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We will see how the final result lands, but if this holds it does seem likely that given a choice between the center and the far right, voters chose the far right. Given a choice between the left and the far right, they chose the left. How about that!

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about once a week, i have to explain to someone on the phone that the police have no obligation to do anything for you and, even if their refusal literally leads to your murder, the courts have been clear that there's no case to pursue

A man has been using Facebook to terrorize his ex and their children. He brags about it: “I want her to worry about who’s waiting on the corner.” But police do nothing and nobody seems to take it seriously. Chilling story from Stacy St Clair and Joe Mahr www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/07/f...

How one man uses Facebook to frighten his children's mother and why police do nothingwww.chicagotribune.com An analysis of data from nearly two dozen Illinois police departments found police rarely arrest people for electronic harassment, even as complaints increase.

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New from me: Where is your "institutionalism" now? radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-suprem...

The Supreme Court foldsradleybalko.substack.com Faced with the most potent threat to democracy in more than a century, our most revered institution didn't just fail to hold, it aligned itself with the threat

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Its the fact he said “shouldn’t” for me. Keir Starmer said I shouldn’t have the right to womens spaces And we’re about to watch a nation celebrate this man and grant him massive power

Keir Starmer, the future prime minister, explicitly saying that trans women don’t have the right to use women’s toilets, which we have always been using, is giving the green light for people to harass us and do violence to us, as well as to cis women deemed not feminine enough. Don’t vote Labour.

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Your girl is simply considering politics today and listening to this on repeat, once again: youtu.be/acT_PSAZ7BQ?...

The Coup - "The Guillotine"youtu.be "The Guillotine" by The Coup from the new album 'Sorry To Bother You,' out nowProduced and Directed by Beau Patrick CoulonDP & Edit - Shawn ButcherAC - Danie...

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I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

if you’re waiting for everyone around you to wake up, you’ll wait forever. this is how the people grinding our bones to make their bread WANT you to be. paralyzed, alienated & purposeless

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Just a reminder that Michelle Wolf nailed it at the White House Correspondents Dinner. NYT, I’m looking in your direction especially.

Why yes, I do think Donald Trump will redefine it. Amazingly so.

I don’t even know where to begin with this.

Not even Chotiner can defeat a pollster. 'The vibes are bad but this is unprecedented but also it looks bad but anything could happen still certain predictions being made are useless but other predictions aren't and also the problem is limited to Biden, I think' www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Nate Cohn Explains How Bad the Latest Polling Is for Joe Bidenwww.newyorker.com The Times’ chief political analyst reflects on the unique challenges facing the President, whether it’s still possible for him to launch a comeback, and what the polls can tell us, if anything, about ...

New NYT game just dropped. Next comes Why I Won't Dote.

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

Happy Fourth, but not the British children youtu.be/qv6OOuPI5c0?...

George Washington- [Brad Neely]youtu.be The story of the first president. Animation and song by Neely Comics

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"you're not American why do you care about the 4th of July" mate I'm Indian, any day someone got the Brits to fuck off back to their country is a national holiday for me

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"I turned to my husband and said, 'Oh, boy, that's a little suggestive, isn't it?' And my husband said, 'You got it, honey.' " —on first seeing the famous "train in a tunnel" ending of North by Northwest Happy 100th birthday, Eva Marie Saint.

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Happy birthday to American #astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868-1921) who set the scale of our Universe. 🐡🧪🔭👩🏻‍🔬#histsci In her day, women scientists were regularly hired to do menial chores. She was hired to count images on photographic plates as a "computer". In studying these plates, in 1908 🧵1/

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I mentioned the spinelessness of Chief Justice John Roberts on @strictscrutiny.bsky.social last week, and I haven't been able to get it out of my head. So, I wrote about it today at @lawdorknews.bsky.social —>

The spinelessness of John Robertswww.lawdork.com Chief Justice John Roberts doesn't want to lead. He is, though, carefully setting up a path to allow the right-wing court to respond to whatever comes its way in 2025.

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This is one of the coolest things we've done in a while.

MTV News Is Back (Kind Of) Thanks to the Internet Archivewww.rollingstone.com The Internet Archive has created a searchable index of the old MTV News website, after it was unexpectedly pulled down last week.

"He looks qualified to me"

Every cop who killed someone ever.

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We know what impunity looks like. It’s law enforcement.

Civil rights attorney Jill Collen Jefferson took on the police force in the small town of Lexington, Miss., collecting evidence of abuse, falsifying evidence and assault. Then they arrested her.

She took on a small Mississippi town’s police. Then they arrested her.wapo.st How civil rights lawyer Jill Collen Jefferson convinced the Justice Department to investigate allegedly racist and abusive policing in tiny Lexington, Miss.

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Speaking as a semanticist, it's wild to me that they are phrasing it in terms of whether an *act* is characterized as "official", when what they seem to actually be talking about is whether there exists a *description* of the act that can be characterized as "official".

Real complex feelings about the fact the best guarantor of the continuing legality of my interracial marriage is Clarence fucking Thomas

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I love people who do what they can, where they are, within their capacity. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Chicago woman running the Free Store helping migrants risks deportationwww.cbsnews.com Kraal said they see around 300 people a week, stamping each card before families start to "shop" for free.

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The thing I can't stop thinking about is this: I'm 48, and in my adult lifetime there has been one Republican who won the popular vote. But I will probably spend the rest of my life under the authority of a Supreme Court dominated by hard right conservatives. How is that democracy?

Breaking News: Nixon was right!

Supreme Court determines President can sleep anywhere, with anyone

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So being a president IS like being a sheriff, SCOTUS decides.

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Some of the nihilism I'm seeing on the skyline is why Black people say y'all wouldn't last an hour as us, btw.

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I can’t believe the Supreme Court just ruled that the president can sleep outdoors in a public space.

Wait are you saying Governor Kristoff thinks he should step aside? Hold the phone!

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Wow. This nine page comic by Kevin Conroy (voice of Batman) and J. Bone really hit me in the gut. It's about Kevin's dysfunctional family, his early acting career, his closeted homosexuality in the 70s-80s, and coming to his audition for Batman in the early 90s. Full: www.tumblr.com/why-i-love-c...

"Correction: JK actually it is that simple"