Lauren

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Writer, recycler, friendly Midwesterner, government comms guy. Opinions my cat's, rambling stories my own.

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LOLOLOLOLOL clearance ass Jeff Dingus Vance

Good googly moogly this thing is JUICY

Breaking news: President Biden is finalizing plans to endorse major changes to the Supreme Court in the coming weeks, including proposals for legislation to establish term limits for the justices and an enforceable ethics code, according to two people briefed on the plans.

Biden set to announce support for major Supreme Court changeswww.washingtonpost.com The president has discussed the plans with constitutional scholars and members of Congress in recent weeks.

I lump Baby Dog and Sean O'Brien in the same category; they are there to serve their constituents and, frankly, to issue a warning.

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HE LITERALLY OWNS AND LIVES AT A COUNTRY CLUB

The claim that Trump “ushered in economic populism” & “downgraded the importance of country-club Republicans while prioritizing blue collar workers,” not only reads like an RNC press release, but is belied by Trump’s record (tax cuts for the rich, an anti-labor NLRB, support for wage theft, etc.)/3

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Assistant to the Regional Hitler

Hey, a reminder that Vance's biiiiig investment moves include a heavy pay-in to AcreTrader, a company that sells American farmland to wealthy, often foreign, investors, as "passive income." Which, you know, prices out family farmers.

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Five bucks says Donnie shows up looking like the cover of The Red Badge of Courage.

Ramaswamy already doing pick-me interviews for the senate seat. Absolutely ding-dong coded. B-b-b-but my executive fiat!

Honestly excited for Vance's puffy eyes to fill with tears as he talks about how, were he made of less moral stuff, he'd be dead of whippits by now...as Kamala floats overhead the VP debate stage like the hookah-smoking caterpillar.

I can't talk about it. Who we putting up for senate.

If the kid was 20, Trump has been The Only Name in Politics since he was maybe 10. Frankly I'm surprised more of them aren't crazy.

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Is what is happening here that Dems are still committed to voting for Biden but they fear others won’t be, but the polls do not reflect their fears being born out but the fears persist nonetheless. Stakes so high and so is anxiety (understandably!) www.npr.org/2024/07/12/n...

After Biden's debate performance, the presidential race is unchangedwww.npr.org The poll also found that, at this point, no other mainstream Democrat who has been mentioned as a replacement for the president on the ticket does better than President Biden.

Bravely allowing the thought "NYT Games is not worth this" to pass over my brain

No thank you, George Clooney--we have progressive disfunction at home. www.wvxu.org/2024-07-10/w...

What went wrong with the ballot issue to hike Ohio's minimum wage? It depends on who you askwww.wvxu.org Local advocates for higher wages said the effort is marred by dysfunction and mismanagement.

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At least 140 people who worked in the Trump administration had a hand in Project 2025, a CNN review found.

Trump claims not to know who is behind Project 2025. A CNN review found at least 140 people who worked for him are involved | CNN Politicswww.cnn.com Donald Trump has lately made clear he wants little to do with Project 2025, the conservative blueprint for the next Republican president that has attracted considerable blowback in his race for the Wh...

Every single American news outlet: Tony P from DC to answer questions about whether Biden is fit to run! George Clooney expresses concerns over Joe's mental agility! HAWK TUAH GIRL LOOKS LIKE SHE DOESN'T THINK HE CAN WIN BECAUSE HE'S JUST NOT THAT FAST AT SUDOKU. Meanstwhile:

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Project 2025 is terrifying. The people behind it are also weird. Meet John McEntee, who ran personnel for Trump's White House. He also runs a shady "dating" app for lonely MAGA men. The marketing for the app is more pathetic than you're imagining. www.salon.com/2024/07/10/t...

Project 2025 leader John McEntee founded an app to hustle cash from lonely MAGA menwww.salon.com In Trump world, there's always money to be made by sowing the destruction of American society

Flew Spirit for the first time. Now THIS is travel. The seats? Plastic. The passengers? Stinky. The staff? Rude as hell. $49 and I did not get stuck in Baltimore (cc: AMERICAN). There is no qualitative difference between airlines unless you are flying business. Put me on the MTA of the skies.

My (very Bostonian) boyfriend: "When Philly had the newspaper of record, ya know we're in trouble as a nation"

Philadelphia Inquirer editorial board out with a skewering of this week’s media coverage. www.inquirer.com/opinion/edit...

The lingering focus on Biden’s shaky debate obscures Trump’s major verbal miscues | Editorialwww.inquirer.com The president must now convince voters he has the mental acuity to do the toughest job in the world. The same bar does not exist for Trump, who loses no points for incoherence or incompetence.

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NYT: Joe should quit, he stutters Philly Inquirer: Trump is a fucking criminal what the fuck are we doing here

God Bless Paul Davies and the @PhillyInquirer: "The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump...There was only one person at the debate who does not deserve to be running for president. The sooner Trump exits the stage, the better off the country will be."

To serve his country, Donald Trump should leave the race | Editorial Boardwww.inquirer.com Biden had a horrible night Thursday. But the debate about the debate is misplaced. The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump.

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Philly Inquirer continue to keep it legit. Biden is being held to a standard that Trump isn't. Fuck you all.

NYT: Joe should quit, he stutters Philly Inquirer: Trump is a fucking criminal what the fuck are we doing here

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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.

It is, perhaps, good to acknowledge that most Americans do not have any opinions on the NYT ed page at all

Just in case anybody on here doesn’t know this: the vast majority of people I encounter in my work do not read the New York Times.

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These are terrible human beings, and they should be kept as far away from power as possible.

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.

This 4th of July feels very "limited edition"

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oh you're going to Leave America if Trump wins? buddy, you couldn't leave Twitter when the Nazi took over so simmer down lol

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Stop making jokes and recognize that your account on a microblogging site known by 4% of the American population and whose most famous user is Weird Al Yankovich could single-handedly win or lose this election

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The Philadelphia Inquirer gets it right. x.com/adambonin/st...

Okay my new thing is: we Freaky Friday him and Buttigieg for a few months. Pete would talk his way into a landslide presidential win. Biden would actually regulate the railroads.