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I genuinely don't know why you people are talking about barf bowls but I just bough Akira in UHD, Galaxy Express 999 & an import of Macross: Do You Remember Love on blu-ray & they're all coming tomorrow so *I do not need to be here*!

"Just have a little check in on Bsky, people will have to have gotten it out of their system by now..."

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The thing about “European voters reject facism” applying to us is that Trump does indeed seem to have a pretty hard cap on his vote % in the mid 40s. You just gotta motivate everybody else to get out and vote against him!

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My cousin's dogsitter's husband's nephew's girlfriend's mom is a staffer on Capitol Hill, and my cousin says she says Brian Schatz said Biden sometimes forgets people's names. Any journalists want to use my as a source for an article? (On a condition of anonymity, of course)

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All of the people indulging in these fantasy Democratic primary scenarios think that people vote reflexively because it’s what they themselves do; they don’t realize that turnout is a product of hard work. Unseen, unheralded work. By unseen, unheralded people.

I don’t know why they think pissing off the door-knockers and canvassing power of the party will end well, but these people don’t understand what they refuse to see

Anyway this feels like a bit of a "physician heal thyself" moment. I got out of work early & I'm going to hit some weights then go out & buy Salmon burgers. See you all Monday.

The overwhelming odds are we come out fine here as well. Terror helps no one, dooming only depresses you. If you gotta get off this website, it's a fucking holiday spend time with your family! All this will still be here Monday & I promise you'll feel a lot better about it too. /end

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This is... not good news for Donald Trump.

BREAKING: Advocates submit double the amount of signatures needed to put a constitutional right to abortion on the ballot in Arizona.

Abortion-rights advocates in Arizona submit needed signatures to put the issue on November ballotapnews.com Abortion-rights advocates in Arizona have submitted more than enough signatures to put the issue on November’s ballot in the key swing state.

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for clarity, i'm deleting the Flynn-VP posts because it's a hoax. Swolecialism Posting Services, LLC, dba Swolecialism Industries, apologizes for the error.

Okay. We probably aren't that lucky.

I keep coming back to how this feels exactly like the terror I saw gripping people on Twitter during the Omicron surge. Just like then a problem we thought was licked came back in force. Just like then some folks' terror lead them to demands that Biden take extreme measures. 1/

I keep coming back to the fact that people on here are genuinely saying "Biden has dropped 3 points in the polls! Democracy has fallen."

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It’s just popping into my head again because of Chomsky discourse but the public still doesn’t talk enough about how Trump obviously knew who Jeff Epstein was, knew he deserved to rot in prison and still gave Alex Acosta (who gave him his sweetheart plea deal) a position in his cabinet

I keep coming back to the fact that people on here are genuinely saying "Biden has dropped 3 points in the polls! Democracy has fallen."

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I stutter. I’m also a pretty good extemporaneous speaker. I’ve been rattled to the point of panic when things start going off the rails. It is IMO likely that a big chunk of Biden’s debate struggles were downstream of a rocky start and attempts to recover through his mouth throwing 404s

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the through line of everyone from Sarah Kendzior to Brian Beutler to Elias Isquith is that they've all decided that "being right" feels better than "being happy"

PSA: For the sake of my own mental and intellectual well-being, I’ve unfollowed and blocked this troll who used to be a decently thoughtful commentator, and I think you should as well.

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Jesus Christ, people, treating this like a TV show where ANYTHING COULD HAPPEN NEXT EPISODE and WOULDN'T IT BE SO CRAZY is how you got here, stop being such fucking idiots all the time.

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"politics would be interesting again" is the money quote for what the journalist actually wants

Wild to watch horserace journalists suggest the most politically suicidal shit and pretend it's savvy. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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I think basically what's going on here is every journalist is reporting in the Woodward and Bernstein tradition, where if your reporting results in a big change in policy or (!!!) a presidential resignation, you win all the Pulitzers.

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Michael Hobbes

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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when you are a times alum on this website

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” -Upton Sinclair

PSA: For the sake of my own mental and intellectual well-being, I’ve unfollowed and blocked this troll who used to be a decently thoughtful commentator, and I think you should as well.

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you want to talk about rapid cognitive decline, that’s the worst case of NYT brain I’ve ever seen

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PSA: For the sake of my own mental and intellectual well-being, I’ve unfollowed and blocked this troll who used to be a decently thoughtful commentator, and I think you should as well.

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i swear to god. people will spend eight goddamn years complaining about how friendly the new york times is to donald trump and then just... keep accepting their framing. apparently forever. it's a provincial newspaper run by a sixth generation failson. have some self respect

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This is a complex technique known as lying to morons who will repeat the lie.

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Publicly Trump and his allies say X. Privately (to the media, to report publicly), they say Y (quite obviously to help continue fomenting chaos among their opponents, many of whom fucking eat it up and say more please).

“Publicly, Trump and his allies have dismissed suggestions that Biden could withdraw from the race, insisting that it is too late for Democrats to change course. Privately, they… feel it could be harder to beat another Democrat who is not Biden or Harris.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Trump advisers hope Biden stays in race, as they eye alternate scenarioswww.washingtonpost.com After dismissing suggestions the president could withdraw, the Trump campaign is beginning to consider having to reboot the campaign.

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I don't know how much more proof you need that Biden needs to be the one than Trump & co. saying they think someone else would be a bigger challenge. They're lying, of course, because they're literally incapable of telling the truth about everything. They *want* someone, anyone else.

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if you are advising Biden directly, please do so honestly and to the best of your ability. if you are advising Biden via blind quote, no you’re not.

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sticking with Biden is the obvious correct choice until and unless Biden decides otherwise, and anyone who suggests otherwise is either dishonest, an idiot, or a handmaiden of fascism.

It's been interesting to see the consensus on this site harden in realtime around the idea that not only is sticking with Biden the obvious correct choice for Dems no matter what other facts might emerge, but that anyone who suggests otherwise is either dishonest, an idiot or a handmaiden of fascism

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They did it with Hillary, they do it with Biden, they'll do it with Kamala Harris

Biden needs to bring back the "Wordle Website" crack because 1) It's fucking funny 2) It's appropriately demeaning to the NYT & 3) Sulzberger is such a thin skinned little freak there's a very real chance we could get him to dump his biggest revenue stream in a fit of pique.