Robert Rosenthal

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I've been knocking on doors for Biden, and signed up for the Democratic Voter Protection program, which are a whole lot more effective than trading in self-indulgent fantasies about a change in the ticket.

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Overturning Chevron is going to usher in an era where self-taught judicial expertise in technical areas such as chemistry, statistics, mechanical engineering, biology, geomorphology, epidemiology, mathematics, and many other fields will once more be able to shine forth as it did in the Middle Ages.

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You know what's crazy is you could easily write a historically compelling op-ed about how Trump should end his campaign because he's a convicted criminal who tried to overthrow the government and is only on the ballot/out of prison because of extremely corrupt judges he personally appointed

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People are - rightly - worried about the possibility of an RN government in France. But what about a government made up of the new « Nouveau Front Populaire », the new left electoral grouping? What does NFP say about French foreign and security policy ? Short thread.

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the world is made better by a lot of people doing the work to do little steps in the right direction, not by one person shouldering the entire weight of the world in one giant push. But folks fantasize about the latter because it lets them be the main character, and hate the former which denies it.

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"The murder rate fell by 26.4%, reported rapes decreased by 25.7%, robberies fell by 17.8%, aggravated assault fell by 12.5%, and the overall violent crime rate went down by 15.2%, the statistics show." The Trump admin murder surge is over. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

New FBI stats show 'historic' declines in violent crime rate, with murder showing sharpest dropwww.nbcnews.com While Philadelphia's police chief is "excited" about what he's seeing in the numbers, he "is also very cautious that we don’t overstate and overestimate the direction we’re going."

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"We took a very hard look at the Democratic-appointed justices, and we simply haven’t found anything close to similar to what we found when it came to Justice Thomas and Justice Alito," says ProPublica's @justinelliott.bsky.social. www.democracynow.org/2024/6/13/pr...

ProPublica Reporter Defends Work After Samuel Alito Accuses Outlet of Politically Motivated Coveragewww.democracynow.org Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, caught on a secret recording, recently attacked ProPublica for its reporting on Supreme Court ethics. The nonprofit investigative news outlet has spearheaded covera...

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Wait, WHAT? This is a thing they could do? Fucking do it

Apparently my great grandfather is a minor character in the Kafka TV series, so now I'm figuring out how to watch it in the U.S.

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OK, I’m going to rate the “Clarence Thomas attacks Brown v. Board of Education” as misleading and inaccurate. (Also, even under the most aggressive interpretation, he was attacking Brown II, not Brown I).

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Last time Edwin Diaz blew a lead of 2+ runs in the 9th: July 17, 2021 in Pittsburgh That was 50 saves ago

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Four years ago was awesome. The unemployment rate was 14.7%. The CDC released an app called “PPE Burn Rate Calculator” because healthcare facilities were all in a shortage. US cumulative deaths were just shy of 100,000. I could check local ventilator & ICU bed usage online (both full).

I understand (even if I don’t agree personally) with the widely cross-partisan impulse to want to forget the 2020 COVID / zombie-apocalypse-vibe period ever happened, but that doesn’t stop me from getting physically furious whenever I see the “better off now than you were four years ago” poll Q

Another fantastic start by Ranger. And the offense, after two days off, seems refreshed

Great performance by Ranger! And capping off the complete game shutout with his usual casual approach to tossing the comebacker over to first!

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The lower 48 states just had the warmest winter in 130 years of record-keeping, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Temperatures were more than 5 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than average.

U.S. has warmest winter on record – and no, that's not a good thingwww.npr.org From lack of snow to wildfires, a record-warm winter had impacts across the country. Scientists say winters are warming faster than any other season in the U.S.

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Tonight in 1978, the first episode of Douglas Adams’s wildly original radio series “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” was first broadcast on BBC 4 in the United Kingdom. (The first US broadcast was on June 7, 1981, on the @npr.org series Playhouse, where I heard it on Santa Monica station KCRW).

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we are currently at x = -247 days until the election, deep breaths

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Nikki Haley just got the same percentage of votes in SC as Pat Buchanan got in NH in 1992. NYTimes says….

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I never understood survivorship bias and I turned out okay.

I think these two have the right approach to this week

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Yeah, he had apparently worked in the state dept during 5 admins. Most recently for Obama.

Ranger Suarez has a career high 10 strikeouts and has given up...well, you might want to tune in

And it's Marsh with the bases clearing double to bail out Nola!

Nice turn of the double play by Stott to end the inning!

3-run Schwarbomb!

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Let me see if I can summarize a few threads here 1) Elon interfered with Starlink service in Ukr to limit Ukr military ops; 2) Ukr govt relied on Starlink for internet access after the invasion 3) Ukr mil came to use Starlink bc satellite internet allowed for something like precision navigation +

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