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Just consume one more piece of bad news. A wafer-thin piece of bad news. Go ahead, what could go wrong. It's wafer-thin.

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Everyone is always afraid to say why people like Trump or Marie Le Pen have some level of popularity and it’s just that there’s a lot of people in the world who believe in racism. You end up with these goofy ass explanations for Trump where it’s NAFTA or shit and it’s like no you know what it is

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I usually agree with Michelle Goldberg, but not this time. We need to ask ourselves: what are MY choices? If you are Joe or Jill Biden, or one of their close friends and advisors, OK. But if you are just a rando like me, you do not face a choice about whether to resign yourself to Biden.

Opinion | There’s No Reason to Resign Ourselves to Bidenwww.nytimes.com The president’s team should stop gaslighting us.

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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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I can’t believe the Supreme Court just ruled that the president can sleep outdoors in a public space.

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Homeless people can be arrested for sleeping, Presidents cannot be arrested for rampant graft and corruption done while in office. There is no clearer a summary of "conservative 'law and order'" than this.

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Just at the most basic level it is really unhealthy to have to thought about Donald Trump as much as everyone in America has over the last nine or so years. Spending a decade of my life thinking about a super boring, super shitty crook and all the bad stuff he's doing or might do. It's embarrassing.

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Micah

whoa whoa whoa there, it's totally different Micah. We ask the nine elderly oracles who work in a marble temple to convene with the ghosts of the ancestors and decide what Hamilton and Madison think about EPA regulations or online content moderation

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If Biden loses in Nov, well, that’s a disaster for everybody, but not especially for Joe Biden, he’ll be okay (unless revenge indictments start flying) but if Trump loses, that’s 100% absolutely a massive catastrophic personal tragedy for him, and I really hope you all join me in making that happen

An underrated possible future is that in a few months time Donald Trump loses the election and then spends the rest of his life in court and in jail for his many crimes. Like, this could definitely be how things go

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Kevin M. Kruse

Why is no one in the president's inner circle confronting him with our opinion page articles

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You can say that you’re tired of being told this is The Most Important Election Of Our Lives, but the reality is that preventing a coup is going to take overwhelming numbers of votes for the foreseeable future and if you aren’t willing to vote all the time you have to be ready for The Consequences.

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Fyi

“Who qualifies? Any individual with a gross monthly income under $3,035. For a four-person household, the maximum gross monthly income to qualify is $4,904…. the units are available first come, first served—so don’t wait to apply.”

It’s about to get hot. Some New Yorkers may qualify for a free air conditioner.gothamist.com People who earn under $3,035 in gross monthly income and households with people with medical conditions exacerbated by heat are among those who may qualify.

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My favorite thing is how different airports have different rules about taking your shoes off, and the TSA folks look at you like an idiot for not intuitively knowing the specific shoe guidelines at every airport in America.

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I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

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Publishing this headline as if the Republican Party acted in good faith, quoting Mike Johnson as if he’s an honest official and not someone who tried to overturn the 2020 election, and printing the false idea that Biden is targeting Trump with the DOJ as if it’s a normal “claim” is explicit GOP bias

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@drfarls.bsky.social Hey saw your post at LGM about military speeches and thought you’d be a good person to ask about something that’s always bothered me: We always here about, or see in movies, a scene where a leader gives an amazing speech that rallies an army of thousands to victory. 1/2

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I think a lot of politicians and political reporters think "low info voter" is like someone who isn't following congressional budget negotiations when actual low-info voters are like "guy who thinks the president appoints the NFL commissioner and are mad at him for suspending a player on their team"

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This cannot be emphasized enough: in healthy democracies, this is absolutely normal. It is in “banana republics” that criminals go into politics to stay out of jail.

From one of my colleagues two weeks ago: “Legal cases against former heads of state are commonplace in healthy democracies.” freedomhouse.org/article/us-i...

US: International Context for Prosecuting Former Presidentsfreedomhouse.org Legal cases against former heads of state are commonplace in healthy democracies. The United States, with its strong rule-of-law tradition and independent judicial institutions, is entirely capable of...

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Any and all criticism of Joe Biden on his own is fair enough but if you’re in my mentions saying biden is worse than trump, you’re a trump supporter plain and simple and I block trump supporters.

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Stolen from X/Twitter

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seriously yall I think the banks should be nationalized and all property owned collectively and full employment guaranteed by the state, ok? but if you can't party a little because an aspirational fascist got his ass handed to him by working people today, please check your priorities

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34 COUNTS???!

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I personally want to congratulate Donald Trump for finally winning a popular vote

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This is why they spend a half billion a year on union busting

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Robert Cruickshank

Yes, Biden is making colossal mistakes and yes, he absolutely has to change course and earn votes. But we also have a responsibility to each other and to our kids to save our democracy and our human rights. And that means voting for Biden.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li

news flash: the orange man is bad and we should stop him. i'm sorry if this means admitting your mom was right all along. get over yourself

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The people downplaying the threat of fascism are wrong. They want you to give up and allow fascism to win. We cannot allow that to happen. Which means its on all of us together to reject it. Both in the streets and electorally. We must fight against the fascist menace in any way we can.