Marisa Kabas

The backlash from base voters who very explicitly demanded a Black woman as VP (and on the Court) as our “seat at the table” in exchange for our electoral organizing…whew, you are not prepared. But almost all of the white alternatives are, and it’s why they keep saying no.

by choosing anyone other than harris to replace biden should he decide to step aside, the party would be revealing they very cynically chose her as veep for optics without believing she could actually be president.

“you’ll get a seat at the table but you’ll never get to run it” is a helluva message

this isn’t about whether or not you personally like kamala harris. the vice presidential candidate is chosen as the one to step in if the president cannot fulfill his duties. passing her over in this moment would fundamentally change the way veeps are chosen going forward.

if harris was chosen because of optics, consider the optics of passing over the first black female vice president as the heir apparent. and optics aside, it’s simply fucked up. you don’t have to be a harris fan to see that.

congrats to everyone who believed his dramatic exit story from the intercept and paid for his dumbass substack

Ken Klip going full Glenn “the far right are my friends” Greenwald

in good company

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Marisa Kabas

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Dan Collen

i guess that explains why ken wasn’t interested in joining the Substackers Against Nazis campaign

AI is a largely useless technology that is literally destroying the environment and tech bros continue to go all in because they want the world to burn so they can finally get use out of their apocalypse bunkers

bsky.app/profile/pari...

Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.

Generative AI is a climate disasterdisconnect.blog Tech companies are abandoning emissions pledges to chase AI market share

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Sid Oozeley

or at least require occupancy for six months and one day out of the year, like people who dodge taxes in florida

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Marisa Kabas

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

Where are the columnists who are experts in specific fields, breaking down what the Heritage Foundation + Trump want to do to each individual federal agency? E.g. I read the section dedicated to our intelligence agencies, and had to stop, since I was starting to feel a little nauseous.

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Allison Good

there comes a time in every male journalist’s life where he must decide: am i going to sell my soul to fascists?

the conventional wisdom has long been that even though most people are more likely to become homeless than to become a millionaire, they still vote for policies that favor the rich because they believe one day they could be the rich people. trump has taken this one step further.

people will vote for trump because even though they’re much more likely to benefit from one of the social welfare programs he wants to gut, they think they could one day be an unrepentant asshole who tells lies without consequences and runs the world.

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FREE PALESTINE

my friend asked the other day how i planned to cover the growing fascism here and i said “i guess continue writing about it til i’m sent to prison? lol” it was a flip thing to say but it’s hard to imagine ever stopping. or fleeing. i’m feeling not quite patriotic, but protective of this country.

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Marisa Kabas

“They want to eliminate national parks” is a very simple way to get just about anyone on the Stop Project 2025 train. Are there much more glaring and life-threatening goals of P25? Yes but even your most bigoted cousin does not want to see the parks system sold for parts.

This!! Start with “they want to end no fault divorce, sell national parks, and ban porn” end with tax structure.

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Coach Finstock

i’ve seen this floating around. has it been fact-checked?

tom nichols—of all people???—just made a good point: you have to talk about P2025 in simple real people terms. not policy wonk terms.

if you’re talking about project 2025 on tv you need to spell out what it means beyond an authoritarian blueprint!!

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Matt Novak

yea, i’m not nearly caught up enough to know. i would love to share something like that that i know is totally accurate. it’s very useful.

first trump’s denial; now miller’s. seems they doth protest too much. obviously project 2025 is their playbook and they’re just pissed we found out.

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Nicholas Slayton

haha then it’s not the person i thought

is this an accurate summary? was trying to verify before sharing

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i wonder if this graphic has been fact-checked