Taylor Upchurch

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The ever-astute Rebecca Solnit on how the pundit class has turned into a mob stampeding America toward a catastrophe. 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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New from me: Where is your "institutionalism" now? radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-suprem...

The Supreme Court foldsradleybalko.substack.com Faced with the most potent threat to democracy in more than a century, our most revered institution didn't just fail to hold, it aligned itself with the threat

This is currently the only platform I can go without reading anything about where Klay Thompson is going. So here I am

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“this city, with a generations-in-the-making homeless problem, claimed in its amicus brief that a two-year-old legal situation led to SF being besieged and helpless. And the Supreme Court has parlayed that into enabling draconian means of dealing with the unhoused.” missionlocal.org/2024/06/sfs-...

San Francisco's dishonest legal brief helped Supreme Court criminalize homelessnessmissionlocal.org The city's dishonest amicus brief provided succor to the Trump Supreme Court and will now enable a nationwide homeless crackdown.

Going on 20 years California pilled, much has changed in my life but that feeling remains

I'm so California pilled it's frankly embarrassing. No matter what's happening in my life I can go outside and look around like wooow

Only round 2 of the group stage and Own Goal already has the golden boot wrapped up at the Euros

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This comic book is in the public domain so the issue can be read for free here. comicbookplus.com?dlid=20363

The Amazing Willie Mays (Eastern Color) - Comic Book Pluscomicbookplus.com This book has 36 pages and was uploaded by cape1736 on January 21, 2011. The file size is 29.35mb. Publisher is Eastern Color

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wolfpupy comic from Aug 25, 2022 - patreon.com/wolfpupy

Achievement Unlocked: become a golf clubs on Muni guy

I would at least listen to a proposal for vandalism by popular vote

saw my first cyber truck irl and here’s what i think: how about a reverse nextdoor so we can report these to local vandals

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Teresa in a 50 year old mother of 3. She is working harvesting blueberries in Bakersfield CA earning 16.$50 an hour. It was 97° when this photo was taken on Friday and this week the temps are supposed to pass 100°. #WeFeedYou

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The doubts were not reasonable: defector.com/the-doubts-w...

The Doubts Were Not Reasonable | Defectordefector.com Donald Trump committed crimes and a jury found him guilty. He was convicted on all counts Thursday, without much hesitation. “The only voice that matters is the voice of the jury,” Manhattan District...

Taking in the Band of Brothers marathon on AMC today. They've got no problem showing soldiers' severed limbs but still feel compelled to dub over the word 'fuck'

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Interesting stuff in here, worth your time momentmag.com/campus-prote...

Campus Protests in the Voices of the Students Who Experienced Themmomentmag.com First-hand accounts of Jewish university students living among pro-Palestinian protests, encampments and antisemitism.

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This investigation is one of the most important I've been involved in. How two English football clubs have chosen as an 'Asian betting partner' an illegal bookmaker who appears to operate from one of the most infamous cyber crime slavery compounds in Cambodia. josimarfootball.com/2024/05/15/a...

Another day in paradise - josimarfootball.comjosimarfootball.com Evidence suggests that Aston Villa and Burnley FC's official Asian betting partner operates from one of the most notorious cyber slavery compounds in Cambodia.

Coming to understand that I'd rather be right than win was liberating in a way

I wrote about the protests. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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you can't get more right than this RIP 👑

Simply doing the right thing need not be so difficult

Last night my kid sent me this picture of an encampment on the Wesleyan University campus. This morning we got an email from the university president. I'm choosing to be hopeful that they mean it.

Supreme Court speed running the r/sanfrancisco discourse

At arguments in Grants Pass, Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson are pummeling the Gibson Dunn attorney defending laws that punish homeless people who sleep outside. Sotomayor asks: If homeless people aren't allowed to sleep anywhere, are they supposed to just "kill themselves"?

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blockchain companies have exactly two types of post

My RTs are more like a penlight that needs a battery change, but point taken

“Can you believe this moron,” I cry, erecting an enormous freeway billboard plastered with his writings. “Can you believe anyone thought this was worthy of attention,” I scream as my drone fleet illuminates the billboard with 700 spotlights

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This is the most important thing in American politics and I'm incredibly exhausted by how rare it is for somebody to say it out loud. Do you understand that voters winning elections and losing all their rights is ITSELF corrosive to democracy? Even aside from WHAT we lose?

I am once again begging people with power within the Democratic Party to devise a better strategy for dealing with the right-wing death grip on the courts than "win every election for 30 years and hopefully appoint their replacements." In 30 years of this there won't be anything left to salvage.

Good nuanced piece. I haven't necessarily always been a YIMBY hater, but definitely have grown more suspicious at seeing some of the partners their coalition has taken on in recent years.

We here in the birthplace of YIMBYism have been saying this for a decade and been met with nonstop toxic attacks for doing so. Great to see The New Republic lay the facts out so clearly for a national audience. newrepublic.com/article/1791...

The Case Against YIMBYismnewrepublic.com Why encouraging more private development won’t solve the housing crisis

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The Case Against YIMBYismnewrepublic.com Why encouraging more private development won’t solve the housing crisis

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absolutely in love with this by @lydiakiesling.bsky.social www.thedriftmag.com/help-each-ot...

Defector really starting to bring some heat lately

The State of the Union is a privatized moon lander dying on its side in the moon dust, power draining away, because someone back on Earth was too cheap to run a preflight check. defector.com/my-fellow-am...

My Fellow Americans | Defectordefector.com Welcome to Margin of Error, a politics column from Tom Scocca, editor of the Indignity newsletter, examining the apocalyptic politics and coverage of Campaign 2024. The State of the Union is a privati...

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an actually good Sydney Sweeney-themed think piece is “The Money Is in All the Wrong Places” by @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social defector.com/the-money-is...

The Money Is In All The Wrong Places | Defectordefector.com You can always tell who in Hollywood has family money by their Instagrams. People like Dakota Johnson, who have a Hollywood lineage deeper than the Mariana Trench, post only rarely. They post about so...