Bruce R McF (etc.)

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Obscure development & regional economist, teaching in South Carolina and living in both South Carolina and Tennessee. He/him

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Finally this Is getting some play! www.rawstory.com/project-2025...

Project 2025 will rob veterans and active duty troops of billions in benefitswww.rawstory.com The Project 2025 blueprint for a potential second Donald Trump administration would plunder veterans' benefits and shower cash on private contractors.Right-wing policy makers led by the Heritage Found...

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How can you remember to keep breathing inside of a brain like this? He “got tired of holding the gun” (he was prohibited from having)? Does he ever “get tired of holding” his wallet, do you think? #GunFAIL www.wfmz.com/news/area/le...

Wilson Police: 3-year-old accidentally shoots woman in back after man leaves gun on tablewww.wfmz.com The woman was taken to an area hospital where she underwent emergency surgery.

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Another great example of where average rainfall changes don't tell you much about the risk, this time in NZ. Zero change in annual rainfall hides increases in wettest days + dry gets drier. Reminds me of @weatherwest.bsky.social's work in CA #DailyPaper

Robust changes to the wettest and driest days of the year are hidden within annual rainfall projections: a New Zealand case study - IOPscienceiopscience.iop.org Robust changes to the wettest and driest days of the year are hidden within annual rainfall projections: a New Zealand case study, Luke J Harrington, Suzanne M Rosier, Tom I Marsh, Dave J Frame

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100%!!! See Langston Hughes: "Let America Be America Again": "America never was America to me, And yet I swear this oath— America will be!" poets.org/poem/let-ame...

i don't talk about it as much in this piece but it could not be more obvious that dressing yourself up in the rhetoric of America as irredeemably evil might play well to the online crowd but wrapping the very same idea in a red white and blue flag is how you win real change

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I really don’t think most people realize just how hard the boot will come down if Trump and the Republicans win the election. Most people have never experienced the totalitarian surveillance state with the power to reach into their homes and minds at will they are telling us is their plan.

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JUST IN: Polls closed in France. Exit polls show surprise: —Left coalition (New Popular Front) projected first. (!) —Far-right (RN) has lost its bid to take power. Anti-RN front appears to have worked very well. —No bloc close to majority. Follow this 🧵 for results and more:

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David Waldman

A CHILD MOLESTER has won the Republican nomination for president for the third time in a row, and the media says he won the debate so the other guy— the incumbent POTUS — should drop out.

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Here's some fashy tears for your Sunday.

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Did you know: 1) There are 3 versions of the 10 Commandments in the bible, 2) The 2 in Genesis are WILDLY different, but the bible claims they're the same. The 2nd makes no mention of stealing, killing, bearing false witness or adultery. 3) Louisiana's version is a patchwork bsky.app/profile/did:...

“I LOVE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS,” the lying, thieving, covetous adulterer Donald Trump trumpeted in all caps on his Twitter knock-off site. He loved it as branding & the Louisiana's version was a Cecil B. DeMille Hollywood production. 1/22 www.salon.com/2024/07/07/t...

Ten Commandments gone wild! The Christian right's latest toxic distractionwww.salon.com A tale of the evangelical right, the least religious president ever and Cecil B. DeMille's phony list from God

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When I said yesterday “we have a bothsides mainstream centrist press that does not speak clearly about the parties,” David French’s piece today is exactly what I mean. French has a high-profile Sunday piece in NYT. He claims, ludicrously. the Supreme Court isn’t favoring Trump. That… 1/

I wrote about the UK election outcome, and what it says about institutions, media, and arbiters of truth in the US. The UK is able to hold its politicians accountable. That's an info environment thing. w/ quotes from @volts.wtf @brianbeutler.bsky.social markhisted.ghost.io/conservative...

Conservatives go down to a big defeat in the UK: what that tells us about the USmarkhisted.ghost.io Trump, institutions, and arbiters of truth in the US and UK This week the UK Labour Party won a huge, landslide victory. That’s a big shift from just 5 years ago, when UK Conservatives won a majority...

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"Lord, I see what you are doing for LePen's National Rally, and I want that for Trump's GOP."

"Lord, I see what you are doing for the Tories, and I want that for the GOP."

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Around the world, the left keep saving the center while getting nothing but condescension from the haughty, dubiously-democratic ingrates.

The French are world leaders at "The govt sucks, I'm voting for my ideal, no way I'll compromise, you compromise" (round 1) followed by "The only way to stop the far right? Ugh, fine." (round 2). Often a responsibility placed more on the left, but this time the center too, perhaps more. Let's see...

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Kudos to @paulrosenberg.bsky.social for mentioning the Exodus 34 version of the Ten Commandments www.salon.com/2024/07/07/t...

Ten Commandments gone wild! The Christian right's latest toxic distractionwww.salon.com A tale of the evangelical right, the least religious president ever and Cecil B. DeMille's phony list from God

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This cover is symptomatic of a larger media pathology, where the narrative comes before the evidence.

It held

"Even after this result, we need to pay attention to the economic populism of the embattled, embittered working class let down by the Left in the {checks notes} ... ... errr, French Riviera."

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Worse. No clue that THEY might be part of the problem. These are the folks who've repeatedly failed to invest strategically where hardworking unpaid/underpaid activists have been begging for help. They've let crucial state parties wither, not even considered building grassroots media, etc, etc, etc

One thing rich people forget–or if they're heirs, never learned–is that life can deal you a bad hand & there's no option but to make the best of it & play it out anyway. Huge "I demand to speak to the manager" vibes here.

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The Constitution actually has a really tried and tested mechanism for dealing with presidents dropping dead on the job. Or even before they've really started it. You know what it's having a hard time with? Would-be autocrats no one seems to be willing to rein in

I mean, Trump is an insane felon rapist and a lot of people still voted for him. There’s no rule that says we have to honorably give a shit about if our candidate comes off as slightly addled, especially when we’ve got a perfectly good VP who can take over as soon as he makes it past the post.

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We should be making GOP sweat bullets in NC, not just for gov but for potus.

report on the GOP freak running for NC gov: "he and his wife were cited for numerous violations at the child care center they operated from 2000 to 2007, including a charge that the center presented falsified certification documents to state inspectors." www.newsobserver.com/opinion/arti...

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“The project is also heavily promoted by MAGA-connected media figures” including white nationalist jailbird Steve Bannon, “who has called it the ‘blueprint’ for Trump's second term on his War Room podcast.”

Project 2025 was “written primarily by former Trump officials & conservative commentators connected to Heritage” & “has even set up online trainings & loyalty tests to narrow down potential hires to those who will commit to follow Trump w/out question”: www.mediamatters.org/heritage-fou...

A guide to Project 2025, the extreme right-wing agenda for the next Republican administrationwww.mediamatters.org Project 2025, a comprehensive transition plan organized by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to guide the next GOP presidential administration, is the conservative movement’s most robust p...

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It's a full-spectrum horror-show & Dems have to say it all!

I know we're all focused on the fascism side of a Trump victory, but even his more tame economic proposals are just awful. Liberals need to find a better way to communicate that though applyliberally.substack.com/p/tariffs-wo...

Tariffs would cost the working class much more than income taxes doapplyliberally.substack.com ...and how to communicate as much to voters

I've seen the UK's chattering classes refer to the "disproportionate success" of the Liberal Democrats, playing the first past the post game to get 71 seats out of 12.2% of the vote. 71/650 = 10.9% of seats from 12.2% of the vote. Surely they mean "proportionate success"?

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excellent choice.

All change at Downing Street, except Larry the Catwww.reuters.com On a night of sweeping change across British politics, one thing at the heart of the government remained the same on Friday morning: Larry the Downing Street cat.

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Holy cow! Both Trump AND Jim VandeHei are suffering from cognitive decline and dementia and must be replaced!

Huh

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In fact, if you take Trump's word for it, he's clearly the weakest executive this country has ever had, with now-countless examples of "stupid" and "terrible" people doing things on his authority that he had "no idea" were happening and "completely disagreed" with.

If Trump knows nothing about Project 2025 he's way more out of it than Biden. (Trump is lying but he is, in fact, way more out of it than Biden, who may be in fact be too out of it to be president).

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I’m sorry, what?! Have folks memory-holed the coverage of Trump’s first term? This came up!

The discourse around biden needing more sleep is fully insane. Does no one remember "Executive Time," the thing Trump spent the majority(!) of his schedule on where he would just watch TV and tweet? Dude was categorically unable to fulfill any of the demands of the office and the press barely cared

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Republicans never hide their plans.

NEWS --> Mark Robinson, the MAGA extremist GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, appeared to endorse political violence against unnamed foes in a recent speech. "Some folks need killing!" he shouted. "It's a matter of necessity!" Video and story here: newrepublic.com/article/1834...

MAGA Gov Candidate’s Ugly, Hateful Rant: “Some Folks Need Killing!”newrepublic.com Mark Robinson, the GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, has a long history of incendiary comments. But he may have topped himself this time.

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If you think the US healthcare "system" is a mess compared to other countries, you ain't seen nothin' yet.

The ruling will likely have seismic ramifications for health policy. A flood of litigation—with plaintiffs like small businesses, drugmakers, and hospitals challenging regulations—could leave the country with a patchwork of disparate health regulations varying by location

The Supreme Court just limited federal power. Health care is feeling the shockwaveswww.dailykos.com by� Stephanie Armour, for KFF � A landmark Supreme Court decision that reins in federal agencies’ authority is expected to hold dramatic consequences for the nation’s health care system, ...

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This photo is pure 2024.

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The media will not save us. (That being said, the fact that Trump felt the need to disavow Project 2025 at all is progress. And this won't be the end of iif we don't let it.)

Mike Allen and Zachary Basu just doing the work of Trump propaganda network's gaslighting machine. Shame on these so called stenographers masquerading as journalists. #Project2025

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The point is gaslighting. Gaslighting is the point.

I don't understand this point. Trump can just pardon them.