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#Metoo ruined lives: the women’s. For the summer issue of Bookforum, I wrote about Christine Blasey Ford’s memoir “One Way Back,” the aftermath of disclosure, and what it means to be a public survivor when storytelling has proven futile. www.bookforum.com/culture/disp...

Disposable Heroeswww.bookforum.com Christine Blasey Ford’s memoir captures the hazards of “coming forward” – Moira Donegan

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this is not, in fact, a sporting event that isn’t living up to its billing not that you could tell from listening to these people

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In France, the left coalition comes in first, Macron second, the far-right third. The best way to defeat fascism is not centrism, it’s a strong left.

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Fight against daunting odds, because it’s the right thing to do, and because sometimes you win.

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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far right beliefs are deeply unpopular, which is why one of their main beliefs is making sure a popular vote doesn't get to decide anything

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I am on record saying if you paid the Undertaker a billion dollars to run against Trump and Trump saw him in a debate he’d immediately drop out. This isn’t a joke I really believe that.

Replace Biden with John Cena.

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I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

if you’re waiting for everyone around you to wake up, you’ll wait forever. this is how the people grinding our bones to make their bread WANT you to be. paralyzed, alienated & purposeless

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This semester I’m going to tell my students I don’t care if they use ChatGPT to write their papers, much as I don’t care if they use LSD and a ouija board write their papers. I’ll give fancy-sounding bullshit a failing grade no matter how it’s produced.

Well this is grim

Holy shit

Trump can make the thugs willing to do his bidding immune to federal prosecution. Not to bullets, though.

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Wallace Shawn on Gaza: “The Anger of the Palestinians Cannot Be Ended by Killing Their Children” The playwright, actor, and member of Jewish Voice for Peace challenges the notion that all Jews support Israel's actions Via THR

Wallace Shawn on Gaza: “The Anger of the Palestinians Cannot Be Ended by Killing Their Children”www.hollywoodreporter.com The playwright, actor, and member of Jewish Voice for Peace challenges the notion that all Jews support Israel's actions

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not for nothing, but there’s something incredibly unseemly about watching the nation’s newspapers laser focused on biden old fifty times a day for over a week now, there *are* other important news stories in the world that deserve covering.

Israel-Hamas negotiations resume; U.S. hails ‘breakthrough’wapo.st A senior U.S. administration official hailed “a breakthrough on a critical impasse” as Israel ordered its negotiators to return to the Qatari capital, Doha.

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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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Listen, all you idiots need to shut up and do what I imagined everyone should have done in 2021, whatever that is

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The problem with Trump's cognitive impairments is you have to listen to him for a minute or so, and actually try to make sense of what he is saying.

Let's check in on the candidate of cognitive superiority www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Trump Suggests Planes Can’t Fly When It’s Not Sunnywww.theatlantic.com Battery and aviation experts were flummoxed by his recent assertions about electric aircraft, which are not yet in widespread use.

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The fact that no electeds last time were punished for trying to steal the election predictably lead to out-in-the-open maneuvering to do the same thing in 2024. It's bad

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George Lucas in 1999 making a movie about how the senate and Supreme Court are hopelessly corrupt:

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This is one of the most dystopian signs I've ever seen. Republicans are quickly turning this country into an unrecognizable freakshow.

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Right-wing legal talking heads are focusing on arguing that it is RIDICULOUS to say that a second-term Trump will be empowered by immunity to do horrific things, while carefully preparing to argue in seven months that it is RIGHT that Trump do horrific things which aren’t actually horrific anyway.

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I've seen enough -- this is the most radical, dangerous, arrogant, out-of-control Supreme Court in American history, and it needs to be treated as such. open.substack.com/pub/kevinmkr...

The Radical Roberts Courtopen.substack.com The current Supreme Court of the United States has just cemented its place in history as the most radical Supreme Court ever. For a century and a half, that dishonor has gone to the antebellum court l...

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There are two elements to the immunity decision that are particularly extreme in a way that many will miss: (1) motive is irrelevant and (2) immune acts are not just excluded from prosecution, they’re excluded from evidence. /1

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Glad to see some members of Congress taking the issue seriously.

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THE sentence of the day: A Macronist incumbent in the Marseille region came in 3rd in her seat. She just dropped out to support the left. She said, about why she's maneuvering to block the far-right: "Defeats happen, but you can never recover from dishonor."

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YES THAT WORKED SO WELL AND DID NOT AT ALL THROW THE PARTY INTO A DIVISIVE NOMINATION CONTEST AND LOST ELECTION THAT WOULD HAUNT IT FOR THE NEXT HALF CENTURY

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NYT: Joe should quit, he stutters Philly Inquirer: Trump is a fucking criminal what the fuck are we doing here

God Bless Paul Davies and the @PhillyInquirer: "The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump...There was only one person at the debate who does not deserve to be running for president. The sooner Trump exits the stage, the better off the country will be."

To serve his country, Donald Trump should leave the race | Editorial Boardwww.inquirer.com Biden had a horrible night Thursday. But the debate about the debate is misplaced. The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump.

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I think the last good tech story was the people of Philadelphia murdering Hitchbot and leaving his body as a warning for other robots

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Gordon ramsey should do a show where he hires a bunch of 5 year olds to come up with dishes for a restaurant, and then goes apeshit at actual cooks to make those dishes in a real restaurant. All screaming "those hashbrowns need a skittle inside each one you fucking slobs!"

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"There was only one person at the debate who does not deserve to be running for president. The sooner Trump exits the stage, the better off the country will be."

To serve his country, Donald Trump should leave the race | Editorialwww.inquirer.com Biden had a horrible night Thursday. But the debate about the debate is misplaced. The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump.

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You all probably know this already but it JUST occurred to me that after Chump was convicted as a felon, the press and pundits DID NOT, IN UNISON, as they did about Biden after the debate, write op-eds and articles saying Chump must stop running for president.

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Trump tells his rally crowd Chuck Schumer has “become a Palestinian.” Second time this week he’s used “Palestinian” to describe non-Palestinians he dislikes as if the word is a slur. I remain skeptical of the claim that Trump becoming president next year would improve the lives of Palestinians.

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congress: i consent federal agency: i consent supreme court: isn’t there someone you forgot to ask