Isobel Carr

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Best-selling historical romance author & Mastiff owner. she/her Some form of IsobelCarr on pretty much every app (or Isobel_and_Mycroft). My only good mayor was Jerry Brown.

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Mikhail Baryshnikov on Leaving Everything Behind (gift link 🎁)

Mikhail Baryshnikov on Leaving Everything Behindwww.nytimes.com Fifty years ago, Baryshnikov defected from the Soviet Union. He discusses that day, the war in Ukraine and the challenges facing Russian artists today.

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Both candidates have a presidency to evaluate. Biden's has been pretty outstanding given the congressional restraints he's operating under and the terrible courts.

Unless executives are going to prison, this is meaningless.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Boeing will plead guilty to a criminal fraud charge stemming from two deadly 737 Max crashes, Justice Department says.

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This from Mount Sinai really made an impression on me. Really smthg that even being sufficiently aware of symptoms as to report them on a questionnaire does not necc make a dent in ppl’s self-conception as unaffected by Covid—some so convinced of it that they offer to help research in that capacity!

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a dead giveaway that project 2025 was written specifically for—and with input from—trump:

I love the idea that Big Oil isn't a "special interest".

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And needing someone to escort him up/down stairs? Yes. I'm so fucking exhausted by all this one-sided reporting.

This is an easy FUCK NO! The candidate is Biden. We already voted for him. If he steps down, the candidate is Harris. Period.

Dumbest fuckin’ idea I’ve ever heard. “The proposal is work of Rosa Brooks, a Georgetown law professor who served in Obama and Clinton administrations and as a volunteer policy adviser to the Biden campaign in 2020, and Ted Dintersmith, a venture capitalist…” www.semafor.com/article/07/0...

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And hello, Manny Jacinto!!!

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

My dude, we've all seen Trump attempt to walk down a ramp. Peddle this bullshit elsewhere.

Political reporting, 2024

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Google “Massachusetts crisis pregnancy” and this link pops up. It’s part of a statewide campaign, including public signage (highway billboards!), urging people to avoid crisis pregnancy/anti-abortion centers. The Commonwealth is not fucking around with this.

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It’s also worth noting that one of the biggest Democratic donors, Amy Fowler, has increased her financial support. This is not getting big news. “Dems in disarray” is the only narrative they know, I guess?

Uh oh. Walt Disney’s granddaughter won’t give a cent to the DNC until Biden drops out. 🫠 Again, there is in no major momentum for Biden’s removal from the ticket. The fact that donors and other “elites” can’t wait for one reliable poll shows their contempt for voters.

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The far right cope machine is already trying to manufacture a narrative about the massive loss the French fascists faced today. They are scared they can sense what’s coming to America and it’s not fascism. Popular fronts win and scare fascists. Keep them on the back foot they are weak and scared.

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It's also wildly inaccurate. Plenty of the base of white christian nationalism is in wealthy suburbs and, yes, cities too. Stop buying this "barefoot hicks" b.s. and realize the fascists are down the street shopping at whole foods.

Honestly I feel deflated seeing the response to “depiction of white Christian nationalism ascendant” be cracks about inbreeding, or glee at concentrating these people in rural communities so they can eat their own

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Things are wild in France right now.

Look how fun shutting down fascists is. I want this for us, too

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We haven't learned to stop posting Yashar? Lmao. Also interesting: He linked to a WaPo story and Lieu flatly denied it. The WaPo story says Lieu asked him to step aside. The @washingtonpost.com is straight up printing lies. You should be proud, you dogshit rag.

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Thank you so much for sharing this! I got 18 replies, but I'd love to get a nice, even 20 or even more!

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So voting is better than *not* voting when it comes to getting what you want? Huh.

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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I think billboards highlighting each chapter of Project 2025 placed in specific locations. For example the chapter on gutting military benefits should have billboards on highways near big military bases. Plans for destroying Social Security have billboards all over in Arizona and Florida.

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Le Pen's party (RN) got 143 seats. While a record, that's far (very far) from the 289 they hoped for to govern. How?! Hundreds of Left & Macronist candidates dropped out to help each other block the RN. And millions of voters then voted strategically to get that job done.

Imagine that. Organization and cooperation.

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They tried this four years ago with varying results. The far better use of the money is by buying existing local TV stations and newspapers and staffing them properly

if there is one thing I want to come out of this election, regardless of result, it is Dems - and the left more generally - finally understanding that they need to make their own media ecosystem and stop relying on folks who want them to lose to get their message out

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My new goal is to be a regular.

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A fantastic Afghani one just opened in Berkeley, too. But this one is near me! I could be a regular. I'm so excited.

New Yemeni place in my neighborhood. I can't wait to go! Real baklava. Real chai!

Hashtag: This is the future liberals want. #ThisIsTheFutureLiberalsWant

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"Lord, I see what you are doing for LePen's National Rally, and I want that for Trump's GOP."

"Lord, I see what you are doing for the Tories, and I want that for the GOP."

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The NYT's Growing Social Media Gaffes Lead To Serious Questions Regarding Paper's Viability

Okay, looks we may be jumping the gun here. Lorenz says the NYT says they didn't delete their Threads account on purpose.

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1. Voters generally reject fascism when they know that's the choice. 2. Thus, the MAGA freakout at people figuring out what Project 2025 does.