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And … we’re back! Roman Mars and I have a new episode for you on the Supreme Court and its new “law free” zone. Download and share! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

‎What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law: Law-Free Zone on Apple Podcastspodcasts.apple.com ‎Show What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law, Ep Law-Free Zone - Jul 16, 2024

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So, the white guy with an AK-47 right near to the center is arrested, the black guy with a knife a half-mil away is shot by 5 cops. I wonder what the difference could be? I wonder, I wonder....

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It could be one more weird anomaly in this unending cycle of what the fuck.

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It is comically irresponsible how the news media claims Trump is a "changed man" and "somber" and "serene" and "adopting a new tone"

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The first step in sincere unity is mocking your opponents with a childish nickname, everyone knows that.

Lake is the second speaker I've noticed so far (after Ron Johnson yesterday) to refer to the "Democrat Party"—an abbreviation some Republicans like to use to needle Democrats. #RNC

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I’ve seen maybe a dozen others masking in the last few weeks. One store security guard said a very friendly but intentional vibe-check hello. Shop girl in a store asked if we were sick and she needed to put on a mask.

I keep seeing surprised posts "Huh, I went to [insert event, conference, club, on an airplane, the Sphere] and got COVID!" Meanwhile CNN is running headlines saying "COVID-19's Back." Friends, it never, ever went away and I'm still masking in indoor spaces for your protection as well as my own.

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“He was a person. He was human. This is more trauma on top of trauma for those who knew him and still live here.” — Shelly Sarasin, cofounder and director of the Street Angels outreach group

The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel now says that FIVE Columbus police officers shot and killed the homeless Black man well outside the RNC security perimeter. Columbus Police say the shooting took place within the officers' assigned "operational zone."

Milwaukee man dead after being shot by 5 Ohio police officers near RNCwww.jsonline.com The man killed by Ohio officers near the RNC on Tuesday was well-known in the neighborhood, several witnesses told the Journal Sentinel.

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Is it going to rain? I don’t know, my privatized weather service has a partnership with Amazon so it suggests I buy rain boots every day. And the weather satellites are provided by Starlink under a lucrative federal contract so it just says “Great weather to drive a Tesla” anyway.

Dissolving and commercializing NOAA is not a good idea. www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

The MAGA Plan to Defund the Weatherwww.theatlantic.com Project 2025 would all but dissolve the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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A thread on today’s “ remarkably one-sided “The Morning” newsletter by Michael C. Bender. /1 www.nytimes.com/2024/07/16/b...

J.D. Vance’s Chancewww.nytimes.com Why Donald Trump tapped Vance to be his successor.

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Oh man

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“Helen told the Post that President Joe Biden tried to call her, but she declined to speak to him since her husband ‘was a devout Republican, and he would not have wanted me to talk to him.’" … “The family has not heard from Trump, she added.”

This whole excerpt tells you multitudes about our current political moment.

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There's a "Mr. Show" bit where they are going to blow up the moon. A monkey is supposed to press a button. But the monkey asks why are we blowing up the moon? So they replace it with a different monkey who will press the button no questions asked. And that is how the current GOP VP was selected.

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Reupping this today:

I’ve made a lot of jokes about the J.D. Vance sparkling water story from Hillbilly Elegy, to the extent that it probably sounds made up, but you owe it to yourself to read the real thing if you haven’t

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The Republican Party has nominated a man for Vice President who says he would have ended American democracy if he’d had that role in 2021. abcnews.go.com/Politics/jd-...

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Trump-Vance isn't designed to win over more voters, but ensure the next coup attempt proceeds more smoothly

The Republican Party has nominated a man for Vice President who says he would have ended American democracy if he’d had that role in 2021. abcnews.go.com/Politics/jd-...

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A great illustration of how class is just vibes is that only one major party ticket is entirely Ivy League alumni and it’s the one that yells about the elites selling you out

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What they're promising is the maximalist worst case form of what folks think it might be. Vance confirms it rather than enhancing it as such, but it's the same package If elected, their admin will be terrible, violent, and antithetical to the system of government US folks have had in living memory

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it's not that he's changed his mind about trump, really. it's more that he's changed his mind about hitler.

I get that he’s taken it all back, including when he said he feared Trump would be America’s Hitler, but I guess my position is… I have never gone to work for someone I’ve ever in any point in my life compared directly to Adolf Hitler… and it’s a fair question… www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Trump Taps J.D. Vance as Running Matewww.rollingstone.com Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that he has selected Ohio Senator J.D. Vance as his 2024 running mate.

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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.

Are you a fan of all of those guys who are directly responsible for making the internet an unusable dogshit hellhole? Well boy do I have a VP for you.

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This’ll never make me a regular on msnbc, but people should be ashamed to admit they support Trump. He is a hideously bad person proposing to enact a vast expansion of cruelty and human suffering. The erosion and collapse of social sanctions for supporting someone so indecent is a big problem.

*sigh* Time to find a new sticker manufacturer.

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New baby yak alert!!

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Agreed. He was apparently an awful person and he didn't deserve to be shot to death. Those are not mutually exclusive beliefs.

I think it’s awful that a father at a political rally died protecting his family, I still think that it’s awful whether or not he posted shitty things on social media, and if you don’t agree, I cordially invite you to fuck off and block me.

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This is getting a little ridiculous. True loser shit. It’s basically tied. What do these people think their jobs are?

A senior House Democrat says efforts to replace Biden at the top of the ticket have stopped because, “We've all resigned ourselves to a second Trump presidency."

Trump rally shooting upends congressional Democrats' crisis over Biden's candidacywww.axios.com Rep. Dean Phillips said it would be "unpatriotic and unprincipled" to focus on anything besides the shooting.

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If you come across it, and this sounds like a joke but isn’t, try to play Tetris within 30 minutes. Something about it works like EMDR and helps the brain process the traumatic input. There are versions for mobile, switch, computer- just about every platform.

Some pretty graphic images of the corpse of the shooter going around social media. Heads up. I've seen a lot of images of death and brutality over the years from following news on war zones but this still made me wince. It's not a pretty sight. Try to avoid it.

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This is how you do it.

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On Saturday a wholesome afternoon of fantasizing about concentration camps and plotting to overturn the coming election was disrupted by violence

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It is flat-out reckless for members of Congress to misinform voters about the stakes of this election. It is democracy vs. authoritarianism and we won’t come back from a Trump win, as Project 2025 shows. Golden is clearly naive and coming across as that which Trump said he could grab without consent

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Two months ago Greg Abbott pardoned a murderer who texted a friend "I might go to Dallas to shoot looters" then drove into a BLM protest in Austin and killed a protester. The universal response from conservatives to the pardon was "Yeah! Woo-hoo!" Now they say liberals should turn down the rhetoric

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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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If dispelling doom for the sake of dispelling doom does not appeal to you, perhaps try dispelling doom out of spite, is what I’m saying.

If it’s not helpful to you, by all means ignore this, but I’m just saying… It really helps me to recenter myself to think “Oh right. The worst fucking people on the planet want me to feel like we’re doomed. Fuck those guys, actually.”