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This is galling: Media accounts are noting that both Trump and Dems are attacking the other as a grave threat to democracy. But Dems base this on what Trump and his allies *say in their own words.* Trump makes shit up. Media isn't making this clear. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/1838...

Trump’s Ugly New Post-Shooting Rant Instantly Wrecks His “Unity” Pivotnewrepublic.com Donald Trump’s idea of unity: Everybody just needs to unify around putting him above the law. The media must resist getting played by his scam.

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No one demanded they turn down the heated rhetoric in 2022. In fact, the New York Times had a correspondent at this CPAC and never reporter on this happening. The only mention was an aside in an op-ed lamenting it was all about Trump and not the rest of the conservative movement.

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Guy literally had secrets in his bathroom, selling them to foreign nationals. Calls people to steal votes. Sends a mob to keep himself in office. This country pissing all over its history to bend over backwards for this guy? This is the guy we bring down the whole experiment for?

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Two months ago Greg Abbott pardoned a murderer who texted a friend "I might go to Dallas to shoot looters" then drove into a BLM protest in Austin and killed a protester. The universal response from conservatives to the pardon was "Yeah! Woo-hoo!" Now they say liberals should turn down the rhetoric

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Kevin M. Kruse

That's exactly the point. Trump has NEVER addressed policy issues. Biden flubs a few lines & he's unfit. Trump is clueless, but he's good to go.

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Project 2025, page 592: make it harder for employees to be paid at overtime rates by allowing employers to average the number of hours worked over 2-4 weeks

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It's 2016 and Trump has a new tone. It's 2017 and Trump has a new tone. It's 2018 and Trump has a new tone. It's 2020 and Trump has a new tone. It's 2024 and Trump has a new tone.

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TPUSA ambassador and speaker Evan Kilgore has now taken the “brave” stand of denying the Holocaust.

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Every incident of a Secret Service agent getting bitten by a dog was leaked to the press. This White House can't keep a bigger secret for this long

If for no other reason than his staff can't stop stepping on rakes for 5 seconds, I think we'd have learned by now if he'd had an actual Parkinson's diagnosis

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"Mark Robinson’s newly explicit calls for killing perceived enemies show just how seamlessly Christian nationalist extremists can glide into promoting real violence." Good @sarahposner.bsky.social look at the violent rant we reported on, putting it in deep context: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Opinion | ‘Some folks need killing’: North Carolina Lt. Gov takes Christian nationalism to dangerous lowwww.msnbc.com Mark Robinson’s newly explicit calls for killing perceived enemies show how seamlessly Christian nationalists can glide into promoting real violence.

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Trump judge in alaska lasted 4 years before having to resign for sexual harassment cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/ce...

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Remember when the GOP was super concerned about Trump's ability to serve in office when he was unable to walk 700 yards? Yeah, me either.

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One thing that's clear from the Biden/age story is this: NYT knows how to crusade when it wants to. And NYT is crusading against Biden's mental unfitness for office in a way it's just not doing with Trump. On the pod, @whstancil.bsky.social and I break this all down: newrepublic.com/article/1835...

Trump’s Wildly Unhinged Attack on NYT Should Wake Up Media: He’s Unfitnewrepublic.com With Trump slamming The Times even as it crusades against Biden, a press critic explains how Trump scams the media into adopting a huge double standard on each man's fitness to serve.

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Granted, I’ve been actively avoiding it, but I’ve heard almost nothing about any of this amid all the hand-wringing about Biden’s performance. Executed babies?! https://kottke.org/24/07/we-talking-about-practice

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"National Plan to End Parkinson’s Act" signed on July 2, 2024 (this is not mentioned in the NYT reporting)

Breaking News: A Parkinson’s expert visited the White House eight times in eight months from last summer through this spring, according to official visitor logs. The administration has said that President Biden has no signs of the disease.

Parkinson’s Expert Visited the White House Eight Times in Eight Monthswww.nytimes.com The White House has said that President Biden has no signs of the disease and that there has been no reason to update the most recent testing, conducted in February.

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Trump: I don't know anything about Project 2025 Here is a list of all the Trump officials who authored the Project 2025 blueprint, Mandate for Leadership. 25 of 36 were part of the Trump administration. project2025istheocracy.substack.com/p/project-20...

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Huh

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1. The guy who wrote the "don't vote" essay says we're obligated as Americans to root for the Michigan Wolverines www.nytimes.com/2022/12/08/o... 2. he lives in 3 Rivers, MI & says your vote doesn't matter "even in municipal races." I found EIGHT elections in the past 10y decided by 1 vote there

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Update: Cambodian court handed jail terms of up to 8-10 years to 10 activists of an environmental group on charges of plotting against the government and insulting the king www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/c...

Members of a Cambodian conservation group are facing potentially long prison terms, including on lese-majeste charges, over a leaked Zoom meeting about political cartooning.

Cambodia environmental group slams 'politically motivated' trialwww.reuters.com Members of a Cambodian conservation group are facing up to 10 years in prison on charges its founder says are politically motivated and part of a wider crackdown on government criticism – allegations authorities deny.

www.hindustantimes.com

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Presidential candidate who the far-right members of the Supreme Court just placed above the law tells voters how he will exercise his new powers.

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Katie Mack

Many Americans take our democratic values for granted. We've had these values our entire lives, so people may self-defend against feeling alarmed. Agreed that getting out the small-d democratic vote in battleground states to defeat an unscrupulous demagogue is Priority No. 1.

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The Supreme Court’s ruling putting presidents above the law must be understood not simply as a grant of immunity for past crimes, but an enthusiastic endorsement of those he will commit if given the chance. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

The Supreme Court Gives Its Blessing to Trump’s Criminalitywww.theatlantic.com And gives him permission for a despotic second term.

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Popehat

/8 At any rate, congratulations to the Federalist Society for an achievement beyond the reach of the British, outside the grasp of bloody civil war, impossible to Nazis and Soviets and terrorists: defeating the American idea.

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The Supremes ruled that a POTUS has immunity for actions directly related to his office, but not personal actions (without defining what those are) so Trump is trying to erase his felony convictions by claiming that paying porn stars hush money for sex is “official POTUS business,” as expected

Trump Moves to Overturn Manhattan Conviction, Citing Immunity Decisionwww.nytimes.com Former President Donald J. Trump took the action hours after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling granted him immunity for official acts committed in office.

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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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Ok I wasn't happy about the debate, but it is absolutely insane to watch people call for the candidate who wasn't held liable for rape and convicted of fraud to be the one who should drop out.

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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:

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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Three days after the debate every Sunday news shows invited an avowed election-denying fascist on the air in an overt effort to legitimize them as good-faith commentators The news media is openly pro-fascist