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Personal account. You may know me from fountain pen and history tweets at the other place.

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ok honey i’m gonna go drive my oxcart in the mud for a few hours. it’s grueling work but it’s honest. for real if i hear a distant piano twinkle signifying i’m the protagonist of a Tides of History episode, portending an era of massive societal change, im gonna be so pissed off

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Nice: not very nice

French cities are very *very* resistant to the far-right. Except... Nice. The RN has swept the districts that contain Nice.

Wild coming back to Magic after decades away and seeing Lotus Petal an expensive, sought after card. They’re commons! I used them as bookmarks in college!! Now if only I could find said bookmarks.

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The State Department’s top intelligence official is warning that the war in Gaza is bolstering recruitment among terrorist organizations and providing “inspiration for lone actors” furious over the United States’ staunch support for Israel. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Gaza war a recruiting boon for terrorists, U.S. intelligence showswww.washingtonpost.com Anger at the United States over its role in Israel’s war in Gaza has galvanized terror groups globally, the State Department’s top intelligence official says.

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sort of confused as to why they’re even bothering with this. might as well have just drawn it all up in secret

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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Olmsted and Vaux with a touch of the New Gilded Age

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Maybe I now have brainworms but 👀👀👀 to Whitmer name checking Harris *before* Biden.

There’s a fundamental difference between (1) stigmatizing regular folk, many of them from marginalized communities, based on their criminal record and (2) disqualifying from office an unrepentant elite likely to evade to accountability for his crimes based on his

The NYT's Trump coverage today

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an entire movement of wicked people who celebrate wickedness

As a side note, this is John McEntee, Trump's Director of White House Personnel and the primary architect of Project 2025. On Tik Tok he said he gives counterfeit bills to homeless people so they will be arrested when they go to spend them.

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i get why this pisses people off--this pisses me off too!--but it's not a sign of cognitive decline? idgi. are people really just now grasping that joe biden has failed to appreciate the threat of trump/the right/the supreme court?

enough of it that axelrod and another house dem are sounding the alarm now. frankly this one was enough but there's plenty more

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note that warner's spox doesn't deny

Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-Va.) is attempting to assemble a group of Democratic senators to ask Joe Biden to exit the presidential race, according to two people with direct knowledge of the effort.

Sen. Mark Warner seeks to assemble group of Democratic senators to ask Biden to exit racewww.washingtonpost.com Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) is attempting to assemble a group of Democratic senators to go to the White House on Monday and ask that Joe Biden exit the presidential race, according to two people with dir...

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every supreme court ruling these days

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Sometimes Edward Snowden reminds us he's just some guy with the galaxy brain outlook and views of an average GenX-y libertarian dude

“Why won’t Dems just nominate the addled conspiracy theorist who hates them,” a true riddle for the ages

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Getting word that Larry the Chief Mouser of Downing Street has coasted to another peerless victory with no opposition and 100% of the vote, truly Britain’s greatest statesman

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This is marvelous. Class action alleges Walmart systematically puts one price on the shelf, and charges a little more at the cash register. Walmart claims consumers can see the prices actually charged, so no harm. CA7 rejects. www.law360.com/securities/a...

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The Tories could still win if King Charles has courage.

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UK politics can be grim, but election night there with constituencies being largely ungerrymandered, losers standing next to winners of podiums, and the "election season is 6 weeks, not 2 years" default is incredibly wholesome

I for one am shocked to learn that hobbling your economy in a fit of nativist pique isn’t a winning electoral strategy long term

“Labour is expected to win 410 seats, with the Conservatives on 131.” www.bbc.com/news/live/cn...

UK general election results live: Labour set for general election landslide as early results come inwww.bbc.com Keir Starmer is on course to be new UK prime minister with predicted Labour majority of 170, according to the exit poll for the BBC, ITV, and Sky.

LEFT LEANING NONPROFITS: “We have to be very careful to avoid the appearance of partisanship, please don’t write or say anything implying candidate preference” HERITAGE: “We may not have to murder our political opponents but it’s honestly too soon to tell” 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

“Why doesn’t the NYT/WaPo etc ask Trump to drop out of the race?” Because nobody who can affect that decision listens to them, whereas elite papers actually have sway over the Biden White House. Come on, this isn’t hard.

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Look, I'm willing to try anything at this point.

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Time, like a centrifuge, spins conservatives out into two fractions: those who may yet have their "are we the baddies" moment and those who never will. Jonah is among the former, I think

Author of “Liberal Fascism” slowly realizes his book hasn’t aged well

If Trump wins in November and takes the Supreme Court’s invitation to enact “legal” revenge against his enemies and critics, I don’t think we’re obligated by history or tradition to simply accept it

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It's important to note that Trump tried to order this at least twice we know of during his regime.

right. the president could order troops to suppress protesters using live fire and the supreme court would extend that absolute immunity

Americans have a deep and well-founded suspicion that elites regularly get away with murder, and the Supreme Court has essentially proved us correct

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all the Twitter cool kids who think we 100% must bounce Joe Biden are currently circulating memes making fun of Kamala Harris, their commitment to beating Trump is really evident