Melico

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Apparently stuck with this boring portmanteau handle until I can reconstitute my Twitter following.
Extremely online and leftist but not an extremely online leftist.
You will see lots of photos of my cat and dogs.
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Trump’s VP pick … — demanded the DOJ open a criminal investigation of a journalist for “insurrection” over an op-ed critical of Trump — spouted replacement theory garbage — called for criminal prosecutions of other Trump critics — blamed Biden for Trump shooting — called for Biden’s prosecution

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This is deranged. The press has just decided that criticizing Trump is no longer okay. www.cnn.com/2024/07/14/m...

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Philip Bump

He could unify the country in much the same way that the atoms that form his body could, in principle, spontaneously quantumly rearrange into a ham sandwich

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This admin has pushed through more left-leaning policies than any other in Bernie's 30 years in Congress, and that's in no small part thanks to his own work and campaigns. He probably knows better than anyone what it means to get Biden re-elected.

In Opinion “I will do all that I can to see that President Biden is re-elected,” Senator Bernie Sanders writes in a guest essay, adding: ”With an effective campaign that speaks to the needs of working families, he will not only defeat Mr. Trump but beat him badly.”

Opinion | Bernie Sanders: Joe Biden for Presidentwww.nytimes.com Enough! It’s time for Democrats to stop the bickering and nit-picking.

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it's almost as if they realize that despite his faults biden has been the most progressive president in U.S. history (which is admittedly not saying much), and the alternative is the pure unbridled horror of full bore fascism

Why Sanders, AOC threw Biden a lifeline as his candidacy flounderedwww.washingtonpost.com Liberal lawmakers giving the president political cover are aiming to secure his support for a more progressive policy agenda.

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I malaprop - replace one word with another - and yeah fuck a lot of people

Speaking as someone who often gets names flipped - that's something my co-workers can vouch for, I'm sending very strong "fuck all y'all" waves at a lot of people right now.

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Yes, please.

some ambitious young creative should make a series of Schoolhouse Rock-style animated info clips based on Project 2025

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Robert Black

OK but if Warner is worried about Biden losing (or Trump winning), where’s he been? He’s been more vocal about the threat of Tik Tok than the threat of Trump. He’s willing to go to the extraordinary measure of pushing out the Dem candidate last minute, but court expansion was too drastic for him.

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every time you stop making sense David Byrne’s suit grows 2 sizes

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incidentally I am an emergency physician and I use a walker

IMO this is a straight-up ageist and ableist image, no?

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Paul Simon and Rhiannon Giddens- American atune, Liv3 at Newport Folk 2022 youtu.be/IZTWSJFuuAY?... 🎧

It's the 4th of July and tis tradition and i hate how these lyrics haven't not hit hard once in my life youtu.be/AE3kKUEY5WU?...

Paul Simon and Rhiannon Giddens “American Tune” Live at Newport Folk Festival, July 23, 2022youtu.be Paul Simon and Rhiannon Giddens “American Tune” Live at Newport Folk Festival, July 23, 2022. If you love music and you love community, please consider attending the Newport Folk Festival in person. For further questions about the Newport Folk Festival and the Newport Folk Festival Foundation and how you might help support their mission, please contact them at [email protected]. #newportfolkfestival

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Me: look, it's been 45 years, and Star Wars has never been able to articulate what the dark side is and why it's so seductive. Maybe it's time to stop trying? The Acolyte: meet first sith lord Manny Jacinto, with absolutely ripped arms and occasional (implied) nudity. Me:

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Gary Legum

This level of societal anxiety was every day of Trump's presidency for four straight years, and it says nothing good about our most prominent journalists that they are jonesing for it like heroin junkies going through withdrawal.

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Wild to watch horserace journalists suggest the most politically suicidal shit and pretend it's savvy. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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I have watched people online for the last 3.5 years find any excuse they could to take clips of Kamala Harris and present them out of context in order to make her seem dumb, vapid, and out of her depth. The idea that the NYTs eye of sauron wouldnt immediately glom onto that to amplify is laughable.

the other thing though is that the NYT would FOR SURE come up with some anti-Harris narrative and beat it to absolute death for the rest of the campaign

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Good day to be someone who recently argued that the contested convention commentary is often driven by self-importance.

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You know the dementia knowers are out in force because they are claiming dementia wouldn't impact your ability to read a teleprompter

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The reason pundits like the contested convention thing is that it plays to their vanities: what if the smart people made a meritocratic decision about who’s best? This is driven, in part, by being mostly isolated from negative reactions to their opinions over the years.

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Also, they seem to delusionally think it’s a good idea to give up a Democratic Senate seat in a red state when control of the Senate is very much at stake.

National pundits are doing their level best to manifest a world in which Kamala Harris does not exist

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It’s still just wild the media is obsessed with the mental acuity of one candidate and it’s not the one that wants to nuke hurricanes and inject sunlight into people to cure COVID.

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lol I love watching what people believe the DNC to be.

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Don't be fooled by the bland headline, Jamelle absolutely bodies Bret Stephens in this conversation. A representative bit:

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just let Bouie run the entire fucking NYT

@jbouie.bsky.social is correct here. We have several historical cases of a party switching nominees to save their bacon and it not working, almost none of it working.

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At least we had people planning for this. Not planning enough, but enough to make a difference. (the Chevron precedent case made regulation a lot easier) Gift link www.nytimes.com/2024/06/28/u... Background for those who need it: apnews.com/article/supr...

Democrats, anticipating Chevron’s demise, gave E.P.A. more power in recent climate law.www.nytimes.com

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"Why does Biden look and sound fine when his campaign is shooting him on film the day after and didn't when it was the news hand of David Zaslav's company?" has its own answer if you just think about it a little bit

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BREAKING: The Office of Congressional Ethics just found there is "substantial reason to believe" that Rep. Ronny Jackson converted campaign funds to personal use or his campaign spent funds that were not attributable to bona fide campaign or political purposes.

ethics.house.gov

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Spoke to a friend who worked on a recent Nicolas Cage movie in a senior capacity and was very very happy to discover that he’s a consummate pro who works harder than anyone else, all the time, and is lovely to the crew. I needed that.

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Oh, well, my heart goes out to... ...THE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS HE KILLED THROUGH AGGRESSIVE, GLEEFUL NEGLECT.