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Today, a dive into failed assassination attempts in America and abroad: buttondown.email/theswordandt...

Missed Connections: A Brief History of Assassination Attemptsbuttondown.email Welcome back to Culture Club, the weekly feature where Talia and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading, watching or...

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The thing that these pundits, reporters and centrists will NOT do is to monitor the GOP convention for any references to violence. It will not be scrutinized that way. The DEM convention will be picked over like a fine tooth comb for any references to fascism.

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Tour de France and Olympic athletes are wearing masks because they understand that catching COVID could undo years of hard work and sacrifices.

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I fucking hate it here.

espn is doing a segment about home runs and the voiceover just said “we love the home run because of what it represents: the triumph of the individual against the collective”

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CONMEBOL is a shitshow, as we saw with Colombia-Uruguay the other night. But, also, nobody in *Miami* (iMIAMI!) had considered the implications of a match in which Colombia (who rarely gets this far in tournaments) and Messi + Argentina are playing might need Super Bowl-tier logistics? Disaster.

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Now Univision is literally showing the tickets on people's phones, people who paid (so said one, $1k, another $4k) and weren't allowed in, and in the middle of this convo the event staff came and sent the Univision cameras packing. People with tickets outside say those inside don't all have tickets

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If you need a break from politics, there’s soccer DRAMA. This after Uruguay players previously jumped into the stands after a loss to defend family members being harassed by Colombia fans.

Right now in Miami: Univision is showing security agents turning their journalists away from interviewing people who were denied entry after a security failure. Also showing police stomping out people who made it past the barricades. The final was scheduled to start 40 minutes ago.

Copa América final start delayed after fans rush gates - ESPNwww.espn.com MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. -- An entrance gate at Hard Rock Stadium, the venue for Sunday's Copa América final between Argentina and Colombia, has been locked following a security breach in which fans broke ...

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Images being broadcast to one of the biggest tv audiences around the world of Ticketmaster screwing over families who spent once in a lifetime earnings to travel to the U.S. Univision reporting 7000 people with legitimate tickets were shut out & the stadium’s security was breached.

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Somebody pls write a media analysis of Fox vs Univision coverage of this game.

I have Fox on for one of the first times in this tournament. And they are showing none of this. From their perspective it just seems to be a mystery what has been happening…

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FIFA has to be looking at this Copa security mess and rethinking how prepared the US will be for the World Cup in 2026, right? Because if we can’t get our shit together for Copa which is just CONMEBOL and Concacaf, how the fuck are we to be ready for World Cup

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Legit just downloaded the Univision app bc Fox Sports like “everything is fine it’s just a bit of crowd control” and I’m like okay Fox Sports Gaslight Gatekeep Girlboss this situation

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🧵!!!!

If Trump wins, to address the “it won’t be that bad” crowd, ok… for the sake of argument (really really myopic bad argument) let’s say he fails to implement almost all the most pathetic sickest shit in the trump/gop policy agenda. You know what he is gonna pull off? Shutting down federal criminal…

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Obama chuckled. "You mean the Chaos Emeralds?"

1) Biden steps down 2) Harris picks Sonic the Hedgehog to be her new VP 3) Harris steps down 4) President Sonic the motherfucking Hedgehog

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He might be our greatest poster

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Just remembering this historical incident for no particular reason:

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imagine you show up for pickup soccer and these guys are putting their cleats on. what do you do

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It's not even the main point of this article, but why the heck does the Police Commissioner have a higher base salary than the mayor?? #bospoli www.bostonglobe.com/2024/07/15/m...

Nearly 100 Boston police officers made $100,000-plus in overtime alone in 2023 - The Boston Globewww.bostonglobe.com Since 2021, the number of Boston police officers making more than $300,000 has nearly doubled, rocketing from around 30 to nearly 60.

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NEW: ‘Mobile Field Force’ Policing Model Funded for Milwaukee Republican National Convention Police from 20+ states expected at Milwaukee RNC amid massive security lockdown configuration unicornriot.ninja/2024/mobile-... Stay tuned for more from the RNC

'Mobile Field Force' Policing Model Funded for Milwaukee Republican National Convention - UNICORN RIOTunicornriot.ninja The 2024 Republican National Convention starts on Monday, July 15, and will run for four days. This report covers the latest Milwaukee developments and a quick historical rundown about the huge securi...

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hey remember when the FCC tried to implement some really basic consumer privacy protections for telecom but AT&T convinced GOP Senators to kill those efforts before they could even take effect? good times

Nearly all AT&T cell customers’ call and text records exposed in a massive breach | CNN Businesswww.cnn.com The call and text message records of hundreds of millions of AT&T cellphone customers in mid-to-late 2022 were exposed in a massive data breach, the telecom company revealed Friday.

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The meekest immigrant doing the most humbling manual labor is just trying to improve his life and support his family. It’s the same reason Vance degrades himself before a man he knows is a fraud, and who seems to enjoy humiliating him. The difference is that there’s honor in manual labor.

I oppose this worldview—this theory of America—with every fiber of my being.

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Journalist Linda Tirado was shot in the eye with a "nonlethal" bullet during the George Floyd protests in 2020. She lost the eye and suffered TBI and is now dying of her injuries. Hospice care is expensive. Please contribute if you can:

Story Thirty-Ninelindatirado.substack.com This time, it’s for Linda.

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On the eve of the Republican National Convention, Harold Meyerson tees up how the race has changed and Republicans have a choice to make following the attempt on Donald Trump's life.

This Week’s Republican Challengeprospect.org How can their convention, and nominee, call for both calming de-escalation and furious retribution?

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Judge Cannon went and did it. She has dismissed the stolen documents case against Trump on Clarence Thomas’s (nonsense) appointments clause rationale.

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It would be so cool if politicians and publications would understand that cowardice will accomplish nothing. No one is going to give you points for going easy on the Nazis right now. Have the courage of your fucking convictions. Tell the fucking truth.

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Finally put my thoughts down about the Supreme Court's decision in the Netchoice cases. It's a tremendously important decision on the First Amendment issues, and boy this Court does not like facial challenges to even blatantly unconstitutional laws. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Platforms Have First Amendment Right to Curate Speech, As We’ve Longwww.eff.org Social media platforms, at least in their most common form, have a First Amendment right to curate the third-party speech they select for and recommend to their users, and the government’s ability to

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Has anyone blamed PIC abolitionists for this yet? When the criminal legal system works as designed, abolitionists are always to blame.

Judge Aileen Cannon has dismissed the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump.

Judge Cannon dismisses Trump documents casewww.npr.org She cited the manner in which special counsel Jack Smith was appointed to investigate the former president's handling of classified documents.

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i'm old enough to remember when MSNBC cancelled Phil Donahue's show permanently because he was the only guy on their channel publicly opposed to the Iraq War and they literally said it was because he was opposed to the Iraq War.

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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.