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This. This. This a thousand times

The reason that the language of domestic abuse and the language of authoritarianism looks the same is because it's just the same thing on a different scale.

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I don't know what the first federal court reform should be, but if the Supreme Court says they can strike it down, the second court reform should be creating a new federal circuit for Little Diomede Island Alaska and reassigning every Federalist Society member to it.

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keep thinking about this w/r/t the press relentlessly promoting a "Trump adopting a unifying message after the shooting" story. The MAGA freaks think it's hilarious that the press is so stupid and they're not even really wrong.

I think honestly a key to Trump's popularity. He inverted the theatrical aspect from one where the Meet The Press class were in on the joke and the conservative voters were the rubes, to one where the conservative chuds were in on the joke and the DC crowd were the rubes bsky.app/profile/rinc...

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The tl;dr This is union-busting, written as a statute. A company union is not a union, it is a way for management to dilute/interfere with the power of the union. Company unions have been unlawful since 1935, because everyone recognizes it is an attempt to union bust. This is trying to undo that.

Not a populist: GOP VP candidate J.D. Vance introduced the Team Act (with Marco Rubio) to empower companies to establish and dissolve “employee involvement organizations” (a.k.a., company unions), a long-standing goal of GOP business leaders: www.rubio.senate.gov/wp-content/u...

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if Trump is trying in the open to make the US economy worse for Biden before the election, what is he telling his ally MBS about oil production in secret?

Donald Trump warns US Fed chair not to cut rates before the election https://www.ft.com/content/11bc931f-5c5e-4e3c-9ceb-9bdca25430ad

Donald Trump warns US Fed chair not to cut rates before the electionwww.ft.com Ex-president says he would let Jay Powell finish term at central bank if he was ‘doing the right thing’

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Remember when Kyle Rittenhouse killed those people and all the conservatives were like “but that one guy was a child molester”? No connection to current events at all of course just reminiscing

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Urban planning plank:

we should publish a 925 page rebuttal to project 2025 that includes policies like legalizing molly, mandating eating ass, and a three day work week. we’ll put 100 justices on the supreme court and liquidate private equity firms. really hit the gas on moving the overton window. ban pickleball too.

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people get mad if you point this out but Jon Stewart was always like this: it's just that his brand of "can't we just use common sense instead of being liars and hypocrites" moderate populism was the most left thing that was allowed in mass media post 9/11

apparently Jon Stewart figures Bill O'Reilly is what passes for a Reasonable People Can Disagree* republican and is happy to help him sell books *as long as we don't talk about grotesque sexual harassment and toxic workplace abuse

'Find a respectable conservative': Jon Stewart slammed over Bill O’Reilly interviewwww.rawstory.com "The Daily Show" host and comedian Jon Stewart was under fire Tuesday night for having former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly on the popular show to talk about political fanaticism and extreme rhetoric. ...

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Paul Crider

Taking turning the Constitution into a progressive project from the right is one of the single most savvy things more Liberal and capital-P Progressive members of the DNC could possibly do.

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According to Project 2025, which is the heart of Trump's campaign and platform, if you teach or talk about the existence of LGBTQ people then you are a sex offender and should be imprisoned.

Psst: Project 2025 is terrifying for a lot of reasons but also because on page 5 it calls for teachers and librarians who grant access to books that are maligned as pornography (which just means anything LGBTQ) to be registered as sex offenders. Pass it on.

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It's because they want to privatize weather. They tried doing it under his last administration but many people didn't really notice beyond the weird hurricane drawing he did. It's also why they cut (or at least tried to it's been a minute since I read that stuff) a bunch of NASA Earth's funding too

They have such winning ideas like “why don’t we charge people who want to know if that tornado is gonna hit their house.”

The MAGA Plan to End Free Weather Reportswww.theatlantic.com Project 2025 would all but dissolve the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Trump’s Pick to Lead Weather Agency Spent 30 Years Fighting Itwww.bloomberg.com Who owns the weather?

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Surprise, surprise: American voters were NOT suddenly rendered mad horny to vote for Donald Trump just because a wacko tried to assassinate him.

"Following the failed assassination attempt on Saturday, former President Donald Trump did not see a polling boost, in the first presidential survey taken since the event....In fact, Trump's lead has narrowed slightly since an earlier poll taken July 12-14" lol. lmao www.rawstory.com/trump-pollin...

Surprise: Trump did not get polling boost after shootingwww.rawstory.com Following the failed assassination attempt on Saturday, former President Donald Trump did not see a polling boost, in the first presidential survey taken since the event.In the national Morning Consul...

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A.R. Moxon

I’m not saying people wanted anyone assassinated but living in the grip of a raging narcissist cult leader for a decade has been a serious bummer for those of us not under his thrall and wishing for a constant atmosphere of menace and gaslighting to cease is a fairly natural human response.

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I think if you want a polling bump after an assassination attempt, you do have to live your life in such a way that most of the country hasn’t spent the last 10 years hoping for your death.

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one reason why everyone's crazy now is that Deals don't really exist anymore. internet commerce has effectively killed the feeling that we are getting a bargain. that might not be a big deal elsewhere but it makes up about 90% of the american shared national identity

Feels like there's room for a fromsofty interpretation of ganondorf as a monster of avarice whose ambitions both expanded and contracted from seeking power to quell death and hardship to seeking it as an avatar of that power attracting more power

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Menendez’s biggest mistake was not appointing three Supreme Court justices.

Remember, if the government can obtain a conviction against Bob Menendez for taking bribes and stuffing gold bars into his closet that he was given for working on behalf of a foreign government, there's nothing stopping them from indicting you for the same thing.

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idk i feel like expecting everyone to have an opinion on every horrible thing happening is how we get into a very big mess of people who cannot possibly have all the info saying wrong things very loudly and influencing more people to be loud and wrong

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If the extent of your concept of political agency is posting, being blocked looks like political repression and violence. This is an ideological problem.

The idea that being blocked is an aggressive act or "social violence" or whatever is maybe the single most ridiculous thing about social media I block all the time. Vibes are bad? One too many posts about kinks I really don't wanna see? It's literally just a curation tool for your account.

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If you’re now a JD Vance beat journalist, you should read this book for background on the neoreactionary / neomonarchist things he believes (and so do the tech billionaires like Thiel and Andreessen) amzn.to/3zSojue

Neoreaction a Basilisk: Essays on and Around the Alt-Right: Sandifer, Elizabeth, Graham, Jack: 9781986913997: Amazon.com: Booksamzn.to Neoreaction a Basilisk: Essays on and Around the Alt-Right [Sandifer, Elizabeth, Graham, Jack] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Neoreaction a Basilisk: Essays on and Around the Alt-Right

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Hey I just want to say now that the "Crooks was kicked out of his school's shooting club for being a bad shot" is an incredibly obvious lie because that's flatly just not how gun clubs work.

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Just learned that Fox News is trying to go after me for using the word "war" in a column, which they allege is inappropriate rhetoric. This is sort of like being lectured on anti-semitism by Hitler.

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It's important for you to know that a chunk of conservative dark money has recently been lobbed at academic research on "polarization," and it bears reflecting on why a framing of the US's contemporary crisis that automatically suggests there's blame on all sides would be favored by them

Yet another essay from Edsall framing main political problem as “polarization”. I will boldly state we should not want to meet in the middle on the questions like whether black peoples votes should count. Its in fact bad to not feel “polarized” toward the party that answers “no” to that question

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Breaking: hackers stole call and text records for "nearly all" AT&T customers. Shows which phone numbers a customer called or texted. A staggering and unprecedented data breach. Data usually only available to authorities; now hackers got it www.404media.co/hackers-stea...

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.

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A tight graph of people engaging in a consistent pattern of networked harassment against other users on the site ought to be against the t&s policies. This is far from the first time it has happened here, and there appear to be multiple different groups that repeatedly carry it out against big accts

Once again I’m here to say that @support.bsky.team needs to give people the opportunity to lock their accounts, or else we’re just going to constantly lose people to bad-faith pile-ons and then the whole place goes tumbleweeds.

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Bluesky has a very bad problem with amplifying speculations directly from the rumor milling stage into settled fact. This isn't a subskeet about any one thing, it's just a widespread pattern of collective behavior that keeps coming back to bite this site in its collective ass.

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This is deranged. The press has just decided that criticizing Trump is no longer okay. www.cnn.com/2024/07/14/m...

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Have we done this one yet

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The Republican line now is that the shooting was caused by Dems saying Trump is a threat to democracy, and they’re doing that because it’s a big and true thing they want Dems to stop saying.