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it’ll never cease to amaze me that 90% of citizens just wanna live their normal silly little lives and that remaining 10% says hey let’s pool all our evil money and try to make them miserable www.propublica.org/article/leon...

Inside the “Private and Confidential” Conservative Group That Promises to “Crush Liberal Dominance”www.propublica.org Leonard Leo, a key architect of the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority, is now the chairman of Teneo Network, a group that aims to influence all aspects of American politics and culture.

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Breaking: Bob Menendez to appeal conviction claiming if Supreme Court Justices can take bribes why can't Senators.

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You’d think there might be some renewed coverage of Republican politicians openly calling for political killings in the wake of all this. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Trump-Endorsed Candidate for Governor: ‘Some Folks Need Killing’www.rollingstone.com North Carolina Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson declared "some people need killing" during a Sunday sermon.

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Asawin Suebsaeng

The guy who smashed Paul Pelosi's head with hammer said the election was stolen from Trump by Nancy Pelosi. Trump made fun of that vicious politically motivated assault on Paul Pelosi. youtu.be/Poy9EWSmEfQ?...

Joe: Trump mocks Paul Pelosi and the audience is laughing alongyoutu.be Former President Donald Trump on Friday at the California Republican Party Convention mocked Rep. Nancy Pelosi and her husband, Paul, who was brutally attack...

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Asawin Suebsaeng

Yes. Precisely this. Is it bad that some maniac took a shot at Trump? Yes. Are we thus required to listen to bad faith bleating from the same assholes pushing political violence? No.

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I’ll say one other thing; I don’t care how many hours have passed since the assassination attempt, there are just some people I’m not willing to take lessons on violent or irresponsible rhetoric from, or hear them out in good faith ever on this issue. Get fucked, fuck off, next.

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Trump posted what he said was Obama's address, prosecutors say. An armed man was soon arrested thereapnews.com Federal prosecutors say former President Donald Trump posted on his social media platform what he claimed was the home address of former President Barack Obama the same day a man with guns in his van ...

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Yes, requests for non-fascists to "lower the temperature" is just a nicer way of putting the Heritage Foundation's statement that the revolution will remain bloodless if liberals allow it. It's a demand for acquiescence to the conditions of violence they created.

Seen a lot of comments like “hey Americans who support democracy, oppose political violence, and value truth, we have to take the temperature down,” and while well-intentioned, I don’t think it’ll work, because they’re not the ones raising the temperature.

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Trump at a campaign rally in March in Ohio, Vance’s state: “If we don't win this election, I don't think you're going to have another election in this country. If I don't get elected, it's going to be a bloodbath for the whole country."

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Please don’t “both sides” the “violent political rhetoric” conversation when one side regularly glorifies and intimidates with guns and the other side speaks out to end gun violence. These are not the same.

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absolutely brilliant. the cataloging of violent imagery from the right is incredible. i mean, we all know this, but it’s striking to see it in one paragraph.

Well I'm given to understand that today & for a VERY limited time, our nation's political violence party is shocked—shocked!—to learn that we currently live in a world of normalized political violence, and would like very much to know who is to blame. Full Essay: www.the-reframe.com/gambling-in-...

Gambling In Casablancawww.the-reframe.com Being blamed for a world of political violence by the people who force us to live in it, and are now shocked-shocked!—by it. Navigating the daily trauma of living in a bully's paradise.

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Great essay, from top to bottom. The next few days will show media attempting to “both sides” this story; to ponder how this could have possibly have happened at a rally led by a person who once ordered the national guard to tear gas peaceful protesters outside of a church for a photo op

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There is a devastating paragraph in this that highlights the annually increasingly violent rhetoric that has accompanied our increasingly violent political reality from 2015 to now. Made my stomach drop.

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mattie lubchansky

“Now before you say it, the guy with the home invasion who got attacked with a hammer was the HUSBAND of a politician”

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Terrifying journalistic bullshit from @nypost, which posted an article claiming that the shooter was a “Chinese man” (thanks @paulayoo for grabbing), then replaced it with a version that the shooter was “identified only as a white male” shortly thereafter — WITHOUT flagging the correction.

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Exhibit A - hard at work already to politicize it to incite hatred of political opponents.

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This is absolutely malpractice.

"the Biden campaign said it was pausing all messaging to supporters and working to pull down all of its television ads as quickly as possible, the campaign said." I know these people are incompetent jackasses but "let's just let Trump speak unopposed" is borderline deliberate sabotage

Biden says 'everybody must condemn' attack on Trump, hopes to speak with ex-president soonapnews.com President Joe Biden says “everybody must condemn” the suspected assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.

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New York Times Editorial Board: "Mr. Trump’s political agenda cannot and must not be opposed by violence. It cannot and must not be pursued through violence." Ok but to be clear Trump's political agenda *is* violence. We get that right? I dont want us to miss that www.nytimes.com/2024/07/13/o...

Opinion | The Attack on Donald Trump Is Antithetical to Americawww.nytimes.com Political violence is antithetical to our democracy.

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Emmett Till. Martin Luther King, Jr. Medgar Evers. Addie Mae Collins. Denise McNair. Carole Robertson. Cynthia Wesley. James Earl Chaney. Fred Hampton. 4,743 lynchings between 1882 and 1968. And so many more.

Opinion | The Attack on Donald Trump Is Antithetical to Americawww.nytimes.com Political violence is antithetical to our democracy.

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This thread is 100% the correct advice. Trump and his allies have been for years pushing rhetorical and real violence into our politics for years.

If you're any other Democrat what I would suggest is like "Violence has no place in our politics. I hope this is a WAKE UP CALL for Trump, that saying things like an assassin trying to kill Nancy Pelosi was a hoax, that nazis in Charlottesville were 'very fine people,' that" and just go on

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Tom Nichols

And it isn't fair. Biden has been a good President, perhaps a great one. There's no sign of his flagging or failing at his job. He has an excellent administration behind him. He has a competent person standing in as his understudy, so to speak. He's always made gaffes. I don't get the doomsaying.

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it is important to remember, when Republicans blather on about “small government” and “fiscal responsibility” that what they mean is “rich people should not have to pay their taxes”

The IRS reported Wednesday that it has collected $1 billion in taxes and penalties owed by hundreds of wealthy households who accumulated past-due tax debts for years while IRS enforcement dwindled.

IRS reports collecting $1 billion from rich households’ back taxeswapo.st For years, the tax agency simply didn’t try collecting sizable debts owed by 1,600 filers with annual incomes of at least $1 million.

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It's too bad this country went insane about masks, seems like they can be useful

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Lenacapavir did so well at preventing HIV infection that it hit the threshold where the only ethical thing to do was stop the randomized trial and immediately offer it to literally every participant. That's huge news. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

A new way to prevent HIV delivers dramatic results in trialwww.npr.org The testing of lenacapavir was halted because results were so impressive — 100% effectiveness. The decision was made to give all participants the injection rather than the alternative daily pill.

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Straightforward from here: 1. Biden pulls out, endorses open contest. 2. Harris starts in lead, stalls out. 3. All fall short on early ballots. 4. Draft Biden campaign convinces Biden to accept the nomination, Harris chosen again as VP. 5. Newly-energized Biden-Harris ticket trounces Trump.

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Excellent from @aaronrosspowell.com www.reimaginingliberty.com/p/false-equi...

The False Equivalence Trapwww.reimaginingliberty.com Why "Both Sides" Thinking Fails in the Face of Authoritarianism

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The GOP push to destabilize the 2024 election has already begun, with lawsuits filed in a host of states around familiar Trump talking points: mail-in ballots, supposed voter-registration fraud, etc. “This is how you build a story that enables political interference in the post-election process." 🎁

GOP jump-starts 2024 election challenges with Trump-inspired lawsuitswapo.st Democrats view the lawsuits as legally frivolous but still damaging to public confidence and a potential precursor to efforts to overturn the vote.

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Missing The Point

teen vogue, the newspaper of record

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Good reporting on an entirely predictable problem. Fun fact: Airbnb also covers up thousands of sexual assaults every year! Its internal safety team has "cool-down rooms" to take a break from the trauma of what they hear. It's a bad company, a bad industry, and people should just stay in hotels.

No room for privacy: How Airbnb fails to protect guests from hidden cameras

How Airbnb fails to protect guests from hidden cameras | CNN Businesswww.cnn.com A CNN investigation finds Airbnb fails to protect its guests against the persistent threat within its industry.

Airbnb Is Spending Millions of Dollars to Make Nightmares Go Awaywww.bloomberg.com When things go horribly wrong during a stay—the company’s secretive safety team jumps in.