J.M. Berger

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Fight against daunting odds, because it’s the right thing to do, and because sometimes you win.

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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Taniel

THE sentence of the day: A Macronist incumbent in the Marseille region came in 3rd in her seat. She just dropped out to support the left. She said, about why she's maneuvering to block the far-right: "Defeats happen, but you can never recover from dishonor."

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Saeed Jones

Amazing levels of improvement on something I already loved

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Megan Goodwin

SO GOOD

Voters especially love being disenfranchised in baroquely clever and complicated ways

what the fuck is this sorkin-brain shit?

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Still waiting.

Will wait for a single news outlet to call on Robinson to withdraw from the race.

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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:

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It’s such a tell that one candidate is allowed to be old with his brains leaking out while the other is subjected to a weeks long whisper campaign to knee cap him out of the race because of a bad debate performance. Almost like there’s no principle at work beyond attacking Democrats.

Just like none of the bold investigators backfilling Joe Biden's feeble debate performance with punchy anonymous quotes have ever figured out why Trump was rushed to Walter Reed, claimed he wanted a spur-of-the-moment weekend checkup, and a year later declared that he had NOT had a series of strokes

Sure, but every single political pundit was on the air five minutes after the debate ended saying they were getting "Biden must drop out" texts five minutes after the debate started, so color me skeptical about whether this isn't just confirmation bias.

Good WaPo story confirming that doubts about Biden aren’t just about his debate performance but the botched 48 hours after the debate (beyond his North Carolina rally): www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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bad luck for biden to run in an electoral cycle where "are you old" is the most important issue instead of in one of the cycles where email security procedures or accuracy of vietnam war medal citations was the most important issue in the country.

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Hemry, Local Bartender

The fact that this is a huge meme/joke in non white-dominated spaces and yet is almost completely unreported on should tell you something about who our pundit class is and which people's perspectives they see as important

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Take this for what you will, but while the elite commentariat is melting down about biden literally the only thing I've heard about the debate in the real world is people at the bar making fun of trump's "black jobs" line

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Kosturdistan

Season 1 arguably best forgotten, S2 is where it really takes off

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮

Also The Colbys was a shooting star that burned out far too fast

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Gigan, Hindenburg Liberal

Forever burned into my brain: "Take your junk, and your blonde tramp, and get out of MY house!"

O.G. Dynasty

what’s the most embarrassing show you nevertheless like? for me, it’s the considerable shame I feel about enjoying Big Mouth

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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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I keep thinking about how the SCOTUS justices, who have proven they care a TON about their media coverage, issued the worst decision since Dredd Scott and then got to happily watch outlets spend the next week running 10,000 “Biden in Trouble” stories and like 5 “Hm, Immunity is Interesting” stories

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Makes sense 🥴

“The car was apparently confused by some construction signs and reportedly ran a red light before pulling over in a parking lot to let the officer talk to one of Waymo’s support representatives.”

Police pulled over a Waymo car for driving in the oncoming lanewww.theverge.com The car did not get a ticket.

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I really don’t think most people realize just how hard the boot will come down if Trump and the Republicans win the election. Most people have never experienced the totalitarian surveillance state with the power to reach into their homes and minds at will they are telling us is their plan.

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Don Moynihan

"I don't know anything about Project 2025" says man recording Project 2025 promotional video in front of Project 2025 publication. More substantively, Project 2025 has embraced Trump and Miller's immigration approach of using power to close both legal and illegal immigration.

what the fuck kind of polling are they looking at that makes them think they need to worry about this, because honestly i could use a lift

Stephen Miller now following Trump's lead and saying he has nothing to do with Project 2025. 1. His organization is on the Project 2025 advisory board. 2. He recorded a video as part of Project 2025 training tools 3. You can see Mandate for Leadership, the Project 2025 publication in the background

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Just a reminder that Michelle Wolf nailed it at the White House Correspondents Dinner. NYT, I’m looking in your direction especially.

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"Look we can't write anything about Jim Jones shooting up that Congressional delegation in Guyana, because his followers just don't want to hear it, or at the very least it doesn't affect his cult popularity. But Jimmy Carter did say malaise, which we now cover for the 874th time." -- NYT, 1978

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Peter Jacobs

I'm going to end up sharing this everywhere, but look how easily it *could* be done donmoynihan.substack.com/p/troubling-...

Troubling Signs of Cognitive Decline as Trump Struggles to Recognize Closest Aidesdonmoynihan.substack.com "I know nothing about Project 2025" statement triggers new concerns about his fitness to serve

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If you get into a fight in my mentions I will mute or block you and everyone who is fighting with you; please do not do it

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Whether Biden drops out or continues, I expect a primary target of foreign info operations this year to be the legitimacy of the Democratic candidate and the legimitacy of the courts in relation to the the GOP candidate. Expect them to target audiences on both sides and exploit organic criticism.

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“The network has ramped up its attacks on Harris — including with commentary focused on her race and gender — since President Joe Biden's debate performance on June 27.” www.mediamatters.org/kamala-harri...

Fox News ramps up attacks on Vice President Kamala Harriswww.mediamatters.org Fox News figures have recently compared Vice President Kamala Harris to teenage children, said that her words do not sound like those of a commander-in-chief, and dismissed Harris as a “a DEI hire.” T...

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Me, reading the news: Gosh what could be more spiritu-ethically disturbing than scientists growing minibrains out of a guy's brains More news: www.livescience.com/health/neuro...

Scientists just grew the 1st-ever 'minibrains' from multiple people's cellswww.livescience.com Hybrid brain organoids could be used to test how people respond differently to drugs before clinical trials begin, researchers say.

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whelp, guess the big interview didn't give them what they wanted since the goalposts have now moved to "can he win over crypto investors with inexplicable politics" www.cnbc.com/2024/07/06/b...