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genealogist, former consultant systems and process re-engineering, information technologist, confirmed progressive, Univ of Dayton Flyers fan, Buckeye to the core, Colorado resident

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Michael Tae Sweeney's avatar Michael Tae Sweeney @mtsw.bsky.social
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Makes you think

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Tristan Snell's avatar Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social
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Since the debate: Donald Trump has hidden from public view for 11 days. Joe Biden has done 18 public events — and counting.

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The Onion's avatar The Onion @theonion.com
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ManhattanJuryAppreciator 's avatar ManhattanJuryAppreciator @ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social
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Credit where credit is due: this is one of Biden’s best defenses.

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Lawrence O'Donnell did a masterful takedown of the White House press corps Monday and Tuesday on The Last Word.

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Anna Meier's avatar Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social
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My favorite tried-and-true resistance tactic: Being Extremely Fucking Annoying.

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Laila Lalami's avatar Laila Lalami @lailalalami.bsky.social
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Remember the outcry from our entire political class back in October when it was reported that Israel had hit 1 hospital? They immediately screamed fake news. Now it’s 8 hospitals, and they’ve all gone silent.

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post malone ergo propter malone's avatar post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social
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if you jack enough black SUVs in DC you are going to hit a federal protection detail. that’s just math

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McSweeney's Publishing's avatar McSweeney's Publishing @mcsweeneys.bsky.social
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"The Director should be adept at initiating and stopping all conversation in pursuit of creating a welcoming environment for everyone. (But especially for our alumni donors, tenured faculty, legacy students, and the members of this search committee.)"
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

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Kevin M. Kruse's avatar Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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During the 1937 court-packing fight, Harold Ickes mocked the people who thought the number of Justices was sacred. (from Bill Leuchtenburg's Supreme Court Reborn)

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Kevin M. Kruse's avatar Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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It's no coincidence that the Jefferson Memorial, a creation of the New Deal, chose to highlight this particularly apt quote from Jefferson.

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Tristan Snell's avatar Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social
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Greg Abbott and Dan Patrick are DELAYING federal aid to Texas for Hurricane Beryl — because Abbott left the country just as the storm hit Joe Biden personally called the Houston Chronicle newspaper to try to track down Abbott. THAT is how dysfunctional Texas Republicans are.

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All of a piece with the crap Barbero regularly vomits on The Daily.

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Max Kennerly's avatar Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social
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Adam Liptak should be fired for this. It's not some sort of minor technical error or a debatable issue. He's simply lying.

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Rachel Shelden's avatar Rachel Shelden @rachelshelden.bsky.social
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It cannot be stressed enough that adjusting the size of the Supreme Court in the 19th c. was a serious solution to serious concerns about how the Court functioned. As @earlymodjustice.bsky.social points out, reform often addressed imbalances. And these imbalances were often about REPRESENTATION. 1/

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Pavel's avatar Pavel @spavel.bsky.social
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Well this is grim

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David's avatar David @squarestate.bsky.social
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Are the French and Spanish giving in on Londres?

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David's avatar David @squarestate.bsky.social
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I led a book discussion about The Dirty Dust, written in the Irish language by one of Ireland's most revered authors, Máirtín Ó Cadhain, and one of our members of Irish descent said the book ridiculed the Irish.

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Miranda Yaver's avatar Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social
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Just a reminder that Michelle Wolf nailed it at the White House Correspondents Dinner. NYT, I’m looking in your direction especially.

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David's avatar David @squarestate.bsky.social
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The authors of the Constitution would like a word.

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ryan cooper's avatar ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com
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reminded of a scene from Terry Pratchett's Going Postal

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David's avatar David @squarestate.bsky.social
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As for the SCOTUS decision on immunity, I think we can all remember studying how FDR had Chicago Mayor Cermak assassinated while he was sitting right next to him. Never prosecuted.

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Mr. Am I Being Detained 's avatar Mr. Am I Being Detained @gonebabygone.bsky.social
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RIP Robert Towne, this is still one of the most chilling summaries of the nature of greed I’ve ever encountered in fiction

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ryan cooper's avatar ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com
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"Notice, by the way, how the Republicans claim Joe Biden is a tyrant and a dictator, yet they explicitly grant him dictatorial powers, confident that he will not use them!" itself.blog/2024/07/02/w...

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Noah Shusterman's avatar Noah Shusterman @ncshusterman.bsky.social
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Asked an historian of England, who agreed. SCOTUS rejected an historical tradition that goes back to 1689, and gave the president protections which George III did *not* have, which Washington did not want, and which anyone & everyone who had any role in writing the constitution opposed.

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Six people did the thing that is supposed to require 2/3 of both chambers of Congress and 3/4 of the states to do

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David's avatar David @squarestate.bsky.social
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This is outside the box thinking that parallels what Republicans have cooked up for decades.

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The antithesis of Biden governing, the reason we are in the mess we are in now. After the Senate silence, Obama should have invoked the "silence gives consent" legal maxim and sent Marshals to accompany Garland to take his seat on SCOTUS. So he's part of this too. Always a knife to a gunfight.

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I guess Mark Milley is going to be our next presidente

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We just need to find our John Yoo to issue a finding that it's all legal now.

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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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Laila Lalami's avatar Laila Lalami @lailalalami.bsky.social
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You have to wait 15 paragraphs in this piece to learn that the leftist coalition performed well and will face off against the fascists in the 2nd round. Now is a test for Macron: who will he tell his voters to choose? www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/0...

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Ned Resnikoff's avatar Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social
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On the same morning, the Court said: 1) We should not presume to know more than small town mayors regarding complex, technical questions like whether to arrest people for being poor. 2) I don't see why a "PhD" in "nuclear physics" should have any latitude to implement ambiguous energy rules.

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Josh Rosenau's avatar Josh Rosenau @joshrosenau.bsky.social
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It was a Gish gallop, a term coined by my former boss Eugenie Scott for a creationist tactic in debates. And in prepping Bill Nye to debate creationist Ken Ham, we came up with a counterstrategy: do your own Gish gallop back. Force Trump into the same corner.

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Paul Rosenberg's avatar Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social
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"I have this beautiful luxuriant hair...." The big lies made him. Perhaps the little ones, easy to laugh at, could be his undoing?

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Adam Gurri's avatar Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com
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The thing about taking statutory interpretation away from the agencies is that Congress actually has power over those agencies, but does not have power over the Court. It’s power grab in the guise of helping; it’s “helping” in a paternalistic, condescending, unchecked manner.

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Melanie D’Arrigo's avatar Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social
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Criminalizing homelessness without criminalizing poverty wages, and the commodification and price gouging of basic necessities like healthcare, housing and food that lead to homelessness is an absolute moral failure now owned by the right-wing justices on the Supreme Court.

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David's avatar David @squarestate.bsky.social
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And they've resorted to "said without evidence" just to avoid the simpler "lied." Looking at you, PBS News Hour.

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Truth Axe's avatar Truth Axe @truthaxe.bsky.social
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Idk if I'm stating the obvious, but justices never write/speak like this. She's telling the world this is a five-alarm fire and the coup is on.

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Seth Abramson's avatar Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social
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I’m fed up with the major-media bullshit today. This article obliterates the current media narrative about the presidential debate.

PROOF: The Extremely Simple Reason MAGA Wants President Joe Biden to End His Campaign

🔗: sethabramson.substack.com/p/the-extrem...

This article is free—please share!

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The American Prospect's avatar The American Prospect @theprospect.bsky.social
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Let's name names here: Ron Klain, Anita Dunn, Ben LaBolt, Jen O’Malley Dillon, Cedric Richmond, Julie Chavez Rodriguez, Quentin Fulks, Michael Tyler, and Rob Flaherty put our democracy in grave danger.

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