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Circling the drain overlooking the Continent's End, listening to the ghosts of the Umunhum.

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The future the the right wants is Aileen Cannons giving them and their allies a pass when they need it. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | A preview of government of, by and for a subset of ‘the people’www.washingtonpost.com That Judge Aileen M. Cannon’s dismissal of the classified documents case wasn’t surprising tells us a lot about how government might evolve over the next four years.

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Saying rhetoric about the threat to democracy led to Saturday's shooting is a way to try to muffle that rhetoric. Saying a change in tone is coming is a way to distract from unchanging policy promises. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | Even Donald Trump can’t shift the momentum of Trumpismwww.washingtonpost.com Trump’s allies were quick to blame his critics for this weekend’s assassination attempt, while Trump pledged a new dawn. The former impulse is likely to prevail.

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“We would love Mr. Trump to join us in condemning political violence once and for all after the terrible incident on Saturday. This is a moment for him to help us unite the American people behind our true principle: We always solve problems through ballots, not bullets.”

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You’d think there might be some renewed coverage of Republican politicians openly calling for political killings in the wake of all this. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Trump-Endorsed Candidate for Governor: ‘Some Folks Need Killing’www.rollingstone.com North Carolina Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson declared "some people need killing" during a Sunday sermon.

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Editorial: One candidate is patently unfit for the White House. It's not Bidenwww.latimes.com As Democrats weigh Biden's future, let's remember that Trump already failed the presidential fitness test. If Republicans cared about democracy, they'd be scheming to push him aside.

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Worth noting the EPA's brief correctly uses "nitrogen oxide" 7 times, and the EPA submitted a declaration from an official who used it twice. But nobody involved in the majority opinion, Justices and clerks, bothered to take the EPA's brief seriously, and so none of them noticed the error.

Still marveling at Gorsuch's Ohio v. EPA opinion, in which he confused nitrogen oxide (a pollutant) with nitrous oxide (laughing gas). He did this five times, never once getting it right—in an opinion overruling the EPA's own expert scientific analysis! s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...

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Personnel is policy — particularly when your campaign assiduously avoids policy and your past and your future personnel is publicly endorsing robust policy proposals. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | The impossibility of separating Trump from Project 2025www.washingtonpost.com The Heritage Foundation’s playbook isn’t the campaign’s. But Trump’s relegation of policy to staff makes the document an important preview of a second term.

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I mean this is just funny, like stories back in the day of nonagenarians typing searches into the Facebook status box.

Well this is grim

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The editors changed the headline to “Why I WONT vote” but the article still contains the entirely uncorrected lie that Walther does not vote www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/o...

Lmao they just changed the title of the piece from “Why I don’t vote” to “Why I won’t vote” rather than tell readers that the guy actually does vote

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Been thinking today of Obama’s speech at the 50th anniversary of Selma, IMO the finest of his career. In direct response to an accusation from a now disbarred lawyer, who said he “didn’t really love America,” Obama laid out a vision of the America he loved. time.com/3736357/bara...

Read the Full Text of Obama's Speech in Selmatime.com The President spoke on Saturday in Selma, Ala.

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/8 At any rate, congratulations to the Federalist Society for an achievement beyond the reach of the British, outside the grasp of bloody civil war, impossible to Nazis and Soviets and terrorists: defeating the American idea.

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YES THAT WORKED SO WELL AND DID NOT AT ALL THROW THE PARTY INTO A DIVISIVE NOMINATION CONTEST AND LOST ELECTION THAT WOULD HAUNT IT FOR THE NEXT HALF CENTURY

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on the very day the Supreme Court's conservatives said 'we know best' and put themselves in charge of complicated agency decisions one of the geniuses confused nitrous oxide and nitrogen oxide. So they had to have a do over. Not exactly an auspicious start. www.forbes.com/sites/alison...

Supreme Court Corrects EPA Opinion After Gorsuch Confuses Laughing Gas With Air Pollutantwww.forbes.com The error came in an opinion blocking an EPA policy meant to improve air pollution.

I miss Obama

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Kinky Friedman, provocative satirist and one-time gubernatorial candidate, dies at 79

Kinky Friedman, provocative satirist and one-time gubernatorial candi…www.texastribune.org Friedman launched a boisterous campaign for governor in 2006, decades after forming the band Kinky Friedman and The Texas Jewboys.

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This facility has gone 0️⃣ days without a free speech violation

“Merely mentioning that Mr. Trump is a felon prompts an admonishment from whomever is presiding when the offending fact is uttered.” www.nytimes.com/2024/06/21/u... 🎁

On the House Floor, Republicans Gag Mentions of Trump’s Convictionwww.nytimes.com During official proceedings of the G.O.P.-controlled chamber, speaking about former President Donald J. Trump’s felony conviction has been forbidden, while disparaging President Biden and Democrats is...

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This is quite good. What it doesn't address, though, are the allegations that Lewis is silencing (or attempting to) journalists both within and outside WaPo.

Excellent by James Ball Don't blame differing culture for shock at the Lewis gang's past. Yes. Blame the ethical and journalistic lapses of them and their companies: both News Corp and Telegraph. Opinion | The Wrong Culprit in the Controversy at the Washington Post politi.co/3VMsfFs

Opinion | The Wrong Culprit in the Controversy at the Washington Postpoliti.co The allegations of journalistic misconduct facing publisher Will Lewis aren’t condoned in the U.K. either.

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Since Roger Stone has declared himself the leader of Big Lie 2.0, it's more important than ever to uncover his role in the 2016 Russia attack and how Trump used the pardon power to make sure we never got to the bottom of Stone's treachery.

By the nuts: Russia's attack on the 2016 election | Ball of Thread | Episode 1www.youtube.com You remember “Russia, if you’re listening” and the flood of social media disinformation. But you’ve never heard the strands of Putin’s attack on the 2016 election tied together like this. Want to know more? Join https://www.patreon.com/BallofThread to ask your questions, which could be answered in a bonus Q&A episode coming soon. For as little as $1 a month, you can support us and help spread the word. You can also subscribe on: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ball-of-thread/id1746189942 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0GV6tGSk5fSJdAH0Jrle99 Audible: https://www.audible.com/podcast/Ball-of-Thread/B0D42HXNTD

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Some reduce the 2024 campaign to a contest between two old men, but it's a choice of two slates of federal appointees who'll impact your life in a million ways. Biden has staffed executive agencies with excellent choices who are doing good work. Trump will empower an army of Stephen Millers.

Under current law, you really couldn’t do much better than Biden’s FTC and NRLB. New Deal shit.

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It's really weird (it's not really weird) how states that ban abortions are also states where women can't get leave to take care of their children.

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Alaska has had a small annual universal basic income since 1982. You might think it has only increased prices but every year when the checks go out, businesses compete for customers by lowering their prices. It has decreased poverty there. It's also increased overall employment.

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If you’re not a law nerd, and you’re wondering why people who are not themselves theocratic fascists would support theocratic fascists, it’s to achieve this: to limit the power of the regulatory state.

NEW: SCOTUS could soon overturn the "Chevron doctrine," upending numerous federal regulations designed to protect the public. At least 20 right-wing groups linked to court-whisperers like Charles Koch and Leonard Leo have backed the assault on Chevron. therevolvingdoorproject.org/amicus-spotl...

Amicus Spotlight: Loper Bright & Relentless | Revolving Door Projecttherevolvingdoorproject.org 20 right-wing groups linked to court-whisperers want SCOTUS to make its most dangerous regulatory power grab yet.

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I’m a genuine admirer of David French. He’s one of the very, very few conservative Evangelical Christians (in fact, I can’t think of another) who stayed true to his principles in the Trump era, and he and his family paid a steep price. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/09/o...

Opinion | The Day My Old Church Canceled Me Was a Very Sad Daywww.nytimes.com There is a difference between peace and capitulation.

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Morbid curiosity got the best of me, and I read this. The argument is literally that Dolly Parton is a fake, destructive Christian because despite a lifetime of kindness, decency, philanthropy, and spreading joy around the world, she won’t explicitly condemn gay people for their wickedness.

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Edgar sent us this photo where he was working in the beets in Lamont CA yesterday. It was 108°. #WeFeedYou #CALOR

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“The Wrong Trousers” is such a perfect film. So, no pressure lads www.youtube.com/watch?v=D--y...

Feathers McGraw returns in Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl 🐧 #WallaceandGromitwww.youtube.com He's back... with a vengeance. Feathers McGraw returns in Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, a brand new film premiering on BBC in the UK and Netflix globally this winter 🐧 🔔 Subscribe to the Wallace & Gromit channel: https://aard.mn/2HVk8kI Gromit’s concern that Wallace is becoming too dependent on his inventions proves justified, when Wallace invents a “smart” gnome that seems to develop a mind of its own. When it emerges that a vengeful figure from the past might be masterminding things, it falls to Gromit to battle sinister forces and save his master… or Wallace may never be able to invent again! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thewallaceandgromit Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wallaceandgromit Website: https://www.wallaceandgromit.com/ #VengeanceMostFowl #FeathersMcGraw #Aardman

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Dude, it’s clearly Bi

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SO FAR, one of the most unhinged takes on the Trump verdict has been from Mississippi's Secretary of State, who added a neat little bit to the usual "they can do it to anyone" line: "Please come to Mississippi to do financial crimes, we're okay with that."

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Somehow missed this last month (and am surprised how little attention it got), but it's hilarious. Former Congressman Ted Yoho reached out to a fake Parler social site, and ended up effectively hiring a comedian to work for him who was pranking him the whole time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMG_...

A congressman accidentally made me his right hand manwww.youtube.com Parler Social and God Country Family https://parler.social https://gcfcast.com/ Walter Masterson https://www.youtube.com/@waltermasterson https://www.instagram.com/waltermasterson Matt Gaetz/Marjorie Taylor Greene video: https://youtu.be/YgoIwVv8ZnQ?si=4HSkO1NzxWBYodTE Mack Lunn https://www.instagram.com/macklunn/ Video Will Thwaites https://www.willthwaites.com/ Audio Saint Thomas Ledoux https://www.saintthomasledoux.com/ Lighting Taylor Roesch https://www.instagram.com/taylorroesch Comedy Club DC Comedy Loft https://www.dccomedyloft.com/ Ben https://www.patreon.com/PalmerTrolls https://www.palmertrolls.com [email protected]

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Which Booker novel was rejected because some people at the publishing house didn't like the characters? What winner chose his publisher "I had not many other options, frankly"? I had great fun writing this piece about rejected Booker books: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

The Booker Prize-nominated books that were rejected by publishers | The Booker Prizesthebookerprizes.com John Self explores some of the most famous titles that were initially turned down by publishers, and speaks to editors, authors and agents about why those books struggled to secure a deal