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Managing editor at The American Prospect, cohost and producer of the Left Anchor podcast https://www.patreon.com/leftanchor

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There is a 7 foot tall guy behind Rishi Sunak who likely ran for office just to be able to hold a printed out L behind him during his concession speech.

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I have no idea the best path re Biden but I do know a solid week straight of “Biden Old” and “Rich Dems Worried” above-the-fold stories are *obscene* in the face of SCOTUS using the Constitution to wipe their asses purely in the service of reinstating a felon rapist as president. Crazy-making shit.

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Wow, real banana republic stuff. I'm glad our presidents can launder money and associate criminally without worrying about this kind of thing.

Reports: Brazil police have indicted Jair Bolsonaro for money laundering and criminal association

the hobbyist fireworks are really out of control. stuck on an essay and went for a walk around the block and man, sounded like a damn artillery cannonade

"I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that our electoral system is destroying our society." www.interfluidity.com/v2/7687.html

interfluidity » Weakness is provocativewww.interfluidity.com

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This fucking guy voted in the last two elections voteref.com/voters/MI/vi...

Voter Referencevoteref.com VoteRef.com is dedicated to ensuring transparent, accurate and fair elections in the United States of America.

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Had dinner with an attorney friend of mine last night who told me that when the immunity decision was announced, he threw his constitutional law book in the trash. After reading this brilliant indictment of the Trump/Roberts court by @ryanlcooper.com, I understand why prospect.org/justice/2024...

The Supreme Court Has Murdered the Constitutionprospect.org America’s founding document is now an all-but-meaningless scrap of paper. Happy Fourth!

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I think this is exactly right, Trump has retained verbal fluency and that makes him SEEM less elderly even though he’s spouting gibberish

have said this before but trump’s brain is pretty obviously far more cooked than biden’s if you listen to what they actually say. but the presentation - basically trump being a spaz - makes trump *look and sound* less cooked to many people i think

fascinating www.nippon.com/en/japan-top...

Okuda Hiroko: The Casio Employee Behind the “Sleng Teng” Riddim that Revolutionized Reggaewww.nippon.com The “Sleng Teng” riddim revolutionized reggae music in the mid-1980s, and has spawned hundreds of versions in the decades since then. Less well known is the story of how the distinctive bassline origi...

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there's a certain irony that liberals who have spent four years yelling at leftists who criticize Biden at all for any reason have now, in one week, done more damage to Biden's candidacy than all those leftists combined

I think the freakout has been absurd and overblown and far more damaging than the debate itself, which would have been survivable if everyone had been willing to circle the wagons and push back on it I am, from a purely pragmatic standpoint, extremely concerned that the damage cannot be overcome

"I spent a lot of money in that CVS, often multiple times a week, week after week, for years. If I wasn’t their very best customer on the consumer good side, I would like to meet my competition. And they drove me away, while providing me no mechanism to tell them why." itself.blog/2024/06/15/w...

What is the economy even for?itself.blog In my household, I am in charge of keeping us stocked with cleaning products and shared toiletries. For many years, this has been remarkably easy, because there is a CVS Pharmacy two blocks from our h...

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Myths around heat pumps are widespread. Not because they are true but because they are deliberately spread by bad faith actors. Thanks to the Economist for this article and for quoting my @carbonbrief.org heat pump myth buster. www.economist.com/europe/2024/...

The EU should be the world’s heat-pump pioneerwww.economist.com But the union is falling behind in its efforts

as Texas "women whose access to abortion was drastically curtailed by SB8 began to give birth in 2022, those infants were dying at much higher rates compared both to the period before the law took effect and to other states that didn’t have near-bans." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Abortion bans are also terrible for babieswww.motherjones.com A huge increase in infant deaths under Texas’s SB8 is the best evidence yet of how cruel such laws are.

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putting aside the whole debate about the ticket, my grandmother had dementia. he doesn’t have dementia

I don’t work with specifically geriatric populations and I don’t specifically have dementia expertise, though I work with a bunch of older people I don’t see evidence for dementia. I just don’t.

one of the most out-of-nowhere moving experiences in a game I've had was at the end of Wolfenstein: The New Order where (spoiler) Blaskowitz recites The New Colossus. encapsulates the best about this country

just watched 74 people speaking at least a dozen different languages become american citizens in a ceremony at monticello, where the speakers were themselves children of immigrants. inspiring stuff and a vivid illustration of what reactionaries want to snuff out

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Happy Fourth! As a public service, @ryanlcooper will help you update your Constitution by showing you all of the various sections that the Supreme Court has rendered inoperative.

The Supreme Court Has Murdered the Constitutionprospect.org America’s founding document is now an all-but-meaningless scrap of paper. Happy Fourth!

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Ha this is great! I was making a list yesterday too of parts of the Constitution the Roberts Taney II Court had rewritten. @ryanlcooper.com and I on the same wavelength. Happy Fourth! Go, fight, let’s win in Nov.

Happy Fourth! As a public service, @ryanlcooper will help you update your Constitution by showing you all of the various sections that the Supreme Court has rendered inoperative.

The Supreme Court Has Murdered the Constitutionprospect.org America’s founding document is now an all-but-meaningless scrap of paper. Happy Fourth!

"Roberts may as well have dug up James Madison’s corpse and micturated directly into the eye sockets." prospect.org/justice/2024...

The Supreme Court Has Murdered the Constitutionprospect.org America’s founding document is now an all-but-meaningless scrap of paper. Happy Fourth!

that's right

The post l-pride books for the Red Shelf - let’s get serious after all that fun gay smut

fresh @leftanchor.bsky.social episode, we are talking Supreme Court anointing the president as king, Biden discourse, and French elections: www.patreon.com/posts/107431...

When the President Does It, That Means It Is Not Illegal - 317 | Left Anchorwww.patreon.com Get more from Left Anchor on Patreon

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

"Notice, by the way, how the Republicans claim Joe Biden is a tyrant and a dictator, yet they explicitly grant him dictatorial powers, confident that he will not use them!" itself.blog/2024/07/02/w...

What do they think is going to happen?itself.blog A few years ago, I was part of an event commemorating Milton Friedman's Capitalism and Freedom. Obviously, I was brought in to represent the "against" position (and you can read a version of my keynot...

"On Monday, John Roberts did far more damage to America's instituions than Donald Trump did on January 6." drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/07/03/n...

No longer a liberal democracydrafts.interfluidity.com drafts @ interfluidity

hang on, I tried this out and got 3,993 hits. obviously that's still a huge bias but they did cover it

I think it’s telling that if you search “Trump AND rape” on the New York Times website you don’t get a single article mentioning the E. Jean Carroll case but if you search “Biden AND old” you get 18,026 hits.

"Lawsuits are slow, they are complicated, they are often decided on arbitrary technicalities or total nonsense, and being so costly they are hideously biased toward the rich and well-connected." prospect.org/justice/amer...

American Government-by-Lawsuit Is a Disasterprospect.org Judicial review is not just anti-democratic, it strangles ordinary governance.

"viewing Trump as something like a fascist leader foresaw the violence of January 6th as a live possibility, while its critics mocked the notion as mere hysteria. Whatever its shortcomings, “Trump as fascist” remains the best guide to what Trump will try to do next"

What's In a Wordwww.unpopularfront.news A Canned Post

"Essentially, the Court in Trump v. United States is declaring the Constitution itself unconstitutional." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Something Has Gone Deeply Wrong at the Supreme Courtwww.theatlantic.com Jurists who preach fidelity to the Constitution are making decisions that flatly contradict our founding document’s text and ideals.

grinning ear to ear www.politico.eu/article/uk-e...

UK election: Tories set to suffer total annihilation, final mega polls predictwww.politico.eu Keir Starmer’s Labour will romp to victory, according to pollster YouGov.

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Mississippi news from Tuesday, not 1966: 1) Conservative white officials threatening journalists who exposed massive corruption www.nbcnews.com/investigatio... 2) A federal court overturned conservatives' legislative gerrymanders for discriminating against Black voters www.wlbt.com/2024/07/03/f...

intimidating and punishing journalists who expose flagrant state corruption, another classic Jim Crow mechanism

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I found this while reading about powers today and it kinda seems like people knew, but they all didn't care. this is a friend of hers, 5 years ago going "um, i think she might be really bad" thewhitepube.co.uk/texts/2019/o...

On trauma, paranoia, and fascism (and on Nina Power)thewhitepube.co.uk text by Linda Stupart on trauma, paranoia, and fascism (and on Nina Power)