John Light

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My dumb little Medium post is in the New York Times lol www.nytimes.com/2024/06/12/o...

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Every week, a version of this cycle. 1) Dems worry that Biden isn’t winning on economy. 2) Biden holds events about economy. 3) Nobody gives a damn. 4) Trump says something crazy. 5) Biden team reacts. 6) News coverage. 7) Dems worry about Biden reacting to Trump instead of talking economy.

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Learned today that the guy in charge of Eisenhower's "Operation Wetback" deportations -- beloved by Trump and Steven Miller -- killed a Mexican kid when he was 17. Conviction was overturned on appeal due to bad jury instructions. Prosecutors then dropped charges. He'd later go on to lead the NRA.

Harlon B. Carter, Longtime Head Of Rifle Association, Dies at 78 (Published 1991)www.nytimes.com

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Writing this was haunting but necessary! Please check out my analysis of the ideology behind the Society for American Civic Renewal, a mens-only Christian nationalist org that grows increasingly near to power in Republican organizations and institutions

On our reading list 📖: CTEC's @bcdaviess.bsky.social explores the ideology driving the Society for American Civic Renewal (SACR), its construction of Christian gender roles, and its proximity to neo-fascist accelerationism. 🔗 www.middlebury.edu/institute/ct...

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Me, listening to a Mountain Goats album

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When Trump was president, people became a lot less likely to tell the government if they were citizens. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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i’m loling at the absolutely terrible luck of trying pull a cheap scam and happening upon two NYT reporters

This is shady shit. Paid signature gathers are being instructed to not mention Kennedy’s name, hide his name from the petition, and say they are collecting signatures to get “independents,” “Progressives,” or “Democrats” on the ballot. In every encounter, they fold down RFK’s name on the paper.

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HOW IT HAPPENED 1. Republicans say no foreign aid without border security 2. Democrats say nope 3. Rs say then no aid 4. Ds cave, cut a deal for tougher border laws with Lankford and McConnell 5. Trump tells them to kill it 6. Rs kill it 7. Rs pass foreign aid without the border security

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As you can see, the rise in profanity on Taylor Swift albums (left) is having the unusual effect of causing a dramatic rise in installed solar power capacity.

Amazing.

New: Trump-appointed Judge John Bush of the 6th Circuit today in a speech to a Federalist Society chapter laid out a vision for how future AI technology could make it even easier for originalist judges to support rulings based on "history and tradition."

Conservative US judge says AI could strengthen 'originalist' movementwww.reuters.com A conservative federal appeals court judge on Monday said future developments in artificial intelligence could revolutionize how judges like himself tie their rulings to the past by interpreting the U.S. Constitution based on the nation's history and tradition.

Between this and Trump, Manafort may have done as much as anyone to shape our current moment.

People know about Manafort as Trump's comically sketchy former campaign manager, but I'm not sure they know about the role he played in the events that set Russia and Ukraine on their current course.

Spies, War, Trump: We Still Don’t Really Understand What Paul Manafort Is Up Totalkingpointsmemo.com Entertain this scenario for a minute: there’s a country sitting on a...

People know about Manafort as Trump's comically sketchy former campaign manager, but I'm not sure they know about the role he played in the events that set Russia and Ukraine on their current course.

Spies, War, Trump: We Still Don’t Really Understand What Paul Manafort Is Up Totalkingpointsmemo.com Entertain this scenario for a minute: there’s a country sitting on a...

TPM, where I work, is doing its annual membership drive. We’re almost entirely reader-supported (less than 10% of our revenue comes from ads) and so this drive is a big deal. talkingpointsmemo.com/memberships

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Let's go

For Morning Memo regulars: We just launched our annual membership drive, so now is a great time to show your support. Our goal is 1,000 new members. Please, do what you can to help us get there! talkingpointsmemo.com/memberships

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So many journalism outlets are closing or contracting, but TPM has been able to make independent original reporting work! This coverage is more important than ever. Please consider supporting TPM! It's our annual drive and memberships are 40% off!! talkingpointsmemo.com/memberships

TPM has one of the first post-administration interviews with former Biden chief-of-staff Ron Klain, who played a key role in many of his administration's early successes. It starts with an insane story about Mark Meadows. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/ron-kla...

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Great get from @joshkovensky.bsky.social at TPM. Something’s rotten in Claremont: talkingpointsmemo.com/news/inside-...

Inside A Secret Society Of Prominent Right-Wing Christian Men Prepping For A ‘National Divorce’talkingpointsmemo.com A secret, men-only right-wing society with members in influential positions around the...

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Society for American Civic Renewal is open to new recruits, provided you are male, “trinitarian” Christian, heterosexual, “un-hyphenated American,” & answer questions about Trump, Republican Party, Christian Nationalism in right way. From @joshkovensky.bsky.social 👇

A very weird story in which @joshkovensky.bsky.social reveals the president of the Claremont Institute to be a member of a Christian, all-male secret society that envisions a future of feudalism following some kind of national disintegration. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/inside-...

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"SACR aims to have its members form the government of an 'aligned future regime.'" criteria to join include "deference to & acceptance of the wisdom of our American and European Christian forebears in the political realm" and "a traditional understanding of patriarchal leadership in the household"

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EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT! A special Saturday scoop from @tpm.bsky.social's @joshkovensky.bsky.social Inside A Secret Society Of Prominent Right-Wing Christian Men Prepping For A ‘National Divorce’ talkingpointsmemo.com/news/inside-...

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NEW: Inside A Secret Society Of Prominent Right-Wing Christian Men Prepping For A ‘National Divorce’ talkingpointsmemo.com/news/inside-...

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A trove of documents obtained by TPM reveals the inner workings of the Society for American Civic Renewal, a men-only, Christian-only group of influential right-wingers that aims to recruit members for an "aligned future regime." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/inside-...

After the insanity of 2020 and 2022, election officials are prepping their staff for 2024 with mental health and resiliency workshops talkingpointsmemo.com/news/electio...

Kyrsten Sinema did this to herself, writes @kateriga.bsky.social talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

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NEW: Sarah Huckabee Sanders keeps making trips to luxury suites at Chiefs games but she won't say who's paying or why the pricey tickets aren't showing up on her required financial disclosure report. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/who-pai...

A new law in Tennessee starts the process of chipping away at Obergefell—the landmark 2015 Supreme Court decision protecting same sex marriage—in a similar way to how a decade of state laws undercut Roe before the 2022 Dobbs decision finally overturned it. talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/te...

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NEW: How Trump attorneys sought to exert maximum pressure on SCOTUS in the days before Jan. 6 talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/the-...

The Supreme Pressure Campaigntalkingpointsmemo.com Donald Trump’s attorneys in 2020 thought that they had one advantage which...

The third, final article in our series based on a trove of Ken Chesebro's emails shows Trump attorneys gaming out which SCOTUS justices might help overturn the election, and John Eastman's supposition that John Roberts would be concerned about the "riots angle." talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/the-...

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TPM tracked down a now-locked anonymous twitter account linked to Ken Chesebro, which was apparently tweeting throughout KC's efforts to help Trump overturn the 2020 election talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/two-...