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Mike the Mad Biologist @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 6 hr
Askhually you'll want to read this one mikethemadbiologist.com/2024/04/15/n...
Nothing Is New Under the Sun: The Louisiana Ten Commandments Editionmikethemadbiologist.com Recently, Louisiana’s House of Representatives passed legislation to require the posting of the Ten Commandments in classrooms of public K-12 schools, universities, charter schools, and priva…
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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 5 hr
I think of "Don’t offer the blood of sacrifices with leavened bread" as the "straight, no chaser" commandment.
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Mike the Mad Biologist @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 6 hr
My take on the Exodus 34 version here: mikethemadbiologist.com/2024/06/20/l...
Louisiana Should Use the Exodus 34 Version of the Ten Commandmentsmikethemadbiologist.com Since the Great State of Louisiana now requires that the Ten Commandments should be displayed in educational institutions, they now must figure out which version. While much of this has focused on …
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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 6 hr
Elite electoral politics is a LONG way from democracy as I understand it, but within that window, there's such a gap between the US & others. And UK FPTP system is shit.
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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 6 hr
Yes, the French just showed us that strategically resigning to consolidate anti-far right coalitions is a winning strategy. There's a winning anti-Trump majority in US, too, but it requires a candidate other than the one who 75-80% feel is too old to do job. bsky.app/profile/tani...
Avatar Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 4 days
FRANCE UPDATE: The near-final list of candidates who are in the French runoffs is out. Two days ago, 311 districts were going to have 3-way or 4-way runoffs. Then, 200+ candidates dropped out to block far-right. So: There'll be "just" 91 such runoffs this coming Sunday.
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Laila Lalami @lailalalami.bsky.social · 6 hr
This cover is symptomatic of a larger media pathology, where the narrative comes before the evidence.
Avatar Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 7 hr
It held
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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 6 hr
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the pundit class. chickens w/o heads.
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L O L G O P @lolgop.bsky.social · 6 hr
Anyway! It’s part of being a citizen and I really find trying something far more useful. Flipping Arizona, for instance.
Avatar L O L G O P @lolgop.bsky.social · 6 hr
One thing the Pod Save guys lamented as they stimulated was the Pundit-ing of America, the culture of everyone being a pundit. The “age” debate is the Singularity of the Pundit-ing. We’re all trying to talk the world into abiding by our take.
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snipy @snipy.bsky.social · 11 hr
Oh hell yeah
Avatar Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 13 hr
Fuck John Roberts all my homies hate John Roberts www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/735353...
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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 6 hr
The reason we haven’t had democracy and a plethora of concrete good things for ordinary people is because centrists love the rhetoric of democracy while opposing most meaningful efforts to establish it.
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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 6 hr
Mass pubic has been saying for months that Biden’s too old. All arguments for a strategic distance from press were plausible until debate, but with that self-created fiasco, post-debate silence, mediocre ABC interview, Occam’s razor cuts in one direction. bsky.app/profile/owas...
Avatar Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · a day
Listening to interview and disheartened. Even without questions about capacity, Biden fails to make a strong case for himself—lots of self-aggrandizing comments about foreign policy, little about #1 issue, cost of living—and waits ~18 minutes in (!) to offer a strong critique of Trump. #notfine
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Cliff Schecter @cliffschecter.bsky.social · 6 hr
Ya know Trump's shark/battery freakouts? It's an attempted hit on #EVs, but he's too f-kin dumb to get it right Rs are owned by #oil & #gas, they hate #Biden & are a flock of pasty, waist-y, chodes. But..they took on Pete #Buttigieg to attack EVs. BAD. CALL. www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5e9...
Pete Buttigieg Attack Leaves GOP Speechlesswww.youtube.com Pete Buttigieg took down MAGA Republicans one by one in a recent hearing, and it was a work of art! Pete was on fire!!!! You'll love what Pete has to say her...
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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 6 hr
Which is when you need a good editor MOST!
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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 6 hr
"Suffer the little children" like it says in the bible!
Avatar Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 12 hr
The governors of a dozen Republican-led states — AL, AK, FL, GA, IA, MS, OK, SC, SD, TX, UT, WY — opted out of a new federal food assistance program, leaving about 9.5 million students without the aid this summer
Republican-led states are blocking summer food benefits for hungry familieswww.usatoday.com Money for food is especially tight for families in a dozen states where Republican lawmakers declined to accept federal food assistance.
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Mike the Mad Biologist @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 6 hr
Kudos to @paulrosenberg.bsky.social for mentioning the Exodus 34 version of the Ten Commandments www.salon.com/2024/07/07/t...
Ten Commandments gone wild! The Christian right's latest toxic distractionwww.salon.com A tale of the evangelical right, the least religious president ever and Cecil B. DeMille's phony list from God
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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 6 hr
What gets me, after all, is how poorly edited it is. Definitely not bullet points from god. More like unprocessed lecture notes.
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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 6 hr
It has such a HUGE impact on our lives. 10 Commandments are a key text & the account around them is incoherent. Seems like something worth knowing.
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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 7 hr
Around the world, the left keep saving the center while getting nothing but condescension from the haughty, dubiously-democratic ingrates.
Avatar Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 14 hr
The French are world leaders at "The govt sucks, I'm voting for my ideal, no way I'll compromise, you compromise" (round 1) followed by "The only way to stop the far right? Ugh, fine." (round 2). Often a responsibility placed more on the left, but this time the center too, perhaps more. Let's see...
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Ward Q. Normal @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 7 hr
"Lord, I see what you are doing for LePen's National Rally, and I want that for Trump's GOP."
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"Lord, I see what you are doing for the Tories, and I want that for the GOP."
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 7 hr
When I said yesterday “we have a bothsides mainstream centrist press that does not speak clearly about the parties,” David French’s piece today is exactly what I mean. French has a high-profile Sunday piece in NYT. He claims, ludicrously. the Supreme Court isn’t favoring Trump. That… 1/
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I wrote about the UK election outcome, and what it says about institutions, media, and arbiters of truth in the US. The UK is able to hold its politicians accountable. That's an info environment thing. w/ quotes from @volts.wtf @brianbeutler.bsky.social markhisted.ghost.io/conservative...
Conservatives go down to a big defeat in the UK: what that tells us about the USmarkhisted.ghost.io Trump, institutions, and arbiters of truth in the US and UK This week the UK Labour Party won a huge, landslide victory. That’s a big shift from just 5 years ago, when UK Conservatives won a majority...
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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 7 hr
It doesn't seem to dawn on French that the politics have changed & the court changes accordingly. He thinks like a 6th-grader. A dumb one.
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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 7 hr
Did you know: 1) There are 3 versions of the 10 Commandments in the bible, 2) The 2 in Genesis are WILDLY different, but the bible claims they're the same. The 2nd makes no mention of stealing, killing, bearing false witness or adultery. 3) Louisiana's version is a patchwork bsky.app/profile/did:...
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“I LOVE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS,” the lying, thieving, covetous adulterer Donald Trump trumpeted in all caps on his Twitter knock-off site. He loved it as branding & the Louisiana's version was a Cecil B. DeMille Hollywood production. 1/22 www.salon.com/2024/07/07/t...
Ten Commandments gone wild! The Christian right's latest toxic distractionwww.salon.com A tale of the evangelical right, the least religious president ever and Cecil B. DeMille's phony list from God
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 7 hr
Interesting thread on the long game to move away from the freedom of religion principles the US was founded on.
Avatar Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 11 hr
The law itself follows from the Project Blitz playbook (first described here in 2018: www.salon.com/2018/04/29/o...), one architect of which, pseudo-historian David Barton, claimed credit for helping to pass it: 3/22
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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 8 hr
And none are so fervent as those who once marched in lockstep for the status quo.
Avatar Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 10 hr
There’s a real revolutionary mindset in some of these pundit and Dem circles right now, where “remove Biden” has become an end unto itself, unquestionably correct, and anyone who tries to hold back the tide of history is an obstacle, and this is where revolutions get into trouble frankly
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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 10 hr
100%!!! See Langston Hughes: "Let America Be America Again": "America never was America to me, And yet I swear this oath— America will be!" poets.org/poem/let-ame...
Avatar Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.bsky.social · 15 hr
i don't talk about it as much in this piece but it could not be more obvious that dressing yourself up in the rhetoric of America as irredeemably evil might play well to the online crowd but wrapping the very same idea in a red white and blue flag is how you win real change
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Aaron Sofaer 🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 10 hr
This is an unpopular opinion in lefty circles but I'm very much in this boat.
Avatar Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.bsky.social · 15 hr
i don't talk about it as much in this piece but it could not be more obvious that dressing yourself up in the rhetoric of America as irredeemably evil might play well to the online crowd but wrapping the very same idea in a red white and blue flag is how you win real change
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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 10 hr
Dr. Barbara Forrest, a veteran of such battles in Louisiana, drew attention to a key figure in the state, Gene Mills, whom she identifies a dominionist, making the state "a cautionary tale" for America: 19/22
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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 10 hr
Nationally, Trump functioned as a distraction from past Republican failures, and now that he’s got his own massive failures he badly needs the distractions Christian nationalism can offer & the support of activists like Mills: 20/22
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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 10 hr
The Christian nationalist agenda proves DeMille wrong. Christianity can be an excellent facilitator of tyranny. Just ask Donald Trump: 21/22
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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 10 hr
Read the whole story here: 22/22 www.salon.com/2024/07/07/t...
Ten Commandments gone wild! The Christian right's latest toxic distractionwww.salon.com A tale of the evangelical right, the least religious president ever and Cecil B. DeMille's phony list from God