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Too young to give in and too old to have fucks left to give. (he/him), historian by training but not by trade, just trying to make sense of it all. 🇵🇸🇺🇦

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I wish I lived in a country where Donald Trump raping and sexually assaulting girls within Jeffrey Epstein’s child sex trafficking ring was treated with at least half the outrage and gravity of Joe Biden having one bad debate night.

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FASCISM IS NOT INEVITABLE

Breaking news: The first projections after polls closed in France’s legislative election put a leftist alliance in the lead, as the populist, anti-immigration far right falls behind and performs far below expectations.

France election live updates: Left-wing bloc leads in results projectionswww.washingtonpost.com The populist, anti-immigration National Rally party had been hoping to install France’s first far-right government since World War II, with 28-year-old Jordan Bardella as prime minister.

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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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bad luck for biden to run in an electoral cycle where "are you old" is the most important issue instead of in one of the cycles where email security procedures or accuracy of vietnam war medal citations was the most important issue in the country.

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Reminder: A presidential election isn’t a reality competition show where you play cutthroat and when you lose say how it was the best experience of your lifetime, you tried your best, and you made lifelong friends. “Giving it your all” is not the main thing.

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Mass murdering a captive civilian population will do that. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Gaza war a recruiting boon for terrorists, U.S. intelligence showswww.washingtonpost.com Anger at the United States over its role in Israel’s war in Gaza has galvanized terror groups globally, the State Department’s top intelligence official says.

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I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

if you’re waiting for everyone around you to wake up, you’ll wait forever. this is how the people grinding our bones to make their bread WANT you to be. paralyzed, alienated & purposeless

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Read this, share this widely

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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.

Vibes baby, vibes.

“American Flag, 1977,” by Robert Mappelthorpe.

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One of the most perverse parts of the post-debate discourse is that Trump became increasingly incoherent over the course of the debate, but nobody seems to care because nobody expects Trump to know what he's talking about to begin with.

I'm a brain doc (Consultation-Liaison psych). For *years* Trump's shown uninterrupted, increasingly severe cognitive symptoms: he's incapable of linear thought at baseline. Whatever disrupted Biden's linear thought in the debate is at worst intermittent. Bonus: he's not an overt fascist.

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The phrase "malefactors of great wealth" is very fine I think. We should bring it back into common usage seeing as how this perfectly describes the billionaire scumbags who are trying to destroy society to keep a number on a spreadsheet going up.

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substack.com/@noelcasler/...

Noel Casler on Substacksubstack.com If we’re being honest many in the MSM never had the courage to truly go after Trump. It’s easier to cover the horse race or take shots at HRC & later, Biden. Dude was a miscreant for decades in NYC. S...

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My favorite line about war applies here: "The aggressor is always peace-loving... he would prefer to take over our country unopposed." No man, if you're trying a revolution against the Constitution of the United States, pro-Constitution Americans aren't going to simply get out of your way. Hard no.

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

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The fact that I know more about Joe Biden’s one bad debate night than I do about Donald Trump’s years of raping and sexually assaulting girls within Jeffrey Epstein’s child sex trafficking ring shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.

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Not the most terrifying thing but perhaps the most infuriating: every single thing we said about these fascist Republican fucks has been proved out and all the people who assured us that what is happening would never happen smoothly pivoted to yes it's happening but it will be fine.

1000% this.

I don't know what the right answer is, other than to commit ourselves to defeating Trump one way or another. My feelings on who our nom should be are starting to change, but it's above my pay grade. What I do know is that amid the Court's assault on democracy, the media are dangerously failing us.

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If this Hitler adjacent mofo doesn’t scare the shit out of each and every one of you then there’s something wrong. I cannot stress this enough we’re at war.

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Here it comes. The next part of the ongoing and accelerating coup. if the democrats try to replace Biden the republicans will not allow that person to appear on the ballots. We are in a coup this is not politics.

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1/ I'm agnostic as to whether Biden should withdraw from the race. It's a genuinely tough question IMO. But I have clarity on one thing: He should absolutely not step down as president. If Harris becomes President, the Vice Presidency is empty. Under the 25th Amendment ...

As with the NYT article, if this is what is coming out then the story is written-all that’s left is the cleanup

Former president Barack Obama told allies that President Biden’s already tough path to reelection grew more challenging after his shaky debate performance on Thursday — a harsher assessment of the presidential race than his public comments, according to people familiar with his remarks.

Obama shares concerns after shaky debate, offers Biden his advicewww.washingtonpost.com The former president told allies that Biden’s already tough path to reelection grew more challenging after his debate performance on Thursday.

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If Biden and the Dems are serious about anything they've said in the last 48 hours they need to let everyone know the plan for: 1) The GOP House refusing to cooperate in ratifying an election he wins(yes they will) 2) SCOTUS refusing to let his admin function 3) the undoing of rule of law

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Hey so…we are in the middle of a far right coup and the far right is telling you they are going to continue and if we try to stop them they will resort to open violence.This is cartoonish and people need to push these fascist now. Not tomorrow not next week we need massive protests and direct action

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This man is making his evil intentions as crystal-clear as they possibly could be, and everyone who cares about humanity should be blasting that message out in every possible venue.

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

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A decision of surpassing recklessness in dangerous times, with @qjurecic.bsky.social: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/a-de...

A Decision of Surpassing Recklessness in Dangerous Timeswww.lawfaremedia.org The Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. United States would have been wrong and dangerous at any time. It’s uncommonly so with Trump poised to retake power.

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I know everyone says "their reporters do great work" and that's true, but over the course of my life, the New York Times has institutionally had multiple points at which it was important to choose "be evil" or do the right thing and they've fucked it hard every time

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Prof Timothy Snyder, Yale Professor, autocracy historian sounds the alarm after SCOTUS ruling

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Ralph Nader Can Eat America's Entire Ass www.wonkette.com/p/ralph-nade...

Ralph Nader Can Eat America's Entire Asswww.wonkette.com Who among us wasn't waiting for this guy to weigh in?

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America is having a heart attack. But the people with enormous power to do something about it right now are counseling us to take an aspirin and see if we feel better in the morning. We need to get to the ER immediately. We can't vote our way out of this forever. We need major institutional fixes.