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Let's start with the truth and end with it.


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Our roster might not even compete with many USL teams.

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar 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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Bridget Copley PhD's avatar Bridget Copley PhD @moppety.bsky.social
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Speaking as a semanticist, it's wild to me that they are phrasing it in terms of whether an *act* is characterized as "official", when what they seem to actually be talking about is whether there exists a *description* of the act that can be characterized as "official".

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Phil Lewis's avatar Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social
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Supreme Court gives Joe Biden the legal OK to assassinate Donald Trump

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So we're just doomed to repeat the cycle.😝

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Peter Sagal's avatar Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social
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Under today’s immunity decision, Biden could order AG Garland to immediately prosecute Thomas and Alito for corruption and insurrection. (Official act). If Garland refuses, Biden can fire him and replace him with someone who will. (Official act) I would suggest Elie Mystal.

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Aaron Rupar's avatar Aaron Rupar @atrupar.bsky.social
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"Unelected right-wing justices, all of whom have a lifetime position, have pulled off what is likely the biggest power grab in American history, knowing full well there’s no way that the other two branches can get it together enough to stop them." -- @snipy.bsky.social

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@SIfill's avatar @SIfill @sifill.bsky.social
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A grotesque and hideous distortion of the rule of law from the highest Court of the world’s most powerful democracy.

This is a national and global catastrophe.

www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p...

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She did well in putting this current team together. Best depth in the league, with lots of 3-point shooters and incredible defenders. That's how you win in the WNBA.

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Questioning Cheryl's decisions? I don't think so.

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Seth Abramson's avatar Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social
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(📱) You’ve never seen anything like this: it’s the first *real* fact-check of Donald Trump ever done. CNN saw 30 debate lies—this NYT-bestselling author found 602.

Please share this free report.

PROOF: Trump's Shocking Box Score: 602 Lies in 40 Minutes

🔗: sethabramson.substack.com/p/donald-tru...

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Kevin M. Kruse's avatar Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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“Well, that’s the end of democracy. We’ll just have to leave it there.”

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Don Curren đŸ‡ș🇩's avatar Don Curren đŸ‡ș🇩 @dbcurren.bsky.social
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As Justice Elena Kagan wrote in her dissent last Friday, “The majority disdains restraint, and grasps for power” — and the justices are “making a laughing-stock” of long-standing judicial principles. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Bret should abandon writing.

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Kevin M. Kruse's avatar Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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Dear Reporters,

If you’re interviewing a theocrat who says “all our laws are based on the Ten Commandments” and you don’t immediately ask them to provide evidence and examples for that laughably stupid claim, just go ahead and quit your job.

www.nytimes.com/2024/06/21/u...

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Here's my counter: 90% of mass killers are documented supporters of DJT and right wing ideology. Trump's rhetoric incites violence, including the Jan. 6 riots and attempts to kill his own vice president. Go ahead, Don, deny that you have called for violence against your opponents. We have receipts.

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Kevin M. Kruse's avatar Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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This lawyer keeps insisting the Ten Commandments were a very, very important part of the founding but offers zero proof (because there is none) He finally says, well, Moses is on the SCOTUS building -- built in the 1930s! -- and yes, he's there, but so are Muhammed, Confucious, Hammurabi ....

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Kevin Morris's avatar Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social
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This morning we published some research showing that millions of Americans couldn't prove their citizenship to register to vote, as some Republicans are demanding. Check out the NPR writeup here:
www.npr.org/2024/06/11/n...

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The Painters are and always have been a pain in the ass.

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Reskeet with how old you are, using a vague proxy: I cried when President Kennedy was assassinated, even though I didn't know why. I just saw all the adults crying.

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Marisa Kabas's avatar Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social
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legalizing sports betting was such a profound societal failure.

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SDBaker's avatar SDBaker @sdbaker.bsky.social
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Impossible not to hold your manager to higher expectations with this much talent. It doesn't matter if the players like him or not. Berhalter is responsible for making the talent succeed. Lots of managers in other countries are having more success with less talent in tougher regions around the world

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Will he wear an orange jumpsuit? Please.

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Apps are so accurate 😎

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Mark Harris's avatar Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social
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I'm still reeling from that Trump speech. Clips of incoherence are one thing, but to listen for 30 mins...at one point he went into a long riff about some new Daily Mail poll showing him ahead. Then, five minutes later, he did the entire thing again, clearly with no memory that he'd said it already.

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Kevin M. Kruse's avatar Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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Read this, share this, write your representatives and senators to demand they back this.

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Murshed Zaheed 's avatar Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social
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Love how @RepRaskin trolls Roberts love 4 ⚟▶ "Professional baseball would never allow an umpire to continue to officiate the World Series after learning that the pennant of one of the two teams competing was flying in the front yard of the umpire’s home." đŸ”„ (3/4)

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Aaron Rupar's avatar Aaron Rupar @atrupar.bsky.social
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“My wife is fond of flying flags” is an incredible line of trollitry

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Note also the Strib uses a photo of the council to go with Pam's criticism of leadership. Not the mayor, of course.

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David Brauer's avatar David Brauer @dbrauer.bsky.social
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If you’re keeping score, the Frey administration fucked up & lied about police discipline and defunded alternatives to policing. I’m sure there will be a sternly worded Star Tribune editorial directed squarely at the mayor lol.

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David Brauer's avatar David Brauer @dbrauer.bsky.social
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Strib - to their credit - drops another bombshell on how the city lied to the public and the media about using “coaching” to discipline police officers. Not sure how you can write a whole investigative story and not mention “Frey” - the boss - once, though. strib.gift/s6h5qin0z (No paywall.)

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Ordinary federal judges AND THEIR FAMILIES work to ensure that no suggestions of bias or inappropriate conduct can be imputed to their spouse/parent/sibling. Judicial spouses, are especially careful. “She does what she wants,” is simply not a thing. d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/static/2024/...

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Adam Serwer's avatar Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social
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Alito lied about the reason the flag was up because he didn’t know the couple had text messages establishing the date of when the incident took place. They were supporting the insurrection. www.nytimes.com/2024/05/28/u...

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SDBaker's avatar SDBaker @sdbaker.bsky.social
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Yep. Planted ours last year and it's really happy now.

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Agreed. I try to find a few who are different, like our home-grown Laura Coates on CNN.

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Michelle S. Phelps's avatar Michelle S. Phelps @michellesphelps.bsky.social
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I wasn't expecting the first longform review of The Minneapolis Reckoning to pop up on Reason, of all places, but here were are! It's a fair shake, though I think the book has implications far beyond MN.

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Robert Reich's avatar Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social
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Target's profit increased 49% to $4.1B last year, even with slower sales. Its CEO received $18M in compensation on the year while the company paid $508M in dividends in Q4. Makes you wonder if Target could have lowered its prices a lot sooner but just chose not to. Hello?

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Just bizarre to think that a whole team can immediately recover from the adrenaline rush of celebration. The body and mind can't do it. After such an entertaining game, the ending was not even sporting.

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Impossible to recover after the adrenaline rush of a massive celebration. Body and mind cannot reset that quickly.

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Man City season a total failure 😎

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Paul Waldman 's avatar Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social
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Democrats need to make the Supreme Court - not just Dobbs, but the threat posed by the court itself - a bigger issue in the campaign. I make the case at MSNBC:

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SDBaker's avatar SDBaker @sdbaker.bsky.social
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He despises himself and admits to his own inferiority complex with every word he utters.

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Greg Sargent's avatar Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social
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People are missing the larger story behind the "unified Reich" video: It's undeniable that on many fronts, Trump and MAGA are experimenting with how far they can go with overtly fascist/authoritarian modes of politics. It's a test. 1/

New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1818...

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SDBaker's avatar SDBaker @sdbaker.bsky.social
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In summary: Guns kill. People who hate and have guns kill those they hate (or just indiscriminately). Right-wing politicians love guns. They encourage killing.

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Phil Lewis's avatar Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social
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The family of Henrietta Lacks can pursue compensation from a pharmaceutical company over its use of her HeLa cells, which have been influential in modern medicine after being taken without her consent decades ago

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Once you give into fear, it eliminates all rationality. Even self preservation is confused with violent aggression. We are a species capable of great creativity and understanding, but so many of us choose the horrible reality of being a species hell-bent to destroy itself.

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David Brauer's avatar David Brauer @dbrauer.bsky.social
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Reminder that the Strib editorial page, like Mayor Frey and the Chamber of Commerce, never gave two shits about driver pay and would’ve lifted precisely zero fingers to make it happen.

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