Dan Ancona

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Standing athwart history yelling, WTF. Don Draper-tier ad writer. (minus the misogyny and most of the deeply internalized commitment to personal suffering)

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Quinta Jurecic

Both the “black jobs” remark and using palestinian as a slur are hopefully clarifying as to actual Trump’s ideology and worldview, in contrast with the imaginary trump some people have built up in their heads as the memory of his administration has receded

Fucking finally

The Philadelphia Inquirer gets it right. x.com/adambonin/st...

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Incredible to assert something like this for which there is no evidence, and for which in fact there is strong evidence that you’re wrong, and you include said evidence *in the same fucking sentence*

An associate editor at Wash Post wrote this today: "At the same time — and, yes, I know how cavalierly they tossed aside precedent in Dobbs — I doubt that even this court is about to upend the national legal landscape again and eliminate the right to marriage equality" Sotomayor knows better

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probably a coincidence, really www.nber.org/digest/mar04... CW: Suicide

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Great day in the morning to everyone breathing free air on this, the 80th anniversary of the greatest antifa rally Earth has ever known. Happy antifa day, y'all. 🎉🗽

Amazing, surprising news!

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the election results in India is giving me life this am. Never ever let the arrogance of fascists fool you - they are not invincible. Never give up hope. F*** the fascists. 🇮🇳❤️🙏🏻 www.nytimes.com/live/2024/06...

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louder for the Dems in the back who shouldn't even be in the room because they did shit like advise Kerry to ignore the swiftboat stuff

BE NEGATIVE, YOU ASSHOLES.

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Go with "It's a sad day for America to have a major party nominee be a criminal and rapist (bait), especially when we're getting good news that we've added 20 million new American jobs since I took office (hook). That's why I'm ordering Trump be denied security briefings (bait again)"

Brutal story. Had fun explaining this one to the 13yo in the car. But the answer is no, of course we haven’t lost. We’re not going to lose. It just is going to take a while. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/...

Perspective | Four years later, has the racial-justice movement lost the fight?www.washingtonpost.com Four years after George Floyd’s murder, two Washington Post reporters reflect on the retrenchment of the racial-justice movement sparked by his death.

Getting increasingly easy to see how @propublica.bsky.social was able to walk around corporate media to break the original Clarence Thomas corruption story. Open field.

If you ran for city council and said something like this to local developers or other businesses, you’d fully go to jail

Trump proposed an explicit quid pro quo to oil and gas executives. wapo.st/3UBf4Fy

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Brought to you in part by GOP-controlled state legislatures enshrining anti-LGBTQ+ hate in state law

Nearly 2 out of 5 young LGBTQ+ people considered suicide in last year, survey finds Political rhetoric is a major cause of distress among young LGBTQ+ people, group says. www.scrippsnews.com/us-news/lgbt...

Nearly 2 out of 5 young LGBTQ+ people considered suicide in last year, survey findswww.scrippsnews.com Trevor Project leaders say political rhetoric is a major cause of distress among young LGBTQ+ people.

Excellent point about the protests from @chrislhayes.bsky.social. If Biden was watching Chris instead of the reactionary centrist pablum Morning Joe is feeding him, we would be in significantly less deep shit. youtu.be/LZi7gxXEh5I?...

Chris Hayes: Why campus protests are 'the easier debate'youtu.be Chris Hayes: It's easier to argue about what college kids are doing than to confront the human misery and destruction that's happening in the actual conflict which is, of course, the source of these protests. » Subscribe to MSNBC: https://www.youtube.com/msnbc Follow MSNBC Show Blogs MaddowBlog: https://www.msnbc.com/maddowblog ReidOut Blog: https://www.msnbc.com/reidoutblog MSNBC delivers breaking news, in-depth analysis of politics headlines, as well as commentary and informed perspectives. Find video clips and segments from The Rachel Maddow Show, Morning Joe, The Beat with Ari Melber, Deadline: White House, The ReidOut, All In, Last Word, 11th Hour, and Alex Wagner who brings her breadth of reporting experience to MSNBC primetime. Watch “Alex Wagner Tonight” Tuesday through Friday at 9pm Eastern. Connect with MSNBC Online Visit msnbc.com: https://www.msnbc.com/ Subscribe to the MSNBC Daily Newsletter: https://link.msnbc.com/join/5ck/msnbc-daily-signup Find MSNBC on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/msnbc/ Follow MSNBC on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MSNBC Follow MSNBC on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/msnbc #columbiauniversity #protests #msnbc

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students at Northeastern were arrested under the premise that they were shouting antisemitic slurs and now video is surfacing showing that the slurs in fact came from outside people holding Israeli flags while the pro-Palestine protesters tried to de-escalate i cannot imagine this kind of evil

This is a good meme to keep handy. You're going to need it.

Predictions of a red wave in 2022 fizzled despite Republican fear-mongering about migrants said @zacharyamueller.bsky.social of @americasvoice.bsky.social “Yes, it works to mobilize their base” he said. “But I don’t think the vast majority of people are going to sign up for that level of vitriol"

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Talk of an Immigrant ‘Invasion’ Grows in Republican Ads and Speech Once relegated to the margins of the national debate, the word is now part of the party’s mainstream message on immigration. www.nytimes.com/2024/04/26/u...

Talk of an Immigrant ‘Invasion’ Grows in Republican Ads and Speechwww.nytimes.com Once relegated to the margins of the national debate, the word is now part of the party’s mainstream message on immigration.

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The challenges for universities right now parallel what's been happening in my field (journalism.) An industry with liberal (in the political theory sense) values is hated by the right. A deep desire to make peace with the right and maintain support from funders creates tension with the left.

If this doesn't win an Oscar, a Pollie and a Clio at least, there is no justice

The only sensible thing to do with Trump's "Gettysburg, Wow" speech in Pennsylvania was to make a one-minute documentary film of it. These are all his real words. I added some "bing bongs" at the start. "Never fight uphill, me boys! Never fight uphill."#FunWithPhotoshop youtu.be/4FTMXWgP5R4

Gettysburg, Wowyoutu.be My one-minute documentary that uses Trump's rally speech, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania, April 13, 2024.

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👇🎯💯

Wasn't expecting Trump to endorse full social democracy but here we are

Trump reportedly “bemoaned a lack of immigrants to the US from ‘nice’ countries ‘like Denmark [or] Switzerland’, offering millionaire donors at a FL fundraiser a reprise of infamous racist Oval Office remarks about ppl coming to America from ‘shithole countries’. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

Trump bemoans lack of immigrants from majority-white countries to the USwww.theguardian.com Ex-president avoided past ‘shithole countries’ racist invective, but said the US hadn’t gotten enough immigrants from ‘nice countries’

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One of Trump's top lawyers has already said the plan is to stay quiet on abortion through the campaign—then use the Comstock Act to impose a nationwide abortion ban in 2025. Not only a ban on medication abortion, but ALL abortions, in all 50 states. www.nytimes.com/2024/02/17/u...

There are what now

All over red, rural America are little stores and roadside stands devoted to Trump flags/banners with the most bloodthirsty and threatening, unhinged, and vulgar stuff you've ever seen. Has the east coast press ever written about how alienating THAT stuff is? You know, the violent cult vibes?

We sketched out basically this concept when I started out doing local work, including tons of canvassing, 20 years ago. Proof that if you’re lazy and sit on your keister for long enough, someone will build it for you! Hashtag inspo! Srsly I love that they are doing this -

We've developed a groundbreaking new voter contact tool. An independent study found it to be twice as effective as traditional canvassing, and more effective than TV ads, yard signs or phonebanking.

Fine I’m sure

X promoted a trending story on Thursday via its homepage with the headline: “Iran Strikes Tel Aviv with Heavy Missiles” one problem: the story was fake even worse: the headline + story was created by a new feature powered by X’s own AI chatbot, Grok mashable.com/article/elon...

Elon Musk's X pushed a fake headline about Iran attacking Israel. X's AI chatbot Grok made it up.mashable.com The AI-generated false headline was promoted by X in its official trending news section.

My only hope w/ RFK is that the moment people do the tiniest amount of research into him, they realize he's nuttier than a dump truck full of cashews.

"Independent presidential candidate, Kennedy family reject, and bona fide wackjob Robert F. Kennedy Jr. hates getting called on his delusional, deranged, bugfuck shit." Dems should be leaning into all this and attacking this de facto right-wing whackjob even more. h/t @joesudbay.bsky.social

RFK Jr. Gets VERY ANGRY! When You Remind Him Of Every Wackjob Thing He's Ever Saidwww.wonkette.com Do it more.

Right wing media still absolutely leading the main signal around by the nose. Incredible.

A handy distillation of how the election has evolved. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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conservatives got their microchip swapped out once inflation fell below 3%

A handy distillation of how the election has evolved. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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There’s a Seanbaby turn of phrase I think of a lot, “the kind of thing that makes the devil shuffle the papers on his desk and go ‘I don’t think I even have a form for that.’”

Trump figured out a way to convert his base’s religiosity into cash that isn’t subject to FEC reporting requirements.

Analysis | An all-American Bible — with a cut of the sales going to Trumpwww.washingtonpost.com Trump finds votes and profits at the intersection of politics and religion.