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people who want power probably shouldn’t have it

Ken Klippenstein is streaming with George Galloway. The Young Turks are hosting RFK Jr. One ex bernie spokesperson is streaming with candace owens and another is defending Nick Fuentes. Brianna Wu is hanging with lauren southern. Maybe now is the time to re-evaluate how the left chooses celebrities.

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BREAKING: Upside side down French flag spotted outside the Alitos' summer residence

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Look how fun shutting down fascists is. I want this for us, too

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if only there had been two rounds of voting from which we could draw conclusions, we might know

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i'm not an expert in french politics but it seems like the broadly applicable conclusion is that the best way to defeat fascism is to support the not-fascist candidate who has the best chance of winning, regardless of whether you identify as a leftist or a centrist and have to vote for the other

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seems like what happened in france is that centrism and leftism each identified the other as the favorable alternative to fascism, voters who identify with either accepted this as true, and the far-right was marginalized as a result, which is... the opposite of pitting them against one another?

In France, the left coalition comes in first, Macron second, the far-right third. The best way to defeat fascism is not centrism, it’s a strong left.

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OH, a big result: Marine Le Pen's *sister* has LOST her bid to join Parliament. She led 40% to 26% in Round 1. Her left opponent won by 0.5%. (Macronist, who came in 3rd, initially said she wouldn't drop out but then changed her mind. Ended up blocking Le Pen.)

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there are many reasons we need to win in the fall, but one of them is that i simply am not going to abide by letting both the brits and the french lecture us

*MACRON'S GROUP PROJECTED TO WIN MORE SEATS THAN FAR RIGHT *LEFT ALLIANCE SET FOR 170-215 SEATS IN FRENCH VOTE: ESTIMATES *LE PEN'S GROUP SET FOR 110-158 SEATS IN FRENCH VOTE: ESTIMATES *FRENCH LEFT SET FOR SHOCK ELECTION VICTORY, PROJECTIONS SHOW

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It’s hard to overstate what a victory for democracy it is that in France the far right lost to both the center and the left. working together to reject these fascists is key if America does the right thing we can, and will dismantle the worldwide fascist movement and destroy any chance they have had

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OUTGOING Assembly for context: —Macronists: 249. (New exit polls: 150-180) —Left bloc: 131. (New exit polls: 170-220) —Far-right: 89. (New exit polls: 120-155) —LR/conservatives: 64 (Exit polls: 65-80) Today will be a record high *by far* for far-right. But also a lot less than it hoped.

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JUST IN: Polls closed in France. Exit polls show surprise: —Left coalition (New Popular Front) projected first. (!) —Far-right (RN) has lost its bid to take power. Anti-RN front appears to have worked very well. —No bloc close to majority. Follow this 🧵 for results and more:

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Huh, it’s as if the paper’s editors learned absolutely nothing from this.* (* of course they didn’t.)

I know they get rolled all the time but for the Times to get rolled by “actually they just want to reclaim the values of Western civilization as they see it … with larger families and fewer immigrants” is the Times putting the 14 words in the paper

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The robot is not a bargaining unit member and must not be given bargaining unit work. Faculty unions should be looking over their contracts right now, figuring out exactly how to grieve or otherwise oppose the introduction of these systems.

Also known as “training your replacement.” 😩

Morehouse to be the first university to use virtual AI teaching assistantswww.axios.com The Atlanta HBCU will have AI teaching assistants this fall.

as usual one of the best predictors that a "leftist" will end up going red-brown is if they tend to show exaggerated hate or disdain for middle-aged mainstream-Democratic women

Ken Klip going full Glenn “the far right are my friends” Greenwald

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At first I missed it, distracted by "Bannon's War Room", but he is on a fucking "Lindell TV"

Ken Klip going full Glenn “the far right are my friends” Greenwald

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I know the latest NZ election outcome was less than good, but jesus.

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I have never read one of these "we need a party for the politically homeless" pieces that does not go on to straightforwardly describe Democrats.

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And speaking of Baltimore, I'm sure my followers are waiting on pins and needles for my latest update on our astonishing fall in homicides. The wait is over! 😏

it's not an accident that those books are prominently placed in the frame, it's a taunt

"I don't know anything about Project 2025" says man recording Project 2025 promotional video in front of Project 2025 publication. More substantively, Project 2025 has embraced Trump and Miller's immigration approach of using power to close both legal and illegal immigration.

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The pay range disclosure bills passed the House and Senate in *October*. There's still no final bill yet, because the House doesn't want to have to release its own salary range data, it seems. #mapoli www.bostonglobe.com/2024/07/07/m...

It’s crunch time for the Massachusetts Legislature. Among the bills still in the dark: one promising transparency. - The Boston Globewww.bostonglobe.com State lawmakers’ 19-month formal legislative session is scheduled to end on July 31, and piles of legislation remain in play, creating a guessing game of not just when far-reaching bills could emerge ...

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Just bizarre to see "ending the war" described as a "sticking point" in a *CEASEFIRE* agreement. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/06/w...

Hamas’s Cease-Fire Proposal Includes a Familiar Sticking Pointwww.nytimes.com Hamas wants assurances that Israel won’t restart the war after some hostages come home. Israel says it needs the option.

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"OH NO THEY'VE FORMED A TINY JAM BAND"

they are just like me fr

I've long thought the simplest way to address this would be to release a Special Edition of the prequel trilogy with an added line in ep 2 or 3 about how Qui-Gon "stubbornly clung to the debunked midichlorian hypothesis" or words to that effect. Get Sam Jackson to ADR it or something.

some canon new Star Wars thing should address midichlorians by acknowledging them as a whole-cloth pseudoscience and gatekeeping device. qui-gon has the right kind of dadvibe to have honestly believed in it

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the funny thing is theres a straight forward argument for every leftist ideology, except i guess accelerationism if you count, for voting whatever message people think they’re sending dems by not voting, the only one dems receive is “i don’t vote” and by extension ignore their policy preferences

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genuinely hopeful sign that every big name GOP garbage monster is frantically trying to distance themselves from Project Say The Quiet Part Loud In an Easily-Digestible Bullet Point Format About Which There Can Be No Confusion. this means we should all absolutely continue never shutting up about it

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I have been saying for at least a decade and a half that this is a major unexploited wedge issue for Democrats.

“They want to eliminate national parks” is a very simple way to get just about anyone on the Stop Project 2025 train. Are there much more glaring and life-threatening goals of P25? Yes but even your most bigoted cousin does not want to see the parks system sold for parts.

bluesky cannot get the ability to untag people from replies (or better yet, untag oneself from a thread) fast enough

If you get into a fight in my mentions I will mute or block you and everyone who is fighting with you; please do not do it

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ah yes the president who canceled a speech today rather than cross a picket line

I'll see you and raise you this one.

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and then somehow for whatever surely unrelated reason she was absolutely pilloried in a million different articles for being mean to poor dear sweet innocent Sarah Huckabee Sanders and forced to apologize even though nothing she said about her was untrue or even THAT harsh

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

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"Look, we can't help it if this is the prevailing narrative," say the folks working at the country's largest narrative-creation factory.