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Elyse Eidman-Aadahl Dec 6, 2024

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Elyse Eidman-Aadahl Aug 1, 2024

Gil Duran Jul 31, 2024

🧵 I've spent this year writing for the @newrepublic about how a group of Silicon Valley billionaires has gone WEIRD. Now their weirdness is mating up with Trump's MAGA weirdness in the 2024 election.
Here's a few things to understand about these guys:

Elyse Eidman-Aadahl Jul 30, 2024

Jeri Dansky Jul 29, 2024

"In the last week ... Democrats have not focused that much on debunking any of the many, many (many) falsehoods the Trump/Vance campaign spews.

"Instead, they’ve leaned in deeply on just how fucking weird Trump & Vance & their core beliefs are."

"For the 1st time in 8 years it feels like Democrats actually realized that the way to go after Trump is not to try to respond to all the nonsense, but to ... trust that people can recognize the nonsense."

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/07/29/instead-of-fact-checking-maga-democrats-have-moved-on-to-vibe-checking/
#uspol #Harris2024

Instead Of Fact Checking MAGA, Democrats Have Moved On To Vibe Checking

If you’ve been paying any attention to the political news in the last week, you may have seen stories about couch fucking, or dolphin porn, or burnt monkey testicles, or even cat ladies. Or really …

Techdirt

Elyse Eidman-Aadahl Jul 29, 2024

Brandi Buchman Jul 29, 2024

GOOD NEWS for the voters of Mississippi:

Federal judge rejects lawsuit seeking to stop counting of mail-in votes in Mississippi after Election Day

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/federal-judge-rejects-lawsuit-seeking-to-stop-counting-of-mail-in-votes-in-mississippi-after-election-day/

Judge rejects lawsuit seeking to stop counting of mail-in votes in Mississippi after election

A federal judge in Mississippi has rejected a bid from members of the state's Republican party to assert that ballots received after Election Day but postmarked on or before it, are invalid.

Law & Crime

Elyse Eidman-Aadahl Jul 28, 2024

From The New Yorker daily comment, an article clarifying Harris’s work with immigration.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-real-story-of-kamala-harriss-record-on-immigration?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_Daily_072824&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&utm_term=tny_daily_digest&bxid=5bd66d382ddf9c619437dc40&cndid=8716041&hasha=9cc92873a052987f94eb4248510468fc&hashb=3562139c6c2e5f09b17fd104fc76bee42cb8e7be&hashc=e85968bcd9806cbd9c4744d16af874288a2eed01c6eeab38ad0e5b87f95681b8&esrc=OIDC_SELECT_ACCOUNT_PAGE&mbid=CRMNYR012019

The Real Story of Kamala Harris’s Record on Immigration

Jonathan Blitzer writes that, though Republicans have attacked the Vice-President as the Biden Administration’s “border czar,” her remit has never been to manage the border.

The New Yorker

Elyse Eidman-Aadahl Jul 28, 2024

A peek into the reality in some communities where the book banning/persecute librarians issue has not gone away:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/inside-two-fight-bring-charges-180003472.html?guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly90LmNvLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAABUvHRdkzDkjtzH_Tefd-ygqSDnvQnyhkR0kW_-s7xB-j-0zGomhcBkOTIYsHysbTgEJLqxqkqHmEKrFsPZWLJCKHJg32nmml-rzzf8KoynYtl4PDtAwF-SCekmsEQ6o4IYGBKWlyhybl3a51JI9L-QrDtbgFE_8HK9zTU4ZQzdT&s=03&guccounter=2

Inside the two-year fight to bring charges against school librarians in Granbury, Texas

An 824-page file details an officer’s attempt to prosecute librarians in Granbury, Texas, amid a nationwide battle over the books children are allowed to...

Yahoo News

Elyse Eidman-Aadahl Jul 28, 2024

This is an amazing piece for the “culture studies” types (like me). BTW, not a political advocacy piece, so don’t be put off or put on by the title:

https://wisdomofcrowds.live/p/trump-the-magic-candidate?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web