Matt Ferrel 🍦

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Political news junkie. Blocks doomers on sight. No patience for far left who blame Dems instead of GOP for our problems.

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Dem weirdos dreaming up tournament-style solutions to Joe Biden being the nominee and Catturd-grade reactionary types crying about cheating in the French election have one crucial thing in common, which is that they transparently lack the emotional maturity and patience required to be sports fans.

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I wrote this in 2017, shortly after Macron's 1st win. I said: Macron is so open about being hostile to Left, that it salvages a huge path for the broad left to be an alternative... if it manages to unite. Few things I've ever written have aged so well. democracyjournal.org/arguments/re...

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Future Trump WH spokesman Catturd2 with the least predictable take on the French election results.

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It would be terrible if FBI or DOJ officials paid Wall Street Silver guy a visit to inform him about the federal penalties for election fraud.

I don’t trust Manhattan Institute at all, but I want this to be true

Come on, y'all. For America. For Ted. Let's do this.

Ted Cruz gets bad news in Texas Senate racewww.newsweek.com A Manhattan Institute survey of 600 likely voters in Texas showed Cruz's lead over Democrat Colin Allred is just 3 points.

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every day there’s a new worst idea i’ve heard, but i need to find the 2% gallon* of white guys behind this & hold each of their heads one by one in a row of highway rest area toilets. taylor swift is so silly you almost skip over oprah, who brought us dr oz, dr phil, & jd vance’s hillbilly elegy!

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The UK and France just proved that getting out and actually voting makes a difference. Don’t let anyone ever tell you differently.

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Maybe it's time that the @nytimes.com should step aside for a younger, fitter, more coherent newspaper.

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Left and center split the vote, far right wins. Left, liberals, centrists, and moderate conservatives ease the path for whichever of them has a better chance against the far right, the far right loses. We've seen evidence of that for a century, from Weimar Germany through France today.

What could have happened today if more candidates who came in 3rd had refused to drop out? Hint of an answer in the city of Aix. Here, the Macronist candidate refused to drop out. As a result, no front vs the far-right. Result: RN wins with 37%. Left at 36%. Macronists 27%.

This is the way

Here's a lesson for all of these "why should I have to choose the lesser of two evils" Democrats out there.

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Fight against daunting odds, because it’s the right thing to do, and because sometimes you win.

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 ...

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JUST IN: Polls closed in France. Exit polls show surprise: —Left coalition (New Popular Front) projected first. (!) —Far-right (RN) has lost its bid to take power. Anti-RN front appears to have worked very well. —No bloc close to majority. Follow this 🧵 for results and more:

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The hurdle America has in following up France and the UK’s rejection of the far right is that our party system is stupider than the UK’s and our electoral system is stupider than them both (counting the presidency & electoral college). But we’re gonna give it our best.

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You say Biden is unfit, but he made Gaza go away as an issue merely by stuttering so perhaps he is the best president we've ever had?

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Ken Klippenstein is streaming with George Galloway. The Young Turks are hosting RFK Jr. One ex bernie spokesperson is streaming with candace owens and another is defending Nick Fuentes. Brianna Wu is hanging with lauren southern. Maybe now is the time to re-evaluate how the left chooses celebrities.

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this isn’t horseshoe theory but rather an internet era phenomenon i call the “Grifter Ouroboros”

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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 firmly believe that Tom Cotton vs. 30-50 feral hogs, hand-to-tusk, is a television event that could unite our fractured country.

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Driving PSA xkcd.com/2932

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One of our local alt-weeklies @portlandmercury.bsky.social has a pretty fun counter-campaign they have been running for a few years: www.portlandmercury.com/say-nice-thi...

Say Nice Things About Portland: A Manifestowww.portlandmercury.com [Welcome to our "Say Nice Things About Portland" guide to the city! Did you know that this feature package is also in PRINT?? That's right, this is our first print product since the start of the pande...

www.instagram.com/p/C9IKaMyx9Hl

Jen Sorensen on Instagram: "The Supreme Court decision overturning Chevron was largely overlooked in the wake of the presidential debate. But the implications are devastating for people who like to br...www.instagram.com 41 likes, 0 comments - jen_sorensen on July 7, 2024: "The Supreme Court decision overturning Chevron was largely overlooked in the wake of the presidential debate. But the implications are devastating...

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The governors of a dozen Republican-led states — AL, AK, FL, GA, IA, MS, OK, SC, SD, TX, UT, WY — opted out of a new federal food assistance program, leaving about 9.5 million students without the aid this summer

Republican-led states are blocking summer food benefits for hungry familieswww.usatoday.com Money for food is especially tight for families in a dozen states where Republican lawmakers declined to accept federal food assistance.

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It's hard to communicate how radical this is. For 200 years every politician in America wanted the federal government to pay for things so they could take credit for it. It's a fundamental defining feature of American politics. But now owning the libs is more important. 1/2

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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.

The media’s boredom is showing www.instagram.com/p/C9IHCtLxY-i

COURIER on Instagram: "The media is bored — and it shows. If you’re reading this, follow @couriernewsroom for all the news and analysis you need to survive the 2024 election 🇺🇸"www.instagram.com couriernewsroom on July 7, 2024: "The media is bored — and it shows. If you’re reading this, follow @couriernewsroom for all the news and analysis you need to survive the 2024 election 🇺🇸".

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Am I cooler than the least cool thing imaginable? Yeah, probably.

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NEW: updated edition of our American Autocracy Threat Tracker Shows the full range of Trump’s dictatorship would look like— including proof of his close ties to Project 2025 “He is lying when he denies it and we have the receipts.” www.justsecurity.org/92714/americ...

American Autocracy Threat Trackerwww.justsecurity.org A comprehensive catalog of the autocratic threat to democracy based on former President Donald Trump and his associates’ autocratic plans and promises.

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Also the odd youtubers out there talking about it critically - I didn't make much when first hearing about it this week but algorithm-stumbled into a southern political youtuber explaining it from last month: youtu.be/op0yk50uMlQ?... . These folks may be more relatable than news magazines.

The Roads to Project 2025....youtu.be Link: https://www.project2025.org/policy/Beau of The Fifth Column main channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/BeauoftheFifthColumnPatreon: https://www.patreon.co...

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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.