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there's a certain irony that liberals who have spent four years yelling at leftists who criticize Biden at all for any reason have now, in one week, done more damage to Biden's candidacy than all those leftists combined

I think the freakout has been absurd and overblown and far more damaging than the debate itself, which would have been survivable if everyone had been willing to circle the wagons and push back on it I am, from a purely pragmatic standpoint, extremely concerned that the damage cannot be overcome

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Roger Gathmann could always read the extensive documentation on how Nina Power did not just ‘read[] Mein Kampf’, but numerous esoteric Hitlerist texts, called herself a Nazi, advocated racist conspiracies about Black people, wrote for a fascist website, harassed Jewish people, is rabidly anti-trans,

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ICE created a fake university in order to defraud, rob, and deport students. The depths of depravity there know no bounds. www.freep.com/story/news/l...

Students at fake university in Michigan created by ICE can sue US, court ruleswww.freep.com An appeals court ruled in favor of students who said they were tricked by ICE into enrolling at a fake university in metro Detroit.

i'm pretty on the fence, all things considered, on the 'should biden stay or should he go' question, but the way his people are handling this (even if 'this' is very unfair) is not good!

the much more general issue is people who can't understand having hobbies that you can't monetize somehow. enjoy making your dumb images if it 's fun! (leaving aside the absurd resource uses, of course)

"This app stole my soul and I'm now staring into the void of the thousands of useless, worthless images I've been generating without any purpose. I'm questioning everything about my life and the meaning of it, but I think this app is here to stay."

not disagreeing with the general point but there is another issue here

One thing that annoys me about the Democratic consultant class is how they act like they're brass-knuckle streetfighters and yet don't have the stones to run nonstop ads about Trump's extensive connections to Jeffrey Epstein. It's all true! It's documented! There are photos!

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One thing I don't think Americans understand is just how small and incestuous the British ruling class is. There's like 7000 people across politics and the media and certain kinds of business and think tank, who all went to the same universities, who are all married to each other.

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Incredibly revealing paragraph and sentence as to who and which issues count in a democracy with reference to Labour's target voters www.theguardian.com/politics/art...

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Constitutional Law may now be the VCR Repair of a 1L's core curriculum.

For instance, if a president illegally killed a political enemy.. wait where was i going with this

constitutional lawyers use your fucking brain challenge www.politico.com/news/2024/07...

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Seems odd that a well-known UK journo turning out to be an actual fascist, proven in a court of law, doesn't make the news, but hey.

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Never forget Keir Starmer paraded Brianna Ghey's mother around Parliament to score points over Sunak. 5 months later he's saying trans women aren't women + should be banned from women's spaces. It's utterly depressing come tomorrow there will be people inc. from many queers endorsing him as PM.

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“Shouldn’t” is just terrorising my mind i’m not rotating it in my mind it is violently shaking and lurching around outside of my control

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Now that the full extent of Nina Power’s obsessive adulation of Hitler and Nazi ideology has been revealed by Luke Turner, never forget professional transphobes Kathleen Stock and Julian Baggini defended her when it was obvious to everyone else who she was twitter.com/luke_turner/...

The worst ones are like political science profs who spend years lecturing The Left about how Republicans are Fine and Good Actually and people should be Civil and Not Shrill and Engage In The Marketplace of Ideas then one day wake up and demand everyone is outraged as they suddenly are

the worst dudes online are the guys who are like “the time for electoral politics is over, it’s time for guillotines.” yeah bud i’m sure you’ll stop posting and get the ball rolling on the guillotines any minute now.

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rolling out this gem again

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Me and the girls using the loos once Labour get in

Remember Cuomosexuals? Now you do

The brief 2020 Draft Cuomo movement that was seemingly based entirely on the quality of the Powerpoints during his COVID press conferences was deeply fuckin weird

cuomo needs to move to new jersey or something so we can have my dream Hochul-Cuomo ticket

so which is it do we think, given the various less than confident defenses of him from some unlikely sources today

generally I wish people would explain whether they are worried biden comes across badly sometimes because of age or if his brain is mush because of age - is the election campaign the problem or the governing? (I am not expressing an opinion here, just pointing out that these are different issues!)

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I can excuse the judicial overthrow of democracy, but I draw the line at Matt Yglesias takes on autonomous vehicles *removes clothing, runs outside, begins rioting* www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

The US Approach to Robotaxis Is Far Too Cautiouswww.bloomberg.com When it comes to autonomous vehicles, America requires a regulatory posture that errs on the side of innovation as a national priority, not a series of city-by-city special interest fights.

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The wild thing about this is that Starmer, once the top lawyer in the UK, is just plain wrong about this. The equality act is clear about this and there are multiple examples of case law stating exactly that trans women have the right to use single-sex spaces aligning with their gender identity.

I’m losing human rights Ned

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A damning joint report by Yale Law School and Yale Medicine finds the UK's Cass Review "levies unsupported assertions about gender identity, gender dysphoria, standard practices, and safety of gender-affirming medical treatments, and it repeats claims that have been disproved by sound evidence.”

Report Addresses Key Issues in Legal Battles over Gender-Affirming Health Carelaw.yale.edu A new report from The Integrity Project provides an evidence-based critique of a recent independent review that has become central to U.S. litigation regarding health care for transgender youth.

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Remembering how people would share Scalia dissents and be like “I disagree with his politics but he has a way with words!!” and they all read like if a school shooter wrote A Confederacy of Dunces

those centrists, never satisfied no matter how much you give them

starting the #DraftHochul movement, everybody sign up

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"The President has exclusive authority over the investigative and prosecutorial functions of the Justice Department and its officials" wow so it turns out that waiting out Biden's entire term instead of arresting Trump on January 20th *wasn't* an ironclad requirement of law and procedure?!

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in a nutshell:

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“ai” edtech company collapses after taking six million dollars from the Los Angeles school district to develop an “educational friend” platform.

A.I. ‘Friend’ for Public School Students Falls Flatwww.nytimes.com Los Angeles schools hired a start-up to build an A.I. chatbot for parents and students. A few months later, the company collapsed.

Friendly reminder that Ronald Reagan was called senile so often it became a running gag on SNL and the late night shows. He then won 49 of 50 states in the 1984 election.