Paula Schaap

Paula Schaap

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Writer and editor. Also lawyer. Also, I play poker. And yes, that is my actual dog in the avatar. Her name is Muppet, the name she came with; we couldn't figure out a better one.

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And, in the know thy enemies category:

Jack Posobiec is a very influential MAGA media figure. He posted this today. In the 1930s Fr. Denis Fahey was probably most well know for being one of the most outspoken anti-semites in the world...quite an accomplishment for that era.

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Jack Posobiec is a very influential MAGA media figure. He posted this today. In the 1930s Fr. Denis Fahey was probably most well know for being one of the most outspoken anti-semites in the world...quite an accomplishment for that era.

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Both of our oldest friends turned out to beat down rising fascism over the long 4th of July weekend. It's our turn now, America.

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Voters especially love being disenfranchised in baroquely clever and complicated ways

what the fuck is this sorkin-brain shit?

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The Nick Fuentes-groyper-ization of the GOP continues apace in a bottom-up fashion through activists like Trejo and organizations like RNR where they find employment and empowerment...and also in a top-down fashion when Trump gives such organizations his thumbs up.

Treason!

Political reporting, 2024

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All of the people indulging in these fantasy Democratic primary scenarios think that people vote reflexively because it’s what they themselves do; they don’t realize that turnout is a product of hard work. Unseen, unheralded work. By unseen, unheralded people.

I don’t know why they think pissing off the door-knockers and canvassing power of the party will end well, but these people don’t understand what they refuse to see

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The far right cope machine is already trying to manufacture a narrative about the massive loss the French fascists faced today. They are scared they can sense what’s coming to America and it’s not fascism. Popular fronts win and scare fascists. Keep them on the back foot they are weak and scared.

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So for all the narrative about the inevitable slide into anti-immigrant populism, four of Western Europe's five largest countries now have left or center left governments?

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LEFT: paragraph 10 RIGHT: the way this absolute hack turns routine advance work into a scandal

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Indiana has a mechanism that basically doesn’t allow turning down aid like this so that’s the only reason Indiana isn’t included.

The opting out is especially wild Like, Republican governors are being actively presented with money to feed kids and affirmatively saying 'I would like children to starve actually' (Also, if I'm a Dem campaigner, I'm making some ads and placing some op eds about this immediately)

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie

The governor of Nebraska (whom I despise) actually got enough pushback to change his mind about rejecting these funds. nebraskaexaminer.com/2024/05/06/o...

Once-controversial Summer EBT food program for low-income NE kids set for rollout • Nebraska Examinernebraskaexaminer.com The once-controversial Summer EBT food program for low-income NE kids moves forward with federal approval of rollout.

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it will never not be funny to me that dudes who look like this are big mad about gender affirming hormone therapy

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We’re supposed to be bullying NYT of this site, not reposting their anonymously sourced gossip

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Yet again, we see the loudest yelps of “1776 BAYBEE!!!” from Christian Patriots who don’t know the first fucking thing about the history of the country over which they claim to have exclusive ownership. 2 out of 8 ain’t bad, I guess.

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The people of the UK and France showing us that there is a path forward is exactly what we needed to see right now.

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As I said here. Catturd & all white supremacists in this country were waiting to celebrate Marine Le Pen’s victory.

Future Trump WH spokesman Catturd2 with the least predictable take on the French election results.

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yo, I wrote a thing: "Republicans are running away from Project 2025. let’s make the bastards own it" — they can run, but they can’t hide. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —

Republicans are running away from Project 2025. let’s make the bastards own itbit.ly they can run, but they can’t hide

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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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This delicious little bit of schadenfreude can be ours too if we work our asses off between now and November to bury Donald Trump and his fascist political party

Can someone do a count of NY Times & WaPo articles and op-ed pieces to see how many said the French far right was ascendant and likely to win, please?

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What's weird is how much coverage there was of the surging right and a collapsing center and but no attendant deep coverage of the left? Not even to explain why news orgs seemed to be ignoring it other than stories accusing antisemitism b/v of opposition to Israel policy. So frustrating.

BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.

Projections in France's election show voters rejecting the far rightwww.npr.org Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which ...

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When you find common ground with people with whom you agree some of the time but not all of the time, you can prevent people with whom you agree none of the time from taking power. The left and the center have far more in common than either wants to admit.

Breaking news: The first projections after polls closed in France’s legislative election put a leftist alliance in the lead, as the populist, anti-immigration far right falls behind and performs far below expectations.

France election live updates: Left-wing bloc leads in results projectionswww.washingtonpost.com The populist, anti-immigration National Rally party had been hoping to install France’s first far-right government since World War II, with 28-year-old Jordan Bardella as prime minister.

A little dose of reality can go a long way.

Buck up. We live in the best country in the world. We are good people. There are more of us than there are of them. This isn’t over by a longshot. We shall overcome. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-delawa...

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Buck up. We live in the best country in the world. We are good people. There are more of us than there are of them. This isn’t over by a longshot. We shall overcome. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-delawa...

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Fight against daunting odds, because it’s the right thing to do, and because sometimes you win.

BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.

Projections in France's election show voters rejecting the far rightwww.npr.org Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which ...

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lots of people are saying this

I have heard from top insiders at the nyt that they did it because "they were scared shitless" and sulz pissed his pants and is hiding in his office.

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The mainstream media spent two weeks trying to make The Story about Biden's age instead made The Story about how they're betraying democracy for ratings. Come for the king, best not miss.

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Wow. @nytimes.com has closed their Threads account and left the platform after days of getting just shredded in the replies for their handling of Biden post debate. Now they're getting dog piled on Instagram for running from Threads.

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If you're worried about brevity in your writing, don't. It took Project 2025 nine hundred pages to say fourteen words.