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Too bad mainstream media normalized the Heritage Foundation and the Federalist Society for so long 😡

Financial Times

It's important to understand that JD Vance is from the authoritarian wing of the Catholic right. Much more dangerous than Mike Pence.

It's important to understand that JD Vance is from the authoritarian wing of the Catholic right. Much more dangerous than Mike Pence.

Bloomberg

It's important to understand that JD Vance is from the authoritarian wing of the Catholic right. Much more dangerous than Mike Pence.

The New York Times

It's important to understand that JD Vance is from the authoritarian wing of the Catholic right. Much more dangerous than Mike Pence.

It's important to understand that JD Vance is from the authoritarian wing of the Catholic right. Much more dangerous than Mike Pence.

The Intercept

Columbia has gone off the deep end on this

Texas Observer

And certainly not pro-life

The New York Times

It's important to understand that JD Vance is from the authoritarian wing of the Catholic right. Much more dangerous than Mike Pence.

The Intercept

Please hire someone who understands Christian Nationalism. With JD Vance now potential VP it's very important to understand it is not just the Evangelicals. The Catholic right are in many ways more dangerously authoritarian and they have fully captured the Supreme Court.

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Middle East Crisis: Israel Targets Top Hamas Commander in Airstrike; Mass Casualties Reportedwww.nytimes.com The commander, Muhammad Deif, is considered an architect of the Oct. 7 attacks. Palestinian authorities said more than 70 people had been killed in southern Gaza.

Breaking News: Israel launched a major strike in Gaza that it said targeted a top Hamas commander. Gaza authorities said the attack killed more than 70 people after hitting an area that Israel had designated as a humanitarian zone.

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Why Sanders, AOC threw Biden a lifeline as his candidacy flounderedwapo.st Liberal lawmakers giving the president political cover are aiming to secure his support for a more progressive policy agenda.

The public endorsements of President Biden from Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reflect a careful calculation that he offers the best hope for advancing progressive policies, according to people close to Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez.

A white man, an immigrant from South Africa

A man who killed two Alaska Native women and recorded the torture of one of them was sentenced to 226 years in prison on Friday.

Man Gets 226 Years in Prison in the Alaska Killings of 2 Native Womenwww.nytimes.com The man was arrested in 2019 after a woman turned over images and a video of one of the murders that she had found on his phone. He confessed to having killed another woman, the authorities said.

Think about your avocado choices

Avocados, the creamy fruit with the industry nickname "green gold," are big business. US and Mexican officials are now considering new changes to the strict processes that direct how the fruit can make its way to American kitchens.

As cartels take a stake in ‘green gold,’ US and Mexico rethink how avocados reach American kitchens | CNNwww.cnn.com When two US avocado inspectors were assaulted and detained at a police roadblock in the Mexican state of Michoacán last month, it sparked a costly international crisis.

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4chan has done its usual thing of seeding false photos of the shooter. Don't trust random shit from Twitter, as always.

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The FBI confirmed the identity the NY Post published. Public records show he was a registered Republican and not yet old enough to drink. A one time $15 actblue donation complicates the picture a tiny bit, and everyone will of course handle that proportionally.

The FBI identifies the shooter as Thomas Matthew Crooks

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Someone should make a porn in which at about five minutes into it everyone stops what they're doing and puts their clothes back on while one of them looks into the camera and says "Did you know that the people behind Project 2025 want to put both you and I in jail for what we're doing right now?"

I regret to inform you we will have to start advertising on Pornhub about Project 2025's plan to ban porn

Harry Pujols

see also: Rupert Murdoch

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Bloomberg

Musk is far more of a threat to democracy than Henry Ford or Charles Lindberg ever were

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Musk Donates to Trump, Tapping Vast Fortune to Swing 2024 Racewww.bloomberg.com Billionaire Elon Musk has donated to a super political action committee working to elect Donald Trump to the White House, a major gambit by the world’s richest person to make his imprint on the US pol...

Billionaire Elon Musk has donated to a super political action committee working to elect Donald Trump to the White House, a major gambit by the world’s richest person to make his imprint on the US political landscape

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Freedom of the Press Foundation

Yes, Windsor deceived Alito by posing as a religious conservative. But Alito deceives America by posing as a principled originalist. Bottom line: The deception Windsor helped expose is far more consequential than the deception she carried out. Read more:

Revisiting the undercover Alito recording, post-Trump v. United Statesfreedom.press The secret taping, condemned by journalistic ethicists, is actually a prime example of when surreptitious reporting is justified

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Not to Worry, Only the President Can Launch Nukes, Pentagon Report Sayswww.bloomberg.com The “nuclear football” was dangerously close to Jan. 6 rioters. The Defense Department’s watchdog was then tasked with reviewing what would happen if it was intercepted.

Exclusive: After a close encounter on January 6, a Pentagon report obtained by FOIA clarified it “has procedures to ensure only the US president can authorize the use of nuclear weapons”

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Joe Biden has big problems. Donald Trump is a problem so big he’s invisiblewww.theglobeandmail.com The pundits have spent the past two weeks gnawing obsessively on the Biden problem, while Donald Trump and his Republican Party float languidly free of any such expectations

Opinion - Joe Biden has big problems. Donald Trump is a problem so big he’s invisible: The pundits have spent the past two weeks gnawing obsessively on the Biden problem, while Donald Trump and his Republican Party float languidly free of any such expectations

Mainstream media normalized the Heritage Foundation and the Federalist Society for far too long

The plan also includes infusing Christian nationalism into every facet of government policy by calling for a ban on pornography and promoting policies that encourage “marriage, work, motherhood, fatherhood, and nuclear families.”

What is Project 2025?www.washingtonpost.com It’s a blueprint for what a second Trump administration could look like, dreamed up by his allies and former aides. Here are some of the proposals.

Too bad mainstream media normalized the Heritage Foundation and the Federalist Society for so long 😡

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What is Project 2025?www.washingtonpost.com It’s a blueprint for what a second Trump administration could look like, dreamed up by his allies and former aides. Here are some of the proposals.

Project 2025 is a comprehensive plan by former and likely future leaders of a Trump administration to remake America in a conservative mold while dramatically expanding presidential power and allowing Trump to use it to go after his critics. Here’s what it entails and how it could reshape America.

CNN

NY Post worthy clickbait

The Onion

It's 6 who are corrupt, not 9 The Republican majority has been fully captured