Asawin Suebsaeng

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senior politics reporter @ Rolling Stone magazine // co-author of ‘Sinking in the Swamp’ // adjunct professor at the University of Cincinnati (go Bearcats 🐻 🐱) // volunteer at St. Vincent de Paul - Cincinnati // Rolling Stones obsessive

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The Fyre Fest Guy Is Connecting Trump With Rappers www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The Fyre Fest Guy Is Connecting Trump With Rapperswww.rollingstone.com Trump’s Justice Department sent Fyre Fest organizer Billy McFarland to jail. Now, he’s helping arrange Trump’s meetings with rappers, sources say.

this is Rolling Stone’s inside look at how Trump has been trying to recruit different rappers to meet with him, do events with him, maybe even endorse him for 2024. It’s a surprisingly broad effort and yes it does include the Fyre Fest guy, somehow

mad libs ass headline www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Read @enbrown.bsky.social ‘s latest: reason.com/2024/07/08/c...

California Democrats 'water down' sex trafficking bill. Good.reason.com The original version was overly punitive.

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Part of the issue here is small-town Mississippi police setting up illegal roadblocks in certain neighborhoods (you'll never guess which ones!). I wrote about similar cases in Madison County, MS several years ago reason.com/2019/10/04/a...

A Mississippi County Has Agreed To Stop Using Illegal Roadblocks in Black Neighborhoodsreason.com A 2017 <i>Reason</i> investigation found that black residents in Madison County felt under siege in their own neighborhoods.

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"according to a recording reviewed by The Post, Dobbins assured Hooker he would cover for him if Hooker killed 'in cold blood.' Dobbins used the n-word and a homophobic slur, bragged that he’d killed 13 people in his career," www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

She took on a small Mississippi town’s police. Then they arrested her.www.washingtonpost.com How civil rights lawyer Jill Collen Jefferson convinced the Justice Department to investigate allegedly racist and abusive policing in tiny Lexington, Miss.

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Every day there's another headline about Mississippi, I think back to the time I called it a "deeply messed up place" on Twitter (I think after news broke about a vicious cop gang), and a local editor was like, "uhhh miss me with that regional privilege."

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And it gives Gorman a moment. He was incompetent, but not an ass. He redeems himself.

ah yes the true face of the Republican base

fantastic piece by @ddayen.bsky.social about the many ways car dealerships rip people off prospect.org/power/2024-0...

Escape From the Boxprospect.org New technology and old tactics have made buying a car a death march of deception. Jase Patrick, who spent 15 years in the business, reveals the dealer secrets.

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fantastic piece by @ddayen.bsky.social about the many ways car dealerships rip people off prospect.org/power/2024-0...

Escape From the Boxprospect.org New technology and old tactics have made buying a car a death march of deception. Jase Patrick, who spent 15 years in the business, reveals the dealer secrets.

“My campaign is a disaster, Moe. I hate the public so much. If only they'd elect me… I'd make 'em pay. Oh, Moe, how do I make 'em like me?” — Homer Simpson.

Liberals keep being like, "If only those stupid leftists who I despise would form a coalition with us we'd wipe the floor with the far right" and I am begging you...

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This narrative has been pushed by heterodox types for years. It never made much sense.

Well, well, well. WELL. That whole “protests made cops feel bad so they all quit” narrative? Looks like it was mostly myth. Excited to read this paper by Ben Grunwald, who compiled a huge dataset on post-2020 police employment. Agg decline was 1%… and bigger local declines not tied to protests.

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Is there any lesson to be taken from the French moderate liberal and left earnestly trying to cooperate and help one another defeat a reactionary threat to democracy? Yes there is, until anyone one degree off from my personal political leanings pisses me off over anything, and I mean anything.

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After a series of strokes last year, the subject of this profile, a friend, was left with bad amnesia. He called last week to tell me that someone read the piece to him during his recovery, and it helped him begin to remember his life and identity. Probably the best feedback I've ever received.

Nashville Byline: The Music City Bakerwww.nashvillescene.com The long, curious life of songwriter-turned-baker Bobby John Henry

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“Britney Spears’ ex-husband stormed the Capitol” sounds like a joke North Koreans would make about America instead of a verifiable fact

Follow Mak, who’s covering this on the ground

Today: a chaotic scene, with the acrid smell of smoke drifting throughout the hospital grounds.

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Today: a chaotic scene, with the acrid smell of smoke drifting throughout the hospital grounds.

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In his photos from last week — delicate and full of brightness — you can see that the staff strive to create a safe, nurturing environment for the young ones. In times of blackouts and attacks, sometimes it is the small things that make huge differences: like vivid flowers to keep spirits high.

WOKE IT OUT WOMBATS

I knew i liked this show www.advocate.com/politics/okl...

Gay Characters in 'Wombats,' 'Clifford' 'Indoctrinate' Kids, Says Oklahoma Gov. After Vetoing Public TV Fundswww.advocate.com Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt tries to justify his veto of funding for the state's largest public TV operation.

What should we (including a two and a half year old) watch for family movie night tonight on the streaming services , earnest answers only plz.

the Vasquez death scene (“you always were an asshole, Gorman”) in ALIENS kicks so much ass, man

a political party loses elections to this

The governors of a dozen Republican-led states — AL, AK, FL, GA, IA, MS, OK, SC, SD, TX, UT, WY — opted out of a new federal food assistance program, leaving about 9.5 million students without the aid this summer

Republican-led states are blocking summer food benefits for hungry familieswww.usatoday.com Money for food is especially tight for families in a dozen states where Republican lawmakers declined to accept federal food assistance.

Still remarkable to me how well the movie WIDOWS handles the issues of race, poverty, class, crime, and corruption in the context of a heist-thriller

I have very well meaning, impressively educated liberal friends who think justices are abundantly principled and that laws are real, as opposed to what the blatantly obvious truth is which is: “a lawyer is someone who you can ask to get you somewhere, and they can find out a way to do it…”

These mistakes originalist justices are making aren’t about disputed interpretations of history, with evidence on both sides. They’re pulling quotes out of context to attribute ideas to founding figures that those figures adamantly opposed. (via @andycraig.bsky.social) reason.com/volokh/2024/...

The Supreme Court's Dubious Use of History in Department of State v. Munozreason.com Justice Amy Coney Barrett's majority opinion includes significant errors, and violates some of her own precepts against excessive reliance on questionable history.

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I once wrote a fact check of a Morgan Spurlock book. He included what he said was a direct quote from the FDA that aspartame causes cancer. I checked the footnote. An FDA newsletter did publish that claim — but *only to specifically refute it*. That’s basically how Barrett quotes Madison here.

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From this book: www.thedailybeast.com/a-top-wh-off... And if Trump returns to the West Wing get ready for way more of this kind of cartoonishly blatant corruption from him and the GOP elite

You heard Kathleen; www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/610242...

Sinking in the Swamp by Lachlan Markay, Asawin Suebsaeng: 9781984878571 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Bookswww.penguinrandomhouse.com An eyewitness account of Donald Trump's clown car of lieutenants and lackeys who have polluted the corridors of power with their unprecedented awfulness. Two of Washington's most meddlesome...

A Top WH Official, a Pentagon Lobbyist, and a ‘Pawn Star’ Tried to Enlist Trump in a West Wing Reality Showwww.thedailybeast.com The fact Cliff Sims was invited to a meeting by a White House rival was strange. Then came the reality-TV show pitch.

You heard Kathleen; www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/610242...

If that’s what got cut, I definitely want to read that book.

I do not have time to get into it all right now, but it involved asking where her coat was from and when she said it was made in France, he started rambling about how that is a relief, at least it wasn’t made in China, as he annoyingly and creepily close-talked and awkwardly grinned

A scene that got cut from my & @markay.bsky.social ‘s book that came out in 2020 just cuz there wasn’t really a place for it (I regret not shoving it in anyway) was a think tank lady gave me a vivid account of exactly what it was like to get hit on by Stephen Miller…

The nonchalant, straight faced way she described it to me for the first time, I admired her intestinal fortitude so much

God, that poor woman...