Dan Festa

@danfesta.bsky.social

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I've been stretching my mouth to let those big words come right out

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one of the most dishonest things people in my profession do is pretend as if “the story” and “the narrative” isn’t something they have direct control over

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The discourse around biden needing more sleep is fully insane. Does no one remember "Executive Time," the thing Trump spent the majority(!) of his schedule on where he would just watch TV and tweet? Dude was categorically unable to fulfill any of the demands of the office and the press barely cared

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Don Moynihan

Lmao they just changed the title of the piece from “Why I don’t vote” to “Why I won’t vote” rather than tell readers that the guy actually does vote

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16 million more people with health care coverage Significantly lower health care expenses for seniors 700 million-some free Covid tests sent through the mail The most pro-union NLRB general counsel in history People convicted of domestic violence now banned from owning guns and so on

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Correct. A prudent, law-abiding President who appoints qualified agency personnel to enact thoughtful regulations is going to see their agenda inevitably fail. A malicious, arbitrary President who runs around barking illegal commands at people will be rewarded.

So based on decisions from just this week, the President, as long has he has the gloss of officialdom, can basically do anything without legal restraint, whereas the President, acting via duly appointed agencies authorized by Congress, is more restrained than ever? What a coherent jurisprudence!

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The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter

we can keep them out of power and wrest this away from them, and we must

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a thing to remember, in all of this horror, is that these are not the actions of a political party that is confident it represents the will of the people, and who is currently out of power and enslaved to a deeply flawed avatar. the struggle is not over and they have not won

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NYT: Joe should quit, he stutters Philly Inquirer: Trump is a fucking criminal what the fuck are we doing here

God Bless Paul Davies and the @PhillyInquirer: "The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump...There was only one person at the debate who does not deserve to be running for president. The sooner Trump exits the stage, the better off the country will be."

To serve his country, Donald Trump should leave the race | Editorial Boardwww.inquirer.com Biden had a horrible night Thursday. But the debate about the debate is misplaced. The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump.

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we live in an age in which we have near limitless storage for data. unfortunately at this time we must erase all works of culture to make room for the infinite sea of machine slop

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Working on a crank idea that machines need to feel more like machines. When you run a car with an iPad you don't appreciate that actually it's more than a ton of metal that can kill somebody if you aren't careful.

Love to use the computer. Use one all the time. Probably too much. But the computer... doesn't belong in cars. Touchscreens in the car; operating systems I have to interact with — unnecessary, unwanted, a liability

@davidjroth.bsky.social Holy shit I know when you’ve described Trump guys in the past there’s a lot of truth but it’s also somewhat of a caricature but fuck he’s actually real www.tampabay.com/news/crime/2...

Tampa dentist arrested after making more than 100 online threats, FBI sayswww.tampabay.com Federal investigators said Richard Kantwill sent hundreds of online messages threatening injury or death, even after he was told to stop.

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Kendrick Lamar teaches us that, in public debate, refuting your opponent's arguments point by point is less effective than identifying your opponent's single greatest weakness and maintaining message discipline.

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it used to be having to come up with a new five-year plan every few years to paint over your previous one's failure was an indicator of the incompetent rule of a paranoid freak and it still is

Henry Ford indeed

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Something I think is underappreciated is how successful the right has made any form of taxation into an omnipresent evil for all businesspeople. They fear taxes more than fascism, racism, anti-immigration, or even Trump funneling their money into his legal problems.

"Why is the business community backing Trump?"

French businesses court Marine Le Pen after taking fright at left’s policieswww.ft.com Corporate leaders are more alarmed by leftwing alliance’s radical tax agenda than unfunded promises of far-right RN

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Karl Bode

a side hello to the libertarian think tankers covertly on corporate payrolls who spent the last 40+ years working tirelessly to destroy all meaningful regulatory oversight under the pretense they were crafting Utopia, yet will face zero reputational impact once the bodies start dropping

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21 years ago Joe had a simple question

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Another way to put this is that we could ask people who voted for FDR four times how they feel about politicians who try to dismantle any form of government assistance

JD Vance on D-Day: "Ask the Greatest Generation what they feel about sex changes for minors."

Aaron Rupar (@aaron.rupar) on Threadswww.threads.net JD Vance on D-Day: "Ask the Greatest Generation what they feel about sex changes for minors."

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The Federalist Society is the most effective anti-American militia in the country. Since they wear ties instead of camo, no one in mainstream media has noticed.

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Then an Uber driver SUCKED me OFF!?

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[email protected] shows how something very basic is done: A context ¶ describing the crimes that Trump was convicted of. Tons of reports on political response simply ignoring what the crime are -- real basic Who What When Where Why failure. www.huffpost.com/entry/after-...

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Alito and Roberts: We are august impartial jurists, how dare you question us or accuse us of partisanship Johnson: I talk to our guys on the court all the time, they’ll fix this whole trump conviction thing www.axios.com/2024/05/31/m...

Speaker Mike Johnson urges Supreme Court to "step in" on Trump verdictwww.axios.com Johnson said of the justices: "I know many of them personally – I think they are deeply concerned about that as we are."

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Stuart Stevens: Just to recap: Donald Trump is a felon. He joins his campaign manager, deputy campaign manager, national security advisor, foreign policy advisor, political consultant, and personal lawyer as felons.

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34 COUNTS???!

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The online discourse on the Biden economy has some supposed “leftists” sounding like Andrew Mellon.

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A thought I had earlier that I hate enough to share is that most of "Losing My Edge" works in a Trump voice, and that effectively all of the "I was there" parts are basically note-for-note Trump stuff. He was there when Captain Beefheart started up his first band, but he was very nasty to "Trump."

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The emerging Alito doctrine

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Kurt Andersen

Really damning stuff. “Society was best before I knew what was going on” and “Culture was best when I first started paying attention.” Those dorks need to grow up and adjust to reality

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It sure would be comical if Samuel Alito had recently published an opinion in which he expressed strong feelings about flags and wrote that passersby viewing a flag flying over a building would naturally assume the flag conveys some message on the owner's behalf www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21p...