Joan Walsh

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National correspondent, The Nation. Co-producer of "The Sit In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show." Author: "What's The Matter With White People." Proud mom of Sadie and NoraWD.

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I really, really didn't want to see it this way. Also, he couldn't have mentioned Kamala Harris? www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Biden Did Not Save His Presidency on ABCwww.thenation.com An uneven interview with George Stephanapoulos was too little, too late—and maybe a bit too churlish.

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So here we have a GOP gubernatorial nominee calling for followers to kill people who he claims are enemies of Christian America. How many chin-stroking pieces are we going to see about how the GOP is in real trouble now that one of its candidate is really ol--I mean violent?

I've written for years about the Christian right's calls for "spiritual warfare" against demonic enemies of Christian America. They used to claim their struggle is against "powers and principalities" not "flesh and blood," citing Ephesians 6:12. But it was still dangerous. Now we see how.

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Why I Don't Vote (OK, I Do Vote, but I Would Like to Discourage You, NY Times Reader, For Doing So For Some Reason) Via @bubbaprog.ilovecitr.us

Man, if it turns out that the right winger telling NY Times readers that they should follow his example and not vote did in fact vote in the last two elections, the Times should add this to the piece. Better than a retraction, since it illustrates a willful hypocrisy.

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It’s a smart piece if you understand it as affording them plausible deniability for running a call for fascism.

The NYT editors who greenlit a "Why I don't vote" essay (no link deserved) by a fascism-jealous theocrat to run on July 4th should be fired. That piece, which I immediately felt stupider for having read, made no useful points and only flaunted a privileged author's indifference from circumstances.

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Can someone check if the guy who writes for the Federalist, Washington Free Beacon, and National Review printed stories telling those readers not to vote?

lol. lmao even

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Steve Bannon is in prison for contempt and Rudy Giuliani just lost his N.Y. law license, but John Roberts insists that invisible ink in the Constitution prevents Donald Trump, the ringleader, from facing charges for virtually anything that Trump can claim was an official act.

What the actual F?

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I don't know how many years of my life I've been writing Close-Guantanamo-Before-It's-Too-Late stories and while this would be a highly ironic end for Liz "The al-Qaeda Seven" Cheney the joke won't be funny for very long

Trump Amplifies Calls to Jail Top Elected Officials, Invokes Military Tribunalswww.nytimes.com A post that Mr. Trump circulated on Sunday called for Liz Cheney to be prosecuted by a military court reserved for enemy combatants and war criminals.

You know you need a pile of puppies to climb out of this pile of sh*t we're under. Sadie and her sisters. We brought her home 15 years ago yesterday @darthbluesky.bsky.social!

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Watching The Bear S3 and....way too much directing, not nearly enough writing. This was a good show until it started to believe it was a great one. Now it just feels pokey and self-important, sort of as if a great sandwich shop decided to turn into tedious fine dining.

"Gretchen Whitmer, Raphael Warnock, Josh Shapiro, and Wes Moore are just a few of the office-holders who could energize Democrats and independents, inspire younger voters, and beat Trump." David Remnick, who I've admired, left out the @VP. He can have a seat with Nader.

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Congrats to all the profs at elite law schools who loudly vouched for John Roberts and Neil Gorsuch when they were nominated. Hope you placed your students in some nice clerkships.

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Of all the people out there casting blame for election results, this motherfucker should really, really keep his mouth shut. Without him, no Roberts. (Or Alito)

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The Supreme Court’s ruling putting presidents above the law must be understood not simply as a grant of immunity for past crimes, but an enthusiastic endorsement of those he will commit if given the chance. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

The Supreme Court Gives Its Blessing to Trump’s Criminalitywww.theatlantic.com And gives him permission for a despotic second term.

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Mm-hm. See also, for those as talented at grudge-holding as me:

Always telling on which subjects you are allowed to use editorializing opinion language like "debacle" on the news side!

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Also, and this is just personal, I’m never forgiving anyone who equivocated about our choices in 2016. Not a single one. I will hate you in life and haunt you in death.

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American Democracy [1776-2024]. The killers are still at large. Eulogy by Justice Sotomayor.

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We probably ought to have a conversation about a partisan court declaring Trump above the rule of law that is at least as intense as the one we've had about Joe Biden being very old.

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SCOTUS is telling us that it has completely signed on to the project of a second Trump administration, which is establishing an elected autocracy.

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The reason pundits like the contested convention thing is that it plays to their vanities: what if the smart people made a meritocratic decision about who’s best? This is driven, in part, by being mostly isolated from negative reactions to their opinions over the years.

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National pundits are doing their level best to manifest a world in which Kamala Harris does not exist

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To those wishing for some white (literally) knight to come riding in to save the Democratic White House, if Kamala Harris is passed over, then the people who are necessary to win this election--Black voters & immigrants among them--will stay home. So not so quick. Read @jbouie.bsky.social

there is no world in which biden drops out and the nominee isn’t kamala harris. and i think it is very interesting that the loudest calls for biden to drop out do not acknowledge this fact.

Not sure I can watch this debate. It's a really great man, with his flaws, having to have lies and filth spewed upon him by a really evil man. It's like watching a kind of torture.

Carmy...

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Finally digging into today's opinion. It's much more nuanced than everyone on here is giving it credit for 🙄

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In Milwaukee, RNC bookings “underwhelming” and a “failure” www.therecombobulationarea.news/p/special-re...

SPECIAL REPORT: RNC bookings “underwhelming” and a “failure,” event venues and restaurants raise concernswww.therecombobulationarea.news The Riverside Theater and Pabst Theater will sit empty during the convention, and some downtown restaurant owners worry over lack of activity, with RNC just weeks away.

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When I send an invoice to Harlan Crow after each decision, we leave a space at the bottom for optional gratuities. He's not forced to do anything, but we always appreciate it when he does

Nice deck-stacking by the Supreme Court majority here: "While American law generally treats bribes as inherently corrupt and unlawful, the law’s treatment of gratuities is more nuanced. Some gratuities might be innocuous, and others may raise ethical and appearance concerns."

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if, for example, your theory is that this turn is a natural reaction to the monopolization of the economy, then why did this only take place among white and not black residents of rural counties?

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Bless Reggie Jackson because he is Going TF Off on this right now. He’s naming names, going full “hard r” and everything. I swear I thought they were gonna cut his mic RESPECT

Watching the Fox pregame for the MLB tribute to the Negro Leagues game &…everyone keeps talking abt the great players & their exclusion from the Bigs but almost No One is talking about WHO did that & WHY. Real people w/ names maintained segregation in sports & in society. We know those names

My lovely NYC building has scaffolding up. Like half the buildings in NYC. I hate it. But Sadie and I stay under it in the rain, and now in this heat. There are no "walks" let alone hikes right now.

JFC, people. Do not go hiking in a heat wave. Go to a fucking museum. www.cnn.com/2024/06/19/c...

Why some scientists think extreme heat could be the reason people keep disappearing in Greece | CNNwww.cnn.com As climate change fuels longer and more severe heat waves, scientists are trying to unravel the impacts of extreme heat on the body, and in particular the brain.