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Cynophilist (obsessed with dogs). Ex (retired) cybersecurity for THE data cloud platform. Nomad.

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Ana Marie Cox's avatar Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social
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Undecided or put-off voters will likely not respond to calls about “saving democracy,” but anyone who lives in a red state rn is probably one degree of separation from someone who has already faced an obstacle to repro care. This is real and urgent.

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Ana Marie Cox's avatar Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social
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Every pundit fretting over Biden’s age should mention that he could be a walking corpse and electing him would still be the only way to protect abortion rights.

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Pwnallthethings's avatar Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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Totally. The media is mean to Biden, and they are going to be mean to Harris. That's life. It sucks. Politics is dirty. But idk, part of campaigning is being able to help drive the news and get your message out to voters, not just be completely blindsided repeatedly by it.

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Don Moynihan's avatar Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social
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The Heritage Foundation is funding an opposition researcher who targeted Biden's political appointments to now go after civil servants. I talked to The Guardian about how this connects to a broader pattern of targeting previously anonymous public servants.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...

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emptywheel's avatar emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social
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Meanwhile, NYT has NEVER reported on the suspected Egyptian payment to Trump in 2016, much less the new news that there's a Chinese link.

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Pwnallthethings's avatar Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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Apart from all the rest, just tossing it out there that in the four years that followed LBJ withdrawing, Nixon appointed *four* supreme court justices

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Rebecca Schoenkopf's avatar Rebecca Schoenkopf @wonkette.bsky.social
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I am. I will scream it a hundred times a day. I am a huge fan of Joe Biden, absolutely, no question, for very real.

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Swalsh's avatar Swalsh @swalsh.bsky.social
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If you'd like a genuine discussion on this - on what a successful path forward looks like WITH Biden - I think it would result in a phenomenal article. I follow you because I value what you have to say. I get your frustration. The objective fact is, Biden is an exceptional POTUS, maybe not debater.

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Steven Glaros, M.A.'s avatar Steven Glaros, M.A. @stevenglaros007.bsky.social
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So let’s say the Dems replace Biden on the ticket. Press unleashes 3 months of “Dems in Disarray” stories and the replacement candidate gets no traction. Democracy ends.

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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social
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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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Swalsh's avatar Swalsh @swalsh.bsky.social
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I'm not above wanting some sort of accountability for Sulzberger contributing to the xfr of our democracy to an authoritarian. 🤔

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Swalsh's avatar Swalsh @swalsh.bsky.social
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It's the headline, Mark. The headline is paramount to conveying the message they want as the primary take-away from the article. This is a pattern. It's intentional.

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Swalsh's avatar Swalsh @swalsh.bsky.social
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Why not snub them both?

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Swalsh's avatar Swalsh @swalsh.bsky.social
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WaPo is no better. How about the Philadelphia Inquirer? Or Joan Walsh at The Nation?

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Swalsh's avatar Swalsh @swalsh.bsky.social
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Just subscribed for the first time. I've always liked their coverage. Don't know why it took me so long!

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Pwnallthethings's avatar Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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folks gonna miss this from just the headline, but someone should point it out: the lack of live fact-checking by the moderators *was part of the agreement* by the campaigns. It's not just that CNN /didn't/ live fact check it. It's that they /weren't allowed to/.

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Swalsh's avatar Swalsh @swalsh.bsky.social
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The other candidates have not been in the sights of the republican propaganda machine. Nor have they been in the sights of the nation-states that wish to weaken the United States. If any one of those were to become nominee, you'd see bad press much worse in substance than what we're seeing on Biden.

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Nunsense & Shenunigans 's avatar Nunsense & Shenunigans @annaleehq.bsky.social
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HCR is 💯 correct

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Swalsh's avatar Swalsh @swalsh.bsky.social
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This hits the nail on the head. If you've ready any @rvawonk.bsky.social, you know that righteous anger (e.g., anger over the torture of defenseless beings, whether babies, children, puppies, etc.) and fear play perfectly into the playbook of the nation states that are trying to weaken the US.

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emptywheel's avatar emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social
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Joe Biden: Three Weeks and Four Months
www.emptywheel.net/2024/06/28/j...
Among other things, this post notes how much more stress Biden had been under in the 3 weeks leading up to the debate than he had leading up to SOTU.

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Kevin Ault 's avatar Kevin Ault @kevinault.bsky.social
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on this day in 1905, Archibald "Moonlight" Graham played in his only major league baseball game for the New York Giants. He eventually quit professional baseball and became a doctor in Chisholm MN.

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Swalsh's avatar Swalsh @swalsh.bsky.social
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I don't disagree. I do wonder how different it would have been if another candidate had won the nomination, though. The decision for MKE to host was made in 2022. I think a lot of people believed there was no way the party would (or maybe even could?) nominate such a loser and criminal.

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Swalsh's avatar Swalsh @swalsh.bsky.social
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Did you see today's article on the disappointment that is the RNC? (In the Recombobulation Area.)

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Mousebumples's avatar Mousebumples @mousebumples.bsky.social
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100%. Ben Wikler and WisDems are amazing. In addition to running up the margin in Madison and Milwaukee, they've upped turnout on college campuses and locked to the suburbs.

@danshafer.bsky.social has done great reporting on this, for anyone unfamiliar with the Recombobulation Area.

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Swalsh's avatar Swalsh @swalsh.bsky.social
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Was just on a WisDems Unite call with her. She's amazing! Now I'm going to help NC in addition to WI! I had no intention to do that!!

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Tim Carvell's avatar Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social
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2002: "Careful, kids, the Internet is forever!"

2024: "Oh, hey, all the work you did for a decade of your life was just deleted from the Internet for Business Reasons."

latenighter.com/news/paramou...

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Chris Hayes's avatar Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social
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Yeah there’s literally a question about accepting a gift like this from a contractor in our HR ethics training module and the answer is *OBVIOUSLY NOT*

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Swalsh's avatar Swalsh @swalsh.bsky.social
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Upside-down? Is the Bay Bridge in distress?

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Swalsh's avatar Swalsh @swalsh.bsky.social
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Why is it it's only the abortion-related rulings that get leaked? Or did I miss others?

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Joan Walsh's avatar Joan Walsh @joanwalsh.bsky.social
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Tell me you know nothing about the lives of poor and working class families without telling me: By mocking Dems' ambition as ‘OK, if we could just, like, increase the E.I.T.C.’ Guess it doesn't help TV moguls.

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Swalsh's avatar Swalsh @swalsh.bsky.social
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The truth about the compromise of Snowflake customers. Sorry to dissappoint everyone who was gleefully spreading misinformation and hoping for a bigger scandal. Or maybe they were just trying to get clicks. cloud.google.com/blog/topics/...

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Swalsh's avatar Swalsh @swalsh.bsky.social
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...inheritance via a maternal uncle—is more common in populations that conduct frequent extramarital affairs, which lowers confidence in a child’s true paternity. .“men are more likely genetically closer related to their sisters’ children" than their own. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a...

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Techmeme's avatar Techmeme @techmeme.com
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The New York Times confirms its internal source code and data leaked on 4chan after being stolen using an exposed GitHub token in January 2024 (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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ArtButMakeItSports's avatar ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social
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St. Francis of Assisi, by Jusepe de Ribera, 1642, 📸 by Tyler Schank

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John Pfaff's avatar John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social
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Hadn't seen these 2021 Gallup results before, and they're really surprising. Hispanics are reported to be the MOST confident in the criminal legal system. They're at twice the level of whites and Blacks, who are similar on the high end (though Blacks are much more likely to be unhappy w it).

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