Wendell B

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arbitrator/mediator/lawyer; curious, humanist, globalist; husband, father, zayde x 3; Lexington Group; Kaposia band Mdewakanton and then Arch. Ireland lands by MSP.

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don’t forget Campbells cream of mushroom

Dear god I’ve just seen a recipe from the Midwest called funeral potatoes. Why are so many American recipes based around a can of Campbells condensed cream of chicken soup?

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If you paid attention to Trump's side of the debate, he had the same underlying problem Biden did, where over and over he would start a sentence and realize he couldn't say or remember the words that would come next, but where Biden stalled out, Trump just switched to blurting something unrelated

Donald Trump has good days and bad days but increasingly only bad days. He's lost it - he can't focus and his brains are leaking out his ears, but the press is very impressed with him because HE CAN STILL SHOUT

#ChecksAndBalances really is a better formulation

Among other questions, I wonder how we got to the point where “separation of powers” means the judiciary can prohibit the executive from holding itself accountable. radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-suprem...

The Supreme Court foldsradleybalko.substack.com Faced with the most potent threat to democracy in more than a century, our most revered institution didn't just fail to hold, it aligned itself with the threat

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Lots of Americans about to discover other nation’s immigration laws.

Americans, looking to move abroad: “so where can I live that isn’t fascist, won’t wilt under climate change, and has a Whole Foods?”

A breast oncologist, but he also knows what it takes to do the job of Presidenting: www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

There Are Exceptionally Sharp Octogenarians. Biden Isn’t One.www.theatlantic.com The president’s age isn’t his problem.

The single wrongest early virologist prediction about COVID: that there were only a limited number of possible variations, so not to worry medium-term. FLiRT was dominating COVID-19 cases, now we're already onto FLuQE

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Seth Cotlar

I love the "no resources" claim by Rufo. It's as if his ideas just succeeded in the open marketplace...rather than being identified by Tucker's white nationalist show runners as a useful post-George Floyd talking point, and then immediately sucked into the Christian Nationalist world of Russ Vought.

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The discourse around biden needing more sleep is fully insane. Does no one remember "Executive Time," the thing Trump spent the majority(!) of his schedule on where he would just watch TV and tweet? Dude was categorically unable to fulfill any of the demands of the office and the press barely cared

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I wish someone kept a list of all the imbeciles who said Elon Musk is a free speech hero so I could waggle a middle finger in their insipid faces until it fell off

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🏳️‍⚧️ The Josie Zone

I'm a weird anarchist in that i view nationalism and the nation-state as larger existential threats than either capitalism or liberalism, and most certainly do not see the three as equivalent or part of an ideological totality.

I agree actually — my study of Jewish history has suggested to me that group xenophobia is waaaaaaay older and more dangerous than capitalism or liberalism

@proptermalone.bsky.social Look what you started: bsky.app/profile/prem...

V. pleased to report that I just got an angry text from a friend who used 'squid pro row' in an email to her boss rather than 'quid pro quo' "THIS IS YOUR FAULT," she said "I PICKED THAT UP FROM YOU, YOU ILLITERATE INSECT" I replied "Ehehehehehe"

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note that warner's spox doesn't deny

Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-Va.) is attempting to assemble a group of Democratic senators to ask Joe Biden to exit the presidential race, according to two people with direct knowledge of the effort.

Sen. Mark Warner seeks to assemble group of Democratic senators to ask Biden to exit racewww.washingtonpost.com Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) is attempting to assemble a group of Democratic senators to go to the White House on Monday and ask that Joe Biden exit the presidential race, according to two people with dir...

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Torbjörn Björkman

Also: The thing where the parties swap candidates around to safe seats is an artifact of the parties having too little say in the UK FPTP system. They shouldn't have to do shit like that just to keep a roster of reasonably reliable people in parliament. Or reliably reasonable. Whatever.

Next, Sharyn, get an OverDrive account, to read library books on your (Kobo only?) ereader!

THIS is GOOD news for the day! Thank you Sharyn!

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Andy Craig

it's not particularly complicated, and that this apparently isn't possible or isn't glaringly obvious to them is very much part of the problem bsky.app/profile/pwna...

I think he should have an NYT op-ed tomorrow, a WaPo sit-down interview by the weekend, and on every TV channel on Sunday giving interviews

CONTENT WARNING:

"It is not a naive choice by the Taliban to use rape as a weapon to silence women’s voices. The Taliban know very well what rape does to any woman who experiences it. They also know how Afghan culture treat survivors of rape." zantimes.com/2024/07/05/w...

Why the Taliban use rape to silence women? - Zan Timeszantimes.com Rape is the worst thing that can ever happen to a woman in Afghanistan. I know that because I am an Afghan woman who grew up in Kabul. There has always been an unwritten curfew for all women in Afghan...

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Well, good morning Britain!

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Asawin Suebsaeng

“Still, the sources add, they do generally feel more confident in their legal theories than in the past, ever since Trump stacked the judiciary with right-wing jurists.” Latest from @andrewperez.bsky.social and me: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Right-Wingers Plan to Make it Difficult for Democrats to Replace Bidenwww.rollingstone.com If Democrats want to choose a new nominee, experts don’t believe the Heritage Foundation can stop them — but that may not be the point.

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lol sob

NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW NO, ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW!

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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.

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It's long annoyed me reading comparative politics research that what I call 'checks & balances' they standardly refer to as 'separation of powers.' It felt pedantic to insist, but Bouie here highlights why pedantry on this point is essential: SoP invites fatal misunderstandings that C&B avoids.

roberts essentially ignores the purpose of separation of powers, which was not to create entirely separate spheres of action but to prevent the emergence of unchecked authority. instead, he says, separation of powers *demands* unchecked authority.

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grooming industrial complex in shambles

Anybody know if Clarence Thomas, J. has any undeclared diamonds from any Saudis?

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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin

Yes I agree. Since we can no longer hope for an orderly transition we need to be building multifaceted resilience that can meet a range of challenges. For me it's community and organising. Denser social ties will always be useful in all circumstances.

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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin

Back when the forecasting should have been taken more seriously most people didn't listen very much to those of us calling for it. I thought maybe one day the "decision makers" would catch up. And in way they have. But circumstances have moved on, so they're still behind.

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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin

But we are deep in the age of climate shocks now. The age of people on the move. The age of "I have never seen a hurricane, fire, rainstorm do that before". The age of consolidation of media & governance in hands that are not steering for long-term collective & ecological health

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SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil's federal police indict ex-President Bolsonaro for money laundering and criminal association, source confirms.