DTwyman

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Retired Government, film & broadcasting teacher. Politics & economics watcher, gardener & cat ❤️- Darth Kitty is one of my cats. If you don’t appreciate science, journalism, enjoy a good movie or think politics is a spectator sport, I’m not your thing.

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Professor Lictman, who has called every election since 1982, disagrees with the Biden must go rhetoric. He thinks replacing Biden would be a huge mistake, FWIW, I think he’s correct but then again I pay attention to history.

Sabrina Agresti-Roubache, a junior minister in Macron's government who stood down in her parliamentary race to help a New Popular Front candidate beat the far right, said "defeats happen, but one never recovers from dishonor." Someone needs to explain this to RFK Jr.

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I am not a pundit, a journalist, or an elected official, (been there,done that), but I know how silos work & that’s what’s happening in those fields. Regular folks, the voters, aren’t appreciative of y’all telling us our votes in primaries don’t count! t.co/Grrngz7Iyc

Why is the pundit class so desperate to push Biden out of the race? | Rebecca Solnitt.co Yes, Biden had a bad debate – but so did Trump. The media is once again repeating the mistakes of 2016

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"I am willing to live with a result that is acceptable but not my ideal outcome for the next two years in order to prevent the worst case scenario" is seriously encouraging to see

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folks from both coalitions and all the voters who were willing to be tactical as a result even if their preferred guy dropped out, credit all around I am delighted

So many candidates, bowing out in a selfless move in order to save democracy in France. This is amazing!

This is so encouraging, and also a credit to every single politician who dropped out of the runoff so their votes could go to the second-place non-fascist candidate

Have you been enjoying the downward spiral that is Google searches? And you’re gonna love being taught by an AI virtual assistance!

Also known as “training your replacement.” 😩

Morehouse to be the first university to use virtual AI teaching assistantswww.axios.com The Atlanta HBCU will have AI teaching assistants this fall.

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So a thing about AI is that, not understanding the material itself, it cannot understand what the gap is in someone else’s understanding. Students already have access to materials that will repeat important points over and over. They don’t need more.

Also known as “training your replacement.” 😩

Morehouse to be the first university to use virtual AI teaching assistantswww.axios.com The Atlanta HBCU will have AI teaching assistants this fall.

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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.

This is what Republicans are offering America: hungry people, homeless people who get arrested because they have no place to sleep, and environment that is polluted because they won’t allow the experts to regulate industries that pollute. Vote Blue no matter who!

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.

Polls closed in France. Exit polls show a big surprise: —Left coalition (New Popular Front) projected first. (!) —Far-right (RN) has lost its bid to take power. Anti-RN front appears to have worked very well. —No bloc close to majority. Pollsters were wrong!

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french knots on the prowl

Folks, they want you to feel hopeless. They want it to feel absolutely inevitable that we will lose in order to undermine our will. They’re trying to make us feel like fighting is pointless. Because that’s the only way they can win. When we fight, they lose. Don’t give them what they want. FIGHT!

It isn’t going to matter who the Democrats nominate there is just too much invested in screaming & attacking Democrats regardless of who the candidate is for anything to change. They will do this to Harris, to Buttigieg, to whom we nominate.

Perspective: LBJ withdrew his nom. on March 31st (3+ months ahead of Biden’s potential timetable), following lousy polls & screams from media & pundits, the resulting turmoil, including a contentious convention in CHICAGO, saw VP Humphrey loosing to Nixon.

Governor Tony Evers: We will vote to make sure the guy who has more felonies than Baskin-Robbins has flavors stays the hell out of The White House

Wages rose 3.3 percent in 2019, 3.9 over the past year. Job growth slowing slightly. The Fed is supposed to get ahead of the curve. Time to cut interest rates.

Today’s gentle reminder that we can all use a good editor!* * Thomas Jefferson's handwritten draft of our Declaration of Independence (with revisions by John Adams and Benjamin Franklin), 1776

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Man, if it turns out that the right winger telling NY Times readers that they should follow his example and not vote did in fact vote in the last two elections, the Times should add this to the piece. Better than a retraction, since it illustrates a willful hypocrisy.

He voted in both 2020 and 2022.

I don’t know who needs to hear this but, President Biden is leading in fundraising. Biden is leading in campaign infrastructure/ground game. The polls are within the margin of error. All you have to do is vote & get like minded, supporters of democracy, to do the same. That's it. Just vote.

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Vote

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Maybe we should be talking about credible allegations of Trump sexually assaulting twelve year olds with the assistance of Epstein!

By the way, Faine, have you already seen this? If this is true, then it'd be all the more horrific for such a man to win the presidency.

Rachel Bitecofer 🗽💡🔭🦆 on X: "Trump forced 12 year olds to perform lesbian sex acts for him. That seems important. https://t.co/yvmSxUbW6c" / Xtwitter.com Trump forced 12 year olds to perform lesbian sex acts for him. That seems important. https://t.co/yvmSxUbW6c

“For mankind is ever the same and nothing is lost out of nature, though everything is altered.” ~ John Dryden, in “On the Characters in the Canterbury Tales.”

Hey guys, remember that time when Bill Clinton and Loretta Lynch met on a tarmac because they both happen to have arrived at the same time? Remember how right wing went absolutely nuts about this for years? Good times, good times!

With the Chevron deference and presidential immunity rulings, the Supreme Court has put our democracy in even greater danger. So what happens next? Dahlia Lithwick joins D. J. Rothkopf to analyze the impact of the court’s latest disastrous decisions. ow.ly/jezG50Sv3ws

‎Deep State Radio: How Do You Fix a Problem Like the Roberts Court? on Apple Podcastsow.ly ‎Show Deep State Radio, Ep How Do You Fix a Problem Like the Roberts Court? - Jul 3, 2024

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Since some of you have problems hearing it from me, here's another person with counterdisinfo expertise

The post-debate “Biden replacement theory” has all the vibes of a top-down bottom-up participatory disinformation campaign/conspiracism bubble reality

Kimberly Atkins Stor on Deadline White House today providing perspective: Quick questions, before you start calling for Biden to step down. Do you remember 1968 when Johnson decided not to run? How'd that turn out? With the election of Richard Nixon. Come on Democrats, Stand By Your Man

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Part of a good thread that illustrates why I don’t hang out on Twitter/X anymore

There was an even bigger difference in the comments received. All on Threads and all but one here were positive, constructive, or neutral (one person was just being a jerk, not a troll). Only 18% on X were positive or neutral. The rest were negative, many highly so.

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Fireworks suck! Here are some tips from cat behaviorist Mikel Delgado for keeping your cats safe and happy this 4th of July. www.instagram.com/p/C87GFSBpgyk/ 1. Make sure your cats are inside. Even if they normally go out, the 4th is not a good day for them to roam. (con't)