Walter IV

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Living just enough, just enough for the city🎵

Blocked by Jamelle Bouie & Atrios for some reason

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@maggieastor.bsky.social please fwd

Worth emphasizing that the very theme of night 2 of the RNC is a lie. Crime is down since Biden took office and we are no longer quarantining at home amid mass death. America is far safer now than it was in January 2021.

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You may think you're not ready to get into the weeds of constitutional law and thanks to this interview, you don't have to. Just listen, learn, reason. Today's "just trust me." 😊

Delighted by this take on The Originalism Trap in Salon: "Dennie's analysis cuts deeper into the harm caused by originalist doctrine, without sacrificing nuance, rigor or scope" No one can tell me shit today www.salon.com/2024/07/14/s...

White supremacy with a law degree: How do we escape "The Originalism Trap"?www.salon.com Legal scholar Madiba K. Dennie on how the right twisted the Constitution — and how ordinary citizens can fight back

@dartadams.bsky.social who u got?

Hey media folks, please spread far and wide: The Boston Globe is hiring a TV critic. Probably doesn't need to be said but these job openings are hella rare these days. Heartening to see this gig is available, pls let folks know TVsky! : bostonglobemediapartners.applytojob.com/apply/OLsbys...

TV Critic - Boston Globe Media Partners - Career Pagebostonglobemediapartners.applytojob.com The Boston Globe seeks a full-time TV critic to join our staff

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The latest cover of the New Yorker:

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We have had NINE YEARS to know what Trump is like as a presidential candidate and president. Yet many reporters and analysts and pundits continue to hold out some weird hope that this time he'll change, this time he'll emerge as someone the complete opposite of who he's consistently shown us he is.

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Progressive values and Democrats are not responsible for this violence. There is no both sides here. Violent rhetoric is the bread and butter of modern extreme conservatism. And lax gun laws put a semiautomatic rifle in the hands of a gunman.

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Danyel Smith got a story to tell. Damn. And thank-you, @danyelsmith.bsky.social for your bravery and honesty. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/12/m...

I Knew Diddy for Years. What I Now Remember Haunts Me.www.nytimes.com Looking back on my life as a woman in the music industry, I’m unsettled by the inescapable sexism perpetrated by Sean Combs and others.

@joanwalsh.bsky.social to your point

“According to 3 Democratic lawmakers,all of whom had endorsed Biden & said they were proud of his policy legacy, there is a rapidly growing belief within every corner of the party’s elite that there is no point in waiting around for the next 4 months for Biden to misstep again or degenerate further”

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has introduced impeachment articles against Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito

Hey @audiecornish.bsky.social can you pitch a “what would a second Trump term look like?” series to Chalian?

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, who says Trump said he wanted his own face on the mountain monument, ingratiates herself by giving Trump a two-foot sculpture of Mount Rushmore with his head added.

My anxiety is through the roof due to the SCOTUS ruling dovetailing with a majority of Americans being low-information voters. #Bleak

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Gift link, share share share www.nytimes.com/2024/03/21/u...

Large Grocers Took Advantage of Pandemic Supply Chain Disruptions, F.T.C. Findswww.nytimes.com A report found that large firms pressured suppliers to favor them over competitors. It also concluded that some retailers “seem to have used rising costs as an opportunity to further hike prices.”

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A few years ago, Jon Lovett floated a theory that media treats Democrats like protagonists - to be challenged, accounted, and forced to be behave in growth-oriented ways - while the GOP are treated like antagonists - immutable, expected to disrupt, thematic obstacles. Thinking about that a lot.

I don’t recall the NYT calling for Trump to step down after being convicted of 34 counts of fraud and being called by a judge at his civil trial a rapist in the common person sense

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The Harlem Renaissance changed the world. We’ve gathered dozens of images, many that the @nytimes.com never published, showing the people and the art that they created www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

A Visual History of the Harlem Renaissancewww.nytimes.com The Harlem Renaissance changed the world. We’ve gathered dozens of images, many that we’ve never published, showing the people and the art that they created.

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Trump, Who Incited Insurrection After Losing In 2020, Refuses To Say He Will Accept Outcome of 2024 Election there's your fucking headline.

This is the best America has to offer?

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Hey @washingtonpost.com remember when you understood what happened on J6?

This is straightforwardly, inarguably true, you fuckers. The Biden campaign saying it doesn't make it a "caricature based on selective editing." That's just horseshit that you're making up

@comicsinthega.bsky.social, hey Mike, any help?

hey any folks who were around and conscious in the 1970s: I’m revising a chapter section about these 2 comics in my book and I’m wondering if anyone recalls other comics like these that depicted *contemporary* real-life black folks? Thanks! Pls share?

@jeffgreene.bsky.social you guys are both skeeting about the UNC Chancellor this morning.

Asheville NC has a thriving arts and culture scene, and it would be beyond feckless for UNC-Asheville to burn its long-term bridges with the life of the mind in its own city instead of making hard but more sustainable choices. Send a letter to the chancellor today! actionnetwork.org/letters/keep...

Keep PHILOSOPHY at UNC Ashevilleactionnetwork.org Dear Community Stakeholders & Supporters, The Philosophy Department at UNC Asheville is facing the high probability of being eliminated as the result of a recent Academic Portfolio Review process, wh...

@issalopez.bsky.social a fan

Wow the final episode of the last season of True Detective

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Breece Hall is really looking forward to the @newyorkjets.bsky.social Week 1 meeting with the @sf49ers.bsky.social for multiple reasons. #nfl

Jets RB Breece Hall ready for showdown with former teammate Brock Purdywww.yardbarker.com New York Jets RB Breece Hall was teammates with San Francisco 49ers QB Brock Purdy at Iowa State, but that's not clouding his vision for the Week 1 matchup between the teams.

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Blacksky community member looking for a 6 month sublet in NYC. Budget is $2200. DM if you can help (DMs open as they always are)

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Old white men destroying the institutions they made because people who are not them are benefitting also. They are losing, they've lost, and they are lashing out.

Yes, since then, history is being written by the losers: old white men destroying our institutions. And media? "Like today’s MAGA Republicans, they were tolerated, even indulged, by liberal journalists precisely because they were so irresistibly outrageous." Gift link:

Review | Donald Trump didn’t spark our current political chaos. The ’90s did.wapo.st In ‘When the Clock Broke,’ John Ganz revisits the era of Pat Buchanan and Ross Perot to find the roots of our populist moment

@phillewis.bsky.social of interest

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Uncovering the Cover-up: How Republican Pennridge School Board Directors Secretly Banned Books - Bucks County Beaconbuckscountybeacon.com This serves as a warning to parents in school districts across the country with far-right/Moms for Liberty-aligned partisans on their boards about what they’re capable of.

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“It raises concerns about right-wing money being funneled into Democratic primaries and tests the ability of AIPAC to shield Israel from criticism. But bigger than that, it is a test of how far America’s right wing will go to crush progressive movements.” Gift link. wapo.st/3KE1EnD

Opinion | No one should be surprised a Black politician is the canary in AIPAC’s coal minewapo.st Will Democrats allow their foes to choose their candidates? New York Rep. Jamaal Bowman hopes not.

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Brooklyn residents and best friends Stevenson Dunn Jr. and Erwin John founded The Bishop Gallery without any background in the arts.

The Unlikely Story of Brooklyn's Bishop Galleryhyperallergic.com Brooklyn residents and best friends Stevenson Dunn Jr. and Erwin John founded the beloved gallery without any background in the arts.

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Opinion | Another Committee to Confirm Our Conspiracy Theories comes up shortwapo.st Republicans could not prove that Anthony Fauci influenced the CIA on the covid lab leak theory.

Hey @aaronschaffer.com, serious question. Why should I have an interest in Hunter Biden? Leadership at WaPo say priorities will include Hunter but I don’t see how his struggles with the law relating to addiction impact me, my family or my community. Tawdry? Yes. Worthy of breathless coverage? No.