Robyn Swirling

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Abortion, abolition, those sorts of things.

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Gabe is not enjoying the booms at all

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this is perhaps the funniest possible “Dems are already doing something like this” www.billboard.com/music/rb-hip...

kamala takes the stage as the presumptive nominee to the organ riff from “not like us.” the crowd goes wild when she says “our opponent, the certified lover boy? certified pedophile”

Vice President Kamala Harris Drops Kendrick Lamar ‘Not Like Us’ Reference During 2024 BET Awards: ‘They Not Like Us’www.billboard.com Kamala Harris dropped a reference to Kendrick Lamar's Drake diss track 'Not Like Us' during Sunday night's (June 30) 2024 BET Awards.

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This story is in Hebrew, but still worth your time. Haaretz with a multimedia story on how settlers and settler groups are trying to use Israel's war in Gaza to rebuild Jewish settlments in the strip. www.haaretz.co.il/news/securit...

הצבא כבש רבע מרצועת עזה, הימין נערך להתנחל. כך זה נראהwww.haaretz.co.il תשעה חודשים למלחמה, הצבא השתלט על 26% מרצועת עזה, סלל כבישים והקים בסיסים. הימין הדתי כבר רץ אל המטרה – ייהוד הרצועה

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A few months before he was reelected overwhelmingly, it was widely reported that Ronald Reagan napped during cabinet meetings.

President Biden told a gathering of Democratic governors that he needed to sleep more and to work less at night, but said he was staying in the race.

Biden Tells Governors He Needs More Sleep and Less Work at Nightwww.nytimes.com The president’s opening remark to a group of key Democratic leaders — that he was in the race to stay — chilled any talk of his withdrawal, participants said.

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Don Moynihan

Lmao they just changed the title of the piece from “Why I don’t vote” to “Why I won’t vote” rather than tell readers that the guy actually does vote

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Mad relatable tbh

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An under-noticed aspect of Project 2025: criminalizing porn. www.tiktok.com/t/ZPREC29gH/

TikTok - Make Your Daywww.tiktok.com

Great news, I also woke up at 4:45am

I did not pack the melatonin that I take nearly every night for this vacation because “oh, I’ll be relaxed, I won’t need it” and now it is 12:38am and I was clearly incorrect

This is just being English tbh

boy Nigel Farage drinks *a lot* www.ft.com/content/864c...

Lunch with the FT: Nigel Faragewww.ft.com ‘I am what I am,’ says the Ukip leader over six pints, a bottle of wine and two glasses of port

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OK Bluesky comrades, who can afford to donate at least $5 a month to @psabortionfund.bsky.social? They are an all-volunteer led abortion fund based in South Carolina. They do such good work. Will you join me as monthly subscribers? donorbox.org/support-the-... - they need a min of $10,000 a month.

Donate to Palmetto State Abortion Fund | Palmetto State Abortion Fund (Powered by Donorbox)donorbox.org Right now, abortion is only legal in South Carolina through 6 weeks of pregnancy, before most people even know they are pregnant.How Much Does an Abortion Cost?A medication abortion in South Carolina ...

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the thing is, they don't care. they know he's a sleazebag who cheats on his postpartum wife. they heard him brag about walking into a dressing room full of underage girls. they know he's done sexual assaults. they admire him for it. they wish they could get away with it too and hope he'll let them.

I'll see your 14 words and raise you 14 numbers

Jeffrey Epstein had 14 phone numbers connected to Trump in his contactswww.businessinsider.com Jeffrey Epstein, who was charged with sex trafficking, included 14 phone numbers connected to Donald Trump in his "black book" of contacts.

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I would like to once again remind everyone that the DNC is a bureaucratic services organization and keeper of the rules for nominating processes, not a shadowy back room strategy organization. They don’t decide who’s running or what the message is.

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Transit funding = antifascist praxis

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tonight is the 100th yahrzeit of yaakov yisrael de haan, the queer haredi poet and political activist who was murdered in jerusalem by the haganah (the proto-idf) for his active opposition to the establishment of a jewish ethnostate in palestine. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_I...

Jacob Israël de Haan - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

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constitutional lawyers use your fucking brain challenge www.politico.com/news/2024/07...

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the conservative theory of law in one headline

My plan is Colombia

Americans, looking to move abroad: “so where can I live that isn’t fascist, won’t wilt under climate change, and has a Whole Foods?”

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Steve Bannon is in prison for contempt and Rudy Giuliani just lost his N.Y. law license, but John Roberts insists that invisible ink in the Constitution prevents Donald Trump, the ringleader, from facing charges for virtually anything that Trump can claim was an official act.

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what crimes would you do if you were Joe Biden this morning I think I would hold up a bank while wearing a Joe Biden mask and then remove it to reveal it is also Joe Biden under the mask

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new from me: the opinion in Trump v. United States is a John Roberts special, creating an immunity test meant to give the veneer of wide applicability beyond Trump while clearly skewed towards a single predetermined outcome

Opinion | The Supreme Court wrote an immunity test Trump can't help but passwww.msnbc.com Chief Justice John Roberts' opinion in Trump v. United States will eventually gut any chance that the former president's actions lack immunity.

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someone on Twitter pointed out that the NYT to Biden at this point is exactly Piers morgan to meghan markle- a pompous legacy media figure that has reacted to being rejected by someone they were sure would want them like a deranged stalker bent on revenge at any cost

A tale of two newspapers, and two very different decisions.

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Andrea Grimes

the answer to "why isn't there a march for this, there should be a march for this" is "what's stopping you from organizing a march for this"

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The last time people went to go protest a Supreme Court decision there was an immediate, bipartsan effort to use tax player dollars to put snipers on Samuel Alito's roof while our favorite pundits went "Brett Kavanaugh has a family :( :(. His daughter must be so scared :( :("

[redacted for professional reasons screaming]

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It's important to note that Trump tried to order this at least twice we know of during his regime.

right. the president could order troops to suppress protesters using live fire and the supreme court would extend that absolute immunity

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Another thing you can do is call Dick Durbin's office and demand he stand up for democracy and haul Alito and Thomas before the Senate Judiciary Committee. And publicly demand their resignations. If you can't literally impeach them, AT LEAST use the bully pulpit. 202-224-2152.

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roberts’ reasoning is fundamentally (lower-case “r”) anti-republican. i know we dunk on the framers here but roberts has issued a rebuke of the revolutionary assumption that concentrated, unaccountable power is a fundamental threat to liberty.

It's just hilariously disingenuous. Imagine looking at, say, ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY and concluding that the biggest threat to liberty isn't abuse of power, but powerful people refraining from sufficiently wielding their authority out of fear that they might one day be held accountable.

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T̶h̶e̶ a̶r̶i̶s̶t̶o̶c̶r̶a̶t̶s̶!̶ Originalism!