Sarah Posner

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MSNBC columnist. TPM contributor. Moment columnist.

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Everywhere there are women (i.e., everywhere) that Project 25 wants the federal government to promote the rhythm method

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Fanfic. The only option is Harris. Period. She is Biden's running mate. People voted for her. There is no -- NO -- way to ask her to step aside that is not insulting. None. The article says that people would be "captivated." Wrong; this would guarantee a million Dems In Disarray stories.

Hey you guys wanna see the dumbest plan to replace Biden possible? www.semafor.com/article/07/0...

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This was literally an RNC talking point last weekend

Political reporting, 2024

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I'm sorry, folks. As a political historian, I can soundly say that this is NOT A GOOD IDEA. Come. On. A "blitz primary?" Because popularity contests done slapdash in public view always end well??

Dumbest fuckin’ idea I’ve ever heard. “The proposal is work of Rosa Brooks, a Georgetown law professor who served in Obama and Clinton administrations and as a volunteer policy adviser to the Biden campaign in 2020, and Ted Dintersmith, a venture capitalist…” www.semafor.com/article/07/0...

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What is the appropriate way to descend a staircase with one's spouse?

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to whomever composed the memo in question: these are cocaine things to think and cocaine things to say

what the fuck is this sorkin-brain shit?

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Any Biden replacement plan besides "the president chooses to drop out of the race and the party quickly transitions to Vice President Harris" is absurd, with many variables that all have to go right. Biden-to-Harris would have risks too, but it's plausible. Elaborate pundit fantasies aren't helping.

Hey you guys wanna see the dumbest plan to replace Biden possible? www.semafor.com/article/07/0...

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Biden is not owed good press by a long shot. But the amount of coverage his age is receiving relative to that of Trump's very real past and promised future actions strikes me as one of the greatest media mis-prioritizations since the run-up to the Iraq War.

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Trump said “I know nothing about Project 2025. I have no idea who is behind it.” But Project 2025 is run by Trump's closest aides, raising concerns about cognitive fitness for a candidate who seems unable to recall those around him. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/troubling-...

Troubling Signs of Cognitive Decline as Trump Struggles to Recognize Closest Aidesdonmoynihan.substack.com "I know nothing about Project 2025" statement triggers new concerns about his fitness to serve

Every. Single. Fucking. Word. Of. This. Rebecca. Solnit. Piece.

Why is the pundit class so desperate to push Biden out of the race? - Rebecca Solnit www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Why is the pundit class so desparate to push Biden out of the race? | Rebecca Solnitwww.theguardian.com Yes, Biden had a bad debate – but so did Trump. The media is once again repeating the mistakes of 2016

Yes. Voters actually face a simple decision to keep the proponents of a “biblical values” dystopia out of power.

I like to panic as much as any Democrat, but my general view still holds: SCOTUS gave Dems a tailwind with Dobbs. We haven't even started the wall-to-wall attack ads of Trump bragging about ending Roe v. Wade. When that happens in September and October, there will be a big movement away from Trump.

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I have long been pretty negative on the function and practice of mainstream news orgs (and their political arms specifically) but this past week has stunned even me in terms of the gleeful cruelty & sheer dismissal of the stakes at hand for our democracy

Read this whole piece. The idea that the press is chomping at the bit to portray Biden in decline and Trump ascendant is morally bankrupt and dangerous

In the exact same nine day period that Biden and his White House and campaign have been flailing, Trump has offered voters a window into his own mental state and vision for term 2 It’s not great! www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

QAnon Memes, F-Bombs, and Tribunals: As Biden Faltered, Trump Amped Up the Crazywww.rollingstone.com Trump quietly had his own week from hell while the media was hounding Biden

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if stealing classified docs and lying about it while no longer in office is an "official act", we are well and truly cooked

NEW: Judge Cannon pauses some deadlines in the classified-docs case to allow for further briefing on effects of SCOTUS immunity ruling

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"RETRUTH IF YOU WANT TELEVISED MILITARY TRIBUNALS" is, to me, a deranged and instantly disqualifying thing for a presidential candidate to say, but on the other hand joe biden looks and sounds very old

QAnon Memes, F-Bombs, and Tribunals: As Biden Faltered, Trump Amped Up the Crazywww.rollingstone.com Trump quietly had his own week from hell while the media was hounding Biden

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If the (highly legitimate)question is “do we want a president with a functional brain” then let’s have that debate. we might want to apply scrutiny to both candidate equally, and not grade one in particular on a MASSIVE curve

I mean, I know this is useless to say almost but if Biden were retweeting right now a meme grown out of a violent conspiracy theory movement that says Republicans and Hollywood are running a satanic pedophile cult, he’d be immediately forced out but it’s Trump so media & politicos are all 🤷‍♂️

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She’s fine. She’s a trooper

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The discourse around biden needing more sleep is fully insane. Does no one remember "Executive Time," the thing Trump spent the majority(!) of his schedule on where he would just watch TV and tweet? Dude was categorically unable to fulfill any of the demands of the office and the press barely cared

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Trump: I don't know anything about Project 2025 Here is a list of all the Trump officials who authored the Project 2025 blueprint, Mandate for Leadership. 25 of 36 were part of the Trump administration. project2025istheocracy.substack.com/p/project-20...

I would like to reply to your replies but I just took my dog for a walk and now I’m melting

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That’s why Dem insiders who are trying to reach Biden by giving blind quotes to reporters are helping to create the very disarray the press is angling for. I don’t know what the right course is here but litigating your case in the maw of political press is very dumb

Yes. Anyone who thinks that the media won't immediately start in on "voters have a lot of questions" or "voters expressed doubts about" or "and yet Harris comes with her own baggage" should Biden withdraw does not understand how the cycle of political reporting about Dems works.

Giving into the blood that they are screaming for now will not stop them, it will only reinforce their narrative & encourage them to go deeper. They will immediately turn on Harris and implicate her in a “coverup” of Biden’s health, wholly of their own design.

Trump is a convicted criminal and is under indictment and is an open and notorious opponent of our democracy and yet "questions linger over [fill in the blank some superficial thing]" will be the instant "analysis" of a Biden replacement.

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If you haven’t read this thread by @volts.wtf over on Twitter, please do. I work in media studies. I spend a lot of time thinking about politics & media in particular. David is 100% right that its a fools game to try & chase the approval of our news media institutions as a Dem. x.com/drvolts/stat...

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It’s the thing that drives me most insane about reporters

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one of the most dishonest things people in my profession do is pretend as if “the story” and “the narrative” isn’t something they have direct control over

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This is how you do it newrepublic.com/post/183493/...

Trump Tries, Fails to Distance Himself From Project 2025newrepublic.com It’s still his blueprint for governing, no matter what he says.