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The normalization of graft is a disaster for high-trust society, and media can't stop pumping it up as some sort of ideal. Not just news, but storytelling in general has done way to much to romanticize petty criminality.

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

Seventy-eight years ago today the bikini was invented! Put together the Bikini Martini to celebrate Bikini Day

The dooming was getting to me this past week and a missed my first couple of workouts early on. But I still managed to stick with my morning warmup routine and as of today that makes 30 days in a row! And I just hit my gymnastics rings and kettle bells to make a full year of strength training!

Absolute loving our little porch swing alcove today. It’s warm out and so many of our neighbors have their flags up. People walking or driving past us almost always returning a friendly wave. Life is good today

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Listen, say what you will about whether you think Biden should drop out, but this cover is some journalists using the opportunity to try to normalize some pretty fucked up stuff they believed already.

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

Happy 4th, internet people! I took my Cub Scouts down to our town parade and rolled around with the box bike. My boys were giving out high fives and fist bumps to kids along the route. We may have even showed up on our local news!

A coworker at an old job used to say we needed to stop sending robots to Mars because they were polluting the red planet. And that it was all a total waste anyway because she regularly visited Mars and other planets through astral projection

I'm not really catching what he's saying now, but I think that--the last time he astral projected--he had a cigarette in his hand and accidentally astral-projected the cigarette into his friend's head and his friend caught brain cancer and that's why he doesn't astral project anymore.

Putin says he thinks Trump is sincere about ending Ukraine war

Putin says he thinks Trump is sincere about ending Ukraine warwww.reuters.com Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday he believed Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was sincere about wanting to end the war in Ukraine, but that he did not know how Trump planned to do so if elected.

"Trump's jet sits next to Russian government plane for two days in 'isolated' area: report" seems bad www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...

MSNwww.msn.com

With the immunity ruling Biden should learn to perform an abortion and go do them in red states

Let's get this party started.

Okay, you've taken the bait and don't want "the lesser of two evils." But what exactly are you doing to prevent the greater evil from winning, let alone both evils? If you've got a workable strategy to stop the greater, then lets go

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“Taraji P. Henson made Project 2025 the talk of the BET Awards. The host of this year's BET Awards warned viewers on multiple occasions about the far-right plan to dismantle and remake the government in Trump's image.” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/sh...

Taraji P. Henson made Project 2025 the talk of the BET Awardswww.msnbc.com The draconian plan supported by conservative groups to dismantle the government if Donald Trump is elected was the talk of the Black Entertainment Television Awards.

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More of this, please. Stuff like this and Colin Cowherd going off about Trump are worth more than almost any number of 30 second ads the party can buy.

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

Biden should personally escort migrant caravans across the border.

Okay, folks, who is putting together the list of the funniest crimes that Biden should be committing between now and election day to highlight the absurdity of today's immunity ruling? Not the stuff like assassinations. Just stuff to make a point.

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My contribution

A Few 'Official' Acts Biden Could Hypothetically Take Now That Presidents Have Criminal Immunitywww.jezebel.com Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.

I really, really didn't want it to come to this. But in light of everything going on. I will begrudgingly accept the Democratic Party nomination

Don’t shoot the messenger. I’m sharing this because it’s noteworthy that two of the quite different political subcultures I follow (Never Trumpers and left-leaning analysts of the US right) have been very forthright in calling for Biden to pass the torch. thedispatch.com/newsletter/d...

Prominent Never Trumpers Set to Meet With Biden Campaignthedispatch.com Several members of the group will argue on Monday the president needs to step aside.

So we all just suddenly stopped being citizens today and now we're subject. Is that right?

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all of this for donald fucking trump of all people

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Glad to see some members of Congress taking the issue seriously.

When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Do you know who I am? I’m the one who's gonna burn life's house down! With the lemons!

Things are bad but all the more reason for optimism of the will and rejection of doomerism and nihilism. Only way out is through.

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It's just hilariously disingenuous. Imagine looking at, say, ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY and concluding that the biggest threat to liberty isn't abuse of power, but powerful people refraining from sufficiently wielding their authority out of fear that they might one day be held accountable.

It's not the worst of it, but what I may be actually angriest about (right now) is Roberts' smarmy smugness and dismissiveness in the final two paragraphs of section IV and the whole of section V. "Fear mongering," "extreme hypotheticals," "our perspective must be more farsighted," and this.

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Baby llama?

It is within the president's "core" powers with total immunity to "reform" this court

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Rejecting immigration is a policy of national suicide and should be treated as such

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This is not remotely hyperbole.

Rejecting immigration is a policy of national suicide and should be treated as such

I really wish I could grab a recording of the alternate universe where Kamala debates Trump and wiped the floor with his sorry ass for all of our betters pretending she isn’t the presumptive replacement if Biden were to be out for some reason

I will say for the people panicking. A lot of them know the stakes of this election and were hoping for a slam-dunk to quell their fears. But the flames are being fanned by a lot of bad-faith actors who relish in the "dems in disarray" narrative. I mean, no shit people are on edge right now!

anyway I can’t think of any way that unceremoniously ejecting the incumbent Dem president from the ticket, four months before the election, with no agreement on a successor, no process to pick one, and most people pushing the idea assuming it WON’T be the vice presidents, could possibly backfire