Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li

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writer and game designer. liberal, progressive liberal, neonliberal. associate editor at liberal currents. she/her.

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honestly we should just join the ukraine war and tell the air force to go ham

there is much wisdom here

it's generally not productive to argue with someone's untreated major depression.

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Trump raped a woman, was revealed as being in constant contact with a sex trafficker, stole nuclear secrets, is old, forged electoral certificates, was convicted of 34 felonies, committed fraud, is literally on the Saudi payroll, sent a mob to hang his VP but the opponent is also old.

In this chat, we suggest a distinction between covering something (NYT does great reporting on Trump's autocratic plans), and *crusading.* The latter is wholly different: It uses saturation coverage to alert readers that they should be alarmed. That's just not happening w/r/t Trump's unfitness.

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the Disagreement Nexus qwantz.com/index.php?co...

always love to read a long-ass essay excoriating the populist many for wanting ego fulfillment from their presidents before describing in excruciating detail the author's preferred ego fulfillment president

legitimately way more sexual than i expected going in

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Hillary Clinton's plan to make the election not about her emails going poorly, says The But Her Emails Times.

Reid Epstein doesn't bother to mention Project 2025, which other outlets have been reporting on all weekend and which NYT had once led on. Because Epstein is the one choosing to ignore fascism. Not Biden and not even NYT's competitors.

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Andrew S.

okay but joe biden definitely did face off with corn pop, that actually did happen

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This is how they did it last time.

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The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter

Right. No matter how they talk about it, people’s problem isn’t “Biden old”, it’s that trump isn’t losing by 10 points And since there’s no one person that will make that not true, we’re left with the most annoying news cycle I can remember

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In a normal campaign, this would have dominated the weekend’s news. I wrote about @gregsargent.bsky.social’s scoop about the Christian nationalist GOP nominee for NC Gov calling for murder of his political enemies: ‘Some folks need killing’: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Opinion | ‘Some folks need killing’: North Carolina Lt. Gov takes Christian nationalism to dangerous lowwww.msnbc.com Mark Robinson’s newly explicit calls for killing perceived enemies show how seamlessly Christian nationalists can glide into promoting real violence.

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Somewhat tangential to this, SCOTUS is creaking under its own weight because they get their power from directing lower courts to rule a certain way, but they get their authority from those rulings making sense and they are in the middle of an authority crisis

the fascists believe that they can tear up american democracy at the roots and after we'll all have to fall in line "because it's the law." but the power of the law is a function of the legitimacy of the law. the state's monopoly on force is posterior to the people's adherence to the state!

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☀️ Starshine

i recently rewatched V FOR VENDETTA and beneath the superhero theatrics it's remarkable how clear V (and the movie) are about this the truly decisive moment is when the men with guns can't bear to commit a massacre the battle for britain won in the soul of britain

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the power of the state is not in the gun. it's in the finger on the trigger--and it's not in the finger either, it's in the heart and mind of the person behind it. that is the battle we must be prepared to fight and win.

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[thaumaturgy voice] this is an Order, Doctor Lockhart

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ellie lockhart (she/they)

ellie run that goddamn campaign

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ellie lockhart (she/they)

i still remember when it was leftists saying that libs were going to rehabilitate bush lmao

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Foghorn Leghorn 🇺🇸

you must go through the madness to discover the truth on the other side

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Silly B Man

i mean i think this is one of those very important facts when it comes to understanding how constitutions work actually the constitution was ratified by *its own lights,* not by the rules of the articles--just as the declaration was not valid under english law!

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A lot of folks who supposedly analyze politics for a living are just like…not good at it?

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First Wordle Problems

bizarrely, amy coney barrett has a law review article where she argues the reconstruction amendments were not validly passed.... and the thing is, she's *right.* according to the text of the constitution of 1788, which has no procedures for expelling states, they weren't!

but they are valid and constitutional all the same--which proves something much deeper about the nature of "valid" constitutions

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE

People with dementia are far more likely to, and this is a purely hypothetical example, answer questions by rambling for five minutes about something completely unrelated that blends together actual events, second-hand accountings, and delusions.

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to be clear this is not something they usually cover well in political theory imo

there are questions about "how government work" that are easy to answer when times are normal and government is working good, and these questions suddenly get much harder as we approach times of constitutional rupture

their act of constitutional arson is our opportunity for American Reconstruction

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We Put the FBI Man Into the Medicine Lodge

man if biden beats out all the haters and wins in the fall i am going to be goddamn *insufferable* with certain of my fellow libs