BBancTucson

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It’s almost like the pundit class wants the wrong things out of this campaign season

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the general vibe at the moment

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I hate this notion that we’re supposed to prove something about ourselves by being deeply concerned about the well-being of people who want us dead or in cages. That’s not how my decency is packaged.

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Jaw-dropping that this is People, while NYT and WaPo just dither around. Serious props to People--PEOPLE!--for not pulling its punches. And NYT, WaPo, CNN, rest of you? Gauntlet thrown. If People--PEOPLE!--has the best Brad Pitt gossip AND Project 2025 analysis, what are you providing?

If you’ve shared this but haven’t read it yet, you should. PEOPLE isn’t pulling punches. Just printing “Christian Nationalism” in relation to the platform of a presidential candidate is more than many pubs have done.

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natural doomer tendencies aside I refuse to give in to inevitably of a second Trump term if only to spite the dipshits in the Dem caucus who are already doing so

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The best way to lower the political temperature is to soundly defeat the party that contains people who refer to the other party as “inhuman” or say that they need to be killed or who suggests we should “second amendment” them.

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I’m sorry a Republican voter shot at the Republican leader at a Republican rally, and especially that he killed a Republican rally-goer and injured two more. I wish it didn’t happen, and hope nothing like it ever happens again. I just don’t see how non-Republicans could be the ones to solve it.

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I was actually shocked, and a little annoyed, by how many people were afforded opportunities in publishing or journalism because they were already affluent. The silence is what specifically annoyed me because all this time I felt like a ****-up.

The majority of people flatly do not understand — and would be honestly shocked by! — how little money most publicly known writers make

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Tour de France and Olympic athletes are wearing masks because they understand that catching COVID could undo years of hard work and sacrifices.

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“There’s no place for this kind of violence in the USA”. Bro, are very few things that have as much of a place in the USA as shootings.

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Brendan Nyhan

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Woody Guthrie, BOTD in 1912

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www.gofundme.com/c/act/hurric...

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I feel so bad for people in Houston, man

"His mastery of the modern media age" is quite a statement by a paper of record to make. Almost as though by reporting it this way you admit you're being played by this... person.

#YHGtBFKMwTS, Jr.

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Timeline cleanse: "Best of Friends" by artist Henriëtte Ronner-Knip, 19th-century painter who specialized in portrayals of animals

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You’d think there might be some renewed coverage of Republican politicians openly calling for political killings in the wake of all this. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Trump-Endorsed Candidate for Governor: ‘Some Folks Need Killing’www.rollingstone.com North Carolina Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson declared "some people need killing" during a Sunday sermon.

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Popping on to say: A lot of rumors are about to fly about this rally. Trump's team is 100% going to try and take advantage of this situation. So will malicious foreign actors/bots/etc. Please don't auto share. Check your sources, and vet their wording/sourcing carefully.

Worth a shot, for sure.

Joe Biden could win back 29% of his detractors if he could get caught on tape calling the Cybertruck “a real piece of shit”

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exactly! you can run a prime time special on a new piece of this thing every day from now until the election and you should

Every page, every paragraph is rich with story possibilities. "Here's what happens to your health plan," "Here's what happens to your food safety," "Here's what happens to your overtime" and on and on. Every day, more to tell about the real life stakes. That's what real political journalism gives us

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man, Dennis Kuchinich is a piece of *shit*

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A federal judge in New York threw out Rudy Giuliani’s bankruptcy case Friday, paving the way for a litany of creditors, including two former Georgia election workers who won a $148 million defamation claim against him, to pursue and potentially seize his assets.

New York judge throws out Rudy Giuliani’s bankruptcy casewapo.st The decision paves the way for two former Georgia election workers who won a defamation claim against him to pursue and potentially seize his assets.

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Trump seeing this headline and furiously Googling 'dinner' over and over again to try to make Project 2025 drop in the search rankings

At this point, more people are searching for information about Project 2025 than are searching "dinner." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | ‘Project 2025’ gets traction — thanks in part to Trumpwww.washingtonpost.com The former president’s denial of the outside policy effort helped bring new eyeballs to the issue.

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It is so tiring that one of the parties has to try and navigate the difficult work of trying to govern based on objective reality and asking experts what will happen under various scenarios and the other party's entire platform is random 4chan threads stapled together

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"What the report finds is that Biden held on to 94% of the people who said they would support him before the debate. For Trump, 86% of people who said they would support him before the debate said they would do so after the debate." news.northeastern.edu/2024/07/09/b...

Biden's poor debate performance had almost no impact on voter preference, new report saysnews.northeastern.edu A new report shows that despite Biden’s debate performance – poor as it may have been – voter preferences haven't been impacted.

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“We will hold investigations to identify the neo-cultural Marxists in seats of power all across Washington,” Posobiec said. “We don’t negotiate with un-humans. Because that’s the stakes of this battle: humanity versus un-humanity.” inthesetimes.com/article/nati...

Onward, Christian Soldiers—To War!inthesetimes.com At this year’s National Conservatism Conference, a right-wing army prepares to rise.

Let's talk more about this, shall we?

There’s a presidential candidate who organized a coup on live TV and was recently convicted of dozens of felonies for something entirely separate, and the political system is demanding his opponent step down.

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An interesting question is why journalists don't see Donald Trump's command of the issues as relevant to the question of which candidate's mental acuity should be centered in media coverage of the campaign.

Whatever the verbal flubs, Biden’s command of the issues is sharp here. www.nytimes.com/live/2024/07...

Update from Michael Crowleywww.nytimes.com

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This press conference is just going to confirm everyone’s priors. Biden’s made a few bad flubs but he’s showing a good command of the facts. I’d like to see Trump have to field foreign policy questions like this.