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Lydia Polgreen@polgreen.bsky.social |
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New York Times Opinion Columnist
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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this entire crusade against diversity in hiring and admissions is based on the supposition that all white men are necessarily more qualified than any nonwhite person or woman who might be considered for the job. like, this lawsuit more or less states that outright.
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Lydia Polgreen
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This is a deeply disappointing and completely unnecessary intervention from the White House on trans health care. Answering a question no one is asking. Why? 19thnews.org/2024/07/whit...
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Lydia Polgreen
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I’m sorry but the presidency is not a Chumbawumba song.
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Maria Bustillos
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A banger from @tcraggs22.bsky.social today,
"Who Made Caitlin Clark a Good White Girl?"
plus a sweet treat from @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social
flaminghydra.com/issue-110/
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Lydia Polgreen
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I wrote this last week: www.nytimes.com/2024/06/28/o...
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ryan cooper
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one very practical reason to avoid transphobia is it seems to turn its adherents into deranged, obsessive fuckin freaks
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Robert Cruickshank
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This poll is extremely convincing: • 13 point swing to Harris among independents • 8 point swing to Harris among POC • 6 point to Harris among women I strongly agreed with your column anyway but this poll is rock solid evidence that it's time to make the switch. Let Harris win.
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Lydia Polgreen
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New York has a uniquely bad track record of electing terrible politicians, in no small part IMO because it is not swing state!
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Lydia Polgreen
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*taps sign* www.nytimes.com/2024/06/28/o...
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Lydia Polgreen
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CNN poll post debate finds that Harris outperforms every other Democratic contender *including* Biden. www.cnn.com/2024/07/02/p...
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Lydia Polgreen
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I can't bring myself to read the RFK Jr. piece but it once again demonstrates that Lis Smith is very good at this.
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Lydia Polgreen
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I see that we are having a second cycle of political stories about dog murder.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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i think we should see the Trump v. United States ruling as a group of Republican apparatchiks taking their opportunity to vindicate Nixon and write the unitary executive into the Constitution. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/o...
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Lydia Polgreen
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Biden speaks from a teleprompter and takes no questions. Ok!
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Tom Scocca
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This decision is genuinely insane and unsurvivable
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Lydia Polgreen
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An excellent evidence-based critique of the Cass Report from a group of scientists and researchers out today: law.yale.edu/yls-today/ne...
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Lydia Polgreen
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It is striking to see which norms the Biden campaign is willing to trash (the Presidential Commission on Debates, the one below) and which are sacrosanct (expanding the Supreme Court or literally doing any small thing other than urge people to vote when the court does something horrifying).
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Jonathan Ladd
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The 14th Amendment says if you were involved in an insurrection you can't be president. SCOTUS said they won't allow anyone to enforce that because of reasons they made up. The Constitution doesn't say the president is immune from criminal law. SCOTUS decided he is because of reasons they made up.
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Lydia Polgreen
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I said adult lifetime. As a voter.
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Max Kennerly
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Yup. The Constitution includes a narrowly-defined legal immunity for members of Congress in a specific circumstance. Not one word about Presidential or Supreme Court Justice immunity. Those parts were made up out of thin air.
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Lydia Polgreen
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You don't have to commit a crime to be impeached.
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Lydia Polgreen
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I get the gallows humor of urging Biden to do crimes to stop Trump/SCOTUS etc. But the truth is that if Biden actually committed a serious, obvious crime in office (assassination, for example), I'd bet my bottom dollar he would be impeached by the House and convicted by the Senate with Dem votes.
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Lydia Polgreen
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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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southpaw
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Chief Justice Roberts decrees the end of DOJ independence in an offhanded sentence on page 20.
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Lydia Polgreen
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I know we have a counter majoritarian system. I am familiar with the constitution and our history. I know why this is technically possible. I am asking whether it is tenable to keep thinking of our country as a democracy when it works out like this.
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Josh Gondelman
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I can’t believe the Supreme Court just ruled that the president can sleep outdoors in a public space.
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Lydia Polgreen
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The thing I can't stop thinking about is this: I'm 48, and in my adult lifetime there has been one Republican who won the popular vote. But I will probably spend the rest of my life under the authority of a Supreme Court dominated by hard right conservatives. How is that democracy?
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Philip Bump
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From May. www.cnn.com/2024/05/24/p...
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Charles Tomlinson Griffes
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Trump after Obama is basically a filled-in swimming pool thing. “Oh, a black president. How about the jerk from Celebrity Apprentice? Not such an august position now.”
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Max Kennerly
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The GOP SCOTUS ruling on Presidential immunity, summed up.
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Lydia Polgreen
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I happen to think she would do a pretty good job of taking the fight to Trump, who is a dangerous criminal demagogue, and that she is very strong on the Democrats' most powerful issue, abortion. But even if she wasn't she would still be the only plausible option.
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Lydia Polgreen
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I am not even sure Harris at the top of the ticket helps shore up the sagging Black vote for the Democratic ticket. The main reason to choose her is that of all available options she is the most likely to succeed in easing out Biden. No other scenario is really possible or practicable.
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Lydia Polgreen
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Identity politics has nothing to do with the case for Kamala Harris to replace Biden. Would it be an ugly thing to shove aside a Black female VP to make room for an untested white or male candidate? Yes. Would it turn off some Black voters? Perhaps. But historically, Black voters are practical.
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Tom Scocca
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I'm a hard-eyed realist about electoral politics, that's why I'm advising the Democrats to shove aside the elected vice president and replace her with someone who'd vacate a purple- or red-state Senate seat
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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me on friday: “none of the strongest candidates are going to participate in a brokered convention”
the pundit class: “of course they will”
the candidates:
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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the most diabolical suggestion i have heard given this reality is Harris/Manchin
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Lydia Polgreen
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"As of today, March 7, 2024, and for as long as the president and his team are unwilling to break free from complacency, Kamala Harris is a better option than Joe Biden in the general election against Trump." www.ettingermentum.news/p/kamala-now
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Lydia Polgreen
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I, too, would like to see that Joe Biden. Can someone build a time machine?
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Nate Schenkkan
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Rejecting immigration is a policy of national suicide and should be treated as such
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Adam Rothman
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This essay by Dallek about LBJ's decision not to seek reelection is a fine reminder of the unpredictability of events, which may be history's greatest lesson.
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Lydia Polgreen
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A primary is a very different beast.
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Lydia Polgreen
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She polls no worse than Biden, and there is arguably more upside potential for Harris than for Biden at this point.
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Lydia Polgreen
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No matter what, the Biden campaign has every reason to get Kamala Harris out there and showcase her in the best possible light. For Biden to stay in an win they need Americans to be comfortable with her taking over should he not survive his full term. This is a crucial task post-debate.
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Lydia Polgreen
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Get back in your coconut tree, Moira.
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Moira Donegan
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The case for Harris in a nutshell. I’m not a big Harris fan but she is not only comfortable on abortion—an issue whose salience Biden has squandered—but she does an excellent job linking abortion and democracy. Plus, she’s the only possible replacement with any claim to democratic legitimacy.
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Noah Shachtman
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Devastating. www.cbsnews.com/news/poll-de...
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Lydia Polgreen
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More people voted for the Biden-Harris ticket than any electorate in US history! She was elected by the people for precisely this job!
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Lydia Polgreen
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Yes, and I think that attacking Harris would play very differently with swing voters than attacking Biden or Hillary Clinton. It certainly helps that there is no email or Hunter story dogging her (to be clear those are BS but useful to Trump).
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Lydia Polgreen
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Yep. I am not saying she is the perfect candidate in the abstract, just that she is the most likely and legitimate alternative, and has some real strengths that could lead to unexpected upside in this particular race.
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Hunter Walker
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For our book we looked at trouble Harris has had behind the scenes including her own campaign and staff discord. It's a big part of why she's not the one running now. That being said, we also found signs she's hit her stride and drove successful Dem strategy on abortion. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
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