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France dropkicked a baldly fascist political coalition out of office, imo if we can’t manage to do the same we should give back the Statue of Liberty

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When the France election results are good

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Taito made the cutest rom chips

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reminded of a scene from Terry Pratchett's Going Postal

A hill I will die on: all white-collar crimes are violent crimes. It's just that the violence is removed from the perpetrator because the perpetrator is wealthy.

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haven’t dug in yet but wouldn’t it be interesting if the effect of a week-long blitz on age is to shore up Biden with old white people in the Midwest while softening support with youth in places that aren’t close

Is Biden down 6 nationally or up 5 in Michigan?? Time to choose your own adventure!

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Biden has a bad debate night: calls to step down Documents released that show two underage women accused Trump of raping them on Epstein’s island, under oath: total media silence except in a few blogs and foreign news The media double standard is incredible to see

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Reposting this. We have more evidence regarding Biden's physical & mental fitness. I'd recommend giving it the weekend & seeing what people are talking about Monday.

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Joe Biden refusing to take advice from people who have been wrong about everything for decades could be seen as an indication his brain is still working

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People are getting confused and thinking this means I think Joe Biden is the ideal candidate or that nobody else would do a better job - not true! I just think that decision was made four years ago and reversing it is a guaranteed path to utter catastrophe

Joe Biden refusing to take advice from people who have been wrong about everything for decades could be seen as an indication his brain is still working

actual lol www.bbc.com/news/article... Asked if previous comments describing […] Donald Trump as "a woman-hating, neo-Nazi-sympathizing sociopath" would hurt Labour's relationship with a potential future Trump presidency, Mr Lammy said: "I will work closely with whoever is in the White House.

Keir Starmer appoints cabinet after landslide general election victorywww.bbc.com Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner and Chancellor Rachel Reeves are among a record 11 women in the new PM's team.

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

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Amidst the miasma of news we're soaking in, celebrate the victories when you can. I just submitted my 100th invoice to Scientific American. They pulled my heinie out of the fire after my last venue dumped me, and I'm proud to write for them. www.scientificamerican.com/author/phil-...

Stories by Phil Plaitwww.scientificamerican.com Phil Plait is a professional astronomer and science communicator in Virginia. He writes the Bad Astronomy Newsletter. Follow him online.

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It makes me feel very much unmoored from reality to see all this *buying into* the Biden Too Old ratfuck narrative, days after the Supreme Court ruled that Trump gets to be dictator for life, just weeks after Trump became a convicted felon (oh, and there’s the Epstein stuff that just came out).

It really is making *me* feel crazy to see a bunch of other Democrat voters running around screaming about how Biden is now unelectable, on the basis of one bad debate and an incredibly obvious ratfucking campaign by America’s most craven newspaper.

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Gavin Newsom would drown his mother to be president so the fact that he’s not open to any ballot-overhaul schemes should tell you a lot about whether that has a ghost of a chance of making him president

www.eschatonblog.com/2024/07/use-...

Use Itwww.eschatonblog.com OK I know it's all Calvinball and all of this is just "Republican presidents can do what they want, Democratic presidents can do nothing at ...

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the fact that the left and centre in France have both said that the third place candidates will drop out is getting basically no play in a US press going full apeshit over Round 1 results and yes it is so that you think fascism is inevitable globally so why not here

THE sentence of the day: A Macronist incumbent in the Marseille region came in 3rd in her seat. She just dropped out to support the left. She said, about why she's maneuvering to block the far-right: "Defeats happen, but you can never recover from dishonor."

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The number of replies to this post that game out the actuarial table possibilities for the current justices of the court simply underscores my point. Waiting for people to die is not a solution to a problem this profound.

The thing I can't stop thinking about is this: I'm 48, and in my adult lifetime there has been one Republican who won the popular vote. But I will probably spend the rest of my life under the authority of a Supreme Court dominated by hard right conservatives. How is that democracy?

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Andrew Otis Weiss

My feed: They appointed him king! The actual ruling: uh, yeah, the lower court needs to sort out what is and isn’t an official act, because we’re too chickenshit to do it

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saying this is NOT the same thing as saying that the situation is no big deal and everything will be fine - but the truth is, when things look really bad, ceding defeat before you've actually been *defeated* is a completely useless strategy.

I really have lost my former tolerance for "we're doomed/fucked/it's all over/they've won" takes at this point, in that they're the most dangerous attitudes one could possibly have when confronted with a truly existential political threat (which we still DO have levers to address).

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I'm just going to leave this here. Maybe to let @mikemcmahan.bsky.social know how much this family (2 adults, 9yo, 5yo) love Lower Decks. This is going into our little free rock library.

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NYT: Joe should quit, he stutters Philly Inquirer: Trump is a fucking criminal what the fuck are we doing here

God Bless Paul Davies and the @PhillyInquirer: "The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump...There was only one person at the debate who does not deserve to be running for president. The sooner Trump exits the stage, the better off the country will be."

To serve his country, Donald Trump should leave the race | Editorial Boardwww.inquirer.com Biden had a horrible night Thursday. But the debate about the debate is misplaced. The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump.

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❌ It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness ✅ shit was mid

I can’t think of a clever caption for this. It just breaks my fucking heart.

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For the good of the country, Donald Trump should drop out the 2024 presidential race.

Donald Trump Should Drop Out | Washington Monthlywashingtonmonthly.com We’ve had months of calls for Joe Biden to drop out because of middling poll numbers. The grounds for a Trump withdrawal are far firmer.

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Will Stancil

We’re in the middle of an election cycle where one candidate is a criminal authoritarian running on a platform of bloody revenge against Democrats and the only time in the entire campaign you’ve seen a bit of sincere emotion from the Dem insider class is a panic attack over their own guy.

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I’m convinced Dem operatives are so lost in their neuroses they barely even remember Donald Trump exists at this point. Dude got convicted on the campaign trail and they couldn’t be bothered to insist it mattered

They both failed their mental acuity checks*. Also, competent Dem operatives would be saying Trump sounds like he has dementia, not pissing themselves in public. *Biden really is fine, but you can't show up with a cold and sound sick & frail when you've failed to dent the age narrative for months.

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I didn’t watch, you shouldn’t have watched, most people don’t watch, they have almost no effect, it’s just theater for inept media.

I’m not watching the debate because I love myself.

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My take on the debate is that debates have always been useless propaganda events at best and in the case of Trump harmfully normalizing pageantry and Joe Biden should have publicly announced a year ago that Donald Trump is criminally unfit and as such would not be granted one.

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Every morning I check the news and it's like -SCOTUS Eliminates Three More Basic Rights, Only Six Remain -President Mispronounces a Word, Will Now Lose Election to Senile Hitler -New AI Company Uses Artist Blood to Let Billionaires and Racists Live Forever, Gets $45 Billion Valuation

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Why is Starmer cosplaying No 6 before he gets taken to the village?

"No, because, look, Vila, Soolin, Dayna and Tarrant could've all been stunned, right? And Avon then shoots one of the Federation troops and drops down as the others all accidentally shoot each other. Simple."