Grudgie the Whale

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I used to dabble in employment discrimination law, and I remember seeing a few scattered “anti-white” discrimination cases once in a blue moon, but it was never as coordinated/organized as it is now. More lawyers should be sounding the alarm about this in the profession

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Way back in 2021 White House economists argued that the inflation surge resembled the spike after WWII and could be ended without major pain. They were right! www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-...

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every supreme court ruling these days

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LMFAO at NYT *not* disclosing that the guy who wrote this was a clerk for John Roberts! Honestly gotta respect the game.

Opinion section really emptying the clip with a bump stock www.nytimes.com/2024/07/05/o...

Opinion | A Principled Supreme Court, Unnerved by Trumpwww.nytimes.com Most of the court’s decisions were principled and sound — most, but unfortunately not all.

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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...

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.

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we’re in danger

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i saw some folks worried that, legally, biden couldn’t be replaced on ballots - especially in crucial states like wisconsin - in time. the heritage foundation put out a memo trying to promote this fear for example. dave weigel reports here that it’s basically BS. www.semafor.com/article/07/0...

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On average workers can afford more stuff per hour of work than a year ago; hourly wages grew faster than consumer prices, 3.9% vs 3.3%. Caveat: rise, dip, & rise in 2020-2021 earnings mostly not real. Low-wage workers let go spring '20, wage of still-employed up. 2021 service hiring spike reversed

I continue to marvel that things like boxing federations will act on racial slurs but those do NOT disqualify you for President according to our elite gatekeepers www.espn.com/boxing/story...

WBC expels boxing star Ryan Garcia after racial slurs - ESPNwww.espn.com Boxing star Ryan Garcia has been expelled by the WBC from any activity with the organization following a series of racist remarks he made on social media.

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🚨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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Jim Jordan Publishes Intelligence Analysis of Trump's Authoritarian Tendencies www.emptywheel.net/2024/07/05/j...

Jim Jordan Publishes Intelligence Analysis of Trump's Authoritarian Tendencies - emptywheelwww.emptywheel.net Jim Jordan helpfully published intelligence analysis of how Trump's narcissism poses a risk to the United States.

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This was all planned before the debate, which seems important

It’s fun to contemplate how your ISP or mobile carrier’s systems are architected when every website click fires off 12 redirects and interminable page loads.

“Basket of deplorables” was a more positive description of Trump voters than Trump has ever given of Democratic voters

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I want to thank Jim Jordan for asking an intelligence expert (Mike Morell) to lay out how Trump has the personality of a dictator. www.documentcloud.org/documents/24...

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New: The US added 206,000 jobs in June, while prior months were revised lower, bolstering prospects that the Fed will cut interest rates in coming months www.bloomberg.com/news/live-bl...

Live: US Jobs Report for Junewww.bloomberg.com

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the thing about Nuzzi is she's one of the worst sociopath careerists in journalism, and that's saying quite a lot

Also that woman has friends in VERY low places, so I don’t trust her for shit. deadspin.com/boy-do-i-fee...

Deadspin | Boy, Do I Feel Naïve deadspin.com Deadspin | Boy, Do I Feel Naïve

One of my biggest fears is being realized: the media is believing Trump’s absurd lies on abortion

Washington Post has more on the story first in Politico the other day about the clashes between the Christian right and the Trump campaign/RNC on platform drafting. It's getting heated, but what will it amount to? 🧵1/x www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Tempers flare as Trump team revises 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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Also that woman has friends in VERY low places, so I don’t trust her for shit. deadspin.com/boy-do-i-fee...

Deadspin | Boy, Do I Feel Naïve deadspin.com Deadspin | Boy, Do I Feel Naïve

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"The fact that we're going to hold Joe Biden to one standard and Donald Trump to another, which is really no standard at all." - @JoeNBC on The New York Times et al.

The entire challenge of the campaign is to make Trump the main character. Swing voters viscerally dislike him. If the focus is on Trump we will win. But the focus is 100% on Joe now. And I fear if it’s Kamala the focus will entirely be on her. It MUST be on Trump and his dangerous plans.

I honestly have no idea how this gets printed with essentially no receipts at all

There’s no one (but her) on record - what are we supposed to do with this? I ask sincerely

The media has been out for Biden’s head ever since he bravely withdrew from Afghanistan. See: making great job reports seem negative. I’m almost coming around to rolling with Kamala just because otherwise there will be no Trump reporting. Only Joe’s age. Though they’ll likely do the same to her.

Stop conflating Trump’s base with the actual swing voters that decide elections my god

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NYT ran a story quoting "die hard" Democratic voters who want Biden to drop out, and I'm just wondering how long until we find out one of them was an elected Republican official

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New Yorker wants Joe Biden, whose admin has had historical success, to resign bc he's not doing well at running for re-election. This is not, in fact, what the 25th Amendment was made for.

This Is What the Twenty-fifth Amendment Was Designed Forwww.newyorker.com If Joe Biden doesn’t willingly resign, there’s another solution, which would allow Democrats to unite around a new incumbent.

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The newly unsealed Jeffrey Epstein documents have Donald Trump's name all over them. He had been secretly disguised as 'Doe 174.'www.businessinsider.com Former President Donald Trump may have fought to keep his name redacted in court documents before a judge ordered it unsealed.

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Oh man it was the best story of this year IMHO because its bizarre but nobody was harmed www.politico.eu/article/germ...

German man receives 217 Covid-19 jabs, shows no ill effectswww.politico.eu Researchers made it clear that they “do not endorse hypervaccination as a strategy to enhance adaptive immunity.”

They completely violated their oaths

john roberts, clarence thomas, samuel alito, brett kavanaugh, neil gorsuch, and amy coney barrett must be impeached and replaced

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john roberts, clarence thomas, samuel alito, brett kavanaugh, neil gorsuch, and amy coney barrett must be impeached and replaced