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If you want some historical context on both the Heritage Foundation and the cyclical nature of counterrevolutions, here’s a piece I wrote about the case that put them on the map www.teenvogue.com/story/kanawh...

The West Virginia Textbook Panic That Turned Violentwww.teenvogue.com Bombs were planted in at least two schools and snipers fired on school bus escorts.

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Will wait for a single news outlet to call on Robinson to withdraw from the race.

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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Baltimore folks: check this list, there's two Taharka Brothers flavors on it

A wide range of ice cream products have been recalled due to potential contamination with listeria. www.newsweek.com/ice-cream-re...

Ice cream recall: Full list of brands impactedwww.newsweek.com The FDA has recalled 67 products across 13 brands.

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A dual U.S.-Saudi citizen is facing a long prison sentence and an even longer travel ban for "extremist ideology" over his cartoon comedy on Netflix and old social media posts. It's not the first time, and likely not the last, that Saudi Arabia has targeted U.S. citizens for their speech.

Netflix Show Earns Its Saudi Creator Plaudits, and a Prison Sentencewww.nytimes.com In a video plea for help, Abdulaziz Almuzaini — a dual Saudi-American citizen — described how the authorities had accused him of promoting extremism through a cartoon franchise.

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ICMYI I wrote about the importance of being a citizen archivist. We've seen so much incredible art and writing from marginalized people, and we need to preserve it in the face of a huge, well-funded backlash. This is something concrete you personally can do! buttondown.email/charliejane/...

We Should All Be Archivistsbuttondown.email Lately, I keep obsessing about two seemingly opposing but interrelated trends: 1) The past decade has seen an incredible bounty of art and self-expression...

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History will recall that the New York Times, that bastion of "the liberal media," on July 4, 2024 chose to give prime space on their op-ed page to a theocratic absolutist who argued that people shouldn't vote, even though he himself has voted in the last 2 elections (but nowhere is that mentioned).

When I first saw this I thought "no, that can't possibly be true." But alas, the Times did indeed choose today of all days to publish a right winger's recycled piece about how they don't vote, failing to mention that the author basically thinks absolutist theocracies are cool.

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Trump’s re-election will mean four hideous years of the GOP playing constant Civil War Chicken at best - as this Heritage Foundation ghoul made clear - and actual civil war at worst. Avoiding that bloody nightmare is a pretty damn good reason to suck it up and vote for Biden.

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If only our news media institutions found "ex-president promises to jail and try opponents for treason if he takes back power" as newsworthy as "unnamed aide said current president gets tired after having a full day of work."

Presidential candidate who the far-right members of the Supreme Court just placed above the law tells voters how he will exercise his new powers.

The more pressing thing is that they weren't allowed to share data but they did anyway.

Jesus. Automated enforcement advocates really underestimate the potential for abuse with these cameras. The amount of information they collect is staggering, as is the ability to piece it all together to meticulously track individual people. reason.com/2024/07/01/s...

Sacramento cops shared license plate data with anti-abortion statesreason.com Sacramento authorities are not only collecting drivers' information but sharing it with law enforcement agencies in other states without a warrant.

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these people do not intend to ever lose power again

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

I want to get something off my chest (get ready for a long thread). The United States is one of the most free countries in the entire world. Don’t expect your rights to transfer to other countries, and most countries don’t give foreigners rights whether visiting or staying. (1/11)

There is an American exceptionalism embedded in the idea that y'all think you can just pick up and leave and go wherever you want. It's cute you think you'd be welcomed. Americans aren't exactly popular in the world.

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This is predictable but so important: Pasteurizing milk kills the H5N1 bird flu virus that is circulating widely in dairy cattle. It's easy to take a 150-year-old technique that has saved countless lives for granted, but don't fool around with unpasteurized dairy products. 🧪

Pasteurization Kills Bird Flu Virus in Milk, New Studies Confirmwww.scientificamerican.com Flash pasteurization destroyed H5N1 viral particles that were highly concentrated in raw milk, confirming that standard techniques can keep dairy products safe from bird flu

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apropos of uhhhhhhh everything, reposting this again

As well-meaning publishers try to navigate the coming storm of state laws against diversity, I hope they'll consider Timothy Snyder's Rule #1 (from his slim book ON TYRANNY).

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I hadn't thought of it this way, but the Constitution explicitly stating that impeachment does not raise a double jeopardy issue for subsequent prosecution of the same conduct would seem to be another thing undermining arguments in favor of absolute executive immunity.

The Constitution says that in cases of impeachment, "the party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to indictment, trial, judgment and punishment, according to law." It does not except the president. But what impeachable offenses aren't covered by the new doctrine of immunity?

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I, along with many journalists, subscribe to DeleteMe (or equivalent) for $100+ per year to get our data scrubbed from data brokers to protect ourselves and our families. Even if these Fiverr ads are fake, the fact that it’s $30 a pop to dox makes me want to lay down, or set things on fire.

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Fiverr Freelancers Offer to Dox Anyone With Powerful U.S. Data Toolwww.404media.co Dozens of Fiverr sellers are advertising access to TLOxp, a potent data surveillance tool sold by credit bureau TransUnion.

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With less of a check on presidential criminality than many of us had been counting on, it becomes all the more important not to elect a brazen criminal to the presidency.

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Today, the federal government put itself on the right side of history by seeking, for the 1st time, to establish the precedent that every worker in America has the right to shade, water & rest while working in temps that could kill them. -UFW President Teresa Romero www.politico.com/news/2024/07...

Biden to announce heat rules as climate-related deaths risewww.politico.com If finalized, they would be the first U.S. regulations to protect workers from dangerous temperatures.

I wouldn't consider it zero control but it is shockingly low.

Lack of civilian control over police forces is the unaddressed issue in any discussion of American governance and politics

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life under authoritarian regimes is like war: most Americans don’t know that it’s often really normal and boring, up until the rarer, horrible moments when it isn’t

Pretty much. What it mostly boils down to is that most Americans really don’t have the faintest idea what living under modern authoritarian regimes actually looks like, and how it’s often at the same time way more boring and way more scary than they’d imagined.

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There is no constitutional text that says presidents are immune from all criminal law. Nor was it the intent of the authors of the Constitution or any amendments. It is inconsistent with American precedent and tradition. They just made it up.

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what arrogance - what extreme, unearned hubris - it is to hand this man a license to do anything he wants and assume that power will never be used against you and yours "feels empowered to violate federal criminal law" motherfuckers he tried to overthrow the government

Absolutely wild that the court accuses the dissent of "fearmongering" with "extreme hypotheticals" when the actual basis for the indictment is a coup attempt that led to an attack on the capitol

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This is the ball game folks, the authoritarian green light laid out in advance. Congress will not impeach Trump. And SCOTUS now blesses him with extraordinary latitude to do whatever he wants in power. A second administration will not be constrained by Congress, the courts, the bureaucracy or law.

Trump, who tried to overthrow an election, campaigned persistently for his fellow party members to grant him absolute immunity for his misdeeds in office. And they did. If you can't distinguish between "energy in the executive" and a constitutional crime spree, you've given up on US democracy.

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Chief Justice Roberts decrees the end of DOJ independence in an offhanded sentence on page 20.

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Hey caretakers/adult children: TIL that shingles can be triggered by an injury. I've never heard this mentioned by anyone. It was documented in JAMA as far back as 1947. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles...

Case-control study of the effect of mechanical trauma on the risk of herpes zosterwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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"WATS THE DIFFERENT BTWIXT A TORNADO WATCH & A WARNING?" A TORNADO WATCH IS "WATCH OUT, TORNADOES CULD FORM IN THESE CONDITIONS" A TORNADO WARNING IS "A TORNADO *EXISTS* & ITS IN UR AREA MOVE 2 THE LOWEST FLOOR OF UR SHELTER OR @ LEST 2 A INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS, OTHERWISE U MITE PERISH"

Too many health insurance companies have been systemically denying treatment illegally.

“Senator Sanders noted that insurance companies were charging Americans for contraceptives that, under federal law, should be free — and that they were also denying appeals from consumers who were seeking to have their contraceptives covered.” www.nytimes.com/2024/06/26/w...

It's quite wild how Republicans have convinced so many people that Biden is a wannabe dictator. Biden is an institutionalst who respects rule of law. He will not overthrow the US government in any situation.

Coda.

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Given Musk has kind of a practice of ignoring bills and using that as a technique to harass/bully, this is ... delicious: www.law360.com/corporate/ar...

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I'mma say this for all the people in the back. Don't vote for a person. Vote for your rights, for the rights of others. On page 5 of Project 2025's 180-day plan they openly call for outlawing porn, recommending imprisoning anyone who creates it. Are you an NSFW artist, or like the art? THIS IS YOU.