Trey Lawson

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Educator. Writer. Critic. Cinéaste. Plus actor. Co-host Tomb of Ideas, a Marvel Horror Podcast | he/him

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I wrote about Ted Cruz's immigrant-voting line, which managed to take a dishonest, opportunistic, hostile argument and make it significantly grosser. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | Ted Cruz pushes the GOP’s immigrant-voting lie deeper into the slimewww.washingtonpost.com The Republican Party has tried to stoke baseless fears of non-citizen voting. At the party convention, Cruz took the falsehood much further.

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So far this year: earthquake, eclipse, aurora, and… heyyyy www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/t...

Meteor passed over NYC, Statue of Liberty Tuesday: NASAwww.nbcnewyork.com Users on social media across New York and New Jersey reported feeling a shaking or hearing a loud noise just after 11 a.m. It’s unclear if the meteor was responsible for what residents felt.

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Just for reference: After Trump’s big tax bill, my husband and I owed thousands each year. Never before. Hopefully no more because I’m now on Social Security. But it *really* was bad for us. That first and second Covid checks? All went to cover income tax.

Said it before, I’ll say it again, tell people Republicans want to take away their tax refunds.

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also and I feel like I buried the lede here: it calls for the people who CREATE queer media to be imprisoned. That'd be people like me. Or any other queer creator you love. Any queen who's been on drag race. Chappel Roan. Janelle Monae. Anyone who's made a piece of queer media. Imprisoned.

Psst: Project 2025 is terrifying for a lot of reasons but also because on page 5 it calls for teachers and librarians who grant access to books that are maligned as pornography (which just means anything LGBTQ) to be registered as sex offenders. Pass it on.

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Never did that, although I’ve definitely called GUI “gooey”

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“He was a person. He was human. This is more trauma on top of trauma for those who knew him and still live here.” — Shelly Sarasin, cofounder and director of the Street Angels outreach group

The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel now says that FIVE Columbus police officers shot and killed the homeless Black man well outside the RNC security perimeter. Columbus Police say the shooting took place within the officers' assigned "operational zone."

Milwaukee man dead after being shot by 5 Ohio police officers near RNCwww.jsonline.com The man killed by Ohio officers near the RNC on Tuesday was well-known in the neighborhood, several witnesses told the Journal Sentinel.

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When Tucker Carlson heard that Donald Trump might be wavering on J.D. Vance as his running mate, he intervened. He also warned Trump that two other contenders, Marco Rubio and Doug Burgum, could not be trusted.

How Tucker Carlson Helped Sell J.D. Vance as Trump’s Running Matewww.nytimes.com The former Fox News host warned Donald J. Trump that two other running-mate contenders, Senator Marco Rubio of Florida and Gov. Doug Burgum of North Dakota, could not be trusted.

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I was just thinking about how Obama had the PUMAs to contend with heading into his 2008 convention, Clinton had Bernie or Bust in 2016, and now Biden has this sort of cross-cutting rebellion that elected progressives have decided not to join.

I knew having AOC, Bernie and other progressives demonstrate they have his back would pay dividends but I didn't think it would happen so quickly

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I tend to think the effect of the presidency on the homicide rate is probably pretty negligible, but if Trump wants to run on the opposite premise, this should be mentioned constantly.

Just a reminder: Trump inherited the lowest homicide rate of any president in 50 years. He was the first president in 30 years to leave office with a higher homicide rate than when he entered. And the rate has dropped every year since he left. www.foxnews.com/video/635815...

RNC day 2 to focus on crime and safety as victims' families speak out | Fox News Videowww.foxnews.com Erin Rachwal, who lost her son to fentanyl poisoning and Sheri and Aaron Sparks, who lost their son in the Waukesha parade attack, on the need to hold criminals accountable and stop the influx of illi...

What the what?! wapo.st/4bGC9gI

Biden set to announce support for major Supreme Court changeswapo.st The president has discussed the plans with constitutional scholars and members of Congress in recent weeks.

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I will never forget the interview, shortly after Ozy Media Inc. was formed, where Carlos Watson said he named it after the poem, because "the lesson you take from [Ozymandias] is that you have to dream big." So that's why liberal arts education is important.

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Remember in 2016 when there was a lot of pressure for Trump to divest from his private business because it's unethical for a president to make money off the presidency especially while in office, but then he just refused to do it and now people don't even really care anymore?

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if you’re trying to engage with politically disconnected people about project 2025, identify a specific part that you think will resonate with them. i just told my friend who’s a public school teacher about the plan to abolish the department of education and that got her hooked.

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Huge investigation from @proofnews.bsky.social today: We reveal the trove of YouTube videos that are being used to train AI models including Anthropic's Claude. Yes, it includes all your favorite YouTubers - from @hankgreen.bsky.social to @mrbeast1.bsky.social www.proofnews.org/apple-nvidia...

Apple, Nvidia, Anthropic Used Thousands of Swiped YouTube Videos to Train AIwww.proofnews.org Creators claim their videos were used without their knowledge

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John Roberts said presidents had maximal powers to prosecute what they want. Clarence Thomas said, only if Congress approves. www.emptywheel.net/2024/07/16/a...

Aileen Cannon Makes Clarence Thomas' Calvinball Newly Significant - emptywheelwww.emptywheel.net John Roberts says the president has maximal authority in his prosecutorial function. But Clarence Thomas says, only if Congress agrees.

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Loving the likes and RTs on this! It would be even more awesome if people read it. I promise it's worth your 2 minutes. I spent many years tangling with "men's rights activists," i.e. bitter divorced anti-feminists. I get why they love J.D. Vance and Trump more than anyone.

My contribution to the "Christ, what an asshole" coverage of J.D. Vance: How he reconciles his denunciation of divorce and running with a guy who on his third adulterous marriage. Hint: It's not divorced men Vance loathes. It's divorced women. www.salon.com/2024/07/16/s...

J.D. Vance decried folks who "shift spouses like they change their underwear" — but he loves Trumpwww.salon.com Donald's running mate denounced divorce for "even violent" marriages, but is mum on his boss's wives and mistresses

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An examination of more than 1,200 federal judges and state supreme court justices turned up dozens of judges who chose not to recuse when facing potential appearances of impropriety involving familial financial connections. www.propublica.org/article/judg...

Even When Big Cases Intersect With Their Families’ Interests, Many Judges Choose Not to Recusewww.propublica.org Ambiguous — and unenforced — recusal standards mean few checks and balances for top judges when cases involve their family members.

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JD Vance is on the ticket because he wants the government to kill trans people. Vance has been more vocal in his transphobia than just about any other leading VP candidate. That's a deliberate choice by Team Trump.

J.D. Vance's horrendous record of homophobia and transphobiawww.advocate.com Donald Trump's vice-presidential pick hasn't been a senator long — but he's been in the public eye long enough to accrue a strongly anti-LGBTQ+ record.

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just waking up and getting to work and encountering the most mind-bogglingly idiotic conversation i've seen in weeks

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Yeah! Good stuff all around. I feel like maybe I had a reprint of Untold Legend from around the time the ‘89 movie came out? Doesn’t get much better than Byrne + Aparo, with Garcia-Lopez covers.

Well then.

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school vouchers are designed to starve public schools and they’re working in that regard

Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers' tuition that it's now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects.

School Vouchers Were Supposed to Save Taxpayer Money. Instead They Blew a Massive Hole in Arizona’s Budget.www.propublica.org Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it’s now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state program...

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Love that Ross added Kirby and Ditko representation.

Totally beside the point, but can I put this on my business card?

Remember when that Orthodox Priest bodied Jordan Peterson? I think there is a lot here that is relevant to the Roman church as well.

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Was Wein writing in the “Wayne penthouse” era where he gave up the manor, the original cave, etc? I like those - especially the expansion of the supporting cast.

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Still the best takedown of Vance and his ridiculous book. As an Appalachian as well: do not ever trust this man. bittersoutherner.com/hillbillies-...

Hillbillies Need No Elegy — THE BITTER SOUTHERNERbittersoutherner.com In the new book “Appalachian Reckoning,” dozens of mountain voices combine to talk back to J.D. Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy” arguments. Today, an exclusive story from its co-editor and a powerful essay...

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HE LITERALLY OWNS AND LIVES AT A COUNTRY CLUB

The claim that Trump “ushered in economic populism” & “downgraded the importance of country-club Republicans while prioritizing blue collar workers,” not only reads like an RNC press release, but is belied by Trump’s record (tax cuts for the rich, an anti-labor NLRB, support for wage theft, etc.)/3

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Some media figures are eager to portray Trump as a "uniter" after the shooting. Axios is pushing this hard. But Trump just unleashed a rant that wrecks this storyline, calling Jan 6 a "hoax" and depicting our Justice System as corrupt to its core. 2/ newrepublic.com/article/1838...

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This is galling: Media accounts are noting that both Trump and Dems are attacking the other as a grave threat to democracy. But Dems base this on what Trump and his allies *say in their own words.* Trump makes shit up. Media isn't making this clear. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/1838...

Trump’s Ugly New Post-Shooting Rant Instantly Wrecks His “Unity” Pivotnewrepublic.com Donald Trump’s idea of unity: Everybody just needs to unify around putting him above the law. The media must resist getting played by his scam.