Jim Lippard

THIS. Vance is Thiel's creature. Thiel wants to sell oppression infrastructure for $$$ but also because Thiel has a long history of hating democracy, down to his bones. Trump already has Elon Musk's backing. Hard to overstate how threatening Trump's access to these misanthropic oligarchs is.

That Vance is a direct line to Thiel and Andreessen is truly important. Trump wants their money. Thiel wants to sell billions in Palantir contracts to power Trump’s mass surveillance/ethnic cleansing infrastructure. Pence was the Christian Nationalists’ guy. Vance is reactionary capital’s.

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We have had NINE YEARS to know what Trump is like as a presidential candidate and president. Yet many reporters and analysts and pundits continue to hold out some weird hope that this time he'll change, this time he'll emerge as someone the complete opposite of who he's consistently shown us he is.

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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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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 ...

Another data point for Trump being the antichrist. (The pretribs claim the antichrist will survive an assassination attempt with a wound to the head.)

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I wrote about the significance of *People magazine* covering Project 2025 as a Christian nationalist agenda: the-looking-glass-1.ghost.io/project-2025...

Project 2025 Exposed . . . in People Magazinethe-looking-glass-1.ghost.io The widely-read, iconic magazine of pop and celebrity culture delivers an excellent warning about the Christian nationalism of Project 2025. Is it a breakthrough?

Social Security Administration now uses ID.me or Login.gov, which means you can protect accounts with security keys, passkeys, FaceID, etc.

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Remarkable finding in new Marist poll: By 68-32, voters say they're more concerned about a president who doesn't tell the truth than one who is too old to serve. Maybe we should cover Trump's serial lying as a sign of his unfitness for the presidency. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/1837...

Shocker Poll Suggests Trump’s Lying May Be Huge Weakness for Himnewrepublic.com One possible reason the polls haven’t moved as much as pundits expected: Voters still don’t like or trust Trump. Can the Democrats shift focus to that?

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Now that people are starting to be aware of the right wing horrors in Project 2025, Facebook, Instagram and Threads have started tagging posts about it as “partly false information,” citing right wing propaganda site The Dispatch as a “fact checker.”

Historical look at Bill Rouhana's criminality: funnybusiness.substack.com/p/how-americ...

How America's Most Inspirational Brand Sold Its Soul to the Devilfunnybusiness.substack.com The Story of Chicken Soup for the Soul

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Impeachment, criminal investigation, and court expansion — oh my! Congressional Democrats are pushing back, hard, against the Supreme Court's ethical lapses and extremism.

Congressional Dems push back against the ethical failings, extremism at SCOTUSwww.lawdork.com Impeachment, criminal investigation, and expansion — all front and center this week. Also: What happens if Trump wins and appoints new justices?

I see a lot of people implying that Cannard was working on the Parkinson's bill, but no substantiating evidence to that effect. When he was meeting with WH physician O'Connor, were they working on the bill together?

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2000 GOP Platform: 31,417 words 2004 GOP Platform: 41,936 words 2008 GOP Platform: 23,773 words 2012 GOP Platform: 31,417 words 2016 GOP Platform: 36,336 words 2020 GOP Platform: 1,811 words 2024 GOP Platform: 5,414 words www.npr.org/2024/07/08/n...

With just one mention of abortion, Republican Party lays out its 2024 policy platformwww.npr.org Despite failing to unveil a new platform in 2020, the Republican Party Monday released its policy goals and aims in its official 2024 platform, where the languages sticks close to Trump.

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NEW: I explain how a throwaway line about windmills in Project 2025 shows there's absolutely no way Trump wasn't directly involved in crafting the fascist plan. www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-wind...

This album sucks.

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Among the many evils of "crisis pregnancy centers": they are not medical providers and so do not follow HIPAA or medical privacy ethics. Instead, they gleefully give away (to right-wing orgs) and sell (to data brokers) all information you give them. They should be illegal.

Google “Massachusetts crisis pregnancy” and this link pops up. It’s part of a statewide campaign, including public signage (highway billboards!), urging people to avoid crisis pregnancy/anti-abortion centers. The Commonwealth is not fucking around with this.

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just so everybody knows what's happening here, this is Jack Posobiec—who spent the past week as a featured guest on InfoWars—speaking to the MAGA group of the wife of a Supreme Court justice

Yikes.

Reading John Ganz's book, When the Clock Broke, and came across this sentence: "His [Samuel Todd Francis] middle name marked his descent from the family of Mary Todd Lincoln, something to be proud of, even for his unreconstructed Southern clan, since the Todds had been slaveholders ...

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These mistakes originalist justices are making aren’t about disputed interpretations of history, with evidence on both sides. They’re pulling quotes out of context to attribute ideas to founding figures that those figures adamantly opposed. (via @andycraig.bsky.social) reason.com/volokh/2024/...

The Supreme Court's Dubious Use of History in Department of State v. Munozreason.com Justice Amy Coney Barrett's majority opinion includes significant errors, and violates some of her own precepts against excessive reliance on questionable history.

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Stephen Miller now following Trump's lead and saying he has nothing to do with Project 2025. 1. His organization is on the Project 2025 advisory board. 2. He recorded a video as part of Project 2025 training tools 3. You can see Mandate for Leadership, the Project 2025 publication in the background

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For the people who don’t have time, here’s your Readers Digest version. You’re welcome.

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Trump said “I know nothing about Project 2025. I have no idea who is behind it.” But Project 2025 is run by Trump's closest aides, raising concerns about cognitive fitness for a candidate who seems unable to recall those around him. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/troubling-...

Troubling Signs of Cognitive Decline as Trump Struggles to Recognize Closest Aidesdonmoynihan.substack.com "I know nothing about Project 2025" statement triggers new concerns about his fitness to serve

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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.

We need more, but credit where due: both The Nation (June 2024 issue) and Boston Review have run a breakdown of the Project 2025 “Mandate for Leadership” document. Media Matters, too. Lots of good work going on digesting this. www.bostonreview.net/articles/ins... www.mediamatters.org/project-2025

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I wrote patriotically today. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/a-republic...

"A Republic If You Can Keep It"danieldrezner.substack.com Some Independence Day thoughts about some very un-American ideas.

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if only Federalist 69 were just, in its entirely, Hamilton saying super clearly “sure, this constitution has one executive leader, but I can’t stress enough that it’s different from a king because a President is accountable, including to criminal law” avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century...

The Avalon Project : Federalist No 69avalon.law.yale.edu

I'm old enough to remember when the Goldwater Institute hosted an event about Gene Healy's _The Cult of the Presidency_; now they're doing a review of the year's important Supreme Court decisions and not even talking about the presidential immunity decision. They're in the GOP cult.

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Watch for the American Right to begin to make claims that by overreacting to and mischaracterizing the Trump immunity decision, critics are causing “unrest”, and then watch for them to use that to justify the things Trump does.

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EVEN Trump lawyers and advisers were genuinely surprised at how close the Supreme Court majority got to his absurd “total” immunity argument. They expected a partial victory. They did not expect this kind of technically partial but also massive win: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Honestly still in shock that the most crooked American President in history said "I need immunity" and the GOP Supreme Court said "well, it's nowhere in the constitution, but sure, why not? Whats the worst that could happen?"

‘It’s Like Christmas’: Team Trump Stunned by Massive Supreme Court Immunity Winwww.rollingstone.com Conservatives are planning to use the Supreme Court’s immunity decision to help them implement Trump’s extreme policy agenda, sources say.