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Known by [my name] on the other place. Boy was that a mistake.

Video games, Giants baseball, progressive politics, nonsense.

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Not a populist: GOP VP candidate J.D. Vance introduced the Team Act (with Marco Rubio) to empower companies to establish and dissolve “employee involvement organizations” (a.k.a., company unions), a long-standing goal of GOP business leaders: www.rubio.senate.gov/wp-content/u...

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[DJ Casper voice] Overton Window to the left 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Breaking news: President Biden is finalizing plans to endorse major changes to the Supreme Court in the coming weeks, including proposals for legislation to establish term limits for the justices and an enforceable ethics code, according to two people briefed on the plans.

Biden set to announce support for major Supreme Court changeswww.washingtonpost.com The president has discussed the plans with constitutional scholars and members of Congress in recent weeks.

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two suggestions: 1) focus on the things you can actually control. 2) what you can actually control is bigger than you ever imagined, if you organize with other smart, dedicated people.

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According to Project 2025, which is the heart of Trump's campaign and platform, if you teach or talk about the existence of LGBTQ people then you are a sex offender and should be imprisoned.

Psst: Project 2025 is terrifying for a lot of reasons but also because on page 5 it calls for teachers and librarians who grant access to books that are maligned as pornography (which just means anything LGBTQ) to be registered as sex offenders. Pass it on.

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not quite as seriously as the amount of money we make off of it. But, like, very seriously!

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"Following the failed assassination attempt on Saturday, former President Donald Trump did not see a polling boost, in the first presidential survey taken since the event....In fact, Trump's lead has narrowed slightly since an earlier poll taken July 12-14" lol. lmao www.rawstory.com/trump-pollin...

Surprise: Trump did not get polling boost after shootingwww.rawstory.com Following the failed assassination attempt on Saturday, former President Donald Trump did not see a polling boost, in the first presidential survey taken since the event.In the national Morning Consul...

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They have such winning ideas like “why don’t we charge people who want to know if that tornado is gonna hit their house.”

The MAGA Plan to End Free Weather Reportswww.theatlantic.com Project 2025 would all but dissolve the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

If you're holding your nose to vote for Biden (or any other Dem presidential candidate for the forseeable future), the way you get more of the policy outcomes you want is to get better candidates elected downballot. Take back Congress. Take back the state houses. Take back the judiciary.

When I get down about US Politics I donate the equivalent of a cup of coffee to a competitive race somewhere. I’m going to be keeping this downticket Democrats feed up to date with donation links during the 2024 campaign season; most are one-click ActBlue forms.

Just like chuds are not entitled to forcing everybody to listen to their opinions, you're not entitled to have access to everyone. I encourage everyone to listen to a variety of perspectives etc., etc., but you are also under *zero* obligation to take psychic damage from people who bother you.

The idea that being blocked is an aggressive act or "social violence" or whatever is maybe the single most ridiculous thing about social media I block all the time. Vibes are bad? One too many posts about kinks I really don't wanna see? It's literally just a curation tool for your account.

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It’s not necessarily good that the worlds richest man is going to funnel money to the worlds worst people but I unreservedly think it’s good that all these fucking assholes in Silicon Valley have fully acknowledged that they’re fucking assholes as opposed to pretending they’re saving the world

News that should shock no one: After assassination attempt, Elon Musk claims he'll donate $45 million a month to super PAC that backs Trump; Bill Ackman officially endorses; other Silicon Valley players and venture capitalists decree the "taboo" of supporting MAGA movement is gone.

More Tech and Venture Capital Execs Are Coming Out as MAGA Believerswww.rollingstone.com Elon Musk, Bill Ackman, and other tech and finance leaders used the attempted Trump assassination to declare support for his 2024 campaign.

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Trump Announces White Male Preset 3 as Running Mate hard-drive.net/hd/video-gam...

Trump Announces White Male Preset 3 as Running Matehard-drive.net MILWAUKEE — The GOP filled out its ticket on Monday when Donald Trump named his running mate for 2024: White Male Preset 3. “We’re very…

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they want and need everyone to believe that it is hopeless and that nothing matters and that nothing will ever get better, but, like, they’re wrong. they’re liars. they lie, depression lies, this whole thing is a fucking con to get you to think that submission is better than liberty.

these people cannot win and they know it, their entire schtick is pretending that the reich on the march will keep everyone quiet and scared, but, again, we do not have to believe them, and if we do not, they lose.

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JD Vance has a loser stink energy completely invisible to reporters but obvious to any actual human being. his body naturally generates a repugnant chemical compound known as paulryanide

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Are you a fan of all of those guys who are directly responsible for making the internet an unusable dogshit hellhole? Well boy do I have a VP for you.

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That Vance is a direct line to Thiel and Andreessen is truly important. Trump wants their money. Thiel wants to sell billions in Palantir contracts to power Trump’s mass surveillance/ethnic cleansing infrastructure. Pence was the Christian Nationalists’ guy. Vance is reactionary capital’s.

Are you a fan of all of those guys who are directly responsible for making the internet an unusable dogshit hellhole? Well boy do I have a VP for you.

I'll keep saying it. The best way to defeat Republicans is to widely broadcast the shit they actually believe.

Trump’s VP pick … — demanded the DOJ open a criminal investigation of a journalist for “insurrection” over an op-ed critical of Trump — spouted replacement theory garbage — called for criminal prosecutions of other Trump critics — blamed Biden for Trump shooting — called for Biden’s prosecution

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A fun fact about JD Vance is that he's openly backed purging anyone who disagrees with him from the government, comparing it to "de-Nazification," and illegally defying court orders to do so.

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"We know how Donald Trump thinks America should be united: by reelecting him and allowing him and his cronies to ransack the country’s institutions." I wrote about the depressing aftermath of the assassination attempt newrepublic.com/article/1838...

Nothing Has Changed: Trump Is Still Trumpnewrepublic.com After being shot at a rally on Saturday, Trump is a bigger threat to American democracy than ever before. Why aren’t Democrats acting like it?

Sincere question: has there been any research into the causes of pundit brain or internet poisoning? How do people get this detached from reality?

It’s almost like the pundit class wants the wrong things out of this campaign season

Like I said. They’re not going to change their script because it’s the only story they know how to tell. Dems need to stay on message.

Donald Trump's rumored pick for chief of staff is a Christian nationalist who helped write Project 2025.

The Dangerous Authoritarian Gunning to Serve as Trump’s Grand Vizierprospect.org Russell Vought is rumored to be under consideration for chief of staff in a second Trump administration. This would be a disaster.

This is why I remain skeptical of any argument that the shooting innately “helps” Trump. Trump is incapable of being anything other than a wet paper bag full of grievances. He simply does not have the juice, and no amount of fluffing by the NYT and Politico will be able to disguise that.

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Pausing your digital marketing during a crisis is pretty standard, but doubly unsurprising when your core campaign message is basically just fetishizing civil war.

The Trump campaign and the National Republican Congressional Committee have paused digital fundraising efforts following the shooting, per Brian Schwartz of CNBC

Democratic Party really queueing up a Greatest Hits of how they got us here in the first place huh

i don’t know if these people are such infants that they think this would be cool and so would voters, or if they’re so condescending that they think voters are such infants that they think it would be cool

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New from the New York Times Editorial Board: Donald Trump is unfit to lead (gift link)

Opinion | Donald Trump Is Unfit to Leadwww.nytimes.com He failed the tests of leadership and betrayed America. Voters must stand up to him in November.

If you haven't read the article, this is *just* for instances where the tax bill wasn't even in dispute, payment was just overdue. Nothing to do with tax loopholes or cheats, literally just staffing the agency to follow up on dine-and-dash millionaires.

The IRS reported Wednesday that it has collected $1 billion in taxes and penalties owed by hundreds of wealthy households who accumulated past-due tax debts for years while IRS enforcement dwindled.

IRS reports collecting $1 billion from rich households’ back taxeswapo.st For years, the tax agency simply didn’t try collecting sizable debts owed by 1,600 filers with annual incomes of at least $1 million.

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Just to be clear why this is odd -- the narrative I see pundits pitch is that the public is obsessed with Biden's age and the Project 2025 story is not breaking through. These searches aren't perfect proxies but this complicates that a bit at least.

Weird case in point I put 'biden age' and 'project 2025' into Google Trends which isn't a perfect comparison but the result I got was completely unexpected

Just saw someone post that they want Biden to lose by a landslide in order to force the Democratic Party to change What year is it? Because I've seen this same argument against Clinton in 2016 and Gore in 2000 A huge loss WOULD change the party, but probably not in good ways

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thank fuckin Christ somebody is trying to bring up SOMETHING ELSE to talk about

NEW: AOC introduces articles of impeachment against Justices Thomas and Alito for failure to disclose gifts and failure to recuse. Cosponsors: Lee, Tlaib, Watson Coleman, Ramirez, Frost, Omar, Bowman Thomas: ocasio-cortez.house.gov/sites/evo-su... Alito: ocasio-cortez.house.gov/sites/evo-su...