David Ambaras

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Historian. Author, Japan's Imperial Underworlds: Intimate Encounters At the Borders of Empire (2018), Bad Youth: Juvenile Delinquency and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Japan (2006). Co-director, https://bodiesandstructures.org. Also shitposts.

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Just catching up to the news. Let's hope Trump now denounces everyone who has called for the assassination of Democra -- I'll come in again

This is a good organization/movement for NC. 19thnews.org/2024/07/rura...

Kind of surprised they didn't say "Will be wild!"

I'm no ivy league fail upward brunchlord news professional, but I feel it's generous to call conspiratorial fascism (managed by a sociopathic manbaby with a fourth grade reading level) "disruptive" that's kind of like saying nuclear annihilation is "modifying"

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"Fasten your seatbelts," says the New York Times when asked how they would cover a second Trump presidency, like people say before starting an exciting theme park ride

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deadly serious, if you can convince small business owners that the republicans intend to pass a law that tells them they *cannot* operate on sunday, the party implodes *overfuckingnight*

Tired: Project 2025 wants to bring back the Sabbath. Wired: Project 2025 will ban Sunday sportsball games and forget about getting beer.

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Full quote from ex-ICE director Tom Homan: "Trump comes back in January... I will run the biggest deportation force this country has ever seen. They ain’t seen shit yet. Wait until 2025.” Tonight in Florida Trump pledged to bring Homan back. Homan, BTW, is a listed Project 2025 contributor.

"Wait until 2025. They ain't seen shit yet." www.semafor.com/article/07/0...

Trump’s ‘national conservative’ allies plot a revenge administrationwww.semafor.com As President Biden’s position weakens, Trump world is enthusiastically planning a MAGA White House.

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look, the answer to “crops will rot in the fields” after mass deportation is “chain gangs from for-profit prisons” they’re just not showing that card right now

Mass deportation is a kitchen table issue, and Trump and the GOP need to be hounded about it. "Kids will come from school to homes without their parents. Businesses would lose workers, some would just shutter. Crops would rot in the fields.” zacharymueller.substack.com/p/mass-depor...

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Congrats to everyone on Twitter, still pretending they're not actually frequenting a Nazi bar as the jukebox plays the Horst Wessel Song at a deafening volume.

Holy shit replies to this tweet. I want to barf. That place needs to be nuked from orbit.

This photo is all the evidence you need that homeschool biology lessons based on Horton Hears a Who are not a good idea.

The 19th's coverage of the GOP's abortion platform is literally the only accurate news coverage I have seen in a mainstream publication in the last 24 hours

RNC approves platform that would give rights to fetuses, endangering abortion, IVF19thnews.org Republicans have adopted a slate of policy positions ahead of next week’s convention that does not call for a federal legislative abortion ban, but opens the door to establishing fetal personhood.

There are 213 House Democrats

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

This thread is smart

The thing a lot of posters don’t get is that what the Biden campaign did over the last week is exactly the right way to handle a bad performance.

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Maybe I missed it but I’ve never seen a NYT scoreboard for the number of governors opting out of taking federal money for feeding hungry kids (twelve) or even the number of states where a McRib is currently available (zero).

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wild to me that "leave it up to the states," a view that was used to excuse and legitimize slavery AND SPARKED THE CIVIL WAR, is being cast as "softened" in the context of abortion, like it's fine, we'll just have HALF THE COUNTRY prosecuting abortion as homicide, as a soft, moderate compromise

Biden has done like a dozen events in the last two weeks. Trump has not been seen in 11 days. And yet

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Noah Smith is such a clown. He picked up too many paying readers from his fawning Marc Andreessen interview, and is now desperately trying to be the last-cool-liberal on Elon Musk’s proverbial blog roll. His RNC platform hot take is they’re pragmatic and moderating because they talk about taxes. 🤡

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I think we can officially retire the heartbreaking meme now

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The speaker of the house is openly saying concentration camps are needed for Latinos if they take power. Make no mistake detention camp is code. This is the smirking face of fascism at the highest levels of government and in the direct line of succession.

I think someone at LGM may be telling someone else at LGM that they're full of shit on this one. www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/07/is-o...

Yeah this was a real disappointment, and I say this as someone who has frequently reposted Campos's content. I'm starting to think Rofer is the only one there who isn't jumping the shark

Is Our Media Learning? - Lawyers, Guns & Moneywww.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com The answer, of course, is “no.” Cannard is also part of a team of doctors who evaluate Biden and consult with his personal doctor. He’s a neurologist, which is precisely the kind of specialist you’d e...

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conservatives think the press is stupid and the press's reaction - a bunch of stories about Trump 'softening' abortion language - confirms that they are correct.

THE ABORTION PLANK IS A PERSONHOOD PLANK

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let this serve as my occasional reminder that even if you think the NYT is consistently outstanding, subscribing to the times to "support journalism" is like giving Harvard thirty bucks to "support education." They don't need your money. Small outlets & independent journalists do.

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Here's a link to President Biden's letter of today in its entirety, in case anyone hasn't seen it yet: cdn.sanity.io/files/ifn0l6...

What is the name of the disease that is the NYT

knowing that the white house just signed a massive parkinson’s bill in july changes the entire tone of this story so much that this makes it wildly, horrifically offensive

By Noah Smith

As a person who has visited Paris twice, here’s my expert opinion on the French elections (1/64)

"And here's why that's bad for Joe Biden"

Solve your housing affordability crisis with this one weird trick

Talking Head cheese

Make a band meatier. Meatier Puppets Red Hot Chili Con Carne The Black Kielbasas

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The opting out is especially wild Like, Republican governors are being actively presented with money to feed kids and affirmatively saying 'I would like children to starve actually' (Also, if I'm a Dem campaigner, I'm making some ads and placing some op eds about this immediately)

The governors of a dozen Republican-led states — AL, AK, FL, GA, IA, MS, OK, SC, SD, TX, UT, WY — opted out of a new federal food assistance program, leaving about 9.5 million students without the aid this summer

Republican-led states are blocking summer food benefits for hungry familieswww.usatoday.com Money for food is especially tight for families in a dozen states where Republican lawmakers declined to accept federal food assistance.

Macron trails Le Pen in key districts, even as 65 of 100 voters send the French far right to a resounding defeat

Biden trails Trump by just 2 points across key states, a Bloomberg News/Morning Consult shows, even as three in 10 Democrats say he should leave the race trib.al/GlWZVox

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