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@chefesque.bsky.social

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Coastal media elite.

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If you're so concerned about the stakes of this election you could just... spend the next four months writing about the stakes of this election. A constant drip of articles calling the Democratic nominee unfit is also not a great strategy for winning!

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Wild to watch horserace journalists suggest the most politically suicidal shit and pretend it's savvy. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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This is almost word for word what I tell students. Even if you’ve been disillusioned by what’s happening at the state and federal level, you need to get out and shore up your local politics.

It's not going to come down to a president or red states or blue states. It's going to come down to electing mayors and city council members that are brave enough to say "you're going to need to send in the National Guard if you want that shit enforced here." This is why we vote.

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The MAGA movement will not be shamed by pointing out the basic features of a liberal pluralist democracy. They don't believe in any of it. They see it as a weakness, something that merely holds them back or slows their efforts to reshape their world.

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Today, the federal government put itself on the right side of history by seeking, for the 1st time, to establish the precedent that every worker in America has the right to shade, water & rest while working in temps that could kill them. -UFW President Teresa Romero www.politico.com/news/2024/07...

Biden to announce heat rules as climate-related deaths risewww.politico.com If finalized, they would be the first U.S. regulations to protect workers from dangerous temperatures.

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One thing I think people forget is how relentlessly *stupid* every day of the Trump administration was. He doesn’t need to do a big elaborate complicated conspiracy, he can just (e.g.) email a list of every U.S. agent in the field to Putin and say it’s to own the libs, and *that* will have immunity.

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it’s been a few days now and that “black jobs” thing is still all over my tiktok

People have been seeing a “funny,” harmless Trump interpolated through memes since 2021 and are now getting a reminder of what he is really about

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Continue to be bemused by the confident assertion from many media outlets and assorted elites that the way to preserve democracy is for the elites to get together and overrule democratic process

❌Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge, break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. ✅ In Verona, there were two families in the neighborhood that didn’t like each other.

❌ A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. ✅ This coalition will eventually fall apart, but we're good for now

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Re-up for the morning crowd.

To serve his country, Donald Trump should leave the race | Editorial Boardwww.inquirer.com Biden had a horrible night Thursday. But the debate about the debate is misplaced. The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump.

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a bag of potatoes wearing a candidate mask would ride "my opponent can't even get a liquor license in New Jersey" all the way to the White House. my cat, S'mores, who is absolutely not fit to govern, would run "my opponent can't get a liquor license in New Jersey" ads 24/7 on all three networks

Lol

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I threw out my favorite hat. I know it's a trivial thing. But I liked that hat. www.patreon.com/posts/107115...

A new hat | David M. Perrywww.patreon.com Get more from David M. Perry on Patreon

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Bringing back this 2016 banger: Hi! During the upheaval of your glorious revolution, I need to know what kind of healthcare you'll have in place. People who depend on steady supplies of lifesaving medication don't suddenly stop existing during a revolution.

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crickets on the whole “convicted rapist felon insurrectionist” thing, once again

The wise thinkers of the Times opinion department are handling this like WFAN callers after the Mets bullpen blows two out of three www.nytimes.com/2024/06/28/o...

Opinion | To Serve His Country, President Biden Should Leave the Racewww.nytimes.com The president’s inadequate performance in the debate made it clear he is not the man he was four years ago.

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I think @edburmila.bsky.social is right to point to the 0.7% response rates as one factor. But it’s also media coverage. Mainstream reporters simply do not treat Trump’s statements, plans, or behavior fairly. It’s why I lamented that death-threats-as-politics isn’t being treated as an emergency.

How is this possible? wapo.st/4eRjce6

Trump trusted more than Biden on democracy among key swing-state voterswapo.st A poll of swing-state voters shows that Americans rate threats to democracy as an important issue, but that the president has yet to convince them he is the one to defend it.

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This is a stupider result than just overturning it in its entirety, and the only lens to read it through is Roberts desperately not wanting a shitload of Republican induced chaos right before the election.

One tiny Chevron saving grace: "today's decision does not call into question prior cases that relied on the Chevron framework. The holdings of those cases that specific agency actions are lawful--including the Clean Air Act holding of Chevron itself--are still subject to statutory stare decisis"

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The right wing majority on scotus legalizes bribery and criminalizes homelessness because to them, rich people deserve rights and poor people deserve nothing. If they were deserving they’d be rich.

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They destroyed Aaron Swartz over downloading JSTOR articles that he was entitled to download, but sure, let's feed all of them to an LLM and create a "research assistant" from a technology who's worst skill is "repeating information accurately."

Nothing is sacred anymore.

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Yesterday I went on Twitter and saw someone say "Go back to Bluesky with all the rest of the former gifted kids" and wow just absolutely bodied

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This is why mask bans are suddenly being proposed. If you’re in a place where that’s happening and you think we should prioritize public and personal health and freedom over expanding the powers of the police state then please do let your representatives know why the freedom to mask matters to you

Cops don’t like them; makes it harder to use surveillance footage and facial recognition to arrest people (especially at protests).

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Tommy Robinson has been arrested in Canada for…checks notes…being an illegal immigrant. And I’ve only just repaired the Irony Klaxon.

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Serial killer on TV: - extremely smart - also, cunning like an animal - charismatic but cold ‐ troubled childhood - operatic sensibilities - can only be caught by the greatest detective Serial killer IRL: - just a cop - a regular cop - cops won't stop him because he is a cop

@riverkeeper.bsky.social about naming flies.

I’m organizing my dry fly boxes, and printing labels.

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Dear Reporters, If you’re interviewing a theocrat who says “all our laws are based on the Ten Commandments” and you don’t immediately ask them to provide evidence and examples for that laughably stupid claim, just go ahead and quit your job. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/21/u...

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Generative AI is almost completely worthless in a commercial art environment. It cannot do what any current commercial artist can do, and no matter how good you are at prompting, you will fail to produce anything usable. Every time. One word: decomposbility.

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I'm just a simple country political scientist but I'm pretty sure if any other major presidential candidate said this it'd be covered none stop for weeks and everyone would agree that their campaign was over

I’m organizing my dry fly boxes, and printing labels.