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Journalist, Courthouse News Service, covering Maryland. Former Baltimore City Paper, Hartford Advocate, Orlando Weekly. I gotta re-numb and rally.
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The Times has lost McIntyre!
I have been reading The New York Times for decades. I applied to work there more than 30 years ago. But now I read Joseph Kahn's statement that the paper has offered "full and fair" coverage of President Biden, and that is enough, more than enough. I have canceled my subscription.
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Be the person who wants love and happiness for someone the way Next Door Dot Com wants them to have a walk-in shower.
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Goose meme where the guy is also wearing a hot dog suit
NY Times: You thought this election might be about an unprecedented convicted criminal running to overthrow Constitutional democracy? You think you decide the narrative? Oh no. That’s our turf. And we say the most important thing in the election—nay, the world—is Joe Biden’s age.
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Trump's proposal to return the US to a lunar calendar sparks debate, intrigue.
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Wow, real banana republic stuff. I'm glad our presidents can launder money and associate criminally without worrying about this kind of thing.
Reports: Brazil police have indicted Jair Bolsonaro for money laundering and criminal association
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Over at the Bad Place, I made a tradition of posting Douglass' "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth of July," and I intend to carry on that tradition here. Since most versions you read in classes or in textbooks have parts omitted, the link below has the full text of the speech.
(1852) Frederick Douglass, "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth Of July" •www.blackpast.org On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass was invited to address the citizens of his hometown, Rochester, New York. Whatever the expectations of his audience on that 76th anniversary of the signing of the D...
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Once you see Pareto effects, you can't unsee them. "RAND Corporation and Carnegie Mellon researchers have estimated that daily or near-daily marijuana users account for 37 percent of the using population but 80 percent of marijuana used." www.nytimes.com/2024/07/03/m...
The Real Problem With Legal Weedwww.nytimes.com New York is trying to treat an addictive substance just like any other product.
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Civil rights attorney Jill Collen Jefferson took on the police force in the small town of Lexington, Miss., collecting evidence of abuse, falsifying evidence and assault. Then they arrested her.
She took on a small Mississippi town’s police. Then they arrested her.wapo.st How civil rights lawyer Jill Collen Jefferson convinced the Justice Department to investigate allegedly racist and abusive policing in tiny Lexington, Miss.
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…but I’m sorry. President Trump already tried to order his pentagon to do it! It’s not hysterics or resistance fan fic, the concerns are rooted in Things That Factually Occurred. Would Trump order the assassination of chuck Schumer? I wouldn’t bet on it. But I don’t feel like rolling the dice
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Turns out it's not too hard once you remember that Democrats will keep playing by the old rules so long as it disadvantages them.
Would love to be a fly on the wall as the Big 6 Justices work out how to grant full and unconditional lifetime immunity to POTUS but carve out an exception for all but Trump.
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Today, the federal government put itself on the right side of history by seeking, for the 1st time, to establish the precedent that every worker in America has the right to shade, water & rest while working in temps that could kill them. -UFW President Teresa Romero www.politico.com/news/2024/07...
Biden to announce heat rules as climate-related deaths risewww.politico.com If finalized, they would be the first U.S. regulations to protect workers from dangerous temperatures.
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Hurricane Beryl has sustained winds near 165 m.p.h., the National Hurricane Center said.
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'At a minimum, the President must be immune from prosecution for an official act unless the Government can show that applying a criminal prohibition to that act would pose no “dangers of intrusion on the authority and functions of the Executive Branch.”' I think insurrection and treason qualify!
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Would love to be a fly on the wall as the Big 6 Justices work out how to grant full and unconditional lifetime immunity to POTUS but carve out an exception for all but Trump.
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This is an exchange I had with a Trump voter at a rally several years ago. www.newyorker.com/news/our-col...
New rule: to comment negatively about immigrants, you have to first disclose why your own family members immigrated to the US seeking a better life, and why people facing much worse shouldn’t have the same opportunity. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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i wonder if the democratic party would be overtly pushing sheldon whitehouse for higher office if there wasn't something extremely weird about the phrase 'president whitehouse'
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Just saying: If there was such a thing as a "deep state," and if that thing were to have any overarching purpose, it would—or should—be to prevent someone like tfg from seizing power.
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