Nicholas Slayton

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Journalist. Contributing editor @TaskandPurpose. Bylines at New Republic, The Prospect, Motherboard, elsewhere. Was once insulted by Martin Shkreli.
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Jack Posobiec is a very influential MAGA media figure. He posted this today. In the 1930s Fr. Denis Fahey was probably most well know for being one of the most outspoken anti-semites in the world...quite an accomplishment for that era.

I like F1, I like Queen, I like Joseph Kosinski's films, but just slapping some footage together set to Queen makes for a lazy teaser trailer.

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

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Solve your housing affordability crisis with this one weird trick

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What's weird is how much coverage there was of the surging right and a collapsing center and but no attendant deep coverage of the left? Not even to explain why news orgs seemed to be ignoring it other than stories accusing antisemitism b/v of opposition to Israel policy. So frustrating.

BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.

Projections in France's election show voters rejecting the far rightwww.npr.org Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which ...

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Fascists want you to roll over and not exercise your rights. And one of those rights is to vote. Use it, protect it, fight for it.

So voting is better than *not* voting when it comes to getting what you want? Huh.

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Polls predicted a loss and the people said different. Important reminder.

Cry harder, fascists. Or, in the words of David Lynch, fix your hearts. Until then, cry harder.

Here's some fashy tears for your Sunday.

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Fixed

Here's some fashy tears for your Sunday.

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stick to sp - *holds hand to ear* wait, hold up a second folks, I’m getting some news here

"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...

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Even a tepid choice can be a momentous change when the alternative is evil

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UK and France have both defeated their right wing parties in elections this year. The US needs to get its shit together.

Meanwhile reporters covering real issues are struggling with funding.

Hey you guys wanna see the dumbest plan to replace Biden possible? www.semafor.com/article/07/0...

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please stop making me defend joe biden

Hey you guys wanna see the dumbest plan to replace Biden possible? www.semafor.com/article/07/0...

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So uh, what's the possibility the Macronists go into coalition with the far-right?

I'm reminded of and again angered by an NPR piece last year that talked about how the RN was popular because it softened its rhetoric. Not the policies mind you, and the correspondent never said what those far-right policies were, they were just saying fascist shit more politely. Bad reporting.

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This is incredible news out of France - the left really saved the center's bacon. It has always seemed that the true cordon sanitaire for the center and right in the amnesiac 21st century was not against the far right but the left.

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play La Marseillaise. play it

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my FB feed at the moment

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I can’t explain how fucked up it is that Threads created a more hostile atmosphere to the New York Times than we did. Tony the Tiger brand humping website just beat our asses.

Wow. @nytimes.com has closed their Threads account and left the platform after days of getting just shredded in the replies for their handling of Biden post debate. Now they're getting dog piled on Instagram for running from Threads.

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Philly radio station that ran an interview in which Biden was asked White House-written questions says host who did it went rogue, is no longer with the station wurdradio.com/2024/07/07/a...

It turns out if centrists back the left and work together they can beat the right. Who knew?

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This is your regular reminder that scams are now the background noise of our lives. They will take a million shots at you and threat actors only need you to let your guard down once. www.itbrew.com/stories/2024...

Mark Cuban’s Gmail was hacked by a threat actor posing as Google—here’s how to prevent it from happening to youwww.itbrew.com Entrepreneur and investor Mark Cuban said his Gmail account was hacked after a threat actor posing as a Google employee called him.

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far right beliefs are deeply unpopular, which is why one of their main beliefs is making sure a popular vote doesn't get to decide anything

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Seems bad

Former Trump Staffer Reveals New Texts Alleging More Secret Payoffs and Settlementswww.mediaite.com A former staffer on Trump's 2016 campaign revealed texts claiming that the former president's 2020 campaign "settled multiple" sexual harassment lawsuits.

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Wow, it's weird how the media narrative of a far right populist wave keeps crashing against reality in every country that actually requires them to win a majority of votes to take power

The 2nd leading pollster projects a similar result—if anything a higher range for the Left coalition. This wld be a much stronger result than expected for the Macron bloc. If confirmed, key takeaway: Left & Macronist voters transferred onto each other much more than expected. Clear anti-RN front.

The fascists are...losing? I know exit polls aren't the final results but like, this is good news. I wasn't prepared for good news.

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When the France election results are good

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Any serious effort to build a functional US welfare state will require the federal government to set up bureaucracies to bypass reactionary state governments for this sort of thing. Seems like we should have learned this lesson after Medicaid expansion a decade ago, and yet, here we are again!

The governors of a dozen Republican-led states — AL, AK, FL, GA, IA, MS, OK, SC, SD, TX, UT, WY — opted out of a new federal food assistance program, leaving about 9.5 million students without the aid this summer

Republican-led states are blocking summer food benefits for hungry familieswww.usatoday.com Money for food is especially tight for families in a dozen states where Republican lawmakers declined to accept federal food assistance.