Redshift

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The future the the right wants is Aileen Cannons giving them and their allies a pass when they need it. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | A preview of government of, by and for a subset of ‘the people’www.washingtonpost.com That Judge Aileen M. Cannon’s dismissal of the classified documents case wasn’t surprising tells us a lot about how government might evolve over the next four years.

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There is never any shame in using the library, and much benefit in doing so. They are the closest thing to an unmitigated social good that we have in these United States, which is why the hard right is gunning so fervently for them these days. A world without libraries and librarians is a poor one.

My book-buying budget is not what it once was, which is precisely why I’m using the library more. It also gives me the opportunity to read books that I’m not sure I want to add to the home library (not that there’s a lot of room to do that anyway).

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Vance publicly pledged to do what made Pence unacceptable to Trump and his voters: overturn the results of an election, if given the chance. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | Trump chooses a vice president who would do what Mike Pence wouldn’twww.washingtonpost.com Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) was asked in February what he’d have done on Jan. 6, 2021. He said he’d have done what Mike Pence didn’t.

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Yep, me, too. It's too easy to make either watch or warning sound more severe. (I'll avoid giving examples lest they stick in someone else's brain.)

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🌪️ PSA: A tornado WATCH means a tornado may be forming soon and you should prepare, whereas a tornado WARNING means it’s here and you need to take cover *now.* To help remember the difference: if it’s a tornado WATCH, you’ve got TIME ⌚️

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This whole excerpt tells you multitudes about our current political moment.

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I'm feeling pretty good tonight. The kittens are a great mood improver, but the biggest thing is standing back a bit from the gloom and doom and seeing that the Republicans have a dreadful ticket that promises to greatly damage the country with Project 2025 so that white men can rule. 1/

I did my first canvassing shift for the campaign over the weekend. This early, we're looking for people who either aren't solid voters or we're not sure are ours. Most weren't home (as usual), but every one I did talk to, on my list or whoever answered the door, were definite straight ticket D.

Action is the antidote to worry. It's great for your mood in uncertain times. Do it. If there's not an active campaign in your area, there are plenty of groups doing state to state outreach.

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Quite impressed that Elon Musk has singlehandedly demonstrated why billionaires should not exist in almost every way

Elon Musk reportedly plans to give $45m a month to pro-Trump Super Pac

Elon Musk reportedly plans to give $45m a month to pro-Trump Super Pacwww.theguardian.com Tech billionaire to donate extraordinary monthly sum to group focused on helping Trump win election, report says

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bouie singlehandedly forcing this site to implement features that make it usable for anyone with more than a few hundred followers

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Our new theme is unity

The “Some folks need killing” guy just gave a primetime speech at the RNC.

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Are you a fan of all of those guys who are directly responsible for making the internet an unusable dogshit hellhole? Well boy do I have a VP for you.

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Vance is an Extremely Online™️ pick. Americans don’t know him. They don’t know he’s a Senator. They don’t know Hillbilly Elegy. They don’t know what an elegy is. Vance works for shitposters, CPAC nerds and weirdo billionaire vampires. That’s it.

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I know we know about JD Vance, but he's also working to make divorces harder to obtain, and says that people in "violent" marriages should stay married and not get divorced. So.

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This timeline has the laziest writing...

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As a citizen of Ohio, I apologize that JD Vance has now suddenly become all y'all's problem too, here's some flowers, they won't make up for it, but at least they're pretty

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Kind of a big correction from the BBC here

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JD Vance is on the ticket because he wants the government to kill trans people. Vance has been more vocal in his transphobia than just about any other leading VP candidate. That's a deliberate choice by Team Trump.

J.D. Vance's horrendous record of homophobia and transphobiawww.advocate.com Donald Trump's vice-presidential pick hasn't been a senator long — but he's been in the public eye long enough to accrue a strongly anti-LGBTQ+ record.

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RIP, NYT Pitchbot.

This truly embarrassing garbage is why I unsubscribed from the NYT.

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time to dust this one off. amen.

Vance is, you guessed it, an adult Catholic convert

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The dismissal of the obviously robust classified-documents case is a good demonstration of how the right wants government to work. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Today is the 80th anniversary of this New Yorker cover by Rea Irvin, portraying the D-Day invasion in the style of the Bayeux Tapestry. Bayeux was the first town to be liberated (although the tapestry was, to the surprise of many, not there anymore; that story is the subject of my next novel.) 1/5

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Volunteer. If your state isn't one where the presidential campaign is active, you can still volunteer to write, text, or call voters in other states. Beyond that, organizations like Indivisible, Postcards to Voters, etc. all have cross-state outreach efforts. Action is the antidote for worry.

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The Constitutional Crisis is already here. You are living inside it. No way back, for better or worse. Either fight to win the future or concede to fascist tyranny taking over our country, the world's largest economy and mightiest military.

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Aaron Rupar

My first thought was that the only kind of "unity" Trump was going to call for was "everyone must unite behind Dear Leader." I didn't claim any prescience, I assume this was obvious to everyone, except, apparently, a lot of people who are paid for their expertise in politics.

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I used to be obsessively engaged with the social media news/opinion cycle until one day I wondered "What is the point of this? It doesn't help anyone." So I made a decision to use the time and energy for stuff like writing letters to my reps instead. Not telling anyone what to do, just works for me.

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Yep. There's a lot of wiggle room in law, a lot of places where a judge's general attitudes about law, politics, governance, etc, will sway them to reach one of many potential outcomes. That is not what is happening now. What is happening are hacks and lunatics deliberately misapplying the law.

I'm a big fan of the attitudinal model of law, but I also think it's possible for judges not to be total partisan hacks. The thing is, literally no institution could survive if its leaders were taking bribes and its major positions were purposely filled with irresponsible lunatics for decades.