruno J. Navarro
@brunojnavarro.bsky.social
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She won a Pulitzer for exposing how the country's poorest state spent federal welfare money. Now she might go to jail. "The rabbit's got the gun now," said a lawyer for former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, who is trying to force reporter Anna Wolfe to reveal her sources.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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these people do not intend to ever lose power again
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Media Matters for America
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Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
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As hell. But worth it in months like these
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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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Lupita Nihongo
@otsumamiboy.bsky.social
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We gotta redirect funds from the carceral state back to the people man. Ain’t no way they should be able to afford a Trap Music Proofreader.
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Brendan Nyhan
@brendannyhan.bsky.social
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Official act. Immune.
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Sam McFarlane
@sammc.bsky.social
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This game is great. Thanks to Turkiye and Austria for the pure entertainment
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
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Last twenty or so of the match was fun though
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
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Wish i had wrapped up writing time and tuned in earlier!
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
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Heroic
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
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I got a fubo subscription a while back
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
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incredible save in the final minute of stoppage time by the Turkish keeper
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