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God the Republicans are always breaking promises and dashing hopes. First the taco trucks on every corner and now this.

9 days before the assassination attempt, Lee Greenwood (who partners with Trump on a $60 Bible) told a 4th of July crowd undocumented immigrants are coming to kill them.

Groups call out Lee Greenwood's 'hateful speech' at Albany 4th of July concertdemocratherald.com He said: "The only thing we hope for is that we can stop illegal immigration. Because the people who are coming through are coming through to kill you."

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Remember, if the government can obtain a conviction against Bob Menendez for taking bribes and stuffing gold bars into his closet that he was given for working on behalf of a foreign government, there's nothing stopping them from indicting you for the same thing.

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Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz to every woman, LGBTQ+ person and immigrant who works in tech: you’re disposable if doing this makes us even more money

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holy hell

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Sympathy, sure. Free pass, no. My column https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/16/trump-shooting-biden-critique-accountability

‘Turning down the temperature’ shouldn’t mean silencing all criticism of Trump | Margaret Sullivanwww.theguardian.com Trump’s survival of a chilling assassination attempt doesn’t free him from accountability for his innumerable misdeeds

Something small like Donald Trump?

IDK who the first person to express this sentiment was, but: "When people talk about traveling to the past, they worry about radically changing the present by doing something small, but barely anyone in the present really thinks that they can radically change the future by doing something small."

Layed up with covid, killing time with unchallenging TV, I have discovered something I did not know I needed: the galaxy jumping Star Whales of Ahsoka.

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Trump/Vance 2024

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The base is disquiet

the right-wing backstabbing has begun

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This is positively North Korean

"We still don't know what puppet Democrat bosses will install as their nominee," says venture capitalist David Sacks. #RNC

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This truly embarrassing garbage is why I unsubscribed from the NYT.

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Here’s the letter to which Radley alludes demanding investigation of a journalist for an op-ed. Trump never had much of a mask, if any, but a Vance pick is a mask-off moment, in the sense that it’s saying “you’re goddamned right we want fascism.” www.vance.senate.gov/wp-content/u...

Trump’s VP pick … — demanded the DOJ open a criminal investigation of a journalist for “insurrection” over an op-ed critical of Trump — spouted replacement theory garbage — called for criminal prosecutions of other Trump critics — blamed Biden for Trump shooting — called for Biden’s prosecution

www.vance.senate.gov

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Criticizing Trump in the starkest terms is not wishing him personal harm, and those who assert otherwise are engaging in a cheap attempt to silence the just accusations of Americans who are genuinely concerned about Trump’s dark vision for their country. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

MAGA World’s Reckless Point-Scoringwww.theatlantic.com Prominent Republicans turned up the temperature within minutes of Saturday’s shooting.

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Recently, I read one of the first dystopian novels-- PUBLISHED in 1937-- Before Austria was annexed. Before Kristallnacht. Before WWII. 12 years before Orwell would pen 1984. Set 600 years in the future Third Reich Empire. This book has a lot, I think, to teach us about Project 2025 and Trump.

On Authoritarianismwww.lifeisasacredtext.com Or: What Year 600 of the Reich Taught Me About Project 2025

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I nominate this guy as official Blue Sky seer

For the next act, Aileen Cannon is going to cite to Thomas's concurrence on the constitutionality of Jack Smith's appointment to dismiss the Florida documents case.

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Unity = stop objecting to coups

NEW TONE

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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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The latest cover of the New Yorker:

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Do not obey in advance.

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This’ll never make me a regular on msnbc, but people should be ashamed to admit they support Trump. He is a hideously bad person proposing to enact a vast expansion of cruelty and human suffering. The erosion and collapse of social sanctions for supporting someone so indecent is a big problem.

*sigh* Time to find a new sticker manufacturer.

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The number of people Trump says he'll deport keeps going up. It's now 20 million, 50% higher than the largest estimates of the undocumented population. It's clear sign that distinguishing legal from illegal won't be a priority. They're just going to round up people they don't want to be here.

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Institutions work until they don’t. It’s banal but true. Courts as institutions worked when Trump tried to steal the election, but FedSoc has been chipping away at them for decades, and I think it is very rational to doubt they will work any more to restrain an executive.

WSJ this morning. lol at the last bit. "Leaders on both sides need to stop describing the stakes of the election in apocalyptic terms. Democracy won't end if one or the other candidate is elected. Fascism is not aborning if Mr. Trump wins, unless you have little faith in American institutions."

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This is a good point. She could have waited until after the election, or after a jury is empaneled. It smacks a bit of mask-off triumphalism, a sort of HA WE ARE WINNING TRUMP 4EVER BITCHEZ, which may be an accurate perception of the drift of things, or not.

The only thing that surprises me about what Judge Cannon did is that she did it this soon, on grounds this likely to be overturned.

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In all seriousness: the very idea that someone can take highly classified documents, store them in a public place, defy any number of requests, subpoenas, etc., and then face NO CONSEQUENCES AT ALL is genuinely shocking, and should terrify anyone who cares about national security.

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Look, you can’t expect the cop to risk his life to confront the shooter, it’s not like the shooter is an unarmed black man with his back turned

of COURSE

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LOL no.

No I’m not. Are you?

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"This changes everything" No, it doesn't. Jesus Christ, grow a spine.

Why are Democrats like this?

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Adam Kinzinger: The question going forward is how do we talk about Trump? The same. Do not let them intimidate us into not going after Donald Trump. Every adult knows that in politics you’ll say things like…”Trump is a danger to democracy.” He absolutely is. www.threads.net/@vincedmonro...

Vince D. Monroy (@vincedmonroy) on Threadswww.threads.net Adam Kinzinger: The question going forward is how do we talk about Trump? The same. Do not let them intimidate us into not going after Donald Trump. Every adult knows that in politics you’ll say...

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Just a reminder: it’s good to oppose assassinations. But you are under absolutely no obligation to treat Trumpists and Trump-apologists as people who are honest, or acting in good faith, when they purport to condemn political violence or violent rhetoric. They’re not sincere.

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I’m sure over the next few days the shooter will be any of us and all of us (a leftist, antifa, a trans person, any non-white person, even an atheist to spice things up). Let’s see who’s up first: