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Scott
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"politics would be interesting again" I have actually had quite enough of politics being interesting, personally
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Scott
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"politics would be interesting again" I have actually had quite enough of politics being interesting, personally
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Matthew Cortland (they)
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No one serious inside the party thinks this particular bullshit is a good idea.
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Sarah J. Jackson
@sjjphd.bsky.social
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This
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Scott
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jesus christ
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Scott
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allegations aren't convictions and truth is sometimes unknowable but generally speaking if there are two—especially decades apart—then there are more.
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hilzoy
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On the contrary: one necessary condition for the Court's appalling immunity ruling is their certainty that Biden will not abuse the powers they just gave him. That's for Trump alone (and his successors.)
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Fox Harper
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Hey have you noticed a lot of vocal Final Fantasy fans are queerphobes that hate women?
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Scott
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this was also my reaction
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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He's right. They're stealing the country from us and ending democracy. "Bloodless if the left allows it to be" is a threat to kill anyone who fights back
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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yep, it’s the obvious next move
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hilzoy
@hilzoy.bsky.social
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Ordering this withdrawal is an official act, since the President is Commander in Chief. His motives for doing so, and in particular any connection to the recent deposit from the government of Cuba, are inadmissible. So: yes.
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Adam Serwer
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If capital weren’t so fixated on tax cuts and fucking their workforce they would understand why this is bad for them too.
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post malone ergo propter malone
@proptermalone.bsky.social
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when you vote for President you are voting for a coalition rather than a person. the right understands this very well, which is why evangelicals lined up behind Trump.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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constitutional lawyers use your fucking brain challenge www.politico.com/news/2024/07...
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Adam Serwer
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I do not regret analogizing these people to the men who took photos of themselves at lynchings www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...
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The Emotion Engine
@emotion-engine.bsky.social
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Do you ever see a joke so perfectly executed that you just have to stop and exhale for a second?
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Micah
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“Trump would never do this” “Trump factually did do it during his first term, confirmed by 17 sources” “… okay but people didn’t obey the order so it doesn’t count, Trump would never do it for real” a whole entire genre of news story and op-ed, even now
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Prof. Kevin J. Kircher
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If you're looking for some digestible (if infuriating) background on how the right wing corrupted the US judicial system, I recommend @propublica.bsky.social's podcast "We Don't Talk About Leonard."
Hate to say it, but climate activists now need to care a whole lot about reforming the courts.
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Scott
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I have been thinking about "vote for the crook, it's important" for several days. It worked, too.
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Michael
@fleerultra.bsky.social
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scotus is ripping up abortion rights, pre-ordaining a future donald trump a lawless god king, rolling back the new deal and gains of the civil rights movement. nobody has to give a shit what dave weigel thinks is the "right" way to do anything
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The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter
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for real, stop hanging out at the nazi csam bar, it does bad things to your brain
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Scott
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"how could the DNC do this to us??!?" is one of my least favorite left-wing conspiracy theories. if the DNC were so fucking competent to arrange the outcomes of dozens of individual elections each independently administered by state-level authorities, no Republican would ever be President.
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Michael Hobbes
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I don't actually think the DNC is all that responsible for Clinton or Biden being the nominee. Primary voters genuinely thought they were the strongest candidate to beat Trump!
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Scott
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sometimes it was sexism
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Eric Rauchway
@rauchway.bsky.social
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Why did Southern Democrats shift to George Wallace, then to Barry Goldwater and Richard Nixon? Racism
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Eric Rauchway
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(I know it's in vogue to hate on John Kennedy, and he was personally unpleasant, but credit where due: he was the sort of politician who would go to Mississippi to give a speech in which he expressed support for school desegregation.)
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Eric Rauchway
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Why did Dewey nearly defeat Truman in 1948? It's a puzzle, unless you consider the possibility that "it's racism."
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Eric Rauchway
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like, “why did Reagan go to a spot near where three civil rights workers were murdered a mere sixteen years previous to campaign on ‘states’ rights’” is not a huge mystery when you consider the possibility that “it’s racism”
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Sean
@publichealth.bsky.social
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that tweet was straight up misleading for cutting out the second sentence. deleting my post
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Ayo
@darrylayo.bsky.social
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All of the nepo babies in comics are newspaper strip artists who were trained to take over from their fathers since they were knee high to a grasshopper. It’s not nepotism, it’s the family business. You’re an old man, writing and drawing a comic that your dad made about you being a baby
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
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On a practical level: the only way out politically now is a grassroots mobilization across coalitions. Everyone. All together*. On a philosophical level: the only way out now is a connection across types of humanity. Everyone. All together.* *white supremacists are not invited to this party
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Patrick Fessenbecker
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Something the left on here needs clearer thinking about is the nature of complicity and moral purity. There are some institutions where any participation would require apology. But the NYT isn’t one of them, and moral purity is overrated anyway: stop caring so much about your self conception.
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Angus Johnston
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You know that thing where you ask someone to imagine an apple and then there are five options for what the apple looks like in their head? Looking at this drawing I can hear the saxophone, as clear as day.
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Alexandra Merideth Erin [she/her] - in my Brain Damage arc
@alexandraerin.com
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"Terrorists don't have rights." "Criminals have no rights." "Immigrants have no rights." Everybody has rights, or they're not rights. Privileges granted on the sufferance of the state aren't rights. They aren't protection, they're a threat to ensure compliance.
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Scott
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oh, ha, well, I'm 45
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MrNelson007, Legendary Bracer
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Think about this a lot, this vibe is in so many leftist spaces, once you make what someone deems a mistake you're tainted forever.
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hilzoy
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Is this my favorite choice ever? No. I would rather face different candidates on both sides, and if I got to choose one to magically replace, it would not be Biden. Given that fact, I could either go off and start writing fanfic about my preferred world, or do my very best in this one.
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hilzoy
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Either he will withdraw (which seemed unlikely right after the debate, and has seemed more and more unlikely as time goes on), or he won't. Us randos have nothing to say about this. As before, that's not because THE FIX IS IN!!!, but because the primaries are over.
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Scott
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as a Bostonian I deeply regret that this kerfuffle has escaped the local-news event horizon and spread to the rest of the country. we're so tired of hearing about it.
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🏳️⚧️ Sonic Youth Pastor
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I’m not sure who needs to hear this, but it is not inherently antisemitic to warn Jews against following the path of fascism
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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richard nixon, in hell, giving one last fuck you to the american republic
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Rachel Shelden
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Whether you agree as to whether this is the most dangerous Court since Taney's (the case @kevinmkruse.bsky.social makes here) there's another key point about the comparison:
Taney's Court had only a fraction of the power and authority over American politics & society that Roberts' Court does 1/
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Scott
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I need to get back to blogging
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Scott
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wrote a whole blog post a little while back now on how it's kind of cryptofash to call things "cringe" smadin.net/2024/02/23/a...
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bobby (frociaggine)
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i understand this was infinite political controversies ago and nobody’s talked about this in years. but they should still mint the platinum coin
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Scott
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oh goddamn he just had to be a masshole too didn't he
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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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CHOAM Nomsky 💭
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if you took every billionaire on earth and stacked them on top of each other starting at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, that would be great
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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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Eb
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Just saw another display name in "fancy" letters (they look like they're from a typewriter) and you should know that screen readers do not treat those as normal letters and read the whole word. They read the name of each individual character. Every single time.
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