CJ Lemire

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Kinky ex-Brit. Associate member of Romancelandia. Red Sox fan. Remoaner. He/him

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This assumes incorrectly that the same rules apply to Trump as Biden. They never have, never will. It’s fine to want Biden to step aside. But assuming that this will be anything but a media disaster is…odd.

*Huey Lewis voice* 🎼🎶 That's the power of nope 🎵

The power of Nope keeps these assholes out of city councils, library boards, and school boards. The power of Nope stacks Attorneys General. The power of Nope shifts judges, sherriffs, congress reps, senators. and the power of Nope can be used to keep them on target between elections.

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Fight against daunting odds, because it’s the right thing to do, and because sometimes you win.

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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NYT says their performance on Threads today was an aberration, & not indicative of deeper problems they've had with social media. Unfortunately, that hasn't satisfied many observers whose concerns are growing louder. The stakes are too high. For the good of the news, the Times should step aside

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OH, a big result: Marine Le Pen's *sister* has LOST her bid to join Parliament. She led 40% to 26% in Round 1. Her left opponent won by 0.5%. (Macronist, who came in 3rd, initially said she wouldn't drop out but then changed her mind. Ended up blocking Le Pen.)

Dragonfly

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I mean if nothing else the argument is we can’t let England and France feel even better than us than they already do, amiright?

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Polish PM Donald Tusk: “In Paris enthusiasm, in Moscow disappointment, in Kyiv relief. Enough to be happy in Warsaw.”

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there are many reasons we need to win in the fall, but one of them is that i simply am not going to abide by letting both the brits and the french lecture us

*MACRON'S GROUP PROJECTED TO WIN MORE SEATS THAN FAR RIGHT *LEFT ALLIANCE SET FOR 170-215 SEATS IN FRENCH VOTE: ESTIMATES *LE PEN'S GROUP SET FOR 110-158 SEATS IN FRENCH VOTE: ESTIMATES *FRENCH LEFT SET FOR SHOCK ELECTION VICTORY, PROJECTIONS SHOW

I have no idea how true this is but it's delicious to contemplate.

Wow. @nytimes.com has closed their Threads account and left the platform after days of getting just shredded in the replies for their handling of Biden post debate. Now they're getting dog piled on Instagram for running from Threads.

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Shock follows shock! Exit poll puts Le Pen’s right wing National Rally in THIRD …behind the left wing NFP and Macron’s Ensemble.

Let's do the US next

Wow, it's weird how the media narrative of a far right populist wave keeps crashing against reality in every country that actually requires them to win a majority of votes to take power

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JUST IN: Polls closed in France. Exit polls show surprise: —Left coalition (New Popular Front) projected first. (!) —Far-right (RN) has lost its bid to take power. Anti-RN front appears to have worked very well. —No bloc close to majority. Follow this 🧵 for results and more:

"No this is John Bigbooté."

📞 is this john connor? u should like. idk. if u were cool with it… maybe like. tell me where u are and stuff?

THIS THIS THIS 10,000 TIMES THIS!

As a chem TA, one of the most valuable things I ever did with struggling students in office hours was have them narrate for me how they would solve a problem, and then figure out what it was they weren’t getting. That’s how you get the lightbulb moments.

See also: why algebra is called algebra ilm al-jabr wa'l-muqābala (the science of restoring what is missing and equating like with like)

casual reminder that fibonacci did not discover the fibonacci sequence... he was a merchant to north africa... he just brought the knowledge arabic mathmeticians had known for yeeeeeeears...

It will be interesting to see how Starmer manages the relationship with Burnham and the other regional mayors. Burnham especially could be a potential thorn in the government's side.

Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham has called on Keir Starmer to commit early to the Northern Powerhouse with a new Liverpool-Manchester railway (should extend to Leeds) and house building. The Northern Powerhouse, devised by economists, was one of the few good ideas the Tories supported.

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The French are world leaders at "The govt sucks, I'm voting for my ideal, no way I'll compromise, you compromise" (round 1) followed by "The only way to stop the far right? Ugh, fine." (round 2). Often a responsibility placed more on the left, but this time the center too, perhaps more. Let's see...

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the most democratic process is to chuck the two people who’ve been elected and let a few thousand insane nerds spend four days fighting on television

"You Get What You Give" by New Radicals

You have to pick a new national anthem for the US, but it has to be a song that plays at least once a week on your city's equivalent of Jack-FM (a sort of all-purpose "top 40 from 1970 to 2010" station, skewing rock but not averse to pop/R&B/etc.).

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The Telegraph is reporting that Blair bigwig Alan Milburn is going to be advising Wes Streeting on sorting out the NHS crisis. Milburn is a smart guy and he understands the NHS well.

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Headline: Trump's unhinged performance at debate leads to rising poll numbers for Biden.

Well, that's interesting. Maybe he's not as "doomed" as the New Orc Times has been claiming. www.businessinsider.com/biden-trump-...

Biden has actually narrowed the gap with Trump in key swing states despite his disastrous debate, new polling showswww.businessinsider.com A new Bloomberg News/Morning Consult swing-state poll shows Trump with a slim 47% to 45% lead over Biden. But the president remains in a tough spot.

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The real story is that ABC botched the interview, badgering Biden for 22 minutes to confess to his weaknesses, instead of asking him substantive policy questions so the public can see how he responds. What is Biden going to do about the SCOTUS immunity decision? Overturning the Chevron rule? 1/2

I have suspected for some time now that the EC might lean blue this cycle. There's nothing preordained about the recent Republican tilt.

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BREAKING: Aides report that Biden is increasingly showing signs of Irishness

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Even taking the current polling average as gospel Biden right now, today, is less than a standard polling error away from a repeat of the margin from 2020

It's amazing how confidently the media asserted that Biden's post debate polling was disastrous (including Stephanopoulos having an extended on air argument with Biden about it during yesterday's interview!) with basically zero evidence

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I'm sorry you're having 2020 buyer's remorse but I think we're just going to have to tape this thing back together, give 'er an oil change, and hope for the best

It will be Tugendhat if they're clever but I suspect they're not and will go for Badenoch.

Looks like the Tory leadership battle is coalescing around Tom Tugendhat for the liberal Conservatives and Kemi Badenoch for the headbangers. No interest in Braverman.

Welcome to the opposition benches

Sunak is now appointing his Shadow Cabinet. And Conservative MPs are bewildered that the media isn’t paying attention.