Jamison Foser

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Political consultant, media critic, and longtime Cassandra.
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"Several" = 4 = 1.8% = Post agenda. Even the crazy wing of the Republicans has more members.

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"The preliminary results upended widespread predictions of a clear victory for the National Rally," says the NYT just now. Wait, who made these predictions of a massive victory for the National Rally again? Oh yeah, these guys did:

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The thing about a bunch of malevolent nitwits spending the day hyperventilating about completely standard campaign advance work is that Donald Trump is trying to destroy American democracy and claim for himself unchecked power the likes of which we fought a revolution to escape.

LEFT: paragraph 10 RIGHT: the way this absolute hack turns routine advance work into a scandal

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One of the most powerful quotes I've seen about how this happens to a country and how this pivotal historical moment in America feels.

I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

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if you’re waiting for everyone around you to wake up, you’ll wait forever. this is how the people grinding our bones to make their bread WANT you to be. paralyzed, alienated & purposeless

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"Executive Time" fell out of the coverage of Donald Trump in the most incredible way. Nobody writing about his quest to become president again ever mentions the fact that he hated the job when he had it and he couldn't and wouldn't really do it!

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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Say what you will about the various Democratic party actors in the fight over whether Biden stays on the ticket, but I can understand all of their behavior much better than I can the journalists who are trying to write their way into the camps

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They say they want a revolutionwww.findinggravity.net Republicans on the Supreme Court insist America's Declaration of Independence was wrongly decided

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This week should make it clear that news media has a tremendous power to set agendas & direct attention. So it’s esp important to note the ways in which they frame themselves as a passive, agency-less entity. Isnt it curious that they do that any time they talk about the favorable coverage Rs get?

Strategic use of passive voice here from the New York Times. Why do Trump’s crazy rantings not also “become” prominent news stories? It’s a mystery.

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From @jamisonfoser.bsky.social: They say they want a revolution "America’s first revolution was against a king. Republicans want a second revolution to install one. They are threatening violence if they don’t get their way." www.findinggravity.net/p/they-say-t...

They say they want a revolutionwww.findinggravity.net Republicans on the Supreme Court insist America's Declaration of Independence was wrongly decided

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They say they want a revolutionwww.findinggravity.net Republicans on the Supreme Court insist America's Declaration of Independence was wrongly decided

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It's a choice to publish this ... on July 4.

Here it is, the dumbest thing you will read today www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/o...

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"Politics would be interesting again" is such a telling phrase, a sign that you're so insulated by money and power that it's all just entertainment for you.

Wild to watch horserace journalists suggest the most politically suicidal shit and pretend it's savvy. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Whatever you think about Biden, look at the New York Times. They are unabashedly cheerleading for him to drop out. We should never again think of the Times as a liberal or even a neutral paper. The NYT takes sides when they want to. When they don't take a side, that's a choice.

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Not the most terrifying thing but perhaps the most infuriating: every single thing we said about these fascist Republican fucks has been proved out and all the people who assured us that what is happening would never happen smoothly pivoted to yes it's happening but it will be fine.

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Just unfollowed someone so fast on the other site after they shared a post talmbout people being selfish for 'fearmongering' about Project 2025 in order to get people to vote Republicans' stated intentions are scary, but providing accurate info about them is not fearmongering! It's just the stakes!

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The answer to political anxiety is political organizing.

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Either the Democrats will run Biden, or he'll say he can't continue the campaign and Democrats will run Harris. Either is newsworthy, but neither is nearly as radical as running a pro-insurrection convicted felon with legal immunity he's eager to use.

I’ve been thinking about this 2016 thread a lot lately

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"Essentially, the Court in Trump v. United States is declaring the Constitution itself unconstitutional. Instead of properly starting with the Constitution’s text and structure, the Court has ended up repealing them."

i think akhil amar reed captures something very important, which is that the roberts court rewrote article ii, which explicitly states that a president can be held criminally liable after impeachment (and which has long been understood to mean that he can be held liable after leaving office)

Something Has Gone Deeply Wrong at the Supreme Courtwww.theatlantic.com Jurists who preach fidelity to the Constitution are making decisions that flatly contradict our founding document’s text and ideals.

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If you subscribe to a newsletter but later change your mind, just email the author and ask for a refund. Most of us will give you one. Really tired of people canceling by filing "fraud" disputes with their banks over a $6 charge. I get charged $15 for each dispute, whether I win or lose.

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He knows, and for him it's a feature not a bug

John Roberts pretends not to know what Donald Trump will do with the immunity Roberts just gave him just like John Roberts pretended not to know what Republicans would do when John Roberts gutted the Voting Rights Act.

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Trump is capitalizing on this moment, with help from the press Check out my newsletter--> the-looking-glass-1.ghost.io/beware-trump...

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A jury said the Republican nominee for president, the guy almost singularly responsible for ending Roe, raped a woman and then defamed her for years—a nine-minute story.

Day 6 of “Biden had a bad first half of debate” leading the Boston Globe Trump SCOTUS declaring the president is an all-powerful king is briefly summarized on page 2

John Roberts must be the most neurotypical person in existence because the immunity ruling reads like someone who has never had a single “but what if…???” anxiety spiral in his life

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constitutional lawyers use your fucking brain challenge www.politico.com/news/2024/07...

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Honestly still in shock that the most crooked American President in history said "I need immunity" and the GOP Supreme Court said "well, it's nowhere in the constitution, but sure, why not? Whats the worst that could happen?"

It is YOUR standard, you're the one posting it at me. Now that it's been made clear how dumb and dishonest it is you're trying to say "hey it's not me, it's just capitalism, so nobody should criticize it!" Which is kind of a weird stance for a self-described "Unapologetic Marxist socialist."

I just saw an interview from nine months ago with ProPublica where he was cogent and lucid. I don’t see any evidence he’s capable of that nearly a week after the debate, even though I’m sure he and his team KNOW it would be helpful. Finally, it’s not MY standard. It’s what sells papers.

I don't have a high degree of confidence in my assessment of who the Democratic Party should nominate this year, nor do I have a high degree of confidence in anyone else's assessment, which is part of why I'm staying out of that conversation.