patranoid.bsky.social

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I kinda feel like now that the Supreme Court has declared it legal for a president to straight-up murder people they don't like, it's probably even more important to not elect people who seem extremely inclined to murder people they don't like

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this is a brilliant point that I was struggling to articulate.

Speaking as a semanticist, it's wild to me that they are phrasing it in terms of whether an *act* is characterized as "official", when what they seem to actually be talking about is whether there exists a *description* of the act that can be characterized as "official".

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Dems: it's fine that every single news outlet is run by conservatives also Dems: why doesn't our messaging break through?

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)

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We're doing collusion like no one's ever seen folks. We're colluding very strongly and very smartly with mr. vladimir putin

How can he still shock me after all this time? How is it possible? I have the absolute lowest opinion of him and yet he always can go lower.

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The PNW purple suburban/small cities is such a rough political situation. The crazy GOP candidate vs the milquetoast liberal and it's a 50/50 shot you'll get the lunatic.

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he was being hunted by arizona authorities and went to a party for an arizona politician packed to the walls with arizona political players, absolute brain genius shit

Rudy's been served

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You know what’s really ironic is that RFK Jr should have started taking ivermectin much earlier in life

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Nobody's the voice of a generation unless somebody knows where to put the microphones www.indignity.net/just-a-godda...

Just a Goddamn Jobwww.indignity.net Indignity Vol. 4, No. 78

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Meet The Never-Christian-Nationalist Evangelicals

Meet The Never-Christian-Nationalist Evangelicalstalkingpointsmemo.com Within the world of conservative Christians, there are some who survey what...

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2020: Of course Trump won't try to stay in office! Only a pink hat lib with Trump Derangement Syndrome could think that! 2024: Obviously a president would want to stay in office past his term, why are you being weird about it

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Genuinely alarmed. Usual caveats about projecting votes from oral arguments apply. But going in, I’d have guessed that, at worst, there might be 2 votes for absolute immunity (Thomas and Alito). Now seems like Gorsuch will join them. Maybe Kavanaugh.

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Guy facing felony cases for, among other things, inciting a mob of his supporters to derail a legal proceeding via a targeted riot incites his followers to "protest" one of his other felony criminal cases. And there followed a collective yawn from our media institutions.

on his way into court this morning, Trump calls for MAGA protests outside courthouses all over the country

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“Hey Erskine, how come you don't have a problem with this Black and white thing?" teammate Jackie Robinson asked "I grew up with Johnny Wilson,” Erskine recalled telling Robinson. "I didn't know he was Black. He was my [best friend]. And so I don't have a problem.” www.indystar.com/story/sports...

RIP CARL ERSKINE, the last of the boys of summer. 💔

Carl Erskine, Dodgers legend and human rights icon, dies: 'The best guy I've ever known'www.indystar.com Carl Erskine was a star pitcher for the Dodgers in the 1950s but his impact on the world as a fierce fighter for human rights was so much more

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Parked car

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Nobody under the age of 38 has voted in a U.S. presidential election where the Republicans got the most votes. Nobody under the age of 54 has voted in *two* presidential elections where the Republicans got the most votes.

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Reminder that just because we have “non viable pregnancy” exceptions in Alabama doesn’t mean the hospital will allow them… www.newsfromthestates.com/article/fata...

Fatal anomaly exception didn’t spare Alabama mom who needed an ab...www.newsfromthestates.com Editor’s note: This is the fourth installment of an occasional States Newsroom series called When and Where: Abortion Access in America, profiling individuals who have needed abortion care in the U.S....

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Other laws adopted by Arizona in 1864 allowed parents to beat their kids to death in some cases and theorized that a 9-year-old could consent to sex.

Analysis | Here are some other laws Arizona had on the books in 1864www.washingtonpost.com The Arizona Supreme Court’s decision to let a circa-1864 law barring abortion go into effect renders it useful to get a sense for the mores at play in the then-territory.

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Belatedly, it is objectively funny that Trump thinks that the false statement that was the fruit of his effort to hide his affair is a defense against allegedly breaking the law to hide his affair.

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At least people are starting to call this what it is, which is a techno fascist coup against democracy. it’s the digital nation state trying to find physical real estate, and they are willing to wage grey war against us all in order to achieve their goals. www.brasilwire.com/elon-musk-le...

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Comfortably Numb

I grew a window-box of cat grass for Patrick to nibble on — when I brought it in from the balcony he decided he'd rather nap in it, lol

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But why would Trump file invalid paperwork in his fraud ca… oh. Oh! Well, my goodness!

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I am sorry that my $175 million bond underwritten by Take It Sleazy Subprime Loans was not filed correctly

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This has been the fundamental problem the political press has had with Trump. They’ve been conditioned to believe it’s only a scandal if it’s a secret that’s been exposed, so all the crimes that Trump does brazenly out in the open — bragging about them on camera even — somehow don’t count.

They are continuously digging to find the sort of dirt on Biden that Trump just does out in the open.

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“Project 2025” is indicative of a broader realignment on the Right towards an aggressive embrace of state authoritarianism - an emerging “counter-revolutionary” consensus that entails a strikingly open renunciation of the supposed pillars of modern conservative thought.

Weekend reading: I wrote about how “Project 2025” fits in the history of modern conservatism, how it captures the Right’s radicalization – and why it is so dangerous. The third and final part of my deep dive into “Project 2025.” A thread, based on this week’s piece: 🧵1/

What Makes “Project 2025” So Dangerousthomaszimmer.substack.com Will the Right be able to implement these radical plans? Is Trump on board? What happened to traditional conservatism? Let’s tackle some of the key questions surrounding “Project 2025”

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Society: kids shouldn’t go anywhere unsupervised. Also society: why don’t kids go anywhere any more?!

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A heartwarming explanation for why Judge Juan Merchan's trials (including Trump's upcoming one) take Wednesdays off apnews.com/article/trum...

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Kevin M. Kruse

Hi I'm a reporter for the New York Times, and I'd love to get in touch with these kittens to find out what they think about how old Biden is. Could you ask them to reach out?