Michelle Lamb

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Former educator, military spouse, dog mom.
Democracy - Who’s with me?

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With friends like this…

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Look how fun shutting down fascists is. I want this for us, too

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"I think more than ever we need to go out and vote. We can't leave our country in the hands of these people [the far right RN party]," Mbappé said at a press conference in Hamburg ahead of France's Euro 2024 quarter-final against Portugal there on Friday." he did it www.lemonde.fr/en/politics/...

French elections: Mbappé says voting is 'urgent' after 'catastrophic' resultswww.lemonde.fr Star French forward Kylian Mbappé had previously called on young French people to vote at this 'crucial moment,' on Sunday, June 16, joining his team-mate Marcus Thuram in speaking out against the far...

This right here👇🏻

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I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

if you’re waiting for everyone around you to wake up, you’ll wait forever. this is how the people grinding our bones to make their bread WANT you to be. paralyzed, alienated & purposeless

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tom nichols—of all people???—just made a good point: you have to talk about P2025 in simple real people terms. not policy wonk terms.

if you’re talking about project 2025 on tv you need to spell out what it means beyond an authoritarian blueprint!!

Project 2025’s elimination of veteran benefits The Affordable Care Act Social Security and Medicare will get the attention of the MAGA crowd as it directly affects their pocketbook.

“They want to eliminate national parks” is a very simple way to get just about anyone on the Stop Project 2025 train. Are there much more glaring and life-threatening goals of P25? Yes but even your most bigoted cousin does not want to see the parks system sold for parts.

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Read this, share this widely

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Don Moynihan

Project 2025 as a brand has two components. 1) A blueprint for governing, in the form of the document Mandate for Leadership 2) An effort to recruit, screen and train new Trump appointees. Other Trump officials like Johnny McEntee and press secretary Karoline Leavitt are involved in the latter.

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I like to panic as much as any Democrat, but my general view still holds: SCOTUS gave Dems a tailwind with Dobbs. We haven't even started the wall-to-wall attack ads of Trump bragging about ending Roe v. Wade. When that happens in September and October, there will be a big movement away from Trump.

NEW: Biden has narrowed Trump’s lead in swing states despite a widely panned presidential debate performance, the Bloomberg News/Morning Consult poll finds

Biden Narrows Gap With Trump in Swing States Despite Debate Losswww.bloomberg.com The incumbent trails his GOP rival by just 2 points across key states, a Bloomberg News/Morning Consult shows, even as three in 10 Democrats say he should leave the race.

You know what’s even more dangerous than an offhand remark? Project 2025 and the SC ruling for Trump and I’m not hearing shit from Journalists.

This is shockingly solipsistic. And dangerous.

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This was good newrepublic.com/post/183493/...

Trump Tries, Fails to Distance Himself From Project 2025newrepublic.com It’s still his blueprint for governing, no matter what he says.

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Everyone needs to see this www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/biden-nail...

Biden Nails Wisconsin Speechwww.dworkinsubstack.com Still got it

This right here 👇🏻

No, Biden Should Not Drop Out FFS Please Stop…

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No, Biden Should Not Drop Out FFS Please Stop…

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🚨BREAKING: Wisconsin Supreme Court OVERTURNS ban on ballot drop boxes. Congratulations to our client Priorities USA and the voters of Wisconsin. We are not done fighting for free and fair elections and we are not done winning! www.democracydocket.com/cases/wiscon...

🚨 Voting Rights Victory in Wisconsinwww.democracydocket.com Read about the latest voting rights victory in Priorities USA v. Wisconsin Elections Commission.

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The level of dishonesty this paper is comfortable internalizing about itself has risen proportionally to the level of dishonesty it accepts and encourages in the copy of right-wing op-ed and guest writers, Trump sources, and "news analysis" of fascism that doesn't dare mention it's fascism

For about the millionth time, I’ll just say — having a public editor who could ask people how this happened and lay it out for readers would actually make the paper look better than fucking up this badly and then walking away from it without saying a word.

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Baude who, by the way, clerked for Roberts, and whose read on what the hell is going on with the conservatives is worth a great deal

ignore the hed, this is extremely harsh criticism from the very measured Will Baude of the Court's rulings in the 14th Amendment and immunity cases www.nytimes.com/2024/07/05/o...

Opinion | A Principled Supreme Court, Unnerved by Trumpwww.nytimes.com Most of the court’s decisions were principled and sound — most, but unfortunately not all.

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A second insurrection. Stop comparing these people to the founders. They are the Confederacy.

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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I have no idea the best path re Biden but I do know a solid week straight of “Biden Old” and “Rich Dems Worried” above-the-fold stories are *obscene* in the face of SCOTUS using the Constitution to wipe their asses purely in the service of reinstating a felon rapist as president. Crazy-making shit.

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Project 2025 was from the Chris Rufo school of fascist communications, where you discuss your evil schemes out loud, confident the "normies" are not paying enough attention to notice. But now it seems less politically engaged people are taking notice. www.salon.com/2024/07/05/p...

Project 2025 was supposed to boost Donald Trump's campaign — but now it may be backfiringwww.salon.com Trump's authoritarian game plan is breaking through to people who haven't heard of it — and it's scaring them

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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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Haven't changed the parts where he describes himself as abstinent from voting and as one of "those of us who remain on the wagon," i.e. a habitual nonvoter

Lmao they just changed the title of the piece from “Why I don’t vote” to “Why I won’t vote” rather than tell readers that the guy actually does vote

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Suprise: unwashed fascist ghoul Matthew Walther - who wrote a column that the New York Times just published advising Americans not to vote - did in fact vote in 2020 and 2022. It’s time for us to stop tolerating these ratfucking liars.

he voted in 2020 and 2022 voteref.com/voters/MI/vi...

Voter Referencevoteref.com VoteRef.com is dedicated to ensuring transparent, accurate and fair elections in the United States of America.

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“A senior source involved with…Trump’s 2024 effort… and another person working with the Heritage-based Project 2025 (the conservative policy agenda project) tell Rolling Stone that the point of these multi-pronged legal attack plans and potential blitz of challenges isn’t necessarily to win…”

This almost certainly won’t work but: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Right-Wingers Plan to Make it Difficult for Democrats to Replace Bidenwww.rollingstone.com If Democrats want to choose a new nominee, experts don’t believe the Heritage Foundation can stop them — but that may not be the point.

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I completely agree with this column: conservatives should not vote. Stay home and feel morally superior about it. 🙏 www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/o...

Opinion | Why I Don’t Votewww.nytimes.com If casting a ballot is merely expressive, then the same is true of not casting one.

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It is time to stop paying the New York Times a dime. Yes, that includes Wordle and the recipes. Sorry.

The New York Times ratfucking operation in favor of Trump is so incredibly blatant that it’s beyond parody. If you saw ratfucking like this coming from a newspaper in a movie, you’d probably think it was a bit over the top.

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"Roberts may as well have dug up James Madison’s corpse and micturated directly into the eye sockets." prospect.org/justice/2024...

The Supreme Court Has Murdered the Constitutionprospect.org America’s founding document is now an all-but-meaningless scrap of paper. Happy Fourth!

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In their confirmation hearings, the Republican majority swore under oath that the President was not above the law. This week, they insisted that the President is not just above the law, but is entitled to absolute immunity for his actions. Happy 4th! donmoynihan.substack.com/p/strongman-...

New, from me: the last week of decisions by the Roberts court present us with a dispiriting vision of American governance: strongman, weak state. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/strongman-...

Strongman, Weak Statedonmoynihan.substack.com The dispiriting vision of American governance offered by the Roberts Court

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I’m 2016 our media put their thumb on the scale for Trump and now they’re doing it again.