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The cocktail party guest most likely to talk about death.

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Fascinated by this paragraph. “Dems have more substance, but Repubs are better at lying about it. Therefore there is no way to determine which is better.”

the thing you really can't over-emphasize about reactionary centrists is how *dumb* they are www.persuasion.community/p/a-guide-fo...

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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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A hill I will die on: all white-collar crimes are violent crimes. It's just that the violence is removed from the perpetrator because the perpetrator is wealthy.

Holy. Shit. They're literally saying Trump's felonies aren't that bad compared to the "real felonies". Bear in mind, they're ignoring J6 and "gimme 12000 votes" call and the stolen docs. We joke, but this is literally Newsmax copy.

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Once again Trump successfully uses better verbal fluency to present the impression that he’s younger and more vigorous and meanwhile he’s fully spouting gibberish

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

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"the media is right now campaigning hard for a Democratic party loss. The other term for that is a Republican victory. Few things have terrified and horrified me the way this does." @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social at the Guardian www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Why is the pundit class so desparate to push Biden out of the race? | Rebecca Solnitwww.theguardian.com Yes, Biden had a bad debate – but so did Trump. The media is once again repeating the mistakes of 2016

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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

@nytimes.com What the fuck? Do you think you’ll be allowed to EXIST under a TFG dictatorship?

In the week following the debate the New York Times ran 192 stories about Biden's performance and six about Project 2025. x.com/Will_Bunch/s...

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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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our founders anticipated a Donald Trump. they didn't anticipate a corrupt and compliant Supreme Court

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yo, I wrote a thing: "the media needs to cut this shit out right now" — The Narrative needs a horse race, so they're inventing one. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter to keep getting the good stuff —

the media needs to cut this shit out right nowbit.ly The Narrative needs a horse race, so they're inventing one

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Just read a post suggesting that Troi's empathy is just an ability to hear the episode's background music when someone is speaking. This is now my personal canon.

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Yes, Biden should have stuck to his promise of being a one term president but every time someone mentioned that in the last four years we were told we hated democracy but I feel like halfway down the drop at Splash Mountain is the wrong time to make that argument, NYT editorial board.

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Yeah, I think I'm going to repeat this a bunch of times: It is incoherent to call for Biden to remain in office but not run. What you're saying is that *you* know that he's fine, but foolish voters won't. And anyone saying that is a fool.

Oddly, the ed board says Biden is doing a good job as President, and doesn’t suggest he leave that office.

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Alex Cox, director of Repo Man and Sid and Nancy, is crowdfunding for his last movie. MY LAST MOVIE, via @Kickstarter www.kickstarter.com/projects/ale...

MY LAST MOVIEwww.kickstarter.com Alex Cox, director of Repo Man, Sid & Nancy, Straight to Hell, and Walker, and presenter of Moviedrome, embarks on his last hurrah.

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Oh my God, I didn't realize this is literally the exact story I told in ONE NATION UNDER GOD. The Fraternal Order of Eagles was instrumental in spreading these Ten Commandments monuments across America in the 1950s ... as part of a promotional tour with the Cecil B. DeMille epic.

Eleven Commandments. Louisiana's law mandates a specific text. Not from Exodus, or Deuteronomy, but from the Fraternal Order of Eagles. They used a KJV-sounding pastiche adapted from the Bible and paraphrased by a Minnesota juvenile court judge in the 1950s. It's not the Bible. It's the Eagles.

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No mention of the 97 journalists who’ve been killed while reporting on Gaza this year, the deadliest period since the Committee to Protect Journalists began to keep track.

As we commemorate World Press Freedom Day, we once again come together to shine a light on the plight of missing and detained journalists across the globe. For them, and for us, press freedom is about more than one day. We stand united to ensure trustworthy information remains accessible to all.

World Press Freedom Day 2024www.washingtonpost.com A letter from The Washington Post, The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.

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i’m pretty sure people don’t even think i’m tethered to the world anymore when i say shit at work like, “oh i can’t go to that conference. all my identifying documents are technically fraud there and using the bathroom might be a sex crime.”

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Until right wingers got in on the whole “fighting antisemitism” thing, I had no idea that it involved sending police to beat up so many Jewish people.

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It’s incredible how quickly an openly anti-democratic candidate was normalized. This will receive a fraction of the attention given to campus protests.

Buried down in the “updates” like we’re learning he’s in Iowa this week

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Meanwhile today in Madison. That’s a UW professor on the ground with blood on his face.

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At UNC's encampment, Duke Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology Emily Lim Rogers had her cane forcefully removed by Chapel Hill police, who said "you know what? Fuck your cane," and then threw her to the ground, partially dislocating her shoulder.

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Oh good. Someone in the realm of institutional knowledge and memory NOT deepthroating every stochastic statistical pattern matching system they can get their hands on.

Scoop from 404 Media: National Archives is banning employees from using ChatGPT. Agency is tasked w/ preserving history; leaked email says "NARA has determined that ChatGPT’s unrestricted approach to reusing input data poses an unacceptable risk" www.404media.co/national-arc...

National Archives Bans Employee Use of ChatGPTwww.404media.co The agency tasked with preserving the historical record is banning ChatGPT, citing the possibility that the tool would leak internal information.

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Finally got to read Today in Tabs' curation of the news from Columbia University (and UCLA, and Brown University). It's a good one. www.todayintabs.com/p/profession...

Professional Bike Chain Discovered at Columbia Universitywww.todayintabs.com What if we bought our own college? I'm just saying.

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Jerry seinfeld's wife and Bill Ackerman have been funding counter protesters because of course they have. the ones at UCLA have been especially vile and racist, too.

Jessica Seinfeld and Bill Ackman Fund Pro-Israel Counterprotests at Collegeswww.thedailybeast.com The cookbook author and the billionaire culture warrior have publicly put up cash for controversial campus counterprotests.

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The violent attacks on US students have to be understood in the context of a larger framework about power and control.

This Is How Power Protects Itselfwww.thenation.com The decision to sic the police on peaceful protesters is evidence that people in charge are panicking. They’re terrified of the strength of the movement for Palestine.

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Organic walnuts tied to 2-state outbreak of E coli infections www.cidrap.umn.edu/e-coli/organ...

Organic walnuts tied to 2-state outbreak of E coli infectionswww.cidrap.umn.edu Two of the 12 patients developed hemolytic uremic syndrome, a serious and potentially fatal kidney condition.

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The Newberry Library is raising a glass to the Chicago nightclub that helped shape American music and comedy. The new exhibition “A Night at Mister Kelly’s” is a swinging selection of artifacts and eye-opening information about the famous hotspot.

A Tip of the Hat to Mister Kelly’s: Legendary Chicago Nightclub Takesnews.wttw.com The Newberry Library is raising a glass to the Chicago nightclub that helped shape American music and comedy. The new exhibition “A Night at Mister Kelly’s” is a swinging selection of artifacts and ey...