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Kid mom/cat mom, wife, reluctant lawyer. Gen X. Balletomane. Native Yinzer. SMU alum. She/her/hers

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie

One of the few things I had long planned to write a blog or whatever about, but I was slow and lazy and @lolgop.bsky.social did it first. These sickos are unable to imagine anyone deserving to eat unless someone else deserves to starve. www.theframelab.org/yes-republic...

Yes, Republicans really believe in starving kidswww.theframelab.org What GOP states' cruel rejection of lunch for poor kids reveals about the right-wing brain. And how to fight it

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮

I dunno, this seems like it is a relevant story to pursue and surface if we are REALLY debating presidential fitness through anonymously sourced news stories, only this isn’t anonymous. There’s a reason this has been ignored by the Post/NYT/etc. for the last four days and it’s isn’t civic virtue.

Former Trump Staffer Shares Texts Revealing Secret Payoffsnewrepublic.com A new court filing alleges that Donald Trump’s campaign has paid to bury a number of lawsuits over sexual harassment and discrimination.

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Kevin Elliott

This irresistible pressure to represent the two sides as equally flawed is felt nowhere more than in the media, whose business model requires novelty & tension. They *can't* report honestly on a contest with only one legitimate contestant. They *have* to tear them down to the other's level.

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Kevin Elliott

We're not just talking about people's preferences here, but their livelihoods, how they're gonna pay the bills. We've institutionalized a 2 party system, which is an obfuscatory way of saying 'made it unavoidable for the most powerful people in society to pretend an election is btwn two equal sides'

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Kevin Elliott

The core issue is here: the 2024 election, like 2016 and 2020, isn't a real choice. The elite political system failed in its filtering function and generated one unacceptable option, out of only two. Everyone understands this, but about half of them have invincible partisan reason to deny it.

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What news from France?

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1. Voters generally reject fascism when they know that's the choice. 2. Thus, the MAGA freakout at people figuring out what Project 2025 does.

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This is your regular reminder that scams are now the background noise of our lives. They will take a million shots at you and threat actors only need you to let your guard down once. www.itbrew.com/stories/2024...

Mark Cuban’s Gmail was hacked by a threat actor posing as Google—here’s how to prevent it from happening to youwww.itbrew.com Entrepreneur and investor Mark Cuban said his Gmail account was hacked after a threat actor posing as a Google employee called him.

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Fascists openly promising to use the power of the state to get revenge against political opponents.

J.D. Vance Endorses Trump’s Call for a Special Prosecutor Against Bidenwww.nytimes.com The Ohio senator suggested it was “a totally reasonable thing” for former President Donald J. Trump to, if re-elected, appoint a prosecutor to investigate the Biden administration.

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Things seem bleak but it’s probably a bad sign for Republicans that people have started mentioning their actual goals and political blueprint and their response is “how fucking dare you??”

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Celeste Pewter

Okay, first set of call scripts. I know I'm not the only one getting 2016/"But her emails!!!" flashbacks.

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Not having to give a shit anymore about logic or accuracy is a demonstration of power. Showing the world that their power no longer depends on the law but on something else

These mistakes originalist justices are making aren’t about disputed interpretations of history, with evidence on both sides. They’re pulling quotes out of context to attribute ideas to founding figures that those figures adamantly opposed. (via @andycraig.bsky.social) reason.com/volokh/2024/...

The Supreme Court's Dubious Use of History in Department of State v. Munozreason.com Justice Amy Coney Barrett's majority opinion includes significant errors, and violates some of her own precepts against excessive reliance on questionable history.

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As though the Hot Take Doom Loop just sorta happens for no particular reason... bsky.app/profile/goli...

1. elite media finds a herd issue 2. elected dems (usually backbenchers) read the columns about it 3. columnists know electeds are reading, write more columns 4. panic sets in 5. columnists want to keep the panic going >>> you are here 6. electeds do something fatally stupid

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bad luck for biden to run in an electoral cycle where "are you old" is the most important issue instead of in one of the cycles where email security procedures or accuracy of vietnam war medal citations was the most important issue in the country.

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We need more, but credit where due: both The Nation (June 2024 issue) and Boston Review have run a breakdown of the Project 2025 “Mandate for Leadership” document. Media Matters, too. Lots of good work going on digesting this. www.bostonreview.net/articles/ins... www.mediamatters.org/project-2025

Where are the columnists who are experts in specific fields, breaking down what the Heritage Foundation + Trump want to do to each individual federal agency? E.g. I read the section dedicated to our intelligence agencies, and had to stop, since I was starting to feel a little nauseous.

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*country elects donald j. trump president and lets him get away with a multitude of crimes* … “why are our kids acting like assholes who think they can get away with everything??”

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Artificial scarcity is an existential part of the Republican Party. Convince the working classes they must fight each other for pieces of the needlessly-small pie, while the GOP gets busy cutting taxes & creating new subsidies for billionaires.

The governors of a dozen Republican-led states — AL, AK, FL, GA, IA, MS, OK, SC, SD, TX, UT, WY — opted out of a new federal food assistance program, leaving about 9.5 million students without the aid this summer

Republican-led states are blocking summer food benefits for hungry familieswww.usatoday.com Money for food is especially tight for families in a dozen states where Republican lawmakers declined to accept federal food assistance.

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Celeste Pewter

^ This is not only a very good thing, we should be boosting news like this. The more we can speak to people in our lives and: 1) Make sure they know Project 2025 is terrifying, and 2) Explain the current Admin.'s achievements, the better.

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Campaign news has overshadowed this. For all those who missed it: the administration announced $1 billion to help communities be more resilient to climate change/natural hazards. www.dhs.gov/news/2024/07...

President Biden Announces $1 Billion in Project Selections to Make Communities More Resilient to Climate Change and Natural Hazards Through His Investing in America Agenda | Homeland Securitywww.dhs.gov President Joseph R. Biden, Jr., Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas and FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell today announced the 656 project selections for $1 billion in clim...

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Tldr Fuck : - overtime pay - osha - student loan forgiveness - trans rights - net neutrality - climate regulation - transport regulation - lab test regulation - and a partridge in a pear tree

8 policies that could be vulnerable to new legal challengeswapo.st The Supreme Court jettisoned longstanding precedent that helped the federal government make regulations. Now broad policies could be determined by judges.

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Don Moynihan

"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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Stephen Miller now following Trump's lead and saying he has nothing to do with Project 2025. 1. His organization is on the Project 2025 advisory board. 2. He recorded a video as part of Project 2025 training tools 3. You can see Mandate for Leadership, the Project 2025 publication in the background

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Claire Willett

so then when the right wing is like “okay everyone! here’s our to-do list! made by us, with our names on it! there’s a timeline and a work plan and everyone signed off on it!”, I think a lot of normie voters just went like “wait wtf am I looking at” because they really did not believe us before

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Claire Willett

the problem, more often than we realize, is simply that they don’t believe anyone could really be that cartoonishly evil, and they’re looking around for any excuse to avoid confronting that as reality. “they can’t legally do that”, “that’s an extreme example”, “biased sources”, “misspoke,” etc

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Claire Willett

it’s almost like, once people find out what Republicans actuslly want to do, most of them are horrified

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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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"it's fascism, but it's not new, so the narrative-making machine will resist the attempts by the Biden Administration to present a different narrative, then judge them on not presenting a different narrative"

I have been staring at this for a solid 5 minutes

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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.

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There’s a reason the christian right is all in on private Christian schools with no oversight or background checks

Jackson youth pastor arrested on rape charges - WBBJ TVwww.wbbjtv.com JACKSON, Tennessee -- A Jackson pastor, 39-year-old Ryan McElrath, has been arrested on rape charges, booking information shows.

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In the week following the debate the New York Times ran 192 stories about Biden's performance and six about Project 2025. x.com/Will_Bunch/s...