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NEW: Republican Jefferson Griffin has conceded the North Carolina Supreme Court race to Democratic incumbent Allison Riggs — finally bringing an end to the last unresolved contest from the 2024 election.

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from today's post, about Donny Two-Doll's fuckbrained idea of reopening Alcatraz. thanks for reading! link to the whole ball of wax is here: bit.ly/4jRxSvJ (and as always, there's a longer excerpt in the alt text)

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You'd never know from the @nytimes.com and @washingtonpost.com front pages, but yesterday the President of the United States was asked if he needs to "uphold the Constitution," and his answer was "I don't know."

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As two nuclear powers go to war, let’s all pray that the current leaders of America’s diplomatic and military machines aren’t distracted by a trans eighth grader winning a spot on the “wrong” basketball team or something else really important

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NEW: Tulsi Gabbard, now the US director of national intelligence, used the same easily cracked password for different online accounts including a personal Gmail account and Dropbox over a period of years, leaked records reviewed by WIRED reveal.

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Reminder: the claimed logic behind DOD trans purge is that they--some of whom have served for 20 years--lack the honor required to serve. So: trans service members who served w/honor? Not honorable. Pete Hegseth? Runs the joint. www.emptywheel.net/2025/03/30/h...

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I would say that staggering daily incompetence and stupidity of this admin is shocking except I fully expected every bit of it. www.reuters.com/world/us/ord...

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It shouldn't take a lawyer to know that as President of the United States, you have to follow the United States Constitution.

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I want a rush transcript of Mark Carney's internal dialogue during this Trump monologue string.

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I am so proud of my colleagues at @thebaltimorebanner.com who just won a frigging @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social . www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...

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NEW. A conversation with John Bolton on Trump’s first 100 days. “[Trump] is burning through decades of effort to build up goodwill, trust, faith, reliance on America. Our friends all over the world are saying, 'You’ve taken leave of your senses.’" conversationswithbillkristol.org/conversation...

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I am really trying to get some work done here

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Note: Thom Tillis said he would approve Eagle Ed Martin anywhere but DC. So maybe hold off on victory laps until MO has US Attorneys in place?

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I think we get used to stuff, like the proverbial frog in the pot, and lose track of how absolutely humiliating it is to have a belligerent, altered buffoon representing our nation and spewing gibberish on the world stage. But sitting him next to a normal person brings it home.

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Once again, Hillary was right— about everything!

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Had your chronicler been on his game, he'd have noted on Sunday the birthdate in 1825 of Thomas Huxley, whose famous Oxford debate with Samuel Wilberforce vindicated the theory of evolution with wit and verve: Wilberforce: "I descend from no ape, sir." Huxley: "Yo, I've seen your mama, fucknuts."

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The word “uphold” appears nowhere in the Constitution, so it’s hard to see why liberals seem to think that Donald Trump is required to uphold the Constitution. by Jonathan Turley

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This is absolutely true. The Lever’s work is pilfered without credit so often I no longer bother to say anything about it. Same goes for so much of the work of so many other independent outlets.

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You and millions of other people rely on the NPR Network for trustworthy journalism. NPR’s editorial integrity and independence are non-negotiable. It’s a promise we make to you – a promise we will fight to keep. Now, we need your support. Donate today: n.pr/3EYClNR

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Mao's Great Leap Forward led to 50 million deaths, but 50 years later the Chinese economy is stronger than ever. Could the same thing work here?

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Yeah, this is the most bizarre thing to me. American movies are global culture. Marvel stuff is everywhere; Star Wars is too, even in places where the franchise itself isn’t super popular. There are people walking the streets of China in Star Wars shirts who have never seen the films!

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And if we want a trade war on IP, we return to the days when bootleg copies of American films were on the streets of Beijing and no copyright was ever honored. I still have unlicensed Chinese DVDs of The Wire as a treasured souvenir. Tariffs on IP in an era of streaming is magical stupid.

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Seconded. And this is showing itself to be viable non-profit, online model for what every American city needs to undertake to reestablish independent metro dailies. This is the future.

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Massive congratulations to The Baltimore Banner. What they’ve accomplished in three years, in terms of building their newsroom and the quality of journalism they produce, is nothing short of incredible. The Banner has supplanted the 187-year old Sun as the daily record of this city.

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Get up, switch the coffee on. Time to rock and roll. Music that doesn't suck www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yte...

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@jonlovett.bsky.social: "He really did insist that it said MS-13. It is the equivalent of going up to Meryl Streep and wondering where her Getty Images tattoo is."

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You and millions of other people rely on the NPR Network for trustworthy journalism. NPR’s editorial integrity and independence are non-negotiable. It’s a promise we make to you – a promise we will fight to keep. Now, we need your support. Donate today: n.pr/3EYClNR

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Not on the @dailybeanspod.bsky.social ! We've been swearing about the important news for 191 Scaramuccis!

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When I think “private island in San Francisco” I definitely think “cost savings”

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Operation CANNON FODDER

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People keep asking why NBA players don't play as hard during the regular season as they do during this Knicks-Celtics game and the answer is because if they did several players would die by February.

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And there it is. The law he's using to make all those tariffs literally excludes films (among other things) from the scope of his powers. He can't do shit here. It's 100% unenforceable even before the "how" of it all. Thanks to @nanosauromo.bsky.social for the info.

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Scanlon: The Gulf of Mexico was so named over 500 years ago. If we want to update that name to reflect our current culture, maybe we should call it the Sea of Emoluments—you know, the place where we can board the Ship of Fools and navigate from a State of Ignorance to the Confederacy of Dunces…

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Even if you accept Stephen Miller’s (textually, historically, and morally indefensible) claim that undocumented immigrants are not entitled to due process, you’d still need due process to ensure that the individuals at issue are, in fact, undocumented. His argument fails even on its own terms.

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. The President of the United States just took a $2 billion bag from a UAE-backed crypto firm. That’s not business it’s a bribe. A sitting president is getting paid by a foreign government. This is treason in plain sight. And y’all quiet? Hell no. .

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It often feels like we basically took everything cautioned against here and made it into policy.

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Charlie Scalies was a true professional and a delight. Yes, we knew he was a Philly guy, but once he put on that safety vest, he was Horseface Pakusa and he might as well have rolled right out of a Rappolla Street rowhouse. Pure Bawlmerese. Thoughts are with his family; and memories, blessings.

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Trump has two crypto-focused dinners on the calendar this month — one aimed at deep-pocketed political donors, the other at meme coin millionaires. Both are poised to help him rake in millions. This is the most blatant corruption I've ever seen in the White House. www.cnbc.com/2025/05/05/t...

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This is completely false—as a matter of constitutional text, history, case law, and ordinary common sense. Miller is out to destroy our republic.

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