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Project 2025 is shite, but so is Agenda 47, y'all. More people need to be talking about this trash too. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agenda_47

Agenda 47 - Wikipediaen.m.wikipedia.org

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Yes, I absolutely do think over half the country cares about having their basic human rights taken away by a bunch of authoritarian freaks. For Christ’s sake, Project 2025 calls for banning PORN. We can get voters mad about this.

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it's time for my favorite ever law review student note: harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...

watching british election returns the question struck me: what would democrats do with a landslide? what’s the wish list? beyond saving democracy of course.

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So voting is better than *not* voting when it comes to getting what you want? Huh.

BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.

Projections in France's election show voters rejecting the far rightwww.npr.org Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which ...

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Just this morning I brought up Project 2025 with a woman who is well-educated, fairly politically savvy, and a staunch Democrat. She had never heard of it. When I gave her a precis, she was HORRIFIED.

This is super important work. And it looks like it's actually having an effect. Normal people learn about Project 2025 and are scared as shitless as they should be. The Nation, The New Republic, Rolling Stone, Boston Review and others are doing the work that NYT and WaPo are neglecting.

Viewing votes as "reward" and "punishment" is stupid. You're not going down on the candidate, you're choosing an action to bring about the change you want to see.

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This is something that's really soured me on the whole "the problem is that Dems haven't improved people's material conditions" talking point. Dems consistently do good things that materially improve people's lives, but Republicans are rewarded for blocking those efforts.

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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George Pearkes

Too old: Clinton 2016 (68 y/o), Biden 2020, 2024 (77, 81 y/o), No mention of age in the press: Trump 2016,2020,2024(70, 74, 78 y/o), Bernie 2016, 2020 (74, 78 y/o)

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bad luck for biden to run in an electoral cycle where "are you old" is the most important issue instead of in one of the cycles where email security procedures or accuracy of vietnam war medal citations was the most important issue in the country.

@bskyttrpg.bsky.social stats

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Conservatives: "RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES! RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!" The Epstein Files: *name Donald Trump a bunch* Conservatives: "WAIT NO NOT LIKE THAT!"

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The entire game of making right wingers “patriots” and liberals “America haters” is about gerrymandering what you’re allowed to be proud of in American history and what counts as hatred. Pride in The New Deal doesn’t count and hatred of immigrants and America’s largest cities doesn’t count either.

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Every word being used by the media regarding Biden stepping down could be used for talking about Trump raping girls.

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Idk, maybe listening to folks who said we shouldn’t support people who defend Assad or dismiss women in pink hats out of hand instead of viciously attacking them as tools of imperialism or centrists is instructive here

Ken Klippenstein is streaming with George Galloway. The Young Turks are hosting RFK Jr. One ex bernie spokesperson is streaming with candace owens and another is defending Nick Fuentes. Brianna Wu is hanging with lauren southern. Maybe now is the time to re-evaluate how the left chooses celebrities.

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yo, I wrote a thing: "Republicans are running away from Project 2025. let’s make the bastards own it" — they can run, but they can’t hide. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —

Republicans are running away from Project 2025. let’s make the bastards own itbit.ly they can run, but they can’t hide

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I know the latest NZ election outcome was less than good, but jesus.

Soft Cell - Tainted Love youtu.be/XZVpR3Pk-r8

Other than Hurt by Johnny Cash and any version of The Sound of Silence, what are your favorite cover versions of famous songs?

Soft Cell - Tainted Love (Official Music Video)youtu.be Official video for "Tainted Love" by Soft Cell.Revisit more 80's music videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMOGaugKpzs&list=PLjF50Dlp9iek5dt7_1jRWS4_RiBy...

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The defeat of National Rally is of the utmost importance

France’s Snap Election Enters Its Final Hourswww.nytimes.com The vote will determine the composition of France’s National Assembly, and the future of President Emmanuel Macron’s second term.

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Just reupping www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Trump’s Not ‘Bluffing’: Inside the MAGA Efforts To Make a Second Term Even More Extremewww.rollingstone.com “Yes, we do really want to burn it all down,” says a Republican close to Trump.

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Reposting this to elevate the vibes

“Despair is a lie. Hopelessness is a lie. No simple story can ever be true and there is no simpler story than ‘nothing means anything.’ You not being loved or worthy of love is a lie.” Thank you, John Green. youtu.be/RwUM6BXZG8E

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Trump can say whatever he wants, but Agenda 47 is published on his website and is the lite version of Project 2025. It’s journalistic malpractice not to ask him about either.

Seems like "what parts of Project 2025 do you disagree with?" or "what parts of it are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal?" would be good questions for a reporter to ask the other elderly presidential candidate, but what do I know. on.ft.com/4ePQH0e

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I don’t even know where to begin with this.

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The media may be losing their shit, but here’s a voice of pure sanity.

Video: Overwhelmingly Positive Reactions to Biden's Interview with Black Radio Host Andrea Lawful-Sanderslittlegreenfootballs.com Andrea Lawful-Sanders talks with CNN after she interviewed President Biden following his poor performance at the debate. #CNN #News...

This is actually a felony. www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...

As a side note, this is John McEntee, Trump's Director of White House Personnel and the primary architect of Project 2025. On Tik Tok he said he gives counterfeit bills to homeless people so they will be arrested when they go to spend them.

18 U.S. Code § 472 - Uttering counterfeit obligations or securitieswww.law.cornell.edu

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we’re in danger

NEWS --> Mark Robinson, the MAGA extremist GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, appeared to endorse political violence against unnamed foes in a recent speech. "Some folks need killing!" he shouted. "It's a matter of necessity!" Video and story here: newrepublic.com/article/1834...

MAGA Gov Candidate’s Ugly, Hateful Rant: “Some Folks Need Killing!”newrepublic.com Mark Robinson, the GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, has a long history of incendiary comments. But he may have topped himself this time.

*Stock footage of nuclear explosion* Voiceover: "There have been 1054 nuclear tests in America" *Stock footage of radiation sickness and cancer* Voiceover: "Nearly all of which occurred here, on American soil. Donald Trump wants to bring it back. Don't let him. Vote Joe Biden in November."

Uh huh:

The problem Harris and every other hypothetical Democratic Presidential candidate would have is that Trump and the Media are both racist. In a hypothetical Trump/Harris debate where he calls her the n-word, the media would either say "Facts" or blame Kamala for not reacting the way they wanted.

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The fact they're simultaneously running don't vote campaigns and trying to undermine the dem candidate is proof that the moneybags who own these publications are united in realizing their robber baron days are drawing to a close under a guy who is the most pro labour president of the 21st century

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many of you are pointing out that it shouldn’t matter, that it’s important even if MAGA base doesn’t care, that there are people other than them who should know this, and i’m sorry to inform you that none of you will ever be given a major column in a newspaper or magazine with that kind of thinking.

one of the most cowardly arguments i keep seeing from columnists is that nothing breaks through with trump supporters, so it’s a waste of time reporting on what he believes. this should be seen as a critically damning failure on behalf of the fourth estate. this means you failed. it’s not a pass.