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I mean, if you make a list of Trump’s favorable and unfavorable, adding “someone tried to shoot him” in either column, depending on how you see it, really doesn’t change the calculus much.

"In the national Morning Consult poll of 2,045 registered voters, taken Monday, Trump leads President Joe Biden 46 percent to 45 percent. The poll has a margin of error of two percentage points." www.rawstory.com/trump-pollin...

Surprise: Trump did not get polling boost after shootingwww.rawstory.com Following the failed assassination attempt on Saturday, former President Donald Trump did not see a polling boost, in the first presidential survey taken since the event.In the national Morning Consul...

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Oh, and because it will never sit right in my heart the way I occasionally see folks go to bat for their "cool guy" parasocial crush Jack Black: If you're neurodivergent, you should know Jack Black has been a decades-long, issue-denying, critic-blasting, funding supporter of Autism Speaks. Yeah.

Jack Black just cancelled his international tour because a bandmate made the crass joke "Don't miss next time" as he blew out his birthday candle on stage. This provoked shock and outrage. If White liberals spent 10% the energy they do avoiding looking bad to stop bad folks, we wouldn't be here.

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It's weird how often I see leftists sneer at politicians who announce popular policies in order to gain more support. That's how it's supposed to work!

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Psst: Project 2025 is terrifying for a lot of reasons but also because on page 5 it calls for teachers and librarians who grant access to books that are maligned as pornography (which just means anything LGBTQ) to be registered as sex offenders. Pass it on.

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Northwestern's law school faculty is nearly 80 percent white and over 80 percent male Naturally the law school is being sued by some jabronis who think white guys aren't getting a fair shake in faculty hiring I wrote about it! ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

Affirmative Action Opponents Are Saying the Racist Part Out Loud Nowballsandstrikes.org A challenge to faculty hiring practices at Northwestern’s law school translates from legalese to “There are Black people on this faculty, Your Honor.”

Kind of amazing that we all know exactly what he's imitating, but can't tell which of two diametric opposites he's signaling.

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They been project 2025-ing me since I was 8 years old Can we talk more about what marginalized groups have BEEN doing to stop them. And less like another 45 presidency is a given? He had to cheat a wet piece of paper should be able to beat him if you help disenfranchised voters.

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Posted a thread but short thread cannot capture all that’s wrong here. Bad pedagogy, a misguided dedication to “civility,” doing harm to students all wrapped up with an “ai” bow.

Bridging campus divide with Dangerous Ideas, AI moderatorswww.insidehighered.com In this polarized time, one assistant professor is teaching students to argue more constructively about the most contentious topics: abortion, guns, transracial identities, moral obligations to animal...

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I will never, ever understand why masks haven't been permanently required in all medical settings, for patients and HCWs alike. You've got immunocompromised folks and those with symptomatic infections mingling, everyone should mask up!

I don’t like to be indirect. So I’m telling you that I have active cancer and the health care workers refuse to mask. So for the fourth time in a cow I have come home SICK from CHEMOTHERAPY. You can’t tell by looking who is sick. It feels like I’m paying them to kill me. Please wear a mask.

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Among other too-fast responses after the shooting, we noticed that Real Clear Politics did some quick stealth-editing: (RCP did not respond to a request for an explanation.) www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

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The tl;dr This is union-busting, written as a statute. A company union is not a union, it is a way for management to dilute/interfere with the power of the union. Company unions have been unlawful since 1935, because everyone recognizes it is an attempt to union bust. This is trying to undo that.

Not a populist: GOP VP candidate J.D. Vance introduced the Team Act (with Marco Rubio) to empower companies to establish and dissolve “employee involvement organizations” (a.k.a., company unions), a long-standing goal of GOP business leaders: www.rubio.senate.gov/wp-content/u...

www.rubio.senate.gov

Is there a Magic Schoolbus anthology/omnibus/box set?

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Trump’s VP pick … — demanded the DOJ open a criminal investigation of a journalist for “insurrection” over an op-ed critical of Trump — spouted replacement theory garbage — called for criminal prosecutions of other Trump critics — blamed Biden for Trump shooting — called for Biden’s prosecution

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Kaitlin Has Had Enough

Which uniforms?

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Jesse Baer

It's worse than that. He didn't make it up. It's been some 4chan/reddit bullshit for decades.

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Kaitlin Has Had Enough

What misery it must be, to be a Black, biracial, or trans racially adopted student in that class.

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Ayo

That's way too charitable to The Dark Knight Returns. It's also about how the Occupy movement would capture and dominate the whole country if not for square jawed, steely eyed cops.

Oh wait, I'm thinking of The Dark Knight Rises.

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It is comically irresponsible how the news media claims Trump is a "changed man" and "somber" and "serene" and "adopting a new tone"

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apnews.com/article/trum...

Violence plagued all levels of American politics long before the attempt on Trump's lifeapnews.com The fuse of political violence has been burning across America long before a would-be assassin shot and wounded former President Donald Trump.

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Lupita Nihongo

What sport is this? I see "F.C" on the background, he's wearing what looks like a basketball uniform, and the logo appears to be throwing a hammer.

I wish the pundits who thought he would get one could be forced to explain on TV who they thought didn't support him, but would start now.

"Following the failed assassination attempt on Saturday, former President Donald Trump did not see a polling boost, in the first presidential survey taken since the event....In fact, Trump's lead has narrowed slightly since an earlier poll taken July 12-14" lol. lmao www.rawstory.com/trump-pollin...

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Honestly can't tell if this is meant in solidarity or mockery.

O Captain! my Captain!

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The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, and the second-best time is now.

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.

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.

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Helen Kennedy

"Mommy jangled her car keys in front of my face for thirty seconds. Here's how it changed the race for the Presidency forever." by Baby Pundit

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Kevin M. Kruse

Is this a joke, or did he actually? Can't tell.

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Melissa Gira Grant

like "project 2025 is bad because it's what trump could do" is true and also so insufficient

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also and I feel like I buried the lede here: it calls for the people who CREATE queer media to be imprisoned. That'd be people like me. Or any other queer creator you love. Any queen who's been on drag race. Chappel Roan. Janelle Monae. Anyone who's made a piece of queer media. Imprisoned.

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The white supremacist gunman who murdered 23 people going about their day in El Paso five years ago next month had been obsessed with an alleged “Hispanic invasion” of Texas. There is no pivot, or softening. This is the Trump Republican Party. They keep telling us who they are, so believe them.

Lake also warned of the "Bidvaion" reference to the replacement theory that smashes the claim that Biden is intentionally facilitating a literal "invasion" of the United States, before leading the crowd in the nativist "build the wall" chant.

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Daniel Malmer

He was talking to the NAACP, though. It's probably just a simple pander.