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Scott Jennings on CNN right now saying this is on Dems for saying Trump will end democracy on the US. And Bash and Blitzer are like, yes, we have to tamp down the rhetoric on both sides. Absolute marks. Jesus Christ.

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I'm sure the Trump campaign will deal with this in a responsible manner and not do anything that increases the likelihood of future political violence.

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amplify this not unverified reports until we know more

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My favorite tried-and-true resistance tactic: Being Extremely Fucking Annoying.

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I'll repeat what I wrote in my book. People going after others should ask themselves: Am I going after the appropriate entity or the *available target*? A LOT of latter goes on. But cruelty laterally/downward does nothing to the entity that created a situation &ensures creation of a truly awful vibe

I think a lot of people get into a bad space here because the people with power they actually want to yell at would never in a million years be on Bluesky so we end up yelling at people who aren’t that bad and it makes everyone pissy and weird

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all i know is that if i have to go to fucking threads to get interesting commentary from black people because white people can't stop swarming their mentions here, the entire atproto bluesky experiment will have been an abject failure, regardless of what their technical goals were

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Talking about Project 2025 is having an impact, because the name sounds more sinister than "Republican Party Platform," and because it's the first time some Americans realized we're dealing with a fascist movement, not just one outlandish, egomaniacal, oft incompetent criminal.

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i also think that the majority of white people talking about how terrible it is that folks treated jb that way are REALLY MISSING THE RACISM PART so let me light it up for you, now: it’s because he’s black, not just because he writes for the times or whatever else. us ignoring that is toxic af

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The Guardian, where I’ve written for years, recently disclosed that much of its founding endowment came from the fortune of a British slave owner. It’s something I’ve grappled with privately, but have never, ever been bothered about on here. What do you think the difference is?

Shit, I think Jamelle Bouie quit Bluesky. This sucks. I like him a lot.

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Shit, I think Jamelle Bouie quit Bluesky. This sucks. I like him a lot.

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Before it was Jamelle, it was Tressie, before it was Tressie, it was all those black folks y’all chased away before this app was even fully open to the public. I can’t PAY a lot of my friends to try BlueSky because of what they’ve heard about y’all. It’s not a person; it’s a proven pattern.

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Holding a black man who writes EXCELLENT and helpful essays about democracy responsible for the acts of a heinous and hateful white woman so powerful at the NYT she was the *BOOKS EDITOR* for like a decade before becoming an opinion writer says everything about you and nothing about him.

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Remarkable finding in new Marist poll: By 68-32, voters say they're more concerned about a president who doesn't tell the truth than one who is too old to serve. Maybe we should cover Trump's serial lying as a sign of his unfitness for the presidency. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/1837...

Shocker Poll Suggests Trump’s Lying May Be Huge Weakness for Himnewrepublic.com One possible reason the polls haven’t moved as much as pundits expected: Voters still don’t like or trust Trump. Can the Democrats shift focus to that?

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Trump's Project 2025 is weighing like an anchor around his campaign and he's pulling out all his tricks to try to buck his association with it. Amazingly, it turns out voters care more about a candidate promising "I am planning to ruin your life" than an old guy mumbling a little?

Trump's efforts to run from Project 2025 are blowing up in his face: *CNN reports 140 former Trump officials are involved *New video shows Trump praised its creators in 2022 On the pod, we go deep into the threat Project 2025 poses, with Amanda Becker of The 19th: newrepublic.com/article/1837...

Trump’s Sleazy New Project 2025 Disavowal Scam Blows Up in His Facenewrepublic.com As new reports tie Trump to Project 2025, a writer who has examined the plan explains what this saga really reveals about the reactionary agenda MAGA wants to inflict on our country.

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Should've jailed Trump and his cohorts immediately. Members of Congress. His advisors. It was literally an attempted coup. And we treated it like a rough day at the office. Some of the people already convicted might even go free because of SCOTUS! We fucked it up!

genuinely part of me thinks that we already missed our window to win this constitutional crisis back in 2021. instead it was business as normal and now fixing things to actually go back to normal is dramatically more difficult or maybe even impossible

Supreme Court says prosecutors improperly charged some Jan. 6 defendantswww.npr.org The statute is also the basis for one of the four obstruction counts brought against former President Donald Trump in the criminal case currently pending against him in federal court in Washington.

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What? No it wasn't. A bunch of people warned about exactly this, before it happened, and then AS IT WAS HAPPENING. People just… kept pretending that the dude who conned them hadn't conned them and was, in fact, a super genius, instead of taking the fucking L and holding him anything like accountable

SpaceX and Elon Musk "misled" the National Park Service and FAA about its Starship launch plans in South Texas, a new report alleges. www.chron.com/culture/arti...

SpaceX deceived officials to fulfill Starship plans in South Texaswww.chron.com An official with the National Park Service said the agency was "misled" by Elon Musk and his company.

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Yeah, now they're just fucking with us.

Clarence Thomas Took Free Yacht Trip to Russia, Chopper Flight to Putin’s Hometown: Demswww.yahoo.com Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been accused of not disclosing a yacht trip to Russia and a private helicopter flight to a palace in President Vladimir Putin’s hometown, among a slew of othe...

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we do not have to tolerate this shit

This seems like a thing

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Of course it won’t pass the House, but its excellent optics and more importantly it will make Sam Alito in particular *very, very angry*

NEW: AOC introduces articles of impeachment against Justices Thomas and Alito for failure to disclose gifts and failure to recuse. Cosponsors: Lee, Tlaib, Watson Coleman, Ramirez, Frost, Omar, Bowman Thomas: ocasio-cortez.house.gov/sites/evo-su... Alito: ocasio-cortez.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

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okay this is amazing actually

Pro tip: call the Project 2025 1-800 number and complain about it to them. The people answering the phones don’t seem to know what the plan even is.

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so many things about the US government that are now treated as Inviolable Precedent are based on things like "this is a number I just pulled out of my ass" and have been modified repeatedly over time until one day people decided changing the number was too hard it doesn't have to stay that way!

Seven times between 1801 and 1869 Congress changed the size of the court, going from a low of five justices in 1801 to a high of ten in 1863. In most of those cases, as in 1801 and 1863, the size went up and down in order to fix an imbalance or overreach by the Supreme Court. My latest

The Case for Expanding the Supreme Court Has Never Been Strongernewrepublic.com Biden has repeatedly refused to endorse “court-packing.” The right-wing justices’ ruling on presidential immunity ought to change his mind.

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This photo is pure 2024.

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Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.

Generative AI is a climate disasterdisconnect.blog Tech companies are abandoning emissions pledges to chase AI market share

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Keep talking about how Donald Trump is credibly accused of sexually assaulting twelve year old children, with assistance from Epstein.

I saw this was trending and had to google it "The post alleges that Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for this year's presidential election, "forced" young girls to "perform lesbian sex acts."

Donald Trump, Katie Johnson allegations: Everything we knowwww.newsweek.com Allegations from a lawsuit that was dismissed in 2016 are circulating on social media.

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Any outlet that doesn’t cover this story is making a choice to ignore it, and we should be asking why.

Donald Trump, Katie Johnson allegations: Everything we knowwww.newsweek.com Allegations from a lawsuit that was dismissed in 2016 are circulating on social media.

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Look, I know a ratfucking when I see it.

Twelve (12) articles about Biden's age on the NYT home page. Scroll down for a good while and at the bottom of the right column you can find just two (2) articles about the Supreme Court's immunity decision, neither of which state in the headline that the president is now a king.

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Thinking about the way Brexit preceded Trump's election in 2016 and hoping this presages his humiliation in 2024.

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So hey, here's a thing I don't think a lot of folks know: That whole "Patient Zero" thing? The French-Canadian airhost who supposedly spread HIV all over America? That's not real. That's not what happened or how it happened.

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Not only will it hurt the ever-growing long-term unemployed and underemployed who can’t afford rising rents, But this will also disproportionately hurt DV and child abuse survivors. People WILL die because of this complete cruelty.

US cities can now punish homelessness. Will it help or hurt a crisis?

US cities can now punish homelessness. Will it help or hurt a crisis?www.bbc.com Experts argue arresting the homeless will make a crisis worse - but cities face mounting pressure take quick action.