Mollie Wilson O'Reilly

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I am a mortal, and liable to fall. Editor at large for Commonweal magazine; writing at https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/users/mollie-wilson-o%E2%80%99reilly and sometimes other places, too.

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Trump said “I know nothing about Project 2025. I have no idea who is behind it.” But Project 2025 is run by Trump's closest aides, raising concerns about cognitive fitness for a candidate who seems unable to recall those around him. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/troubling-...

Troubling Signs of Cognitive Decline as Trump Struggles to Recognize Closest Aidesdonmoynihan.substack.com "I know nothing about Project 2025" statement triggers new concerns about his fitness to serve

In his 2016 campaign, instead of releasing actual medical records, Trump released a letter from his weirdo doctor, obviously written by Trump himself, claiming he would be "the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency." 1/ www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-po...

Trump doctor’s letter: He takes cholesterol drug, is overweight but is in ‘excellent’ healthwww.washingtonpost.com Trump disclosed the one-page letter from his longtime doctor, Harold N. Bornstein, to The Post on Thursday.

Trump was so resistant to doing the job that he tried to get us to call Mar a-Lago "the Winter White House" to legitimize the fact that he planned to spend most of his time on vacation.

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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"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!

This is good. It puts an official red flag on any American reactionaries playing coy with Vigano. Some will howl about persecution, of course, but there's clear disgrace here. (Gift link) wapo.st/4ckliRX

Vatican excommunicates Archbishop Viganò for refusing to recognize Pope Franciswapo.st In a rare trial, the Vatican acted against Carlo Maria Viganò, a former ambassador to the U.S. and one of Pope Francis’s most vociferous internal critics.

Here's a guest link to an opinion piece the NYT published today that is actually worth your time and attention: Gettysburg’s Lost Cause Problem www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/o...

Opinion | Gettysburg’s Lost Cause Problemwww.nytimes.com The site of the battle is hallowed ground, but it is littered with Confederate propaganda.

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Who's actually pushing violence? It's Trump, writes @maggieastor.bsky.social in this great NYT takedown of Kevin Roberts' "second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”" www.nytimes.com/2024/07/03/u...

Heritage Foundation Head Refers to ‘Second American Revolution’www.nytimes.com Kevin Roberts, president of the group that has coordinated the Project 2025 policy plan, said it could be “bloodless if the left allows it to be.”

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Step down for the birthday boys

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How can any non-cultist look at the possibility of a President Trump, with his clear psychological pathologies, unconstrained by politics and advisors, and immune to criminal law, and not be certain the U.S. would be a violent fascist state for at least the remainder of his life, and into the future

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It's unclear to me how Biden could prove his fitness to the NYT and Atlantic editors or whatever. It is pointless to demand Biden prove something when this all turns on the whims and vibes of supposedly centrist commentators who have no sense of threat and mistake contrarianism for truth-to-power.

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don jr: if my dad was on the Epstein list that’s all the media would ever talk about grand jury: not only was Trump on the Epstein list (which we already knew) the level of personal contact between them was incredibly frequent and contextually damning the media: BIDEN OLD

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Whatever you think about Biden, look at the New York Times. They are unabashedly cheerleading for him to drop out. We should never again think of the Times as a liberal or even a neutral paper. The NYT takes sides when they want to. When they don't take a side, that's a choice.

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If you're so concerned about the stakes of this election you could just... spend the next four months writing about the stakes of this election. A constant drip of articles calling the Democratic nominee unfit is also not a great strategy for winning!

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I really thought I was cynical enough about the utter corruption of the right-wing bloc on SCOTUS, but it turns out I was still giving them too much respect.

Honestly still in shock that the most crooked American President in history said "I need immunity" and the GOP Supreme Court said "well, it's nowhere in the constitution, but sure, why not? Whats the worst that could happen?"

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this entire crusade against diversity in hiring and admissions is based on the supposition that all white men are necessarily more qualified than any nonwhite person or woman who might be considered for the job. like, this lawsuit more or less states that outright.

Lawsuit: Northwestern’s law school is biased against White men in hiringwww.washingtonpost.com The lawsuit, filed by a prominent attorney, alleges the university’s law school gives hiring preference to women and people of color.

The integrity asymmetry disadvantages Democrats once again. But listen, if every single Republican can get behind Trump, even after he insulted their spouses and/or tried to get them killed, Democrats can get on board with saving the nation and feign some enthusiasm for Team Biden.

This is what I said yesterday. Harris won't get on the ballot in a lot of states, period the end. Utter chaos. Cope w Biden being the candidate people. He's it.

This is the most transparently disingenuous argument Roberts articulated, the one that exposes the whole opinion, and indeed the court's conservative majority itself, as a shameless fraud, and so of course the NYT will pretend it's sincere and compelling.

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

I just found out about these CHAOTIC new Alex Trebek postage stamps and I said, Bluesky needs to see this! (Get yours starting July 22 store.usps.com/store/produc...)

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A tale of two newspapers, and two very different decisions.

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/7 Justice Roberts smug and superior dismissal of the dissents’ concerns seems to come to us via time warp from some time that never knew Trump. The danger of lawlessness he poses are manifest — he and his followers brag of them. Only a liar or fool would dismiss them.

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Mad Enough to Blog It™ www.indignity.net/who-elected-...

All these people say they're trying to beat Donald Trump and none of them seem to be able to take five seconds to imagine what Donald Trump would say about their candidate picked by a brokered convention at the behest of the New York Times editorial board

Who Elected the Times Editorial Board?www.indignity.net Indignity Vol. 4, No. 109

AYFKM NYT

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By the time the doctors in Boise put her on a plane for Salt Lake City, she’d already lost a liter of blood New standard of care just dropped:

She Needed an Emergency Abortion. Doctors in Idaho Put Her on a Plane.www.nytimes.com In states that have banned abortion, hospitals have struggled to treat pregnant women facing health risks. A Supreme Court decision this week did not help.

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remember when he was in walter reed with covid and they showed pics of him “working” and he was just writing his name real big with a sharpie on a blank piece of paper

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The “Biden should step down” op-Ed has something I never expected to see: an explicit statement that they are focusing on the Democrat because only Democrats are capable of changing their behavior. It’s true of course that Biden is more likely than Trump to listen to NYT editorial board. But… 1/2

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NYT: Joe should quit, he stutters Philly Inquirer: Trump is a fucking criminal what the fuck are we doing here

God Bless Paul Davies and the @PhillyInquirer: "The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump...There was only one person at the debate who does not deserve to be running for president. The sooner Trump exits the stage, the better off the country will be."

To serve his country, Donald Trump should leave the race | Editorial Boardwww.inquirer.com Biden had a horrible night Thursday. But the debate about the debate is misplaced. The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump.

TIL there's a Soldiers and Sailors Monument in downtown Yonkers that pulls no punches about the Civil War, and it rules.

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Donald Trump spent years encouraging his followers to use violence to his benefit and the New York Times editorial board spent years not calling on him to step down.

NY Times editorial board calls on the President to drop out of the race: www.nytimes.com/2024/06/28/o...

Opinion | To Serve His Country, President Biden Should Leave the Racewww.nytimes.com The president’s inadequate performance in the debate made it clear he is not the man he was four years ago.

New species unlocked: this morning on the Bronx River Pathway, I came across this softshell turtle! She was as big as a serving platter and surprisingly nimble—I think she was coming onto land to nest, but when I got closer I spooked her and she scrambled back into the river. Sorry, mama.

Today I went for a run and saw TWO nesting snapping turtles! The first one, some ladies were like, "Did you see that massive turtle?" And I looked and there she was and then she lifted her tail and I saw an egg PLOP into the nest! I am a longtime turtle nut, so this is a very exciting day for me.

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I didn’t watch the debate, and I honestly have no sense of loyalty to Biden. I’m sure the Dems would slot in a younger, otherwise identical candidate. I do, however, have some SERIOUS FUCKING IRE for the fact that we haven’t been seeing these pieces about Trump, who tried to overthrow an election.

Good start