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Phil Christman@philipchristman.bsky.social |
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pretty good essayist. philipchristman.substack.com. buy my books here (beltpublishing.com/blogs/authors/phil-christman?_pos=2&_sid=fe880852a&_ss=r)
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Chris Hayes
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There's a world on the other side of this with a huge, vibrant, unionized and high-paying industrial base remaking the physical world for the post-fossil fuel age. It's already starting and I think even Trump can't *fully* destroy it, but he can slow it down and make us lag wayyy behind.
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Chris Hayes
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Thanks largely to Biden and the Democratic party there is now a kind of global race to get to the mass, chear carbon-free energy. We're going to hit peak global emissions (fingers crossed) this year or next. We're deploying solar at a level that blowing away every single prediction.
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Chris Hayes
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And there really is a story to tell, one I've tried with varying success to describe. We are now in the midst of the greatest civilizational transformation - the green transition - since the industrial revolution and the mass adoption of fossil fuels for energy. It's already changing so much.
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RainSurname
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I do captioning for a living, & a big part of my job is cleaning up false starts & filler words. That has always been the norm at every media outlet. Print media edits Trump so carefully that you would never know what he actually sounds like. Doing this to Biden is a 180 from decades of policy.
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David Ho
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“…past predictions of global warming have proved largely correct. To persist with scepticism is immoral and stupid. Even a free-market fanatic cannot deny that environmental externalities are a form of market failure. Climate is the biggest externality of all.”
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Phil Christman
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people like this really make you reconsider your opposition to the death penalty
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Phil Christman
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“another Pad Library best seller”
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Phil Christman
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that’s right I will never pass up a chance to make dumb jokes about white seth efrican accents
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Phil Christman
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wow, that’s ricist
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Phil Christman
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Man that would rock! Altho those Penguin Classics Marvel hardcovers kind of do some of this job
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Phil Christman
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Bah, “selected.” Two volume collected edition or bust
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Melissa Gira Grant
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We need more, but credit where due: both The Nation (June 2024 issue) and Boston Review have run a breakdown of the Project 2025 “Mandate for Leadership” document. Media Matters, too. Lots of good work going on digesting this.
www.bostonreview.net/articles/ins...
www.mediamatters.org/project-2025
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Julia S.
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put these in order from most appalling to least appalling, people! don’t lead with “eliminate the Department of Education”
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Phil Christman
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YES
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Phil Christman
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Yeah I want her to get the “ “everything but the kitchen sink” treatment though
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Phil Christman
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dril
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Phil Christman
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Edward P. Jones. Lydia Davis. Diane Williams. Suzan-Lori Parks. Davenport, Kenner. Gwendolyn Brooks. August Wilson
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Phil Christman
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Pynchon! How else am I ever going to afford a hardcover of gravity’s rainbow
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Phil Christman
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Toni Morrison collected, but that seems like a matter of time
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Phil Christman
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It’s wonderful that they’ve done Joanna Russ but they could do more. That volume of her collected criticism was going for hundreds of dollars last I looked
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Phil Christman
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Delany needs at least three volumes. William Carlos Williams hasn’t been done yet I think? (Copyright issues maybe?) Bernadette Mayer, Thomas Disch, Fran Ross, Ellen Willis (but they have to include the rockcrit), …
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We Put the FBI Man Into the Medicine Lodge
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People on this site in 1864: "Man, I know we're in the middle of a war with the Confederacy, but Lincoln's just too wild and incoherent in his speeches! McClellan seems like a solid hand at the wheel who'll bring some stability to this country."
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Willie Fitzgerald
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TRUMP: I am going to drop daisy-cutter bombs on Seattle just cuz BIDEN: I'll have the Bob Salad — ha, COBB Salad, whoops. NYT: Biden's Gaffe Sends Shockwaves Through Democratic Party; Trump Pledges Infrastructure Changes to Northwest
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chatham harrison is tending a new garden
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Even a tepid choice can be a momentous change when the alternative is evil
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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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Melissa Gira Grant
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“I have nothing to do with them, including the multiple Project 2025 guys who worked in my administration and the one working on the party platform” newrepublic.com/article/1834...
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Phil Christman
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I thought “the reactionary mind” and “the enigma of Clarence Thomas” were really good books! What the hell happened?
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Daniel Drezner
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I’m sorry, what?! Have folks memory-holed the coverage of Trump’s first term? This came up!
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Taka Hanazawa
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Literally every Democratic campaign ad now just needs to be "here's a list of things that the Republicans themselves say that they are going to do"
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi
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…I really think this is the more important presidential-election-related story to have in the news cycle.
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Phil Christman
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Funniest possible way for them to lose congress
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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we’re in danger
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The Washington Post
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How far will the fossil fuel industry go to protect itself from climate impacts it helped cause? A $21 billion liquefied natural gas plant in Louisiana will be surrounded by a 26-foot-high steel sea wall to stave off rising seas.
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Phil Christman
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retvrn
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Phil Christman
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Just, seriously, I understand being worried he can’t win, but I can’t imagine thinking twice about voting for him
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Phil Christman
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If Donald Trump were promising to clap Bibi in irons and cease all support for the war in Gaza, I would have to think about it, but as it is we’re talking about a p clearly better situation vs a p clearly worse one
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Phil Christman
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I keep saying this, and I feel bad because it seems so boring to say, but there are people with my values who seem to genuinely feel like it’s tough to cast a vote for the least bad administration since LBJ! I can’t wrap my mind around it
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Phil Christman
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If this is “doddering Biden” it’s a damn sight better than Bill Clinton at his slickest or Barack Obama at his cleverest
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Phil Christman
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The difference is stupid W and senile Trump and Reagan gave me pestilence and filth while doddering Biden gave me a real climate policy, a roided up NLRB, and the pullout from Afghanistan along with pestilence and filth. It boggles my mind that anyone would think twice abt voting for him
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Phil Christman
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like that story that came out about how he’s really only good for eight hours or so a day — there were similar stories about W!
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Phil Christman
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I don’t know whether Biden should drop out or not but he doesn’t seem *different* to me from last three years (or from the addled souls who’ve been president for so much of my life lol)
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Andy Broughton
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Students at the what?
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Pavel
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Remember how the "retail theft crime wave" disappeared as soon as companies had to do their annual reports? That's because it's illegal to lie to shareholders.
AI is booming (if you're a pleb) but if you have money - Goldman Sachs will be honest with you instead web.archive.org/web/20240629...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
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right wing think tanks are making thinly veiled threats of political violence, the Supreme Court has neutralized the regulatory power of broad swaths of government, and the fate of the executive branch depends on whether the 81 year old atop it can learn to breakdance or something. Happy July 4th
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Jonathan Cohn
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'Mothers in Gaza are so malnourished themselves that they cannot breastfeed, and so babies are dying, literally starving to death, because they cannot get the vital nutrition that newborns need.'
Yes, but does it meet the definition of genocide that I made up?
news.sky.com/story/newbor...
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Chris Hayes
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Yup. Lots of people pointing out obviously this would be weaponized against LGBTQ folks. But also it just fundamentally bristles with a hostility towards privacy and freedom that runs through the entire project.
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Max Berger
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Isaac
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Seriously, listen to this, even in part, and compare it to Trump talking about anything, and ask whose brain is decaying.
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David Dayen
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Happy Fourth! As a public service, @ryanlcooper will help you update your Constitution by showing you all of the various sections that the Supreme Court has rendered inoperative.
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Shiv Ramdas
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If you care about the USA, the single best thing you can do today is to contribute to a downticket race thats close. The second best thing you can do is cancel your NYT subscription and use that money for the purpose.
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