Helen Kennedy

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Twitter refugee. Newspapers 4 life. (Ex NY Daily News & Boston Herald.) NYC and North Fork. Fan of Sondheim and Venice. Aspiring watercolorist. Hoping sarcasm works out better over here.

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lowtax speedrun enjoyer

👂

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e.w. niedermeyer

How do you not get eaten alive by bugs?

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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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jonruttenberg.bsky.social

(It closed today)

Time to revive the Merrily revival.

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Taniel

RESULT: Aurélien Rousseau wins as left candidate. He is Macron's former health minister who resigned in protest in December, after Macron adopted an anti-immigration law with support of far-right MPs. Macron reportedly maneuvered to defeat him this week (as I posted earlier this week).

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madamjujujive

Hell, even Iran voted for incrementally less crazy this week. Optimism is free! Come and get some!

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This delicious little bit of schadenfreude can be ours too if we work our asses off between now and November to bury Donald Trump and his fascist political party

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David Noll

SCOTUS votes 6-3 that Le Pen gets to be President of France

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BREAKING: Upside side down French flag spotted outside the Alitos' summer residence

Can we scrape together the dough for a fruit basket?

In FCI Danbury, Steve Bannon sobs hysterically because the far right surge, that he thought he’d helped orchestrate, crashed in ignominy. Happy days! 😁

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Pam Nash

And at the Kremlin! I temporarily forgot Putin is having a rotten day too.

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Dear Marine Le Pen. I WANT MY FUCKING MONEY BACK!!

Everyone predicted a far right victory. Take heart.

BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.

Projections in France's election show voters rejecting the far rightwww.npr.org Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which ...

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Vintage by Kristen

I'm not going to pretend any expertise here.

Ouch

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Maggie Astor

I thought presidents must have total immunity

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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

*MACRON'S GROUP PROJECTED TO WIN MORE SEATS THAN FAR RIGHT *LEFT ALLIANCE SET FOR 170-215 SEATS IN FRENCH VOTE: ESTIMATES *LE PEN'S GROUP SET FOR 110-158 SEATS IN FRENCH VOTE: ESTIMATES *FRENCH LEFT SET FOR SHOCK ELECTION VICTORY, PROJECTIONS SHOW

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Wow, it's weird how the media narrative of a far right populist wave keeps crashing against reality in every country that actually requires them to win a majority of votes to take power

The 2nd leading pollster projects a similar result—if anything a higher range for the Left coalition. This wld be a much stronger result than expected for the Macron bloc. If confirmed, key takeaway: Left & Macronist voters transferred onto each other much more than expected. Clear anti-RN front.

Le Pen erased.

(Sorry, first attempt)

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JUST IN: Polls closed in France. Exit polls show surprise: —Left coalition (New Popular Front) projected first. (!) —Far-right (RN) has lost its bid to take power. Anti-RN front appears to have worked very well. —No bloc close to majority. Follow this 🧵 for results and more:

Stream of France 2 - big exit poll news about the election about to drop at the top of the hour www.youtube.com/live/l8PMl7t...

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The left takes a surprise lead over Macron's party and the far right.

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Wow. @nytimes.com has closed their Threads account and left the platform after days of getting just shredded in the replies for their handling of Biden post debate. Now they're getting dog piled on Instagram for running from Threads.

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It's hard to communicate how radical this is. For 200 years every politician in America wanted the federal government to pay for things so they could take credit for it. It's a fundamental defining feature of American politics. But now owning the libs is more important. 1/2

The governors of a dozen Republican-led states — AL, AK, FL, GA, IA, MS, OK, SC, SD, TX, UT, WY — opted out of a new federal food assistance program, leaving about 9.5 million students without the aid this summer

Republican-led states are blocking summer food benefits for hungry familieswww.usatoday.com Money for food is especially tight for families in a dozen states where Republican lawmakers declined to accept federal food assistance.