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B. A. Friedman
@bafriedman.bsky.social
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DHS is the agency to worry about under any administration. It’s a Frankenstein’s monster of bad ideas and the Coast Guard.
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B. A. Friedman
@bafriedman.bsky.social
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DHS is the agency to worry about under any administration. It’s a Frankenstein’s monster of bad ideas and the Coast Guard.
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Timothy Burke
@bubbaprog.ilovecitr.us
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It was a common euphemism for Jews who marched with MLK and others
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Dave Levitan
@davelevitan.bsky.social
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I have no idea the best path re Biden but I do know a solid week straight of “Biden Old” and “Rich Dems Worried” above-the-fold stories are *obscene* in the face of SCOTUS using the Constitution to wipe their asses purely in the service of reinstating a felon rapist as president. Crazy-making shit.
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Aubrey Spacedeer
@gayspacedeer.bsky.social
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a tweet you still think about
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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It's pretty interesting what the media decides is front page news and what they don't decide is front page news! Trump being a child sex abuser with close connections to Jeffrey Epstein somehow doesn't merit the same coverage as "unnamed Dem insider has concerns about Biden's age"
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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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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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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It also makes me feel insane that the rat fuck around Biden’s age and mental capacity is being uncritically spread around by Democrats when Trump is *incredibly obviously* grotesquely mentally incapacitated, in a way that is genuinely terrifying.
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Szabla
@szabla.bsky.social
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np, yep, I could've phrased that better
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Szabla
@szabla.bsky.social
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Yes that’s what I’m asking from the Democrats when they talk to the press
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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If you think that we actually just need a civil war to settle this once and for all: 1. No, you don’t. 2. No, you don’t. 3. You are an idiot.
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Szabla
@szabla.bsky.social
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I responded to all of one poll this election season out of some combination of “had time available” and “weird sense of civic obligation”. After that it was nothing but refused calls. I think I’m at the generous end of the sample.
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George Pearkes
@peark.es
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There are good polls and bad polls but I don’t see how any pollster relying on phone calls is able to provide a representative sample with these kinds of numbers. It’s not a criticism of any one pollster, just an unfortunate reality.
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Szabla
@szabla.bsky.social
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Szabla
@szabla.bsky.social
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well CLEARLY, having been fucked by Elon, that driver has decided that nobody else can compare
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Hemry, Local Bartender
@bartenderhemry.bsky.social
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2nd best thing is probably hammer how bad scotus is. Any policy question, turn it into "well we've gotta get better judges in there who know what the hell they're doing. They're saying trump has the power to storm the capitol but I don't have the power to forgive student loans for god's sake"
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Szabla
@szabla.bsky.social
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“yeah it’s for day to day commuting with a 25mm, uh, pointer”
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Szabla
@szabla.bsky.social
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Shiv, if you need to threaten escalation, may I point out that the Swiss company MOWAG sells a nice line of vehicles called Piranhas? I’m sure you can pick one up secondhand for your nephew…
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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“The dissent is indulging in extreme hypotheticals” says the justice in a case of a president trying to use fraud and force to overturn an election
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Szabla
@szabla.bsky.social
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<chanting> pi-ran-ha! pi-ran-ha!
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Szabla
@szabla.bsky.social
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hot wolfman summer
@fnowae.bsky.social
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not ragging on you for this but boy the press seeing it as a “slow news week” given the immunity decision on monday is pretty damn blackpilling
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William Shakespeare
@shakespeare.bsky.social
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’tis true that we are in great danger, The greater therefore should our courage be.
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Szabla
@szabla.bsky.social
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as is usual for Normal Island, I understand he was a joke who was overtaken by reality until he became the sane one in the circus
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Szabla
@szabla.bsky.social
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anytime a journo calls up with a question they will need to be bludgeoned with the same talking points about SCOTUS until they realize it might actually matter
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Szabla
@szabla.bsky.social
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is it so much to ask for one fucking iota of message discipline?! any sane press organization would’ve been focusing on the Scotus ruling 24/7. but this is the same “BUT HER EMAILS” bunch so sanity is not a given. after 2016 you’d think someone would realize that!
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Cristian Farias
@cristianfarias.com
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I’d only add that: After decades of insistence that finality of state court judgments and no retroactivity are sacred, the Supreme Court can absolutely be expected to interfere with a final state-law judgment against Donald Trump, and to do so retroactively.
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Peter Manseau
@petermanseau.bsky.social
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July 4th Parade, Tule Lake Internment Camp, 1943.
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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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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
@sjshancoxli.bsky.social
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really cannot emphasize enough how plainly all this proves that the first priority of the next Democratic administration needs to be democracy reform --filibuster --electoral college --court reform --dc and pr statehood --new voting rights act --gerrymandering
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DodgerFanLA
@dodgerfanla.bsky.social
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the times continues its vigorous campaign to end democracy. literally the same playbook they ran in 2016 with the emails. we're so fucked. i'm existentially depressed.
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kilgore trout
@kilgoretrout.bsky.social
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I have never seen a better example of the bored punditry pretending two ideas cannot exist in people’s heads at the same time than “biden is too old to run” and “I don’t care that biden is too old to run if that’s all you’re gonna offer me”
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Ian Boudreau
@iboudreau.bsky.social
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I know everyone says "their reporters do great work" and that's true, but over the course of my life, the New York Times has institutionally had multiple points at which it was important to choose "be evil" or do the right thing and they've fucked it hard every time
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Will Stancil
@whstancil.bsky.social
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what’s really going to be wild is if we ditch a sitting president for the second time in history based on a fullbore media and social media freakout and then everyone goes back to claiming media narratives don’t matter in politics
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Brendel
@brendelbored.bsky.social
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Everyone is always afraid to say why people like Trump or Marie Le Pen have some level of popularity and it’s just that there’s a lot of people in the world who believe in racism. You end up with these goofy ass explanations for Trump where it’s NAFTA or shit and it’s like no you know what it is
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
@golikehellmachine.com
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anyone who thinks harris is gonna get an easy walk from the nation’s newspapers and editorial boards if she were to become the nominee is absolutely lying to themselves
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scott⚡️mccloud
@scottmccloud.bsky.social
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As well-meaning publishers try to navigate the coming storm of state laws against diversity, I hope they'll consider Timothy Snyder's Rule #1 (from his slim book ON TYRANNY).
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Szabla
@szabla.bsky.social
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a golf rangefinder costs twenty bucks, but I guess that’s twenty bucks per vehicle saved for the god-king’s ketamine habit
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Szabla
@szabla.bsky.social
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so Tesla invented a form of rangefinding that is literally less effective than the Mark One Human Eyeball, because we at least have two of them for parallax processing fucking bravo lads. amazing job
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Szabla
@szabla.bsky.social
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Image recognition and computer processing, in theory. Dunno if they can use parallax from multiple cameras. It’s be a nifty tech if it, you know, worked.
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Szabla
@szabla.bsky.social
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Doing anything <<< being one of the Righteous Elect of Marx
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Tom Pepinsky
@tompepinsky.bsky.social
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Americanists and lawyers ask, what does the Constitution say? Comparativists ask, who controls the High Court, the militia, and the clerics?
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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Living under authoritarian regimes is both relatively boring and normal AND incredibly corrosive to the human soul. These things can absolutely co-exist. This is why everyone needs to resist authoritarians, even people who privately assume they’ll be just fine.
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Jason O. Gilbert
@gilbertjasono.bsky.social
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In awe of this tweet, which truly captures everything bad about mainstream journalism in 2024
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executive editor, barbell quarterly
@swolecialism.bsky.social
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frankly, the first defeat that we can hand them, in November, is the easiest possible one we are going to be offered, and we'd be fools not to make it happen.
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Taniel
@taniel.bsky.social
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THE sentence of the day: A Macronist incumbent in the Marseille region came in 3rd in her seat. She just dropped out to support the left. She said, about why she's maneuvering to block the far-right: "Defeats happen, but you can never recover from dishonor."
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Stephen Webb
@stephenwebb.bsky.social
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i'm getting so, so tired of the doomerism on here, and the press loves covering shit like a horse race instead of explaining fundamentals and what's at play, a job that seems to fall to @golikehellmachine.com on here.
so here's a thread about why i'd rather be biden — yes, biden — right now
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Thomas Zimmer
@thomaszimmer.bsky.social
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There it is: A position completely untethered from empirical evidence, as ridiculous analytically as it is dangerous politically, propagated by anti-liberal leftwing intellectuals who are solely animated by their disdain for “the Libs” and have abandoned any regard for accuracy.
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Jacob T. Levy
@jacobtlevy.bsky.social
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Not one more minute of defensiveness from the Biden campaign, please. Not one more question answered about age or debates. All day, every day, a referendum on Trump's criminality and assault on the constitutional order, on what he would be like with blank check for his lawlessness.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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trump just called for liz cheney to be prosecuted for treason which, according to john roberts, is an official act and would not be subject to criminal sanction
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Julia Azari
@juliaazari.bsky.social
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also: panicking is going to wear us out. it's like drowning. step 1: what groups are working on court reform already?
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