Isaac

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No Change: Evaluating the Short-term Impact of the Presidential Debate on Voter Preferences | The COVID States Projectwww.chip50.org Report #105

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It appears the Trump campaign is working overtime to paper over the former president's extremist Trump 2.0 plans with a thick layer of moderate-sounding sentences.

Trump Team Tries Harder And Harder To Hide What They Will Actually Do During Trump 2.0talkingpointsmemo.com Amid the chaos of the will-they, won’t-they storyline that has seized the...

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My Solomonic view is that NYT—perhaps the president’s primary persecutor recently—showed its whole ass with this swiss-cheese Parkinson’s specialist story. It’s blatantly copied from right-wing charlatans, unvetted. And a nimbler White House and campaign would be making it pay dearly for that.

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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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Look it sounds bad but as soon as federal agencies run all their proposed rulemakings through the courts they’ll be right on this

There was lead in EVERY tampon they tested. There was less lead in organic tampons, but those had higher concentrations of arsenic. Also fun: It's 2024. This is the first ever study testing metals in tampons. Great. 🙃 www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/tox... Study: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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"Wealthy donors threaten to withhold money until Biden ends bid Biden says he doesn’t ‘care what the millionaires think’" not sure if they were trying to hand him this narrative by making their threats to withhold donations so public, but here we are

In the midst of one of the biggest crises ever to strike the Democratic Party, Wall Street’s most influential donors are resigned to watching and waiting like much of the rest of the country

Biden’s Biggest Donors Left Powerless to Sway Him to End Bidwww.bloomberg.com They pride themselves on being doers; taking decisive action at crucial inflection points and anticipating major power shifts.

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Project 2025 treats climate science - not climate change - as the problem that must be solved. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-manda...

Project 2025 will double down on protections for fossil fuel industries while killing clean power initiatives, while this is going on, but the media is mostly focused elsewhere for some idiotic reason www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Temperatures 1.5C above pre-industrial era average for 12 months, data showswww.theguardian.com Copernicus Climate Change Service says results a ‘large and continuing shift’ in the climate

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So like, in a sane world, if it really turns out that NYT just did not connect the dots between the Parkinson’s legislation they just passed and these visits, and ran this piece, this week, without that due diligence - that’s gotta be worse than the GWB Air Nat’l Guard stuff that got Rather cooked

This is journalistic malpractice. The Biden admin was working on Parkinson's policy.

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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

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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I suppose a thing that gets lost is that a worrying number of apparently adult people conceive of "love" as an emotion one person feels for another and not a state of mutual being. Love is exclusively mutual; whatever attraction or obsession occurs alone may be interesting but it is not love.

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What this article leaves out is that if you hand your unlocked phone to a police officer, they can legally search it. Unless companies develop a method that allows you to show officers insurance cards and driver license without unlocking the rest of your phone, don't. www.zdnet.com/article/digi...

This state is introducing digital driver's licenses. Here's what you need to knowwww.zdnet.com Your physical wallet is being replaced piece by piece. Here's what you need to know about using digital IDs.

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The only man known to have participated in both the newsman fight in Anchorman (2004) and the U.S. Capitol attack (2021) has formally pleaded guilty in connection with the latter. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Comedian from 'Anchorman' and 'Mr. Show' pleads guilty in Jan. 6 Capitol attackwww.nbcnews.com Actor Jay Johnston, who also had a voice role on “Bob’s Burgers,” had been No. 247 on the FBI’s Capitol Violence list.

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Ed is absolutely correct about this, and “time to shit or get off the pot” is exactly the phrase I have been using in offline discussions about this

The worst outcome for the Democratic Party at this point is not sticking with Biden, nor switching to Harris. It's dragging out this debate for three months. Time is a factor and no decision they make can do as much damage as indecision.

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Well, well, well. WELL. That whole “protests made cops feel bad so they all quit” narrative? Looks like it was mostly myth. Excited to read this paper by Ben Grunwald, who compiled a huge dataset on post-2020 police employment. Agg decline was 1%… and bigger local declines not tied to protests.

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You alright man? I keep seeing small damage numbers coming off you

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I’m sorry, this is more than “a caveat,” it’s actually the whole story.

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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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NY Times: You thought this election might be about an unprecedented convicted criminal running to overthrow Constitutional democracy? You think you decide the narrative? Oh no. That’s our turf. And we say the most important thing in the election—nay, the world—is Joe Biden’s age.

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How does blowing up a children’s hospital in Ukraine—which isn’t in NATO—protect Russia from NATO? How is killing a bunch of kids who were far from military activity about security, not brutal aggression? Do Putin defenders and apologists who ape the NATO excuse hear themselves?

Russia Destroys Children’s Hospital in Deadly Barrage Across Ukrainewww.nytimes.com President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia had launched at least 40 missiles at targets across Ukraine, and he condemned the strike on the country’s largest children’s hospital.

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Real Democrats™ Bernie Sanders and AOC supporting the President and working for real progressive results as notorious socialists Adam Schiff and James Carville cowardly plot against him to bring about their vision for Mao’s America

In Calvin & Hobbes there were occasional references to a "noodle incident" but Bill Watterson never specified what it was. There's wisdom there

ok bsky tonight’s game is: whoever goes the longest without 1) finding out what the barf discussion is about or 2) logging off wins.

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"The preliminary results upended widespread predictions of a clear victory for the National Rally," says the NYT just now. Wait, who made these predictions of a massive victory for the National Rally again? Oh yeah, these guys did:

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The far right cope machine is already trying to manufacture a narrative about the massive loss the French fascists faced today. They are scared they can sense what’s coming to America and it’s not fascism. Popular fronts win and scare fascists. Keep them on the back foot they are weak and scared.

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who knows how often i'll actually publish these, but here's a thing i've been working on. it's too long, i am not a professional writer (at least not this way) but i thought he was fun to talk to. hopefully it's fun to read. plenty of playlists to be found on the site, too.

Leo | Tattooergolikehellmachine.com I’ve tried to do other normal-ish kinds of jobs, and I was very, very bad at them.

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look - I'm receptive to both "no, it's gotta be him" arguments and "he's gotta step aside" arguments. not to be wishy-washy but both arguments have merit. "then we do a tourney" is OTOH flatly hilarious. yeah that'll go great. there will much much unity in the wake of the electoral deathmatch

To save democracy, the Democratic party may resort to deploying the greatest concept of all time: a political version of the NBA In-Season Tournament

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Jane McAlevey has died. Rest in peace to a titan of the labor movement. Cruel fate has taken her from us when we needed her the most, as fascists are on the march and we need a fighting working class to stop it. Yet, her contributions will not be forgotten. The union will roll on and win for her.

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In the wake of the British and French election results, expect a wave of concerned editorials about how the right must moderate its extreme positions and rhetoric if it wants to appeal to the majority hahahahahahahahahahaha

The New York Times is always so hopeful.

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nothing will put this idea to rest sooner than actually getting into the logistics of how it'd work

Hey you guys wanna see the dumbest plan to replace Biden possible? www.semafor.com/article/07/0...

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if there is one thing I want to come out of this election, regardless of result, it is Dems - and the left more generally - finally understanding that they need to make their own media ecosystem and stop relying on folks who want them to lose to get their message out

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1. Voters generally reject fascism when they know that's the choice. 2. Thus, the MAGA freakout at people figuring out what Project 2025 does.