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Henry Porter 🇺🇸

@HenryPorters

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Wrecking lot proprietor. 🌋 banner:

Outside of town about a mile.

Joined November 2018

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Henry Porter 🇺🇸

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If you believe this, and I do, then the premise of neutral objective news is false and people who prop it up are giving enormous power to a small cadre of private actors.

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As the journalist @nicolefcarr always says: Facts are non-negotiable but framing is a choice. If the same poll shows the majority of Americans want both Biden and Trump to drop out, why only post about Biden? That is a choice. And more self-interrogation amongst us media folks

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We need to study this behavior. How *exactly* did Israel-Palestine become a sort of Manichean final boss fight for so many people?

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David Dayen

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There's a live elite debate over whether Biden should step down because he misspeaks every now and again, and then an Air Force officer immolates himself to protest genocide in Gaza, and you begin to think "maybe there's a bigger problem here than mixing up names"

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@JoePostingg We just invented the very first weight loss drug premised on the gut-brain connection. Observational studies find diet drinks and weight gain are correlated. Seems like an open question.

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This is in instructive in how the narrative dominates journalists. Axios tried to do a hit piece but all they got were quotes praising Biden. So they framed the quotes as criticisms and wrote a deeply silly piece as a result.

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@constans Basically a Victorian hobby with Victorian worldview.

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@davidmackau Washington, DC

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Break the union. Federalize the training. The military doesn’t act like this.

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Keegan Stephan

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An NYPD officer guarding Mayor Adams's house shot one of Adams's neighbors in the back as he tried to enter his own home.

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The phony history of Boomer Nostalgia is at its most potent and pernicious when it comes to Boomer academics who fail to teach their students that draft protests elected Nixon and Reagan and ended zero wars.

@ColumbiaSJP

Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine

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BREAKING ‼️ As of 4 AM this morning, Columbia University students have occupied the center of campus, launching our Gaza Solidarity Encampment. We demand divestment and an end to Columbia’s complicity in genocide.

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The use of the word "post" on this website is like if Coke went on an expensive crusade to rebrand as Soda.

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You 100% can do something about the way Biden's age is portrayed in the MSM by working the refs on Twitter and I'm proud of everyone who has stepped up to the task.

@asymmetricinfo

Megan McArdle

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I don't know who needs to hear this, but you can't fix Biden's age problem by working the refs on Twitter or in the mainstream media. Either he can deliver a sharp, vigoros performance on the stump, or he can't--and either way, voters will believe their eyes, not Twitter memes.

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@ADowling34 Me too. That was probably peak 2016 optimism for me. Which is something that keeps me *cautiously* optimistic in the present moment.

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How “speak truth to power” by demographic Democrats for Democratic voting readers ends up holding Dems to a much higher standard than Republicans and putting the thumb on the scale for the GOP.

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Aaron Rupar

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New in PN: @joshtpm on how the "liberal media" works against Dems "Republicans in the national political conversation have trained the press to think, 'We play hard. We break the rules sometimes.' That’s just how they operate, so that’s normal."

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I think conspiracy theories and Trump support probably get defeated the same way: setbacks and falsifications don't change the believers' stated positions, but at the margins people lose intensity of belief and willingness to show up at, eg, the polls.

@atrupar

Aaron Rupar

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"DOJ continues to cover for the Big Guy" -- with one of their pet conspiracy theories in ruins thanks to Hunter Biden's conviction, MAGA Republicans are demonstrating that their wild, baseless claims about Joe Biden are impervious to correction

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Henry Porter 🇺🇸

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Big congrats to the Brookings Institution.

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Shadi Hamid

1 year

Some personal news! I'll be joining @washingtonpost as a columnist and member of the Editorial Board. It's bittersweet leaving Brookings after 14 years but it seems like the right time to take on a new challenge.

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This would be a terrible way to start but I unironically believe that Democrats should expand their coalition and advance good policy by attacking elite private education.

@DougJBalloon

New York Times Pitchbot

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Denouncing Harvard president Claudine Gay could give Joe Biden the Sister Souljah moment he so desperately needs

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Henry Porter 🇺🇸

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They will fucking Al Gore us if we let them. Leonhardt is just making shit up here and he doesn’t know it because the hive mind doesn’t care. You can read Harris’s speeches. She’s not talking about democracy. She’s talking kitchen table. This tweet is just flat wrong.

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David Leonhardt

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@WSJEditorials What about Harris? Her initial message has been focused on democracy, just as Biden's was. But there is a lot of evidence that this message plays much better with committed Democrats than undecideds. Undecideds don't seem worked up about democracy.

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@DanRiffle @JHWeissmann Reasonable people can disagree about the value of the ACT but the claim that it was your only shot at college is obviously false in a way that demonstrates how invisible community college is to journalists and why journos are a huge obstacle to fixing education after high school.

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JD Vance is weird in his own idiosyncratic way, but if you ever wondered how a Matt or Nate would do running for national office, this is how it would go. Politics is a skill you learn by doing. Very smart boys are typically bad at it, especially when they are still learning.

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Henry Porter 🇺🇸

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People say this kind of thing but like, Swift-Boating *worked*.

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Liam Donovan

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@KBeds You were right the first time and should ignore the lunatics. If people can't distinguish between the bad and the benign they're going to be less equipped for how this election goes. Plenty to rightly worry about, silly to swing at every pitch.

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Can you imagine if he weren’t lying and 55% of Americans knew what the CFPB is?

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Neil Malhotra

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55% of Americans DISAGREED with this decision. 63% of Republicans, 61% of Independents, and 39% of Democrats.

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Josh is demonstrating one of the most important mechanisms which causes media asymmetry between the parties.

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Josh Chafetz

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Can someone tell me why it matters whether Trump was hit by a bullet or by shrapnel caused by a bullet hitting glass? Either way, he survived an assassination attempt. This seems like a dumb and petty road to go down.

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It’s going to be a close election, so it could go either way, but there’s a non-zero chance that the editorial boards of legacy outlets are writing their own death sentence if Biden wins and the public comes to resent their imperiousness.

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Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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The AJC Editorial Board is publishing a front page editorial Sunday calling on President Joe Biden to step aside after Thursday’s debate in Atlanta. In an impassioned campaign rally on Friday, Biden tried to convince American voters that his alarming performance on a debate stage

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@JoePostingg Understanding of the gut-brain connection is in its infancy. This is non-controversial. Your position is overstated. It's fine.

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This misunderstands politics to the level of being false. Democrats have long wanted to remove Iowa. But no presidential nom wanted to guarantee the loss of Iowa in the general. Biden didn’t make this decision. The voters of Iowa did by being un-gettable for Democrats in 2024.

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Astead

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Biden's re-eleection began in earnest two months ago, when the DNC changed the state primary order to put South Carolina in the front, per his wishes. A backstop against a primary opponent (and a precursor to his centrist pivot) @nytimes @TheRunUpNYT

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@HirunCryer @jfruh Unreadable news sections and highly readable opinion sections is a choice. It doesn’t have to be like this.

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There’s not a single Republican personality anywhere in media whose MO is anything other than saying false things for good vibes.

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Liam Donovan

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The straightjacket Simon finds himself in is that while he knows Biden needs to improve--and more or less acknowledged as much in his responses--he is so deeply committed to the notion of the self-fulfilling power of vibes that he cannot say anything worse than the race is tied.

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In all seriousness, genuine oversight of the Secret Service is long overdue and the politics meant that an assassination attempt on a Republican president was probably the only way it could happen. The press certainly weren’t going to initiate it.

@kaitlancollins

Kaitlan Collins

@kaitlancollins

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House Oversight Chairman James Comer: “I have already contacted the Secret Service for a briefing and am also calling on Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle to appear for a hearing. The Oversight Committee will send a formal invitation soon.”

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@EricLevitz Politics is a Team Sport. Joe doesn’t inspire slavish devotion, but folks who know how things work are rock solid on the value of people inside the tent pissing where we all sleep.

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In my lifetime, some very serious and credentialed person will claim that some future president is worse than Trump and they will be wrong. It might even become a popular hot take. But it will be wrong.

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Jean-Michel Connard 좆됐어

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There was nothing great about Trump. Nothing redeeming. He is the most venal, ignorant, foul man to inhabit the office. There’s no greater purpose in his actions, not even a twisted one. He will tear this country down out of spite and there’s no shortage of people who will help.

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With today’s courts, we’d have a second Korematsu case out of the 5th Circuit preventing Truman and Eisenhower from closing the internment camps.

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Karine Jean-Pierre

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. @POTUS : “When President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, eighty-one years ago today, it ushered in one of the most shameful periods in American history.” Read the full statement:

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This is just a straight up lie?!? What the actual fuck?

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Margaret Brennan

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Trump promises "mass deportations." Biden is carrying out these deportations now

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Henry Porter 🇺🇸

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God help us. He did it with anti-party “both-sides” rhetoric that is designed in a lab to be corrosive to democracy.

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Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦

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Anyone who claims Jon Stewart isn't ready for this political era has completely forgotten how essential his public advocacy was to getting the 9/11 First Responders Bill (2019) and the PACT Act (2022) passed into law. He tangled with the GOP publicly and won big.

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Did something happen in Jon Chait’s life?

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Jonathan Chait

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social media account based on the comedic premise that the NYT opinion section is run by partisan Republicans

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Henry Porter 🇺🇸

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This is apparently a generational thing where social media and the idea that “silence is complicity” convinced an entire cohort of public minded young people to value a style of politics designed to fail. It’s going to be ugly as that cohort hits reality like Wile E Coyote.

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@Convolutedname “5-10%” is a good example of “Politics: The Home Game” where things are decided by the roll of a 10-sided die instead of a complex human social ecosystem.

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@AsteadWH @joshjame @nytimes @TheRunUpNYT It’s extremely weird to act like Democrats haven’t been working on this change for decades and the obstacle was always the incentives of a presidential campaign competing in Iowa in the general. Biden didn’t make this change. Iowa did by going consistently GOP.

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It’s not the lack of apology. It’s that their business model is no longer compatible with democracy and Dems are noticing.

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I think the smart take all along has been that Leftists hurt Dems by having their behavior attributed to the party which in turn drives away swing voters. This is doubly infuriating when folks like Osita complain about Dems as if he is not one of us.

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I do: guns are a major problem that makes every other problem worse.

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@opinonhaver Yes. Of course the missing piece is that in effective Civil Disobedience, those arrests and fines are narratively connected to the oppression you seek to highlight.

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We may have stumbled into an effective way to manipulate the press.

@nick_field90

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CNN, Fox News and MSNBC are all carrying Harris's Milwaukee rally live

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Henry Porter 🇺🇸

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One of the funniest things about soccer being an Americanism is that around the world, no English speaker outside of a small group of actual English people would ever turn “Association Football” into “soccer.”

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‘Soccer’ was originally British slang for ‘association football.’

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@aquaimperium8 The only insight from macroeconomics that holds up consistently over long timeframes is that the gold standard was very bad and getting off of it reduced suffering enormously. It’s a field with one hit, but that hit is “Come On Eileen.”

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Henry Porter 🇺🇸

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Democracy absolutely cannot survive if we let the corporate oligarchs who own Politico claim to be The People incarnate.

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Natalie Fertig

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So all the Biden staffers gaslighting the press (and by default misleading the American public) for the last week - what happens to them now? Does anyone ever trust them again? Is there an explanation that excuses this?

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Are people unaware that DNC has rules and you can’t just edit what a committee has voted on?

@jessebyrnes

Jesse Byrnes

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There are 19 references to President Biden's "second term" in the party's 2024 platform released today 👀

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Henry Porter 🇺🇸

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Josh Marshall has adopted a business model suited for democracy. It reduces the status of journalists because it doesn’t purport to make them neutral elites in charge of Truth. The would-be philosopher kings like Kang hate it.

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All this guy does is scream at reporters now. This time he’s mad because an apolitical journalism group asked for better work conditions at the DNC. Seems like a cause that liberals would be behind but Josh only interested in stirring up his followers against his colleagues.

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Henry Porter 🇺🇸

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@lawofruby When was your last cognitive test? They don’t give them to healthy people.

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Henry Porter 🇺🇸

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These people aren’t public servants. This self-praise is so gross.

@CorbinBolies

Corbin Bolies

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I spoke to AP photographer @evanvucci about the harrowing moments leading up to his instantly historic pic of a bloodied Donald Trump defiantly waving his fist for supporters after the rally shooting. “It's a moment in history that you have to document.”

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Henry Porter 🇺🇸

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As I've said before, the actual secret that the White House has been keeping is that you can't get Biden to stop talking to people and it makes meetings run long.

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Jake Sherman

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20 calls seems crazy low to me. There are more than 260 congressional Democrats. He's called fewer than 10% of them?

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@BeijingPalmer It's a byproduct of the notion that they must be neutral which is itself the byproduct of the network effects of classified ads post-WW2.

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Henry Porter 🇺🇸

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@RTodKelly Why are you losing money on the human organs, dude? Sounds like a skill issue.

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Henry Porter 🇺🇸

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Academics need to get their heads out of their asses and stop fetishizing the tactics of the disenfranchised in a country where everyone has the right to vote.

@edokeefe

Ed O'Keefe

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JUST IN: In a forceful statement, @VP @Kamalaharris denounces protests at Union Station in Washington on Wednesday that defaced Union Station. She calls them, "despicable acts by unpatriotic protestors and dangerous hate-fueled rhetoric." Adds later "Pro-Hamas graffiti and

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Henry Porter 🇺🇸

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The Washington Post is losing money because they despise the people of Washington, DC and there’s no room for 3 “neutral” national newspapers that refuse to compete on narrative voice.

@jawillick

Jason Willick

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9-0 for abortion drugs, 8-1 for gun control, 6-3 for Biden social media censorship pressure. Is this court as big a threat to progressive governance as Democrats have made it out to be? Or just a modest check on worst abuses? The latter.

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Henry Porter 🇺🇸

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Jon Favreau is going to dine out on this take forever but the actual mechanisms had nothing to do with pundits and pod bros.

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Conor Sen

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It’s pretty amusing that the past month showed that DC pundits and podcast bros are more in touch with the will of the Democratic Party than extremely online NYT haters.

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Henry Porter 🇺🇸

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If you're younger than GenX you might not recognize this as a tired hack cliche, but trust me, that's what it is.

@brianstelter

Brian Stelter

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"Rarely has a presidential election been so defined by the gender gap — and masculine vs. feminine framing. It's Donald Trump's chest-beating macho appeals vs. Joe Biden's softer, reproductive-rights-dominated, all-gender inclusivity."

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If the experience of being 28 years old doesn’t change your opinion about listening to 20 year-olds, there’s a very good chance you support yourself exclusively through writing.

@perrybaconjr

Perry Bacon Jr.

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"The student left is the most reliably correct constituency in America. Over the past 60 years, it has passed every great moral test American foreign policy has forced upon the public, including the Vietnam war, apartheid South Africa, and the Iraq war."

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I think it's wrong to perceive what Brian Stelter is doing as being the same as what Nancy Pelosi is doing. Stelter and the neutral media generally want to increase their power at the expense of the Democratic Party. Pelosi wants to maintain and expand the power of Democrats.

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Conor Sen

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Now that we know Pelosi and Schumer (and presumably Jeffries) are involved, we can at least move past the notion this is just a bunch of pundits and podcast bros getting in their feelings.

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Henry Porter 🇺🇸

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All your favorite justice reporters are way too credulous about prosecutors and it shows the second the subject is anything other than January 6th.

@ryanjreilly

Ryan J. Reilly

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People can disagree with Robert Hur's language in the report, but it's tough to argue in good faith he's just a partisan hack. Here he is, in the middle of Trump's first impeachment trial, speaking about his case against a would-be domestic terrorist who targeted Trump's enemies.

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Henry Porter 🇺🇸

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@MarcACaputo Telling the truth? There's an objective fact of the matter here? Or does Trump systematically use vagueness to his advantage?

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Henry Porter 🇺🇸

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The kid who liked Nirvana in 1991 but then hated them in 1993 because they “sold out”and the kid who comes home from his first-year at college and lectures his parents on how capitalism caused slavery are two common types of political posters.

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@johnlk_80 I love the premise that the columnists are somehow qualified to rate candidates. It's so bizarre and yet... people just nod their heads.

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Prosecutors, man. Think about what they do to people with less money and power and than Alec Baldwin.

@alaynatreene

Alayna Treene

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!! The judge dismissed the indictment against Alec Baldwin & the case was dismissed with prejudice, meaning prosecutors cannot bring it back Alec Baldwin could be seen crying & immediately hugged his wife Hilaria as court was excused, per @joshscampbell & @CNN_Cheri

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Henry Porter 🇺🇸

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Be normal, dude. He did a good thing. And if you want more power you should win more elections.

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Waleed Shahid 🪬

7 months

Schumer's speech aimed to create a permission structure for his core audience of older, center-left Jewish Democrats to begin to step away from Israel's war in Gaza. Yet Muslim, Arab, and younger Democrats are left questioning Schumer's continued support of weapons aid for

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Imagine trying to explain to the authors of the Federalist Papers that political opinion writing in 2023 was dominated by math nerds with zero experience in politics.

@NateSilver538

Nate Silver

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I'm trying to diagnose who has the best chance of winning, which is (part of) my job. If you think the stakes are high, then that's all the more reason to nominate the person with the best shot of winning. I'm increasingly doubtful that's Biden.

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Henry Porter 🇺🇸

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We can’t let them continue to get away with this two-step where they don’t follow their own rules but then use those rules to insist other ways of doing news are immoral.

@brianstelter

Brian Stelter

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+1 to this by @aidnmclaughlin : "A media that exercises restraint is a good media. It often fails to live up to that standard, but the argument that it should be more reckless in its coverage, not less, is one that will lead to worse, not better reporting."

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Henry Porter 🇺🇸

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Can you imagine going to Cornell, watching your stupidest peers make six figures right out of school, and then *pretending* to be really dumb for the honor of $40k from Axios?

@axios

Axios

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SCOOP: For his events, President Biden's staffers prepare a short document with large print and photos that include his precise path to a podium, according to an event template the White House sends to staffers.

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Henry Porter 🇺🇸

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@constans Walked by "Autism Speaks" last night and thought how there's this whole incentive structure of non-profit grifting around "awareness" and rich people who need to launder their conscience.

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Henry Porter 🇺🇸

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Eleanor Roosevelt had a column syndicated in the news section of newspapers SIX DAYS A WEEK around the country. Our news organizations now have an ethical rule against knowing what you’re talking about, so instead of HRC we get Nick Kristof and Bret Stephens.

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Angry Staffer 🌻

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Every. Word. Of. This. I don’t care if you like Hillary or not, do yourself a favor and spend 8 minutes learning something.

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So much of this discourse: -polls are physical objective facts about the world, -every other possible piece of evidence is mere ephemera.

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Ben Dreyfuss

4 months

all of these democrats in my feed are quote tweeting this result like it means the polls about biden are wrong but there were (apparently) no polls of this race and it's a special election which everyone has been talking about dems overperforming in for two years.

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Henry Porter 🇺🇸

2 months

Our democracy cannot survive 4 more years of neutral journalism bent on destruction.

@Olivianuzzi

Olivia Nuzzi

2 months

The big lesson here? Bullying works.

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Henry Porter 🇺🇸

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I think it’s extremely important to understand that when journalists say “Speak Truth to power” they mostly mean their parents.

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Henry Porter 🇺🇸

4 months

Again, what leads to more wrong answers than cognitive bias? Convincing yourself that you’re too smart for cognitive bias.

@NateSilver538

Nate Silver

4 months

So Biden wants 2 debates instead of the traditional 3 and also wants them much earlier, which makes them less impactful? It's consistent with his strategic incentives, which are that he can't be seen as ducking debates but he's not particularly confident he'll win.

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@idobadtakes I think it’s antisemitism. But why that particular kind? Don’t want to go down victim blaming rabbit hole, but *part* of it is you’ve got an industry dedicated to portraying the Holocaust as the ur text of hate, you’re elevating things to the Manichean level.

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Henry Porter 🇺🇸

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Notice how the background normative assumption is that parties should be weak and divided. “He deprived Democrats of a real primary”

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Nate Silver

2 months

Give me a break. Harris has a more viable path to winning the election than Biden under the circumstances, but Biden should never have run for another term, he deprived Democrats of a real primary, and the White House did a lot of gaslighting to the country about his condition.

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1 year

@SwannMarcus89 What? What in the world? Do you think pedestrian safety is the same as passenger safety? Did you misunderstand something?

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@OsitaNwanevu Were you raised in the US? The Civil Rights Movement didn’t succeed by coercing Southern leaders.

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Henry Porter 🇺🇸

3 months

Why would a room full of newspaper employees who piously forswear partisanship have the job of deciding who the Democrats run for president? That we don’t laugh them out of public life is the power of propaganda that they’ve targeted us with for decades.

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Henry Porter 🇺🇸

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I have been saying that college campuses and activism generarlly are fucked by Boomer Academic myths of glorious campus protests in the 1960s for a long time.

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Henry Porter 🇺🇸

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@lee_kovarsky How do you get evidence to rebut the presumption when the crime of ordering the destruction of that evidence is protected by the presumption?

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Henry Porter 🇺🇸

1 year

@agraybee A show about depression and alcoholism that is both real and uplifting. It's laugh out loud funny, honest, and, ultimately, optimistic about the human condition.

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Henry Porter 🇺🇸

1 year

Something about how non-college whites are so stupid they want media to lie to them. Ha, ha, not like college educated Lefties… wait, I’m being told…

@ByYourLogic

Lead Actor from Pixar’s Sodas

1 year

I wonder if Biden is so old that he thinks $700 is enough to keep your life together after your house and likely your place of work burns up in a fire and he thinks it’s some awesome repudiation of austerity or if it’s just regular lowballing

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Henry Porter 🇺🇸

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Obama worked so clean the only thing they had on him was he was Black, which reporters couldn’t use. Biden’s so clean and white all they’ve got is his age, and if that means turning thinking out loud into a major scandal, then Dave and Peter are ready for action.

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Henry Porter 🇺🇸

7 months

Giant pillar of Journo Ideology: politicians should be better people than journalists. Without this tenet they would be guilty of massive hypocrisy on transparency about donors, conflicts of interest, colleagues who sell out to PR, embarrassing family members, DUIs, etc.

@jmart

Jonathan Martin

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It’s true, jesse watters should def not be president, got him

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Henry Porter 🇺🇸

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@souljagoytellem It was about the decline in unwanted children and it’s plausible that it plays a role.

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Henry Porter 🇺🇸

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Neutral journalism cannot build anything, it can only destroy. So they become very proud of destroying things.

@daveweigel

David Weigel

3 months

"Seems like you media people are obsessed with an unprecedented political crisis." Yeah man, guilty

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Henry Porter 🇺🇸

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If Dems pull off a switch it would be helpful if Biden backers directed their anger at the press. The worst possible outcome is Trump plus emboldened neutral MSM. The second worst is Dem plus emboldened MSM.

@nhannahjones

Ida Bae Wells

2 months

Trump has been caught sleeping several times at the convention, which apparently is not a crisis or a sign that he’s too old to serve.

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Henry Porter 🇺🇸

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To be fair, there was some productive student activism around apartheid South Africa, but they didn't block traffic and focused attention on the university endowment managers with the power to divest.

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Henry Porter 🇺🇸

2 months

These adrenaline junkies should not be glorified.

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Henry Porter 🇺🇸

1 year

@revhowardarson More like an informal 25th Amendment.

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Henry Porter 🇺🇸

2 months

Bad faith actor

@brianstelter

Brian Stelter

2 months

On CNN, @kaitlancollins says she spoke with Trump minutes after Biden dropped out of the race. "He told me he believes that VP Harris will be easier to beat than Joe Biden would have been."

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@IRHotTakes @cymbalina Richard Rorty, Achieving Our Country

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Henry Porter 🇺🇸

4 months

Border stuff shows asymmetry of media. Basically impossible for a Democrat to get good press on a showy executive order that does very little. Which is the kind of thing Lefties insist will work on Alito ethics and all kinds of other stuff.

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Henry Porter 🇺🇸

2 years

It’s chefs kiss that Lefties look at the organic politics of yard signs and cringe. Humans are telling you how politics works and you’re upset because they aren’t reading theory—which purports to understand organic politics.

@rev_avocado

Leonid Baezhnev 🥥 🌴

2 years

Hate Has No Home Here really is a good sentiment.

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Henry Porter 🇺🇸

7 months

@BBBeyond2160 I think the American racism lens is a lot of the college student phenomenon.

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Henry Porter 🇺🇸

2 months

Tony has no opinion on the merits of putting humans in boxcars.

@CBSNews

CBS News

2 months

An RNC sign given to supporters on the third night reads, "MASS DEPORTATION NOW!" "That is the kind of policy that is alarming, even cruel, even un-American to folks on the left, and that is the intended effect," @tonydokoupil says, adding that he spoke with someone at the

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A great day for Democrats to propose seizing private schools and distributing their assets as reparations for slavery.

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