Freya

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The toothbrush in the shower is just gross. I cannot understand it

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Republicans also just killed a program that provided a $30 discount on broadband bills for poor people because they're good faith populists who care about rural Americans or whatever

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.

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If you grew up on the west coast, I think you never quite grow accustomed to the east coast thing where every neighborhood sounds like it’s having a moderately disorganized battle each evening for a week around the 4th of July.

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Reminder: A presidential election isn’t a reality competition show where you play cutthroat and when you lose say how it was the best experience of your lifetime, you tried your best, and you made lifelong friends. “Giving it your all” is not the main thing.

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I want to explain how Project 2025 is essential to the Trump campaign and the only way to understand it. But first, let's do something the press refuses to do in 2024: Take Trump's threats seriously. Think about the core message of his first post-1/6 rally, delivered deliberately in Waco, Texas.

The war on the Deep State became Project 2025www.youtube.com Find out more: https://project2024.info/

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"I don't know anything about Project 2025" says man recording Project 2025 promotional video in front of Project 2025 publication. More substantively, Project 2025 has embraced Trump and Miller's immigration approach of using power to close both legal and illegal immigration.

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Another way you can tell the NYT is totally in the tank for Trump is that they focus on the man and not the message. They could easily run 10 variations on DOBBS IS A LOSER AT THE BALLOT BOX each day but instead focus on Biden's 'health'

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I had a chat with the conservative mom of a friend today. We talked about a bunch of stuff and I learned several interesting things, among them, that religious conservatives are often PRO-CHOICE AND THINK THE SUPREME COURT IS INSANE. Run on Dobbs. Run on justices and court reform. Do it.

Organizers got enough signatures to put a measure protecting abortion on the ballot in Arkansas. In *Arkansas*. They had *no national support*. Ignore the pundits melting down over not being treated as Very Special Boys. Dobbs has fundamentally changed elections. Everything they know is wrong.

Arkansas abortion rights groups collect enough signatures to advance ballot measurewww.nbcnews.com A measure to enshrine abortion rights in the ruby red state’s constitution is now one step closer to making the November ballot — but major obstacles remain.

No such thing as bad press?

I for one am glad the Cybertruck exists bc what other vehicle is out there providing nonstop hits like this

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Hey go give Chris money he explains all the Supreme Court stuff so you can be mad smartly instead of being mad dumbly being mad smartly is the most productive form of mad

I am an independent legal journalist. 100% of my work is funded by readers like you — not by billionaires who control my publication (or who take me on private vacations). Subscribe to Law Dork to support my work: www.lawdork.com

Law Dork | Chris Geidner | Substackwww.lawdork.com The Supreme Court, law, politics, and more. Click to read Law Dork, by Chris Geidner, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

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"In May, Trump slurred his words at a rally in Wisconsin as he referred to Biden’s “fake infrastrucker, ershure para,” before landing on “a package of infrastructure.” He then went on an incoherent rant about Master Lock." www.inquirer.com/opinion/edit...

The lingering focus on Biden’s shaky debate obscures Trump’s major verbal miscues | Editorialwww.inquirer.com The president must now convince voters he has the mental acuity to do the toughest job in the world. The same bar does not exist for Trump, who loses no points for incoherence or incompetence.

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grooming industrial complex in shambles

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If you don’t watch cycling I want to share the joy of Eritrean Biniam Girmay, who is the first Black person to win a stage in the Tour de France and now won his second! In the first week! And he’s in green, which means he’s winning the most sprints (and beating Jasper Phillipsen, which is great.)

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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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Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.

Generative AI is a climate disasterdisconnect.blog Tech companies are abandoning emissions pledges to chase AI market share

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Yes, he forced a 12 yr old to perform sex acts for him with another underage child. MSM should be talking about this. But they’re ignoring it. Let’s not make them ignore it. I posted the document link on my feed. You can check it out. It’s 6 pages.

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an insane amount of the falling birth rate is the complete and total collapse of teenage pregnancy, so remember that whenever these weirdos talk about birth rates

It’s weird how conservatives think having more kids than liberals means there will be more conservatives when every Drag Race contestant’s bio is “I grew up in a town where the only employers were the church and the prison, I was raised by my aunt after my mom was executed for working on Sunday”

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The Supreme Court's presidential immunity decision was bonkers. I did a roundup tracking reactions from across the ideological spectrum. Give it a read:

The Roberts Court’s Presidential Immunity Ruling Has Lost Nearly Everyone Except for the Far Rightwww.theunpopulist.net Commentators across the ideological spectrum are puzzled to dismayed at the majority’s indifference to executive accountability

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substack.com/@walterrhein...

Walter Rhein on Substacksubstack.com Ya… trump’s connections to Epstein seem like a bigger story than Biden’s age. Call me crazy…

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When people explain what their local public libraries meant to them as children, it’s so often about exactly this. 📚

Lots of trauma survivors became voracious readers, because of all the things our abusers & bullies took from us, they couldn't take away our ability to read. Turns out: if you can read, you can connect w/ survivors & strategies & tools you never would have known existed. Read.

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tom nichols—of all people???—just made a good point: you have to talk about P2025 in simple real people terms. not policy wonk terms.

if you’re talking about project 2025 on tv you need to spell out what it means beyond an authoritarian blueprint!!

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sort of confused as to why they’re even bothering with this. might as well have just drawn it all up in secret

Stephen Miller now following Trump's lead and saying he has nothing to do with Project 2025. 1. His organization is on the Project 2025 advisory board. 2. He recorded a video as part of Project 2025 training tools 3. You can see Mandate for Leadership, the Project 2025 publication in the background

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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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reminded of a scene from Terry Pratchett's Going Postal

A hill I will die on: all white-collar crimes are violent crimes. It's just that the violence is removed from the perpetrator because the perpetrator is wealthy.

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This is a bugaboo for me because prosecutors also love to claim that they don't have a choice when they absolutely do.

one of the most dishonest things people in my profession do is pretend as if “the story” and “the narrative” isn’t something they have direct control over

How's it going? Just to update everyone, the local chaps on the community Facebook group are once again threatening women with exploding tannerite near their houses because the people are complaining about noise. #RURALMAGALIFE

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I wish someone kept a list of all the imbeciles who said Elon Musk is a free speech hero so I could waggle a middle finger in their insipid faces until it fell off

Me on everything political that people in my real life sphere are ignorant of right now, that would mean the end of life as they know it.

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agree and boy do i have the podcast for you if you feel this way

Extremely frustrating to hear legal experts analyzing the SCOTUS ruling on immunity like just another case - it's an inherently normalizing act. People need to stop playing constitutional Calvinball and treat them like political actors.