Wendell Albright

Wendell Albright

@wendella.bsky.social

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Diplomatic dude. I know a little about international economics. I once explained the electoral college on Mongolian TV. Climate change believes in you.

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Mdou Moctar rocks. That's it that's the, umm, post.

As strikers go, Kylian Mbappé an unusually astute political analyst, too.

"I think more than ever we need to go out and vote. We can't leave our country in the hands of these people [the far right RN party]," Mbappé said at a press conference in Hamburg ahead of France's Euro 2024 quarter-final against Portugal there on Friday." he did it www.lemonde.fr/en/politics/...

French elections: Mbappé says voting is 'urgent' after 'catastrophic' resultswww.lemonde.fr Star French forward Kylian Mbappé had previously called on young French people to vote at this 'crucial moment,' on Sunday, June 16, joining his team-mate Marcus Thuram in speaking out against the far...

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France dropkicked a baldly fascist political coalition out of office, imo if we can’t manage to do the same we should give back the Statue of Liberty

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Unironically put this post on ads in swing states

there are many reasons we need to win in the fall, but one of them is that i simply am not going to abide by letting both the brits and the french lecture us

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I wish Democrats would understand that it doesn’t matter how much the oil companies bribe you, if you support fast tracking clean energy you’ll get popular support AND get a brand new and less-regulated energy industry to bribe you.

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SCOTUS votes 6-3 that Le Pen gets to be President of France

Prolife party, indeed.

The governors of a dozen Republican-led states — AL, AK, FL, GA, IA, MS, OK, SC, SD, TX, UT, WY — opted out of a new federal food assistance program, leaving about 9.5 million students without the aid this summer

Republican-led states are blocking summer food benefits for hungry familieswww.usatoday.com Money for food is especially tight for families in a dozen states where Republican lawmakers declined to accept federal food assistance.

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Scalia's concurrence in Conroy v. Aniskoff decried use of legislative history in statutory analysis because it essentially turns lawyers into untrained historians and bills clients for the privilege of their amateurism. Somehow that's perfectly fine for constitutional analysis though.

Cue up SCOTUS to say "in 17th century history, there is no Kansas, therefore this ruling is invalid".

✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼 Kansas Supreme Court Strikes Down Second-Trimester Abortion Ban

Kansas Supreme Court Strikes Down Second-Trimester Abortion Bantruthout.org In a 5-1 ruling striking down two laws, the court found that the state constitution protects the right to abortion.

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I once wrote a fact check of a Morgan Spurlock book. He included what he said was a direct quote from the FDA that aspartame causes cancer. I checked the footnote. An FDA newsletter did publish that claim — but *only to specifically refute it*. That’s basically how Barrett quotes Madison here.

These mistakes originalist justices are making aren’t about disputed interpretations of history, with evidence on both sides. They’re pulling quotes out of context to attribute ideas to founding figures that those figures adamantly opposed. (via @andycraig.bsky.social) reason.com/volokh/2024/...

The Supreme Court's Dubious Use of History in Department of State v. Munozreason.com Justice Amy Coney Barrett's majority opinion includes significant errors, and violates some of her own precepts against excessive reliance on questionable history.

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Stephen Miller now following Trump's lead and saying he has nothing to do with Project 2025. 1. His organization is on the Project 2025 advisory board. 2. He recorded a video as part of Project 2025 training tools 3. You can see Mandate for Leadership, the Project 2025 publication in the background

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Study for a Portrait, by Francis Bacon, 1952, 📸 via @MenInBlazers

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anyway, bluesky is absolutely not ready and not prepared for the flood of authoritarian-funded trolls that are already beginning to flood it, so, you know, block early, block often.

Nice goal Turkey

Hey whaddayaknow, England CAN win on penalties sometimes.

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Serious question: What is it going to take to get the press to ask Donald Trump the questions of fitness and cognitive capacity that they’re asking Biden at every opportunity?

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Can we say the obvious? Trump is a deranged freak who is using the sickest theocratic freaks alive to enact revenge on everyone who isn’t a slimy, rich date raping suck up or their wives. In comparison to anyone, he is mentally unfit and only has supporters who want to do mentally unfit things.

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Trump thinks Project 2025 should stand back and stand by

Absolutely damn straight.

One of the things America was absolutely right about is that does not need, and should outright reject state-awarded titles of nobility. And so we should reject these too. If you are in the hot-seat in the oval office, congratulations Mr President. The day you leave, it should be just goodbye, Mr.

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Thereby confirming that he not only knows what Project 2025 is, he fully supports it.

The ramped-up hits on Project 2025 must be landing — Trump just shoved it right in front of the bus

Trump is both old AND a kiddie sex offender (among other unsavory qualities).

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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we’re in danger

NEWS --> Mark Robinson, the MAGA extremist GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, appeared to endorse political violence against unnamed foes in a recent speech. "Some folks need killing!" he shouted. "It's a matter of necessity!" Video and story here: newrepublic.com/article/1834...

MAGA Gov Candidate’s Ugly, Hateful Rant: “Some Folks Need Killing!”newrepublic.com Mark Robinson, the GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, has a long history of incendiary comments. But he may have topped himself this time.

I had a feeling Wordle 1,112 2/6 🟨🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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I have no idea the best path re Biden but I do know a solid week straight of “Biden Old” and “Rich Dems Worried” above-the-fold stories are *obscene* in the face of SCOTUS using the Constitution to wipe their asses purely in the service of reinstating a felon rapist as president. Crazy-making shit.

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I need to write the whole piece about this, but the thing to understand is that the NYT is now just Facebook. The platform dictates narrative to normies, is totally gamed by the right, and is still so ubiquitous as to be unavoidable even by those who see how broken it is. It's just Facebook.

I think there is no better music to play on the 4th than some Creedence Clearwater Revival...

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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

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Here’s the New York Times website, still obsessing about Biden’s debate performance. The Supreme Court’s ruling granting Trump immunity from criminal prosecution is no longer anywhere on the front page.

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Hey, don’t get mad at me if you’re helping to ratfuck Joe Biden. You should be mad at yourself for being played by these clowns AGAIN.

Reasonable.

"you're not American why do you care about the 4th of July" mate I'm Indian, any day someone got the Brits to fuck off back to their country is a national holiday for me