Casaubon

Lincoln: Marfan's, and terrible pain. Depression. FDR: Polio, and partial paralysis Kennedy*: Addison's and terrible pain * not a great President! But remembered incredibly fondly by a lot of boomers.

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Michael Tae Sweeney

"what did truman know about FDR's polio and when did he know it?!" bsky.app/profile/drke...

Although that was well-hidden from the public at the time.

Journalists and editors could never survive the Gom Jabbar test.

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Obviously, because the revolutions of 1848 were meant to succeed. We've been in the bad timeline totally free from The World Spirit since then :(

something that i do think about with some regularity is that there is no way to tell if this actually is the bad timeline or not.

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My Macron Apology Form

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Micah

7) pushing the message becomes infinitely harder in a media environment so clearly dedicated to pushing Biden out 8) can the media keep up this anti-Biden frenzy through November? if they can, he's probably toast 9) it's July, so at least there's a lot of time for things to change

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If I can refute the central insinuation of your article in five minutes with a google search, what you're doing is not journalism.

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Worth noting the EPA's brief correctly uses "nitrogen oxide" 7 times, and the EPA submitted a declaration from an official who used it twice. But nobody involved in the majority opinion, Justices and clerks, bothered to take the EPA's brief seriously, and so none of them noticed the error.

Still marveling at Gorsuch's Ohio v. EPA opinion, in which he confused nitrogen oxide (a pollutant) with nitrous oxide (laughing gas). He did this five times, never once getting it right—in an opinion overruling the EPA's own expert scientific analysis! s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...

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Wonder why the White House would have a Parkinson's expert visiting over the last year. Very suspicious stuff

Breaking News: A Parkinson’s expert visited the White House eight times in eight months from last summer through this spring, according to official visitor logs. The administration has said that President Biden has no signs of the disease.

Parkinson’s Expert Visited the White House Eight Times in Eight Monthswww.nytimes.com The White House has said that President Biden has no signs of the disease and that there has been no reason to update the most recent testing, conducted in February.

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For a look at how we got here, here's how many results you get for various newsworthy topics on the NY Times website. Note that wars, COVID, and inflation dominate. Times has about as many hits for Biden's age as Trump's crimes, Biden's major legislation receives a fraction of attention.

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This is not a joke

Eric Adams opened this morning’s press conference by rolling a garbage bin up to the podium, placing a bag of trash in it, and saying “welcome to our trash revolution” while Empire State of Mind played in the background

For seventy years large media corporations successfully bamboozled America into thinking that they weren’t giant companies run by capital and as the choice between fascism and higher taxes becomes clear that facade is finally starting to fall away.

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the generous interpretation of this recurring phenomenon is that journalism, or at least the editing side, is treated as a self-aggrandizing aristocratic hobby in which it is more important to appear clever and urbane than to inform the public. the less generous interpretation, well,

Honestly, what kind of bananas frame this story like this? Is shit serious or not, fucken freaks?

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"Hunter Biden is on his way to prison in significant part because of Trump’s success at criminally targeting his political enemies. And Dana Bash never told viewers that Trump already has a documented record of doing just that."

Imagine if Dana Bash Knew Trump Had Been President Before? www.emptywheel.net/2024/07/08/i...

Imagine if Dana Bash Knew Trump Had Been President Before? - emptywheelwww.emptywheel.net When Dana Bash let Marco Rubio lie at length about whether Trump had ever targeted his rivals for criminal prosecution, she let slide a fabricated claim that Joe Biden received a bribe from Ukraine.

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For all those on the path of Hurricane Beryl, Project 2025 would eliminate the National Weather Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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Bucking pressure from the Biden administration, the new Labour government of the United Kingdom is expected to drop its objections to ICC arrest warrants being issued against Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant. The UK will also contemplate whether to restore funding to UNRWA in the near future.

Labour expected to drop challenge to ICC over Netanyahu arrest warrantwww.theguardian.com Exclusive: UK government appears unlikely to go ahead with legal bid, while Keir Starmer has spoken with Israeli PM over Gaza ceasefire

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Trump raped a woman, was revealed as being in constant contact with a sex trafficker, stole nuclear secrets, is old, forged electoral certificates, was convicted of 34 felonies, committed fraud, is literally on the Saudi payroll, sent a mob to hang his VP but the opponent is also old.

In this chat, we suggest a distinction between covering something (NYT does great reporting on Trump's autocratic plans), and *crusading.* The latter is wholly different: It uses saturation coverage to alert readers that they should be alarmed. That's just not happening w/r/t Trump's unfitness.

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I feel like everyone who wants to get down to the business of defeating Trump owes it to themselves to read this letter from Biden, and to ask themselves what their next step is, personally, if this settles the question.

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Biden is on minute 20 of calling into Morning Joe rn, we are beyond back.

Today show's segment on 24 race described Joe Biden as "defiant" we might be so fucking back.

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Rip Zeus you would have hated condoms

The NYT losing the same way most other fascists do: by finally playing their hand too hard and too fast.

you can't even use "summer silly season" as an excuse when two of the most maniacal SCOTUS decisions in the last 50 years came down within the last three weeks and barely got any front page coverage

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you can't even use "summer silly season" as an excuse when two of the most maniacal SCOTUS decisions in the last 50 years came down within the last three weeks and barely got any front page coverage

Y’all are so weird about Stancil. Maybe I’m insane but he seems basically as normal as any other freak on here.

Part of what makes drag such a fascinating art form to me is how Jack of All Trades it requires you to be - like all queens have to be very good at a wide array things and that array can vary dramatically from queen to queen. To be real, this does kinda mean idk if any queen is GOATed in a category

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The Fig Economy

Getting his ass rich on selling us something that actively hurt us, and doing it because it let his narcissism, his sense that he alone was better than everyone else, flourish.

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The Economist has been frantically demanding Biden step down too. #ItsGenerallyAGoodIdeaNotToTakeAdviceFromTheRightWing

It held

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Michael Tae Sweeney

Yeesh. "FN is the party of the future and it always will be" bsky.app/profile/dipl...

The perception of an inevitable fascist victory in Europe is largely just the wishcasting of mainstream media publications saying that fascist victory is inevitable. See how the BBC spins National Rally's loss.