Chuck Taggart, Private Eye

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I enjoy cocktails, French fries, and science fiction. 🏳️‍🌈 He/him. Trekkie. Former KCRW & KCSN radio host/DJ, from New Orleans. http://mixcloud.com/safeathome

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This thread from Matthew Chapman at the Bad Place is a good analysis of why the DC press corps are turning on Biden. x.com/fawfulfan/st...

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Prison rape jokes are a part of rape culture. Making “don’t drop the soap” and “become someone’s bitch” jokes means you think rape is okay if it happens to certain people.

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IT’S A COOKBOOK

Now, get rid of your transphobia, Labour.

Congratulations to the Labour Party, which will now have a 5 year run with a strong majority in Commons. As a practical matter, Labour can enact its entire platform without meaningful opportunity for opposition to derail anything.

Condolences to Tarquin Fin-tim-lin-bin-whin-bim-lim-bus-stop-F'tang-F'tang-Olé-Biscuitbarrel.

Sad evening for the Tory candidates Nigel Incubator-Jones and Vivian Smith-Smythe-Smith

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USians, the 4th of July is a great time for us to call our electeds and leave voicemail asking them to support AOC in calling for impeachment of the 6 right-wing SCOTUS justices.

You could also call up your US rep and demand they join AOC in this move for impeachment. Can't pass the R House, but they HAVE to use their bully pulpit and rally the public. www.nydailynews.com/2024/07/01/a...

AOC calls for impeachment of ‘corrupt’ Supreme Court after Trump immunity rulingwww.nydailynews.com Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Monday said she would push to impeach what she called “corrupt” Supreme Court justices after they granted substantial immunity to former President Trump. T…

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co-sign but i will add: i don't know the best path but i do know the worst path, and that's replacing him with anyone other than kamala, via any process whatsoever.

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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actually a pretty decent endorsement of how bad he's been for the billionaire class that they are trying to end the constitution to bd rid of him

It really is amazing how much visibly this is an elite revolt against Biden. Major donors! East coast pundits! The Disney heiress! The only protestors we can find are in the Hamptons!

If you will permit me some UK parlance… every person in the Clacton constituency who voted for Farage is a cunt.

Nigel Farage elected as Clacton MP, winning a seat on eighth attempt

Nigel Farage elected as Clacton MP, winning a seat on eighth attemptwww.theguardian.com Reform UK leader beats Conservative Giles Watling, who had represented Essex constituency since 2017

Dear The Economist: Franklin Delano Roosevelt was in a wheelchair, you stupid motherfuckers.

IMO this is a straight-up ageist and ableist image, no?

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incidentally I am an emergency physician and I use a walker

IMO this is a straight-up ageist and ableist image, no?

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he's a horrible person and a transphobe, surprised they don't like him

Big victory for Labour — so big that the NYT just gave Sir Keir his own version of ‘Joe Biden Is Old’

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Tories reminding the world that without strategic racist demagoguery, right-wing parties are just everything people actually hate about government.

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Remember how the "retail theft crime wave" disappeared as soon as companies had to do their annual reports? That's because it's illegal to lie to shareholders. AI is booming (if you're a pleb) but if you have money - Goldman Sachs will be honest with you instead web.archive.org/web/20240629...

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There's a Small Problem With the AI Industry: It's Making Absolutely No Moneyfuturism.com AI is not making money for investors which may be connected to businesses having trouble adopting the technology.

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Reskeet with a tweet you still think about

reskeet with a tweet you still think about

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Imagine if the NYT defended trans people instead of attacking them. Imagine if the NYT refused to platform bigots and insurrectionists. Imagine if the NYT actually covered local New York City politics and news. Imagine if the NYT had a public editor.

Imagine for one second if the NYT marshaled its massive influence towards voter registration, towards supporting voting rights groups, towards encouraging people to vote and fighting people who try to stop people from voting. Imagine if the NYT actually championed participatory democracy.

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Reskeet with a tweet you still think about

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Joe Biden has to hurry up and commit fraud, rape, espionage, and insurrection quickly so The New York Times will think he's fit to stay in the race.

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“Charles in Charge”

tomorrow we get my favorite constitutional oddity which is that there's a ~ 1 hour period in which all UK executive authority formally vests in the King

Your honor, with all due respect, it’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine.

Your Honor, with all due respect: this is NOT my beautiful house. This is NOT my beautiful wife.

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Listen to the Biden interview. Its 15ish minutes of Biden talking extemporaneously perfectly well. But like several other public events over the last several days, this is getting brushed aside because the narrative that political news media wants to go with is set. civicmedia.us/shows/specia...

EXCLUSIVE: Interview w/ President Joe Biden (Hour 1)civicmedia.us <p>Earl debuts his exclusive interview with President Joe Biden on a special Independence Day broadcast. He asks the President about the importance of the black community, the economic accomplishments...

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉

This is the case in California. You only have to show your ID if you’re driving and get pulled over, or are being lawfully detained or arrested.

in a lot of states you don't have to show cops your ID unless you are driving. So if you are wearing a covid facemask and they want to check your ID you tell them no thank you, and wish them a good day. If they stop you then you say no thank you, and shutup.

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Happy fourth

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I think Biden’s advisers are telling him not to get too personal in attacking Trump. That’s my impression anyway. If that’s correct, I think he’s making a serious mistake. He needs to make this election so personal that every single goddamned voter understands the stakes.

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Over at the Bad Place, I made a tradition of posting Douglass' "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth of July," and I intend to carry on that tradition here. Since most versions you read in classes or in textbooks have parts omitted, the link below has the full text of the speech.

(1852) Frederick Douglass, "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth Of July" •www.blackpast.org On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass was invited to address the citizens of his hometown, Rochester, New York. Whatever the expectations of his audience on that 76th anniversary of the signing of the D...

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I've been thinking about this post from the Claremont Institute, a Trumpist think tank, ever since the SCOTUS immunity ruling. Wonder what "unpleasant things" the Trumpists have in mind. open.substack.com/pub/joelmmat...

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