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Pat McDermott@twinsetpat.bsky.social |
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Pat McDermott
@twinsetpat.bsky.social
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Sargent’s podcast is part of my weekday routine. But I’m not sure I have the fortitude to listen to today’s podcast. Like many Democrats, I want this messy fight over whether Biden will stay on the ticket to just end. I don’t pretend to be a great political analyst. I just don’t want Dems to lose.
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Greg Sargent
@gregsargent.bsky.social
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Kate Bedingfield, a former top adviser to Biden, tweeted that the Biden camp has not demonstrated a serious path forward. I asked Ron Klain to respond to that claim. Here's our exchange:
newrepublic.com/article/1836...
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The Onion
@theonion.com
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Gail Drakes
@gaildrakes.bsky.social
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This “who is the best candidate for the Democratic Party?” question is an important one. It’s the question we are supposed to answer during the DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY.💁🏽♀️🤬 Pundits fuck around, and families like mine, on the frontlines of Project 2025’s war against us, will be the ones to find out.
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Strepsirrhini
@strepsirrhini.bsky.social
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Essential reading. Don't miss this.
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Rima I Anabtawi
@rimaanabtawi.bsky.social
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Microsoft killed my online life after I called Gaza
Palestinians calling home to Gaza on Skype have had their digital lives destroyed, after Microsoft closed their email accounts without warning.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Woah Duderino
@woahduderino.bsky.social
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It’s way more than that, you better believe it.
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Chris Bertram
@crookedfootball.bsky.social
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Incredibly worrying that in today’s digital world tech giants exercise the power to punish those of whom they disapprove, with devastating consequences and no effective recourse for the victims
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Citizen.Coping
@propcazhpm.bsky.social
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And Greek economist and former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis also describes "silicon serfdom" and what he calls technofeudalism that is replacing capitalism.
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Citizen.Coping
@propcazhpm.bsky.social
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This exercise of power reminds me of Varoufakis's "technofeudalism" “In big tech we face a totalising power that in key respects disqualifies itself from being understood as capitalism, but rather as a wholly new form of governance by the few over the many.” - Shoshana Zuboff, cited by Varoufakis
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Citizen.Coping
@propcazhpm.bsky.social
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"Some of these email accounts are more than 15 years old and the users have no way to retrieve emails, contacts or memories. Microsoft says they violated its TOS - but will not say how - and the decision is final. [Some have] missed out on job offers and can no longer access bank accounts.." Wow.
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earlyworm
@theearlyworm.bsky.social
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TRUMP/THOMAS 2024
Democrats should pick Trump’s running mate for him, argues @jamisonfoser.bsky.social.
“Trump and the Republican Supreme Court are joined at the hip substantively,” he writes. “Democrats should aggressively ensure they are just as closely linked politically.”
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Greg Sargent
@gregsargent.bsky.social
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This is former WH chief of staff Ron Klain's first serious interview since the debate. Some highlights: I read him the latest polling that shows Biden in trouble and asked him if he acknowledges they're right. He basically concedes they are, with caveats:
newrepublic.com/article/1836...
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Pat McDermott
@twinsetpat.bsky.social
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My husband bought his Kaypro in 1985, before we married. Oh those 8-inch floppies! He used it through several of freelancing, then junked it when he was starting grad school (& getting a PC). A friend of mine nearly cried when I told her a few years later. She was hoping for parts for her old Kaypro
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Indivisible
@indivisibleguide.bsky.social
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We want to help level up your group’s electoral engagement this year! With Local Voices Local Power, we’re providing the necessary resources to break free from billionaires' influence and elect leaders who truly speak for us: indivisible.org/resource/end...
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Dr. Damien P. Williams (Temporarily Logged Off)
@wolvendamien.bsky.social
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Lenacapavir did so well at preventing HIV infection that it hit the threshold where the only ethical thing to do was stop the randomized trial and immediately offer it to literally every participant. That's huge news. www.npr.org/sections/goa...
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Wagatwe Wanjuki
@wagatwe.com
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tfw killing women is so normal the headline focuses on the weapon
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ryan cooper
@ryanlcooper.com
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thank fuckin Christ somebody is trying to bring up SOMETHING ELSE to talk about
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Citizen.Coping
@propcazhpm.bsky.social
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Kiese Laymon, MacArthur Prize winner, speaking about the importance of revision.
And in his book Heavy, he talks about re-reading.
💜👑📚
#Writers #Writing
youtu.be/ZcCZwLr9DwA?...
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Citizen.Coping
@propcazhpm.bsky.social
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Another rereading advocate: "I'm very much a rereader. I reread all the time. Books wait for you, and they blossom in the time between readings..." - Helen Oyeyemi, New Yorker interview In general, there is so much value in rereading, especially books that impacted us profoundly in the past.
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Richard Littler
@richardlittler.bsky.social
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Unbelieveable! Sony Music Entertainment has made a copyright claim on the music in a YouTube video I uploaded years ago. I wrote/recorded the music myself on an old untuned piano in my in-law's house! And the kids playing sample is from a copyright-free audio library
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OO2...
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Greg Sargent
@gregsargent.bsky.social
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NEWS --> Ron Klain, a top Biden ally, acknowledges to me that polls showing Trump solidly ahead are "in the ballpark" of being right. But he insists there's still a path.
On the pod, Klain sat for 20 minutes of hard questions about Biden's way forward. Listen:
newrepublic.com/article/1836...
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
@golikehellmachine.com
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all newspapers becoming the same four newspapers and all magazines becoming the same magazines and all social media networks becoming the same social media network and all websites becoming the same website has some serious downsides.
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L O L G O P
@lolgop.bsky.social
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Yeah, now they're just fucking with us.
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Quinta Jurecic
@qjurecic.bsky.social
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it's a cursed combination of a decision that is a) potentially extremely consequential, but b) nobody knows what the right answer is, plus c) the vast majority of the people worrying about it have no control over what will happen. recipe for madness
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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Same here.
bsky.app/profile/kevi...
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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i think the thing that is leading me to check out of the biden conversation as much as possible is the sheer amount of certainty being expressed. i am not at all confident that i really know anything here!
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Jeff Lazarus
@jlazarus.bsky.social
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I live every day stunned that the guy who killed more Americans than anyone in history besides Jefferson Davis AND attempted a violent coup on national television AND suborned US foreign policy to his own electoral interests badly enough to get impeached for it AND
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Jacob T. Levy
@jacobtlevy.bsky.social
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One point I was only able to mention briefly but that bears spelling out: Roberts' opinion makes things worse *even in the very specific ground of presidents' ability to engage in politically-motivated prosecutions of their rivals.*
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www.theunpopulist.net/p/justice-ro...
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Paul Waldman
@paulwaldman.bsky.social
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Tell me again how Republicans deeply love the coal mining communities of Appalachia, which they show by MAKING SURE MORE COAL MINERS GET BLACK LUNG, while the Democrats who are trying to protect miners' health obviously don't show enough "respect" to coal country
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Sarah Posner
@sarahposner.bsky.social
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yes
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/notes...
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Maggie WW
@maggieww.bsky.social
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George Clooney: I Love Joe Biden. But We Need a New Nominee. (gift article)
www.nytimes.com/2024/07/10/o...
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L O L G O P
@lolgop.bsky.social
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I'd like to have this poll fight with all the polls showing under 30 women voting for Republicans like 50-year-old members of their megachurch's armed Pickleball team.
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L O L G O P
@lolgop.bsky.social
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Maybe this is the only poll people should be talking about today.
jessica.substack.com/p/most-ameri...
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Brendan Nyhan
@brendannyhan.bsky.social
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Craig M. Ranapia
@craigmranapia.bsky.social
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Y'all saying this is empty "messaging" and "virtue signaling"? Uh, I didn't hallucinate Samuel Alito losing his *bleep*ing mind every damn time someone in media fails to kiss his arse with sufficient vigour, right? They see this.
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Omar Wasow
@owasow.bsky.social
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“America’s reputation for unbridled capitalism and a stereotype of Europe as a backwater of overregulation are often turned on their head in the construction sector.” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2024/07/08/o...
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Omar Wasow
@owasow.bsky.social
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“Behind the dearth of elevators in the country that birthed the skyscraper are eye-watering costs. A basic four-stop elevator costs about $158,000 in New York City, compared with about $36,000 in Switzerland.“ Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2024/07/08/o...
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Philip Bump
@pbump.com
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Reading a story about the election that casually referred to "Biden's slide in the polls" and it just remains remarkable to me that narrative reporters can just drop stuff like that into copy and never think twice about whether it has any basis in fact.
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Chris Geidner
@chrisgeidner.bsky.social
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Impeachment, criminal investigation, and court expansion — oh my! Congressional Democrats are pushing back, hard, against the Supreme Court's ethical lapses and extremism.
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Jamison Foser
@jamisonfoser.bsky.social
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These are good developments. More please. bsky.app/profile/chri...
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L O L G O P
@lolgop.bsky.social
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I get that age could be a dealbreaker, but I don't see how "Holding a reporter hostage with Vladimir Putin" isn't.
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Karl Bode
@karlbode.bsky.social
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I know there's some lawyers with some fleeting faith in the integrity of the system who don't think it's going to be all that bad, but as a 25 year consumer rights reporter intimately familiar with how companies like AT&T dismantle consumer protections I promise you it's gonna be exceptionally ugly
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Karl Bode
@karlbode.bsky.social
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people genuinely don't understand what's coming
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Karl Bode
@karlbode.bsky.social
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she's a dunk-worthy ignoramus but her sloppy understanding of the Chevron ruling isn't terribly different from what corporate lawyers across industries will be arguing for the next decade regulators are now decorative and anything corrupt right wing lawmakers and judges don't like violates the law
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hilzoy
@hilzoy.bsky.social
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What the headline says. 😳
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Jonathan W. Gray
@elmcitytree.bsky.social
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Heres a gift article detailing how NYC law firms are attempting to silence student supporters of Gaza by threatening their future employment. And of course the company helping them do this is named HireRight.
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David Sacerdote
@davidsacerdote.bsky.social
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A world where rates rise, but not in ways that match the risk is one where people take risk that they shouldn't, and overall cost to society is higher.
Gift link
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Jamison Foser
@jamisonfoser.bsky.social
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The Supreme Court is Donald Trump's real running mate. Democrats should act like it. (By me.)
www.findinggravity.net/p/trumpthoma...
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LurkyMcLurk
@lurkymclurk.bsky.social
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This is what AOC is doing with the impeachment and she’s very smart to do it!
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