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Expect to see essentially zero factchecking on this in any national or local news outlet. American news media is constitutionally incapable of recognizing decreases in violent crime; it is functionally a right-wing culture industry regardless of the political ideology of its actual employees.

Since Day 2 of the RNC will be largely about crime, a reminder of what has actually happened (with murders falling rapidly in 2024 so far)

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this piece was good imo

J.D. Vance has directly and openly invoked Carl Schmitt and finding him persuasive in explaining his evolution to becoming a devoted illiberal NatCon. I know Schmitt is not a name normies recognize, but still, that Vance considers a literal Nazi one of his ideological role models is newsworthy.

The Nazi Jurist Who Haunts Our Broken Politicswww.nytimes.com A contempt for compromise. An expansive vision of executive power. Both owe much to Carl Schmitt.

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Psst: Project 2025 is terrifying for a lot of reasons but also because on page 5 it calls for teachers and librarians who grant access to books that are maligned as pornography (which just means anything LGBTQ) to be registered as sex offenders. Pass it on.

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Something I remind myself of regularly is that there are millions of people who care about the same things that I do and/but the gulf between caring and knowing what to do is wide.

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Thank you! The very studied way the press has ignore or outright lied about a years long campaign of right wing violence against queer people has been a bone in my throat. I wrote this 13 months ago: bomb threats, beatings, mobs screaming for blood — no one was told to stop, it was just “backlash.”

I made this into a proper response to the absolutely misplaced calls to "turn down the heat": newrepublic.com/article/1838...

Where Were Calls for De-Escalation When Libraries Were Being Targeted?newrepublic.com Trump’s fans seem determined to blame this shooting on their victims.

A Media Blackout on Anti-Queer Violencejoshuafoust.com The press refuses to cover the conservative campaign of terror against queer people. It is maddening.

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This should terrify people in terms of what it means not only for teachers and librarians, but for parents. Once exposure to queer content gets classified as child abuse, that will be the excuse they use to remove kids from queer homes, or even just homes that teach acceptance.

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if you’re trying to engage with politically disconnected people about project 2025, identify a specific part that you think will resonate with them. i just told my friend who’s a public school teacher about the plan to abolish the department of education and that got her hooked.

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Dumbass. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/you-patsy

You Patsywww.hamiltonnolan.com We don't have time for this bullshit.

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So arguments about how JD Vance isn't very good at politics — I mean, sure, whatever, but that's not why he's on the ticket. He's on the ticket because he's become one of the most unashamed and effective advocates for autocracy. It's a signal of how they wanna govern, the "mandate" they wanna claim.

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school vouchers are designed to starve public schools and they’re working in that regard

Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers' tuition that it's now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects.

School Vouchers Were Supposed to Save Taxpayer Money. Instead They Blew a Massive Hole in Arizona’s Budget.www.propublica.org Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it’s now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state program...

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JD Vance has talked about emulating authoritarian Orban's gutting of academic freedom in Hungary open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

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Yes, 💯 An intellectual pipeline to illiberal constitutionalism (authoritarianism disguised as a modern western state) from Eastern Europe and Russia.

J.D. Vance considers Deneen an intellectual influence A deep dive on Deneen and alternatives to liberal democracy: ‘I Don’t Want to Violently Overthrow the Government. I Want Something Far More Revolutionary.’ politi.co/43rNMF2

‘I Don’t Want to Violently Overthrow the Government. I Want Something Far More Revolutionary.’politi.co Republican politicians are embracing the “postliberal” ideas of Patrick Deneen. But just what is he calling for?

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Anti-abortion groups understood the RNC platform a lot better than mainstream and legacy journalists did ... which is exactly what the RNC was betting on

RNC official: Nothing in our platform says we won't ban abortion nationwidewww.motherjones.com “Don’t let anybody tell you there’s not protections for pro-life,” top Republican Ed Martin said on his radio show last week.

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There is no VP pick on earth who could serve as a better motivation for Democrats to unite and to vote than J.D. Vance. He is Trump's Republican Party incarnate--hypocritical, dishonest, incapable of shame, composed of nothing but ambition, greed, and unearned grievance. (And I'm being nice.)

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In all seriousness: the very idea that someone can take highly classified documents, store them in a public place, defy any number of requests, subpoenas, etc., and then face NO CONSEQUENCES AT ALL is genuinely shocking, and should terrify anyone who cares about national security.

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The right is preparing for an all-out battle despite having an awful candidate and a wildly unpopular agenda. Anyone on the broad left who’s “resigned” to Trump winning this thing post-Roe, as a convicted felon, should be run out of town on a rail.

This makes my blood boil. This “senior House Democrat” has been poisoned by lazy conventional wisdom and doesn’t realize that polling isn’t voting. He or she has apparently forgotten that they were supposedly gonna be slaughtered in the midterms. They need to Stop whining and fight like Hell.

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A heatwave in Eastern Europe is generating temperatures of 42-44°C (107-111°F). Anthropogenic climate change - how to slow it, mitigate it, adapt to and survive it, how to care for one another as we succumb to it - is the most critical issue of ours or of any lifetime.

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On Saturday a wholesome afternoon of fantasizing about concentration camps and plotting to overturn the coming election was disrupted by violence

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let’s all turn down the rhetoric and try to remain cool and clearheaded as we discuss the best way to build concentration camps for the 20 million people we have sworn to deport because they’re poisoning our national bloodstream.

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The message is super simple: “Trump and the Republican Party have encouraged and mainstreamed political violence, something that can quickly spiral out of control and be used against the very people encouraging it. They are playing with fire and need to stop.”

Counterpose the obvious conclusion that encouraging political violence is unacceptable and dangerous with all the times Trump himself has done that. A dozen easy examples. Easy to do because it's true! It's appalling! Don't let his ass off the hook!

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Arendt: "The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world--but the most probable change is to a more violent world."

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Yes, requests for non-fascists to "lower the temperature" is just a nicer way of putting the Heritage Foundation's statement that the revolution will remain bloodless if liberals allow it. It's a demand for acquiescence to the conditions of violence they created.

Seen a lot of comments like “hey Americans who support democracy, oppose political violence, and value truth, we have to take the temperature down,” and while well-intentioned, I don’t think it’ll work, because they’re not the ones raising the temperature.

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I’ll say one other thing; I don’t care how many hours have passed since the assassination attempt, there are just some people I’m not willing to take lessons on violent or irresponsible rhetoric from, or hear them out in good faith ever on this issue. Get fucked, fuck off, next.

apnews.com/article/jan-...

Trump posted what he said was Obama's address, prosecutors say. An armed man was soon arrested thereapnews.com Federal prosecutors say former President Donald Trump posted on his social media platform what he claimed was the home address of former President Barack Obama the same day a man with guns in his van ...

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The mass deportation scheme is probably the most immediately scary part of Trump 2025. It’s not just the just the forcible deportation of millions of people and accompanying family disruption That’s bad enough. Nor is the let’s-see-what-pulling-this-lever-does-hurr economic recklessness./1

Full quote from ex-ICE director Tom Homan: "Trump comes back in January... I will run the biggest deportation force this country has ever seen. They ain’t seen shit yet. Wait until 2025.” Tonight in Florida Trump pledged to bring Homan back. Homan, BTW, is a listed Project 2025 contributor.

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We *really* need more restrictions & oversight about what qualifies for nonprofit/tax-free status. IMO that should not include religious or political orgs, & *especially* not religious orgs engaging in political efforts like this.

The little-known charity is backed by famous conservative donors, including the families behind Hobby Lobby and Uline. It’s spending millions to make a big political push for this election — but it may be violating the law. www.propublica.org/article/insi...

Inside Ziklag, the Secret Organization of Wealthy Christians Trying to Sway the Election and Change the Countrywww.propublica.org The little-known charity is backed by famous conservative donors, including the families behind Hobby Lobby and Uline. It’s spending millions to make a big political push for this election — but it ma...

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hard to imagine a better scenario for the institutional left than “biden wins despite a revolt from moderates, donors, and never trumpers, thanks to his support from the cbc, labor, and congressional progressives” of course Biden’s gotta win for that to be a reality

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He's right that a second American revolution is underway. Theyve already captured the courts, seized state legislatures with rigged maps and plan next to dismantle the Constitution entirely. No way to repair the old order, the constitutional crisis is already here

I am also going to publish some longer transcripts of remarks from the National Conservatism Conference. Here is what Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts said about the "second American revolution" that he believes is currently underway. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/a-transcri...

A Transcript of Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts' Speech About Our "Second American Revolution"www.hamiltonnolan.com What was said at the National Conservatism Conference.

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Republicans are running on an explicitly anti-Semitic platform en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultura...

“We will hold investigations to identify the neo-cultural Marxists in seats of power all across Washington,” Posobiec said. “We don’t negotiate with un-humans. Because that’s the stakes of this battle: humanity versus un-humanity.” inthesetimes.com/article/nati...

Onward, Christian Soldiers—To War!inthesetimes.com At this year’s National Conservatism Conference, a right-wing army prepares to rise.

Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

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If you're looking for practical ways to defeat Trump at the polls, here are some suggestions of things you can do to protect voting rights and get out the vote: gregpak.net/2024/07/02/t...

People who are ACTUALLY engaged in electoral organizing are exhausted and also they understand that yelling online convinces no one so they don't do it.

There’s Always Something We Can Dogregpak.net Tough week, huh? Hard not to feel a little overwhelmed with what feels like relentless, catastrophic political news. But I've volunteered for political campaigns for literally 40 years -- the image ab...

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My Slate essay on why leftists should vote for the Democratic Presidential candidate this November, despite everything:

The Leftist Case for Voting—Yes, Even for Bidenslate.com We need to think about this election differently. Just look at France.