Jamie Gillespie

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Researcher of education, advocate, art-lover, knitter, sports-lover, still with her

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Arizona’s school voucher experiment has led to a budget meltdown. The state this year faced a $1.4 billion budget shortfall, much of which was a result of the new voucher spending.

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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The Republican Party has nominated a man for Vice President who says he would have ended American democracy if he’d had that role in 2021. abcnews.go.com/Politics/jd-...

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Ironically, the "populist" Republican ticket is now two Ivy Leaguers, while the Democratic ticket is a state university grad and an HBCU grad.

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There are good reasons I’m not a journalist, but if I were, my question would be: when you agreed to run as VP for a man you have called “America’s Hitler,” was it because you abandoned your principles, or because you think being like Hitler is a good thing?

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Flashback

WSJ this morning. lol at the last bit. "Leaders on both sides need to stop describing the stakes of the election in apocalyptic terms. Democracy won't end if one or the other candidate is elected. Fascism is not aborning if Mr. Trump wins, unless you have little faith in American institutions."

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This’ll never make me a regular on msnbc, but people should be ashamed to admit they support Trump. He is a hideously bad person proposing to enact a vast expansion of cruelty and human suffering. The erosion and collapse of social sanctions for supporting someone so indecent is a big problem.

*sigh* Time to find a new sticker manufacturer.

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it is pleasant to read about whales through their own spectacles

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A reminder of how Trump responded when a supporter broke into Nancy Pelosi's home and brutally attacked her husband with a hammer:

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Listen to Uncle Bernie.

Opinion | Bernie Sanders: Joe Biden for Presidentwww.nytimes.com Enough! It’s time for Democrats to stop the bickering and nit-picking.

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An 80’s cover band called The Clashics.

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Opinion | Bernie Sanders: Joe Biden for Presidentwww.nytimes.com Enough! It’s time for Democrats to stop the bickering and nit-picking.

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NYC!! www.nypl.org/blog/2024/07...

Pick Up a Free James Baldwin Title in Celebration of His 100th Birthday | The New York Public Librarywww.nypl.org The New York Public Library is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of James Baldwin one of our largest adult book giveaways!

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Opinion | Are we really going to give Trump a pass? C’mon, man.wapo.st The national discussion needs to shift back to where it should be: on Trump’s fitness for office.

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Half of adolescents ages 13-19 now live in a state with severely restricted or no legal #abortion access – affecting their choices in college, place of work and family-planning 🩺

Abortion bans are changing what it means to be young in Americatheconversation.com The 2022 Dobbs decision that overturned 50 years of abortion rights is affecting where young people choose to go to college, to work and to live, as well as the way they vote.

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hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling

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There have been no fewer than 200 stories about Biden's age on the front pages of our biggest papers and the Trump Administration didn't give a press briefing for almost a year and deceived them constantly but sure www.axios.com/2024/07/11/b...

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The ONLY time Trump disavows something is when it’s true. He ignores the other stuff.

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Who wants updates from France? ➡️ Left wants to govern... but still has no name for a Prime Minister. They say they will tomorrow. ⌛️ ➡️ Le Pen says her MPs would vote to bring down any gov with Green or LFI ministers. ➡️ Many prominent Macronists want coalition with LR.

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My sister said the cybertruck looks like a Dustbuster and I’m gunna have to give her that one

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Trump has good days and he has bad days but increasingly it's been bad days. He can't put a coherent sentence together or keep his train of thought but the media is very impressed THAT HE CAN STILL SHOUT. His brains are leaking out his ears.

BOOM: “Trump’s rally raises concerns over mental fitness” is now trending! www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/biden-give...

Biden Gives Powerful NATO Speech, Trump Stumbles at Hate Rallywww.dworkinsubstack.com Donald is unfit

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has introduced impeachment articles against Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito

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Funny what happens when a reporter actually decides to talk to rank and file Democratic voters instead of panicked backbenchers or smug elite donors.

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The Lie David Sanger Told to Sustain NYT's Non-Stop Campaign against Joe Biden www.emptywheel.net/2024/07/10/t...

The Lie David Sanger Told to Sustain NYT's Non-Stop Campaign against Joe Biden - emptywheelwww.emptywheel.net In February, David Sanger reported that even before Trump threatened to let Vladimir Putin invade NATO countries, European allies were discussing the possibility the US would withdraw from NATO. Now, ...

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The news from France just keeps a girl feeling good.

@dwnews: France's far-right leader Marine Le Pen faces charges of embezzling EU funds during her 2022 presidential election campaign against Emmanuel Macron. She will stand trial this September. https://t.co/rzeNpYTuK0

This is an excellent idea.

There’s actually an article in the Washington Post about Biden that makes sense to me. Matt Bai has a suggestion on how Biden can jujitsu his current situation into a winning one, and it makes a lot of sense to me. wapo.st/3xO3W0Q

Opinion | Here’s how Biden should campaign for president nowwapo.st This time, not as a bridge but an exit ramp — for the boomers.

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I continue to marvel that my company’s ethics training makes it clear Clarence Thomas & Samuel Alito would be fired from my position of significantly less import, prestige, and responsibility.

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Does anyone know what the process is now? Does the AG's office have to reply or act in response?

Ron Wyden and Sheldon Whitehouse ask Garland to appoint Special Counsel to investigate Clarence THomas' graft. www.whitehouse.senate.gov/wp-content/u...

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Casting a single vote for the better major candidate has a large positive net expected value for society, and you can very often tell who's a better candidate (especially this year!). Voting is humble, unselfish, and rational—a little chore that you should do. www.liberalcurrents.com/elections-ar...

Elections Are Purely Practicalwww.liberalcurrents.com Don’t be vain about your vote.

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Elections Are Purely Practicalwww.liberalcurrents.com Don’t be vain about your vote.

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"Executive Time" fell out of the coverage of Donald Trump in the most incredible way. Nobody writing about his quest to become president again ever mentions the fact that he hated the job when he had it and he couldn't and wouldn't really do it!

The discourse around biden needing more sleep is fully insane. Does no one remember "Executive Time," the thing Trump spent the majority(!) of his schedule on where he would just watch TV and tweet? Dude was categorically unable to fulfill any of the demands of the office and the press barely cared