🌸Abbey🌸

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Abigail for short.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow

Cortlandt Alley?

You mean "stop the far right in its tracks"

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Still marveling at Gorsuch's Ohio v. EPA opinion, in which he confused nitrogen oxide (a pollutant) with nitrous oxide (laughing gas). He did this five times, never once getting it right—in an opinion overruling the EPA's own expert scientific analysis! s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...

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This is what freaks me out. 2020 was so much closer than people remember if you actually look at the swing states that put Biden over the top.

Nationally, Biden beat Trump by more than 7 million votes in 2020. But in four battleground states that ultimately tipped the Electoral College to Biden – Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin – he won by fewer than 125,000 votes combined. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Members of the Satanic Temple say they are poised to act as volunteer chaplains under a Florida state law that took effect this week opening campuses to “additional counseling and support to students” from outside organizations.

Satanists to volunteer in Florida schools in protest at DeSantis religious billwww.theguardian.com Satanic Temple objects to governor’s push for more religion in schools and says members could act as student chaplains

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Biden appears to have mostly given up on campaigning against Trump, and his campaign is focused mostly around denying the obvious about his age. That only is more evidence he's not up to what he needs to do.

The Democratic Party Echo Chamber is Starting to Scare Mewww.thearenasc.com In the aftermath of President Biden's disastrous debate performance, the Democratic Party seems determined to publicly act as if everything is just fine. In fact, some Democrats behave as though last ...

We this certainly was pointless.

It's kinda weird liking your own posts.

And there it is.

A landslide. Against who?

I'm sure you're also unaware that primaries exist for voters to make a choice? If there's no choice to be made, the election is little more than a formality. A matter of observing party rules.

The argument that Biden "won" the primaries is pointless, since voters weren't presented with an actual choice. He won by default. A cactus could have won.

Ah ok, so "primaries" then.

I must have missed the debates where voters got to see the candidates make their case. Can you point me to them?

"Primaries"

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70% of french police officers voted for the far right lol They let 30.000 of them loose in Paris last night on people celebrating the defeat of Le Pen and Left Block win.

The barefaced lying, brazen gaslighting and total lack of shame are what defines the modern American Right. I can't imagine what it must be like to follow an ideology that needs to spew lies to justify its own existence. How hollow its devotees must be. How morally depraved.

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You wonder how well left parties would do - bearing in mind they appear to have finished first here! - if 100% of the mainstream media coverage was not about how popular and ascendant the far right is and the noble bulwark of Grown Ups in the center.

BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.

Projections in France's election show voters rejecting the far rightwww.npr.org Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which ...

"Within hours, MSNBC, which largely functions as the Democratic house network, was transformed into delusion central. The arguments that its hosts and regular commentators began to make soon went far and wide, transforming countless social media feeds into electric Kool-Aid acid tests."

MSNBC in disarray: Biden's debate crisis meets liberal self-delusionwww.salon.com Democrats' house network circles the wagons around Joe Biden, risking its last vestiges of credibility

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b-boy bouiebaisse

He was 22 in Trading Places. It was his second feature film.

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For the people who don’t have time, here’s your Readers Digest version. You’re welcome.

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Vincent van Gogh

Amazing how far he came in such a short span of time. Just eight years after creating this primitive, almost childish drawing, he was dead, leaving behind one of the greatest bodies of work in the history of art.

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😡🧐🤬 gizmodo.com/oklahoma-ala...

Oklahoma, Alabama Now Have AI-Powered Vending Machines That Sell Bulletsgizmodo.com In a questionable new trend, supermarkets in the South now seem to be selling bullets right out of a dispenser.

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New from me: Where is your "institutionalism" now? radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-suprem...

The Supreme Court foldsradleybalko.substack.com Faced with the most potent threat to democracy in more than a century, our most revered institution didn't just fail to hold, it aligned itself with the threat

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

#DeportMusk

"Ask Democratic strategists what this election is about, and they’ll tell you it’s about democracy. Specifically, saving democracy from Trump. But these days, Joe Biden seems to think it’s about Joe Biden."

Biden Isn’t Listeningwww.theatlantic.com Just over a week after the president’s disastrous debate performance, Democratic voters seem down on his chances, and ready for an alternative candidate.

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Flopsie

Or, hear me out...Thunderdome!