Liam Barnes

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Ohio's statehouse currently has HB 622 on the floor that leverages book bans to defund public Luc libraries (akin to what ID has just passed) and so it's a GOOD TIME to be ready to vote down ballot in Ohio! ohiocapitaljournal.com/2024/06/05/o...

Ohioans, today is a good day to check to see if you are still registered to vote in our state. And if you are not, or if you haven't registered yet, today is also a very good day to do so. www.axios.com/local/columb...

Ohio is purging its voter rolls before November electionwww.axios.com See if you're on the list of more than 158,000 people.

Ohio Republican proposes bill that would defund libraries over materials government deems 'harmful' • Ohio Capital Journalohiocapitaljournal.com An Ohio Republican lawmaker just introduced a bill that would defund public libraries if they don't remove or hide so-called "harmful" materials to juveniles. This comes as Ohio's Public Library Fund ...

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So following on the heels of the Washington Post firing their chief editor and replacing her with a conservative guy from the Daily Telegraph, the Daily Beast also just axed their editor in chief and replaced them with a conservative guy from The Daily Telegraph

NEW: Daily Beast editor in chief Tracy Connor is stepping down, according to a staff memo from CEO Ben Sherwood. Hugh Dougherty, formerly of NYPost, Daily Mail, Telegraph, will be the new executive editor. (via Max Tani, Semafor)

"If they can get Trump, then they can get you!!" Right. That's the point. No one is above the law. That is how a just society is supposed to work. I will never get how Republicans think that is some kind of threat.

Trump's lawyer claim that the jury couldn't possibly have reached that verdict has a lot of Mortimer Duke "Get those brokers back in here! Turn those machines back on!" energy.

It was a perfect conviction. The best. No one has ever had a more perfect conviction.

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It is long past time to retire the concept of the "Trump voter" as a distinct and puzzling political animal. The modal Trump voter isn't a laid-off steelworker or a benighted Qanon fanatic but a completely ordinary Republican backing their nominee. The same kind of people who backed McCain & Romney.

Liberal pundits operating in the "applaud me for being sympathetic to Trump voters' grievances w/elite liberalism" genre should admit to this much: They're being unfair to liberal voters, who never get this solicitude, and they're ostrich-like in their refusal to grapple with the dark side of MAGA.

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“Thousands of children, women and families chose this area because Israel claimed that it was a safe area.”

‘People burned alive’ as Israel attacks designated safe zone in Rafahwww.aljazeera.com Israel bombs tent camp housing displaced Palestinians, leading to a huge blaze and killing dozens of people.

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Fertile blood and soil for fascism right here. www.cbsnews.com/news/county-...

Well, crap. RIP Mr. Coleman.

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Your regular reminder that "the actions of the Israeli government" /= "all Israelis" apnews.com/video/israel...

Thousands of Israelis take to streets of Tel Aviv to demand cease-fire and Netanyahu's resignationapnews.com Protesters are demanding the government reach a deal to bring the hostages back from Gaza, for new elections and the resignation of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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Did they not see what happened when Missouri tried this? www.techdirt.com/2023/04/26/m...

So Utah, having passed a transphobic bathroom bill, has launched an online form for people to snitch on folks they think are in the "wrong" bathroom or locker room. Be a real shame if people on the Internet flooded it with fake reports: ut-sao-special-prod.web.app/sex_basis_co...

Hotline Complaint Formut-sao-special-prod.web.app

Missouri Nukes Its ‘Tell Us If You’ve Seen A Trans’ Reporting Form After It’s Swarmed With ‘Bee Movie’ Scriptswww.techdirt.com Who doesn’t love the wisdom of the crowds? Hey, it’s a great thing if you’re seeking comment from the oft-disrespected “stakeholders” known as the people who pay your …

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Just one of many possible examples. A Jewish professor who writes and teaches about Jewish history. Brutalized by police on her campus for supposedly supporting antisemitism.

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Steve Tamari is my colleague in the SIUE History Department and a friend. Steve is a devoted, caring teacher, a family man in his 60s, and someone who has always advocated for students, especially international students. He was hospitalized from this attack. I hope for Steve's swift recovery.

Another professor, Steve Tamari at Washington University, assaulted by police for recording images of the protest. Reportedly hospitalized with broken bones. Beginning to suspect this is not about campus safety. Video: x.com/prem_thakker...

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cool cool cool cool cool cool just a flagship NYT writer casually proposing corporate McCarthyism in pursuit of ideological conformity on university campuses

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All the Columbia University President had to do was ignore a hundred leftist students in tents for, like, three more weeks. And ignoring leftist students is something that University Presidents are collectively *great* at.

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‘“Shit, if only they’d have moved like that when my son was being murdered,” the father of a murdered Uvalde child tweeted above footage of Texas DPS officers in riot gear storming toward unarmed students at UT Austin.’

"These escalations against students are a choice. Police can be patient, even passive. The Texas DPS proved that when they loitered outside the ongoing slaughter of grade-schoolers." www.momleft.com/p/the-kids-t...

The Kids The Guns Are Forwww.momleft.com The same police force that failed Uvalde children is arresting peaceful student protesters at UT Austin. It's not about safety. It's about order.

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Texas is sending in armed troops to stop college kids from professing WrongThink

We cannot minimize what's happening. Authorities are responding with disproportional force to a non-threat simply because they want to crack down on students who disagree with them.

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All these admins should be sacked. And all these police departments should have their funding stripped.

Students arrested at campus protests in Ohio and Texas; House speaker calls on Columbia president to resign - livewww.theguardian.com Ohio students charged with criminal trespassing; reports say state troops in riot gear seen at Austin campus; Mike Johnson escalates criticism of Minouche Shafik

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Texas state troopers are forcing UT Austin students to break up their pro-Palestinian protest (via Lily Kepner, Austin American-Statesman)

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Remember, the only valid way to exert your constitutionally enshrined free speech — what I believe to be the sacrosanct foundation of our society — is in support of causes that I support and in a way that won’t inconvenience me.

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listen, John McWhorter is not the first person to get annoyed by a drum circle, but accusing a father of “percussing his perspective into [his daughter’s] little mind” in an attempt to frame music as violence is just the dumbest fucking shit like cmon man

I'm sorry, but Drump's attorneys' evidence that the IC was biased against him was to submit memos showing two of HIS OWN APPOINTEES engaging in election interference in his favor? Does Yakety Sax play every time they enter a room?

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The FTC has voted in favor of adopting a historic ban on noncompete agreements The agency has said that the agreements, in which workers are forbidden from seeking a job with a competing business for a certain period of time, lead to an “unfair method of competition” and violate federal law

The FTC Just Banned Noncompete Agreements And It's A Huge Dealwww.huffpost.com Commissioners approved the historic regulation on the grounds that noncompetes stifle competition for workers. A legal challenge is all but certain.

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Do I understand correctly that 1. No violence has been committed by protesters at Columbia 2. No actionable incitement to violence has been uttered at Columbia 3. No armed protesters have shown up at Columbia 4. Senators are calling for the National Guard to step in amid "concerns for safety"?

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Just read some pundit argue that the Columbia students who are protesting are cosseted babies and also adults who have to face the consequences of their actions, but that the students who object to the protests are our kids and need protection. Couldn't be clearer who's an "us" and who's a "them."

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And it certainly doesn’t make Jews safer.

The new campus ideology of “You can say whatever you want unless you’re criticizing Israel” is doing wonders for antisemitic conspiracy theories.

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I've been unemployed since February and taxes were really hard this year, so I'm selling some things on Mercari and plan to add more soon www.mercari.com/u/427517273?...

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GOP: We want a government built on Biblical values. Dems: Woot! We're feeding the poor! GOP: Wait. Dems: Healing the sick up in this motherfucker! GOP: No, not like that. Dems: [Grabs the mic] ALL LOANS FORGIVEN AFTER SEVEN YEARS. GOP: oh no...

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So, there's no law to stop someone from inciting 43 bomb threats? She can just keep doing it? Schools, hospitals, gyms. Nothing to be done? Oh well.

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Meanwhile, back in the 90s, "you're so vain" Beatty appeared on Larry King in SOFT FOCUS like he was Nurse Chapel on the Enterprise. The dude was never well. I don't know what kind of reward he should get for being "that guy," but forgotten, bitter, and alone sounds like a start.