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I know 2024 has been accused of having terrible writing but having the UK election on July 4th and the US election on November 5th seems a bit on the nose.

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Netanyahu would sooner kill every last Israeli hostage with his own two hands than end the Gaza Nakba.

In its latest Gaza cease-fire proposal, Hamas wants assurances that Israel won’t restart the war after some hostages come home, according to two senior officials from countries involved in the negotiations. Israeli negotiators immediately rejected that demand, the officials said.

Hamas’s Cease-Fire Proposal Includes a Familiar Sticking Pointnyti.ms Hamas wants assurances that Israel won’t restart the war after some hostages come home. Israel says it needs the option.

Maybe having civilization in all its iterations be based around narcissism cults at the centers of power was not such a great idea after all

They truly hate that their job involves anything meaningful at all. Would rather it just be gossip with extreme social consequences. If Trump arrests real journalists they'll be so happy to be snide to each other how people whose work they were jealous of deserved what they got.

American "politics" reporters, boy, I dunno

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Just have to note that the black commentators I’ve seen on the Biden issue have some of the sanest takes by far.

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Like, yes, ok, the media owns some of this. But also ... if you have a campaign, literally any of those are gigaquake events to change the tide and frame what you're going to do and take that message to the voters, and how exactly is it the campaign can't capitalize on it? That's the issue

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This week SCOTUS killed Chevron deference, gave Trump total immunity, and Trump was credibly tied to Epstein, and it seems to me if your campaign somehow seriously can't find a way to then change the topic of conversation in the newspapers or stop your party panicking, what are we doing here exactly

The United States, 2024: A world where everyone's short term incentives are overwhelming, unavoidable, and deeply wrong.

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My latest newsletter is about how precarious content on the internet truly is. www.readtpa.com/p/i-want-my-...

I Want My MTV (News Archives)www.readtpa.com After Paramount pulled the MTV News website, the Internet Archive came through in a big way — but shouldn't have to.

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Wow amazing how the Saudis keep showing up in these stories where they offer illegal support to far right politicians.

Brazil's Bolsonaro indicted for alleged money laundering for undeclared diamonds from Saudi Arabia

Brazil's Bolsonaro indicted for alleged money laundering for undeclared diamonds from Saudi Arabiaapnews.com The indictment of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro for money laundering and criminal association in connection with undeclared diamonds from Saudi Arabia marked the far-right leader’s second formal accusation with more potentially in store.

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also "if/when you lose, there's no lame duck season, the next guy arrives tomorrow at 10am" is a big UK W vs the US system, we should totes get rid of that

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Free idea for Biden: drop a court packing plan right now and that’ll change the conversation REAL quick

wapo.st/4cL9VSL Gift article: Tribe said he would like to see Biden & other Dems make a renewed push to expand the number of justices on the court, a liberal demand that Biden agreed to study but has not embraced. “If he wins the forthcoming election, I will be pressing him to [expand the court]"

Analysis | Democrats revive SCOTUS overhaul ideas in wake of immunity rulingwapo.st In today’s edition … AFSCME union stands by Biden, for now … Biden to meet with governors as criticism grows.

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Bush v. Gore was one of the many huge tipping points where Republicans realized that the "opposition party" would simply roll over and take it and that they could do so much more.

Where we're at now: Everybody go vote and hope these fascists don't overturn it on equally specious grounds.... And I keep coming back to Bush v Gore. That never should've been tolerated, but nobody had the guts to stand up to them. Seems like exhibit A in "how we got here." Such a bad scene.

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when we say a second Trump term will be the end of meaningful elections in America, we mean it

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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aight. time to put in work.

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Now is a great time to download and learn how to use Signal.

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I spent a summer in Beijing a couple of years after Tiananmen. Most of the people I interacted with seemed fairly happy. Also, they held a mass execution in a soccer stadium and who the hell knows if they were guilty or just pissed off the wrong people.

life under authoritarian regimes is like war: most Americans don’t know that it’s often really normal and boring, up until the rarer, horrible moments when it isn’t

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Had we listened to Anita Hill, we wouldn't be here today. Had we listened to the women sexually abused by Trump, we wouldn't be here today. Had we listened to Christine Blasey Ford, we wouldn't be here today.

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with all due respect, which is none, & with a full understanding that “congress will not save us from this” may very well be right, rolling over right now is pathetic. you could try doing literally anything else unless you’re busy building your militia but leftist. get offline. do something. try.

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a thing to remember, in all of this horror, is that these are not the actions of a political party that is confident it represents the will of the people, and who is currently out of power and enslaved to a deeply flawed avatar. the struggle is not over and they have not won

Shorter Supreme Court, in all circumstances: IOKIYAR. That's the whole ducking thing.

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"Most of the campaign’s significant war chest would fall to Vice President Kamala Harris, Chavez Rodriguez said, according to two people familiar with the discussion. Only a smaller pool of money would be kept by the Democratic National Committee."

Whew. Biden campaign manager insists he won’t step down, but is nevertheless walking donors through mechanics of how that would work. Call also discussed who would replace him; and even fielded some requests for refunds. Good lord.

Biden's family urges him to 'keep fighting' as donors look for alternativeswww.nbcnews.com A top campaign official held a tense call with donors Sunday, laying out what would happen to the campaign infrastructure should Biden step aside — stressing he had no plans to do so.

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I had a few more discussions today with people about how I plan to explicitly not vote for Biden. Lots of respectful conversations about it. Totally get how people can come to different conclusions. But there has been so much transparent lying these past 72 hours. It’s scary and sad.

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when elites have total impunity, people think the system is broken when people think the system is broken, they support more extremist groups when the extremist groups come to power, well...

Not making any threats here, just thinking out loud as a historian — do they people brazenly pushing for impunity for the wealthy elites not know what traditionally comes next?

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More people need to internalize the shit out of the concept that the bulk of the institution that is The News is absolutely Not On Their Side and adjust expectations (and tactics) accordingly.

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Dying empire summer

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I do think media coverage matters and the disaster last night probably made some of it worse, but we were already in a crisis of normal people encountering journalists who openly long for Trump’s return, hate Biden, and twist their coverage to match. This is a media crisis, not a Biden crisis.

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"fuck it, let's roll" - sisyphus, all day every day

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I wrote about Snyder v US, and how the Supreme Court yesterday legalized vast swaths of corruption for state and local officials of the kind that just happens to look a lot like their own personal conduct. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The US supreme court just basically legalized bribery | Moira Doneganwww.theguardian.com By sheer coincidence, this ruling concerns the sort of generous ‘gifts’ and ‘gratuities’ that justices have been known to accept

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I am so unimpressed by the liberals on the court. If they really wanted to do something about these out of control nuts, they would stop writing angry opinions, hold a press conference, and just tell the world “this is bullshit and you shouldn’t listen to a word these fascists say”.