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people get mad if you point this out but Jon Stewart was always like this: it's just that his brand of "can't we just use common sense instead of being liars and hypocrites" moderate populism was the most left thing that was allowed in mass media post 9/11

apparently Jon Stewart figures Bill O'Reilly is what passes for a Reasonable People Can Disagree* republican and is happy to help him sell books *as long as we don't talk about grotesque sexual harassment and toxic workplace abuse

'Find a respectable conservative': Jon Stewart slammed over Bill O’Reilly interviewwww.rawstory.com "The Daily Show" host and comedian Jon Stewart was under fire Tuesday night for having former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly on the popular show to talk about political fanaticism and extreme rhetoric. ...

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Right-wing billionaires are spending millions to elect Trump. Right-wing billionaires spent millions rigging the Supreme Court. Donald Trump and SCOTUS will give them tax breaks, deregulations and protection. Right-wing billionaires can now legally “tip” them for doing it too.

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Please do not forget that this also killed his daughter Erica, who was an amazing woman. She died several years later from asthma, but...this killed her. Her health went into the shitter even as she tirelessly campaigned for justice. I really miss her.

'I can't breathe': Eric Garner remembered on the 10th anniversary of his chokehold death

'I can't breathe': Eric Garner remembered on the 10th anniversary of his chokehold deathapnews.com It has been 10 years since the chokehold death of Eric Garner at the hands of New York City police officers made “I can’t breathe” a rallying cry.

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An instagram influencer posted images of her life in Dubai but in doing so, inadvertently revealed details about the whereabouts of her husband, an alleged Bosnian cartel member. Our latest guide explains how we located them. www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...

Exploring the Skyline: How we Located an Alleged Cartel Member in Dubai - bellingcatwww.bellingcat.com How we used features of the skyline to narrow down the whereabouts of an alleged cartel member in the UAE.

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"Despite countless past warnings, the Secret Service failed to heed the real threat posed to the former president by the hundreds of millions of firearms in the hands of everyday Americans."

Investigation Finds Secret Service Failed To Account For Nation’s 393 Million Gunswww.theonion.com WASHINGTON—In a damning report that raised pointed questions about the federal agency’s security procedures, an investigation by the House Committee on Homeland Security concluded Monday that the Sec...

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As soon as we learned that Crooks was a registered Republican it was clear that the assassination attempt was going to be a two-day story.

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If you wanna know why JD Vance sucks ass there is no better place to start.

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Reporting from Milwaukee: tonight at day 2 of Trump’s coronation, the evening’s theme — with the crowd hooting and smiling along — was just a deluge of gore, blood in the streets, xenophobic scapegoating, terror, unstoppable bloodshed (unless we elect Trump!)… www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Trump’s RNC Revels in Graphic Demonization of Migrantswww.rollingstone.com The Republican National Convention's "Make America Safe Again" night was rife with fear-mongering over undocumented immigrants.

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A lot of people are choosing to look away right now in the face of something that is making Doctors Without Borders say things like this

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As you know, the death of Twitter has devastated small creators. Would you please reskeet to help me get the word out about my newsletter, The Bugbear Dispatch? Thanks!

When I got the news about the assassination attempt, "I knew there was no American 'unity' coming that would in any way include me as a transgender woman." The first night of the RNC certainly proved that last night, but pundits are still busy scolding Dems www.bugbeardispatch.com/p/america-th...

America the Surrealwww.bugbeardispatch.com An Assassination Attempt, Fake National Unity. and Our Fascist-Enabling Media

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looks like police are escalating their attacks on journalists after tormenting and killing students. there was quick uproar after Gaitho's arrest and police backtracked with lies, saying it was a case of "mistaken identity"

multiple protesters and a journalist were shot

Veteran journalist Macharia Gaitho abductedwww.the-star.co.ke He was abducted at the Karen police station.

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Yep. There's a lot of wiggle room in law, a lot of places where a judge's general attitudes about law, politics, governance, etc, will sway them to reach one of many potential outcomes. That is not what is happening now. What is happening are hacks and lunatics deliberately misapplying the law.

I'm a big fan of the attitudinal model of law, but I also think it's possible for judges not to be total partisan hacks. The thing is, literally no institution could survive if its leaders were taking bribes and its major positions were purposely filled with irresponsible lunatics for decades.

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JD Vance is an abortion extremist, voted against protecting contraception and wants increased birth rates Ask him why he and his wife "only" have 3 kids. Do they use contraception? DC punditry would get the vapors if anyone asked, but he's got no problem delving intlo our private lives Fair play

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You libs saying JD Vance stands for “Jautomatic Difle” are exposing yurselfs as a bunch of 🤡s ——it stands for “Jarmalite” which is the company that manufacturers JD Vance.

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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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I will never forgive mainstream institutions for continuing to treat Bari Weiss like a normal political commentator when her website is pumping out far-right propaganda. www.thefp.com/p/trump-maga...

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I don't know if it counts as optimism but I don't really think there's anything that Donald Trump could do or have happen to him that would make people who don't already like him want to vote for him. There is no more known quantity on earth, he can't change, and he is for sure not getting better.

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Your Prime Day reminder that last year Amazon spent $3.1 million busting unions, and $19.8 million lobbying Congress for deregulations and anti-worker policies. Amazon reported $30.4 billion in profits last year, while paying more than half of their workers poverty wages.

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Some thoughts on the frenetic firehose that is the 2024 presidential race at CAMPAIGN TRAILS. open.substack.com/pub/kevinmkr...

Conventional Wisdomopen.substack.com I’m on the road this week, taking my daughter to visit some colleges, but given this week’s insane flurry of activity in the presidential campaign, I’ll try to post when I can. First and foremost, let...

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This sort of thing just drips with contempt for its audience's awareness and intelligence, and I guess we just have to hope that its contempt not well-placed.

I have never read anything more credulous than Axios’s thing about Trump this morning. Like…

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timeline cleanse hat tip @penryu.bsky.social

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I keep remembering that the official Republican solution to gun violence is just... more gun violence. "The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun" means the plan -- the only plan -- is that AFTER the shooting starts, there's more shooting. Prevention isn't even considered.

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I'm a bit concerned that Republicans are successfully working the refs with the "turn the temperature down" rhetoric after they made it slightly warmer than the sun.

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The Republican line now is that the shooting was caused by Dems saying Trump is a threat to democracy, and they’re doing that because it’s a big and true thing they want Dems to stop saying.

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JD Vance going from 'Trump is America's Hitler and that's why I oppose him' to 'Trump is America's Hitler and that's why I'm running to be his Vice President' -- truly, what an arc

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A Perfect Match.

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i think people shocked by this aren’t just misunderstanding the political moment but also the trial court system generally. there’s rarely an orderly march toward justice — that’s a mythic story we tell ourselves.

Judge Cannon went and did it. She has dismissed the stolen documents case against Trump on Clarence Thomas’s (nonsense) appointments clause rationale.

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Trump’s VP pick … — demanded the DOJ open a criminal investigation of a journalist for “insurrection” over an op-ed critical of Trump — spouted replacement theory garbage — called for criminal prosecutions of other Trump critics — blamed Biden for Trump shooting — called for Biden’s prosecution

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Fomenting panic on the U.S.-Mexico border has created, not just a massive surveillance infrastructure, but also billions of dollars for technology vendors. @eff.org has compiled a public dataset of companies that are selling equipment to the DHS.

Hundreds of Tech Companies Want to Cash In on Homeland Securitywww.eff.org The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today has released a near-comprehensive dataset of the vendors who supply or market the technology for the U.S. government’s increasingly AI-powered homeland

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Lawmakers who propose mask bans pretend that it's the name of public safety. That's a blatant lie. Their true goal is to suppress the first amendment right to protest, regardless of the fact that mask bans put communities more at risk.