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Former factory rat, bartender, disc jockey, journalist, Senate staffer. Movies, music, theater, politics, vintage cars, baseball, and irony. Mallacht mo chait ort. Blog sometimes at scaypgrayce.wordpress.com

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July 4th, 1976. The Clash open for The Sex Pistols at The Black Swan in Sheffield while The Ramones make their debut at The Roundhouse in London. Whoa.

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I am a progressive going back nearly 50 years who worked for Bernie and another progressive, Russ Feingold, on the Hill. With that, 👋🏼.

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I'm calling on Arthur Gregg Sulzberger to step down as publisher of The New York Times. his recent performance proves he isn't up to the task

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Jill Stein “enabled” The Angry Inch.

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Sanderistas are as bad as the MAGATs. Never their fault; always a conspiracy. 🙄

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Coach Finstock's avatar Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social
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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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Casablanca, but Strangelove is right up there. Also: The 39 Steps The Maltese Falcon The Magnificent Seven Good Night, Good Luck Philadelphia Story

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they're just out there picking names from the NYT directory at random, demanding a "biden old" article by the end of the day

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Whose perception? Speak for your sorry selves. And just how did that entangling come to pass? Perhaps when you guys took Hur’s bait?

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Important new polling reinforces that Biden's soft support from younger voters is in part a manifestation of an older skepticism and generational frustration.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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I wait with baited breath for this “insight,” which, in my experience, frequently amounts to rhetorically bending events into a pre-determined shape in order to convince the public the reporters are smarter than the rest of us. 🙄

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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social
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yo, I wrote a thing: "wingnuts are in full panic mode over Thursday’s debate" — hubris, laziness and dementia is a toxic cocktail of disaster. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —

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Long read on the hard, vital and caring work of public library staff - ‘If there’s nowhere else to go, this is where they come’: how Britain’s libraries provide much more than books www.theguardian.com/news/article...

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Neil Lewis, Jr.'s avatar Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social
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As RBG wrote at the time: “Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet”

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I wrote a thing: "a weekend’s worth of fucknuttery from the rotting brain of Donald J. Trump" — what kind of psycho dreams up forcing migrants to fight? thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter to keep getting the good stuff —

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Today in there’s nothing new under the sun: In 1903 a white hotel worker became a right wing celebrity for being fired after refusing to make booker t washington’s bed because he was black and a bunch of people around the country raised thousands of dollars on her behalf

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Sixteen years later, Ronald Reagan, in his first campaign stop in Philadelphia, spat on their sacrifice and on the cause of civil rights, declaring his support for “states’ rights.” The Republican swing to race-baiting was in full poisonous flower, leading to where we are today.

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Sixty years ago today, three civil rights workers - James Cheney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner - were murdered near Philadelphia, MS, during Freedom Summer. They were helping Black residents register to vote.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders...

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Nevada federal court dismisses GOP voter suppression lawsuit: Pro-democracy groups have filed motions to intervene in and dismiss this case. On June 18, granted the state’s motion to dismiss and dismissed the case.

www.democracydocket.com/cases/nevada...

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Damn. Now Donald Sutherland. Brilliant actor. Why don’t the awful people die?

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Good Morning. Tea by Bird & Blend; tiramisu courtesy of Filomena’s.

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Hemry, Local Bartender's avatar Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social
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The political press we need: hounding trump & republicans endlessly about his felony convictions, his history of sexual violence, and his attempts to overthrow the government The political press we have:

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June 12th, 1967. Loving v. Virginia. Unanimous decision. Wonder what the six SCOTUS Rs would do today.

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As reported by Rolling Stone, Alito argued that compromise with the political left in the United States was impossible given what he said was a vast gulf between America's political ideologies.

www.rawstory.com/sam-alito-se...

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Joe Katz's avatar Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social
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Treat this like the Republicans would.

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