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Atticus Goldfinch

this sorta supports the hypothesis that this race is locked in already (and basically has been for months, if not years). People already know who they pick between Trump and Biden. Nothing changes that. Biden will steadily increase as his voters "come home".

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I feel like "vote for me for President and I will pass a Constitutional amendment preventing Presidents from becoming God-Kings, unlike my opponent, who wants to be a God-King" is a pretty winning electoral message to be honest.

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Biden set to announce support for major Supreme Court changeswww.washingtonpost.com The president has discussed the plans with constitutional scholars and members of Congress in recent weeks.

Breaking news: President Biden is finalizing plans to endorse major changes to the Supreme Court in the coming weeks, including proposals for legislation to establish term limits for the justices and an enforceable ethics code, according to two people briefed on the plans.

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"If we lose the republic in November, it’s not going to be because Joe Biden is old. It will be because the media normalized Trump." - @ghelt bluevirginia.us/2024/07/tues...

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Nothing About the Attempted Assassination Redeems Trumpwww.theatlantic.com This crime does not erase what the former president has done, or what he has promised to do.

The attempted assassination of Donald Trump does not erase the crimes that Trump himself has committed against American democracy, or the crimes he would commit if given the chance, and no one is obligated to pretend otherwise www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li

Basic game theory

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Biden's bravest policy move, where he paid a big political cost, was ending U.S. involvement in a major war that Trump and Obama didn't end.

It is possible that some of the things Republicans will say tonight are not strictly true. But the one that always gets to me is the claim that four years ago the US was at peace.

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There are some nasty, bullying, anti-social malingerers on here who don't have friends who can tell them to shut up. I can be that friend for you: Shut up.

Shit, I think Jamelle Bouie quit Bluesky. This sucks. I like him a lot.

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Worth emphasizing that the very theme of night 2 of the RNC is a lie. Crime is down since Biden took office and we are no longer quarantining at home amid mass death. America is far safer now than it was in January 2021.

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JD Vance, 2016: "Trump is America's Hitler" JD Vance, 2024: "I humbly accept the nomination to be America's Himmler"

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John Brown stan account

This election is going to be a test case in the degree to which traditional media can decide an election, because they're all in for Trump.

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How has no one reposted the *best* excerpt from Hillbilly Elegy yet?

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in case you needed to know exactly how much the media actually respects the rule of law and adherence to independent justice department procedures or whatever, they described trump's corrupt court appointees changing the law for him to get him out of crimes he committed as "wins"

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The only legit stories about the shooting were 1. BG stories about the shooter’s bio and motivation and 2. investigation of whether the Secret Service is doing its job well enough. All the rest is hype and garbage.

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Coverage of the event focused overwhelmingly on speculation about how it would affect voters’ opinions. The press created various narrative interpretations to prompt the public, then guessed which would be most appealing. This is not political journalism; it is TV-series reviewing.

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The shooter was not representative of any broad movement towards political violence, certainly not on the US left. The last big episode of political violence in the US was January 6 2021. Militias have staged threatening armed demonstrations but all on the political right.

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People periodically shoot at politicians. This is not happening more often in the US than in other countries; if anything it’s striking how rare it is given the US’s immense number of guns.

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The failed assassination attempt on Trump was not important, and the heavy coverage it got was an abdication of journalistic ethics. It would have been important if Trump were killed; it was not important that someone shot at him.

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A Republican took Republican’s favorite gun and tried to shoot the leader of Republicans with it and news media has decided that it is Democrats fault. A completely worthless news media industry that has fully given itself over in embrace to Trumps fascism.

And Lester Holt tells him that talking about Trump as a threat to democracy -- which he is -- and recalling what he said about Paul Pelosi is not cooling down. The heat there comes not from Biden but from Trump.

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So far this is basically the trans-bashing convention and (1) it's disgusting, and (2) I'm really not sure it's what normal people want to hear from a political party. Also if any neutral media type really care about "lowering the temperature" they should start note the hate speech in Milwaukee.

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Trump Taps J.D. Vance as Running Matewww.rollingstone.com Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that he has selected Ohio Senator J.D. Vance as his 2024 running mate.

I get that he’s taken it all back, including when he said he feared Trump would be America’s Hitler, but I guess my position is… I have never gone to work for someone I’ve ever in any point in my life compared directly to Adolf Hitler… and it’s a fair question… www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Jonathan Chait wrote this, but it's not wrong. nymag.com/intelligence...

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who is the voter who’s going to think “damn i hate donald trump but he survived getting grazed on the ear by a bullet, i gotta vote for him” — and continue to think it, regardless of anything else, until they vote in four months. who is that person

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Michael Tae Sweeney

Anyway a good litmus test for how ready you are for what's coming next is if you knew the documents case was cooked as soon as it was assigned to Cannon or if you were assuring people that "a judge can't just dismiss a case this serious, lets see what she does" or whatever

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Just so you know, 10 likes on Bluesky is considered viral.

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I’m sorry a Republican voter shot at the Republican leader at a Republican rally, and especially that he killed a Republican rally-goer and injured two more. I wish it didn’t happen, and hope nothing like it ever happens again. I just don’t see how non-Republicans could be the ones to solve it.

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Aaron Huertas

I assure you, no one is psychologically strong enough to overcome repeated exposure to propaganda messages. Even if you reject them personally they become a heuristic for how you think other people think.

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If someone told you, "Many of America's top reporters spend a lot of their day in a chat room run by a 'great replacement' believing white supremacist and where many posters are Nazis" you'd be alarmed. That's basically the situation now.

I’ve said this a million times, but I’m genuinely frightened about what Musk’s fascist propaganda network is doing to do to our politics. I really wish someone, anyone, would come up with a collective strategy to get journalists, organizers and elected officials off the platform.

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