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Democrats focus attacks on right-wing Project 2025 pushed by Trump allieswww.washingtonpost.com The former president has sought to disavow the plan being touted by former advisers and aides, but Trump has endorsed many of the same ideas.

As well they should. I'm so glad this is getting attention

President Biden and other Democrats are increasingly focusing their attacks on an aggressive right-wing agenda called Project 2025 that is being pushed by allies of presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump — prompting Trump and his team to lash out in recent days at supporters of the effort.

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Nicholas Grossman

To me, Joe Biden is the “complete package” to run against Trump in that he is: (1) living; and (2) not Trump. Concededly, other potential candidates may also possess that combination of traits.

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The Evolution of Trustncase.me an interactive guide to the game theory of why & how we trust each other

I have had this link in my favorites for a very long time: ncase.me/trust/

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in a world which it does, Trump REALLY might win. So yeah. This is deeply terrifying shit.

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YAY FRANCE

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I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

if you’re waiting for everyone around you to wake up, you’ll wait forever. this is how the people grinding our bones to make their bread WANT you to be. paralyzed, alienated & purposeless

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And the foundation for that, for me, is that NONE OF US ARE FREE UNTIL ALL OF US ARE FREE. I hope it is for all of you too.

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I was surprised how...strongly I felt about my country when Trump first started. But my patriotism is for what I believed America was as a child and what today as an adult I believe American SHOULD be and can be. Even if I could flee, which likely would be difficult...I will not. NO, YOU MOVE.

my friend asked the other day how i planned to cover the growing fascism here and i said “i guess continue writing about it til i’m sent to prison? lol” it was a flip thing to say but it’s hard to imagine ever stopping. or fleeing. i’m feeling not quite patriotic, but protective of this country.

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Satisfied Psychic

I think it's a week long attempt to misdirect to the sky is falling when really a volcano named SCOTUS went off.

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what the thing meant to you in the time in place it had value, but YOU THROW IT INTO THE FUCKING TRASH because there's a world, an entire whole ass world of wonderful things made by people who are not abusers and shitbirds. The End. Choose wisely.

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Mike Wiser

(My personal deal on the authors who turn out to be terrible is that I can't knowingly do things that enrich them once I know they're bad, but I can buy their books from used book sales or the like. It's where I got to reading Orson Scott Card as a gay teen, and have applied several times since.)

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Given the questionable media origin, I'm waiting to see if that is true, just the sexual relationship. The imbalance of power, age, etc. esp. with a live in nanny, someone you're paying to be in your household is not okay in my book. I think at it's BEST it's super fucking gross and horrible.

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The thing I keep coming back to on this post is “bloodless if the left allows it to be.” He’s not saying “bloodless if the left doesn’t fire the first shot.” He’s saying “bloodless unless the left wins.” He’s advocating for violence if he doesn’t like the outcome of the election.

That Heritage Foundation statement threatening a violent revolution against the left = that moment in a movie in which the forces of evil loudly announce their evil plans. except in real life, unlike in a movie, most normal people don’t even realize this has *happened* (which is our job).

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Greg Pak

They want Trump. They want authoritarianism. They want chaos. They want "excitement." It's obscene.

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MAGA Gov Candidate’s Ugly, Hateful Rant: “Some Folks Need Killing!”newrepublic.com Mark Robinson, the GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, has a long history of incendiary comments. But he may have topped himself this time.

The increasingly brazen endorsement of political violence by the GOP is a tremendously dangerous development that warrants high-profile media coverage.

NEWS --> Mark Robinson, the MAGA extremist GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, appeared to endorse political violence against unnamed foes in a recent speech. "Some folks need killing!" he shouted. "It's a matter of necessity!" Video and story here: newrepublic.com/article/1834...

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Orpheus Condescending

To POST ALT Text - upload your image, then CLICK it - a space appears and you type your text there. Simple. Set it up as a default in your Setting, that way you never have to think about it: settings > accessibility > require alt-text for images

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Brexit was really dumb. What an own goal. With ongoing reverberations.

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I also think an uncomfortable truth we're all going to face is that a lot of people are just fine with fascism, provided their lives don't change too much. And in fact some secretly welcome it thinking they'll benefit or if not the 'right' ppl will suffer.

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Another thing to think about re the elite revolt against Biden is he *is* the president who funded the tax police and ended the cozy wink, nudge relationship on dodging the taxes they claim to support.

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"I decline to answer questions; I do not consent to any search of my person, vehicle, or belongings; I want a lawyer."

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Trump Is Immunewww.youtube.com This is one of the worst SCOTUS decisions ever. 📰 Get 40% off of Ground News: https://legaleagle.link/groundnews ⚖️⚖️⚖️ Do you need a great lawyer? I can h...

Again, as there are minimizers out there, every single actual expert who's not a monster is freaking the fuck out because...yeah.

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This is the right emotion. We should all, ALL, be very very angry at the destruction of our country and who is responsible. NO, YOU MOVE.

On INDEPENDENCE DAY they published this. ON THE FOURTH OF JULY 2024 THE NEW YORK TIMES TOLD PEOPLE NOT TO VOTE. I'm furious.

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and during all that if they tell you to sit, sit. Etc. Fight it in court. Your job, your ONLY job when encountering cops is to shut the fuck up and survive the encounter.

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Writing for the majority, Justice Alito said: "Thank you for your service, we've got it from here boys"

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She took on a small Mississippi town’s police. Then they arrested her.www.washingtonpost.com How civil rights lawyer Jill Collen Jefferson convinced the Justice Department to investigate allegedly racist and abusive policing in tiny Lexington, Miss.

Lord, there are so many good people.

Anyway here’s a read about a civil rights attorney risking her freedom to tackle racist policing.

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Oh, you don't LIKE this. Good, neither do I. What we do about THAT comes after Nov.

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You're either voting for Joe Biden, or you're never voting again.

I know it is useless to argue with these people, which is why I block them immediately instead.

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