Chaplain John

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Grateful for community, especially after so much plague! Palliative Care Chaplain focusing on caring and listening. He/him.

Lover of music, movies, MCU, Zelda, and all things silly.

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“Why is everyone pretending like we had a normal primary?” — because we…did? The incumbent ran mostly unopposed other than a few fringier candidates? I truly don’t understand what I’m missing here…

For wherever you stand on the whole issue, I will never understand the sudden insistence that even a weak incumbent president has an expected “serious” challenger. I kinda feel like I’m going crazy watching otherwise smart people point out that absence like it’s unusual.

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Media, most notably the NY Times, dismisses a strawman: We won’t stop covering news just because it makes a politician you like look bad. The real critique, the one they duck, is about emphasis and tone, signaling what matters. Good listen, with Greg Sargent hosting Will Stancil (offline version):

One thing that's clear from the Biden/age story is this: NYT knows how to crusade when it wants to. And NYT is crusading against Biden's mental unfitness for office in a way it's just not doing with Trump. On the pod, @whstancil.bsky.social and I break this all down: newrepublic.com/article/1835...

Trump’s Wildly Unhinged Attack on NYT Should Wake Up Media: He’s Unfitnewrepublic.com With Trump slamming The Times even as it crusades against Biden, a press critic explains how Trump scams the media into adopting a huge double standard on each man's fitness to serve.

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Pro-political murder Republican Mark Robinson may well end up winning with a compliant supermajority in the legislature. His opponent is AG Josh Stein, who has built a record of fighting for reproductive rights and corporate accountability. Help him win:

In a normal campaign, this would have dominated the weekend’s news. I wrote about @gregsargent.bsky.social’s scoop about the Christian nationalist GOP nominee for NC Gov calling for murder of his political enemies: ‘Some folks need killing’: 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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People telling me the NYT isn't in the tank for Trump. Then they run this without mentioning that those visits were in regards to Sen Capito's bill. A Republican Senator, mind you, so it's clearly not some Dem cover up.

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.

Biden signs Senator Capito’s Parkinson’s bill into law | U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginiawww.capito.senate.gov West Virginia Senator Shelley Moore Capito helped introduce a bill tackling Parkinson’s disease back...

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Again, the best thing Biden can do to fight the "too old to campaign" narrative is to get out & campaign

"biden gets the last half hour of MJ to kinda just shot the shit on MSNBC" is a media strategy required

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It's important to note that in France, yes, a fascist majority was prevented, but they still doubled their presence in parliament. The fascists didn't stay home. They went & voted. It's just that enough decent people showed up to beat them back to a significant degree (& make them cry). SHOW UP.

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Sean Kelly

Trump is 78 years old, deeply out of shape, is well known to falsify medical records, spouts unhinged gibberish, and has had a well-documented decrease in verbal ability tracked over decades of TV appearances, and may or may not be shitting himself constantly. Better talk about how Biden is old!

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The New York Times

I can't decide if this willful misinformation peddling, or just gross incompetence by everyone involved in this "reporting". www.yahoo.com/news/bill-ho...

'This bill is about hope’: President Biden signs End Parkinson’s Act into lawwww.yahoo.com A new bill signed into law by President Joe Biden offers a sense of relief to the nearly 1 million Americans living with Parkinson's disease.

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He signed a bill addressing Parkinson's literally yesterday. Give me your job

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Michael Tae Sweeney

the greatest president of all time was in a fucking wheelchair and couldn't walk!

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A seasonal wave of #Covid is sweeping across the U.S., driven by the FLiRT variants, a trio of the latest #SARSCoV2 mutants making the rounds. So no, it's not your imagination. People are getting Covid again www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...

Yep, people are getting COVID againwww.seattletimes.com A seasonal COVID-19 wave appears to be underway with cases growing or likely growing in 39 states.

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“Generally believed” on the basis of weak evidence. I’m an expert on stigma and discrimination and the root causes are power and structural violence. Ignorance may be a multiplier but it’s not a root cause of stigma including racial animus. Goffman pointed it out in his original book (1963): 1/

It's generally believed that education reduces prejudice. But in some countries, elites and education systems actively foment antisemitism. We test the association between them with a unique global dataset of individual-level survey data measuring antisemitic attitudes and stereotypes.

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As well they should. I'm so glad this is getting attention

President Biden and other Democrats are increasingly focusing their attacks on an aggressive right-wing agenda called Project 2025 that is being pushed by allies of presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump — prompting Trump and his team to lash out in recent days at supporters of the effort.

Democrats focus attacks on right-wing Project 2025 pushed by Trump allieswww.washingtonpost.com The former president has sought to disavow the plan being touted by former advisers and aides, but Trump has endorsed many of the same ideas.

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“Fascism sucks up power left unattended” deserves to be carved over the entrances to grand public buildings

largest french turnout in 40 years, to keep the nazis down. fascism sucks up power left unattended

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I'll say more about this in my newsletter today but the "tempers flare" narrative on supposed acrimony between Trump and anti-abortion GOPers is not a secret fight that the press has exposed. It's a performance meant to reassure anti-abortion voters that Trump will do what they want.

Tempers flare as Trump reviews revised abortion plank for Republican platformwww.washingtonpost.com The former president wants the platform to endorse leaving the issue to the states rather than a federal ban in the wake of Roe v. Wade’s demise.

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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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If the election was held tomorrow, I believe Biden would win Your anxieties are not the Midwest’s problem

Election held tomorrow, he'd have a shot. But not a good one. 1 in 4, being generous. 1 in 6 would be plausible. And worth remembering, Trump overperformed the polls in both 2016 and even more in 2020. If there's a polling error, it could be cutting the other way and Biden's in even worse shape.

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Art Demon

www.stlamerican.com/election/my-...

My ‘Black Job’ is to protect democracywww.stlamerican.com I’m not doing this again with y’all.

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Best story I've read on the platform. Reported last week that the platform meeting will be closed to press w no way for non-members to watch - for the first time. Draper adds that committee members names have been kept secret to prevent "outside influence."

Yes, anti-abortion and Christian right activists are mad that their top issue might be sidelined at Trump's demand. Yet look at the RNC platform delegates who remain: www.nytimes.com/2024/07/08/u...

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ICYMI: The Biden Administration announced $504 million in funding to twelve tech hubs across the country, including locations in: * Colorado * Montana * Indiana * Illinois * Nevada * New York * New Hampshire * South Carolina * Ohio * Florida * Oklahoma * Wisconsin Full details in the link.

Fact Sheet: Biden-Harris Administration Announces Investment in Twelve Regional Technology Hubs, Creating Good-paying Jobs and Driving Economic Opportunity and Innovation in Communities Across the Cou...www.whitehouse.gov Regional Tech Hubs will strengthen American leadership in industries of the future, create jobs, and spur economic growth in all of America Today, the Biden-Harris Administration will announce funding...

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Honestly, WaPo, I'm not sure how any of you can look yourselves in the mirror while you're allowing garbage like this to be published in your paper.

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From @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social quoting Nikole Hannah-Jones: “As media we consistently proclaim that we are just reporting the news when in fact we are driving it." This. This all day every day. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Why is the pundit class so desperate to push Biden out of the race? | Rebecca Solnitwww.theguardian.com Yes, Biden had a bad debate – but so did Trump. The media is once again repeating the mistakes of 2016

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Yet again, we see the loudest yelps of “1776 BAYBEE!!!” from Christian Patriots who don’t know the first fucking thing about the history of the country over which they claim to have exclusive ownership. 2 out of 8 ain’t bad, I guess.

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Here's the thing: - IF Biden does not have a disqualifying condition(not old age) - IF Biden is up to campaigning and proving that debate an anomoly. - AND IF he can never prove it to the press... ...then somehow the press has turned a sitting president into an underdog. bsky.app/profile/miss...

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Now is the time for SOLIDARITY. If President Biden were going to stand aside, I'd support his successor. He says he won't. There's NO process that can force him to do so. Further attempts to force him to step aside increase the likelihood that Trump wins. I hope Biden knows what he's doing.

NEW: Biden tells Congressional Democrats he intends to stay in the race: "I am firmly committed to staying in this race, to running this race to the end, and to beating Donald Trump."

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Kyle Griffin: NEW: President Biden sends a letter to congressional Democrats with this message: "I am firmly committed to staying in this race, to running this race to the end, and to beating Donald Trump." "The voters — and the voters alone — decide the nominee of the Democratic Party."

Sorry to bring something over from The Bad Place, but the question I keep coming back to is, "Why haven't they found anything on Biden?" Everyone I have talked to says "His Debate was disqualifying, and you are irrational" Okay, where is the follow-up? What about the debate... x.com/jamisonfoser...

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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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The Fig Economy

The thing about Project 2025, too, is that the GOP is signaling, they’re SCREAMING, that it’s a point of weakness. They’re scared as shit that people broadly will see what they’re planning before they’ve taken power to do it.