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Blog on Illinois, Chicago, national, and now Minnesota politics. Early local blogger and I chose the name long before the Gateway jackass.

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It’s amazing the extent to which our billionaire tech bro overlords are just telling us out loud that they are rooting for fascism. Makes me slightly nostalgic for the days when American plutocrats plotted against democracy in secret.

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I know they get rolled all the time but for the Times to get rolled by “actually they just want to reclaim the values of Western civilization as they see it … with larger families and fewer immigrants” is the Times putting the 14 words in the paper

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Mr. Williams, Mr. Anton, Mr. Kressin, Mr. Haywood, Mr. Abbotoy, Mr. Renn, Mr. Fischer, and Mr. Beck now have their views in the NYT, right down to consulting a menswear expert and favoring "men wearing traditional suits." Mr. Trump and Mr. Eastman are mentioned. Mr. Linker is a critic. (1/2)

The NY Times is laundering straight-up white Christian nationalism. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/u...

Why a New Conservative Brain Trust Is Resettling Across Americawww.nytimes.com Pro-Trump professionals aren’t just talking about remaking Western civilization. Some are uprooting their lives to show that they mean it.

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Among other questions, I wonder how we got to the point where “separation of powers” means the judiciary can prohibit the executive from holding itself accountable. 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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Sinn Féin now Northern Ireland's largest party in the UK Parliament.

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Biden is not owed good press by a long shot. But the amount of coverage his age is receiving relative to that of Trump's very real past and promised future actions strikes me as one of the greatest media mis-prioritizations since the run-up to the Iraq War.

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Live look at the NYT Felony Normalization Brain Trust.

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In the exact same nine day period that Biden and his White House and campaign have been flailing, Trump has offered voters a window into his own mental state and vision for term 2 It’s not great! www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

QAnon Memes, F-Bombs, and Tribunals: As Biden Faltered, Trump Amped Up the Crazywww.rollingstone.com Trump quietly had his own week from hell while the media was hounding Biden

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There’s NO WAY people could respond positively to a candidate who’s a convicted felon! But they did! And that’s crazy! You just never know! Even so, it MUST still be true that there’s NO WAY people could respond positively to a candidate who had a terrible debate performance.

NEW: Biden has narrowed Trump’s lead in swing states despite a widely panned presidential debate performance, the Bloomberg News/Morning Consult poll finds

Biden Narrows Gap With Trump in Swing States Despite Debate Losswww.bloomberg.com The incumbent trails his GOP rival by just 2 points across key states, a Bloomberg News/Morning Consult shows, even as three in 10 Democrats say he should leave the race.

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The Amana organization has ties with all the banks in Israel and with thousands of settlers who live in its homes. An extension of the sanctions imposed by Canada could spell an earthquake in the settlement movement www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Mounting international sanctions against Israeli settler group could be earth-shatteringwww.haaretz.com ***

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Liz Truss’ record breaking: - Shortest reigning PM - First PM in 100 years to lose their seat - Tory MP with largest ever swing to Labour

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NEW VIDEO! Pete Buttigieg Attacks, Ebola-brained Repubs leaving them SPEECHLESS. TOTAL. OWNAGE. WATCH to take your schadenfreude level to 11!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5e9... #news #politics #maga #video

Pete Buttigieg Attack Leaves GOP Speechlesswww.youtube.com YouTube video by CLIFF'S EDGE

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Thanks largely to Biden and the Democratic party there is now a kind of global race to get to the mass, chear carbon-free energy. We're going to hit peak global emissions (fingers crossed) this year or next. We're deploying solar at a level that blowing away every single prediction.

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"He's earned second term because of the job he's done" is a perfectly good message for surrogates to make about an incumbent candidate. "I've earned a second term because of the job I've done," is fine, but not really an optimal message for the candidate to make, imho.

I don’t have strong feelings on whether Biden is capable of doing the job, but the last couple of days have been unnerving. It struck me watching tonight that he is probably at the end of his run not for clear incapacity and because he lost his Biden smile. When I watch talking that is the thing

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Oh yeah, these are going on the stop signs in the neighborhood

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i think of some y'all are being entirely too naive about the type of coverage harris would get

what

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Nailed it www.persuasion.community/p/how-wester...

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Johnny McEntee, one of Trump's most loyal deputies who is in regular contact with him, is literally one of the people collecting resumes for staffers who would implement Project 2025. Shame on any journalistic outfit who takes this "truth" at face value.

Today in "Trump didn't write this, someone on his campaign staff did." I don't know if Kellyanne Conway is working for Trump these days but this feels more like her style, voice, and syntax than Trump or those posting on his behalf recently.

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“I have nothing to do with them, including the multiple Project 2025 guys who worked in my administration and the one working on the party platform” newrepublic.com/article/1834...

The ramped-up hits on Project 2025 must be landing — Trump just shoved it right in front of the bus

Listen Closely to the Men Crafting the GOP’s Anti-Abortion Policynewrepublic.com The main dispute within Trump’s Republican Party is not about how severely to punish women for having abortions, but merely how to “frame the argument.”

He knows nothing about David Duke too if you are that damn gullible

The ramped-up hits on Project 2025 must be landing — Trump just shoved it right in front of the bus

It’s like firearm nomenclature but even more pointless

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...' Meanwhile, it’s incredible to think that only a short while ago we thought we’d eradicated measles and Nigel Farage. Both have now been brought back, largely by the same people.' Marina Hyde in the Guardian

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I've written for years about the Christian right's calls for "spiritual warfare" against demonic enemies of Christian America. They used to claim their struggle is against "powers and principalities" not "flesh and blood," citing Ephesians 6:12. But it was still dangerous. Now we see how.

One striking detail in this story: The Pastor at Lake Church, where Mark Robinson gave this speech, told me he and Robinson expected these remarks to be "scrutinized." Then the Pastor defended them! (also worth noting Christian Nationalist overtones in rest of speech cc @sarahposner.bsky.social)

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NEW: Three Chicagoans who accused the Chicago Police Department of targeting Black and Latino drivers with a massive campaign of traffic stops have been stopped repeatedly since they filed the lawsuit 12 months ago, court records show.

Chicagoans Who Sued CPD for Targeting Black, Latino Drivers Have Beennews.wttw.com The lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois accuses the Chicago Police Department of making more than 1.5 million traffic stops between 2016 and 2023 based on dubious evidence ...

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i saw some folks worried that, legally, biden couldn’t be replaced on ballots - especially in crucial states like wisconsin - in time. the heritage foundation put out a memo trying to promote this fear for example. dave weigel reports here that it’s basically BS. www.semafor.com/article/07/0...

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34% of the vote; 63% of the seats. The miracle of FPTP in action again.

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LETTUCE ALL CELEBRATE

Liz Truss has gone! Labour took the seat! By just 600 votes!

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jacob rees-mogg has to lose while standing next to a guy wearing a baked beans-themed balaclava