Melissa

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Humanist, mom, earth lover.

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This is written like an exaggeration to make a point but it is actually just a clearly worded statement of the mainstream GOP position

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Well, this sucks. Also, I just imagined how a conversation with my mom would go where I tried to explain the whole situation to her — at least as much as I understand it — and the hamster powering my brain immediately went on strike.

“No one ran Jamelle Bouie off this site with purity test harassments. He’s just on vacation.” Meanwhile on Threads

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I know everyone is focused on the shiny object, and with good reason, but can we also look at this other above-the-fold item, pretty please? Thanks. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/13/u...

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The dismissal of the obviously robust classified-documents case is a good demonstration of how the right wants government to work. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | A preview of government of, by and for a subset of ‘the people’www.washingtonpost.com That Judge Aileen M. Cannon’s dismissal of the classified documents case wasn’t surprising tells us a lot about how government might evolve over the next four years.

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This is what AOC and Bernie get for sticking by Biden, and we can debate the policy, but this is a super-tangible win for the left side of the Democratic Party

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He has also proposed a process through which Trump would immediately be returned to the presidency.

"Donald Trump’s self-proclaimed 'secretary of retribution' is touting a wild plan to arrest politicians, police officers, and journalists he views as disloyal to the former president."

Trump Ally Exposed for Horrific Hit List of Political Enemiesnewrepublic.com Donald Trump’s self-proclaimed “secretary of retribution” is even more bloodthirsty than the former president.

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Pointing at the thermostat, the GOP screamed, “we must turn down the heat!” after setting fire to the drapes and selling out of “We Plan on Burning It All Down” tube tops and beer koozies

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Important to remember risks to democracy are complex - for instance, state-level backsliding can be aided or accelerated by what happens at the federal level

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This is from the Facebook page of the bystander killed in the shooting on Saturday, for the "Lower the temperature" crowd to ponder.

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I am just... so fucking exhausted from having to think about the single worst human being on Earth every fucking day 24/7 for the last fucking decade. It is an unbearable assault on my mind and I wish it would fucking end.

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This is a better summation of how I feel than I could manage myself

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One takeaway from all the 🤷‍♀️polling🤷‍♀️ out today: Down ballot Dems absolutely can win & need every possible resource at their disposal. FWIW, we’re hearing this from Run for Something state & local candidates about their voter contact efforts too. Folks are 💯% fired up for them!

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TRUMP: I'm going to be a dictator on day one DEMOCRATS: Trump wants to be a dictator! REPUBLICANS: Hysterical Dems are endangering Trump by saying he wants to be a dictator

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Scoop: The US senate was just poised to implement new safeguards against potential abuse of a key NSA wiretap program. WIRED has learned that at least two Republican senators are quietly working to thwart the effort.

US Senators Secretly Work to Block Safeguards Against Surveillance Abusewww.wired.com Senator Mark Warner is trying to pass new limits on when the government can wiretap Americans. At least two senators are quietly trying to stop him.

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The media LOVED and vouched for him invoking his failed coup attempt and constructing a vengeful strongman photo op

seems like no one in the media noticed this

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jdvance.com/pro-life-gotv/

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a pretty significant problem with dropping your "he's a fundamental threat to democracy" message when he gets grazed by a bullet is that getting grazed by a bullet does not change whether or not someone is a fundamental threat to democracy. you're telling people it wasn't ever really that serious

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The number of people Trump says he'll deport keeps going up. It's now 20 million, 50% higher than the largest estimates of the undocumented population. It's clear sign that distinguishing legal from illegal won't be a priority. They're just going to round up people they don't want to be here.

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Do not obey in advance.

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The former Republican congressman who defines morning coverage on the supposedly Democratic-aligned cable news channel was reportedly taken off the air this morning out of fear he, his wife, or his guests would say something to offend the MAGAs. edition.cnn.com/2024/07/14/m...

‘Morning Joe’ pulled from air Monday because of Trump shooting | CNN Businessedition.cnn.com MSNBC will not air “Morning Joe,” its celebrated politics roundtable program, on Monday, opting to instead air continued breaking news coverage of the attempted assassination of former President Donal...

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Trump appointee comes up with new legal rationale to declare investigation of his misdeeds as unconstitutional, dismisses case. If special counsels now have to be confirmed by the Senate, they will become less likely to be appointed and slower in their operation. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/15/u...

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It’s all 100% masks off at this point, lads.

Judge Cannon went and did it. She has dismissed the stolen documents case against Trump on Clarence Thomas’s (nonsense) appointments clause rationale.

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The courts are inherently political, but not sure we have seen the combination of a) strong partisan alignment between President and many judges that a second Trump admin would bring during a period where b) the courts have expanded judicial & presidential power for c) radical right wing goals.

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Reup www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Team Trump Says Classified Docs Judge Aileen Cannon Is a ‘Godsend’www.rollingstone.com Aileen Cannon’s repeated delays have one Republican close to Trump calling the judge their “favorite member of the Trump campaign.”

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Can’t lie I wasn’t immune to the mental damage accrued from having to be glad handed about how political violence should be universally condemned by the class of people that have allowed sleeping rough to become a jailable offense.

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"This changes everything" No, it doesn't. Jesus Christ, grow a spine.

Why are Democrats like this?

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Good illustration of two points: 1) American political history is a lot more violent than we're taught in schools, and the era that's ending now is the aberration 2) one reason why that higher baseline level of political violence is left out of the narrative is because of who the victims were.

#tdih July 13, 1863: New York City Draft Riots and Massacre “[Rioters] set the city’s colored orphan asylum on fire…[and] shot, burned, and hanged African Americans…[and many] people were thrown into the rivers to drown.” www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/dr...

July 13, 1863: New York City Draft Riots and Massacrewww.zinnedproject.org The New York City Draft Massacre (“Riots”) were the largest civil insurrection in U.S. history besides the Civil War itself. White mobs attacked the African American community — committing murder and ...

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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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Unmasking the Anti-Democracy Agenda of Project 2025 www.democracydocket.com/analysis/unm...

Unmasking the Anti-Democracy Agenda of Project 2025www.democracydocket.com Democracy Docket spoke with voting rights experts, pro-democracy advocates, and right-wing extremist researchers about how Project 2025 could upend democracy.