Dexter Remmick

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about once a week, i have to explain to someone on the phone that the police have no obligation to do anything for you and, even if their refusal literally leads to your murder, the courts have been clear that there's no case to pursue

A man has been using Facebook to terrorize his ex and their children. He brags about it: “I want her to worry about who’s waiting on the corner.” But police do nothing and nobody seems to take it seriously. Chilling story from Stacy St Clair and Joe Mahr www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/07/f...

How one man uses Facebook to frighten his children's mother and why police do nothingwww.chicagotribune.com An analysis of data from nearly two dozen Illinois police departments found police rarely arrest people for electronic harassment, even as complaints increase.

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Kathy Hochul bravely defending the rights of New Jersey drivers to kill New Yorkers under their irresponsibly huge trucks for FREE because why come to the city and drink and then take the PATH home when you could just murder people

do we think this guy from New Jersey would have driven his pickup truck to Manhattan to get drunk had there been a $15 congestion pricing fee in place?

NYPD: NJ man charged with drunk driving after 3 killed in July 4th LES crashgothamist.com Responding officers say they smelled alcohol on the driver

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This photo is pure 2024.

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This is the classic rock radio station I would sometimes listen to when I was a kid

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Don Moynihan

Lmao they just changed the title of the piece from “Why I don’t vote” to “Why I won’t vote” rather than tell readers that the guy actually does vote

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You know that horrible moment after you wake up when all the facts – the fact that Biden is losing to Trump, that Biden isn't running the kind of active campaign necessary to come back from that deficit, the fact that Trump has announced he'll be a dictator - come flooding back? I hate that.

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ApocalypticaNow

I've sent a couple emails from all my addresses to `[email protected]` explaining that he did in fact vote in two elections. If more people want to fill up their inbox.....

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none of this matters. he wants a republican to win and a democrat to lose. he wrote the immunity opinion because trump is currently the republican nominee and he wants him to be the next president. you don't have to overthink this. roberts certainly didn't.

Even so, any self-reflection on giving a free pass to an unstable monster who thinks he got fucked by you 4 years ago might lead one to go "maybe I shouldn't."

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Why I Don't Vote (OK, I Do Vote, but I Would Like to Discourage You, NY Times Reader, For Doing So For Some Reason) Via @bubbaprog.ilovecitr.us

Man, if it turns out that the right winger telling NY Times readers that they should follow his example and not vote did in fact vote in the last two elections, the Times should add this to the piece. Better than a retraction, since it illustrates a willful hypocrisy.

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Corey Rayburn Yung

ngl sure is a weird history reversal that the UK chose July 4 of all days to throw off the yolk of their entitled and incompetent government, and over in the US the NYT and supreme court have spent the past week deciding that presidents are kings and voting is bad actually

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Matthew Walther is the gender-neutral Phyllis Schlafly

It's not just that it's a piece against voting, it's a fake world-weary article about how civic disengagement is good from a guy with radical reactionary politics who spends his life doing advocacy (including publishing this op-ed in the New York Times)

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“Oh Trump is a conman, he’s pulling the wool over peoples eyes” Yeah to some degree, but the main core reason he was President and might well be President again is a lot of people fucking love being racist

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Everyone is always afraid to say why people like Trump or Marie Le Pen have some level of popularity and it’s just that there’s a lot of people in the world who believe in racism. You end up with these goofy ass explanations for Trump where it’s NAFTA or shit and it’s like no you know what it is

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Mark Twain hated the Fourth of July. He was often invited to speak at Independence Day festivities. His audiences assumed that his reliably unpatriotic remarks were tongue-in-cheek jests. But he meant that shit. 1/9

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Losing to Trump should not be politically possible after the events of 2020, and Dem leadership has made it extremely freaking possible. They suck at everything. Let’s name that.

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The Democratic Party has no good options because they opted to give the public no good options. This is a disaster of their own making and no one has a magic fix for the catastrophe they’ve created. That Trump could be so well positioned is an unthinkable failure of politics.

They're really just going to try and run out the clock on this...

I looked into this "virtual roll call" for the Dem presidential nominee, which may be moved up to July 21 (18 days away), and concluded there's no real reason to be doing it. The rationale is that Ohio has an early ballot deadline, but Ohio passed a law to fix that. DNC's going early anyway.

Why Is the DNC Holding an Early Nomination?prospect.org Today on TAP: The reason was supposed to be a deadline in Ohio. But Ohio changed their law.

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Blocked, so here’s the post

Yeah, thank goodness we didn’t replace Hillary, that worked out great

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Absolutely, and let me tout my less-radical-than-it-seems suggestion of what to do about SCOTUS: sortition. Only the role of the chief justice is constitutionally enshrined. Write a Judiciary Act prescribing that the other seats get filled by a yearly random draw from the courts of appeals.

i mentioned this before but the last week or two has fully clarified that the rest of our lives is a drag-out fight against the supreme court that starts with priming the public to enthusiastically support — or at the very least resist decorum-based media calls against — completely rebuilding it

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The "Biden Too Old" drama is actually extremely relevant to the Supreme Court / Trump dictator conversations. The Democrats keep annointing flawed, white centrist candidates with 1970s politics who everyone is already kinda sick of. That's how we got stuck with Trump in 2016. Build a bench, ffs!

Notice how everyone is somehow talking about Biden Too Old right now, and NOT about how the Supreme Court just legalized Trump being a dictator for life and gutted the administrative state, and how the Heritage Foundation is now issuing terrorist threats? Think that might not be an accident?

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Like, I want to be really clear here: I want Biden to do much better, because I want him to win. But I also think everyone saying this is entirely a function of the media being mean and not due to campaign errors are just wrong. The concerns here are real, and they need to fix that.

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You could also call up your US rep and demand they join AOC in this move for impeachment. Can't pass the R House, but they HAVE to use their bully pulpit and rally the public. www.nydailynews.com/2024/07/01/a...

AOC calls for impeachment of ‘corrupt’ Supreme Court after Trump immunity rulingwww.nydailynews.com Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Monday said she would push to impeach what she called “corrupt” Supreme Court justices after they granted substantial immunity to former President Trump. T…

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Satellite images analysed by Al Jazeera's digital investigation team, Sanad show that more than half (60 percent) of Gaza's farmland, crucial for feeding the war-ravaged territory’s hungry population, has been damaged or destroyed by Israeli attacks. A genocidal campaign in clear view.

How Israel destroyed Gaza’s ability to feed itselft.co The annual celebration of abundant harvests has been replaced by widespread devastation and a dire humanitarian crisis.

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Well guess what pal, I'm Nostradamus

kind of amazed at how confident people are at predicting which candidates and what political moves will win after the past decade. humans are resilient

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intimidating and punishing journalists who expose flagrant state corruption, another classic Jim Crow mechanism

She won a Pulitzer for exposing how the country's poorest state spent federal welfare money. Now she might go to jail. "The rabbit's got the gun now," said a lawyer for former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, who is trying to force reporter Anna Wolfe to reveal her sources.

She exposed how the nation's poorest state spent federal welfare money. Now she might go to jail.www.nbcnews.com "The rabbit's got the gun now," said a lawyer for former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, who is trying to force reporter Anna Wolfe to reveal her sources.

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Andy Craig

The time between now and the DNC is roughly the same amount of time the UK had for its *entire* election season. It sucks, and I absolutely do not minimize the difficulty in climbing this mountain, to drop your candidate, but there *is* time if they do it now, but not time to delay it much further

Please and thank you.

can we replace biden with someone who will pack the court. or like. do anything to resist fascism in any way