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wrote for the guardian, rolling stone, gawker, others. host the "It's Christmastown" Hallmark podcast with david roth & "Quaid in Full" with sarah bunting. he/him. tampa

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If Biden said something like this it would spell the end of not only his campaign but his current tenure. It's just one of countless examples of insane gibberish from Trump that the press & Democrats are choosing to treat as an immutable part of the electoral landscape rather than a story or issue.

aileen cannon: [bleeding all over ER gurney] please! why aren't you helping me?!?!? doctor: [holding phone, making shhh sign] i'm talking to a doctor in wyoming who says you actually have 20 pints of blood, we may have nothing to worry about

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I JUST TOOK YOUR OLD LADY FOR A RIDE ON SPACE MOUNTAIN

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Don Zeko

one of the most dishonest things people in my profession do is pretend as if “the story” and “the narrative” isn’t something they have direct control over

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I mean, I know this is useless to say almost but if Biden were retweeting right now a meme grown out of a violent conspiracy theory movement that says Republicans and Hollywood are running a satanic pedophile cult, he’d be immediately forced out but it’s Trump so media & politicos are all 🤷‍♂️

In the exact same nine day period that Biden and his White House and campaign have been flailing, Trump has offered voters a window into his own mental state and vision for term 2 It’s not great! www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

QAnon Memes, F-Bombs, and Tribunals: As Biden Faltered, Trump Amped Up the Crazywww.rollingstone.com Trump quietly had his own week from hell while the media was hounding Biden

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Whatever you say, Will

It is absolutely, 100% a mass hysteria event. A complete and all-consuming loss of perspective, because all of you get all of your ideas from these internet and media narratives and refuse to admit it

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regardless of what happens with the nomination, i will say this generation of dems--biden, pelosi, shumer, durbin, clyburn--have kindled a deep-seated hatred in me for them and their leadership, which is quite a feat given that i'm a lifelong dem who's voted, volunteered, and donated for 24 years

i think it’s just a reminder of how insufficient he is. if you’re on the fence and asking yourself “is this a guy I’m going to go to bat for right now?” and see this shit, it might just break your resolve

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They’re gonna ban TikTok because the KPOP army made fun of his empty rally that got his internet guru fired. The right made one of the world’s richest men buy Twitter because we were bullying fascists and organizing. American journalism has become almost exclusively transcribing tweets.

People are like "there's no point in posting it doesn't make a difference to anything," 8 years after Donald Trump posted his way to the presidency of the United States

canada stuns officiating, advances

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I JUST TOOK YOUR OLD LADY FOR A RIDE ON SPACE MOUNTAIN

i was honored to celebrate this nation again on hot dog day

for our 4th of july extravanganza i had @davidjroth.bsky.social and @mobute.bsky.social on to take the "who is the greater american" quiz, and the results will shock you podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

‎The New Abnormal: Happy Birthday USA. Sorry for What the GOP Is Doing to You on Apple Podcastspodcasts.apple.com ‎Show The New Abnormal, Ep Happy Birthday USA. Sorry for What the GOP Is Doing to You - Jul 4, 2024

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yes, we boiled the planet, but it was worth it to make a machine that, instead of adding two plus two, takes the statistical average of every answer to questions containing "what" "is" "two" and "plus" from a database of illegal cell phone transcripts and returns a fake nude pic of a high schooler

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Friedersdorf

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"Executive Time" fell out of the coverage of Donald Trump in the most incredible way. Nobody writing about his quest to become president again ever mentions the fact that he hated the job when he had it and he couldn't and wouldn't really do it!

The discourse around biden needing more sleep is fully insane. Does no one remember "Executive Time," the thing Trump spent the majority(!) of his schedule on where he would just watch TV and tweet? Dude was categorically unable to fulfill any of the demands of the office and the press barely cared

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LMFAO at NYT *not* disclosing that the guy who wrote this was a clerk for John Roberts! Honestly gotta respect the game.

Opinion section really emptying the clip with a bump stock 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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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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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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It's crazy what you can do with computers now.

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Just to be really explicit about what’s happening here, the cover conflates age, physical disability, and cognitive disability, and goes on to conflate disability with unfitness for office. It’s utter bullshit.

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

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Big victory for Labour — so big that the NYT just gave Sir Keir his own version of ‘Joe Biden Is Old’

from now on i will be using this site only for booms

[blondie singing "atomic" voice] boombastic

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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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Editing an end-capping photo montage to “Closing Time” as we speak.

We know we don't have much time left so we've been spending a lot of time with America for its last birthday. Plenty of hugs, taking pictures. My niece is in film school, and got the camera out and interviewed it about what it was like growing up, just trying to record memories while we have them.

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Uh oh, kids, looks like Ben Franklin snuck in and ate all the hot dogs while we were sleeping! OOOOooooOooOoooo!! *ghost noises*

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Writing for the NYT requires either having or pretending to have a degree of gullibility that could not occur in the wild

[blondie singing "atomic" voice] boombastic