Nicki

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That’s a kind of persuasion, I guess, but it’s one that’s quite likely to wrench open existing divisions and create whole new ones.

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What Beutler here euphemistically calls “persuasion” is better understood as a systematic campaign to pressure and undermine Biden so he has no choice but to leave the race. I’m not trying to put my spin on it, that’s what’s being attempted here.

New: on one level, what needs to happen is pretty simple. Dems need to persuade Biden to suspend his campaign. But the “how?” of the succession is not as simple as so many pundit and donor fantasies, and requires methodical thinking.

A Methodical Approach To The Democratic Succession Crisiswww.offmessage.net In a void of important information, half-baked ideas are flourishing. This is a complicated decision, and only Joe Biden can make it.

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There’s a Quiet New Deal going on

ICYMI: The Biden Administration announced $504 million in funding to twelve tech hubs across the country, including locations in: * Colorado * Montana * Indiana * Illinois * Nevada * New York * New Hampshire * South Carolina * Ohio * Florida * Oklahoma * Wisconsin Full details in the link.

Fact Sheet: Biden-Harris Administration Announces Investment in Twelve Regional Technology Hubs, Creating Good-paying Jobs and Driving Economic Opportunity and Innovation in Communities Across the Cou...www.whitehouse.gov Regional Tech Hubs will strengthen American leadership in industries of the future, create jobs, and spur economic growth in all of America Today, the Biden-Harris Administration will announce funding...

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I'll say more about this in my newsletter today but the "tempers flare" narrative on supposed acrimony between Trump and anti-abortion GOPers is not a secret fight that the press has exposed. It's a performance meant to reassure anti-abortion voters that Trump will do what they want.

Tempers flare as Trump reviews revised abortion plank for Republican platformwww.washingtonpost.com The former president wants the platform to endorse leaving the issue to the states rather than a federal ban in the wake of Roe v. Wade’s demise.

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Almost startling to read good economic news reported as though it is good economic news.

US employers added a solid 206,000 jobs in June in a sign of continued economic strength

US employers added a solid 206,000 jobs in June in a sign of continued economic strengthapnews.com America’s employers delivered another healthy month of hiring in June, adding 206,000 jobs and once again displaying the U.S. economy’s ability to withstand continually high interest rates.

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the Claudine Gay "plagiarism scandal" was such a vivid illustration of this, the paper deciding to do constant, full court press coverage of a story that had tenuous actual news value.

In this chat, we suggest a distinction between covering something (NYT does great reporting on Trump's autocratic plans), and *crusading.* The latter is wholly different: It uses saturation coverage to alert readers that they should be alarmed. That's just not happening w/r/t Trump's unfitness.

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Solve your housing affordability crisis with this one weird trick

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Look how fun shutting down fascists is. I want this for us, too

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“They want to eliminate national parks” is a very simple way to get just about anyone on the Stop Project 2025 train. Are there much more glaring and life-threatening goals of P25? Yes but even your most bigoted cousin does not want to see the parks system sold for parts.

This!! Start with “they want to end no fault divorce, sell national parks, and ban porn” end with tax structure.

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We haven't learned to stop posting Yashar? Lmao. Also interesting: He linked to a WaPo story and Lieu flatly denied it. The WaPo story says Lieu asked him to step aside. The @washingtonpost.com is straight up printing lies. You should be proud, you dogshit rag.

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The people of the UK and France showing us that there is a path forward is exactly what we needed to see right now.

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I'm sorry, folks. As a political historian, I can soundly say that this is NOT A GOOD IDEA. Come. On. A "blitz primary?" Because popularity contests done slapdash in public view always end well??

Dumbest fuckin’ idea I’ve ever heard. “The proposal is work of Rosa Brooks, a Georgetown law professor who served in Obama and Clinton administrations and as a volunteer policy adviser to the Biden campaign in 2020, and Ted Dintersmith, a venture capitalist…” www.semafor.com/article/07/0...

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Do you REALLY want four years of us brits going "yeah we do eat baked beans on toast but at least our leader isn't a fascist cheeto wankjob, haha"? NO you DON'T.

there are many reasons we need to win in the fall, but one of them is that i simply am not going to abide by letting both the brits and the french lecture us

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The "blitz primary" idea is so dumb that you almost have to wonder if the Biden camp planted it as a threat

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France dropkicked a baldly fascist political coalition out of office, imo if we can’t manage to do the same we should give back the Statue of Liberty

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Michael Tae Sweeney

i think there's a lot to criticize about Dem message discipline but the rules at the NYT changed kind of dramatically and suddenly to "a single on-background quote from basically any Dem is enough to peg an entire new story about Biden's age to" and idk how you control that basically

Speaking of, democrats would do a lot better to go vent their anxieties to god than to journalists

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whelp, guess the big interview didn't give them what they wanted since the goalposts have now moved to "can he win over crypto investors with inexplicable politics" www.cnbc.com/2024/07/06/b...

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Exactly this

The ever-astute Rebecca Solnit on how the pundit class has turned into a mob stampeding America toward a catastrophe. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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

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“Aileen Cannon’s repeated delays have one Republican close to Trump calling the judge their “favorite member of the Trump campaign”” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Judge Cannon is aaking for briefs about presidential immunity by July 21st. Then she'll take her sweet time dealing with them. www.forbes.com/sites/brianb...

Trump Scores Another Victory: Judge Delays Classified Documents Deadline—Againwww.forbes.com Trump’s federal classified documents trial had been scheduled to start in May, though a series of delays pushed that date back, as Trump’s legal team continues to push for delays.

Team Trump Says Classified Docs Judge Aileen Cannon Is a ‘Godsend’www.rollingstone.com Aileen Cannon’s repeated delays have one Republican close to Trump calling the judge their “favorite member of the Trump campaign.”

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If you paid attention to Trump's side of the debate, he had the same underlying problem Biden did, where over and over he would start a sentence and realize he couldn't say or remember the words that would come next, but where Biden stalled out, Trump just switched to blurting something unrelated

Donald Trump has good days and bad days but increasingly only bad days. He's lost it - he can't focus and his brains are leaking out his ears, but the press is very impressed with him because HE CAN STILL SHOUT

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In the week following the debate the New York Times ran 192 stories about Biden's performance and six about Project 2025. x.com/Will_Bunch/s...

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NYT coverage: Let’s take some stigma away from felons and apply it to the elderly

The NYT's Trump coverage today

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Part of what’s happening with the Biden political media freakout is about power to act. Journalists have felt feeble and useless during the Trump era. They write their usual articles about Trump and it has little effect on his approval. Not so with Biden.

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Love the obvious hat tip to Free Derry Corner in this new Welsh mural. 👊

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Seems like there should be a national conversation about whether the GOP should be nominating a convicted felon, an adjudicated rapist and a guy whose led his party into three electoral drubbings. But nope, press don’t want that.

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Daniel Gilmore

Giving into the blood that they are screaming for now will not stop them, it will only reinforce their narrative & encourage them to go deeper. They will immediately turn on Harris and implicate her in a “coverup” of Biden’s health, wholly of their own design.

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Yes. Anyone who thinks that the media won't immediately start in on "voters have a lot of questions" or "voters expressed doubts about" or "and yet Harris comes with her own baggage" should Biden withdraw does not understand how the cycle of political reporting about Dems works.

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The Fig Economy

Yeah when head to heads show stuff like Biden-Trump (43/43) and Michelle Obama-Trump (54/43) and the like, I think the reasonable inference is ppl are registering unhappiness with Biden but they're not gonna vote Trump. This seems a common incumbent pattern as well

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Lmao

NEW: Biden has narrowed Trump’s lead in swing states despite a widely panned presidential debate performance, the Bloomberg News/Morning Consult poll finds

Biden Narrows Gap With Trump in Swing States Despite Debate Losswww.bloomberg.com The incumbent trails his GOP rival by just 2 points across key states, a Bloomberg News/Morning Consult shows, even as three in 10 Democrats say he should leave the race.

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Daniel Gilmore

I am begging tuned in but anxious Dems/liberals to understand something about news media: it does matter, but the ppl specifically that you are worried about it mattering with—avg, undecided voters—are not sitting at home waiting dutifully to have their brains filled up by CNN, the NYT, Axios etc.