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Just some woman in Germany interested - unfortunately - in American history, politics and culture


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I wonder if the Alitos know this guy and how they’re flying their flags this weekend

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Sickening: “But her emails” vs

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Voluntarily went to jail

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hm, the other word for “fear mongering” that you were searching for might be something like “domestic terrorism”, “terror regime “ etc

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Daniel Feldman's avatar Daniel Feldman @dfeldman.bsky.social
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Mississippi is the poorest state in the US.

Even though the state gets federal welfare funds, it is difficult to get welfare.

The money was all getting stolen, and they got away with it.

Now the journalists who exposed the story are facing a lawsuit and jail.

www.nbcnews.com/investigatio...

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Can all the lower court judges go: I believe this (e.g. chevron) has been wrongly decided and that’s why I’m ruling based on prior law?

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Kashana's avatar Kashana @kashana.bsky.social
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The founding fathers: checks and balances The Supreme Court: checks

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i love that he spells out what the account was suspended for

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Slang, internet slang and whatever is really really interesting. It could be a good article if the author talked to just one linguist

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democracy is so boring. instead of covering public policy (well, that’s already been replaced by the horse race), fascism is just more interesting. everything is about revenge and winning etc

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Marisa Kabas's avatar Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social
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JFC: torres is speaking on a manhattan institute panel this week. you know, the think tank that employs CHRIS RUFO.

(per @jsweetli.bsky.social on twitter)

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Anna Merlan 's avatar Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social
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This kitten on the train was doing [big pause for groans] social meow-dia

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Libertarianism is now: get everything for free and pay if you like it?

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There’s an Episode of If Books Could Kill podcast on his book The Coddling Of The American Mind Highly recommend

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Just text your therapist. It’s fine actually. She offered and you can take her up on it. It may take a little to get a reply than usual. Just do it. It’s fine

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Mr. Alito’s letter to Dick Durban already painted quite the picture of this marriage

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Thanks for the gift link but what i really want is the 5-4 episode link

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Yes please. We need more articles about the threat that capitalism poses to democracy

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It’s a political commentator whining that politics is hard and that you never get the outcomes you want and on top demonstrating that you’re also totally incurious about the topic

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For the most deadly disease men can possibly get, a cold, all drugs are approved

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I love it! I use it with my local German city library card and get all the English books and audiobooks I want

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Marisa Kabas's avatar Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social
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At ComstockCon (amazing abortion conference I recently attended) panelists talked about how we focus on one type of abortion story—white, married women with a wanted pregnancy who need an abortion because of a medical exception—and how this actually hurts efforts for solidarity in the movement.

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Oh no, how can that be if they’re run by the Falun Gong?

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Wagatwe Wanjuki's avatar Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com
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curious about their positions on perpetrators of non-consensual sexual contact 🤔 anyone ever sue to flunk rapists?

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i’m an opinion journalist . i “report” entirely on vibes not facts

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“We have normalized corruption and politicians facing criminal trails so much, we should not forget to do the same for presidents”

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Micah's avatar Micah @rincewind.run
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progressives cannot force the resignation of people who have consciously chosen to live without shame, but howling with outrage and making the behavior of this court a consistent major scandal is how you lay the groundwork for the reform we will need to break its power

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Yeah, but also it might shock the newspaper establishment enough to reconsider the both sides reporting? But probably I’m just naive for holding out hope

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Maybe they should go teach at BYU or some other religious college

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As a 20th century historian on the right, he seems to have missed where one of their platform points is to destroy education and especially the humanities departments

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Don Moynihan's avatar Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social
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The exceptions for abortions in states with bans are meaningless. People don’t understand them, they are too hard to get, and physicians are too afraid to perform the abortion.
In MS no-one helped a 13 year old rape victim get an abortion she was legally entitled to. abcnews.go.com/amp/US/13-ye...

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It doesn’t have to be Roman ruins even. In a city I used to live in they tore down the old movie theater and built a supermarket over it. Through the glass floor you can see the old fountain that got brought up during intermission

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I hope I’ll never see one and that they’ll not be available in the EU

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I think it depends. The more right-wing politicians are certainly not afraid of the cops and the more liberal politicians don’t mind as long as the group the cops are beating down on isn’t considered “important” enough

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he just watches Fox News all day. all the online shit ends up there a day later

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Marisa Kabas's avatar Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social
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watching the videos out of bay ridge, brooklyn, today of NYPD beating the shit out of protesters it’s unbelievable how many cameras there were. cops assaulting people in broad daylight on camera and they keep going because our leaders have made it clear they’ll never suffer a single consequence.

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This man is lovely: No, I didn’t do it, my wife did. You know how hysterical women get

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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i think you can't separate this from the fact that these people live, work and breathe in elite circles. "wokeness" — whatever that is — is omnipresent for them and so it feels real and threatening. meanwhile, right-wing revanchists are in distant, to them, places like Mississippi.

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