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Stephen Morrison
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And that was after Obama absolutely bombed his first debate with Romney. Watching Biden crush Ryan let me sleep again.
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Dad to a daughter. Instructor of rhetoric and writing. Runner of middle distances. Researcher on hegemonic masculinity and fascism. Writer of advice for my new college kid.
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Stephen Morrison
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And that was after Obama absolutely bombed his first debate with Romney. Watching Biden crush Ryan let me sleep again.
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Stephen Morrison
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Certainly the most effective Democratic president of my lifetime. The man knows how to get things done.
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Boston Tom Levenson
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Just going to put this out there: Biden has been the most legislatively effective president since LBJ. The most pro-labor president WW2. He's done more re climate change than any POTUS. He's built an international coalition for Ukraine despite Russia-fueld GOP opposition. And yeah: he's hella old.
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RainSurname
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I do captioning for a living, & a big part of my job is cleaning up false starts & filler words. That has always been the norm at every media outlet. Print media edits Trump so carefully that you would never know what he actually sounds like. Doing this to Biden is a 180 from decades of policy.
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Stephen Wolf
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At best it lasted from 1965-2000. Even then we had widespread gerrymandering, Senate malapportionment, unequal voting access, Jim Crow ex-felon voting bans, etc. 7 of 12 elections since 2000 have seen Republicans win one or more of the presidency, Senate, or House despite fewer votes than Democrats
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Aaron Sojourner
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What if quitting your terrible job would help the economy?
Research by economists Zhifeng Cai & @heathcote.bsky.social shows that extending unemployment insurance to workers who quit their jobs would improve economic efficiency.
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
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Aaron Sojourner
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Happy #JobsDay 📉📈.
Overall the labor market remains strong.
Fed rate hikes took it off boil, been cooling & now back near pre-pandemic levels. Cooling has taken the form of slower hiring & slower wage growth, not job destruction. Layoffs remain at record lows.
Here's the numbers...
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Paul Krugman
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Way back in 2021 White House economists argued that the inflation surge resembled the spike after WWII and could be ended without major pain. They were right! www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-...
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Greg Sargent
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NEWS --> Mark Robinson, the MAGA extremist GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, appeared to endorse political violence against unnamed foes in a recent speech.
"Some folks need killing!" he shouted. "It's a matter of necessity!"
Video and story here:
newrepublic.com/article/1834...
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Jacob T. Levy
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This chart communicates pretty effectively why it's taking a while for the last 18 months of good solid economic conditions to fully take hold in people's minds— because look at the three years of chaos before that.
www.nytimes.com/live/2024/07...
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Ben Casselman
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Those "teen summer jobs are back!" stories have something to them: 37.3% of 16-19 year-olds were employed in June, the highest June employment rate since 2007.
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Stephen Morrison
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It's miles 1.5 to 2.5 that are the dark night of my 5k soul.
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Aaron Rupar
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New in PN: Charlie Sykes on the GOP's Trump cult "A lot of us worried that embracing Trump would corrupt the Republican Party, but I don’t think any of us realized the depths of it. I don’t know how the party comes back from that."
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Stephen Morrison
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And then abolish the Senate.
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Stephen Morrison
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Biden beat inflation.
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Paul Krugman
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I haven’t been paying as much attention as usual to inflation indicators. But we’ve been getting a string of good news. One source of inflation pessimism was the high ratio of job openings to unemployed workers. That issue has now gone away, with unemployment still very low 1/
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Paul Krugman
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Wages rose 3.3 percent in 2019, 3.9 over the past year. Job growth slowing. The Fed is supposed to get ahead of the curve. Time to cut.
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Aaron Sojourner
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The U.S. now has more manufacturing: - jobs now than anytime in the last 18 years, since 2008. - job openings than anytime from 2000 to 2021.
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Stephen Morrison
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My teenage daughter heard about it on TikTok. Encouraging.
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Paul Waldman
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Your miserable fact of the day: The last time a Democratic president got to fill the seat of a departing conservative Supreme Court justice was in 1962. (it was Byron White)
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Yashar Ali 🐘
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Newsom and Whitmer weigh in after their White House meeting
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Deva Woodly
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I came to my 14 year old with a concern about social media. He literally took his glasses off, rubbed his temples, and asked: “what have the moms on the internet said now?” 😯🫤😆
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Aaron Sojourner
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On Independence Day, note our progress towards energy independence & a sustainable future for generations ahead. Thanks to 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure & 2022 Inflation Reduction laws, U.S. companies are accelerating in grid batteries to make solar+wind scalable. That's not all...
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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just watched 74 people speaking at least a dozen different languages become american citizens in a ceremony at monticello, where the speakers were themselves children of immigrants. inspiring stuff and a vivid illustration of what reactionaries want to snuff out
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Helen
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Poland saved itself from autocracy w/massive voter turnout: "leadership played a pivotal role... a veteran insider successfully challenged an authoritarian incumbent... baggage of Tusk’s career was offset by the benefits of his vast experience.. self-restraint & collaborative spirit were crucial."
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Stephen Morrison
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These specific attacks are also specifically designed to appeal to right-wing voters, who value *strength* more than anything -- more than competence, intelligence, or even morality.
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Jeramy Neugin
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Hillary headlines in 2015. Don't let the media fool you again. Image Courtesy of angry_staffer.
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Aaron Sojourner
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Companies decided to sink billions of dollars of new investment into manufacturing plants in the U.S. after the CHIPS and Inflation Reduction Act boosted incentives for U.S. production, Check out that spike in manufacturing plant construction. It dwarfs all prior increases. 📉📈 #️⃣#️⃣
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Kevin Collins
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The answer to political anxiety is political organizing.
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Dan Murphy
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Presidential candidate who the far-right members of the Supreme Court just placed above the law tells voters how he will exercise his new powers.
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Grudgie the Whale
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The model to contemplate is Putin’s Russia. Trump aspires to it and SCOTUS just gave him the ok. Putin is the richest person in the world. He has oligarchs who do well as long as they stay loyal. And the nation suffers terribly. Sham elections. Detained/murdered opposition. State media.
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Stephen Morrison
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It's also exactly the key to saving democracy that Levitsky & Ziblatt suggest in 'How Democracies Die." And a nice bright spot in a pretty bleak global political landscape.
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🤖 AP Breaking News (unofficial)
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BREAKING: Advocates submit double the amount of signatures needed to put a constitutional right to abortion on the ballot in Arizona.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
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Here’s the post in which I do a close text study of the Southern Baptist Convention’s abortion resolutions, 1971-2009. You see not only the shift in what they preach, but how they preach it—and why. Once, SBC said abortion was a “purely private matter between a woman and her doctor.” Go figure.
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Aaron Rupar
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"Amidst all the tearing of garments and vultures circling, the fact is that we’re still pretty much where we were pre-debate. There are two questions: Is Biden fit to serve? And, would Democrats benefit by forcing him off the ticket? The answers remain 'he is' and 'probably not.'"
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Sarah Parcak, Book Writing Madness
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This is what I said yesterday. Harris won't get on the ballot in a lot of states, period the end. Utter chaos. Cope w Biden being the candidate people. He's it.
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Stephen Morrison
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Absolutely! Hegemonic masculinity, a key foundation of far-right movements, is built on a belief in a rigid gendered hierarchy. GOP voters *want* to be ruled and feel it's natural. In return they get the promise that they will dominate others (men over women, straight over gay, etc).
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Amanda Marcotte
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Watching the GOP reaction to the Supreme Court's "immunity" decision has been instructive.
These folks don't "fear" Trump, as we've been told.
They want a dictator. They may personally despise him and his smell. But he's their best shot at fascism.
www.salon.com/2024/07/03/g...
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Stephen Morrison
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Absolutely! Hegemonic masculinity, a key foundation of far-right movements, is built on a belief in a rigid gendered hierarchy. GOP voters *want* to be ruled and feel it's natural. In return they get the promise that they will dominate others (men over women, straight over gay, etc).
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Jacob T. Levy
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Really, this is *the whole point* of the separation of powers.
www.constitutionalstudies.ca/wp-content/u...
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Miranda Yaver
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My opinion about the new polls is I’m spending the evening writing voter registration reminder postcards to hundreds of swing state Dem voters.
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Brendan Nyhan
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Real news in 2024. Not a drill. www.politico.com/news/2024/07...
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🌸Abbey🌸
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Paul Rosenberg
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So, today's decision has even LESS support than Dobbs:
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-i...
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Media Matters for America
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Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...
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Stephen Morrison
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Absolutely. Hegemonic masculinity, with its inherent anti-woman, anti-lgbtq bias, was a foundational element (maybe *the* foundational element) of pre-war facist movements in Italy (the first, of course) and Germany, but also France and England. And more recently in Hungary, Brazil, and the US.
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Stephen Morrison
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It's hard *not* to imagine such a world
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Saeed Jones
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Wait, kids… aren’t allowed in libraries anymore in Idaho???
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Chris Gaines
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Source: he wanted to during his first term.
www.thedailybeast.com/trump-wanted...
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Stephen Morrison
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I feel like the part of the decision allowing the President to use the DoJ to investigate political opponents is underplayed in these hypotheticals. Trump *probably* won't order assassinations, but he will absolutely have his lackeys gin up charges against rivals.
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