Baltyoriole

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Birds, music, vintage, horror movies, learning visually, I’m on a plain, I can’t complain

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Just like none of the bold investigators backfilling Joe Biden's feeble debate performance with punchy anonymous quotes have ever figured out why Trump was rushed to Walter Reed, claimed he wanted a spur-of-the-moment weekend checkup, and a year later declared that he had NOT had a series of strokes

"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!

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Why is Biden only running in Biden? He should be running in Harris, Haaland, Buttigieg, Regan, Murthy, and all the rest of the people who come with him. And he’s not just running against Trump, but against Miller, Bannon, Kushner, Bolton, Kid Rock and Nazi ghouls who come with him. Message better.

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he has done rallies, he’s done radio call-ins, he’s done sit down meetings and he is still doing his job as president with a major hurricane in the carribean and a major fire in california

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Either the Democrats will run Biden, or he'll say he can't continue the campaign and Democrats will run Harris. Either is newsworthy, but neither is nearly as radical as running a pro-insurrection convicted felon with legal immunity he's eager to use.

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CHIEF JUSTICE V. THE WOMEN OF THE UNITED STATES The MAGA majority wants to deliver Trump a government conscripted in an “effort to belittle and degrade women,” and GOP men would like women to stop being so “hysterical” about it, writes Dahlia Lithwick.

Don’t Be Hysterical, Ladies. Daddy Chief Justice Knows Best.slate.com It is pretty jarring to hear this kind of condescension trotted out by Chief Justice John Roberts.

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The thing I can't stop thinking about is this: I'm 48, and in my adult lifetime there has been one Republican who won the popular vote. But I will probably spend the rest of my life under the authority of a Supreme Court dominated by hard right conservatives. How is that democracy?

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six million dollars that could have actually gone to support kids

“ai” edtech company collapses after taking six million dollars from the Los Angeles school district to develop an “educational friend” platform.

A.I. ‘Friend’ for Public School Students Falls Flatwww.nytimes.com Los Angeles schools hired a start-up to build an A.I. chatbot for parents and students. A few months later, the company collapsed.

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Gift 🔗: www.nytimes.com/2024/06/28/u...

She Needed an Emergency Abortion. Doctors in Idaho Put Her on a Plane.www.nytimes.com In states that have banned abortion, hospitals have struggled to treat pregnant women facing health risks. A Supreme Court decision this week did not help.

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Going public with an experience like this is life-altering for a woman, so when you read these stories remember both the extraordinary amount of courage involved and also the likelihood that there are many others you’ll never hear.

By the time the doctors in Boise put her on a plane for Salt Lake City, she’d already lost a liter of blood New standard of care just dropped:

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The Philadelphia Inquirer gets it right. x.com/adambonin/st...

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Here is my latest which article, which addresses some of the concerns of the Biden debate performance in the greater context of what is at stake. Tune out the main stream media today and just read this instead: shero.substack.com/p/i-have-fai...

I Have Faith in Joe Bidenshero.substack.com SHERO is a reader-supported publication, that makes most articles free and available to the public. Please support independent journalism for everyone by becoming a paid subscriber today. The debate l...

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In America, aging is seen as a disqualifying crime. However being a rapist, traitor, fraud who kept stolen nuclear secrets in a house he charged anonymous interlopers $200,000 to hang out at isn’t. Got it.

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Also too: imagine if every NYT pundit used their valuable space this morning to call on Rs to ditch Trump for being held liable for sexual abuse, for committing 34 felonies, and for lying about literally everything. They could do that! They don't! I wonder why!

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The Democratic Party’s reaction to their candidate having a bad debate substantially outpaces the Republican Party’s reaction to their candidate being convicted of multiple felonies, held liable for rape, and owing judgments in the hundreds of millions for defamation and fraud.

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Take a break from freaking out over the debate and recenter yourself on the issues. Like how a Trump presidency means miscarrying will be forced to bleed out in hospital parking lots. Good time to remind people who are fence sitters, as well. www.salon.com/2024/06/28/i...

"It is delay": With Idaho abortion decision, Supreme Court tries its hand at campaigning for Trumpwww.salon.com Thursday's non-decision may backfire, reminding voters that the right to health care is on the ballot in November

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making the night about Biden's voice and not Trump's lies is a real choice on the part of our news media

Media has an incentive to sensationalize what was a debate that ultimately showed us that Trump is Trump and Biden is Biden Trying to make a contested/brokered convention happen is their way of making the above seem like news

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Bed rest for months. I assume they demand that women get paid sick leave while they’re forced to carry non-viable fetuses, right? Right?

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He is joined only by Thomas in this section of his dissent. But they believe - genuinely and enthusiastically - that it is better for women be subjected to certain risk of serious health problems; to being confined to bed rest for months on end; and to up to a 5% chance of death, than to abort.

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...total and complete bed rest for the remainder of the pregnancy is required; that up to 37% of women with this condition who don't get an abortion go into septic shock; that serious health problems are almost universal... but since only 1%-5% of women die, abortion should illegal there.

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'You only have until June 26, 2024 to say no to Meta taking your personal photos and words and using them to train their generative AI. Here are step-by-step directions for opting out.' Link: deborahcopaken.substack.com/p/11-steps-t... #Privacy #Meta #Facebook

11 steps to keep Meta from stealing your data to train AIdeborahcopaken.substack.com You only have until June 26, 2024 to say no to Meta taking your personal photos and words and using them to train their generative AI. Here are step-by-step directions for opting out.

The hot shits of the garden have finally arrived

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Gift article "This court has lost the benefit of the doubt for myriad reasons, including its willingness to act quickly in cases that benefit Republican interests." Anyone half-watching sees the pattern, there's only so long we can stand around w/our mouths hanging open. Past time to call it out.

Opinion | Something’s Rotten About the Justices Taking So Long on Trump’s Immunity Casewww.nytimes.com It shouldn’t take so long for the justices to consider an outlandish claim.

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In theory, Louisiana Republicans already know their new law mandating Ten Commandments displays in classrooms is at odds with the First Amendment and Supreme Court precedent. In practice, they expect to get away with it anyway. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Why Louisiana’s radical new law on Ten Commandments, schools matterswww.msnbc.com The Supreme Court has said Ten Commandments displays in public schools are unconstitutional. Louisiana Republicans passed a new law on this anyway.

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RUN THIS AS AN AD. Of course it'll play well with college students and people who have debt but it also will play well with the parents of kids with debt. They give af about their kids getting a fair shot too!

Yeah, this seems worth avoiding.

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The ASSAULT ON ABORTION PILLS IS ONLY BEGINNING Don’t be fooled by this “election-year performance,” say @dahlialithwick.bsky.social and @mjsdc.bsky.social. Even this “deeply unserious” case isn’t over. slate.com/news-and-pol...

The Supreme Court’s Abortion Pill Ruling Should Satisfy Nobodyslate.com On Thursday, the Supreme Court did the bare minimum necessary to operate like an actual court of law.

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"The effect with this gun case will be to allow just about anyone—disgruntled spouses, would-be criminals, or Mexican drug cartel straw buyers—to pick up a trunkful of full-auto weapons on their way to the local playground, school, or music festival." prospect.org/justice/2024...

The Gun Death Cult Takes On the Administrative Stateprospect.org The conservative movement is outraged that Donald Trump did too much in response to the Las Vegas mass shooting.

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The Tulsa Race Massacre began on May 31, 1921 and lasted for two days until June 1, 1921. White supremacists killed dozens of Black people and burned the Greenwood District aka Black Wall Street to the ground. There are people who survived this massacre that are still alive today.

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doesn’t shock me that this happened in virginia beach. also another point of information for my belief that explicit discrimination in housing and employment is still more prevalent than people think.

She Made an Offer on a Condo. Then the Seller Learned She Was Black.www.nytimes.com A Black woman claims a white homeowner tried to pull out of a sale because of her race.

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This is who’s on the senate judiciary committee. If you’re in CA, set reminders in your phone to call tomorrow. They don’t even have people answering their phones so you can just leave a voicemail, which means you can write yourself a little script. Someone made a good one, I’ll repost next skeet.

Whitehouse (RI) 202-224-2921 Klobuchar (MN) 202-224-3244 Coons (DE) 202-224-5042 Blumenthal (CT) 202-224-2823 Hirono (HI) 202-224-6361 Booker (NJ) 202-224-3224 Padilla (CA) 202-224-3553 Ossoff (GA) 202-224-3521 Welch (VT) 202-224-4242 Butler (CA) 202-224-3841

Idk if there’s official messaging out there from groups but this is essentially what I’ve said when I call, except in a much more succinct and less stammering way so I’ll be stealing it going forward.

"I'm calling to express my concern about the close association Justices Thomas and Alito have to the Jan 6 insurrection. As your constituent, I ask you to call for the Senate to investigate whether Thomas and Alito should recuse or even resign. We cannot have insurrectionist judges on the bench."