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“I don’t know about you, but my community does not have the option to lose. My community does not have the luxury of accepting loss in July of an election year. My people are the first ones deported. They’re the first ones put in Rikers. They’re the first ones whose families are killed by war.”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez warns anti-Biden Democrats about what comes next if they succeedwww.msnbc.com The progressive New Yorker spoke on Instagram about the potential risks of pressuring President Joe Biden to end his campaign.

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🧵 Pete Buttigieg is very rare among Democrats in that he isn't afraid of exposing the corrupt motives of right-wing elites. Having formerly worked w/them, I learned that it's always about money or religious insanity, no matter whatever supposed rationales they give. www.salon.com/2024/07/20/i...

"It's not that complicated": Pete Buttigieg on why a gay billionaire is backing JD Vancewww.salon.com When asked to weigh in on Peter Thiel's reasons for supporting Vance, Buttigieg broke it down plainly . . . money.

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Judah Grunstein

The 2 years I spent at Stanford before dropping out overlapped with Thiel's time there, and I was very familiar with the circumstances that radicalized him. The piece I mention below was part of the broader culture wars that surrounded the canon wars, which often took on decidedly racist overtones.

Of course, homegrown US white supremacy does just fine on its own. But until recently it has been socially unpalatable in the US, if less so in the milieus Musk, Sacks and Thiel have frequented. (My first published piece was an op-ed in the Stanford Daily rebutting a call to end affirmative action.)

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I had not known that David Sacks is also South African or that Peter Thiel spent time there and in Namibia during as a kid. It makes me think of transnational transmission of historical memory, similar to ex-Nazis who ended up in South America and served as ideological guides to the dictatorships.

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Trump also tried (unconvincingly) to distance himself from Project 2025: "Some on the right -- severe right -- came up with this Project 25 ... I don't know what the hell it is ... some of the things -- they're seriously extreme." (2/4)

Aaron Rupar (@aaron.rupar) on Threadswww.threads.net Trump also tried (unconvincingly) to distance himself from Project 2025: "Some on the right -- severe right -- came up with this Project 25. And I don't even know ... they're sorta the opposite of...

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Quick thread on Trump's speech today in Grand Rapids, Michigan, which began with him (kinda sorta) defending Biden: "It's sort of interesting. This guy goes and he gets the votes and now they want to take it away. That's democracy. They talk about democracy." (1/4)

Aaron Rupar (@aaron.rupar) on Threadswww.threads.net Quick thread on Trump's speech today in Grand Rapids, Michigan, which began with him defending Biden: "It's sort of interesting. This guy goes and he gets the votes and now they want to take it away.....

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The CrowdStrike developer who wrote the defective update knocking out computer systems around the globe proves that one person really can make a difference.

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If and only if they apply direct action to a specific pain point that disrupts the ordinary functioning of the system.

The CrowdStrike developer who wrote the defective update knocking out computer systems around the globe proves that one person really can make a difference.

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That’s never stopped him before

Meanwhile over on Threads, techie podcast guy Scott Galloway is promoting a "blitz primary" process that does not seem to be grounded in any actual reality.

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Adam Rogers

Never listen to the words of a multi-millionaire (Zaslav's net worth is $400 million) that would destroy a fully completed AMAZING LOOKING movie just to get a tax right off. If ever there was a symbol of greed and ignorance David Zaslov is it.

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Real hard to parse out which ones are the principled stands against Biden’s age and which ones are the cynical stands against his administration’s efforts to fight anticompetitive business practices. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

David Zaslav Says He’s for Any Presidential Candidate Who’s More M&A Friendlywww.hollywoodreporter.com The Warner Bros. Discovery CEO told reporters at the annual Sun Valley Conference that he also approves of the Paramount Global takeover deal.

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Not that it's really the point but good to remember that Zaslav is obsessed with M&A because he's incompetent and incapable of running the business created by his last merger and needs to fail upwards into an additional merger to salvage his mistake.

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"You can't call exurban Cincinnati a backwoods mountain town" seems unremarkable as a clarification but we lived through 8 years of all the national newspapers insisting that Connecticut prep school Yalie George W Bush was descended from a long line of Texas cattle ranchers, so...

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New York Times sending out a "don't print lies in the newspaper" memo

lolll NYT standards desk asks reporters to please not call J.D. Vance a “son of Appalachia” (via Justin Baragona)

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And now Smash Mouth with today's weather:

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This is an awful lot of words to say: "He was asked to fill in the same form as other people but couldn't be arsed." www.theguardian.com/uk-news/arti...

Game of Thrones’ George RR Martin falls foul of Glasgow sci-fi event’s strict ruleswww.theguardian.com Author’s efforts to take part apparently stymied by application protocol, but he still plans to attend Worldcon

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every so often I stop over at Twitter to check DMs and it's never not surreal to see how many journalists are still over there happily lending credibility to a right wing propaganda sewer owned by a fascist

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For Ross Douthat

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Seth Cotlar

I mean, it's nothing compared to TikTok..but when a normie Christian church in Salem, Oregon is setting aside a Sunday afternoon to talk about Project 2025, it's worth noting.

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Some students don't understand how we (their professors) can tell. I've found success by showing them images like these and saying, "See how it's obvious these images are ai-generated? That's how obvious it is with ai-generated writing most of the time."

trying to think of why it's so easy to spot chatGPT writing even when it's not making stuff up. like it can write in different tones and styles to a degree, but there's still kind of an "overconfident nerd" je ne sais quois to it all

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i'm putting together a newsletter with corresponding infographics featuring parts of project 2025 that will resonate with specific types of people. so far I have: teachers, porn viewers, parents, union members, environmentalists. who else should I add?

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if you are in Milwaukee and you are gay and on grindr you have the opportunity to change this country forever

i know grindr has to be going CRAZY in Milwaukee right now

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TWISTER is such a great movie. The good storm chasers have sensors that are balls, which are round and wholesome, and the bad storm chasers have sensors that are cubes, the most evil shape.

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I have to assume reporters are rushing to the area to get the layup article about how Vance’s hometown hates him

He made a career out of trashing the people he grew up around (home town and his grandparents town). I just don’t get how anyone thinks this will work out well for him on the national stage.

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Denver Colorado, and everyone needs to go to the Demver Museum of Nature and Science, specifically their roof top viewing deck, which has one of the best views of the entire front range, from pikes peak to the Wyoming border. (It's also just top tier science museum).

Let's have some fun on Bluesky tonight! Tell me where you live and one thing everyone should do in your city! #flythefriendlysky

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if you’re trying to engage with politically disconnected people about project 2025, identify a specific part that you think will resonate with them. i just told my friend who’s a public school teacher about the plan to abolish the department of education and that got her hooked.

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Jamison Foser

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 article, this has been in the works since April. I think the tipping point was when it became abundantly clear that SCOTUS was going to work to delay Trump's trials past the election (and, it turns out, grant the president insane immunity).