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1. Lose election 2. Assume Trump will steal election for him 3. Trump is flailing around and failing to steal his own election 4. Oh shit oh fuck

He is inches away from endorsing trigger warnings for white men reading job listings

The NYT story does not even include the word rape. Not once.

This resurfaces and again, highly credible and under-reported by the big political press: people.com/former-miss-...

Just a reminder that there is no good data to support these uses in K12, we are just testing it live all on kids who won’t ever be these ages again and can’t get them back if we fuck it up.

For the fabulously wealthy, paying taxes is pretty much optional. They can borrow against their vast wealth, which is mostly an untaxed capital gain, without paying taxes. When they die, the capital gain goes to zero. And loopholes exist to bypass the estate tax too.

It’s just so appalling and enraging how casual and commonplace this has become. I’m out of words.

5/ In any case, the incentives are there and yet there seems to be very little awareness of this or effort to guard against it. Perhaps I’m naive and the idea is well this is one point of view it doesn’t matter if the person is a professional GOP operative or Trump aligned lobbyist.

Since I’ve engaged in a few exchanges about this. Let me say a few things about this. First of all this genuinely happens a lot. And it goes back decades. Another commenter reminded of a case back in 2004. I think there’s a key dynamic involved.

i don't think anyone should run explicitly on banning online gambling but i do think that a democratic-led government should just quietly take steps to undermine the industry and create an inhospitable regulatory environment

Yes, yes, the renewed accusations that the president is a serial rapist and was an active participant in Epstein's pedophilia and sex trafficking would seem alarming, but it doesn't involve the Cheesecake Factory so ...

"Relative to the disgusting Acton ad, most of these policy choices have gotten scant attention. But they all deliver the same closing message for the midterms: It was never about helping the kids." Let @crampell.bsky.social tell you what they are:

have they ever fucked up in the opposite direction, quoting some guy they say is a rando but is actually a dem operative? why is it always republicans?

Over 2,000 alumni from Vivek’s all-boys catholic high school in Cincinnati have signed and circulated a petition demanding that he pull the ad and issue a public apology for “ignoring the moral responsibilities” of his Jesuit education. I think he’s pretty cooked.

The next time a Republican “accidentally“ refers to “the Democrat Party” I’d like to see the Democrat “accidentally” refer to “the Rapist Party”

Trump didn't like Ramaswamy until he saw him sticking up for child rapists and their enablers. He hated the Ivy League until Cornell had a prominent fraternity gang-rape story in the news. He's not just a rapist, not just a serial rapist—he's a rape *enthusiast,* and it's why Republicans love him.

easily the worst part of the Knicks title is that James Dolan, one of the worst people alive, was the team owner for it he deserves nothing

This is how it works repeatedly with Trump — something pretty much everyone agrees is fucked up then Trump jumps in to side with the fucked up thing, and the result is not a story that's like "Trump sides with fucked up thing" but to change the fucked up thing to instead become "controversial"

Ramaswamy has produced an attack ad weaponizing the rape of his opponent, Amy Acton, when she was 12 years old. It features Acton’s mother, who abandoned Acton after she was raped by her step-father, fleeing the state with her husband. Here is the corporate money helping fund that ad.

The MAGA two-minute hate over Elissa Slotkin is the perfect example of how MAGA propaganda infects and distorts mainstream news coverage, which transforms it into a "controversy" that requires even-handed coverage of both sides' "positions" (one of which is complete bullshit):

We desperately need a journalism that understands that balance is useless if maintaining it requires sacrificing interrogation and observation; that what people *claim* must be mediated through the facts about what *is*; that its 1st mission is not to fairness but to accurately informing the public.

The Somali guy hopping on the school bus to save the children even as Stephen Miller wants to denaturalize and deport him is a metaphor for our time.

Seen this story all day today. Every headline says "27 year old Minnesota man..." I have yet to see one with the headline that the man was Somalian. The most maligned and denigrated group in Minnesota www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/story/2...

Fascinating that as even as other Republicans who long ago sold their souls to MAGA still have enough baseline political acumen to see how poisonous this is, Vance is completely oblivious. It isn't just that he has no principles, decency, or moral compass, he's also really fucking bad at politics.

idk seems like trump may just be into dudes? Does he even know? Has he allowed himself to know? anyway republicans are highly motivated by and committed to the dignity of the office of the presidency, they've always said so

the routine, pay for play pardons are all by themselves one of the worst corruption scandals in american history!

there’s no middle ground position on this. either musk is forcibly rooted out of government infrastructure or every war proceeds at the whims and dictates of a generational buffoon

The guy who made his fortune by giving Alzheimer’s patients and their families false hope just tried to exploit the sex abuse his opponent suffered as a child for his own political gain. Republicans are a Mad Libs of depraved cruelty and moral degeneracy. Just horrible people.

Trump Appointees Asked a Federal Cybersecurity Agency to Secretly Acquire a Voting Machine—and Hack It talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-a...

Wildly out of touch. Voters want to see their candidates confident and willing to fight, not meekly taking the bait and retreating to whatever won’t offend a moderate Republican

crypto, car dealerships and MLMs. ripe targets for political and policy reasons.

It makes sense, if your entire project is maintaining traditional hierarchies, to try to immunize people against empathizing with the people you’re trying to harm

the idea that empathy is dangerous has been permeating right-wing spaces for a while, but it's not an actual element of their ideology as much as it's a defense mechanism against confronting the reality of their cruelty

This would be stupid as to any Republican nominee this century, of course they’d all overturn Roe, but it’s extra dumb as to Kavanaugh in particular. He’s the farthest right of Trump’s justices, he was obviously a party line social conservative who gave zero hint of being more moderate or whatever.

A pretty obvious answer for Troy Johnson is: I knew Kavanaugh would overturn Roe v. Wade. You knew it. Even Susan Collins knew it. We've seen this act for decades where she gives Republicans epsecially Trump power they don't deserve and then refuses to take responsibility for it. This can end now.

"If you are in Texas, I must repeat and emphasize: I implore you to vote for James Talarico. Talarico winning means Paxton losing. Talarico winning is in fact the only way Paxton can lose, at this point. And I so, so badly want Ken Paxton to lose." www.liberalcurrents.com/talarico-d-i...

ADL posting like Merriam Webster every time someone pro-Israel is antisemitic

I have seen a *lot* of center-left people my dad's age talk positively about AES, note the resonant evocation of JFK and the pushback against Christian nationalism... AES showing the ability to connect with a white, older demo that people keep insisting is "scared" of him matters a lot.

Part of what makes AES answer perfect is that it does evoke Sorkin in the effective and optimistic way; it touches the boomer/genx idealism that has largely eroded away since the Obama years (largely b/c of racist backlash, though they don't want to think that). Touching that nerve is potent.

As a bunch of people (including a "journalist" at CBS News, breaking the organization's rules) try to spin this story, it's notable that WSJ is just calling this one as they see it, and WSJ is read by a lot of centrists who are skeptical of progressive candidates generally and AES specifically.