Jonathan Massaquoi

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We know 550 of 577 districts in France. Left bloc: 188 Macron bloc: 149 RN/far-right bloc: 139 LR/right: 44 Other left: 8 Other right: 16 Others: 6 REMAINS: 27 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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RESULT: Aurélien Rousseau wins as left candidate. He is Macron's former health minister who resigned in protest in December, after Macron adopted an anti-immigration law with support of far-right MPs. Macron reportedly maneuvered to defeat him this week (as I posted earlier this week).

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The story of the French election is not the left compromising to back the center and stop the far right. That's arguably the story of Macron's presidential election, but not this. The story of this parliamentary election is left and center both compromising to stop the far right.

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Nvm they're back, apparently; carry on as you were

Whoa. Maybe I take back some of the things I said about the level of discourse on Threads. Apparently after the biased debate coverage and the anti-voting screed, The People bullied them off the platform.

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OK EVERYONE TIME TO ADJUST THE NARRATIVE - CENTRE-LEFT NOW ASCENDANT IN EUROPE, POPULIST RIGHT IN DISARRAY, WE’VE ALL GOT THAT CLEMENT ATTLEE/LEON BLUM FEELING. THAT IS ALL. amp.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

French election 2024 live: exit poll shows shock win for left-green alliance as far right falls to third | France | The Guardianamp.theguardian.com New Popular Front predicted to get 172-192 seats, with Marine Le Pen’s far-right RN and allies down in third

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So maybe Macron knew what he was doing after all? (Or perhaps he was just relatively lucky.) www.lemonde.fr/en/france/ar...

French elections: Left projected to win most seats, ahead of Macron's coalition and far rightwww.lemonde.fr According to initial estimates, the Nouveau Front Populaire left-wing alliance is projected to win between 172 and 192 seats in France's Assemblée Nationale, ahead of Macron's coalition (between 150 a...

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The right heard SCOTUS loudly and clearly that they were being given a special exemption that did not apply to Democrats.

Senator J.D. Vance of Ohio, a contender to be Trump's running mate, said on NBC that he supported Trump's calls, if he wins, to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate President Biden.

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I would have hoped they would have engaged in some reflection after their bizarre attempt at a split Dem endorsement in 2020 saw not one but both of their choices bodied handily, but apparently not!

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RESULT: Francois Hollande, the former president from 2012 to 2017 (a center-left figure who alienated his left & named Macron to his Cabinet, but just ran with the Left coalition) has WON. This was a 3-way runoff: Hollande got 43%, with 31% for the RN & 26% for LR.

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"I think more than ever we need to go out and vote. We can't leave our country in the hands of these people [the far right RN party]," Mbappé said at a press conference in Hamburg ahead of France's Euro 2024 quarter-final against Portugal there on Friday." he did it www.lemonde.fr/en/politics/...

French elections: Mbappé says voting is 'urgent' after 'catastrophic' resultswww.lemonde.fr Star French forward Kylian Mbappé had previously called on young French people to vote at this 'crucial moment,' on Sunday, June 16, joining his team-mate Marcus Thuram in speaking out against the far...

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It's hard to communicate how radical this is. For 200 years every politician in America wanted the federal government to pay for things so they could take credit for it. It's a fundamental defining feature of American politics. But now owning the libs is more important. 1/2

The governors of a dozen Republican-led states — AL, AK, FL, GA, IA, MS, OK, SC, SD, TX, UT, WY — opted out of a new federal food assistance program, leaving about 9.5 million students without the aid this summer

Republican-led states are blocking summer food benefits for hungry familieswww.usatoday.com Money for food is especially tight for families in a dozen states where Republican lawmakers declined to accept federal food assistance.

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When it comes to climate change, we need to retire, or at least put on hiatus, the term "the new normal". This is not the new normal. Normal will keep getting warmer until we stop adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.

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i think there's a lot to criticize about Dem message discipline but the rules at the NYT changed kind of dramatically and suddenly to "a single on-background quote from basically any Dem is enough to peg an entire new story about Biden's age to" and idk how you control that basically

Speaking of, democrats would do a lot better to go vent their anxieties to god than to journalists

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Russia really hastening its demographic decline, though this is likely disproportionately falling on its minority populations, so in addition to being a project of imperial warmongering and attempted genocide, its a eugenicist as well

"The latest estimates suggest that roughly 2% of all Russian men aged between 20 and 50 may have been either killed or severely wounded in Ukraine since the start of the full-scale war." Jesus

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Artificial scarcity is an existential part of the Republican Party. Convince the working classes they must fight each other for pieces of the needlessly-small pie, while the GOP gets busy cutting taxes & creating new subsidies for billionaires.

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Economist estimates that "between 462,000 and 728,000 Russian soldiers were out of action by mid-June—more than Russia’s estimated invading force in February 2022." www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

How many Russian soldiers have been killed in Ukraine?www.economist.com Four charts illustrate a grim new milestone

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The fateful events in Crimea and Donbas in Febr.–April 2014 were not local uprisings, peaceful transfers of territory to Russia or ad hoc Russian reactions to Ukrainian provocations. With Julia Kazdobina & @jakobhedenskog.bsky.social @uahistory.bsky.social @rvps2001.bsky.social @russlandwatcher.de

Putin’s Kremlin Started the Russo-Ukrainian War in February 2014, Not 2022www.kyivpost.com Three false narratives manufactured by Russia about Moscow‘s first invasion in 2014 belies the fact Putin’s had designs on Ukraine now well more than a decade old.

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Maryland's total medical and adult-use retail cannabis sales have surpassed $1.1 billion in the first 12 months following legalization. Monthly retail sales exceeded $95 million in June, with the adult-use market accounting for over $67 million in sales. www.fox5dc.com/news/marylan...

Maryland's marijuana sales surpass $1.1 billion in first year of legal recreational usewww.fox5dc.com Maryland's total medical and adult-use retail cannabis sales have surpassed $1.1 billion in the first 12 months following legalization, Governor Wes Moore announced Wednesday.

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How Britain voted by ethnicity from FocalData analysis: White Lab 33% (+3) Con 25% (-22) Reform 16% (+14) LD 13% (+1) G 6% (+4) Asian voters Lab 43% (-13) Cons 20% (-5) Green 11% (+8) LibDem 9% (-3) Reform 5% Black voters Lab 59% (-6) Cons 21% (+1) Reform 4% LibDem 6% (-) Green 6% (+1)

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Eric Trump says he is pursuing more Gulf deals as his father seeks re-electionwww.ft.com Ambition for family business raises concerns about potential conflicts of interest if ex-president regains office

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Wow, maybe competence and experience really does matter for public services. Who knew? (Anyone who studies public organizations. Or, really, anyone with an ounce of common sense).

According to research from @jjacobkirksey.bsky.social, in TX "Students with new uncertified teachers lost the equivalent of about four months of learning in reading and three months in math."

Texas kids lose up to 4 months of learning with new uncertified teachers, study findswww.dallasnews.com Students with new uncertified teachers lost the equivalent of about four months of learning in reading and three months in math, the Texas Tech study found.

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These mistakes originalist justices are making aren’t about disputed interpretations of history, with evidence on both sides. They’re pulling quotes out of context to attribute ideas to founding figures that those figures adamantly opposed. (via @andycraig.bsky.social) reason.com/volokh/2024/...

The Supreme Court's Dubious Use of History in Department of State v. Munozreason.com Justice Amy Coney Barrett's majority opinion includes significant errors, and violates some of her own precepts against excessive reliance on questionable history.

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Seems possible that Trump’s actions in the classified docs case aren’t “official” under the SCOTUS decision. But if he wins he can end the case, pardon himself, and pardon anyone who who would implicate him. And those *would* be “official acts,” immune from scrutiny. www.npr.org/2024/07/06/n...

Judge pauses deadlines in Trump classified documents case over immunity questionswww.npr.org Trump has argued that him taking classified documents to his Mar-a-Lago home constituted an official act — and that the Supreme Court's ruling means the charges against him should be dropped.

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To Oust Netanyahu, Israel Must Embrace Arab Parties Carolina Landsmann www.haaretz.com/opinion/2024...

Opinion | To oust Netanyahu, Israel must embrace Arab partieswww.haaretz.com ***

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The Economist has some astonishing figures on Russian losses in Ukraine. They surpass all losses by the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation from 1945 to 2022 combined. Up to 728,000 soldiers eliminated, confirming Ukraine’s figures. 1/2

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The "Ukraine never in NATO" crowd seems to think they're avoiding confrontation with Russia, but they're actually encouraging Russia in a confrontation that's well underway. Events are past the point where "don't make Russia nervous, don't push back, or they might get aggressive" becomes denial.

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She truly is a shameless little turncoat and I, card carrying SNP member, unashamedly wish her a very miserable retirement full of grotesquely unpleasant fireside dinners with her best friend yoon-in-chief JK Rowling.

www.theguardian.com/politics/art... "The ship has gone down!" says the person who's been boring holes in it from the inside. Fuck off to Alba where you belong

Defeated Joanna Cherry says battered SNP’s ‘ship has gone down’www.theguardian.com Former Edinburgh South West MP says addressing “openly and honestly” what went wrong is only way forward for party

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this is consistent with my general sense that many of the justices really, really don't understand both how much they are disliked by an increasingly fervent and expansive segment of population, and the extent to which those people are now paying attention in a way they weren't before

competing theory of john roberts from @stevenmazie.bsky.social: maybe roberts is still trying to play the institutionalist game but has lost his read on how the court is perceived by the public x.com/stevenmazie/...

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Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah: ‘Satire is a way to make myself less depressed’www.theguardian.com The US author on dystopian fiction, the experience of speaking to prisoners about his debut novel and why both of America’s major parties ‘love the war machine’