reckoneer

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Piano player. Walking the dog, writing and recording music, politics, policy, adapting to climate change.

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It would also destroy whatever fragile agreement we still share within the party, such as it is.

by choosing anyone other than harris to replace biden should he decide to step aside, the party would be revealing they very cynically chose her as veep for optics without believing she could actually be president.

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Long elections waste immense amounts of money. they harass potential voters into apathy. They play into the horse-race, scandal-fed view of politics that feeds deeply unserious media coverage. They NOT INCIDENTALLY make it difficult/impossible for campaigns to deal with last-minute surprises.

note how long it took the French from calling the election to holding not 1 but 2 votes? and organizing the shit out of the second one? LESS THAN ONE MONTH A national election does not have to be a painful 1.5-2 year process! the US election campaign should quite honestly not even have started yet!!

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So voting is better than *not* voting when it comes to getting what you want? Huh.

BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.

Projections in France's election show voters rejecting the far rightwww.npr.org Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which ...

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Biden passed the most aggressive climate package in US history and probably ever again and I feel like the environmental beat is the only place we’re covering it

And fwiw, on domestic policy, legislative achievement and macro-economic stewardship the former is an argument I have made on our show many many many times.

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🎉 So apparently the UK just threw out the conservative party in favor of the center-left party. Reposting this link for no particular reason. secure.actblue.com/donate/house...

Help flip the #HouseBlueIn24!secure.actblue.com Democrats only need to flip a handful of seats to retake control of the U.S. House. Donate today!

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Man, if it turns out that the right winger telling NY Times readers that they should follow his example and not vote did in fact vote in the last two elections, the Times should add this to the piece. Better than a retraction, since it illustrates a willful hypocrisy.

He voted in both 2020 and 2022.

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Constitution: People involved in insurrections should not be President. Roberts court:...hmm, no, I don't see it. Constitution:.... Roberts court: but the president should have immunity for crimes

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I kinda feel like now that the Supreme Court has declared it legal for a president to straight-up murder people they don't like, it's probably even more important to not elect people who seem extremely inclined to murder people they don't like

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these people do not intend to ever lose power again

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

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Keeping Trump out of the White House isn’t the only thing that needs doing and it isn’t enough to solve all problems facing the country & world but if it isn’t done then all those problems get exponentially worse in ways I don’t even know how to express and it scares me when people pretend otherwise

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It's useful to remember that the court that granted Trump immunity is heavily a product of non-majority power in the first place. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | The minoritarian power imbalance that gave Trump immunitywww.washingtonpost.com The way the system works is that five members of the nine-person Supreme Court can be nominated by presidents who lost the popular vote when they first ran and that four of them can be confirmed by se...

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Yesterday the Supreme Court said the president can do crimes I feel like maybe the current administration could get silly with it

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The obvious move after the supreme court grants the president absolute immunity for official acts is to make them regret it immediately

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Don’t overlook this one tiny bit of GOOD news from out of the US …

It said Mr. #Giuliani was being disciplined for lies he told in numerous forums that were “designed to create distrust of the elective system of our country in the minds of the citizens and to destroy their confidence in the legitimacy of our government.” www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/n...

Giuliani Disbarred From the Practice of Law in New Yorkwww.nytimes.com Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former mayor of New York and a longtime ally of Donald J. Trump, was at the center of the former president’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

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This is predictable but so important: Pasteurizing milk kills the H5N1 bird flu virus that is circulating widely in dairy cattle. It's easy to take a 150-year-old technique that has saved countless lives for granted, but don't fool around with unpasteurized dairy products. 🧪

Pasteurization Kills Bird Flu Virus in Milk, New Studies Confirmwww.scientificamerican.com Flash pasteurization destroyed H5N1 viral particles that were highly concentrated in raw milk, confirming that standard techniques can keep dairy products safe from bird flu

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New from me: The Supreme Court — in addition to granting Trump broad immunity — is slowly breaking the EPA, eroding its ability to write new climate rules, respond to public comments, and punish companies that pollute the air and drinking water. heatmap.news/climate/supr...

The Supreme Court Is Slowly Breaking the EPAheatmap.news Four rulings from the past week will weigh heavily on future climate regulation.

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Good for her. Do it.

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And remember, the Christian Right only took up abortion as a topic after they lost school segregation for good when the IRS went after Bob Jones’ U status, & needed a new issue to rally the troops. 1/x all our issues are intertwined. 🧵

The United States has always been a democracy for some and a brutal authoritarian regime for others, and the effort to expand it to democracy for all has led to a 70+ year backlash culminating in SCOTUS claiming that kings are totes cool and also judges are the ones to coronate them

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This coming week, temperatures in Death Valley will be the hottest in the recorded history of this planet. Beryl is the earliest category four storm in the history of Atlantic hurricane season. People, both now and in the future, need us to stave off fascism and build a world where they can live.

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Can we start treating this "You have less than six months" refrain from neo-Nazis and far-right extremists as anything other than open death threats? It's out of control

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Who’s gonna be the guy who decides to be the test case for whether this criminal immunity for super official acts extends to staffers directly told to break the law

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will any of the feckless idiots who have over the years repeatedly assured us of John Roberts' nobility and seriousness of purpose devote their next column to explaining how they came to so thoroughly misunderstand the precise thing their job is to understand, or nah?

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If, however, President Biden steals the election using only the tools available to everyone else, that would be a crime.

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Trump: I am running for president again to take my vengeance. SCOTUS: Just FYI, “official acts” of murder are A-OK with us.

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The 14th Amendment says if you were involved in an insurrection you can't be president. SCOTUS said they won't allow anyone to enforce that because of reasons they made up. The Constitution doesn't say the president is immune from criminal law. SCOTUS decided he is because of reasons they made up.

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This is good.

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June heat pump update: Installing a cold-climate heat pump & switching to renewable electricity purchased over the grid has resulted in substantial reductions in emissions. Existing technology is good enough to chip away at emissions when deployed. 🧪🔌💡

Makes me wonder if this type of brain damage effects AK15 hobbyists too. Pattern of Brain Damage Is Pervasive in Navy SEALs Who Died by Suicide www.nytimes.com/2024/06/30/u...

Pattern of Brain Damage Is Pervasive in Navy SEALs Who Died by Suicidewww.nytimes.com A military lab found distinctive damage from repeated blast exposure in every brain it tested, but Navy SEAL leaders were kept in the dark about the pattern.

With our modern SCOTUS, Eileen Cannon, the guy in west Texas, and the 5th circuit's freeway to the top, do I need to abandon the word judiciously?