Philip Nel

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The presence of Jan. 6 participants and their roles at the Republican convention shows how much election denial has permeated the party and its institutional acceptance of the first disruption to the peaceful transfer of power since the Civil War.

Jan. 6 marchers at Republican convention complicate efforts to avoid subjectwww.washingtonpost.com Several delegates were in the mob outside the Capitol or involved in organizing alternate electors falsely claiming Donald Trump won in 2020.

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Every state is more "purple" than people think. More Californians than Texans voted for Trump in 2020; more Texans than New Yorkers voted for Biden in 2020. If we ditched the Electoral College and instituted Ranked Choice Voting, politics would look very different on every level than they do now.

I went to Bowling Green and then lived in the Cleveland area after for about 10 years. The state is not as backwards as the rest of the country thinks.

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Something you may have missed yesterday - The Biden Administration is going to unveil a nationwide rent control proposal. It's going to be challenging to implement, and will require control of both chambers, but they're working on it. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Biden to unveil plan to cap rents as GOP convention beginswww.washingtonpost.com The policy plan comes as the president tries to assure Democrats about the viability of his candidacy.

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Don DeLillo seriously injured rushing 2000 page novel about the past 48 hours

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JD Vance, 2016: "Trump is America's Hitler" JD Vance, 2024: "I humbly accept the nomination to be America's Himmler"

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Peter Buxtun, the whistleblower who revealed that the U.S. government allowed hundreds of Black men in rural Alabama to go untreated for syphilis in what became known as the Tuskegee study, has died. He was 86. apnews.com/article/buxt...

Tuskegee syphilis study whistleblower Peter Buxtun has died at age 86apnews.com The whistleblower who exposed the Tuskegee syphilis study that left hundreds of Black men untreated has died at age 86.

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"When picture book author set out to demystify death for children, readers of all ages discovered much wisdom and charm in The End of Something Wonderful." My interview with Bevival. www.bevival.com/exit-intervi...

Stephanie Lucianovicwww.bevival.com Demystifying death for children.

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Said it before, I’ll say it again, tell people Republicans want to take away their tax refunds.

Project 2025 raises taxes on a family of four with two parents earning a combined $100,000 by $2,600, in order to fund a tax cut of over three times their combined income for someone earning $5m. x.com/SteveRattner...

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Some of David Koresh’s followers had long viewed him as handpicked by God. The FBI siege of their compound has only increased such quasi-religious devotion and rhetoric.

Some of Donald Trump’s followers had long viewed him as handpicked by God. The attempted assassination has only increased such quasi-religious devotion and rhetoric.

After Saturday, Trump’s Devotees See ‘God’s Protection’www.nytimes.com Some of Donald J. Trump’s followers had long viewed him as handpicked by God. The attempted assassination has only increased such quasi-religious devotion and rhetoric.

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This should be required reading for every Democrat in America.

Some thoughts on the frenetic firehose that is the 2024 presidential race at CAMPAIGN TRAILS. open.substack.com/pub/kevinmkr...

Conventional Wisdomopen.substack.com I’m on the road this week, taking my daughter to visit some colleges, but given this week’s insane flurry of activity in the presidential campaign, I’ll try to post when I can. First and foremost, let...

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main difference between the New York Times political desk in 2016 is that back then they were against Clinton. today they are objectively for Trump

A thread on today’s “ remarkably one-sided “The Morning” newsletter by Michael C. Bender. /1 www.nytimes.com/2024/07/16/b...

J.D. Vance’s Chancewww.nytimes.com Why Donald Trump tapped Vance to be his successor.

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Republican president was shot by a Republican because of an environment of normalized violence that Republicans insist we all live in, and somehow this means that both sides need to tone it all the way down, which in practice means that Democrats and only Democratic need to stop talking entirely.

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So much is about learning how to really LISTEN. #Uplift #KidLitArt

Political violence is bad, even when the target of that violence actively encourages violence and is responsible for the deaths resulting from that violence.

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I know there is a lot going on, but an unusually high number of CIA agents were killed, captured, or compromised after Trump stole classified documents about them. Just thought I should remind everyone of that.

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I looked it up and it turns out there were zero book related deaths in 2023 and so far none in 2024 so, I don’t know, books may not be the problem.

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The majority of people flatly do not understand — and would be honestly shocked by! — how little money most publicly known writers make

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NYC!! www.nypl.org/blog/2024/07...

Pick Up a Free James Baldwin Title in Celebration of His 100th Birthday | The New York Public Librarywww.nypl.org The New York Public Library is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of James Baldwin one of our largest adult book giveaways!

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Blue. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekBforBlue #photography 📷

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Your library card grants you free access to all sorts of pay news websites just so you know.

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Whether it's women dying from healthcare restrictions or anyone else dying from the collapse of the power grid, Greg Abbott is just happy they're dying. He can't get enough of it!

Don’t worry about the power grid in Texas, Greg Abbott is laser-focused on ensuring that as many miscarrying women get sepsis as possible www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/07/nati...

Nation's fourth largest city still largely without power - Lawyers, Guns & Moneywww.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com At least I assume the weather in Houston is relatively moderate at this time of year? When the power goes out in Houston, some neighborhoods are filled with the sound of gas-powered backup generators,...

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In greater New Haven: CT Mirror: ctmirror.org New Haven Independent: www.newhavenindependent.org

At the risk of posting something stupefyingly obvious: If you're among those canceling a New York Times or Washington Post subscription, I guarantee you have a great nonprofit media outlet or local paper in your area that could use some revenue. And that coverage is absolutely vital right now.

“I have seen some things in my seven decades covering American politics. I have never seen anything quite like the wrangling, hand-wringing, and behind-the-scenes gamesmanship currently swirling around President Biden. These are compounded by the one-sided media coverage against Biden.” — Dan Rather

A Dangerous Double Standardsteady.substack.com All our energies must go to defeating Trump

"what of Trump’s obvious cognitive decline, his endless lies, his shocking plans to imprison his political enemies and to deport millions of people he calls 'animals', his relationship with … Jeffrey Epstein?" — Margaret Sullivan, “The media has been breathlessly attacking Biden. What about Trump?”

The media has been breathlessly attacking Biden. What about Trump? | Margaret Sullivanwww.theguardian.com The bigger story is Donald Trump’s appalling unfitness for office. He tried to overturn a legitimate election and is a felon

“If we are calling for Biden to step aside because someone must stop Trump from bringing down the republic, then surely it would have made more sense to first call for Trump to step aside?…If you accept that a fascist is beyond your reach, you have normalized your submission.” —Timothy Snyder

Fascism and Fearopen.substack.com The Moment, The Media, The Election

“Is this man bothering you?” — Dave Whamond

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I always keep these words by Jamie Kalven in mind: people.chicagoreader.com/who/jamie-ka... Retreating is so seductive.

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If you paid attention to Trump's side of the debate, he had the same underlying problem Biden did, where over and over he would start a sentence and realize he couldn't say or remember the words that would come next, but where Biden stalled out, Trump just switched to blurting something unrelated

Donald Trump has good days and bad days but increasingly only bad days. He's lost it - he can't focus and his brains are leaking out his ears, but the press is very impressed with him because HE CAN STILL SHOUT

"the pundit class of the American media [are] doing exactly what they did in the 2016 presidential race – providing wildly asymmetrical and inflammatory coverage of the one candidate running against Donald J Trump." — Rebecca Solnit www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Why is the pundit class so desparate to push Biden out of the race? | Rebecca Solnitwww.theguardian.com Yes, Biden had a bad debate – but so did Trump. The media is once again repeating the mistakes of 2016