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Editor; bibliophile; Francophile; Yankee fan; mac-and-cheese aficionado; parrot enthusiast. Lover of semicolons.

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I know VP picks don't usually drive or depress voter turnout, but Vance is so far right (or pretends to be) that I wonder whether he might be one who causes millions of people to #vote🌊. Fingers crossed!

Let's all #vote🌊 and thereby keep him from taking up residence at the Naval Observatory at all costs, shall we?

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4/4 DOJ possible next steps include: A. Appeal to 11th Circuit & SCOTUS (process would take into '25); B. Give up; or C. Re-indict using the DOJ Public Integrity Unit and US Attorney for SD Florida to run the case. The only thing I know *for certain* about the future is it hasn't happened yet.

Short thread.

Institutions work until they don’t. It’s banal but true. Courts as institutions worked when Trump tried to steal the election, but FedSoc has been chipping away at them for decades, and I think it is very rational to doubt they will work any more to restrain an executive.

This woman has it right, too. #vote🌊 x.com/smalls2672/s...

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This guy has it right. #vote🌊https://x.com/WaterDean/status/1812462212889362683

Time to call your carrier and set up a password to prevent your number from being ported to another carrier.

One Tech Tip: Protecting yourself against SIM swapping

One Tech Tip: Protecting yourself against SIM swappingapnews.com SIM-swapping is a growing form of identity theft that goes beyond hacking into an email or social media account. Cyber thieves take over your phone number.

Man, Linda Ronstadt could really belt out a song. #bluebayou

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Senate Dems should take one of their assorted gun control bills off the shelf, rename it something like "Trump Assassination Prevention Act," and force Rs to do a talking filibuster to block it

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Pelosi's Twitter account put out a generous expression of sympathy for Trump this evening, and the top comments are all people mocking the attack on her husband

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periodic reminder: trump tried to stage an armed coup to keep himself in power close to four years ago

Just a reminder: it’s good to oppose assassinations. But you are under absolutely no obligation to treat Trumpists and Trump-apologists as people who are honest, or acting in good faith, when they purport to condemn political violence or violent rhetoric. They’re not sincere.

I do think POTUS, who typically reacted with all the class his opponent didn't deserve, is going too far in pulling down his campaign ads, not only because 45* won't do so but because he definitely wouldn't have done so if Biden had been the one who had been shot.

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ACTION: For those in Nassau County who want to push back against the mask ban, you can speak in person on Mon, July 15 at the Theodore Roosevelt Executive & Legislative Building in Mineola. You can also email written testimony before then to [email protected]

This is really worrying. There's a bill in Nassau County, Long Island, New York, that has a good chance of passing due to GOP majority, that would fine people $1,000 for wearing a mask.

Long Island bill could mean jail time, $1,000 fines for face masks that hide identitywww.nbcnewyork.com A county on Long Island could become one of the first legislative bodies in the tri-state to ban face masks that conceal the wearer’s identity — with violators facing potential fines and even jail tim...

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Hackers downloaded call and text records of “nearly all” of AT&T’s cellular customers across a several month period, AT&T announced

Hackers Steal Text and Call Records of ‘Nearly All’ AT&T Customerswww.404media.co In one of the most significant data breaches in recent history, hackers stole AT&T customers’ call and text metadata spanning several months.

I wonder whether the folks who are demanding Biden’s replacement have considered the possibility that that would cause a substantial number of voters NOT to vote for the D who replaces him and therefore would result in a loss in November. Like, a different nominee would be magic?

#vote🌊

Trump is considering cutting back sharing US intel with NATO partners if elected, officials have warned. European members rely on it for Ukraine and re: China and N Korea particularly. Europe may respond in kind. Another sign a Trump victory will make the world a more dangerous place.

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CNN reporter Eva McKend spent the day at the Alpha Kappa Alpha convention in Dallas, where VP Kamala Harris spoke, and was hard-pressed to find a single Black voter, even among Harris mega-fans, who thought it was a good idea to push President Biden off the ticket. 🧵: x.com/evamckend/st...

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What a twist of fortunes that Bernie gives one of the strongest affirmative defenses of Biden while the centrists try to shiv him

How in the name of all that is unholy did we get to the point in the Discourse at which George Clooney is perceived as some sort of oracle on politics?

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“Colored”? They’re going to be causally saying the N word on air by September

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That’s not what she said. It’s on video. We can hear it for ourselves. “Suggested” is doing a lot of work in that headline.

Breaking News: Nancy Pelosi suggested that President Biden should reconsider his decision to stay in the race, the strongest public push yet from a senior member of his party for him to weigh dropping out.

Pelosi Suggests That Biden Should Reconsider Decision to Stay in the Racewww.nytimes.com Representative Nancy Pelosi, a longtime Biden ally and the former speaker, is the most senior member of his party who has so far suggested he consider dropping out.

Sorry, @stevevladeck.bsky.social; just relistened. At 37:44, you referred to the court's extremist orientation, not the immunity ruling, and said that the sooner folks accept that notion, "the sooner we can talk about what we do about it." Would still love to know what we can do about the ruling.

@stevevladeck.bsky.social, I really enjoy reading and listening to your work. At the end of this week's "Talking Feds," you mentioned "what we can do about" SCOTUS's immunity ruling, but the episode ended shortly after that. What, if anything, CAN we do about it?

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Jim Inhofe: It's not really as hot here as people say it is Satan: Dude shut up

The longer the press keeps the "Biden must go" stories alive despite his flat-out saying today in a couple of forums that he is staying in, the more I fear it will detract from his beating the Orange Menace, which would be calamitous.

Seems bad! #climatechangeiscomingforusall www.nytimes.com/2024/07/03/n...

New Jersey Is One of America’s Fastest-Warming States, Data Showswww.nytimes.com Global warming is hitting the entire Northeast particularly hard, according to figures provided by Climate Central, a nonprofit group.

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In a normal campaign, this would have dominated the weekend’s news. I wrote about @gregsargent.bsky.social’s scoop about the Christian nationalist GOP nominee for NC Gov calling for murder of his political enemies: ‘Some folks need killing’: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Opinion | ‘Some folks need killing’: North Carolina Lt. Gov takes Christian nationalism to dangerous lowwww.msnbc.com Mark Robinson’s newly explicit calls for killing perceived enemies show how seamlessly Christian nationalists can glide into promoting real violence.

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"every trick in the book"* *voting

It’s amazing the extent to which our billionaire tech bro overlords are just telling us out loud that they are rooting for fascism. Makes me slightly nostalgic for the days when American plutocrats plotted against democracy in secret.

I wonder how close we are to weather like today’s and yesterday’s being commonplace in, say, January in the Northeast.

BREAKING: The global temperature in June was record warm for the 13th straight month and it marked the 12th straight month that the world was 1.5 degrees Celsius warmer than pre-industrial time, according to Copernicus.

June sizzles to 13th straight monthly heat record. String may end soon, but dangerous heat won'tapnews.com The European climate service Copernicus says Earth's more than year-long streak of record-shattering hot months kept on simmering through June.

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This entire age thing in the press is about policing Biden's electability since even the most searing accounts say he's qualified to be president but not Olivia Nuzzi's bestie. And the thing is he's as electable as ever and more electable than any of the replacement options, at least in polls.

this is 538’s forecast right now. You can go look it up.