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"If we are calling for Biden to step aside because someone must stop Trump from bringing down the republic, then surely it would have made more sense to first call for Trump to step aside?" h/t @timothysnyder.bsky.social

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JUST IN: Polls closed in France. Exit polls show surprise: —Left coalition (New Popular Front) projected first. (!) —Far-right (RN) has lost its bid to take power. Anti-RN front appears to have worked very well. —No bloc close to majority. Follow this 🧵 for results and more:

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Fight against daunting odds, because it’s the right thing to do, and because sometimes you win.

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 ...

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If Biden said something like this it would spell the end of not only his campaign but his current tenure. It's just one of countless examples of insane gibberish from Trump that the press & Democrats are choosing to treat as an immutable part of the electoral landscape rather than a story or issue.

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"Executive Time" fell out of the coverage of Donald Trump in the most incredible way. Nobody writing about his quest to become president again ever mentions the fact that he hated the job when he had it and he couldn't and wouldn't really do it!

The discourse around biden needing more sleep is fully insane. Does no one remember "Executive Time," the thing Trump spent the majority(!) of his schedule on where he would just watch TV and tweet? Dude was categorically unable to fulfill any of the demands of the office and the press barely cared

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Seems bad

Former Trump Staffer Reveals New Texts Alleging More Secret Payoffs and Settlementswww.mediaite.com A former staffer on Trump's 2016 campaign revealed texts claiming that the former president's 2020 campaign "settled multiple" sexual harassment lawsuits.

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Don Moynihan

"I don't know anything about Project 2025" says man recording Project 2025 promotional video in front of Project 2025 publication. More substantively, Project 2025 has embraced Trump and Miller's immigration approach of using power to close both legal and illegal immigration.

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I really don’t think most people realize just how hard the boot will come down if Trump and the Republicans win the election. Most people have never experienced the totalitarian surveillance state with the power to reach into their homes and minds at will they are telling us is their plan.

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Radley Balko

“We were okay with over-criminalizing the US population when it was mostly poor people and ethnic minorities but now we think it might be time to be more accepting” - every time I think they can’t be more blinkered and servile, they prove they can

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“Now that we know felons can be white, we’re massive fans of crime.”

I don’t even know where to begin with this.

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If you paid attention to Trump's side of the debate, he had the same underlying problem Biden did, where over and over he would start a sentence and realize he couldn't say or remember the words that would come next, but where Biden stalled out, Trump just switched to blurting something unrelated

Donald Trump has good days and bad days but increasingly only bad days. He's lost it - he can't focus and his brains are leaking out his ears, but the press is very impressed with him because HE CAN STILL SHOUT

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Trump said “I know nothing about Project 2025. I have no idea who is behind it.” But Project 2025 is run by Trump's closest aides, raising concerns about cognitive fitness for a candidate who seems unable to recall those around him. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/troubling-...

Troubling Signs of Cognitive Decline as Trump Struggles to Recognize Closest Aidesdonmoynihan.substack.com "I know nothing about Project 2025" statement triggers new concerns about his fitness to serve

Looked at the feed, blocked.

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“… items in the Project 2025 blueprint are precisely what Trump has called for on the campaign trail, including mass arrests and deportations of undocumented people in the United States …” theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We should all be terrified of Trump’s Project 2025 | Robert Reichtheguardian.com The presumptive Republican nominee has promised to give rightwing evangelical Christians what they want – and more

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“The Project 2025 playbook was written by more than 20 officials who Trump himself appointed during his first term. If he has ‘no idea’ who they are, he’s showing an alarming cognitive decline.”

“… Project 2025 calls for withdrawing the abortion pill mifepristone from the market, expelling trans members from the military, banning life-saving gender affirming care for young ppl, ending all diversity programs, & using ‘school choice’ to gut public education.” theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We should all be terrified of Trump’s Project 2025 | Robert Reichtheguardian.com The presumptive Republican nominee has promised to give rightwing evangelical Christians what they want – and more

So a President who is effective on labour, gets the economy going and unemployment down, is suddenly a bad choice because of one bad debate- that he gave clear answers in, while the other guy spouting lies and refusing to say if he would accept the results of the election is the other choice.

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I gotta say that people are having a lot of trouble distinguishing cognitive decline (Trump) from age-related changes in expression (Biden). Biden is elderly and talks like it. Trump literally does not have preserved reality-testing

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I wish more people understood that we’re in the midst of a global far right resurgence, as the richest people in the world cling to power.

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Celeste Pewter

Where are the pundits weighing in on Project 2025's training academy, and just who they're recruiting, and what exactly they're teaching in this training academy? (By unverified accounts, it's all terrifying, especially because it's so structured?) It's so, so easy for a pundit to opine about-

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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis

The interview ends and they cut to George outside and it is QUIETER. They know they have someone with a soft voice and they undercut him with a constant noise. I've done enough TV I know how they can judge background sound and ABC News did not do its job. Shameful.

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The sound sucks in this interview. What is the constant hum in that room? Biden is badly mic-ed. What the hell, ABC?

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you are not crazy, this is an entirely true statement that many, many more people need to print out, tape up to their mirror, and ground themselves with every morning. it is fucking JULY. everybody needs to pop an edible and calm the fuck down.

Am I fucking crazy, or has this been one shitty debate performance, followed by a week plus of story after story about "panic" etc? No new evidence that he's unable to do it, just constant "people are saying"?

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My favorite part of the West Wing fantasies about replacing Biden is the idea that there wouldn’t immediately be a new fatal flaw with whoever replaced him.

I don't take the age thing seriously. THEY PICK A LIE ABOUT EVERY DEM, and the press knows it's some BS but plays along. They know that the other guy is worse in every way, especially his brain. They turned being a war hero into a liability against a fortunate son draft dodger.

Watching people I once respected beclowning themselves in doom-laden rhetoric.

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Sorry still kinda stuck on the proud originalists entirely making up a new law making us a monarchy, I'm sure I'll get past it soon

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Seth Cotlar

Ex-Evangelicals have written about this dynamic at great length and I don't have anything to add to their insights, but I do think that folks interested in building civic capacity around democracy should be mindful of the space between baddies who are more vs. less knowing and willful about it.

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Highly recommend Season 2 of this excellent podcast documentary about the far right in Idaho. Episode 2 in particular clarified for me the challenges of talking about people who are "the baddies" of American democracy but who absolutely do not see themselves that way. www.npr.org/podcasts/510...

Extremely Americanwww.npr.org In Season 2 of Extremely American: Onward Christian Soldiers host Heath Druzin and James Dawson take an inside look at Christian nationalism. The movement aims to end American democracy as we know it ...

Holy… fromtheheartofeurope.eu/the-2024-wes...

The 2024 Westminster election in Northern Irelandfromtheheartofeurope.eu This was a very good election for Sinn Fein.

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Project 2025 was from the Chris Rufo school of fascist communications, where you discuss your evil schemes out loud, confident the "normies" are not paying enough attention to notice. But now it seems less politically engaged people are taking notice. www.salon.com/2024/07/05/p...

Project 2025 was supposed to boost Donald Trump's campaign — but now it may be backfiringwww.salon.com Trump's authoritarian game plan is breaking through to people who haven't heard of it — and it's scaring them

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It really is making *me* feel crazy to see a bunch of other Democrat voters running around screaming about how Biden is now unelectable, on the basis of one bad debate and an incredibly obvious ratfucking campaign by America’s most craven newspaper.