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Writer, lawyer, Dodger fan, internet dog. nycsouthpaw18 at gmail.

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Can someone check if the guy who writes for the Federalist, Washington Free Beacon, and National Review printed stories telling those readers not to vote?

lol. lmao even

“Labour is expected to win 410 seats, with the Conservatives on 131.” www.bbc.com/news/live/cn...

UK general election results live: Labour set for general election landslide as early results come inwww.bbc.com Keir Starmer is on course to be new UK prime minister with predicted Labour majority of 170, according to the exit poll for the BBC, ITV, and Sky.

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Also tomorrow in the New York Times, Bill Cosby on “Why It’s Paranoid To Watch Your Drink Carefully In Bars”

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This! Is! London! — www.bbc.com/news/live/cn...

UK general election 2024 live: Final hour of voting before polls closewww.bbc.com Voters must show photo ID when they cast their ballots, with polling stations open until 22:00 BST.

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Would a statement from the “White House physician” that Biden is perhaps the healthiest president in history, and that he’s built like a linebacker do the trick? And would you not then elect that physician to Congress? No? I don’t get it.

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"Independence from Britain" is the world's most celebrated holiday.

"you're not American why do you care about the 4th of July" mate I'm Indian, any day someone got the Brits to fuck off back to their country is a national holiday for me

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1) I’d rather be up in the polls than down, all things equal. 2) I’m not sure I’d rather be Trump than Biden in the polls we actually have right now.

when the editors of the new york times are trying to give you a gift, but you’re all so high on the same stuff you can’t accept it

“A senior source involved with…Trump’s 2024 effort… and another person working with the Heritage-based Project 2025 (the conservative policy agenda project) tell Rolling Stone that the point of these multi-pronged legal attack plans and potential blitz of challenges isn’t necessarily to win…”

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honestly they’re kinda cooking with this

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Hillary headlines in 2015. Don't let the media fool you again. Image Courtesy of angry_staffer.

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Roses are red Violets are bloomin

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ryan cooper

Six pints at lunch!!!!!!!!

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So… the documents are legit, it appears. And I have no reason, based on what I’ve seen, to think that they’re false.

NYT : Biden is addled and unfit, unlike Trump, a virile and poweful titan

Trump’s alleged ‘sexual proclivities’ graphically detailed in new Epstein documentswww.independent.co.uk The new papers contain ‘incendiary claims’ about the former president

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Breaking News: The parent company of Saks Fifth Avenue, HBC, is said to have agreed to a $2.65 billion deal to buy Neiman Marcus, further consolidating luxury retail.

Saks Owner Is Said to Acquire Neiman Marcus in High-End Retail Dealwww.nytimes.com HBC, the parent of Saks Fifth Avenue, would acquire Neiman Marcus for $2.65 billion.

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if only Federalist 69 were just, in its entirely, Hamilton saying super clearly “sure, this constitution has one executive leader, but I can’t stress enough that it’s different from a king because a President is accountable, including to criminal law” avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century...

The Avalon Project : Federalist No 69avalon.law.yale.edu

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If only a Founder made this exact point, in the Federalist Papers, to explain separation of powers. Oh wait that's exactly what Madison wrote. "It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government." constitutioncenter.org/the-constitu...

idk it just seems to me that laws, like tech, should be created with the question "what would the worst person i know be able to do with this power" in mind and it's truly incredible how much this opinion fails at that basic task

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doesn’t count unless he earned the Medal of Honor himself

I just watched the medal of honor ceremony they held just now and Biden was fine.

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Imagine the high the nation's columnists would feel if they could push out not just another president, but THE president.

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This is what they really want, isn’t it? Entertaining politics to write about. They beg for a brokered convention almost every POTUS election cycle. They want drama and clicks and to be relevant.

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why do they think normies want interesting politics? that was, you know, one of the knocks against the Trump admin: that the news was chaotic and awful every day!

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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.

“Politics would be interesting again,” is a hell of a thing to say generally and also, for these commentators, obviously untrue. Nothing about any replacement process will be as arousing to them as the prospect of forcing the renominated president out of the race with enough poison pen columns.

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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Mitch McConnell offers an object lesson for all the Republicans who think they can tame this tiger -- even if you do everything in your power to advance Trump's agenda and sabotage two different impeachment trials that would remove him, the Felon Messiah King will still demand your head.

Presidential candidate who the far-right members of the Supreme Court just placed above the law tells voters how he will exercise his new powers.

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Peter Sagal

Yes, I didn’t consider the ludicrous possibility he could appeal because angry tweets are official acts. My vestigial connection to humanity occasionally impairs my ability to predict FedSoc arguments.

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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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Same.

Keeping Trump out of the White House isn’t the only thing that needs doing and it isn’t enough to solve all problems facing the country & world but if it isn’t done then all those problems get exponentially worse in ways I don’t even know how to express and it scares me when people pretend otherwise

Moreover, if the president then fails to set you free, you’d be entitled to another court order that says he’s a very naughty boy but the Founders didn’t want us to ruffle a hair on his naughty little head.

constitutional lawyers use your fucking brain challenge www.politico.com/news/2024/07...

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these people do not intend to ever lose power again

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

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I say this while assiduously trying not to cast aspersions on any person or outlet in particular but if you beat a particular drum for months; see a particular event as vindication for doing so; write piles of panicky copy as a result; then see polling contradict you... ... maybe take a knee?

CNN's new poll doesn't establish some failsafe alternative to Biden for Democrats. But it does run against the twin ideas that the debate itself doomed Biden and that Harris isn't a viable alternative. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | A new national poll turns post-debate conventional wisdom on its headwww.washingtonpost.com As always, though, we should be cautious about reading too much into one poll.

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This guy with full immunity for “official acts,” plus the unlimited ability to pardon any official who would implement such orders = “limited government” Republican style.

Mark Esper says Trump suggested they "just shoot" protesters in 2020www.youtube.com “He says, ‘Can't you just shoot them? Just shoot them in the legs or something.’” That’s what former Sec. of Defense Mark Esper recalls Pres. Trump saying in...