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This is not my beautiful house. This is not my beautiful wife.

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This is an enormous scandal and reason for all academics to withhold labor from Taylor and Francis/Routledge

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It’s scandalous to me that academic journals charge enormous fees to read but don’t pay the authors. And now they’re exploiting them further. What a racket.

This is an enormous scandal and reason for all academics to withhold labor from Taylor and Francis/Routledge

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People pushed back when I argued last week that the NYT wants Trump to win.... saideman.blogspot.com/2024/07/all-...

I’m going to start with the absolutely jaw-dropping news that The New York Times deceptively edited a quote to make it appear that JD Vance opposes a national abortion ban. — @jessicavalenti.bsky.social

GOP Platform Author Admits There's a National Banjessica.substack.com 7.16.24

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A lot of people are choosing to look away right now in the face of something that is making Doctors Without Borders say things like this

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Since all policing is inherently political, the impunity the cops have mostly had in killing Black people is indeed political violence.

so the dude with full AK-47, ski mask, ammo, etc., gets arrested after approaching the RNC, but an unhoused Black man well away from even the vehicle perimeter for the RNC, all the way across a major highway, gets shot to death by five cops. got it.

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We have to figure out a simple way to say this.

The 14th Amendment rhetoric in relation to abortion is a way of obfuscating that they are going for a national and absolute ban on abortion and contraception. We have to make this explicit, because the reporters sure aren't.

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*News* - There was an assassination attempt against the former president. - Tonnes of violent and dark rhetoric from the RNC - The GOP VP pick has been chosen; he’s a full-blown Christian nationalist. - Unarmed Black man was murdered by cops *NYT* - Yes, but Biden is old

Here's their newsletter this morning

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JD Vance opposes the Biden Admin rule barring law enforcement from having access to your medical records about reproductive health (menstrual cycles, endometriosis, miscarriages, pregnancy, etc.) so that state laws limiting abortion and/or contraception can be enforced against you!

JD Vance, Menstrual Surveillance Hawktalkingpointsmemo.com This Spring HHS finalized new regulations under HIPAA to limit law enforcement...

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GOP Platform Author Admits There's a National Banjessica.substack.com 7.16.24

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love it

Senate Dems should take one of their assorted gun control bills off the shelf, rename it something like "Trump Assassination Prevention Act," and force Rs to do a talking filibuster to block it

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The Secret Service missing this post assassination attempt press conference, and the FBI going ahead with it without them, is one of the most striking instances of federal law endorcement dysfunction since that time no law enforcement agency held a press conference after Jan 6 for like two weeks.

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WTF are you smoking, BBC?

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This is how you do it.

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We've been watching kids get slaughtered in school with guns, I fear every goddamn day I drop my kid off at Kindergarten. WTF are you talking about, assholes?

WTF are you smoking, BBC?

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Look obviously the Biden team shouldn’t intimate that it’s alright for people to shoot at Trump, but I don’t think it’s a bad idea to come out in force and say “this is what happens when you a dedicate your political career to normalizing political violence. This is the world Trump wanted.”

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Getting increasingly pissed off by various politicians "distraught" today. This is America, where every day we wonder if this when someone we love gets mowed down by a shooter. Pretending to be shocked just shows you don't get it. Trump has a Secret Service detail to protect him. My kids don't.

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Two months ago Greg Abbott pardoned a murderer who texted a friend "I might go to Dallas to shoot looters" then drove into a BLM protest in Austin and killed a protester. The universal response from conservatives to the pardon was "Yeah! Woo-hoo!" Now they say liberals should turn down the rhetoric

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Joshua J. Friedman

President Biden, standing with VP Harris and AG Garland, calls for unity, asks people not to jump to conclusions about the shooter's motives, says other expected but appropriate things. (He spoke for about 3 min.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHFi...

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it's important for outlets to explain that when we talk about AI "posing a threat to humanity," we're talking about the rushed implementation of half-cooked automation killing your grandma with an auto-rejection of her medicare claims, not sentient industrialized planet-scouring murderbots (for now)

UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit allegesarstechnica.com For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.

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An important reminder: Trump is the one often invoked in attacks — not the subject of attacks. 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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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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They are promising to kill you if they get power and promising to take power in a coup if they can't win a vote.

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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“The fact that the press — which spent 2016 obsessed with Hillary’s emails — is now singularly focused on the ‘risks’ posed by Biden is a symptom of a civil ailment that has left us at risk of being overcome by the disease that is Trump’s neo-fascism.”

Where are the Radical Republicans when we need them?www.publicnotice.co America once understood the necessity of uniting against existential threats.

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YOOOOOO HELL YEAH. PEOPLE MAGAZINE? You know the normies gonna know now. Excellent news. They even talk about Christian Nationalism!

PEOPLE Magazine! What Is Project 2025? Inside the Far-Right Plan Threatening Everything from the Word 'Gender' to Public Education people.com/what-is-proj...

What Is Project 2025? Inside the Far-Right Plan Threatening Everything from the Word 'Gender' to Public Educationpeople.com Donald Trump's far-right allies created Project 2025 as a blueprint for his possible second term. The controversial plan would push a Christian nationalist agenda that dramatically reshapes the U.S. g...

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As President, Trump told regulators to block the AT&T-Time Warner merger because he disliked CNN coverage. So what is the head of CNN willing to provide Trump for his stated goal of more media consolidation?

Today's newsletter is about how David Zaslav (CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, the parent company of CNN) effectively endorsed Donald Trump (without actually saying Trump's name) www.readtpa.com/p/warner-bro...

Warner Bros. Discovery CEO Endorsed Donald Trump Without Endorsing Donald Trumpwww.readtpa.com Let's get real about what the head of CNN's parent company meant in his Sun Valley Conference remarks.

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Biden accidentally called Zelensky Putin. Donald Trump met with Viktor Orban to bring him a message FROM Putin. Which is worse?

Breaking News: Donald Trump is expected to meet with Hungary’s right-wing leader, Viktor Orban, in Florida on Thursday, days after Orban met Vladimir Putin in Russia.

Trump Is Expected to Meet With Orban, Hungary’s Prime Minister, in Floridawww.nytimes.com The meeting would come after Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who has long been aligned with the former president, made unexpected trips to China, Russia and Ukraine.

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idk what the right thing to do is but it's pretty telling to me that the people in politics who I respect like AOC and Bernie are saying "we gotta make sure the leaky rowboat doesn't sink" and the people drilling holes in the bottom are like, Scott Peters

Like my feeling since Biden wrapped up the nomination has been that Biden is a leaky rowboat we've all been crammed into, and while being on a leaky rowboat sucks I'm rooting for it not to sink and annoyed at the other people on the boat who are seemingly determined to drill more holes in it.

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I don't think this is nothing per se, any of this signaling is damaging, but I do think there's something to the idea two of these Congressmen who added themselves to this list tonight are a former VP of Goldman Sachs and a former comms director for a hospital conglomerate.

For those of you keeping score, three more members of Congress and Michael Stipe have asked Joe Biden to withdraw from the campaign tonight