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It's a choice to publish this ... on July 4.

Here it is, the dumbest thing you will read today www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/o...

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Vote. Also knock on doors, volunteer for campaingns. Get involved locally. Go to meetings, work with others, make your own community safer, better, more organized. Know what's on school board agendas. Show up and comment. Give politicians a reason to know what you want, and why they should care.

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It has been a week since CJ Boasberg released court filings that revealed the investigation into a suspected $10M payment to Trump during 2016 election implicated files in China, and AFAIK I'm the only one who reported that. www.emptywheel.net/2024/06/23/a...

An Egyptian Bank Claimed Details of a Suspected $10 Million Payment to Trump Might be in China - emptywheelwww.emptywheel.net A bank owned by Egypt said it couldn't comply with a subpoena seeking information on a suspected payment to Trump during the 2016 election, in part, because China's laws would prevent that.

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Don Moynihan

Terror provides a means to intimidate public officials into doing what they don't want to do. But add formal power (the DeSantis administration tried to have this teacher fired, removing her from her school), and things become much worse. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-future...

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Will Wilkinson 🏳️‍🌈

Wall Street’s pathological and ruinous demand that companies show perpetual growth, as opposed to healthy sustainable profits, is only possible in a world where firms are allowed to lock up markets, eliminate competition and collect increasing extractive rents at increasing scale.

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washpost hired back a former editor specifically to oversee coverage of their terrible new publisher and incoming executive editor. incredible

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The purpose of this behavior of course is the same as that of organized crime: to prevent any future convictions by intimidating jurors with the threat of violence and harassment bsky.app/profile/adam...

Remember when the most important issue was civility in politics because restaurant workers politely decline to serve Sarah Sanders and now everyone targeted by Trump or his cronies needs private security and we don’t talk about civility much anymore www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Trump supporters try to doxx jurors and post violent threats after his convictionwww.nbcnews.com On social media and web forums, users called for jurors, judges and prosecutors to be killed after the former president was found guilty on 34 felony counts.

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Dems are going to regret it if they just sit back and let Trump surrogates fill the airwaves with accusations the trial was corrupt because it didn’t end in an acquittal

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“If a former president can be convicted for breaking the law then so can anyone” seems to me the entire ever-fucking point

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This is not accurate. Prosecutors specified the unlawful means under the election conspiracy statute in their opposition to Trump's motion to dismiss the indictment in November 2023, and the judge locked them into those arguments in Feb 2024. Why do people keep saying this? nymag.com/intelligence...

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Juan Incognito

Compared to the FEC? It does! One example. Byron Donalds illegally transferred money from a state PAC to a federal PAC when he ran for Congress. The law is crystal clear: You can't do that. The GOP FEC commissioners let it slide, then DeSantis did exactly that with his POTUS bid.

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Alito lied about the reason the flag was up because he didn’t know the couple had text messages establishing the date of when the incident took place. They were supporting the insurrection. www.nytimes.com/2024/05/28/u...

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This is the kind of shit I was talking about when I described the culture of supreme court reporting being one of extraordinary deference to the justices www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Wrote a thing about Elon's embrace of content moderation. But only to protect a neo-Nazi. www.techdirt.com/2024/03/26/e...

Elon Discovers When Content Moderation Makes Sense: When He Can Use It To Protect Racist Bigots From Being Called Outwww.techdirt.com Right after Elon took over Twitter, we published what we had hoped would be a useful “speed run” through the content moderation learning curve that most platforms figure out along the way. We’ve se…

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“Do you think the FDA is infallible?” - Justice Alito, asking the important and legally relevant questions of the counsel for the mifepristone manufacturer and definitely not being a weird little troll

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Gotta read all the way to the bottom to get to the comparison that people will truly understand: "Medical organizations supporting mifepristone’s availability say the drug’s safety — given the rate of deaths — compares to “ibuprofen, which more than 30 million Americans take in any given day.”

Mifepristone access is coming before the US Supreme Court. How safe is this abortion pill?

Mifepristone access is coming before the US Supreme Court. How safe is this abortion pill?apnews.com The U.S. Supreme Court will take up a case Tuesday that could impact how women get access to mifepristone.

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Meanwhile, in the other place, Glenn Greenwald and the child porn guy console Catturd2, who announced he had run over his own dog. Completely normal stuff.

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I'm getting into this for a story tomorrow, but Trump's end-run around the "legacy media" leads to coverage like this. He does interviews in safe settings - Gorka used to work for him! - and the MSM plays catch-up. And that often means verbatim quotes from zero-pushback interviews.

Typically, and infuriatingly, this is pure stenography, simply quoting Trump's disgusting comments about Jews without explaining why they're disgusting, just assuming everyone knows. Shit journalism. www.nytimes.com/2024/03/18/u...

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Trump accuses majority of American Jews of hating Judaism in a conversation with noted expert on anti-Semitism and Vitézi Rend member Seb Gorka. www.nytimes.com/2024/03/18/u...

Trump Says Jews Who Support Democrats ‘Hate Israel’ and ‘Their Religion’www.nytimes.com The comments, on a conservative radio program, echo an antisemitic trope and escalate claims he made as president that were widely criticized.

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Donald Trump accused Jewish voters of hating their religion and Israel if they vote for Democrats, reviving and escalating antisemitic claims he made as president that were widely criticized. His comments, which he made on a conservative radio program, drew outrage from Jewish Democrats.

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Kevin, любитель кави 💙💛

I don't write this to panic or catastrophize, but rather to just to say what the stakes are. I deeply wish it were not the case, but this is just not a normal election between two normal candidates. It is a straight choice between ceding the country to outright totalitarianism, or just ... not that.

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This dynamic is unavoidable, which is why: Minimizing civilian suffering in Gaza *should be* an existential strategic priority for Israel's government (it isn't) and The West should be extremely careful and thoughtful about when and how it pressures Israel (it isn't) So ... great work, everybody

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'Creating an secret alt account to write "you are a great father" to your own account' is perhaps the saddest sentence ever written in the English language

*weary late night host monologue voice* did you see this? did you hear about this one?

'You're an amazing father, Elon': Musk accused of running burner on X again—and nuking account who outed himwww.dailydot.com Users on X believe that platform owner Elon Musk has been secretly operating a burner account in order to lavish praise on himself.

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Reup: When WaPo's new publisher was asked how WaPo avoided being perceived as partisan he pointed to a Matt Viser story in which Viser failed to correct a past error on which he built a scandal about Hunter Biden. www.emptywheel.net/2024/01/27/n...

New WaPo Boss, Will Lewis, Brags about Dick Pic Sniffing that Fails to Correct Past Errors - emptywh...www.emptywheel.net In testimony before Congress, Hunter Biden's former gallerist George Bergès debunked a key premise of the manufactured scandal about payments from art collectors that Matt Viser started back in 2021,...

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surmising for sure here but with this level of precision & ubiquitous intel it’s a fair guess u.s. intelligence was also screaming at netanyahu about this for a while and he just did…nothing

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That's not even remotely accurate, and I didn't get that information from her. However, you're choosing to pick the worst event in her life, 20 years later, to throw it in her face and insult her. That makes you a piece of shit.

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This is Harlan’s brother, the billionaire Nazi memorabilia collector and sugar daddy of SCOTUS justice Thomas. He’s alleged to have financed a sex trafficking ring involving 100 people where women were drugged and abused

Texas Philanthropist Trammell Crow to Face Sex Trafficking Suitwww.bloomberg.com Trammell Crow Jr., a Texas philanthropist and the brother of Republican mega-donor Harlan Crow, must face a lawsuit that accuses him of running and participating in a sex trafficking ring, a judge rul...

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In the Dutch elections, the party of Geert Wilders, a far-right, anti-immigrant figure, appears set to win, according to exit polls. The result could send shock waves through Europe.

Far-Right Icon Predicted to Win Dutch Electionswww.nytimes.com The party of Geert Wilders, a longtime political provocateur with a history of antipathy toward immigrants and Islam, held a wide lead, according to exit polls. The result could send shock waves throu...