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Russia will begin domestic production of ersatz spare parts for Boeing and Airbus aircraft, a step that violates international rules and could pose a safety risk.

Fake parts for Russia’s stolen airlinerswww.politico.eu Western sanctions are blocking Russia’s access to key spare parts, so it’s making its own.

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Shot/Chaser

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On Saturday a wholesome afternoon of fantasizing about concentration camps and plotting to overturn the coming election was disrupted by violence

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Two months ago Greg Abbott pardoned a murderer who texted a friend "I might go to Dallas to shoot looters" then drove into a BLM protest in Austin and killed a protester. The universal response from conservatives to the pardon was "Yeah! Woo-hoo!" Now they say liberals should turn down the rhetoric

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This is NYT’s portrait of a Trump rally, where the explicit agenda was putting millions of people in concentration camps before deporting them.

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If you don't want political violence and intimidation to be normalized, you should avoid encouraging it, or supporting political movements that encourage it.

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I feel so bad for people in Houston, man

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A few hours after posting on Facebook that “the left” was responsible for the assassination attempt (without any evidence for the claim), the OR GOP then issued a statement calling “on the media to stop feeding the contentious us-against-them culture amongst Americans.”

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Political violence always benefits authoritarians because liberals will always condemn it and authoritarians, regardless of whether they are perpetrators or victims, will always use it to claim more power.

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It's time to cover Trump's serial lying as a sign of his profound temperamental unfitness for the presidency. Central to this is explaining *why* Trump's lies render him unfit. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1837...

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Just a reminder: it’s good to oppose assassinations. But you are under absolutely no obligation to treat Trumpists and Trump-apologists as people who are honest, or acting in good faith, when they purport to condemn political violence or violent rhetoric. They’re not sincere.

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In 2022 a far-right conspiracy theorist violently attacked Democratic Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi's husband, Paul Pelosi, with a hammer, fracturing his skull. Two days later, Donald Trump Jr. posted a sick joke about the attack on social media. www.yahoo.com/news/donald-...

Donald Trump Jr condemned for ‘sick and dangerous’ post mocking Paul Pelosi’s hammer attackwww.yahoo.com The former president’s son was widely celebrated by his alt-right fans and quickly panned by his critics

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As a staunch opponent of political violence, I greatly prefer when national leaders respond to it by condemning violence and expressing concern for victims (image 1) rather than encouraging violence and laughing at victims (image 2).

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The mass deportation scheme is probably the most immediately scary part of Trump 2025. It’s not just the just the forcible deportation of millions of people and accompanying family disruption That’s bad enough. Nor is the let’s-see-what-pulling-this-lever-does-hurr economic recklessness./1

Full quote from ex-ICE director Tom Homan: "Trump comes back in January... I will run the biggest deportation force this country has ever seen. They ain’t seen shit yet. Wait until 2025.” Tonight in Florida Trump pledged to bring Homan back. Homan, BTW, is a listed Project 2025 contributor.

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Trump Reportedly Using Fyre Festival Scammer To Connect Him To Rapperswww.blackenterprise.com The Trump campaign is allegedly using Billy McFarland of the Fyre Festival to connect them to Black celebrities as they recruit Black voters.

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The Party of Limited Government

Project 2025, page 455-456: a national abortion database that includes detailed medical information, including the person's state of residence to assist with criminal prosecution

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Ah! Well, nevertheless,,

The average temperature of the world's oceans (minus the polar regions) is finally *not* the highest it has ever been, after about 17 straight months up there

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France’s far right leader Marine Le Pen compared the left-wing New Popular Front alliance to rioters who stormed the US Capitol in Washington in 2021.

Le Pen accuses French left of plotting Capitol-style insurrectionwww.politico.eu A prominent figure from the left called for a ‘march’ on the prime minister’s office.

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More on that “peace” agenda. Medvedev: “Even if Ukraine surrenders the territories we claim and renounces NATO aspirations in exchange for a peace deal, sooner or later we would still have to put the nail into the coffin of Ukrainian statehood and return the rest of the country’s lands to Russia”.

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"There is apparently no need for hoods anymore. That’s what’s changed." @kkdumez.bsky.social's newsletter has been an essential guide to what's going on with the Christian right's embrace of Christian nationalism.

Dropping the maskkristindumez.substack.com Don't be taken by surprise. All the signs are there.

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Tired: Project 2025 wants to bring back the Sabbath. Wired: Project 2025 will ban Sunday sportsball games and forget about getting beer.

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A member of Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s protective detail shot an armed 18-year-old on July 5 when he attempted to carjack the US marshals, who were sitting in an unmarked car near Sotomayor's home. The injuries were not life-threatening.

Member of Justice Sotomayor’s security detail shoots armed carjacker near her homewww.politico.com A U.S. marshal shot the suspect in the mouth early on July 5, according to a criminal complaint.

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Project 2025, page 592: make it harder for employees to be paid at overtime rates by allowing employers to average the number of hours worked over 2-4 weeks

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As @joshtpm.bsky.social often says, the GOP is a failed state and Trump is its warlord. He has about the same relationship to a leader of a healthy party as a dominant warlord has to a conventional head of government.

The devolution of the party platform accelerates notably with the GOP product for 2024, a combo of pure MAGA id and campaign talking points. nymag.com/intelligence...

Republicans Replace Party Platform With MAGA Screednymag.com The RNC adopted a 16-page collection of Trump campaign talking points, with heavy and eccentric capitalization, as its 2024 platform.

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Also that would still be a lot of Jews murdered! Cmon!

TPUSA ambassador and speaker Evan Kilgore has now taken the “brave” stand of denying the Holocaust.

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TPUSA ambassador and speaker Evan Kilgore has now taken the “brave” stand of denying the Holocaust.

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A Moscow court has issued an arrest warrant for Yulia Navalnaya on charges of participating in an “extremist association,” presumably referring to her work with her late husband’s Anti-Corruption Foundation.

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Trump avoids policy, meaning it all comes down to personnel. And his personnel is who is driving Project 2025. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | The impossibility of separating Trump from Project 2025www.washingtonpost.com The Heritage Foundation’s playbook isn’t the campaign’s. But Trump’s relegation of policy to staff makes the document an important preview of a second term.

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I can't tell you how often it's the case that when I look for historical antecedents to some weird sounding phrase in an official document from the Trumpist GOP, that search almost always leads me to obscure fascists from the American past like Gerald Smith, Conde McGinley, or Pete Peters.

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The official 2024 GOP platform makes a reference to "Christian-hating Communists" who the Republicans will keep from entering the country. Back in the early days of the America First movement, "Christian-hating Communists" would have just been a longer way of saying "Jews."