Tom Scocca

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Editor of Indignity.net. This Bluesky is about the Machines.

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Manchin is 76 fucking years old.

Obviously Ross Douthat doesn't want any Democrat to win but it's funny to see the guy whose No. 1 publishable opinion is that Americans need to have more babies pretend to go for the guy who blew up the child tax credit

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Step down for the birthday boys

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Wow, real banana republic stuff. I'm glad our presidents can launder money and associate criminally without worrying about this kind of thing.

Reports: Brazil police have indicted Jair Bolsonaro for money laundering and criminal association

Haven't changed the parts where he describes himself as abstinent from voting and as one of "those of us who remain on the wagon," i.e. a habitual nonvoter

Lmao they just changed the title of the piece from “Why I don’t vote” to “Why I won’t vote” rather than tell readers that the guy actually does vote

Matthew Walther is the gender-neutral Phyllis Schlafly

It's not just that it's a piece against voting, it's a fake world-weary article about how civic disengagement is good from a guy with radical reactionary politics who spends his life doing advocacy (including publishing this op-ed in the New York Times)

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“First they came for the socialists and I was like this rules this guy over here can help you they call him the Socialist Eater I’ll give you his @.”

The "...and I did not speak out" part of Niemöller seems agonizingly quaint now

This is the most fucked up shit Tablet has ever done

He means the VJ

This fuckin guy

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Anyway back on the particular topic it sure seems like the part about how Biden got way worse all of a sudden is what I would probably scrape together if I were a team of four New York Times White House reporters trying to explain how we all got entirely blindsided by the debate

Biden’s Lapses Are Said to Be Increasingly Common and Worrisomewww.nytimes.com People who have spent time with President Biden over the last few months or so said the lapses appear to have grown more frequent, more pronounced and, after Thursday’s debate, more worrisome.

Indignity Morning Podcast No. 295: Less rigorous than Gawker dot com.www.indignity.net RIGOR IN PODCASTING

Watched the movies have you not

Ah, right, Yoda, the old guy who shriveled up and died and left his shaky understudy to beat the evil Empire alone

All these centrist Let's Have an Emergency Pageant of Democracy takes fall apart at the slightest contact with outside reality, but this part can't even hold up on its own terms!

Anne Applebaum here is arguing that 1. Trump is a senile gibbering idiot so therefore 2. the Democrats must distract the public from paying attention to him

Not saying which domain's behavior flowed into which but it's striking how you used to get one All-Star ballot when you went to the ballpark and pick the players you thought were best, and now the TV crew tells viewers to stuff the online ballot box with a straight team ticket as often as you can

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Also thank goodness Trump has never pardoned and restored rank to court martialed war criminals, I guess our worries were for nothing

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"Don't worry, if the president imprisons his political enemies, you can still get a writ of habeas corpus." "But to prove that's why you've been imprisoned requires proof of..." "Presidential motive!" "And under Trump v US, presidential motive is..." "Inadmissible!"

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if your instinct is "calm down, surely this is an exaggeration," allow me to assure you that it's really not

Also a little more subtly “SEAL Team Six” is the framework here because it was the original shockingly funny hypothetical but none of this military law stuff applies if he just sends the Marshals to kill someone—which, again, he already bragged he did

constitutional lawyers use your fucking brain challenge www.politico.com/news/2024/07...

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Indignity Vol. 4, No. 110, Royal Flush. In honor of the Supreme Court majority's minority's reminder that people with absolute immunity were one of big things our national forebears got fed up with 248 years ago this week, we present a very special gallery of KINGS: www.indignity.net/royal-flush/

Royal Flushwww.indignity.net Indignity Vol. 4, No. 110

What do you mean

dream on

Their MeToo stuff was full of this, reporting that like somebody had two dates that were rude and uncomfortable, said something that an underling interpreted as hostile, and oh yeah sexually assaulted someone else

There's lots of reporting in the story that is serious and disturbing if true—what's the point of throwing in an anecdote that you acknowledge is bogus? The paper has some bizarre institutional belief that throwing weak stuff on top of strong stuff make the story stronger.

Setting the particular topic aside for a second, this is a truly spectacular case of the Times' pathologically incompetent "Where there's fire, there's smoke" theory of writing up high-stakes investigative stories

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Caitlin Clark is the modality in which class gets lived in the WNBA flaminghydra.com/issue-110/

Classy basketball / Dollars to donutsflaminghydra.com Today: Tommy Craggs, late of "Game Theory" on HBO and writer and editor at Mother Jones, HuffPost, Slate, Gawker Media, and Deadspin; and Hamilton Nolan, author of the newsletter How Things Work and t...

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Indignity Morning Podcast No. 294: Whoo, boy. www.indignity.net/indignity-mo...

Indignity Morning Podcast No. 294: Whoo, boy.www.indignity.net SUPPORT THIS PODCAST

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"The true believers in institutionalism had a theory of power that turned out to not be true." www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-end-of...

The End of Liberal Institutionalismwww.hamiltonnolan.com Excessive belief in institutions is a proven failure.

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Scocca and Bouie standing athwart the West Wing reboot writer's room shouting "how?"

A really good way to manage a united front is to schedule a meeting to throw open the question of who's in charge 10 weeks before Election Day www.indignity.net/who-elected-...

Who Elected the Times Editorial Board?www.indignity.net Indignity Vol. 4, No. 109