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Eric Blair

"When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross and the NYT Opinion section will tell us we are overreacting" ... because the NYT execs and publisher have hired rightwingers or rightwingly-friendly writers.

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Eric Blair

Honestly, this is a political crisis. The biggest paper in the country, the paper of record, the one that the governing class reads: It's a rightwing paper! What is Dems' strategy to deal with this??

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Matthew Downhour

It’s kinda crazy, tho, that Ohio actually did change its rules to accommodate the DNC.

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JD Vance just deleted from his website his abortion stance. They lie to get the job.

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They want Trump to win, and pointing out that all the previous GOP nominees hate his guts would complicate that narrative, so they don't mention it.

more to the point none of the coverage seems to note this fairly remarkable fact, especially amid all the talk of unity or whatever

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The pre-Trump GOP has been memory-holed

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Crooked Emily

Pointing out the horrible shit Trump plans to do is not tacit approval of our current state of affairs and nowhere did I say a Trump loss means we can all stop giving a shit, maybe I just want some breathing room to fight for progress instead of having to claw back rights we lost

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The Fig Economy

There is this idiotic stylistic fetish where people think they're more radical if they pretend that things as they are now are as horrible as they ever been and as horrible as they ever could be, and even considering that things could get significantly worse is weakness.

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Overcoming Polarization on Climate Changewww.powerofusnewsletter.com Issue 127: A new study finds that people across the political spectrum will take climate change action--we need to connect this to their broader sense of identity.

When you engage people in climate solutions, it makes them more supportive of climate action - even in some cases changing their mind about whether it's real and it's serious. I tell some compelling stories of this happening in my book Saving Us but here's the cross-sectional data!

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these reporters make me feel insane.

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Valuing my brain cells, I didn't listen to the RNC at all. Learning that this woman was up there doing an entire speech about the "Biden crime family" is truly amazing given nobody would know who she is if not for the lavish lifestyle funded by fraud for which her parents were sentenced to prison!

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The Power of the Postcard in Rocking the Vote | CDCE l Center for Democracy and Civic Engagementcdce.umd.edu Encouraging more eligible voters to register and participate in elections could be as simple as mailing them a postcard, finds new research led by the University of Maryland Department of Government and Politics. In a study published in Political Behavior, Professor Michael Hanmer and colleagues examined an effort in Pennsylvania ahead of the 2016 presidential election.

Writing postcards to voters is a proven method for boosting election turnout - in close races, the .5-1% of voters they get to the polls can make the difference! It might be the most powerful, most efficient method for winning. Research: cdce.umd.edu/feature/powe... But how to start? 1/

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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...

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.

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ApocalypticaNow

Trump is the chaos guy. Media likes him because he's exciting, but ordinary people don't want to live in exciting times anymore. It's been 8 years! That's exhausting

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ApocalypticaNow

Political analysts would probably be shocked at how many normal people have dark fantasies about what should've happened on Sunday. They think Democrats are still the "go high" crew just because electeds act that way

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A.R. Moxon

For Republicans "Unity" means utter submission to them.

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Republican president was shot by a Republican because of an environment of normalized violence that Republicans insist we all live in, and somehow this means that both sides need to tone it all the way down, which in practice means that Democrats and only Democratic need to stop talking entirely.

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My life shows the world of abuse that republicans want for us allredloraine.wixsite.com My very first memory, the decayed brick work upon which I balance the rest of my days, is of tussling with my caramel and chocolate colored pit-bull named Bella, in a dusty, spartan backyard in cookie...

🇺🇸 Señor Beto 🇲🇽

I don't even have to translate for you guys anymore redloraine.wixsite.com/website/post...

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🇺🇸 Señor Beto 🇲🇽

The Patriarchy is strong in this one.

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🇺🇸 Señor Beto 🇲🇽

But of course, witnessing domestic violence causes no problems for children whatsoever. Just heard about him and my opinion is that he’s a complete ‘twat’.

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“women should stay in violent marriages - for the kids.” —JD Vance

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Michael Hobbes

the *real* story is how amazing and touching Trump's turn to unity is because someone said the word unity, and why are Democrats dividing Americans by accurately mentioning the things Trump & followers have done and have been screaming they aim to do next

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As soon as we learned that Crooks was a registered Republican it was clear that the assassination attempt was going to be a two-day story.

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you can do that, or actually study science to get a closer look (as I have done, as it happens), or you can outsource your views to a former Daily Mail social media editor and her crackpot guru pals. the choice .... is yours

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this is the kind of plausibility check that helps non-experts make tentative sense of an impossibly vast literature. do the claims come from a credible source? do they hang together? are they broadly plausible given the general data trends? etc

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it's incredibly frustrating because like any scientific topic once you break the surface there is *enormous* complexity that is quite difficult for the layman to parse, and motivated people abuse that by seizing scraps of information out of context to whip up a frenzy

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Does COVID-19 Damage the Immune System?prospect.org The balance of evidence strongly indicates that outside of rare cases, it does not.

here's the piece, I talked to a couple of serious scientists for it. Taylor smears them as "random quacks" espousing "crazy conspiracies" because she trusts her followers won't do any digging below the surface prospect.org/health/2023-...

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I can’t find a live link to it yet, but the Biden campaign ad of videos of a beardless JD Vance disavowing Trump and saying he voted Hillary is brutal.

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