Sanctum? They almost drowneded him!

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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 ...

We almost made it to 250, y’all. That’s a solid run, right?

thank god the experts are here

Much of the public sees the Supreme Court as political, not impartial, even as the court’s defenders say its critics simply oppose the conservative majority.

Justices’ right turn amid ethics issues may hurt public trust, experts saywapo.st Much of the public sees the Supreme Court as political, not impartial, even as the court’s defenders say its critics simply oppose the conservative majority.

Is it okay to hold these thoughts simultaneously? a) Biden got a raw deal — Trump should be the one getting asked to drop out. b) Tough shit, we need to win, and the drumbeat is only getting louder each day that passes. I don’t think he’s getting away from the OLD image at this point.

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TRUMP: I am going to drop daisy-cutter bombs on Seattle just cuz BIDEN: I'll have the Bob Salad — ha, COBB Salad, whoops. NYT: Biden's Gaffe Sends Shockwaves Through Democratic Party; Trump Pledges Infrastructure Changes to Northwest

what are we doing here? he accidentally said million instead of billion and then immediately knew it and corrected himself. he didn’t “flub a line” and then “make an effort to correct himself,” he did the speaking equivalent of a typo that you know you’ve made and instantly correct

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This photo is pure 2024.

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Imagine writing a NYT piece talking about how the court, actually, is good right now. But Will Baude did it! Essentially, saying that all they get wrong was the Trump cases — and then insists, sort of, IDK, that even that was for what they thought were good reasons. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/05/o...

Nobody listens to techno…

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Also tomorrow in the New York Times, Bill Cosby on “Why It’s Paranoid To Watch Your Drink Carefully In Bars”

I see Olivia Nuzzi went for the coup de grace

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“There’s a lot of bones scattered out here” — one of our fellow travelers re: Mongolia

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the latest Snowden leak: his brain from his ears

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Great idea, so I'm sharing

People can help others become citizens by becoming a tutor. You help them study to pass the citizenship interview. It’s one of the most meaningful things I’ve done in my life. Search for immigrant or refugee services in your area. If you speak English and took 6th grade civics, you’re good to go.

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just watched 74 people speaking at least a dozen different languages become american citizens in a ceremony at monticello, where the speakers were themselves children of immigrants. inspiring stuff and a vivid illustration of what reactionaries want to snuff out

hate that we’re here but i can be real about last Thursday. i did NOT go into the debate thinking Biden was too old. i hated that that was the narrative, because he’s doing a good job! then i saw him walk out and heard his first few sentences. and i simply can’t lie to myself, i’m sorry.

gonna start a support group for the “look I dunno man I’m exhausted let’s just do whatever it takes” demographic

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i was just going to make a post about this. if trump decides you are an enemy of the state or a “threat to national security” and has you deported, citizenship or not, there’s nothing you can do to get home. he has full legal power to render you stateless.

Related, if trump is summarily deporting citizens under his new mass deportation regime, citizenship and an ability to appeal to the law isn’t going to get people back in the country. The executive runs border security

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NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW NO, ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW!

should have screenshotted my pro-Jurgen Klinsmann tweets from back in the day

HE CAN’T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT

*wriggles his way out of the jam easily*

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Oh boy, $150,000!

Serious question — is Macron an idiot? Even knowing next to nothing about French politics, the extent to which this outcome was obvious cannot be overstated. It’s just basic pattern recognition.

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Popehat

/8 At any rate, congratulations to the Federalist Society for an achievement beyond the reach of the British, outside the grasp of bloody civil war, impossible to Nazis and Soviets and terrorists: defeating the American idea.

My birthday wish, as always, is for white people to get their shit together

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it's not doomerism if you can see the actual fucking doom, like it's over there, it's right there.. sometimes you just gotta express your feelings about that, whatever form they take. if I was genuinely all-in on it I wouldn't be posting about it, I'd just be gone

I’m not afraid, Chris. I’m angry.

Things are bad but all the more reason for optimism of the will and rejection of doomerism and nihilism. Only way out is through.

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b-boy bouiebaisse

roberts essentially ignores the purpose of separation of powers, which was not to create entirely separate spheres of action but to prevent the emergence of unchecked authority. instead, he says, separation of powers *demands* unchecked authority.

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It's just hilariously disingenuous. Imagine looking at, say, ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY and concluding that the biggest threat to liberty isn't abuse of power, but powerful people refraining from sufficiently wielding their authority out of fear that they might one day be held accountable.

It's not the worst of it, but what I may be actually angriest about (right now) is Roberts' smarmy smugness and dismissiveness in the final two paragraphs of section IV and the whole of section V. "Fear mongering," "extreme hypotheticals," "our perspective must be more farsighted," and this.

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Taniel

THE sentence of the day: A Macronist incumbent in the Marseille region came in 3rd in her seat. She just dropped out to support the left. She said, about why she's maneuvering to block the far-right: "Defeats happen, but you can never recover from dishonor."

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Julia Azari

basically making a coup legal as long as you discuss it with your vice president. moreover, this way of argumentation that ignores obvious context and treats all reasoning like we're in a law school seminar is just straight-up gaslighting.