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Wow, real banana republic stuff. I'm glad our presidents can launder money and associate criminally without worrying about this kind of thing.
Reports: Brazil police have indicted Jair Bolsonaro for money laundering and criminal association
July 4, 2024 at 9:27 PM
Wow, real banana republic stuff. I'm glad our presidents can launder money and associate criminally without worrying about this kind of thing.
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❌ It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness
✅ shit was mid
✅ shit was mid
I can’t think of a clever caption for this. It just breaks my fucking heart.
June 29, 2024 at 5:05 PM
❌ It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness
✅ shit was mid
✅ shit was mid
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It's an extension of the larger assumptions in our political media -- Democrats are the only ones with any agency or morality, while the awfulness of Republicans is taken as a fixed constant.
been trying to place the the cognitive dissonance I feel with “to serve his country, Biden should step aside” and I think it’s that no one would ever suggest that Trump should do something that puts the country first
June 29, 2024 at 9:22 PM
It's an extension of the larger assumptions in our political media -- Democrats are the only ones with any agency or morality, while the awfulness of Republicans is taken as a fixed constant.
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A few years ago, Jon Lovett floated a theory that media treats Democrats like protagonists - to be challenged, accounted, and forced to be behave in growth-oriented ways - while the GOP are treated like antagonists - immutable, expected to disrupt, thematic obstacles.
Thinking about that a lot.
Thinking about that a lot.
I don’t recall the NYT calling for Trump to step down after being convicted of 34 counts of fraud and being called by a judge at his civil trial a rapist in the common person sense
June 29, 2024 at 4:07 AM
A few years ago, Jon Lovett floated a theory that media treats Democrats like protagonists - to be challenged, accounted, and forced to be behave in growth-oriented ways - while the GOP are treated like antagonists - immutable, expected to disrupt, thematic obstacles.
Thinking about that a lot.
Thinking about that a lot.
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God Bless Paul Davies and the @PhillyInquirer: "The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump...There was only one person at the debate who does not deserve to be running for president. The sooner Trump exits the stage, the better off the country will be."
To serve his country, Donald Trump should leave the race | Editorial Board
Biden had a horrible night Thursday. But the debate about the debate is misplaced. The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump.
www.inquirer.com
June 29, 2024 at 10:39 PM
God Bless Paul Davies and the @PhillyInquirer: "The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump...There was only one person at the debate who does not deserve to be running for president. The sooner Trump exits the stage, the better off the country will be."
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The joke that gets lost is Ford Prefect named himself after the make/model of a car because he perceived that cars are the dominant life form on Earth.
The central joke in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a race of dipshits building a planet-sized computer to answer the question of "life, the universe, and everything" and then a million years later it says the answer is 42, and somehow that has taken on a William Gibson level of prescience
June 22, 2024 at 3:36 PM
The joke that gets lost is Ford Prefect named himself after the make/model of a car because he perceived that cars are the dominant life form on Earth.
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Absolutely amazing that the model for Patrick Nagel’s painting used on the cover of Duran Duran’s “Rio” has been found!! Thanks to Lyndsey Parker for quoting my Duran Duran book in her piece on this find.
www.lyndsanity.com/music/duran-...
www.lyndsanity.com/music/duran-...
June 11, 2024 at 10:57 PM
Absolutely amazing that the model for Patrick Nagel’s painting used on the cover of Duran Duran’s “Rio” has been found!! Thanks to Lyndsey Parker for quoting my Duran Duran book in her piece on this find.
www.lyndsanity.com/music/duran-...
www.lyndsanity.com/music/duran-...
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I can think of a reason!
June 13, 2024 at 3:42 PM
I can think of a reason!
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I have never been more scared in my life than the first time I watched The Blair Witch Project, and that was knowing it was fake. An experience I will never recreate. I will love these three people till the day I die, and they deserve to live in luxury
‘The Blair Witch Project’ Actors Call Out ‘Reprehensible Behavior’ After Missing Out on Profits for Decades: ‘Don’t Do What We Did’ (EXCLUSIVE)
The cast of 'The Blair Witch Project' explain how they say they were screwed out of their share of the profits and why they're speaking out now.
variety.com
June 13, 2024 at 6:07 PM
I have never been more scared in my life than the first time I watched The Blair Witch Project, and that was knowing it was fake. An experience I will never recreate. I will love these three people till the day I die, and they deserve to live in luxury
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I am begging the GOP to run on a platform of "rich people will pay zero taxes and a bottle of ginger ale now costs $12." BEGGING.
June 13, 2024 at 8:51 PM
I am begging the GOP to run on a platform of "rich people will pay zero taxes and a bottle of ginger ale now costs $12." BEGGING.
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there are a lot of people whose response to anything illegal immigration-related is "just come here legally" and when you try to explain how the legal immigration system actually works they simply don't believe how tremendously awful it actually is
Here’s a nice simple guide to the US immigration process. Easy peasy
June 11, 2024 at 11:40 PM
there are a lot of people whose response to anything illegal immigration-related is "just come here legally" and when you try to explain how the legal immigration system actually works they simply don't believe how tremendously awful it actually is
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thinking about how Trump pardoned five different convicted murderers and Biden won't even pardon his son and how it doesn't matter, at all, nobody cares about either thing
June 10, 2024 at 7:55 PM
thinking about how Trump pardoned five different convicted murderers and Biden won't even pardon his son and how it doesn't matter, at all, nobody cares about either thing
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as always, the answer to "why can't we have nice things" is "the cops said no"
there it is.
"The congestion tax is not only a burden on police officers and other essential commuters — it’s bad for public safety,” said Patrick Hendry, president of the city’s police union, in the first of the two releases. nysfocus.com/2024/06/07/h...
"The congestion tax is not only a burden on police officers and other essential commuters — it’s bad for public safety,” said Patrick Hendry, president of the city’s police union, in the first of the two releases. nysfocus.com/2024/06/07/h...
starting to wonder if congestion pricing was paused because the NYPD cops who commute from long island threatened a revolt and eric adams was like kathy, we can't have that
June 7, 2024 at 6:09 PM
as always, the answer to "why can't we have nice things" is "the cops said no"
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Were there any big articles on how the “Trump women” handled his trial?
Or was their total absence—and what it means—somehow just irrelevant?
All this is just so infuriating and exhausting.
Or was their total absence—and what it means—somehow just irrelevant?
All this is just so infuriating and exhausting.
Hunter Biden is the one on criminal trial, staring down gun charges. But the spectacle in the courtroom has forced the Biden women into an uncomfortable spotlight.
Hunter Biden Is on Trial, but All Eyes Are on the Biden Women
The women called to testify have at different times tried to support a man whose history of addiction continues to hit them with shrapnel.
www.nytimes.com
June 8, 2024 at 8:54 PM
Were there any big articles on how the “Trump women” handled his trial?
Or was their total absence—and what it means—somehow just irrelevant?
All this is just so infuriating and exhausting.
Or was their total absence—and what it means—somehow just irrelevant?
All this is just so infuriating and exhausting.
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Three days after it was revealed that this guy's license was wrongly listed as suspended due to a clerical error, none of the publications listed here (NYT, WP, NYP, USA Today, BBC, CNN, Fox, MSNBC) have issued corrections or updates.
reason.com/2024/06/03/t...
reason.com/2024/06/03/t...
The viral story about a defendant driving with a suspended license was fake news
Corey Harris' case should never have been a national news story to begin with.
reason.com
June 4, 2024 at 12:26 AM
Three days after it was revealed that this guy's license was wrongly listed as suspended due to a clerical error, none of the publications listed here (NYT, WP, NYP, USA Today, BBC, CNN, Fox, MSNBC) have issued corrections or updates.
reason.com/2024/06/03/t...
reason.com/2024/06/03/t...
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The Texas Supreme Court considered the stories of women who were denied abortions under wrenching circumstances--who were going into septic shock, or whose babies had fatal diagnoses--and decided that the Texas abortion ban is just fine the way it is.
Texas Supreme Court Rejects Challenge on Exceptions to Abortion Ban
The court on Friday unanimously reversed a ruling that had expanded the definition of what counts as a medical emergency under the state’s strict abortion ban.
www.nytimes.com
June 1, 2024 at 5:30 AM
The Texas Supreme Court considered the stories of women who were denied abortions under wrenching circumstances--who were going into septic shock, or whose babies had fatal diagnoses--and decided that the Texas abortion ban is just fine the way it is.
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People don't wanna hear it but this probably moves more voters than millions of dollars of Joe Biden ads
June 1, 2024 at 2:19 PM
People don't wanna hear it but this probably moves more voters than millions of dollars of Joe Biden ads
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MOCKERY WORKS
Google appears to have rolled back its new AI Overviews — a generative AI feature — after the technology produced a litany of untruths and errors, including recommending glue as part of a pizza recipe and suggesting that people ingest rocks for nutrients.
Google Rolls Back A.I. Search Feature After Flubs and Flaws
Google appears to have turned off its new A.I. Overviews for a number of searches as it works to minimize errors.
www.nytimes.com
June 1, 2024 at 10:02 PM
MOCKERY WORKS
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As always, Trump is trying to have it both ways: appear socially liberal to the great swath of Americans while letting Christian right ideologies run the show, as his judicial nominees and political appointees.
Only this time, there’s a history of how he plays this game. It’s how we got Dobbs.
Only this time, there’s a history of how he plays this game. It’s how we got Dobbs.
A point we make in this discussion: When Trump said he would introduce a plan to restrict access to contraception, that revealed he knows certain constituencies in his base are absolutely expecting him to deliver on this front. He will outsource this to those constituencies:
New pod: Trump says he won't touch contraception, but plans drawn up by his outside allies absolutely would dramatically restrict access to it. We dig into these plans from Project 2025 and others with reporter Alice Ollstein who's really interesting and informative:
newrepublic.com/article/1820...
newrepublic.com/article/1820...
May 30, 2024 at 12:26 PM
As always, Trump is trying to have it both ways: appear socially liberal to the great swath of Americans while letting Christian right ideologies run the show, as his judicial nominees and political appointees.
Only this time, there’s a history of how he plays this game. It’s how we got Dobbs.
Only this time, there’s a history of how he plays this game. It’s how we got Dobbs.
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I'm still not over that this happened last year and it's had absolutely zero bearing on our political landscape and no one ever mentions it anymore
May 29, 2024 at 10:36 PM
I'm still not over that this happened last year and it's had absolutely zero bearing on our political landscape and no one ever mentions it anymore
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In fairness to Alito “if liberals are rude it’s ok to support overthrowing the government” is as concise a distillation of trump era conservatism as you’ll ever see
May 29, 2024 at 7:10 PM
In fairness to Alito “if liberals are rude it’s ok to support overthrowing the government” is as concise a distillation of trump era conservatism as you’ll ever see
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There's one thing I like about Kavanaugh: whereas Alito and Thomas spend all their time in protective billionaire cocoons, Kavanaugh still thinks he should be accepted and respected in suburban DC social life, and I know from his neighbors that he absolutely is not and he is acutely aware of that. 🥰
Very silly for Kavanaugh to be like "Brown v Board was unpopular too" when this Court's rulings are much more akin to Dred Scott
www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
Brett Kavanaugh says unpopular rulings can later become 'fabric of American constitutional law'
The Supreme Court justice said that some decisions from the 1950s and ‘60s on civil and criminal rights, free speech and school prayer were unpopular when they were issued.
www.nbcnews.com
May 14, 2024 at 11:26 AM
There's one thing I like about Kavanaugh: whereas Alito and Thomas spend all their time in protective billionaire cocoons, Kavanaugh still thinks he should be accepted and respected in suburban DC social life, and I know from his neighbors that he absolutely is not and he is acutely aware of that. 🥰