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This truly embarrassing garbage is why I unsubscribed from the NYT.

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Jailed for wearing a COVID mask? Yes, that is literally what could happen if the NY Mask Ban goes through which would make "deceptive mask wearing" a class b misdemeanor. TAKE ACTION: covidadvocacyny.org/stopmaskbanny #NoNYMaskBan #COVIDIsntOver #WearAMask #MaskUp #Disability

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GOP is the new working class party!

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"Convicted Felon Involved in Shooting that Kills Two" is a headline that nobody wrote but was right there

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RIP, NYT Pitchbot.

This truly embarrassing garbage is why I unsubscribed from the NYT.

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JD Vance is the final boss stage of "we went to an Ohio diner to once again center the feelings of white men" that the NYTimes had been selling us for decades

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RNC comparing Trump to Lincoln is always fun given Trump would not only have been in the confederacy he would have been one of the guys who fled to Brazil afterwards to keep owning slaves

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the vast majority of these critics weren't mad because outlets criticized Biden age, they're mad because the number of "Biden is old" stories out-ratio'd stories about real policy or the looming threat of fascism by like a factor of like forty to one

Big media outlets are questioning Biden’s fitness. Some of their audience is furious.www.semafor.com Liberal-leaning outlets that riveted Democratic audiences through the Trump years are facing a backlash.

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the nazi guys at the bad place are having a 9/11 over vance's wife

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I know everyone is focused on the shiny object, and with good reason, but can we also look at this other above-the-fold item, pretty please? Thanks. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/13/u...

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We must not let up.

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I have some bad news about American institutions.

WSJ this morning. lol at the last bit. "Leaders on both sides need to stop describing the stakes of the election in apocalyptic terms. Democracy won't end if one or the other candidate is elected. Fascism is not aborning if Mr. Trump wins, unless you have little faith in American institutions."

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The Constitutional Crisis is already here. You are living inside it. No way back, for better or worse. Either fight to win the future or concede to fascist tyranny taking over our country, the world's largest economy and mightiest military.

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TRUMP: I'm going to be a dictator on day one DEMOCRATS: Trump wants to be a dictator! REPUBLICANS: Hysterical Dems are endangering Trump by saying he wants to be a dictator

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The dismissal of the obviously robust classified-documents case is a good demonstration of how the right wants government to work. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | A preview of government of, by and for a subset of ‘the people’www.washingtonpost.com That Judge Aileen M. Cannon’s dismissal of the classified documents case wasn’t surprising tells us a lot about how government might evolve over the next four years.

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This’ll never make me a regular on msnbc, but people should be ashamed to admit they support Trump. He is a hideously bad person proposing to enact a vast expansion of cruelty and human suffering. The erosion and collapse of social sanctions for supporting someone so indecent is a big problem.

*sigh* Time to find a new sticker manufacturer.

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Lawyers can't give legal advice to strangers online because it's "unethical" and criminals can't give criminal advice to strangers online bc it's "felony conspiracy" but presidents can sell classified military & intelligence documents to foreign adversaries like what the hell man this shit sucks

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Founders: as I have written **extensively**, it is very important that the country not elect Trump and presidents are not kings Judges in 2024: hmm if I squint at the text very hard looks like maybe the founders expected--nay, even demanded--that the president be a king, so long as he is Trump

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Free idea for a Dem ad: a series of brief somber interviews with people who worked with classified documents explaining what the consequences would be for the most minor infraction. Then just show these photos

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Just staring at my law degree wondering why I spent six figures on something that turns out to be “just vibes!!!!!”

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The Founders anticipated all of this, and that is why they buried throughout the constitution various secret hints and rules that would, centuries later, make it illegal to notice or get mad when a powerful and extremely dumb guy repeatedly commits obvious oafish political crimes.

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The Washington Post

It takes nothing at all for right wingers to start in on violent rhetoric. The right has been muttering about civil war and stacking bodies and murdering political opponents for longer than I've been alive, if you're looking for the problem--they're it.

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Been over 41 hours now, and no physician has confirmed the extent of Donald Trump’s injury. WHY??

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In all seriousness: the very idea that someone can take highly classified documents, store them in a public place, defy any number of requests, subpoenas, etc., and then face NO CONSEQUENCES AT ALL is genuinely shocking, and should terrify anyone who cares about national security.

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Mitchell Epner

2/ Among the various *egregious* leaps made by Judge Cannon was declaring the following language from the Supreme Court in Nixon v. United States to be non-binding dicta: "It has also vested in him the power to appoint subordinate officers to assist him in the discharge of his duties."

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The Republican line now is that the shooting was caused by Dems saying Trump is a threat to democracy, and they’re doing that because it’s a big and true thing they want Dems to stop saying.

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Popehat

It really feels like we’re exiting the previous era of plausible deniability and entering a new era of corrupt rulings begetting more corrupt rulings.

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The best way to lower the political temperature is to soundly defeat the party that contains people who refer to the other party as “inhuman” or say that they need to be killed or who suggests we should “second amendment” them.

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I’m sorry a Republican voter shot at the Republican leader at a Republican rally, and especially that he killed a Republican rally-goer and injured two more. I wish it didn’t happen, and hope nothing like it ever happens again. I just don’t see how non-Republicans could be the ones to solve it.

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Kevin M. Kruse

The buying in of the news media into the Trump narrative that surviving a shooting makes him even more of a messianic figure chosen by God and that it automatically makes his campaign stronger and better is journalistic malpractice on a multitude of levels