Retiredlibrarian

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The number of people Trump says he'll deport keeps going up. It's now 20 million, 50% higher than the largest estimates of the undocumented population. It's clear sign that distinguishing legal from illegal won't be a priority. They're just going to round up people they don't want to be here.

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Our political process is capable of producing exactly two policy outcomes: cut taxes and shower cops with money. Not hard to figure out where this one ends!

NEW: WaPo reports that Secret Service relied heavily on local police at the Trump rally to fill out significant parts of its typical array of specialized protective units (gift link) wapo.st/3WjPF5w

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"I am planing to build a city on Mars!" - guy who makes a truck you can't leave outside when it rains

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NEW: Judge Lane dismisses Rudy Giuliani's bankruptcy case with a 1-year bar to refiling, allowing Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss to begin going after his assets ecf.nysb.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

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Declaring people to be vermin, enemies of the state, or un-human is the sort of language people adopt before they pursue a genocide.

“We will hold investigations to identify the neo-cultural Marxists in seats of power all across Washington,” Posobiec said. “We don’t negotiate with un-humans. Because that’s the stakes of this battle: humanity versus un-humanity.” inthesetimes.com/article/nati...

Onward, Christian Soldiers—To War!inthesetimes.com At this year’s National Conservatism Conference, a right-wing army prepares to rise.

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Just to be clear, the current NYT home page is 4 stories about Biden's age, plus another editorial board urging him to withdraw, plus about how Trump is moderating the GOP on abortion.

Meanwhile, Trump, the person who has boasted about ending Roe, and whose appointees will seek to use executive authority to make abortion pills illegal to distribute, is a moderate on abortion per the NYT.

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I have a piece in The NYT this morning. When a Minneapolis suburb hired a Black chief and assistant chief, over half the department quit. Yet the world didn’t end. When cops would rather quit than respect the wishes of the communities they serve, maybe it’s okay to let them go.

Opinion | Half the Police Force Quit. Crime Dropped.www.nytimes.com The charming town has a powerful tale to tell.

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Left-wing parties banded together in France, even though they disagree over many policies, to push down the fascist right-wingers and keep them from power. It's a template of sorts for what we should do come November.

BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.

Projections in France's election show voters rejecting the far rightwww.npr.org Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which ...

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Taraji P. Henson did a huge public service calling out Project 2025. Earlier today, Kevin Roberts, chair of Project 2025, threatened violence: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be." It's Christofascism. Make no mistake.

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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really cannot emphasize enough how plainly all this proves that the first priority of the next Democratic administration needs to be democracy reform --filibuster --electoral college --court reform --dc and pr statehood --new voting rights act --gerrymandering

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Micah

“democrats have to win every election forever” is not a sustainable solution and it is quite literally the one we are facing unless we break the power of this court

The electoral problem has become, as the IRA gloated to Thatcher, that the GOP only needs to get lucky once and the Democrats need to be lucky forever. Either they’re going to do something about the court - now, not eventually - or we will simply play iterations of this game until the GOP wins.

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The reason pundits like the contested convention thing is that it plays to their vanities: what if the smart people made a meritocratic decision about who’s best? This is driven, in part, by being mostly isolated from negative reactions to their opinions over the years.

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Carl Gibson 🍉

The road to every national media (and way too many other “national” level jobs) requires more than a year of full-time, unpaid internships in a major city. Our meritocratic cultural institutions literally recruit on the Anatole France version of “Our doors are open to anyone.”

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Don't fall for the trap. If Democrats listen to the New York Times and try to replace Biden, the New York Times will have a new narrative: Democrats in chaos. And they will then have 347 stories a week about whoever is the candidate, all focused on how inexperienced and unprepared that person is.

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To every “Democratic strategist” rushing to WaPo, MSNBC etc. to anonymously say Biden should be replaced: you are worse than useless and you suck at your job. Trashing the candidate to the media is feckless and, dare I say, an absurdly stupid strategy for Democrats. STFU.

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The Democratic Party’s reaction to their candidate having a bad debate substantially outpaces the Republican Party’s reaction to their candidate being convicted of multiple felonies, held liable for rape, and owing judgments in the hundreds of millions for defamation and fraud.

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Barb Cummings

Coalition politics mean that you’re not gonna be absolute snuggle bunnies with everyone tugging the rope in the same direction as you. 🤷🏼‍♀️

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Adam Serwer

"Her personality is gone, even a tomboy is not that flat" is a hell of a tell.

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Describing Christian Nationalism as simply “Christian” is a baffling editorial choice but certainly one Christian Nationalists would approve of

Who could have guessed that a white supremacist martyr was in fact wildly exaggerating and working a grift? That will NEVER happen again.

Hmmm...

Maybe the first white conservative martyr who became a hero by being too good to do their job.

Today in there’s nothing new under the sun: In 1903 a white hotel worker became a right wing celebrity for being fired after refusing to make booker t washington’s bed because he was black and a bunch of people around the country raised thousands of dollars on her behalf

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Sounds to me like disinfo planted to let Trump claim he's beleaguered from the Right as well as the Left. In other words: Weaponized bullshit.

Trump campaign seeks to head off convention revolt from its right flank - The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Trump campaign seeks to head off convention revolt from its right flankwww.washingtonpost.com Aides scrambled to foil a suspected plot to throw the nominating process into chaos as suspicions abound about potentially disloyal delegates

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Pwnallthethings

The founders would have understood it as treason, and would resort to war against someone who attempted it, and punish it with hanging. Other countries would prosecute it as treason. That is what it is. Folks should be clear eyed on it.

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The legislature doesn't have a role in deciding the election. The voters do. Any legislator who attempts to overturn the election result should be arrested.

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A serious attempt by legislators or a candidate to invalidate a plainly valid election to install someone who plainly lost the election as president is not a "legal hack" or "finalizing results". It is treason. It is a treason against the United States and its citizens. We shouldn't dance around it.

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Justin Noormand

The one thing about Americans I don't know how we go about untangling is the sheer number of us who will turn down a material benefit to ourselves if we find out that guy over there will get it too.

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Everyone’s a death penalty abolitionist until their neighbor across the street starts up the leaf blower at 8am

Everyone’s a death penalty abolitionist until four strangers in a confined public space are watching something on their phones at full volume