The Conquest of Churu

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NY Times accurately reporting JD Vance’s abortion stance using his own words in context wouldn’t decide the election. But changing his position by omitting his support for a national abortion ban—like they edit and sanitize Trump’s words—is dishonest, bad journalism, and a disservice to the public.

I’m going to start with the absolutely jaw-dropping news that The New York Times deceptively edited a quote to make it appear that JD Vance opposes a national abortion ban. — @jessicavalenti.bsky.social

GOP Platform Author Admits There's a National Banjessica.substack.com 7.16.24

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GOP Platform Author Admits There's a National Banjessica.substack.com 7.16.24

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I made this into a proper response to the absolutely misplaced calls to "turn down the heat": newrepublic.com/article/1838...

My first thought this morning after I remembered the news was how many people over the last few years have put their bodies between armed far right guys and kids going to the library or a bookstore

Where Were Calls for De-Escalation When Libraries Were Being Targeted?newrepublic.com Trump’s fans seem determined to blame this shooting on their victims.

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Menendez’s biggest mistake was not appointing three Supreme Court justices.

Remember, if the government can obtain a conviction against Bob Menendez for taking bribes and stuffing gold bars into his closet that he was given for working on behalf of a foreign government, there's nothing stopping them from indicting you for the same thing.

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Worth noting that Trump's judge threw out his federal case, while Biden's own son and a Democratic Senator were convicted of federal crimes.

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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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Existing Trump supporters—including political reporters privately in sympathy with him—obviously experienced a powerful galvanizing emotion from the failed assassination attempt. They assumed that emotional experience would be widespread, but so far the polling doesn’t bear that out.

"In the national Morning Consult poll of 2,045 registered voters, taken Monday, Trump leads President Joe Biden 46 percent to 45 percent. The poll has a margin of error of two percentage points." www.rawstory.com/trump-pollin...

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Today's newsletter is about the New York Times, incentives, and its coverage of trans people. www.readtpa.com/p/the-new-yo...

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speaking as someone who continues to think it is completely stupid that people went after jamelle bouie for something that is objectively not a big deal i also think that people should really carefully revisit why they feel some kind of weird need to highlight the transness of his harassers

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In a deleted tweet, someone in attendance at a meeting regarding the NHS plan to review transgender medical care for adults quoted an official for the NHS implying the Cass review was designed to shut down access to gender affirming care for youth. We managed to get a screenshot showing the OP.

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Me too! The R21 vaccine in particular (first doses going in arms today! www.ox.ac.uk/news/2024-07... ) is past the WHO's 75% vaccine efficacy goal: it's wildly, amazingly more effective than the other one approved. Like twice as effective.

I’m pretty excited about these new malaria vaccines.

First Malaria Shots From Biggest Vaccine Maker Deployed in Africawww.bloomberg.com Ivory Coast will be the first country to deploy a malaria shot developed by Serum Institute of India Ltd., the world’s largest vaccine maker, and the University of Oxford.

Côte d’Ivoire makes history as first nation to deploy R21/Matrix-M™www.ox.ac.uk Today marks the official rollout of the new R21/Matrix-M™ malaria vaccine - co-developed by the University of Oxford and Serum Institute of India, leveraging Novavax’s Matrix-M™ adjuvant technologyIn

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This is written like an exaggeration to make a point but it is actually just a clearly worded statement of the mainstream GOP position

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kind of telling that a registered republican tries to assassinate the republican nominee for president who tried to murder his own republican vice president and the republican response is that democrats should calm the fuck down. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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I’m sorry a Republican voter shot at the Republican leader at a Republican rally, and especially that he killed a Republican rally-goer and injured two more. I wish it didn’t happen, and hope nothing like it ever happens again. I just don’t see how non-Republicans could be the ones to solve it.

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Lost in the ongoing Trumpapalooza is the excellent news that a malaria vaccination developed at Oxford Univ. over the last 30 years and costing only £3 per shot is being unrolled in malaria-prone countries. If it fulfills its promise, this will make an enormous difference to so many lives.

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Two months ago Greg Abbott pardoned a murderer who texted a friend "I might go to Dallas to shoot looters" then drove into a BLM protest in Austin and killed a protester. The universal response from conservatives to the pardon was "Yeah! Woo-hoo!" Now they say liberals should turn down the rhetoric

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I think it's perfectly acceptable for some people -- not necessarily politicians, but the rest of us -- to say something like "Trump has encouraged political violence for the better part of a decade and has been promising to do it with the government if he wins. I do not sympathize with him."

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A lot the pundits calling for Biden to leave the race spend a lot of time demanding perfect messaging from activists because anything less will hurt Dems. Random college students are supposed to change slogans for electoral expediency but columnists can’t just focus on the stakes of the race?

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Everyone searching for the fix to these massive breaches and @wyden.senate.gov points to the only one that hasn't actually been tried yet...

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One thing I learned writing about the Coyotes and the NHL is rich people can just say no to paying a bill, and unless you push back they just don't pay it. And they get away with it a lot

"“The tax bill wasn’t even in dispute — the taxes were clearly owed by these people,” IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel said in a call with reporters. “But we didn’t have the people or the resources. … It takes time and staffing to work through these cases.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

IRS reports collecting $1 billion from rich households’ back taxeswww.washingtonpost.com 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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Bernie understands the fucking stakes here

What a twist of fortunes that Bernie gives one of the strongest affirmative defenses of Biden while the centrists try to shiv him

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Um www.thedailybeast.com/clarence-tho...

Clarence Thomas Gifted Luxe Trip to Putin’s Hometown: Demswww.thedailybeast.com The allegedly secret gifts were disclosed in a letter from two Democratic senators that accused Thomas of potentially committing tax fraud.

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I, your friendly neighborhood far-right researcher/political scientist-in-training, am here to let you know that if academic research/media coverage of "polarization" feels weird to you, that's for good reason. Polarization research is, generally, fundamentally flawed and based on assumed symmetry

It's important for you to know that a chunk of conservative dark money has recently been lobbed at academic research on "polarization," and it bears reflecting on why a framing of the US's contemporary crisis that automatically suggests there's blame on all sides would be favored by them

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At this point any theory of Biden'ls physical infirmity & unfitness to serve depends on the Biden Administration systematically lying about the president's illness, from the start, but only ever in a half-assed way that Alex Berenson could sniff out

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The trans care stuff too—they act as if they have no idea that the proportions of coverage convey meaning

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Been thinking about the Claudine Gay coverage as a keystone to Biden coverage : it was an editorial campaign driven by story after story. It takes enormous editorial hubris to be certain they are right (they were wrong about Gay). What I wrote then: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-campai...

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It's really something to contrast how the paper sees its role with Biden or Claudine Gay with how it sees its role with Trump or Chris Rufo

Ultimately the Democratic Party gets to decide who its nominee is, for better or worse. But it certainly seems like parts of the media believe they it is their job to choose the Democratic candidate, rather than covering the strengths and weaknesses of *both* candidates running for President.