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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.bsky.social · 5 hr
I am firmly agnostic on Biden staying on at this point but I am fully ready to shove Peter Baker and A.G. Sulzberger’s heads in the toilet for a swirly if I see them in public for this shit
Avatar The New York Times @nytimes.com · 5 hr
Breaking News: A Parkinson’s expert visited the White House eight times in eight months from last summer through this spring, according to official visitor logs. The administration has said that President Biden has no signs of the disease.
Parkinson’s Expert Visited the White House Eight Times in Eight Monthswww.nytimes.com The White House has said that President Biden has no signs of the disease and that there has been no reason to update the most recent testing, conducted in February.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 6 hr
As others have said, Macron was too clever by half. He set up EXTRAORDINARILY (record) speedy elections: Only 1 week before filing deadline. You'd think: No way fractured left unites in that time. Instead, made situation SO URGENT that Left had no time to fight on its issues.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 19 hr
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Michael @matttttthews.bsky.social · a day
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 3 days
🚨BREAKING: Wisconsin Supreme Court OVERTURNS ban on ballot drop boxes. Congratulations to our client Priorities USA and the voters of Wisconsin. We are not done fighting for free and fair elections and we are not done winning! www.democracydocket.com/cases/wiscon...
🚨 Voting Rights Victory in Wisconsinwww.democracydocket.com Read about the latest voting rights victory in Priorities USA v. Wisconsin Elections Commission.
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Gertrude The Squid 🐙 @gertrudethesquid.bsky.social · 4 days
Reskeet with a tweet you still think about.
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Reskeet with a tweet you still think about.
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Hayes Brown @hayesbrown.bsky.social · 5 days
idk it just seems to me that laws, like tech, should be created with the question "what would the worst person i know be able to do with this power" in mind and it's truly incredible how much this opinion fails at that basic task
Avatar Hayes Brown @hayesbrown.bsky.social · 5 days
John Roberts must be the most neurotypical person in existence because the immunity ruling reads like someone who has never had a single “but what if…???” anxiety spiral in his life
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 6 days
The fundamental paradox is that in the case of SCOTUS as it exists in the year of our lord 2024, you must delegitimize the institution in order to save it, and I think that's a hard one for lifelong institutionalists to get their heads around.
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Hunter Biden For America @evanengel.bsky.social · 7 days
"An hour ago, acting on my new authority, federal agents apprehended the Supreme Court justices..."
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 7 days
Apparently he’s slated to give live remarks tonight.
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The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter @swolecialism.bsky.social · 7 days
a thing to remember, in all of this horror, is that these are not the actions of a political party that is confident it represents the will of the people, and who is currently out of power and enslaved to a deeply flawed avatar. the struggle is not over and they have not won
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kilgore trout @kilgoretrout.bsky.social · 7 days
ok but seriously nut up. nobody here loves biden. I’d rather vote for a sentient captcha machine that electrocutes my eyeballs every time I tag all the bicycles and it thinks I missed a fuckin train wheel. but that’s what we got and if you want to live in a fantasy I have no time for your ass
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should I make a terrible effort at lightening the mood with a just awful biden / fredrick wilhelm joke yes/no
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Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 7 days
Happy Steve Bannon Goes to Prison Day for all those who celebrate
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SallyinFrance @sallyinfrance.bsky.social · 10 days
This article from Seth Abramson has reassured me and convinced me Biden should definitely not withdraw. open.substack.com/pub/sethabra...
The Extremely Simple Reason MAGA Wants President Joe Biden to End His Campaignopen.substack.com If you’re a Democratic or independent voter who’s been suckered into the idea that Biden ending his campaign would do anything but ensure a second Trump term, it’s time to awaken from the fever dream.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 8 days
Everyone in Busytown is trying to find the guy who did this.
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John Dellaporta @johndellaporta.bsky.social · 10 days
A few years ago, Jon Lovett floated a theory that media treats Democrats like protagonists - to be challenged, accounted, and forced to be behave in growth-oriented ways - while the GOP are treated like antagonists - immutable, expected to disrupt, thematic obstacles. Thinking about that a lot.
Avatar @darkwebmallcop.bsky.social · 10 days
I don’t recall the NYT calling for Trump to step down after being convicted of 34 counts of fraud and being called by a judge at his civil trial a rapist in the common person sense
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Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 10 days
I've got a piece at Wonkette tomorrow that's just 700 words of me snickering about Bannon going to prison. I'm only sorry it's only going to be for four months.
Avatar Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 10 days
A lot of the pseudo leftists of Bluesky have no problem celebrating the carceral state when it punishes their enemies, and by that I mean lol fuck this guy lmao www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
Steve Bannon must report to prison by Monday after Supreme Court rejects last-minute appealwww.nbcnews.com Bannon, a former Trump adviser, was convicted of contempt of Congress in July 2022 for defying subpoenas from the House Jan. 6 committee and sentenced to four months.
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David Noll @david.noll.org · 10 days
Legitimately fired up watching this
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Biden in NC today: "I know I'm not a young man. I don't walk as easy as I used to. I don't speak as smoothly as I used to ... [but] I know how to tell the truth. I know right from wrong. I know how to do this job ... I know like millions of Americans know, when you get knocked down you get back up!"
"When you get knocked down you get back up!"www.youtube.com YouTube video by C-SPAN
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Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 10 days
If Biden's team wants to grab back some headlines, a promise to at a minimum add four justices to SCOTUS while people are fuming might do it.
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Assistant to the Professor @darinself.bsky.social · 10 days
If SCOTUS doesn't make you angry enough to overlook Biden's faults I don't know what to tell you.
Avatar The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 10 days
Breaking news: Federal prosecutors improperly charged hundreds of Jan. 6 defendants with obstruction, the Supreme Court ruled on Friday, upending many cases against rioters who disrupted the certification of the 2020 presidential election.
Supreme Court says prosecutors improperly charged hundreds of Jan. 6 rioterswww.washingtonpost.com Supreme Court’s decision on obstruction charge will impact trials of hundreds of Jan. 6 rioters and, potentially, former president Donald Trump.
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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 11 days
Every morning I check the news and it's like -SCOTUS Eliminates Three More Basic Rights, Only Six Remain -President Mispronounces a Word, Will Now Lose Election to Senile Hitler -New AI Company Uses Artist Blood to Let Billionaires and Racists Live Forever, Gets $45 Billion Valuation
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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 10 days
Anyway, think he can turn it around, but they gonna need fire-extinguishers and a real sense of urgency that's been lacking so far on it to stop that settling in
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 11 days
There are mostly no jokes as such in anti-woke “comedy,” there’s only the gleeful expectation that you’re saying something that will make someone else feel belittled or bad. Which is what bullies find funny.
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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 12 days
Alito outside of the building posing for photos and accepting a novelty check from plaintiffs under a banner that "for some reason this is legal now"
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The Bricktosser @bricktosser.bsky.social · 12 days
The New York Times started making sense to me when I thought about it as a paper run by conservatives who know their audience is mostly liberal, and they wish it were not so. Hence the horse race, hence Pennsylvania diner stories, hence their Op Ed pages. They know who Trump is. The cover for him.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 15 days
Ted Cruz Furious That Biden's Name Is On Signs For Popular Infrastructure Projects thewillisreport.com/ted-cruz-fur...
Ted Cruz Furious That Biden's Name Is On Signs For Popular Infrastructure Projects - The Willis Reportthewillisreport.com Senator Ted Cruz is upset that President Joe Biden’s name is on signs for popular infrastructure projects around the country. But Biden is the one that signed the law and historically this has happene...
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Mr. Am I Being Detained @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 17 days
Everyone says he has no involvement in the development of the technology but the car parents just like him
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Impeccable engineering, Mr. Musk.
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Gertrude The Squid 🐙 @gertrudethesquid.bsky.social · 17 days
This feels like a win.
Robert Winnett will not join The Post as editorwww.washingtonpost.com Robert Winnett, hired by Washington Post publisher William Lewis, faced questions about his U.K. work, including stories based on stolen records.