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Perry Bacon@perrybaconjr.bsky.social |
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Government, policy and elections writer. Views are my own. perry.bacon@washpost.com
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Perry Bacon
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I have written extensively about the shortcomings of American political journalism. But I don't view the last week as a huge media failure. Two very important questions are being discussed: 1. Is the president up to four more years on the job? 2. Can he be an effective candidate?
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Perry Bacon
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If there were a contested convention, the Dems would not be unified during that period and of course that would be covered by the media as a time of disunity. But would Whitmer-Booker be polling ahead of Trump by Sept 10? I think that's the real question. I don't know the answer to it.
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Perry Bacon
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"Plenty of us actual Midwesterners will vote for all kinds of people. If you’re worried about the bad vibes, stop creating them. If you’re worried about electability, remember that what makes a candidate electable is when you elect them into office." www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
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JW Mason
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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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Sarah Jones
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wrote about becoming coconut tree-pilled nymag.com/intelligence...
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Prisonculture
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I think that the people who ignored or yelled at those who pointed out that A LOT of voters thought Biden was too old for another term should do some self-reflection but I don't think they will have the humility to do so.
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Taniel
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CNN's new poll: Trump leads Biden 49/43. Trump leads Harris 47/45. Some differences: —Independents: Biden -10%. Harris +3%. —People of color: Biden +21. Harris +29. The side-by-side:
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Perry Bacon
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U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett of Texas is I think the first sitting Democratic member of Congress to call for Biden to opt out of running for reelection. www.texastribune.org/2024/07/02/l...
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Perry Bacon
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"With the unknown candidates, there is more upside potential. Novelty is always a powerful force in politics. And the electorate right now is screaming for something new and different," writes @leedrutman.bsky.social. leedrutman.substack.com/p/the-many-u...
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Perry Bacon
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"After many of Biden’s accomplishments have been dismantled and erased by right wing courts, it will become clear that his inability to get to the right place on those two issues was one of his most deadly miscalculations," writes @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-end-of...
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Perry Bacon
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www.thenation.com/article/arch...
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Perry Bacon
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“Nothing fundamentally changed about this election last night,” said Quentin Fulks, Mr. Biden’s deputy campaign manager. "We’re going to get punched. We’re going to punch back. We’re going to get up when we get punched.” www.nytimes.com/2024/06/30/u...
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Perry Bacon
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"Above all, Biden and those around him need to understand that this is not about them, their touchiness over who has underestimated the president in the past or who is loyal and disloyal." www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Perry Bacon
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"He’s being selfish. He’s putting himself ahead of the country. He’s surrounded by opportunistic enablers. He has created a reality distortion field where we’re told not to believe what we’ve plainly seen. His hubris is infuriating." www.nytimes.com/2024/06/29/o...
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Perry Bacon
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Interesting. www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2024/6/...
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Perry Bacon
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"Biden’s subtler, policy-driven steps — deport a million people here, hire more immigration judges there, offer temporary protection to 300,000 recently arrived Haitian immigrants over here —don’t offer a feeling of comfort to anyone, whether immigrant or native-born." theracket.news/p/there-were...
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Perry Bacon
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"Instead, the party decided it would smother democracy to protect the struggling president, ruling out any debates and even simply declaring him the winner of some primary contests without any voting." jacobin.com/2024/06/demo...
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Perry Bacon
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"We’re at this place where both candidates are repeatedly using a moral panic and pushing more state power and systemic repression at the border and in communities across the country." www.democracynow.org/2024/6/28/bi...
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Perry Bacon
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www.nytimes.com/2024/06/28/o...
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Perry Bacon
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Ha. Yes. I have received quite a few, "Maybe you were right" messages in the last 24 hours. But I would rather not be right about this! I wish Biden had been better. Alas. But I have been saying this since January 2022. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Nails Nathan
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Back the blue, shut down the border, and be silent about Gaza because democracy is on the line while offering endless olive branches and mewling retorts to the people loudly proclaiming their aim to wrecking the shit.
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Jonathan M. Katz
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My favorite part about tonight was when Biden implemented a draconian border policy that violates human rights and international law and Trump and the CNN moderators still tagged teamed to accuse him of basically giving citizenship and a million dollars each to everyone south of the Rio Grande
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Perry Bacon
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inthesetimes.com/article/bide...
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Perry Bacon
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In These Times
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In his right-wing turn on border policy, the Biden administration has invoked the widespread popularity of increased enforcement.
Why, then, isn’t he running on universal pre-K, Medicare for All and a permanent ceasefire—policies voters support in droves? inthesetimes.com/article/bide...
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Perry Bacon
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"Private institutions with large endowments and small undergraduate sizes, and public state institutions in red states, dominate the small list of schools requiring SAT and ACT scores again." www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...
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Perry Bacon
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"We do have a fearless leader in Donald Trump, where they have thrown the kitchen sink at this man over nine years and they cannot believe that he is still standing. Hand of God!" www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...
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Perry Bacon
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"In the past seven days alone, billions felt heat with climate change-fueled intensity that broke more than 1,000 temperature records around the globe." www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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Perry Bacon
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"The city did create an Office of Community Safety ... We have unarmed mental health and behavioral crisis response teams now responding to calls, and we have an office devoted to violence interruption work," says
@michellesphelps.bsky.social. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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Perry Bacon
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"Public schools are open to all and over the past several decades have become increasingly equitable. Moreover, the schools are publicly governed—meaning they are an ongoing experiment in democracy and self-rule," write Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Perry Bacon
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"The antidote to Christian nationalism is separation of church and state .... And that’s why Christian nationalists have gone after the separation of church and state, and that’s why their allies at the Supreme Court are on a crusade to eradicate church–state separation." slate.com/news-and-pol...
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Perry Bacon
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"The concept of a wealth tax is thus still alive—but only because the conservatives decided to pick a different day to finish it off," writes @jaywillis.bsky.social. ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/moore...
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Perry Bacon
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"We used to call people like this the ruling class. These high appointees understand what American values are, and today American values are standing by Israel even as it massacres thousands of children," writes Philip Weiss. mondoweiss.net/2024/06/the-...
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Perry Bacon
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"What Rahimi indicates is that the court’s ruling in Bruen was legally insane, and it shows that most of the conservatives know it—but they lack the will and the strength to fix it," writes @elienyc.bsky.social. www.thenation.com/article/arch...
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Sarah J. Jackson
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Not going to fully rehash this for the 100th time, but yes, civil disobedience by def is unlawful. Universities and many other institutions have since the 60s permitted a certain level of civil disobedience so as to avoid students being killed by cops and seeming draconian. This spring was a shift.
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Iron Spike
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"U.S. police departments have gotten smaller—and the violent crime rate is still plummeting. So what is going on?" What's ALWAYS gone on. Cops do not stop crime. They never have. Real "tough on crime" measures are well-funded schools, free daycare, and mental health services. Always have been.
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Prisonculture
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87% of USian children are enrolled in public schools. These "voucher," school choice, private school conversations take up so much space. Focus on improving the educational experiences of the schools where the vast majority of students are: those are PUBLIC schools.
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Perry Bacon
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Highly recommend this new book by
Ebony Reed and Louise Story. It's both an intellectual history of the black-white racial wealth gap and an extremely well-told story of some present-day black Atlanta residents struggling to build wealth. www.amazon.com/Fifteen-Cent...
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Seth D. Michaels
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"Just because protesters understand that they will suffer consequences does not make the consequences justified...the people who impose the penalty on you for breaking the unjust rule are not on the right side." - @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/a-note-on-...
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Saeed Jones
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“At least one influencer has been offered an interview with the president at the convention, but said he was asked not to bring up Gaza.” Biden’s youth outreach message = “shut up and vote, but also give me attention pls. 🥹”
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Taniel
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Left Coalition now has platform. Includes:
—rollback Macron retirement reform & cuts to unemployment benefits
—↑ min wage
—↑ daycare spots
—repeal Macron immigration restrictions
—bring back wealth tax & exit tax
—carbon neutrality plan
—200K public housing/year
more: www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...
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Perry Bacon
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"We took a very hard look at the Democratic-appointed justices, and we simply haven’t found anything close to similar to what we found when it came to Justice Thomas and Justice Alito," says ProPublica's @justinelliott.bsky.social. www.democracynow.org/2024/6/13/pr...
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Perry Bacon
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"Today’s decision is not a win for reproductive freedom, not an end to attacks on abortion, and not even the end of the road for this particular litigation," write @dahlialithwick.bsky.social and @mjsdc.bsky.social. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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Perry Bacon
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"They are trying to say, 'we’re turning up the heat on Israel,' while simultaneously creating conditions so that if this falls apart, they can blame the Palestinians," says @akbarshahidahmed.bsky.social. jacobin.com/2024/06/bide...
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Perry Bacon
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"Alito’s vision of a court that plays an activist role in securing Christian supremacy by joining one side of the culture war? That’s the future of the judiciary under Republican rule," writes @mjsdc.bsky.social. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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Perry Bacon
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"To advocates for civil, women’s and gay rights, the proposals represent something else: a threat to basic freedoms and a dangerous blurring of boundaries between church and state." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Perry Bacon
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Pretty sure it is a gift link.
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Perry Bacon
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You can still read this.
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Perry Bacon
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"I am extremely skeptical of the view that punishing Biden over Palestine through third-party or Republican votes would teach the Democratic Party a lesson. The Democratic Party establishment is notoriously vindictive," writes @waleedshahid.bsky.social. waleedshahid.substack.com/p/democrats-...
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