Kevin Donoghue

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Grumbling about the unfairness of it all since 1952.
Live in Dublin Docklands, Ireland, European Union.

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July 7, 2020 As the pandemic continues to rage, Trump announces the United States is withdrawing from the World Health Organization. Candidate Joe Biden promises to immediately reverse this if elected. (He did, in his first hours in office.)

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OK EVERYONE TIME TO ADJUST THE NARRATIVE - CENTRE-LEFT NOW ASCENDANT IN EUROPE, POPULIST RIGHT IN DISARRAY, WE’VE ALL GOT THAT CLEMENT ATTLEE/LEON BLUM FEELING. THAT IS ALL. amp.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

French election 2024 live: exit poll shows shock win for left-green alliance as far right falls to third | France | The Guardianamp.theguardian.com New Popular Front predicted to get 172-192 seats, with Marine Le Pen’s far-right RN and allies down in third

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Vive la France!

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Congrats to other country’s liberal coalitions for ever being able to get their shit in gear tell us what that’s like

Breaking news: The first projections after polls closed in France’s legislative election put a leftist alliance in the lead, as the populist, anti-immigration far right falls behind and performs far below expectations.

France election live updates: Left-wing bloc leads in results projectionswww.washingtonpost.com The populist, anti-immigration National Rally party had been hoping to install France’s first far-right government since World War II, with 28-year-old Jordan Bardella as prime minister.

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Macron and left thwart far right in French election, polls say https://www.ft.com/content/7f23bd87-ced0-4f7a-9167-c470beeb3c1a

Macron and left thwart far right in French election, polls saywww.ft.com Projections suggest Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National has fallen well short of expected gains in parliament

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The Stormy Daniels payoff wasn’t a one-off.

Former Trump Staffer Shares Texts Revealing Secret Payoffsnewrepublic.com A new court filing alleges that Donald Trump’s campaign has paid to bury a number of lawsuits over sexual harassment and discrimination.

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Read this, share this widely

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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My guess is that Trump knows very little about P25 *and* it will be the blueprint for his administration. He’s famously bored by policy. He’ll appoint these people because they’re loyal. They’ll then go to work on the plan while he grifts, golfs, and gives two-hour speeches at rallies.

Trump: I don't know anything about Project 2025 Here is a list of all the Trump officials who authored the Project 2025 blueprint, Mandate for Leadership. 25 of 36 were part of the Trump administration. project2025istheocracy.substack.com/p/project-20...

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NEW: Biden has narrowed Trump’s lead in swing states despite a widely panned presidential debate performance, the Bloomberg News/Morning Consult poll finds

Biden Narrows Gap With Trump in Swing States Despite Debate Losswww.bloomberg.com The incumbent trails his GOP rival by just 2 points across key states, a Bloomberg News/Morning Consult shows, even as three in 10 Democrats say he should leave the race.

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Fun fact: Back in 2022, the FOMC was widely derided for predicting only a small rise in unemployment with core inflation rapidly falling. Those projections turn out to have been almost exactly right. www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypoli...

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NYT coverage: Let’s take some stigma away from felons and apply it to the elderly

The NYT's Trump coverage today

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Way back in 2021 White House economists argued that the inflation surge resembled the spike after WWII and could be ended without major pain. They were right! www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-...

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Jim Jordan Publishes Intelligence Analysis of Trump's Authoritarian Tendencies www.emptywheel.net/2024/07/05/j...

Jim Jordan Publishes Intelligence Analysis of Trump's Authoritarian Tendencies - emptywheelwww.emptywheel.net Jim Jordan helpfully published intelligence analysis of how Trump's narcissism poses a risk to the United States.

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+210 seats gained on a +2% increase in vote share. FPTP Democracy truly a miracle of representation.

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Frederick Douglass: "America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future." (1852)

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www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH... You know a judgment will be quite fun when it begins as below, and the judge's pen portrait of the defendant begins "Some way into his cross-examination, Mr Aristodemou described himself as "the shittest witness ever"."

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Of all the people to have NO IDEA what act of the Tories has signed their death warrant, Dan Hannan should probably have an idea

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We have learned so much about how viruses transmit over the past four years & yet none of the passive yet effective measures (better ventilation, HEPA filtration) have been adopted as new standards. An opportunity to future proof our buildings & workplaces let slip away. www.rte.ie/news/2024/07...

Covid rates were a third higher in deprived areas - ESRIwww.rte.ie A new report has found that Covid-19 infection rates were more than a third higher in the most deprived areas of Ireland, relative to more affluent areas.

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Glad to see this piece on the New Popular Front from Piketty and Cagé. While almost all the attention has been on the gains by the right, the success of a unified left with an ambitious program seems like just as an important story from the French elections. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The MAGA movement will not be shamed by pointing out the basic features of a liberal pluralist democracy. They don't believe in any of it. They see it as a weakness, something that merely holds them back or slows their efforts to reshape their world.

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The risk of a replay of the lost decade in US stocks https://www.ft.com/content/a3b2789b-66bb-41a1-b9b5-a1eba0b1a2cf

The risk of a replay of the lost decade in US stockswww.ft.com The misallocation of capital in the economy will fuel inflation

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'Originalism' is just another word for 'revenge is a dish best served cold'.

NEW: "Richard Nixon would have had a pass": John Dean, former Nixon White House counsel, stunned by Trump immunity ruling. “Virtually all of his Watergate conduct” could easily fall into what the Supreme Court now says is official conduct. www.huffpost.com/entry/richar...

'Richard Nixon Would Have Had A Pass': John Dean Stunned By Trump Immunity Rulingwww.huffpost.com “Virtually all of his Watergate conduct” could easily fall into what the Supreme Court now says is official conduct, said Nixon’s former counsel.

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Supreme court majority as alliance between how dare you suggest Trump might commit a dictatorship and wouldnt it be awesome if he did

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CNN's new poll doesn't establish some failsafe alternative to Biden for Democrats. But it does run against the twin ideas that the debate itself doomed Biden and that Harris isn't a viable alternative. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | A new national poll turns post-debate conventional wisdom on its headwww.washingtonpost.com As always, though, we should be cautious about reading too much into one poll.

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The more you read yesterday’s immunity decision, the more appalling it gets. My take: www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/o...

Opinion | The Supreme Court Creates a Lawless Presidencywww.nytimes.com It is increasingly clear that this court sees itself as something other than a participant in our democratic system.

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the conservative theory of law in one headline

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This is the climate policy we get with a court system invested in a dictatorship of Republicans: the President has total immunity and absolute power...unless he's a Democrat & does something good for the country. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/01/c...

Judge Orders Biden Administration to Resume Permits for Gas Exportswww.nytimes.com President Biden had paused new natural gas export terminals to assess their effects on the climate, economy and national security. A federal judge disagreed.

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One thing I think people forget is how relentlessly *stupid* every day of the Trump administration was. He doesn’t need to do a big elaborate complicated conspiracy, he can just (e.g.) email a list of every U.S. agent in the field to Putin and say it’s to own the libs, and *that* will have immunity.

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US Supreme Court provides new reason to fear a Trumpian return https://www.ft.com/content/2e93e123-e5ba-4940-b3fe-03f2124bbdd0

US Supreme Court provides new reason to fear a Trumpian returnwww.ft.com Given his post-presidential behaviour, can anyone view a grant of ‘official’ immunity with equanimity?

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The immunity decision was upside down, fretting about the indictment of Trump as a harbinger of future threats to the presidency instead of recognizing Trump's actions as a past and current one. Gift link: wapo.st/4bquy5M

Analysis | The Supreme Court gets the stakes of presidential immunity backwardwapo.st The reason that the question is being broached now isn’t that Donald Trump is a victim.