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Man i have been saying for a minute that voters everywhere are rejecting fascist shit and it’s only the media that makes us think otherwise, but it’s nice to see that in play right now

Watching reaction videos of French fascists losing the election is so energizing. Need that shit in my country in November.

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A get out the vote ad that just says “do you really want the FRENCH to beat us?”

Look how fun shutting down fascists is. I want this for us, too

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The thing about “European voters reject facism” applying to us is that Trump does indeed seem to have a pretty hard cap on his vote % in the mid 40s. You just gotta motivate everybody else to get out and vote against him!

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Sean

like, i’m voting for biden for survival, but i will not be screaming at people online for being disgusted about genocide. that’s not a great norm to be setting btw

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Sometimes my scroll gets it right.

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He's not allowed on the table when I'm eating but today there's chicken so he's trying a workaround.

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France's far right 'sad and disappointed' over election resultwww.bbc.com With the champagne on ice, they thought they were on the brink of victory - but it didn't happen.

Mike Caulfield

The US system has parties negotiate internally before the election, others have parties negotiate after the election. The US system passes the compromise to the voter, but neither case really gives you control of that process.

Le boo-hoo. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cllyq3lzvg8o

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Former Trump Staffer Reveals New Texts Alleging More Secret Payoffs and Settlementswww.mediaite.com A former staffer on Trump's 2016 campaign revealed texts claiming that the former president's 2020 campaign "settled multiple" sexual harassment lawsuits.

Seems bad

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NYT: New evidence shows the Trump campaign was raping everyone in sight, and illegally concealing the settlement payments. For the good of the country, Biden must drop out

Seems bad

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Kaitlin Has Had Enough

“you’ll get a seat at the table but you’ll never get to run it” is a helluva message

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The backlash from base voters who very explicitly demanded a Black woman as VP (and on the Court) as our “seat at the table” in exchange for our electoral organizing…whew, you are not prepared. But almost all of the white alternatives are, and it’s why they keep saying no.

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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Kaitlin Has Had Enough

well, for starters, the people pushing the loudest for Dems to pick someone other than Biden or Harris are the people who want Dems to lose

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Kaitlin Has Had Enough

I am losing my mind "stick with Biden or go with Harris" is the open question, anything else is absolute guaranteed disaster what do any of these people think they're doing

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Former Trump Staffer Shares Texts Revealing Secret Payoffsnewrepublic.com A new court filing alleges that Donald Trump’s campaign has paid to bury a number of lawsuits over sexual harassment and discrimination.

Joshua Foust 🪖🎮

I dunno, this seems like it is a relevant story to pursue and surface if we are REALLY debating presidential fitness through anonymously sourced news stories, only this isn’t anonymous. There’s a reason this has been ignored by the Post/NYT/etc. for the last four days and it’s isn’t civic virtue.

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I'd be happy to provide you a recipe for mayonnaise. Here's what you'll need.

ChatGPT, imagine you are a white boy. There is dancing and singing and moving to the grooving. Now, play that funky music.

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6/ Maybe Biden needs to go; maybe not. But of this I'm certain: the US elite political media needs to be radically transformed, with most of its current practitioners consigned to the Albany beat.* *Yes, I am that mean. /fin

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5/ All of which is to say that a 21st c. national campaign in the US is an enormous, complex organization that doesn't appear whole in weeks. Pundits seem to have stopped paying attention to the actual structure of US politics after watching Mr. Smith Goes to Washington...

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4/ Then there's the intellectual infrastructure of a national campaign: the policy shop, the informal college of expert advisors, the candidate themself, trained up on a host of issues that, say, a midwestern governor doesn't usually deal with, and so on...

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3/ Related: campaign organization. Biden/Harris has hundreds of offices open. Staff. Digital boiler rooms, etc. A non-Harris D doesn't just inherit that either. Not to mention to top organization...

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2/ One obvious one, going unmentioned (AFAIK) in every pundit thumbsucker about the mythical perfect candidate: ballot access. The landscape is more than complicated enough to admit unlimited R ratfucking. Another: campaign funds. Biden/Harris money doesn't readily flow to [D] candidate...

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Read Ezra Klein's latest on a "mini-primary" to replace Biden. It's not as terrible as many of his colleagues' takes, but 2 notes: 1: He takes as given that Biden is incapacitated. Maybe so; but Klein's MD is not in evidence. 2: It ignores the huge practical obstacles to anyone but Harris...1/

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I am not even sure how Administrative Law is going to be taught in the fall...my god, they have created a chaos in three short days.

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Postcards to Swing States - Progressive Turnout Projectwww.turnoutpac.org Voters who receive handwritten postcards are significantly more likely to vote. We proved it in 2020.

I just signed up to write postcards to get out the vote in swing states. You can, too! www.turnoutpac.org/postcards/

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hi, are you doomscrolling? Have you had something to eat today? How about water? Have you gone outside?

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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 ...

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.

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Kevin M. Kruse

I really wish the left (and I'm a leftist) would really fucking understand that you need to actually build shit from the ground up you need to put in the work. You can't expect shit to just happen. Also you can't expect that a 3rd party Pres would win (or would have meaningful power if they did)

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