Doug Ramsdell

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Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers' tuition that it's now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects.

School Vouchers Were Supposed to Save Taxpayer Money. Instead They Blew a Massive Hole in Arizona’s Budget.www.propublica.org Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it’s now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state program...

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This is a BFD and reflects both a recognition of deep structural reforms and a tectonic shift in the politics of the Supreme Court. It isn't everything we need but it's a big, big deal. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Biden set to announce support for major Supreme Court changeswww.washingtonpost.com The president has discussed the plans with constitutional scholars and members of Congress in recent weeks.

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According to the Center for Strategic and International Studies—an eminently respectable, bipartisan think tank—right-wing political violence accounted for more than 90 percent of all attacks or plots in the first half of 2020, far outpacing terrorism from any other source since 1990.

We’re in an epidemic of right-wing terror. Won’t someone tell the press?www.motherjones.com More than a decade of media malpractice enabled January 6. Has the media learned its lesson?

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Look, you can’t expect the cop to risk his life to confront the shooter, it’s not like the shooter is an unarmed black man with his back turned

of COURSE

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We should ban the gun an assailant used to try to kill Donald Trump Makes sense right?

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Also, adjacent to my thread there. I think Trump is absolutely on uppers because after he was grazed and ducked, when the SS swarm him, he's on mic. And he shittily, angrily and petulantly demands of them 'LET ME GET MY SHOES' If you listen, you can hear it. That tone is not appropriate for...

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A quick 🧵: It is important to remember, or to recognize & then remember, that the US has always had a significant, ongoing level of political violence from founding through tonight. Most don't know or realize that because of how America's daily violence gets reported. 1/

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The reporting on our daily tally of domestic political violence & low intensity warfare is almost always in passive voice. Long ago a decision was made that terrorists could only be brown, &/or have funny accents, &/or adhere to non-Christian religions & most likely be immigrants or foreigners. 3/

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War for Ukraine Day 871 update has posted.

Balloon Juice - War for Ukraine Day 871: For Want of a Nailballoon-juice.com (Image by NEIVANMADE) Two quick housekeeping notes. First, both the girls are doing excellently. Rosie has not had any noticeable systemic reaction to last Monday’s chemo treatment. Thank you all for ...

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No one in America has done more to normalize the idea of political violence than the man who was the target of it tonight. There is no contradiction in deploring what happened and saying that any Republican who supports Trump has forfeited the right to be heard on the subject.

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Trump May Attempt to Disavow Project 2025 -- but He's not Disavowing Viktor Orbán www.emptywheel.net/2024/07/12/t...

Trump May Attempt to Disavow Project 2025 - but He's not Disavowing Viktor Orbán - emptywheelwww.emptywheel.net Trump may be disavowing Project 2025 -- or attempting to. But he's not disavowing Viktor Orbán, whose influence operations flow right through the Heritage Foundation. On the contrary, Trump and Orbán ...

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I wrote the most comically insane villain possible for that episode, to sell the con, and he's just baseline CEO in the early 2020's.

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The Lie David Sanger Told to Sustain NYT's Non-Stop Campaign against Joe Biden www.emptywheel.net/2024/07/10/t...

The Lie David Sanger Told to Sustain NYT's Non-Stop Campaign against Joe Biden - emptywheelwww.emptywheel.net In February, David Sanger reported that even before Trump threatened to let Vladimir Putin invade NATO countries, European allies were discussing the possibility the US would withdraw from NATO. Now, ...

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The Roberts decision to give Donald Trump kingly powers was terrible enough. But cloaking it in Washington's Farewell Address was "amazingly cynical" in several ways, explains @emptywheel.bsky.social in this bonus episode for members of the Ball of Thread Patreon. www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-...

BONUS: John Roberts’ drone strike on George Washingtonwww.youtube.com YouTube video by earlyworm

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I am reminded once again of Trump's infrastructure week. Even with the trifecta, he couldn't get sh*t done. Biden, old as he is, somehow keeps on making the donuts. I wonder why that's such a hard story for @nytimes.com to tell?

President Biden signed the #ADVANCEAct into law yesterday. The law, aimed at speeding up the licensing process for new #NuclearReactors and cutting related fees, requires a report on simplifying the environmental review process. In other words big news. #nuclearenergy thehill.com/policy/energ...

Biden signs bill bolstering nuclear powerthehill.com President Biden signed a bipartisan bill Tuesday aimed at bolstering the nation’s nuclear power in what supporters describe as a historic win for the sector. The nuclear package is expected to spee…

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Still marveling at Gorsuch's Ohio v. EPA opinion, in which he confused nitrogen oxide (a pollutant) with nitrous oxide (laughing gas). He did this five times, never once getting it right—in an opinion overruling the EPA's own expert scientific analysis! s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...

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Print this out and put it on your bulletin board.

Do not let pundits and opinion-havers convince you that things are hopeless. They do not know: the left and the center can work together for the good of democracy and voters will reward them

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General Mills just paid a $300 million dividend to investors, bought back $150 M in stock to enrich execs+investors and pays its CEO $16M a year. Yearly profit is around $2.1 billion. It's raising prices 20% blaming inflation. MAGA morons can't grasp corporate greed

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War for Ukraine Day 865 update has posted.

Balloon Juice - War for Ukraine Day 865: All of Ukraine is Under Air Raid Alert & Russian Missiles Are Inbound!balloon-juice.com (Image by NEIVANMADE) Quick housekeeping note: Rosie is doing fine. Round 3 of chemo starts tomorrow. Rounds 3 and 4 are a treatment every other week rather than every week with two weeks off in betwe...

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That’s … that’s not “appeared to”

NEWS --> Mark Robinson, the MAGA extremist GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, appeared to endorse political violence against unnamed foes in a recent speech. "Some folks need killing!" he shouted. "It's a matter of necessity!" Video and story here: newrepublic.com/article/1834...

MAGA Gov Candidate’s Ugly, Hateful Rant: “Some Folks Need Killing!”newrepublic.com Mark Robinson, the GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, has a long history of incendiary comments. But he may have topped himself this time.

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All of the people indulging in these fantasy Democratic primary scenarios think that people vote reflexively because it’s what they themselves do; they don’t realize that turnout is a product of hard work. Unseen, unheralded work. By unseen, unheralded people.

I don’t know why they think pissing off the door-knockers and canvassing power of the party will end well, but these people don’t understand what they refuse to see

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War for Ukraine Day 864 update has posted.

Balloon Juice - War for Ukraine Day 864: Russia Sends the Shaheds Against Sumy Oblastballoon-juice.com (Image by NEIVANMADE) A quick housekeeping note: Rosie is still doing well. She starts round 3 of chemotherapy on Monday. Thank you all, again, for the good thoughts, well wishes, prayers, and donatio...

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I have no idea the best path re Biden but I do know a solid week straight of “Biden Old” and “Rich Dems Worried” above-the-fold stories are *obscene* in the face of SCOTUS using the Constitution to wipe their asses purely in the service of reinstating a felon rapist as president. Crazy-making shit.

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It's fairly insane that MOST political journalists exhibit no understanding that being President and running for President are not the same thing, and often a President who is effective at making policy may not titillate their beltway gossip machine, which reflects on THEIR competence, not his.

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The thing is Nixon would have been a FAR better unaccountable President than Trump, if you ignore the spying on shrinks.

This 4th of July, thinking of him, and how he didn’t live to see his constitutional revolution finally come to pass

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1. Restore Roe. Biden is already saying this. 2. Limit the Supreme Court. 3. Pass gun safety laws. 4. Eliminate student debt. 5. Expand the ACA. Lots more. Pass it on.

watching british election returns the question struck me: what would democrats do with a landslide? what’s the wish list? beyond saving democracy of course.

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Back in November 2018 I posted this at the mothership. I focused it around the foreward from Shaara's historical novel about the battle of Gettysburg. 1/

Balloon Juice - VOTE!!!!!balloon-juice.com (Chamberlain’s Charge by Mort Kunstler) This paragraph, from the foreword of a historical novel, has always resonated: Late in June the Army of the Potomac, ever slow to move, turns north at last to b...

You know who should go? Ron Klain, Anita Dunn, Ben LaBolt, Jen O’Malley Dillon, Cedric Richmond, Julie Chavez Rodriguez, Quentin Fulks, Michael Tyler, and Rob Flaherty. Biden's "crack" comms team that badly mis-prepped him. They should all be fired before they do any more damage!!

i'm pretty on the fence, all things considered, on the 'should biden stay or should he go' question, but the way his people are handling this (even if 'this' is very unfair) is not good!

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Don’t despair — here’s why https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/04/fourth-july-us-trump-biden-politics?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

This Fourth of July, it’s hard to feel optimistic about the US. But I have hope | Margaret Sullivanwww.theguardian.com Let’s remember that we’ve come a long way – and the journey isn’t yet complete