Melody

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Occasional scientist, football/basketball junkie, champion procrastinator, fluent in sarcasm.

OG EDSBS person.

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Republicans announcing their Veep pick (iykyk)

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So arguments about how JD Vance isn't very good at politics — I mean, sure, whatever, but that's not why he's on the ticket. He's on the ticket because he's become one of the most unashamed and effective advocates for autocracy. It's a signal of how they wanna govern, the "mandate" they wanna claim.

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You pick Vance when you think you're not only a lock to win but are going to win big. I'm not saying he's right. Being wrong about election outcomes is one of Trump's passions. But I do think it's worth understanding the choice in context: Trump thinks he's on a glide-path to victory.

Well, at least we have the very first Sephora VIB VP candidate. No way you wear that much eyeliner without becoming a VIB.

IT IS NOT COMING HOME

That was entirely too close.

ESPANA!

Dammit Spain, don’t make Nigel Farage happy.

Things I’d like to see the mainstream media actually discuss: apnews.com/article/trum...

Conservative-backed group is creating a list of federal workers it suspects could resist Trump plansapnews.com Tom Jones and his American Accountability Foundation are digging into the backgrounds, social media posts and commentary of key high-ranking government employees, starting with the Department of Homel...

Are you serious, NYT?

WELP.

If you see this, you have to post a picture from your device without explaining it.

if you see this, you have to post a picture from your device without explaining it

This would make the North Korean propaganda machine proud. FFS NYT.

I don’t even know where to begin with this.

Arkansas got the signatures and counties to put expansion of weed and abortion on the ballot. Now to keep the dark money forces from stopping their appearance on the ballot.

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If you’ve never seen Dorothea Lange’s photographs of the World War II internment camps and the Japanese-Americans who were imprisoned there, today is a good day to see them and to commit to making sure this never happens again. anchoreditions.com/blog/dorothe...

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Kendrick Lamar teaches us that, in public debate, refuting your opponent's arguments point by point is less effective than identifying your opponent's single greatest weakness and maintaining message discipline.

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I'mma say this for all the people in the back. Don't vote for a person. Vote for your rights, for the rights of others. On page 5 of Project 2025's 180-day plan they openly call for outlawing porn, recommending imprisoning anyone who creates it. Are you an NSFW artist, or like the art? THIS IS YOU.

It’s always, always been that every republican accusation is a confession. For the last 40 years. It’s okay when they do it; according to them. It’s not okay when someone else does it.

Some people say that they can’t understand how SCOTUS can do all this while conservatives have complaining for decades about an “activist court.” Well, you see they’re correcting prior activism! They have to destroy stare decisis and the rule of law in order to save it.

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If SCOTUS doesn't make you angry enough to overlook Biden's faults I don't know what to tell you.

Breaking news: Federal prosecutors improperly charged hundreds of Jan. 6 defendants with obstruction, the Supreme Court ruled on Friday, upending many cases against rioters who disrupted the certification of the 2020 presidential election.

Supreme Court says prosecutors improperly charged hundreds of Jan. 6 rioterswww.washingtonpost.com Supreme Court’s decision on obstruction charge will impact trials of hundreds of Jan. 6 rioters and, potentially, former president Donald Trump.

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If you don't understand the killing Chevron is simply a step in their war on the admin state, rather than an end, you are not paying attention.

Imani is brilliant and a longtime internet acquaintance of mine. This TikTok explains everything you should know about why today’s Chevron deference decision matters so much and how bad things could get in the wake of this bullshit decision.

We may be getting the Chevron case today. I think it is the most consequential case this term. Even more so than either of the abortion cases. Give me three minutes and I will explain why you should be panicking with me about it. vm.tiktok.com/ZMrrjr6tp/

TikTok - Make Your Dayvm.tiktok.com

Super fucking delightful to work for a regulatory agency today, y’all.

CNN has Daniel Dale on their payroll and he’s literally a professional orange shotgibbon factchecker.

OMG IT FUCKING HAPPENED ABOUT DAMNED TIME

Ospreay! Ospreay!

Stay safe, Oklahomans.

Will Osprey vs. Brian Danielson is some of the most incredible and absurd ish I’ve ever seen.

Well; the Podiumgate audit has dropped. The governor did some shady shit and is absolutely not acting like an adult right now by pretending she’s fully exonerated (she’s not).

Happy Criminal Trial Start Day to those who celebrate.

Ah yes, I saw this as an unsupervised teenager during summer vacation. I also watched the trial that summer in the early days of Court TV.

gather round, younglings, and i will tell you once again of seeing--with mine own eyes--the chase of the white ford bronco and the killer OJ on Ted Turner's own channel of news