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Mary Lewis
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Mary Lewis@profmarylewis.bsky.social |
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Professor of history at Harvard. scholar.harvard.edu/mlewis Living on unceded Pequossette land. Researching the French Empire after the Haitian Revolution. Parent, partner, citizen, defender of democracy, avid gardener. Views my own. She/her
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Mary Lewis
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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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David Manning
@dlmanning.bsky.social
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Do you think those concerned about Biden’s performance have come to believe his failings are worse than Trumps? It is because of Trump’s absolute unfitness that everyone is so alarmed that Biden appears to lack the ability to win this damned election. But please, say “ratfuck” a few more times.
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Mary Lewis
@profmarylewis.bsky.social
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Thank you.
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Jeff Lazarus
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I swear to fucking God if democracy dies in 2025 it won't be because Biden had one bad debate. It'll be because he had one bad debate and everyone decided the world was ending and they had to light their hair on fire and run around naked in the streets.
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Jeff Lazarus
@jlazarus.bsky.social
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Is Biden's polling soft? No. Is Biden's viability being threatened even so by a collective freakout by everyone in the media & Democratic party, combined with Biden's world-historically terrible comms team? You betcha.
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Mary Lewis
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I mean, he should have bowed out and let there be a competitive primary. But I take your point and don’t honestly know the answer.
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Justin Hendrix
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"Academics researching online misinformation in the US are learning a hard lesson: Academic freedom cannot be taken for granted." @rcalo.bsky.social & @katestarbird.bsky.social:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Mary Lewis
@profmarylewis.bsky.social
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Biden and Dems should be running on this. Constantly. Drumming into people the consequences of another Trump presidency. Reproductive rights are popular!!
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Mary Lewis
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I could have done without this line: “You know, not only am I campaigning, but I’m running the world.” You’re running what? Still, light years better than Trump.
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Mary Lewis
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It just blows my mind how dumb people who claim they want to defeat Trump are being… Do I love Biden as a candidate? No. Is he one of the best presidents of my lifetime? Maybe that’s a low bar but yes. Is he better than Trump? By a mile, yes.
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Melissa Gira Grant
@melissagiragrant.com
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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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Marisa Kabas
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the breadth of misinformation is unreal. a woman next to us at dinner said she went to cuba when “trump opened the border” and her date said “best president ever.” obama did that!!! trump reversed it!!!
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Mary Lewis
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Agreed and it’s incredibly frustrating how everyone thinks they’ve gamed this when in fact there would be very unpredictable consequences.
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Ian Boudreau
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People are getting confused and thinking this means I think Joe Biden is the ideal candidate or that nobody else would do a better job - not true! I just think that decision was made four years ago and reversing it is a guaranteed path to utter catastrophe
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Ed
@notdred.bsky.social
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I gotta say that people are having a lot of trouble distinguishing cognitive decline (Trump) from age-related changes in expression (Biden). Biden is elderly and talks like it. Trump literally does not have preserved reality-testing
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Mary Lewis
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Exactly. So sick of the Dems’ circular firing squad approach to everything. Their reaction is likely more responsible for any change in polls than the debate itself.
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Mary Lewis
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Michael
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man i love @jbouie.bsky.social and the crossword but idk that i can continue to stomach a subscription--even for professional purposes--to an outlet that runs pro-monarchist, anti-democracy dreck on the 4th of july
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮
@joshuafoust.com
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It’s weird that US political journalists don’t seem to think the President Trump being accused of multiple sex crimes against minors is worth covering as much as Joe Biden being old, right?
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Steve Silberman
@stevesilberman.bsky.social
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Oh don't worry, all that Nazi stuff is just talk. He'll never carry out those wacky policies. [ @latimes.com, 1933]
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Bart Bonikowski
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An aspiring dictator & convicted felon w history of treason may win the presidency. Profoundly corrupt SCOTUS justices undermined the constitution and gave him immunity from prosecution for past & future crimes. This is all political journalists should be writing about 24/7. We’re at the precipice.
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Mary Lewis
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Jesus
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Abby Swingen
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It hasn't gotten a ton of coverage here, but about 200 Macron-centrists in 3 way races in France have dropped out, to keep the far right from winning a majority in the National Assembly. It just might work. www.reuters.com/world/europe...
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Coach Finstock
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NYT: Joe should quit, he stutters Philly Inquirer: Trump is a fucking criminal what the fuck are we doing here
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Mary Lewis
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They are creating the dynamic they claim to be addressing . It’s absolutely bonkers.
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Blue Heron Farm
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Seriously. He's so clearly more mentally fit than Trump. I say this as someone dealing with a parent with advanced dementia. Trump seems like he's got dementia, Biden seems like he's slowing down a normal amount for his age. You can argue they're both too old. They are! But those are the choices.
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The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter
@swolecialism.bsky.social
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fuck yes im voting for a dead man before donald trump. how many dead men you got.
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Peter
@notalawyer.bsky.social
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in 2020 “Biden is too old” was a big narrative going into the first debate with Trump, but he performed well and shut the concerns down. Ever since then, concerns about his age have had a boy who cried wolf element to them, and i think that’s part of why so many people were caught off guard.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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one thing democrats need to understand is that in this moment transparency is their ally
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Mary Lewis
@profmarylewis.bsky.social
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Exactly! So annoyed that the freakers didn’t think this through.
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Kevin M. Kruse
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I really thought I was cynical enough about the utter corruption of the right-wing bloc on SCOTUS, but it turns out I was still giving them too much respect.
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Don Moynihan
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Honestly still in shock that the most crooked American President in history said "I need immunity" and the GOP Supreme Court said "well, it's nowhere in the constitution, but sure, why not? Whats the worst that could happen?"
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Katie Mack
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Keeping Trump out of the White House isn’t the only thing that needs doing and it isn’t enough to solve all problems facing the country & world but if it isn’t done then all those problems get exponentially worse in ways I don’t even know how to express and it scares me when people pretend otherwise
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Riana
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Reminder: it is not doable to maintain a state of abject terror 24/7, so when your attention turns to something else, it doesn’t mean you’re sticking your head in the sand about the future. Right now, at this moment, you are (probably, if you’re reading this) safe, and your mind & body need a break.
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Miranda Yaver
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Trump committed these crimes as a private citizen, prior to becoming president. This is ridiculous.
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Steve Silberman
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Thought experiment: Imagine if Obama, after claiming an election had been stolen from him and being convicted of 34 felonies, was granted immunity by SCOTUS justices who had taken undisclosed luxury trips on George Soros' dime. The fact that you can't even imagine this scenario tells you something.
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Seth Masket
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I love that folks think SCOTUS established a new general rule, as opposed to just having helped Trump in a way that will not apply to Democratic presidents
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Michael P. Breen
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Our national media is completely incapable of responding to the crisis this country now faces
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Brendan Nyhan
@brendannyhan.bsky.social
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Beware the temptation to downplay the SCOTUS ruling and to deny its potential implications. We've been down this road before.
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Mary Lewis
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Powerful and very upsetting: “Republics fall because most citizens are willing to give it away.”
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
@theradr.bsky.social
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And remember, the Christian Right only took up abortion as a topic after they lost school segregation for good when the IRS went after Bob Jones’ U status, & needed a new issue to rally the troops. 1/x all our issues are intertwined. 🧵
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Mary Lewis
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The Senate could have convicted this man upon impeachment. Leaving it to the courts was an absolute dereliction of duty. This is a terrifying day. Read this excellent article for historical perspective:
newrepublic.com/article/1833...
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Holly Brewer
@earlymodjustice.bsky.social
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My article for @newrepublic
“The Supreme Court has effectively ruled that 250 years of U.S. history under a republic is enough.”
newrepublic.com/article/1833...
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Anil Dash
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One thing I think people forget is how relentlessly *stupid* every day of the Trump administration was. He doesn’t need to do a big elaborate complicated conspiracy, he can just (e.g.) email a list of every U.S. agent in the field to Putin and say it’s to own the libs, and *that* will have immunity.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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very much reflective of the lack of any real survival instinct among journalists that they think the big story today is whether biden will step down
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Kevin M. Kruse
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Biden’s appearance should help dispel some concerns about his age, but he needed a stronger message and a concrete call for court reforms
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Peter
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reflecting on the immunity decision a bit, what the Court seems to be saying is that every element of the executive branch is at the President’s disposal, no matter what he wants to use it for. his motives don’t matter. the office is a weapon to be wielded however he sees fit.
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Joe Katz
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This. The Democratic Party does not have the votes to do major reforms right now, but they 100% have the power to do big, messy, public hearings taking the justices to task for their corruption and abuses of power.
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