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central core has almost Reformatted been, seven is darker. He/him. also @[email protected]

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To be fair, this *is* the America the RNC wants, a post-apocalyptic Hunger Game where every gun loving lunatic is either Wyatt Earp or John Wilkes Booth, just depending on which mealy mouthed weasel writes the NY Times story.

There have apparently been two incidents involving armed men (including a fatal shooting by police) today, right outside the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.

Cop Fatally Shoots ‘Armed’ Suspect Just Outside RNCwww.thedailybeast.com The officer who opened fire was from Columbus, Ohio, and was attending the RNC.

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The New York Times really making it crystal clear what it is to every sentient reader

It gets worse, the whole newsletter is about Biden selfishly putting his own interests ahead of the party's.

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The one constant in my conversations about “Project 2025” is that almost everyone is taken aback by what’s in these plans, even people who really pay attention to politics - if not by how radical it is, then by how far-reaching, detailed, and aggressively explicit it is.

I got to talk to Molly Jong-Fast about “Project 2025”: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUJS... The radical Right wasn’t ready for Trump’s first presidency. In 2025, they will be. What should people know about these plans for an authoritarian takeover of government? 🧵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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so the dude with full AK-47, ski mask, ammo, etc., gets arrested after approaching the RNC, but an unhoused Black man well away from even the vehicle perimeter for the RNC, all the way across a major highway, gets shot to death by five cops. got it.

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Their "record profits" are your unpaid wages.

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I’m going to start with the absolutely jaw-dropping news that The New York Times deceptively edited a quote to make it appear that JD Vance opposes a national abortion ban. — @jessicavalenti.bsky.social

GOP Platform Author Admits There's a National Banjessica.substack.com 7.16.24

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Dr. Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS

Our brand of conservatism is very much a product of the distinctive history of white settlement and the enduring demographic homogeneity of the place until quite recently. That said, it's a blue state by a pretty good margin and has been so for a long time. Which has made the OR GOP even nuttier.

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Existing Trump supporters—including political reporters privately in sympathy with him—obviously experienced a powerful galvanizing emotion from the failed assassination attempt. They assumed that emotional experience would be widespread, but so far the polling doesn’t bear that out.

"In the national Morning Consult poll of 2,045 registered voters, taken Monday, Trump leads President Joe Biden 46 percent to 45 percent. The poll has a margin of error of two percentage points." www.rawstory.com/trump-pollin...

Surprise: Trump did not get polling boost after shootingwww.rawstory.com Following the failed assassination attempt on Saturday, former President Donald Trump did not see a polling boost, in the first presidential survey taken since the event.In the national Morning Consul...

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When I got the news about the assassination attempt, "I knew there was no American 'unity' coming that would in any way include me as a transgender woman." The first night of the RNC certainly proved that last night, but pundits are still busy scolding Dems www.bugbeardispatch.com/p/america-th...

America the Surrealwww.bugbeardispatch.com An Assassination Attempt, Fake National Unity. and Our Fascist-Enabling Media

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under trump’s project 2025, a middle-class family with two children would pay $2,600 in additional federal income tax by comparison, a married couple with two children and earnings of $5 million a year would enjoy a $325,000 tax cut

Project 2025 would overhaul the U.S. tax system. Here's how it could impact you.www.cbsnews.com Project 2025, a blueprint for the next Republican president, proposes major economic changes that could impact millions of Americans.

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This comes as a 20-year-old with a gun tried to assassinate Trump. The story--every story such as this--should say who appointed the judges. Minnesota’s age restriction to carry handguns is unconstitutional, court rules www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/...

Minnesota’s age restriction to carry handguns is unconstitutional, court ruleswww.washingtonpost.com A federal appeals court ruled that Minnesota residents ages 18 to 20 should be able to publicly carry handguns under the Second Amendment.

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Harry

"Host bodies must be quiet and do only as the men folk dictate." "Florida Republican called pregnant women 'host bodies' five times while discussing anti-abortion bill" www.cltampa.com/news/florida...

Florida Republican called pregnant women 'host bodies' fives times while discussing anti-abortion bill | Creative Loafing Tampa Baywww.cltampa.com It wasn't a simple slip of the tongue, either.

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News that should shock no one: After assassination attempt, Elon Musk claims he'll donate $45 million a month to super PAC that backs Trump; Bill Ackman officially endorses; other Silicon Valley players and venture capitalists decree the "taboo" of supporting MAGA movement is gone.

More Tech and Venture Capital Execs Are Coming Out as MAGA Believerswww.rollingstone.com Elon Musk, Bill Ackman, and other tech and finance leaders used the attempted Trump assassination to declare support for his 2024 campaign.

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Stephen Webb

Yeah, like the previous times RNC asked these people to "tone the rhetoric down"...

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I created a blog post on what comes next for Senator Menendez (D-NJ) after his conviction on 16 felonies in federal court today. Short answer: Likely resignation or expulsion from the Senate & a very significant jail sentence.

Sen. Robert Menendez Convicted On All Countsopen.substack.com Facing Senate Expulsion & Significant Jail Time

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A fun thing to do would be to write a court reform bill that defines “good behavior” as inconsistent with ruling against congress’ constitutional authority to regulate the courts.

All scoffing that this will never pass, SCOTUS would strike it down as unconstitutional. Since when did a policy proposal or a policy only have to be efficacious at achieving the stated goal to be politically effective? US immigration border policy has never been effective but serves a pol purpose.

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Leonard Pierce

Pew puts out a study where black people say that they 'believe' in things that are obviously, historically true, well-documented, and still happening today and calls them 'racial conspiracy theories'; are taken aback when people get mad about it

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While doing some research, I stumbled upon this article. Should Trump win, he will implement P2025. This is what we will be going back to. Vote. Even if you hate Biden. Even if you hate Dems. Our daughters & granddaughters cannot go back & neither can others. I was 8 yrs old!

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If the shooting was “not related to the RNC,” why would cops from Columbus, Ohio be involved in the first place? Also, pretty on the nose for cops from a red state to come to a blue city and kill a homeless black guy on the second night of the RNC. www.jsonline.com/story/news/c...

Milwaukee man dead after being shot by 5 Ohio police officers near RNCwww.jsonline.com The man killed by Ohio officers near the RNC on Tuesday was well-known in the neighborhood, several witnesses told the Journal Sentinel.

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Ok, which smart aleck in the writers' room decided that the guy JD Vance referred to as "America's Hitler" would get charged with 88 felony charges? www.citizensforethics.org/reports-inve...

Trump's 88 criminal charges and where they stand - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washingtonwww.citizensforethics.org We're tracking the status of each of the indictments against Trump and his co-defendants.

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Hilarious takedown of JD Vance from comedian Trae Crowder, who got a visit from Vance at one of his shows. "He came to my show, we hung out afterwards at the bar, drank beers, all we talked about was the existential threat we agreed Donald Trump posed to this country" www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eMM...

Liberal Redneck - JD Vance Ain't Itwww.youtube.com Bank better at www.climatefirstbank.com/traeI actually know ol Vance a tiny little bit. Not a fan, really, believe it or not. Also, see me live: www.traecrow...

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Just a reminder: Trump inherited the lowest homicide rate of any president in 50 years. He was the first president in 30 years to leave office with a higher homicide rate than when he entered. And the rate has dropped every year since he left. www.foxnews.com/video/635815...

RNC day 2 to focus on crime and safety as victims' families speak out | Fox News Videowww.foxnews.com Erin Rachwal, who lost her son to fentanyl poisoning and Sheri and Aaron Sparks, who lost their son in the Waukesha parade attack, on the need to hold criminals accountable and stop the influx of illi...

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Turned this thread into a post. Joe Biden isn't stepping down. He's the candidate. The poll numbers aren't catastrophic, but they ain't great. You run a campaign to remind people of what's at stake and change the poll numbers. That's what campaigns are for. davekarpf.substack.com/p/what-the-c...

Okay fuck it I’m gonna say some shit. Biden isn’t leaving the race. I’d rather he did. I think Kamala is more likely to win. But he ain’t leaving because the-polls-look-bad. He’s obviously going to insist that he can campaign his way out of bad polling. AND HE MIGHT BE RIGHT. (He better be!)

What The Campaign Is Fordavekarpf.substack.com Biden is the candidate. The stakes are existential. The whole point of a campaign is that poll numbers in July are not immutable destiny.

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This is a great example of how the Cooperative is member-driven. In light of discussions on Sticker Mule, some members wrote about how they like Sticker Ninja for being pro-Palestine. That endorsement was all it took for us on Benefits to reach out for a partnership. Less than 24 hours later: BOOM.

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"Following the failed assassination attempt on Saturday, former President Donald Trump did not see a polling boost, in the first presidential survey taken since the event....In fact, Trump's lead has narrowed slightly since an earlier poll taken July 12-14" lol. lmao www.rawstory.com/trump-pollin...

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Biden set to announce support for major Supreme Court changes: enfoceable ethics, term limits. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Biden set to announce support for major Supreme Court changeswww.washingtonpost.com The president has discussed the plans with constitutional scholars and members of Congress in recent weeks.

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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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www.cnbc.com/2024/07/16/e... I just "love" how these people are now COMPLETELY mask-off in their bigotry. Musk literally admitting the only reason he's moving SpaceX to Texas is because he's not allowed to be a transphobic asshole in California.

Elon Musk says SpaceX and X headquarters moving to Texas, blames new CA trans student privacy lawwww.cnbc.com SpaceX CEO and X owner Elon Musk said Tuesday he will move the headquarters of both companies from California to Texas.

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Spiers filed this essay a week before that but does not regret one word of it.