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Serious question: What is it going to take to get the press to ask Donald Trump the questions of fitness and cognitive capacity that they’re asking Biden at every opportunity?

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when Trump was elected I asked a military reservist I worked with what safeguards there were against him nuking some country because their leader tweeted about his fingers at 3 AM. My colleague said "you know that movie with Gene Hackman and Denzel on a sub?" I needed to lay down in a dark room.

I for one am pretty fixated on not having to spend even more years of my life wondering if Donald fucking Trump is going to deploy nuclear weapons

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I feel the Skepticism you hear from some when they seem utterly baffled that people would actually believe a second Trump term would bring authoritarian and anti democratic backsliding is rooted in, among other things, 1) not realizing that if something like that occurs, it’s not gonna have…

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This is particularly important to understand because Trumpist authoritarianism is the descendent of Jim Crow far more than say Hitler or Pinochet or Orban, and it's going to look a lot more like 1930s Mississippi than 1930s Berlin.

For most of its history, America hasn’t been a democracy, by any meaningful definition of the term! This isn’t some It Can’t Happen Here shit, in a way, it’s already happened. It just may not have directly affected you.

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Hollywood Steve Huey

lol i also have not forgotten them being very "no no no we are DEFINITELY doing in-person voting and not advocating for mail in voting, in-person voting good" up until the MOMENT bernie dropped out, then they switched. putting an infection shaped gun at the head of voters as a threat!

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"oh you think you the president can just WAVE A MAGIC WAND and PASS ALL YOUR POLICIES" no, what i'm saying is- "you think the PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES can just DO THINGS that DRIVE NEWS CYCLES" actually yes absolutely no shit he is the Fucking President

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you either get serious about tackling media as a problem as president and as a legislative body, going after monopolies and taking an IRS shaped hammer to white collar crime in this space, or you do some basic fucking driving of news cycles, or ideally, you do both. but "mope about it"? jesus.

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feels like part of the longstanding trend of "complain about the media, but never do anything about it other than Hope They're Nice To Us" from democrats is that a lot of 'em find the shittiness of the media convenient when they want to knife somebody else in the party

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as always, the obama '08 campaign is the key thing i point to when people talk about how Unfair the media is. it was extremely unfair how the GOP, the media, and hillary clinton herself were extremely racist to him. if his media strategy was 'mope about shit being unfair', probably would've lost.

Yup, at worst, it's not great. But Trump was a disaster, and it's going to be a lot worse if he gets another try.

I think Biden has enough people around him to make sure stuff gets done. And if he eventually gets to the point that he really can't do the job and has to step down, I think Harris will be a perfectly competent president that I won't like a whole lot. All of this is still better than a dictator!

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I’m sure all the media that spent months on Hunter Biden’s laptop will cover this with the same scrutiny newrepublic.com/post/183468/...

Former Trump Staffer Shares Texts Revealing Secret Payoffsnewrepublic.com A new court filing alleges that Donald Trump’s campaign has paid to bury a number of lawsuits over sexual harassment and discrimination.

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The DC press likes easy scandals and horse race coverage. They will be on this for awhile. If they were actually interested in policy or whatever we’d be in a very different place.

This is also a weird product of summer 2024’s relative peace, prosperity, and boring news cycles. No pandemics, recessions, wars, riots, or crime waves to cover.

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Unlike some candidates, he'll make sure we never have to look at the elderly again

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Deeply deranged website

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LeVar Burton: "I keep the chains from my first role above my 12 Oscars, they knew me someone refusing a slave name then reading to their kids and maintaining their favorite starship, I was safe They don't know I am filled with rage, I am their friend, so I keep those chains above to show that rage

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The President Biden interview with George Stephanopoulos didn't air here. The local ABC affiliate is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group. They aired reruns of Jeopardy. 🤦‍♂️

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Nothing is stopping every single Democratic elected official and apparatchik from taking the airwaves every single day to articulately and decisively repeat a set of cogent talking points about Trump (ie 45). Nothing. Dem PACs could be slamming him with ads now. Stop whining and do that.

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa

No they don’t do it at all. Quite the opposite in fact. The Religious Right spent decades getting betrayed by politicians who promised to overturn Roe. They voted, in numbers, and got attention that way. They never sat it out because they actually understand how this game works.

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Weird* how he didn’t call for such punishment for those who violently stormed the seat of American government to try to stop the Constitutionally mandated transfer of power after a free and fair election *weird, but not surprising

I think this is the first time Musk has suggested fellow Americans should be executed.

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Unbelievable. This is a big chunk of why I left my job with the public library- the utter lack of care for immunocompromised staff and public. (I also got long COVID from a coworker who was forced back into the building because she was out of sick time, so the apathy runs deep.)

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This is the editorial view of the guy who controls which posts get shown on Vichy Twitter and which get buried. Insane that journalists continue to use it as a source of information and contribute to its legitimacy

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Welp, the "I caught covid at ALA" posts are rolling in. As well as at least NWL librarian who attended an award knowing she had covid.

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Someone else asked this proud moron how not voting would do anything but make the genocide in Gaza worse and they replied that nothing at all would change under Trump

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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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"YOU DON'T GET IT WE USE TO HAVE 24 EPISODES A SEASON, NOT 10, SERIES USE TO DO ONE EPISODE THAT WAS A MUSICAL, OR MUPPETS, OR CLAYMATIONS, WE USE TO HAVE EPISODES THAT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE MAIN PLOT AND IT WAS JUST TO STRETCH A SIDE CHARACTERS LEGS TO INDULGE THEIR FANS WITH INFO"

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Part II: Is there anyone the GOP isn't trying to kill? www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Justice Thomas wants the Supreme Court to go after ‘far-reaching’ work safety lawswww.independent.co.uk Thomas said he wants to go after OSHA after the court took a sledgehammer to government agencies this term

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I'm still wondering if the virus I had earlier this year was COVID, and if the GI issues I've had since, as yet undiagnosed, are related www.nytimes.com/2024/07/05/w...

This May Be the Most Overlooked Covid Symptomwww.nytimes.com Gastrointestinal issues are a common but often unrecognized sign of infection.

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I like the coconut tree memes as much as everyone else but I do think we should all be on the same page about Harris's quote actually making sense when you realize she was telling a story about her mom and illustrating a point about education. www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo...