Chris Klay

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Weird, I'm not finding the "GOP about to nominate convicted felon, adjudicated rapist and serial fraud who is holding a US reporter hostage with Putin" headline.

current NYT homepage news headlines about Trump

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Linda McMahon, who just spoke, features prominently in the tale of the WWE's child-rape scandal:

An excerpt from RINGMASTER about the pedophile ring that Vince McMahon allowed to thrive at the WWF:

‘Abuse, Grooming, Drugs, and Sexual Coercion’: The Scandal Wrestling Buriedwww.rollingstone.com An excerpt from Abraham Josephine Riesman's new book tells the story of Tom Cole, the WWF ring boy.

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Live your life so that when you go people talk about you the way they are about Bob Newhart but not the way they are about Lou Dobbs.

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Lol the RNC is DDOSing grindr

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Most of the Project 2025 agenda can be split into two categories: 1: Stuff like the anti-immigrant and anti-LGBTQ+ proposals that will intentionally get people killed. 2: Stuff like the "defund NOAA and privatize weather services" proposals that will unintentionally get people killed.

They have such winning ideas like “why don’t we charge people who want to know if that tornado is gonna hit their house.”

The MAGA Plan to End Free Weather Reportswww.theatlantic.com Project 2025 would all but dissolve the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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This is positively North Korean

"We still don't know what puppet Democrat bosses will install as their nominee," says venture capitalist David Sacks. #RNC

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Jesus fucking Christ. We have active shooter drills for grade schoolers.

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Good work -- actual journalism -- from ABC News. h/t Joy Reid 'No Blame?' ABC News finds 54 cases invoking 'Trump' in connection with violence, threats, alleged assaults. abcnews.go.com/Politics/bla...

'No Blame?' ABC News finds 54 cases invoking 'Trump' in connection with violence, threats, alleged assaults.abcnews.go.com President Donald Trump insists he deserves no blame for divisions in America.

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Yes, requests for non-fascists to "lower the temperature" is just a nicer way of putting the Heritage Foundation's statement that the revolution will remain bloodless if liberals allow it. It's a demand for acquiescence to the conditions of violence they created.

Seen a lot of comments like “hey Americans who support democracy, oppose political violence, and value truth, we have to take the temperature down,” and while well-intentioned, I don’t think it’ll work, because they’re not the ones raising the temperature.

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How quickly they forget.

Dripping in irony.

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The mass deportation scheme is probably the most immediately scary part of Trump 2025. It’s not just the just the forcible deportation of millions of people and accompanying family disruption That’s bad enough. Nor is the let’s-see-what-pulling-this-lever-does-hurr economic recklessness./1

Full quote from ex-ICE director Tom Homan: "Trump comes back in January... I will run the biggest deportation force this country has ever seen. They ain’t seen shit yet. Wait until 2025.” Tonight in Florida Trump pledged to bring Homan back. Homan, BTW, is a listed Project 2025 contributor.

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Kang says that media are weakened and that's what makes it easy for Trump and now Biden alike to attack them. I say what it shows is that as media realize they have lost the agenda, their response is to shout louder and more often. That is what we see every day in the @NYTimes. 2/

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This. It's not an exaggeration. Every legal argument that is being used to justify the claim that the state should be able to restrict access to gender-affirming care would apply in principle to a nearly limitless number of other areas of medicine.

nobody has bodily autonomy if we don't all have it.

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The Quiet New Deal is working

American employees continue record job-security streak, with 1.0% of employees fired. In the two decades of pre-pandemic data, lowest % of employees fired in a month was 1.1%, happened in 2% of months. Since Jan'21, firing rate at or below 1.1% in 95% of months, including entire last year.

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It's no coincidence that the Jefferson Memorial, a creation of the New Deal, chose to highlight this particularly apt quote from Jefferson.

A lot of it has faded, to be sure. But this, by Jefferson--standing tall, inscribed in his memorial--speaks down through the ages, and inviting a nation that needs to hear it, to choose a better future for itself, unshackled by any laws or institutions that fail to move us forward to a better future

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what if - instead of attempting to ban porn and end internet anonymity in the name of “protecting children” - we actually protected them by making sure they have enough to eat

Meanwhile eight states, seven Democratic trifectas (CA, CO, MA, ME, MI, MN, NM) and Vermont, took a lesson from the pandemic and made universal free school meals permanent.

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Fascists want you to roll over and not exercise your rights. And one of those rights is to vote. Use it, protect it, fight for it.

So voting is better than *not* voting when it comes to getting what you want? Huh.

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This and there would be consequences from voters of color

by choosing anyone other than harris to replace biden should he decide to step aside, the party would be revealing they very cynically chose her as veep for optics without believing she could actually be president.

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If Project 2025 were just the Trump Bible version of the GOP platform, that would be bad enough. But it also includes the answer for why Trump will be a dictator this time: He's going to replace the government with book-banning MAGA swingers who sleep with their AR-15s and framed Rothbard photos.

Trump’s Second Term: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)www.youtube.com John Oliver discusses Donald Trump’s plans for a second term, why it could be much worse than his first term, and what Trump has in common with a hamster. Co...

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One of the most powerful quotes I've seen about how this happens to a country and how this pivotal historical moment in America feels.

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:

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Sure. Let's talk about how all of Trump's flunkies dressed up in a Trump costume when they attacked rule of law at the courthouse.

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Project 2025 is a nearly 1000-page step-by-step playbook that would turn America into an authoritarian nightmare and shred our freedoms. Trump can try to distance himself from it but it was put together by more than 20 officials he appointed in his first term. Don't be fooled.

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If they’re comfortable killing other people, they will eventually be comfortable killing you. You can learn that lesson the easy way or the hard way.

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This is useful! Post it on your parents Facebook feed! I'm serious. This is the kind of shit they'll share!

For the people who don’t have time, here’s your Readers Digest version. You’re welcome.

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Me, I’ve been dropping relevant Project 2025 rundowns in any story I can (there’s a lot). My analysis, reading across sections of the “Mandate” document, of Project 2025’s vision of straight white patriarchal power was pub’d in February: newrepublic.com/article/1788...

There are many things that infuriate me about the pundit class right now, but probably one of the top on my list: Project 2025 has posted their plans for every single federal department on their website. They have a training academy for prospective appointees. Where are the hard hitting op-eds?

Conservatives Plan to Ban Abortion and Cut LGBT Rights Starting Next Januarynewrepublic.com Project 2025’s 180-Day Playbook is a remarkably detailed guide to turning the United States into a fascist’s paradise.

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Seems like there should be a national conversation about whether the GOP should be nominating a convicted felon, an adjudicated rapist and a guy whose led his party into three electoral drubbings. But nope, press don’t want that.

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Who knew Hamilton was a prophecy?

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Nobody’s mentioned this, so I guess I will: Thomas wrote a separate concurrence just to note Jack Smith was illegally appointed, a question nobody asked.

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March 23 1933, the Enabling Act becomes law in Germany, giving the chief executive power enforce his own laws without checks and balances. The passing of the Act marked the formal transition from democratic republic to totalitarian dictatorship. 6 months later, it was a 1 party state.