MB Brown

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Member of the Church of Baseball, my denomination is the San Francisco Giants, my creed is #BeatLA

She/her Wear your masks, get your vaccinations

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Do you really want four years of the French pointing and laughing at you and going...hoh hee hoh hee hoh???

Do you REALLY want four years of us brits going "yeah we do eat baked beans on toast but at least our leader isn't a fascist cheeto wankjob, haha"? NO you DON'T.

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I feel like this post has held up pretty well, tbh.

The idea of choosing a different nominee at this late date seems, to me, to be completely insane. Oh, and by the way, fuck the NY Times editorial board.

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People act like OSHA is this gang of fun-haters who make up stupid rules to make their jobs annoying. Literally every single regulation OSHA has ever written was in response to someone getting maimed; usually killed, but sometimes merely losing a limb or two. Occasionally breathing corrosive gas.

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Hey, remember how librarians and I were warning everyone that mass book-banning is just step one of a fascist government takeover? Well, some of the same book-banning orgs we warned you about are on the advisory board for Project 2025, whose leader calls it a "second American Revolution.”

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Biden passed the most aggressive climate package in US history and probably ever again and I feel like the environmental beat is the only place we’re covering it

And fwiw, on domestic policy, legislative achievement and macro-economic stewardship the former is an argument I have made on our show many many many times.

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Criticism of Biden on this score is dishonest unless we note that Trump can't get his facts straight (either because he lies intentially or because he can't tell truth from fiction) and that he cannot control his outbursts. Biden is honest and sane, which should count for a lot more than it does.

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Remember: Texas is not a red state. Texas is a massively voter-suppressed state, with a lot of people working very hard and very thanklessly to fix that.

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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If they’re going to let trump get away with claiming that he finds parts of Project 2025 awful and disgusting, some member of the media should at least ask him “what part?”

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The biggest issue with Biden coverage is that he’s now The Story, which means that most of the press is focused on The Story and not any of the context or consequences. If we were having a serious discussion about qualifications for presidency, age, and the two main candidates, I’d be fine with it.

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“He took away abortion and he wants to be a dictator” should be plastered on every surface and blaring out of every speaker.

Nothing is stopping every single Democratic elected official and apparatchik from taking the airwaves every single day to articulately and decisively repeat a set of cogent talking points about Trump (ie 45). Nothing. Dem PACs could be slamming him with ads now. Stop whining and do that.

I would LOVE to be able to buy yard signs that are just an arrow and “wants to be dictator” to be placed next to DJT signs. Sure, that’s what 30% of the electorate wants to hear, but it’s nightmare fuel for the rest and is the only message that matters.

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This — Project 2025, the Supreme Court’s legalistic usurpation of power, and Trump’s current rhetoric on the campaign trail — can only be understood as an attack on our Constitutional government itself, less violent means than those used in Jan 6 but no less threatening to our democratic republic

A second American Revolution, this one aimed at unwinding democracy in favor of a monarchy. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | The target of the right’s ‘revolution’ is pluralistic democracy itselfwww.washingtonpost.com The president of the Heritage Foundation said, “We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”

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This is particularly important to understand because Trumpist authoritarianism is the descendent of Jim Crow far more than say Hitler or Pinochet or Orban, and it's going to look a lot more like 1930s Mississippi than 1930s Berlin.

For most of its history, America hasn’t been a democracy, by any meaningful definition of the term! This isn’t some It Can’t Happen Here shit, in a way, it’s already happened. It just may not have directly affected you.

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There. [Strikes him.]

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Compare this to when Trump says something like “we’re gonna catch Goofy and execute him for his crimes folks” and people in the press go “Mr. Trump seemingly analogized criminals to a Disney character as he called for harsher legal penalties”

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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I don't know anything about the Pah-wraiths or Project Burn The Universe. Who even are they? I especially don't know anything about the Kosst Amojan, or the Emissary of the Pah-wraiths, or Anjohl Tennan, or the Fire Caves, or ancient statues containing Pah-wraiths on Cardassia

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I know nothing about Project Dominion or any plans for Cardassia to join the Dominion. I have never even heard of the Dominion. I disagree with many things the Dominion is saying, and trying to conquer all solids sounds awful to me. I wish them luck in anything they do.

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No reporting on the Trump lie trying to distance him from Project 2025 is complete without pulling the veil back on the lie by covering Russ Vought, who he is, who he will be under a second Trump admin, and what a danger he is to our country.

Russ Vought, the head of the Center for Renewing America and another key player in Project 2025 was Trumps head of the Office of Management and Budget, and tipped to be his next Chief of Staff. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/a-weaponiz...

A "weaponization of government" trope explainerdonmoynihan.substack.com Another linguistic ruse by the people who actually want to weaponize government

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WATCH LIVE: President Biden Holds Campaign Rally in Wisconsin as Economy Adds Healthy 206,000 Jobs #blogpost

WATCH LIVE: President Biden Holds Campaign Rally in Wisconsin as Economy Adds Healthy 206,000 Jobslittlegreenfootballs.com

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i refuse to believe that americans who watched the debate think that biden’s first 15 minutes are somehow stronger evidence of old age decline than falling asleep, *in public*, DURING YOUR OWN FUCKING CRIMINAL TRIAL, *IN COURT IN FRONT OF THE JUDGE AND JURY*, but, you know, i’m not a columnist.

Trump’s public schedule showed that on most days, he worked (“worked”), like three hours a day. And this isn’t even a “Biden can’t work late at night” issue. It’s a Biden is pulling back on SCHEDULED EVENTS that start after 8pm, which is actually a good idea for most people.

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And we're currently driving up a summer surge in the west. Just a heads up, folks - you can go back to masking if you stopped! It's only reasonable to change your behavior based on new evidence. The current variant involves gastro distress. Who wants to spend a week imitating a hose at each end?

The new COVID variant seems to be evading immunity from vaccines and past infections. COVID cases are up 250% in NYC. Remember the more you get covid your risk for long covid increases significantly. gothamist.com/news/nyc-cov...

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Jim Jordan Publishes Intelligence Analysis of Trump's Authoritarian Tendencies www.emptywheel.net/2024/07/05/j...

Jim Jordan Publishes Intelligence Analysis of Trump's Authoritarian Tendencies - emptywheelwww.emptywheel.net Jim Jordan helpfully published intelligence analysis of how Trump's narcissism poses a risk to the United States.

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NEWS --> Mark Robinson, the MAGA extremist GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, appeared to endorse political violence against unnamed foes in a recent speech. "Some folks need killing!" he shouted. "It's a matter of necessity!" Video and story here: newrepublic.com/article/1834...

MAGA Gov Candidate’s Ugly, Hateful Rant: “Some Folks Need Killing!”newrepublic.com Mark Robinson, the GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, has a long history of incendiary comments. But he may have topped himself this time.

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Midsomer Norton’s MP is found thoroughly defeated…. #UKpol

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Due to the fireworks, New York City's air quality is the worst in the world tonight. When AQI is low, it's a good idea to wear a mask to protect your health. But this could soon be a crime, as one of the mask ban bills prohibits masks at "lawful assemblies." #NoNYMaskBan

Woohoo! 👋👋🥬

Farewell Jacob Rees Mogg, Liam Fox, Therese Coffey, Grant Shapps, Penny Mordaunt, Gillian Keegan, Mark Harper, Douglas Ross, Johnny Mercer, and now LIZ TRUSS!!!

🎉🎉🎉🥂🍾

It’s official: the majority of the UK House of Commons has now been called for Labour, ending 14-year of Tory rule.

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There is a 7 foot tall guy behind Rishi Sunak who likely ran for office just to be able to hold a printed out L behind him during his concession speech.

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Trump is already promising MAGA that he'll "move" elections. *Why isn't this the top story on every news site in America?* www.threads.net/@bidenharris...

Biden-Harris HQ (@bidenharrishq) on Threadswww.threads.net Trump says he “wants to be able” to override the Constitution to “pick” when elections are held