Joan McCarter

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Daily Kos writer, politician haranguer, senior pet caretaker, gardener

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O-HI-O: CHECK YOUR REGISTRATION registrationreadiness.ohiosos.gov

Ohio inactive voters will be dropped off voting rolls on July 22www.hometownstations.com OHIO (WLIO) - The Ohio Secretary of State's Office says there are over 150,000 voters that will be dropped off voting rolls across the state next week unless voters act

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NEWS: Teamsters VP-at-Large, John Palmer, who has been extremely critical of current President O’Brien’s overtures towards the GOP, has just announced he’s forming an opposition slate and running for president in the 2026 Teamsters leadership election. “We are better than this.”

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Again, look how many stories here are yanked from AP. The AP is the only source of print "news" for much of the country, so the entire national narrative is set by .... whoever wrote that one particular story. Coast to coast. It's a staggering amount of power.

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If anyone wants an example of what AOC was talking about/why Martin Heinrich just called for Biden to drop out, this passage from Wednesday's NYT offers a doozy.

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The final solution for a suffering country, if you will.

The fucking New York Times ladies and gentlemen

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I’m just saying: if either of Bill Clinton’s acceptance speeches had droned into the final minutes of the 11 o’clock hour, the Sunday show anchors, late-night hosts, and pundits would still gasp about it at cocktail parties.

Real talk, are real people on the East Coast still up and, like, watching this? It’s super-late there, right?

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Trump right now: “Has anyone seen Silence of the Lambs? … They’re emptying out their insane asylums. … He’s sending all of his criminals … to the United States.” Politico this afternoon:

Damn. Should have put my money on "late great Hannibal Lecter" instead of sharks.

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Trump On Accepting Nomination: ‘This Is Boring, I’m So Bored’www.theonion.com The Onion brings you all of the latest news, stories, photos, videos and more from America's finest news source.

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See the arrow on that chart at the bottom? It purports to show when he left office. It doesn't. It's a lie. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | A look at Trump’s misleading, inaccurate graph of U.S. immigrationwww.washingtonpost.com The former president keeps sharing a graph that misrepresents immigration — and the politics undergirding it.

Of course Trump didn't know how servers get their tips. He probably doesn't give them.

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The Trump hagiography video shows a headline saying how incomes were down for three straight years — dated 2023.

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His Vice President is not at the convention this time because Trump tried to get him murdered when he attempted his coup.

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My Cleveland RNC 2016 memoir: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Where Our Current Moment of Political Violence Beganwww.thenation.com I did not let myself feel how scary it was at the RNC in Cleveland in 2016. Eight years later, it’s clear that it was a preview of the perilous moment we’re in now.

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Eric Trump: Our children will understand family. Our children will have values. And our children will love God. Eric Trump, in literally the next second: Our country will prioritize free speech, 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐨𝐦 𝐨𝐟 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐨𝐧, and honor our Constitution.

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That’s nice. But the reality inside #RNC2024 has been attendees holding horrific “MASS DEPORTATION NOW” signs and chanting “send them back,” in an embrace of a dark and destruction vision for our nation: americasvoice.org/press_releas...

Republican delegates planned their outfits for each night of the Republican National Convention months in advance. It is a moment to express their patriotism, their creativity and their unshakable loyalty to Donald Trump. Here are portraits from the RNC: wapo.st/4fcQnJ1

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nothing sinister about a guy ranting about "real Americans" at a convention where people were waving "Mass Deportation Now" signs

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NYT's immigration beat reporter examined Trump's plan for mass deporation thru the lens that policies and rules and courts matter The people she interviewed are in that same bubble They don't Trump and Miller aren't going to follow laws. They intend to wreak havoc and expect no one to stop them

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Again, we have NO IDEA whether Trump is a business partner, an employee, or a Foreign Agent of Saudi Arabia, and the DC press thinks that's far less important than Biden's age. www.emptywheel.net/2024/07/17/b...

Boiled Frog Journalism: Is Trump an Agent of Saudi Arabia, and Other Pressing Questions Buried under Biden's Age - emptywheelwww.emptywheel.net Trump might literally sell out the next journalist who opposes him to be chopped up by some foreign dictator. Yet the journalists covering his campaign don't seem to care.

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The single most important message in American politics is that Trump and MAGA are strategically dividing us for the benefit of a few insatiable billionaires who live like gods on earth on the blood, sweat and toil of the rest of us.

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In his NBC interview, Biden may not have been all that articulate, but he did one good thing: he didn't let up on the argument that Trump is the one who uses violent rhetoric. And he mentioned the effect Trump has had on rural politics!

Opinion | Why Biden’s primetime interview with Lester Holt was so refreshingwww.msnbc.com Even something as disturbing as an assassination attempt shouldn’t make us forget what we’ve seen with our own eyes for so long.

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Beyond all else, this is simply terrible writing. If he's not already drinking wine, no "women a decade older than [he] was" can ask him if he wants a refill. "I thought she was screwing with me." In what way, Li'l Abner?

Had I been this book's copy editor, I would certainly, unless I'd amputated all my own fingers first, simply queried this anecdote in the margin: #YHGtBFKMwTS

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Just learned that Fox News is trying to go after me for using the word "war" in a column, which they allege is inappropriate rhetoric. This is sort of like being lectured on anti-semitism by Hitler.

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“Purge of undoc workers by the president’s company spreads to at least 5 Trump golf courses.” Trump and the Trump Org exploited undoc workers across _multiple properties_ yet they’re trying to make Americans fearful and spiteful of these workers in the name of political expediency. It’s so sick.

since it's RNC immigrant bashing night, can some reporter ask Trump, his sons or his campaign about their long history of hiring undocumented workers? They demonize the very people who fed them, cleaned for them and made their businesses profitable www.washingtonpost.com/politics/pur...

Purge of undocumented workers by the president’s company spreads to at least 5 Trump golf courseswww.washingtonpost.com Eric Trump confirmed at least 18 firings in New York and New Jersey over the past two months.

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In which the Washington Post sanitizes right-wing Court decisions paving the way to autocracy as simply “a string of wins” for Trump.

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“Vance has worked in lockstep with extremist Republicans in the Senate to undermine reproductive freedom—refusing to back down from the dangerous abortion bans and restrictions his party has engineered.” reproductivefreedomforall.org/news/reprodu...

JD Vance is an abortion extremist, voted against protecting contraception and wants increased birth rates Ask him why he and his wife "only" have 3 kids. Do they use contraception? DC punditry would get the vapors if anyone asked, but he's got no problem delving intlo our private lives Fair play

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what a nice gift to the dear leader on the first day of his convention coronation from one of his most loyal minions no one better pretend this is anything but hard-core GOP politics - a gift also directly from the most corrupt right wing Justice whose wife was part of the coup

BREAKING: Judge Cannon dismisses Trump docs case based on illegality of special counsel under appointments clause storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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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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The only thing I know right now is that there are too many guns