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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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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A longtime post-conviction attorney told me recently that what worried him most about MAGA judges is that federal judges previously saw a reversal as a rebuke. MAGA judges see it as a badge of honor -- and their ticket to a higher court. He said this is wreaking havoc on the rule of law.

Live Updates: Judge Dismisses Classified Documents Case Against Trumpwww.nytimes.com Judge Aileen Cannon ruled that the entire case should be thrown out because the appointment of the special counsel who brought the case, Jack Smith, had violated the Constitution. Her decision is sure...

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I will never forgive mainstream institutions for continuing to treat Bari Weiss like a normal political commentator when her website is pumping out far-right propaganda. www.thefp.com/p/trump-maga...

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This times a trillion.

I cannot emphasize this enough: www.thedailybeast.com/trump-litera... Biggest example of when respectable types were convinced Trump would “change” then he got untold numbers killed during a pandemic then also tried to get his Pentagon to gun down Black Lives Matter protesters who annoyed him

Trump Literally Laughed at How He Can Game the Press With His ‘New Tone’www.thedailybeast.com The president is acutely aware that if he acts in a somber fashion, the media will quickly notice and praise him for it.

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I have never read anything more credulous than Axios’s thing about Trump this morning. Like…

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Philip Bump

Honestly, Playbook was pretty bad too.

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Helen Kennedy

I'm an underachiever, only 29! Discovered I'm on a list called "shitlibs" though...

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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis

What an extraordinary story!

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We (and specifically, me) love to see it.

PEOPLE Magazine! What Is Project 2025? Inside the Far-Right Plan Threatening Everything from the Word 'Gender' to Public Education people.com/what-is-proj...

What Is Project 2025? Inside the Far-Right Plan Threatening Everything from the Word 'Gender' to Public Educationpeople.com Donald Trump's far-right allies created Project 2025 as a blueprint for his possible second term. The controversial plan would push a Christian nationalist agenda that dramatically reshapes the U.S. g...

Did you read it? Obviously not.

I think Biden's campaign staff is committing political malpractice by setting up these must-win situations. Especially those leaking anonymously that they're trying to get him to drop out. WTAF? www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Biden’s “Big Boy Press Conference” Went Fine, But It Won’t Quiet Doubterswww.thenation.com The president started with a flub but ended strong. It may not matter.

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Stop doing my job? I've been working on this piece since January. Should I have shredded it?

Exclusive: Is Kamala the One? An excerpt of my Kamala Harris profile is online now. Much more to come in the August print edition. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Exclusive: Is Kamala the One?www.thenation.com Could the vice president be our best hope of saving the country from Trump? In this excerpt from our profile, Joan Walsh meets Kamala Harris.

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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colbertocrat.bsky.social

She is, thank you.

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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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Aubrey Gilleran

I agree.

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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.

So disappointing. Even depressing given the week we're having. I did love "Ice Chips," almost as good as "Fishes." Carmy's face isn't what they think it is (it was minor on those awful Calvin Klein ads.) The addle-pated flashbacks, please. I was so excited...until I wasn't.

"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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Ryan J. Reilly

Congrats!

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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)