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DC native, long time Portlander, Twinja exile, haver of opinions & cats. linktr.ee/RainSurname

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France dropkicked a baldly fascist political coalition out of office, imo if we can’t manage to do the same we should give back the Statue of Liberty

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I’m just trying to figure out if y’all think the 90% of Black women who vote for Democrats do so because we’re stupid, or because we’re part of the “liberal elite”?

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..and now it’s time for Sunday Science..

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Oola gets some morning time in the garden, where I imagine that she’s practicing her big game hunting techniques.

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Why is the pundit class so desperate to push Biden out of the race? - 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

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A good public transit system should be just as effective as driving. An excellent public transit service would make driving seem ridiculous. The only reason we don't have that is because we decided not to fund it. It's a simple as that.

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Campaign news has overshadowed this. For all those who missed it: the administration announced $1 billion to help communities be more resilient to climate change/natural hazards. www.dhs.gov/news/2024/07...

President Biden Announces $1 Billion in Project Selections to Make Communities More Resilient to Climate Change and Natural Hazards Through His Investing in America Agenda | Homeland Securitywww.dhs.gov President Joseph R. Biden, Jr., Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas and FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell today announced the 656 project selections for $1 billion in clim...

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some ambitious young creative should make a series of Schoolhouse Rock-style animated info clips based on Project 2025

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I keep thinking about how the SCOTUS justices, who have proven they care a TON about their media coverage, issued the worst decision since Dredd Scott and then got to happily watch outlets spend the next week running 10,000 “Biden in Trouble” stories and like 5 “Hm, Immunity is Interesting” stories

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Completely mind melted by how amazing this embroidery by peacocksandpinecones.co.uk is. Zoom in on the detail

I do captioning for a living, & a big part of my job is cleaning up false starts & filler words. That has always been the norm at every media outlet. Print media edits Trump so carefully that you would never know what he actually sounds like. Doing this to Biden is a 180 from decades of policy.

Now everyone--The Times and, sorry to say, MSNBC--is noting every missed syllable. The man has a stutter. I don't stutter but I am a mushmouth who speaks too fast and slurs words. I've had to overcome fear of public speaking. I have empathy for Biden. The press has empathy for no one (but Trump).

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The fact they're simultaneously running don't vote campaigns and trying to undermine the dem candidate is proof that the moneybags who own these publications are united in realizing their robber baron days are drawing to a close under a guy who is the most pro labour president of the 21st century

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Chemistree ⚛️🧪

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Gave proof through the night That our flag was still there 🫡

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Biden being one of the least big business friendly Presidents of the modern era is also a big factor. he's done more to muzzle them than anyone in this century

Biden's age and poor debate showing is obviously a legit story, but what we've seen over the last week is a hysterical feeding frenzy aimed at some combination of self-vindication, settling old scores, claiming a scalp, and the desire of some in the media to have Trump back in power. (1/2)

Hey, friends, if you see me on here before the weekend, remind me that I said I would stay away from here until the weekend.

The Venn diagram of people who get angry at people for continuing to do things they enjoy while Gaza burns & the people who think voting a couple times should have been enough to stop fascism is a circle. The world doesn't stop turning. They don't just go away.

Oh yeah, it's never worked, that's why it took the Republicans half a century to get to the theocratic fascist takeover that Reagan allied with the religious right to achieve. If it "never worked," we wouldn't have ever gotten the rights that are now being rolled back, you dingus.

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You cannot be antifascist and anti-voting. You can be one or the other, but you can't be both.

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Today, the federal government put itself on the right side of history by seeking, for the 1st time, to establish the precedent that every worker in America has the right to shade, water & rest while working in temps that could kill them. -UFW President Teresa Romero www.politico.com/news/2024/07...

Biden to announce heat rules as climate-related deaths risewww.politico.com If finalized, they would be the first U.S. regulations to protect workers from dangerous temperatures.

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Are negative odds an option? The odds are unironically greater of the election simply not happening than any third party candidate winning 270. I’d bet huge sums against one winning a single electoral vote, absent the help of a faithless elector.

Honest question: there’s no widespread support for third parties (I think we can agree), they haven’t laid the state by state foundation or track record necessary to convince people, first past the post … what do you, good faith, think the odds of a third party winning this year are?

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TIL that the New Wave band DEVO was formed in response to the Kent State shootings. In 1970, co-founders Gerald Casale and Bob Lewis got serious about their idea of the "de-evolution" of the human race after Casale's friends Jeffrey Miller & Allison Krause were killed by OH national guards.

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"voting doesn't make a difference" ok sure mate, now I just gotta decide which is more likely, that all the votes in all the elections in all the world have never mattered in any way or that some cynical lackwit on the internet is wrong

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A total ban is the only sane policy for Airbnb. There obviously needs to be accommodation in cities for visitors, but that shouldn’t be at the expense of housing units for people who actually live there. More governments should follow Barcelona’s lead.

Barcelona Plans to Ban All Short-Term Rentals for Tourists From 2029www.bloomberg.com Barcelona plans to enact a citywide ban on all short-term rentals to address complaints that tourism is to blame for a local housing crisis and soaring rents.

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supporting a candidate has become so synonymous with stan culture that it’s impossible to talk about a person’s merits without being labeled an unquestioning worshipper

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fuck man, I don't even know what to say anymore. One political party wants to burn everything to the ground and institute theocratic, kleptocratic autocracy. I think this is bad, just one man's opinion.

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He's right. They're stealing the country from us and ending democracy. "Bloodless if the left allows it to be" is a threat to kill anyone who fights back

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

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Keeping Trump out of the White House isn’t the only thing that needs doing and it isn’t enough to solve all problems facing the country & world but if it isn’t done then all those problems get exponentially worse in ways I don’t even know how to express and it scares me when people pretend otherwise

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I do not regret analogizing these people to the men who took photos of themselves at lynchings www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

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seems newsworthy, can’t wait to hear about it showing up in paragraph 47 of another piece about how biden is old

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

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this is how the blue dogs lose their seats and lose the house, and it always has *been* how they lose their seats and lose the house, these people have the political instincts of slugs

A little bit less so after this shit today katu.com/news/your-vo...

KATU Exclusive: Congresswoman Gluesenkamp Perez says "Biden is going to lose to Trump"katu.com A Washington Democratic Congresswoman says she believes President Biden will lose to former President Donald Trump in November.Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez