Boboosen

I don’t recall the NYT calling for Trump to step down after being convicted of 34 counts of fraud and being called by a judge at his civil trial a rapist in the common person sense

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ME: [googling Why Do I Have A Migraine?] GOOGLE: You need caffeine. You drink too much caffeine. You need sleep. You sleep too much. You need to eat. Food can cause migraines. The weather changed & you should've figured out how to control that. You need to go back in time and-

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That sucks. But NYC isn't in a financial crisis. We're very much in a "the mayor is a cop and wants his friends in the NYPD to keep getting paid big for unnecessary overtime" crisis, and he's snatching that money from our public services. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

NYPD Blows Overtime Budget by Nearly $100 Million, On Pace for Recordwww.bloomberg.com The New York City Police Department’s budget overage defies a pledge by Mayor Eric Adams to cut overtime spending by half in his first year in office.

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The approval rating of The Supreme Court has plummeted to historic lows. Between the Court's radical rulings and blatant displays of corruption, the American people have lost faith in this Court. What can Congress do to win it back?

We've Got A Supreme Court Problemthinkbigpicture.substack.com The Supreme Court is out of control, it's time for Congress to step in with real reforms and ethical accountability.

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Shepherd

And that is very necessary even if your state legislators are right wing fuckers, because what these people tell themselves is that everyone feels like they do but they're the only ones brave enough to say it. When you are silent and don't push back, they continue to believe it.

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right now, the extent of what democrats can do is hounding and shame, which they should do! biden should condemn the insurrectionist members of the court, durbin and whitehouse should hold hearings and demand that alito and thomas both answer questions before congress. make it a spectacle, basically

alito is playing in our faces because he knows there’s nothing we can do about it and he has total contempt for the idea that he might be accountable for anything he does

@scalzi.com John, I read Starter Villain a couple of weeks ago and loved it. Very entertaining, with a good story as well. I’ve since recommended it widely!

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The year is going by so fast. I can't believe it's already time to start lying about the election. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump’s Pattern of Sowing Election Doubt Intensifies in 2024www.nytimes.com A false, familiar claim by the former president — that the contest in which he’s participating is “rigged” — has reached a fever pitch in this cycle.

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Trump's repulsive claim that Putin will free WSJ reporter only *for him* pushes a darker message, that Trump has "a buddy-buddy relationship with some of the worst dictators in the world." Lots of great insights on this from Nick Grossman on today's pod. Listen: newrepublic.com/article/1819...

Trump’s Ugly Eruption: Putin Will Only Free Jailed Reporter “For Me”newrepublic.com Donald Trump is now repulsively claiming Vladimir Putin will free reporter Evan Gershkovich only if he wins. An expert in foreign relations explains why this is a bad omen for a second Trump term.

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Alito needs to resign immediately, this is absolutely ridiculous. Our Supreme Court is an abomination.

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IYKYK

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Bafflingly-requisite reminder: Trump’s behavior here, every minute of it, was always flat-out unconstitutional

In shocking testimony that caused jaws to drop with surprise, we learned this week that, contrary to promises, Trump conducted Trump Organization business from the White House. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | Of course Trump intertwined the Trump Organization into his presidencywww.washingtonpost.com If reelected, there’s no reason to think that he’d do anything different.

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when you give a cat spray paint

“No Gods No Masters” Spotted in Belgrade, Serbia

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Nothing to see here, just a public employee facilitating the business activities of a sitting president

Analysis | Of course Trump intertwined the Trump Organization into his presidencywww.washingtonpost.com If reelected, there’s no reason to think that he’d do anything different.

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I blame @bermanmatt.bsky.social for this being buried in my mind's eye now.

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The public library at its best is maybe the most radically democratic of all public institutions, because it grants to children the same civic status and prerogatives it affords to all other patrons. Fight every attack on a child’s right to be just another patron. 📚

www.nola.com/gambit/news/...

Young people face restricted access at public libraries starting May 30, unless parents update card settingswww.nola.com New Orleans Public Libraries will restrict certain access to youths under new state law, pending parents' permission

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Reminder: Sure, the student protestors turned out to be right about Vietnam, and gay rights, and apartheid, and the Latin American dirty wars, and the invasion of Iraq -- but *this time* they are cluelessly naive and only protesting to look cool to their friends.

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One election?

be straight with me @kevinmkruse.bsky.social. how close is america to this stage:

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Shoulder Devil

Indeed. There’s no quick fix

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Kevin M. Kruse

Unfortunately, that likely applies to the next *several* elections as well. Because these people are not likely to disappear after just a couple losses, and they only need to take control once.

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Helen Kennedy

Where do the Thin Blue Line guys get shipped off to? Coplandia?

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there are still some of my fellow shitlibs who hold minor grudges against sanders for things that are years in the rearview, but sanders has been one of biden’s strongest soldiers since day one of this administration.

Exclusive: Bernie Sanders worries young people are underestimating the threat from Trumpwww.usatoday.com Sen. Bernie Sanders sounds off on the Israel-Hamas war, antisemitism, college protests, and President Joe Biden’s record while in office

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79 years ago, patriotic Americans went to France to throw out the Nazis. This year, all you have to do is go to the polls and vote.

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Tesla guys approaching Heaven’s Gate levels of zealotry except HG had a better chance of going to space

The same guys complaining about the unhoused ruining San Francisco say it's cool to, um, LIVE IN YOUR TESLA

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move to make “ozowned“ a verb, all in favor

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Greg Greene

no way cracking down on a peaceful protest with a phalanx of riot police will lead to even more protests, when has that ever happened