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VCarlson@vcarlson.bsky.social |
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Reader, cat friend, DFH from way back.
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VCarlson
@vcarlson.bsky.social
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I will vote for whomever the Dems put up against the GOP. I think the “low information voters” might have a little trouble if the nominee is changed at this relatively late date, though.
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Ned
@thewesterhazys.bsky.social
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No matter how you feel about Biden this is criminally irresponsible.
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Corey Rayburn Yung
@coreyryung.bsky.social
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Two candidates have committed sexual assault. The media is fixating on the third candidate dropping out. 😔
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Iron Spike
@ironspike.bsky.social
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So hey, here's a thing I don't think a lot of folks know: That whole "Patient Zero" thing? The French-Canadian airhost who supposedly spread HIV all over America? That's not real. That's not what happened or how it happened.
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VCarlson
@vcarlson.bsky.social
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13 - one for each circuit (counting the Federal Circuit and the DC Circuit).
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VCarlson
@vcarlson.bsky.social
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Also, Biden’s campaign team needs to be looked at. He did the debate after intl 3 trips? They should have had responses prepared for a poor showing. Also, knowing Trump’s MO of lying constantly at great speed, Biden’s debate prep should have been centered around various forms of “He’s lying. Again.”
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VCarlson
@vcarlson.bsky.social
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My response to all the “Biden MUST step down due to his terrible debate performance” people is “You have already demanded Trump step down for the same reason, right? No? The GTFO.”
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Aaron Rupar
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Biden's age and poor debate showing is obviously a legit story, but what we've seen over the last week is a hysterical feeding frenzy aimed at some combination of self-vindication, settling old scores, claiming a scalp, and the desire of some in the media to have Trump back in power. (1/2)
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VCarlson
@vcarlson.bsky.social
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Trump is the one who can’t/won’t walk more than a few hundred feet, if that.
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emptywheel
@emptywheel.bsky.social
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Fucking hilarious NYT put their "But her emails" correspondent on a Biden story, when they pay her a lot of money to maintain non-stop access to Trump's camp.
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VCarlson
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The bad media coverage was NEVER going to let up, because the presumptive GOP nominee is demonstrably unable to do the job, is actively pro-fascism, and is showing more dementia every day. That means they can’t have their horserace, and mentioning Trump’s negatives isn’t “balanced.”
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emptywheel
@emptywheel.bsky.social
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Some of them are ALSO so far up Trump's network that we should read accordingly. NYT has now assigned Haberman to Biden stories. That's ... a confession.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie
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Just unfollowed someone so fast on the other site after they shared a post talmbout people being selfish for 'fearmongering' about Project 2025 in order to get people to vote Republicans' stated intentions are scary, but providing accurate info about them is not fearmongering! It's just the stakes!
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VCarlson
@vcarlson.bsky.social
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WTF is with all these people saying, “Sure, Trump’s fundamentally dishonest and McConnell created two mutually exclusive positions to pack SCOTUS, but the following guardrail/institution will ABSOLUTELY protect us.” When their history says they WILL ignore anything inconvenient.
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Cheryl Rofer
@cherylrofer.bsky.social
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Exactly. I am more worried about that self-fulfilling prophecy than I am about Biden's capabilities.
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Kaitlin Has Had Enough
@gothamgirlblue.com
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Happy Independence Day! This day seven years ago there was a minor controversy as Trump fans angrily denounced large portions of the Declaration of Independence because they thought it was anti-Trump propaganda. It was! We should have taken their response as a sign of how bad things were!
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Joe Katz
@joekatz45.bsky.social
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"They're just fearmongering about Project 2025," brought to you by the people behind "They're just fearmongering about a coup" and "they're just fearmongering about abortion bans"
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VCarlson
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They were writing books about the GOP’s plans to keep power regardless during the Bush II years. I didn’t believe they’d given up on the idea.
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VCarlson
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The NYT sat on the “NSA is spying on Americans“ story in 2004 to improve GWB’s chances at election,”. They said so. I believe them. Nothing they’ve done since has improved my opinion of them.
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Isobel Carr
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Keeping Trump out of the White House only buys us a little time to figure out how to thwart Project 2025, cause that shit is the new Republican platform. It won't die with Trump.
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Katie Mack
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Keeping Trump out of the White House isn’t the only thing that needs doing and it isn’t enough to solve all problems facing the country & world but if it isn’t done then all those problems get exponentially worse in ways I don’t even know how to express and it scares me when people pretend otherwise
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Steve Silberman
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Thought experiment: Imagine if Obama, after claiming an election had been stolen from him and being convicted of 34 felonies, was granted immunity by SCOTUS justices who had taken undisclosed luxury trips on George Soros' dime. The fact that you can't even imagine this scenario tells you something.
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Team Two Dogs
@lchanwrites.bsky.social
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I don't understand how this is a race
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VCarlson
@vcarlson.bsky.social
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Oh. I assume those folks calling on Biden to step aside have been all over getting Trump to step aside, then. No? Shocker.
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chatham harrison is tending a new garden
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Ought to pound this every hour, every day right alongside Dobbs. Biden's age is nothing compared to the lawless Supreme Court trying to make criminals of pregnant women while offering a rapist free rein. Any Democratic commentator who thinks otherwise needs to hit the showers.
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Faine Greenwood
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This man is making his evil intentions as crystal-clear as they possibly could be, and everyone who cares about humanity should be blasting that message out in every possible venue.
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VCarlson
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I assume they are unaware they are composed entirely of chemicals. A thought that springs to mind every time someone starts carrying on about horrible, horrible chemicals. And botulinum toxin is a natural product. Deadly af, but natural.
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VCarlson
@vcarlson.bsky.social
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The Roberts Court. Which takes bribes.
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David_j_roth
@davidjroth.bsky.social
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Just at the most basic level it is really unhealthy to have to thought about Donald Trump as much as everyone in America has over the last nine or so years. Spending a decade of my life thinking about a super boring, super shitty crook and all the bad stuff he's doing or might do. It's embarrassing.
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Blue Heron Farm
@blueheronfarm.bsky.social
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I wrote to the Tractor Supply board today. Here is what I sent. Even if you've only ever bought one thing there, I encourage you to write, as a customer.
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VCarlson
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Remember, the Roberts Court, which takes bribes, has decreed that an ignorant ideologue in a robe (like, say, Kacsmaryk) can and should overrule a subject matter expert like those employed by the FDA. Elections matter. Maybe people will pay attention since the candidate saying this isn’t a woman.
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Tyler King
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This means romance authors. This means poets. This means screenwriters and playwrights and actors of anything remotely risqué. And eventually, anything secular. They have no point of satisfaction until they’ve erased all of non-Christian expression.
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VCarlson
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The New York Times is not on the side of democracy. They have been objectively pro-GOP candidate for POTUS for at least 20 years. Remember, they sat on the “NSA is spying on Americans in the USA” until after the election to improve GWB’s chances. They said so.
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emptywheel
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Here's Heather's post discussing it, which is worth reading for that and a long list of other reasons.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-27-2024
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Gautham FC
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on the very day the Supreme Court's conservatives said 'we know best' and put themselves in charge of complicated agency decisions one of the geniuses confused nitrous oxide and nitrogen oxide. So they had to have a do over. Not exactly an auspicious start.
www.forbes.com/sites/alison...
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VCarlson
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The other candidate is slightly older (& proven fit for the job by doing it well) & a complete institutionalist, no danger to our Constitution.
IT IS YOUR GODDAMN JOB TO DO EVERYTHING YOU CAN TO DEFEAT TRUMP AND THE GOP.
See: Project 2025 www.project2025.org
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VCarlson
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You can’t bothsides this. You have one (completely unfit, & growing more so every day) candidate who is promising to be a dictator, to take revenge against everyone who has gotten under his very thin skin, to use the DoJ against his perceived enemies.
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VCarlson
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Hey, @abcnews.bsky.social @cbs.bsky.social @nbcnewspolitics.bsky.social @cnn.com @msnbc.bsky.social @nytimes.com @washingtonpost.com @latimes.com You’re careful re: Trump bc you’re afraid of what he’d do to you if he gets back in power. WHICH IS WHY YOU SHOULD BE DOING ALL YOU CAN AGAINST HIM.
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Robert Reich
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59 years ago today, Griswold v. Connecticut guaranteed the right to birth control. Justice Thomas says the Supreme Court should "reconsider" that ruling. And this week, 38 GOP senators voted against the Right to Contraception Act. Republicans are coming for birth control.
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VCarlson
@vcarlson.bsky.social
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“Just keep them in your garden.” By which I deduce you’ve never had/known a cat.
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VCarlson
@vcarlson.bsky.social
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Regardless of their possible effect on local wildlife, it’s better for the cat to be strictly indoors. Less likely to encounter: other animals that would kill them, cars, random sickos, and traps - deliberate or otherwise. Not to mention poisons and pathogens.
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VCarlson
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Someone who looks the part, but has no charisma.
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VCarlson
@vcarlson.bsky.social
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But, sure, it’s all Hillary’s fault.
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VCarlson
@vcarlson.bsky.social
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The orange shitgibbon cheated every way he could (got found guilty for some of it), took help from Russia (getting help from hostile foreign govts is a GOP thing, see St Ronnie), benefitted from the media’s hatred of uppity women AND their belief that clown couldn’t get elected, so what’s the harm?
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VCarlson
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I haven’t read the article yet. I hope it begins with “Republicans pressed forward despite the absence of any evidence that Mr. Mayorkas has committed high crimes and misdemeanors, the constitutional threshold for impeachment.” And ends quickly thereafter.
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Dan Froomkin (Presswatchers.org)
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Here. It's not hard: "Republicans pressed forward despite the absence of any evidence that Mr. Mayorkas has committed high crimes and misdemeanors, the constitutional threshold for impeachment."
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emptywheel
@emptywheel.bsky.social
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Again, if you're a journalist and don't explain that the House GOP decided to trump up an evidence-free impeachment against an immigrant Jew to appease the base -- hang it up.
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VCarlson
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They must have updated. All the links I tried went where they seemed to be aimed.
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VCarlson
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I thought it was a heartbreaking song when I first heard it in 1988 (& bought the album because of it). It’s a wonderful song, and I love it, but it’s not happy. Of course, I also thought the ending of El Norte (1983) was heartbreaking, though the guy I saw it with disagreed.
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VCarlson
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Mom made a lamb roast for my stepdad once, with the top of the roast pretty much solid garlic cloves. He loved the garlic-infused meat, AND ate all the lovely baked garlic cloves. She said he exuded garlic, and couldn’t stay too close to him for about a week.
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