Greg Greene

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Dad. Wiseguy. Deep South expat. 🏠 Los Angeles, Ca. 📇: Comms at Vote Rev. Prior 📇: Malcontent strategist @ Planned Parenthood Action Fund, DNC, Nat’l Dem. Inst., BlueState. Views my own. Also @ggreeneva @ 🐦 & 🐘.

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Hallelujah, praise the Lord.

It’s official: the majority of the UK House of Commons has now been called for Labour, ending 14-year of Tory rule.

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I wrote about the election and the American project. www.ositanwanevu.com/will-america...

“No way to run a country”: well, Economist editors, a man who used a wheelchair and a walker once saved your home country’s *ss, hm?

IMO this is a straight-up ageist and ableist image, no?

Watching the UK election returns as every very online person should: with Ed Balls.

Me, a founding-documents reading dumdum: “no one is above the law” John Roberts, wise jurist: “no, one is above the law.”

Such a shame, such a shame — strong, healthy democracies let their presidents launder money, staff their political teams with convicts, and enrich themselves through the power of their office with impunity. Someone should tell Brazil.

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil's federal police indict ex-President Bolsonaro for money laundering and criminal association, source confirms.

Nope. I harp on the need to build a partisan press for this reason: major media institutions have had enough time that if they could improve themselves to meet the moment, they’d by now have done so.

our major media institutions are not up to the challenge of our current politics.

Old enough to remember the former guy’s “executive time”.

IMO this is a straight-up ageist and ableist image, no?

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Yup. Lots of people pointing out obviously this would be weaponized against LGBTQ folks. But also it just fundamentally bristles with a hostility towards privacy and freedom that runs through the entire project.

And, their definition of "porn" includes acknowledging the existence of trans people.

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just watched 74 people speaking at least a dozen different languages become american citizens in a ceremony at monticello, where the speakers were themselves children of immigrants. inspiring stuff and a vivid illustration of what reactionaries want to snuff out

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I feel like a fool, a real rube, for having not previously predicted cops demanding free OnlyFans access arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Millions of OnlyFans paywalls make it hard to detect child sex abuse, cops sayarstechnica.com Cops want more access to OnlyFans to detect more child sex abuse, report says.

Absolutely, and let me tout my less-radical-than-it-seems suggestion of what to do about SCOTUS: sortition. Only the role of the chief justice is constitutionally enshrined. Write a Judiciary Act prescribing that the other seats get filled by a yearly random draw from the courts of appeals.

i mentioned this before but the last week or two has fully clarified that the rest of our lives is a drag-out fight against the supreme court that starts with priming the public to enthusiastically support — or at the very least resist decorum-based media calls against — completely rebuilding it

You know, it’s just as well that my student loans got forgiven — because otherwise, this week I’d be asking for my law school tuition back.

What’s funny is that Biden is still forgiving student debt anyway — using statutory authority left intact by the Supreme Court’s obstruction of his original approach. After 25 years of mostly working at nonprofits, I just had my remaining balance canceled without even having to ask for relief.

[in a notably “NOT LIKE US” voice:] 🎹 certified businessman? certified pedophile 🎶 / 🎤 WHOP-WHOP-WHOP-WHOP-WHOP! Brandon, f*** ’em up 🫰

Yes, the convicted felon and insurrection organizer was also a close confidant of the Mr. Roarke of Pedophilia Island, which means we should focus even harder on Biden’s age

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I'm old enough to remember when everyone agreed it would be unprofessional and unethical to diagnose Trump as a sociopath

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"The president is above the law, and the trial court judges of the Fifth Circuit are above the president" is an odd constitutional structure. www.reuters.com/legal/us-jud...

US judge blocks Biden administration ban on worker noncompete agreementswww.reuters.com A federal judge in Texas on Wednesday partially blocked a U.S. Federal Trade Commission rule from taking effect that would ban agreements commonly signed by workers not to join their employers' rivals or launch competing businesses.

Exactly — it’s a back office, not a repository of executive power. (If only it were half as mighty as some of its loudest critics make it seem.)

I would like to once again remind everyone that the DNC is a bureaucratic services organization and keeper of the rules for nominating processes, not a shadowy back room strategy organization. They don’t decide who’s running or what the message is.

Dems have to get to work building a partisan press, or they’ll be at the mercy of jackals like Dash Sulzberger forever — or for whatever time as a going concern the party has left.

Whatever you think about Biden, look at the New York Times. They are unabashedly cheerleading for him to drop out. We should never again think of the Times as a liberal or even a neutral paper. The NYT takes sides when they want to. When they don't take a side, that's a choice.

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“There is no way to convince the public, because the people who he needs to convince to do that (the media) are never going to [go along]”: mm-hm. This is the problem in a nutshell. Either Dem allies build a partisan press, or having “no way to convince the public” will hobble the party.

the media, led by the Times, has done to Biden what they did to Claudine Gay at Harvard there is no way to convince the public, because the people who he needs to convince to do that (the media) are never going to tell the public that he’s fine I think dropping out is a when, not if at this point

“In conclusion, interpreting the Constitution to hand presidents dictatorial powers is a land of contrasts.” – that NYT article preview, basically

I just counted home page stories. The Daily Caller has five anti-Biden and six pro-Trump stories. The New York Times has seven anti-Biden stories and three that give this style of both-sides treatment to Trump. The Times really is sprinting off a cliff to satisfy their nepo-publisher’s vendetta.

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Classic American political dialogue is premised on the idea that we share fundamental values but disagree on how best to promote them. I haven’t believed this for a while. Other than “I prefer to be alive and not dead” and “I like pudding,” I do not share values with these people.

Yep. One of the biggest blind spots people have is assuming that underneath, others share the same basic values as them. They have trouble imagining an ideology that is completely misaligned with theirs.

Yup. I’d say PR statehood _if_ the electorate there wants it — but let’s also add USVI statehood, because the words “Rep. Stacey Plaskett” are music to my ears.

really cannot emphasize enough how plainly all this proves that the first priority of the next Democratic administration needs to be democracy reform --filibuster --electoral college --court reform --dc and pr statehood --new voting rights act --gerrymandering

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He's right. They're stealing the country from us and ending democracy. "Bloodless if the left allows it to be" is a threat to kill anyone who fights back

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

When the freedom and the rule of law are well and truly poppin’:

Mm-hm. Against the backdrop of Trump’s ugly comments about Black female prosecutors he’s faced — Fani Willis and Tish James — this seems like an absolute certainty.

Republicans have spent the last 4 years getting a lot more openly racist so if Kamala is the nominee she’s going to bait them into saying a lot of really nasty stuff that turns off swing voters

Having observed this all the way back to Bill Clinton and the Times’ huffing of ‘Whitewater’ into existence, I’ve seen enough to conclude:

The NYT does truly bizarre shit to every Democrat in every presidential election, but Biden's age is Al Gore sighing, Kerry eating a cheesesteak, and Clinton's email servers combined

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The below, yes — and the clear-eyed commitment to build a partisan press that permits Dems to both (a) deliver unmolested messages to voters, and (b) tell the Dash Sulzbergers of the world to sod off.

Pretty clear that the democratic party has to either figure out a way to stop AG Sulzberger's temper-tantrum ratfuck or develop the grit to power through it

To repeat what I wrote a few days ago: if the undaunted sorriness of the Times this cycle doesn't convince at least a funder or two of the need to scale up a Democratic partisan press, nothing ever will.

the New York Times has descended into total nihilism; it doesn't give a damn about the truth, only about damaging Democrats and helping Trump. So it presents a video it acknowledges to be misleadingly edited as evidence for its thesis.

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Setting the particular topic aside for a second, this is a truly spectacular case of the Times' pathologically incompetent "Where there's fire, there's smoke" theory of writing up high-stakes investigative stories

Pretty sure Dash Sulzberger’s lapses (of news judgment) and John Roberts’ lapses (of fidelity to his oath) concern me a great deal more than the disputable ones the Times keeps hyping.

I've kept Wordle, because it's a crutch. Otherwise, I'm out.