Stephen Schiavone

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For those freaking out about Project 2025 now and how the word pornography will be weaponised to silence and imprison people, spare half a thought for the sex workers who have been ringing the alarm bell on this for decades.

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Fyi to journalists: Hillbilly Elegy is not about the brave nobility of rural poor/working class people. It’s deeply insulting to rural poor people - presenting them as lazy addicts who rely on welfare instead of working. The book is about how amazing Vance was to escape that backwards culture.

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New in PN: The phony populism of JD Vance "Like his Republican brethren, and like Trump, his populism is paper thin; he views the working class with contempt and embraces policies that would entrench poverty and gut social mobility."

The phony populism of JD Vancewww.publicnotice.co It's a cynical branding exercise.

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Florida may not be winnable, but the realistic chance that the abortion rights measure could get 60% means it's a once-in-a-generation chance to gain seats and power across the state.

if you’re dooming about sparse polls of states you’re pretty sure are going to go for Biden you might want to check Florida polls, which over the last month looks pretty close

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I know they're still photos so probably not the full picture but the grimaces Trump is making at the RNC are those of a man whose life is ruined forever

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Political scientists call this agenda setting. When the SCOTUS public approval rating is at a historical low, the Prez should talk about it in the election--loudly. Let people know you heard their anger. Even if Biden fails, put the GOP on record with votes against Court reform. tinyurl.com/yc7h7xsr

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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As someone not from New York City, I do find it odd that the Mayor routinely describes it as a hellhole that can't even keep its residents alive, much less provide basic services, and reaffirms his commitment to keeping it that way. Seems a suboptimal choice for a Mayor.

Mayor Eric Adams, asked by a reporter about the lack of air conditioning at migrant shelters during a heat wave, says, "Every day New Yorkers don't have air conditioners. We make do." He recommends paper fans and says his mom told him to put his head in the refrigerator. —Emma G. Fitzsimmons, NYT

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trying to think of why it's so easy to spot chatGPT writing even when it's not making stuff up. like it can write in different tones and styles to a degree, but there's still kind of an "overconfident nerd" je ne sais quois to it all

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Some students don't understand how we (their professors) can tell. I've found success by showing them images like these and saying, "See how it's obvious these images are ai-generated? That's how obvious it is with ai-generated writing most of the time."

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Federal authorities have charged the suspected leader of an Eastern European-based neo-Nazi group with harboring plans to have an associate dress up as Santa Claus and hand out candy laced with poison to Jewish and minority children in New York City.

Alleged neo-Nazi ‘murder cult’ leader accused of plot to poison childrenwapo.st The Georgian national was charged with scheming to have an associate dress up as Santa to hand out poisoned candy to Jewish and minority children in Brooklyn.

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Donald Trump just embraced the deeply unpopular Supreme Court, walking right into a trap. (by me) www.findinggravity.net/p/breaking-t...

The Supreme Court is Donald Trump's real running mate. Democrats should act like it. (By me.) www.findinggravity.net/p/trumpthoma...

Trump/Thomas 2024www.findinggravity.net Nearly 30 years ago, Democrats chose a rhetorical running mate for their Republican opponent. That playbook could be the key to winning in 2024.

BREAKING: Trump walks into Biden's Supreme Court trapwww.findinggravity.net It's all happening

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I guess NYT didn't think it worth noting the fascist tendencies of the SV billionaires who pushed Trump to pick JD, or their apologies for Putin? www.nytimes.com/2024/07/17/t...

How a Network of Tech Billionaires Helped J.D. Vance Leap Into Powerwww.nytimes.com Mr. Vance spent less than five years in Silicon Valley’s tech industry, but the connections he made with Peter Thiel and others became crucial to his political ascent.

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people get mad if you point this out but Jon Stewart was always like this: it's just that his brand of "can't we just use common sense instead of being liars and hypocrites" moderate populism was the most left thing that was allowed in mass media post 9/11

apparently Jon Stewart figures Bill O'Reilly is what passes for a Reasonable People Can Disagree* republican and is happy to help him sell books *as long as we don't talk about grotesque sexual harassment and toxic workplace abuse

'Find a respectable conservative': Jon Stewart slammed over Bill O’Reilly interviewwww.rawstory.com "The Daily Show" host and comedian Jon Stewart was under fire Tuesday night for having former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly on the popular show to talk about political fanaticism and extreme rhetoric. ...

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In my latest (yes, I'm still writing!) I look at the contrast between social media platforms' swift, energetic response to Jan. 6 and their near-total silence this week in the face of conspiracy theories about the Trump rally shooting. A lot has changed in 3 years: www.cnn.com/2024/07/17/t...

Chaos on social media platforms after Trump shooting is a mess of their own making | CNN Businesswww.cnn.com The social media industry’s tepid response this week to the conspiracy theories floating wildly on their platforms about the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump was part of a purpos...

It is entirely possible to be non-partisan (one can be politically homeless after all), but to claim to be non-ideological is always a lie and a huge red flag.

"I have no obligation to the Democrats or progressives or liberals or unions." -- Jon Stewart www.npr.org/transcripts/...

Jon Stewart: The Most Trusted Name In Fake Newswww.npr.org In an interview with Terry Gross, taped in front of a live audience in New York City, the Daily Show host deconstructs his upcoming "Rally to Restore Sanity" on the National Mall and explains how The ...

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also grinds my gears (lol) to say the Lincoln Tunnel was "carved by people ... who I'm sure had their differences." It was a god damn New Deal project! hugely ideological!!

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As I noted in yesterday’s CAMPAIGN TRAILS, Project 2025 is the key to this election: kevinmkruse.substack.com/p/convention...

On Chris Hayes podcast with Jamelle Bouie they talked about a possible reason for optimism: Project 2025 seems to have deeply penetrated TikTok. Anecdotally, my 15 yr old mentioned to me all the counselors she works with at camp have been talking about it and what rights they’re worried about losing

Conventional Wisdom IIkevinmkruse.substack.com In my last post, I argued that the people who were claiming that the assassination attempt against Donald Trump meant the election was suddenly all wrapped up for the Republican Party were panicking w...

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This is what AOC and Bernie get for sticking by Biden, and we can debate the policy, but this is a super-tangible win for the left side of the Democratic Party

Never forget that the worst thing you can do in a dangerous situation is to panic. Calm yourself and focus that nervous energy into action that will get you out of danger.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation

As we told the court, users are far better off when publishers make editorial decisions free from government mandates. Laws that allow the government to grant favored speakers special access to the platforms, and silence disfavored speakers are inconsistent with the constitution.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation

The Supreme Court’s ruling is a big win for users and the First Amendment. It recognizes that the government has a very limited role in dictating what social media platforms must and must not publish.

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Victory! Supreme Court correctly rules that social media platforms have First Amendment rights to curate and edit the speech of others they deliver to their users.

Platforms Have First Amendment Right to Curate Speech, As We’ve Longwww.eff.org Social media platforms, at least in their most common form, have a First Amendment right to curate the third-party speech they select for and recommend to their users, and the government’s ability to

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He might be our greatest poster

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Spencer Ackerman

Here’s Elle:

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Spencer Ackerman

These are my words, not Elle’s, from the intro to the Q&A

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Also, you normalize death threats against judges, prosecutors, and staffers that are not fascist, so that a lot of non-fascists retire, drop out, or change the way they rule out of fear.

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/4 This is not a call for despair or surrender. The country has been through terrible things. Fight with the means appropriate to the occasion, work to protect and defend people weaker than you, and agitate, agitate, agitate. Never let them be totalitarian without being called out as totalitarian.

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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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Reminder for no particular reason that no one knows how this election will turn out, no one can foresee how an event today will impact voters’ choices four months from now, and it is still incumbent on all of us to fight fascism and not acquiesce to doom.

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Not particularly looking forward to the Right’s half-smirking half-mock-weepy “look what you forced us to do” routine coming up.