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artiste 🌮🌮🌮 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ - by the power of Graysküll!
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genuinely hopeful sign that every big name GOP garbage monster is frantically trying to distance themselves from Project Say The Quiet Part Loud In an Easily-Digestible Bullet Point Format About Which There Can Be No Confusion. this means we should all absolutely continue never shutting up about it

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ok I went to grab the link to give the latest cartoon one more end-of-week bump and ... I had this weird moment of dissociation, it couldn't possibly have been less than a week since I wrote this tinyview.com/this-modern-...

High anxietytinyview.com Everything is FINE!!

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America is not perfect. Far from it. But there are ideals worth fighting for, values worth pursuing, even when we fall short. Don’t abandon it to the totalitarians. https://www.popehat.com/p/the-fourth-of-july

The Fourth Of Julywww.popehat.com The America That Could Be

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Why I Don't Vote (OK, I Do Vote, but I Would Like to Discourage You, NY Times Reader, For Doing So For Some Reason) Via @bubbaprog.ilovecitr.us

Man, if it turns out that the right winger telling NY Times readers that they should follow his example and not vote did in fact vote in the last two elections, the Times should add this to the piece. Better than a retraction, since it illustrates a willful hypocrisy.

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He voted in both 2020 and 2022.

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Conspiracy Theory Rock: The SNL cartoon that may or may not have been bannedboingboing.net On March 14, 1988, Saturday Night Live aired a cartoon as part of Robert Smigel's TV Funhouse series: "Conspiracy Theory Rock!" In a style parodying the "Schoolhouse Rock" cartoons of…

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1/ I'm agnostic as to whether Biden should withdraw from the race. It's a genuinely tough question IMO. But I have clarity on one thing: He should absolutely not step down as president. If Harris becomes President, the Vice Presidency is empty. Under the 25th Amendment ...

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Things are pretty fucked up and the future is uncertain — probably the worst in my lifetime (perhaps excepting 1969 before I can remember). When it’s like that, I like to think about my grandparents and what they faced and got through with the Great Depression and WWII. /1

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I have been saying since February that major media are 100% devoted to But Her Emails 2, but I didnt imagine it would get this bad. The day after SCOTUS stops the law applying to Trump, we have to scroll thru 4 fucking top stories on “Biden old” & an ad before getting to anything on SCOTUS decision

The idea that these are the top stories when the Supreme Court blew up the constitution yesterday makes me want to scream and cry forever.

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the conservative theory of law in one headline

>>Now they have changed that foundational principle for a man who, according to White House officials during his term, called for the execution of people who upset him and who has vowed to exact vengeance on those he now thinks have wronged him.<< heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-1-202...

July 1, 2024heathercoxrichardson.substack.com A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

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Russia wants to confront NATO but dares not fight it on the battlefield – so it’s waging a hybrid war instead | CNNwww.cnn.com When someone tried – and failed – to burn down a bus garage in Prague earlier this month, the unsuccessful arson attack didn’t draw much attention. Until, that is, Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala reve...

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The 14th Amendment says if you were involved in an insurrection you can't be president. SCOTUS said they won't allow anyone to enforce that because of reasons they made up. The Constitution doesn't say the president is immune from criminal law. SCOTUS decided he is because of reasons they made up.

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Maybe I'm super fucked up but having the supreme court declare that J6 was fine and good actually feels worse than J6

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Must be nice to have choices

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A few years ago, Jon Lovett floated a theory that media treats Democrats like protagonists - to be challenged, accounted, and forced to be behave in growth-oriented ways - while the GOP are treated like antagonists - immutable, expected to disrupt, thematic obstacles. Thinking about that a lot.

I don’t recall the NYT calling for Trump to step down after being convicted of 34 counts of fraud and being called by a judge at his civil trial a rapist in the common person sense

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Coda.

You don't say

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"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 | Editorialwww.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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The shot/chaser to end all shots/chasers

we may be headed over the waterfall, but at least there will laughs on the way down

Now THIS is the Joe Biden I like to see! Welcome back, Mr President 🫡

"What do you get when you kiss a guy? You get enough germs to catch pneumonia. After you do, he'll never phone ya." youtu.be/dxfMIAZw1RY

Ella Fitzgerald - I'll Never Fall in Love Againyoutu.be A beautiful song taken from the album titled simply (Ella) Bacharach and David writers, done in London England between May 26 to 30, 1969, produced and arran...

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I think a lot of politicians and political reporters think "low info voter" is like someone who isn't following congressional budget negotiations when actual low-info voters are like "guy who thinks the president appoints the NFL commissioner and are mad at him for suspending a player on their team"

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Trump debate prep: -2016: Find women who said they had affairs with Bill Clinton and put them in audience to rankle HRC. -2020: Give Chris Christie Covid and nearly kill him. -2024: Say Biden is senile and also super-genius on performance enhancing drugs.

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Ok, I need everybody to read Section III-A of Alito's dissent in the Idaho abortion case. He says - explicitly and specifically - that in cases where the amniotic sac breaks before the 24th week of pregnancy, abortions should be prohibited. HE SPECIFICALLY NOTES THE DANGERS. He points out that...

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It's only bribery if you do it in front of a notary, shake hands with the special bribery handshake, and recite the words "this bribe of current market value $5000 or more is for a corrupt action you otherwise would not perform" and the official responds "thank you for your bribe for my corrupt act"

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Microsoft invested $13 billion in AI

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If you needed a handy infographic on just how much journalistic malpractice is going on at everyone's favorite publications

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News interview I would love Isaac Chotiner to do: With whoever writes NYT headlines. Today's installment. first Axios, then NYT, framing similar news.

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"all the monuments we’ve ever made with limestone are made of plankton and other ancient sea creatures" Fun conversation about how life transforms Earth & the growing appreciation of the Gaia hypothesis 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-... @parshallison.bsky.social @ferrisjabr.bsky.social

How Earth Went from a Sterile Rock to a Lush, Living Planetwww.scientificamerican.com From microbes to mammoths, life has transformed Earth into one big living system, says Ferris Jabr, author of Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life