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Campaign news has overshadowed this. For all those who missed it: the administration announced $1 billion to help communities be more resilient to climate change/natural hazards. www.dhs.gov/news/2024/07...

President Biden Announces $1 Billion in Project Selections to Make Communities More Resilient to Climate Change and Natural Hazards Through His Investing in America Agenda | Homeland Securitywww.dhs.gov President Joseph R. Biden, Jr., Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas and FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell today announced the 656 project selections for $1 billion in clim...

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How is this anything less than a direct assault on your customer base.

Heartbreaking, yet practical signage at Sherman's Bookshop in Bar Harbor, Maine! #kidlit #barharbor #indiebookstore

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This may come as a surprise to some internet poisoned people, but harassing Jews does nothing to help Palestine

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Oh word? Experts in brains have opinions about how qualified we are to say whether they’re working or not?

As Biden’s memory issues draw attention, neurologists weigh inwww.nbcnews.com Forgetting the names of acquaintances or having difficulty remembering dates from the past doesn’t affect decision-making or judgment, brain experts say.

"The country is not electing the next debate champion." archive.is/003yT

The lingering focus on Biden’s shaky debate obscures Trump’s major verbal miscues | Editorialwww.inquirer.com The president must now convince voters he has the mental acuity to do the toughest job in the world. The same bar does not exist for Trump, who loses no points for incoherence or incompetence.

Thread, especially this.

3. Please call your own electeds. You want to make sure your calls are logged. And they WILL be disregarded if you're not a constituent. I know no one likes to hear this, but it's absolutely the truth. 4. Leaving a voicemail is fine - they'll be checked and logged.

"The leaders of China, India and Russia have all congratulated Dr Pezeshkian on his victory." Hrm.

Iran election: Reformer Masoud Pezeshkian elected new presidentwww.bbc.com The former heart surgeon has beaten his hardline conservative rival Saeed Jalili.

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“Sometimes I wonder if all this coverage is because the media know how to cover a normal problem like a sub-par candidate; they don’t know how to cover something as abnormal and unprecedented as the end of the Republic. So for the most part they don’t.”

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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hmmm

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I get why people are scared of stuff like this but I think it’s 100% consistent with what I’ve been saying for a good while now, that Biden’s polling is softer (less personal enthusiasm, differential response) among people who are 98% likely to turn out for him in November.

"[T]he new poll shows [Biden] winning 84% of voters who backed him in 2020, while Trump is winning a much larger share of his 2020 voters, some 95%." www.wsj.com/politics/ele...

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“You don’t accomplish anything by posting” is such a ridiculous & boring take. I have learned so much from so many people on social media just from them posting. I have shared that information with others. We have changed our behaviors based on information to impact communities & ourselves.

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It's the weekend, baby 🐬

"They’re a reminder that the GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina is so extreme that the race to replace term-limited Governor Roy Cooper—Robinson is running against Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein—may prove competitive, even in this red-leaning state."

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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It's a truism in US poll analysis that even if a generic Democrat polls well against Trump, there's no such thing as a generic Democrat and every actually existing candidate comes with baggage. But in the UK they somehow found the world's most generic Labour PM candidate and absolutely cleaned up.

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We watched a grieving father with a known stutter and a head cold have his dead son denigrated to his face. Then we still expected him to have a pristine debate performance, and are trying to punish him because he did not. I have lost a son. Let me be very clear.

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I know nothing about Project Dominion or any plans for Cardassia to join the Dominion. I have never even heard of the Dominion. I disagree with many things the Dominion is saying, and trying to conquer all solids sounds awful to me. I wish them luck in anything they do.

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Biden vows to stay in race and beat Trump in defiant speech

Biden vows to stay in race and beat Trump at Wisconsin rallywww.bbc.com The president is seeking to defuse a political crisis over his candidacy that has snowballed since last week's debate.

He would have been an awful POTUS.

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Executive Time was him yelling at Morning Joe while someone put together a Cliffs Notes version of the security briefing so Trump could sell them to our adversaries.

The discourse around biden needing more sleep is fully insane. Does no one remember "Executive Time," the thing Trump spent the majority(!) of his schedule on where he would just watch TV and tweet? Dude was categorically unable to fulfill any of the demands of the office and the press barely cared

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Anti-woke, going broke

CNN Hits Lowest Primetime Ratings Since 1991www.thedailybeast.com The cable channel’s 8-11 p.m. slate drew an average of 83,000 viewers in a key metric—the lowest in three decades.

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I am glad this piece about the Heritage Foundation threatening civil war if the left doesn’t accept a monarchy came out in the WaPo. More like this, please.

A second American Revolution, this one aimed at unwinding democracy in favor of a monarchy. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | The target of the right’s ‘revolution’ is pluralistic democracy itselfwww.washingtonpost.com The president of the Heritage Foundation said, “We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”

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It's an unpopular opinion right now, but I suspect giving the Tory Right too much time to think and plot is deeply unwise. A Tory time of reflection that drags out too long can escalate into a post-Tory civil war.

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Your occasional reminder that Nigel Farage is younger than Brad Pitt. That's what chain smoking and bitter does for you.

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Getting word that Larry the Chief Mouser of Downing Street has coasted to another peerless victory with no opposition and 100% of the vote, truly Britain’s greatest statesman

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Lettuce all celebrate!

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Very good thread this. In many ways this was a typical 2020s European election. When you consider how so many of those are ending, that's a bit worrying.

2. Labour held steady in total votes, but combined with the fractured vote on the right, won a historic parliamentary majority. This is in line with trends elsewhere in Europe. The far right rises and wins when the center-left atomizes (Italy, France) and falls short when it holds (Spain, Portugal).

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With elections across Europe there has been a recent tendency of overcorrecting from past mistakes to focus entirely on far right dynamics that were once scoffed at It means dynamics that are just as important such as factional positioning in France's Left or the rise of England's Greens get missed

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Listen to the Biden interview. Its 15ish minutes of Biden talking extemporaneously perfectly well. But like several other public events over the last several days, this is getting brushed aside because the narrative that political news media wants to go with is set. civicmedia.us/shows/specia...

EXCLUSIVE: Interview w/ President Joe Biden (Hour 1)civicmedia.us <p>Earl debuts his exclusive interview with President Joe Biden on a special Independence Day broadcast. He asks the President about the importance of the black community, the economic accomplishments...