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Published: July 26, 2024 18:57

As someone who always had to wait in long lines as a Wheeler, it's pretty awesome to have added Ireland to United States.

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Published: July 26, 2024 17:54

I really need someone to come up with lyrics about Ronny Jackson's serial efforts to spin Trump's medical care set to The Candy Man. https://youtu.be/78gt7pfjlCU?feature=shared&t=60

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Published: July 26, 2024 17:44

I love that they've got CandyMan out again with a propaganda vehicle. Will the press respond by demanding medical records? [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: July 26, 2024 14:05

I get why the Dems are solidifying the ticket on August 7; I actually think risk aversion when running against insurrectionists is merited. But damn, I'm enjoying the VP auditions.

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Published: July 26, 2024 11:59

Look, it's a legit Q why Kamala & Obama didn't release call on Wednesday. Maybe they held it for Joe's address? Maybe they WERE planning an in-person endorsement? Maybe they released to undercut Trump's debate cowardice? But if this is the endorsement,…

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Published: July 26, 2024 11:55

NYT: Obama endorsed Kamala today!! In a call he made on Wednesday!!! Bc goddess forbid we went to print with something that had already been rendered inoperative.

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Published: July 26, 2024 11:10

Trump Invites Reporters to Start Demanding His Medical Records https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/07/26/trump-invites-reporters-to-start-demanding-his-medical-records/

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Published: July 26, 2024 10:36

Antrim town deals with conflicting instincts -- wanting to claim next American President as their own, but realizing they would, then, have to acknowledge long-forgotten complicity in slavery to do so. …

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Published: July 25, 2024 20:45

Yesterday, I called on Joe Kahn to step down for the good of the country, like Joe Biden did. I've thought of three more things I should have included in the post, and now this. …

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Published: July 25, 2024 18:32

Ronny Jackson Memory Holes His Nephew's Injury https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/07/25/ronny-jackson-memory-holes-his-nephews-injury/

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Published: July 25, 2024 14:15

Bill Barr was involved in the inappropriate public announcement about 9 spoiled ballots in PA in 2020, but -- as with his interference in the Stone sentencing -- it's not clear that HE violated election guidelines. …

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Published: July 24, 2024 21:26

We're now into the fourth day, and the Shillbilly DEI hires at Mar-a-Lago and the RNC still haven't come up with a snotty way to insult smart women who laugh.

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Published: July 24, 2024 16:58

In my post calling on Joe Cohn to resign for the good of the country, as Joe Biden did, I focused on NYT's failures to meet the standards of its editorial page for reporting ON TRUMP. …

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Published: July 24, 2024 14:42

Speaker Mike Demands Better Treatment for Israel's Prime Minister Than Given the President of the United States …

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Published: July 24, 2024 13:54

Reup: I'm calling on Joe Kahn to resign, for the good of the country. https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/07/24/now-that-joe-biden-stepped-down-for-the-good-of-the-country-joe-kahn-must-join-him/#comment-1062619

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Published: July 24, 2024 13:50

Damnit, I have been thinking about such an ad -- or at least the possibility that Yusef Salaam could speak at the DNC. Turns out Vance stole my idea. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: July 24, 2024 13:30

I'm predicting it'll be 23 days until some MAGAt complains about being treated as suspicious for bringing some kind of gear (like binoculars) to a Trump rally.

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Published: July 24, 2024 12:48

Hoping that someone uses this moment to write a really good explanation of the import of Howard University in American history. It would be a worthy introduction to a lot of white people.

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Published: July 24, 2024 11:36

Now that Joe Biden Stepped Down for the Good of the Country, Joe Kahn Must Join Him https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/07/24/now-that-joe-biden-stepped-down-for-the-good-of-the-country-joe-kahn-must-join-him/

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Published: July 24, 2024 11:25

The Marsh Family skewers Vance: Doesn't like immigrants unless they help finance him being Vance VP one Big Mac from the nuclear key https://www.tiktok.com/@marshfamilysongs/video/7393739352964074785

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Published: July 24, 2024 08:11

Former Ku Klux Klan ‘grand dragon’ Frank Silva is mentoring Irish far-right extremists https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2024/07/24/former-ku-klux-klan-grand-dragon-is-mentoring-irish-far-right-extremists/…

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Published: July 23, 2024 22:43

Was waiting for this. It's going to pose a problem for Trump given that he stiffed so many indoor venues in Cult Season 1 and Cult Season 2. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: July 23, 2024 21:23

Gonna play a big role in whether Josh Shapiro gets the nod? [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: July 23, 2024 19:47

What kind of MAGAt DEI hires have they made in Mar-a-Lago that it has taken over three days and they're still searching for some snotty term to make fun of a smart woman laughing?

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Published: July 23, 2024 18:03

Holy hell the swamps @lolgop.bsky.social has discovered during this project. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: July 23, 2024 17:08

Actually, @lolgop.bsky.social is doing the hard work of turning my babbling into a story. But by all means join Ball of Threads Patreon (which is different than my separate Patreon for my weedy writing). [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: July 23, 2024 13:56

History suggests that Patrick Healy is usually wrong. There. That was easy. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: July 23, 2024 13:13

Reup: Fraudulent Failson Judgement: JD Vance "Ain't From Here" Donny let his failson pick his VP, and he picked a guy who monetized insulting Trump's vtoers. https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/07/23/fraudulent-failson-judgement-jd-vance-aint-from-here/

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Published: July 23, 2024 12:33

That NYT puff piece on Trump's misogyny you're all scoffing at includes this line from "but her emails Haberman."

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Published: July 23, 2024 12:18

Gonna be hearing a lot more Freedom, peeps. https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/22/entertainment/beyonce-freedom-harris-campaign/index.html

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Published: July 23, 2024 11:28

Wonder how many people noticed that in her announcement of acquiring the delegates for the nomination, she didn't use an Oxford comma. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: July 23, 2024 11:27

Where's Melania?

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Published: July 23, 2024 11:13

DC press: Goddamnit, no open convention to party at. Ah well, I guess I'll just invite Andy Beshear on to talk about what a fraud JD Vance is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vTFhV_nuR8

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Published: July 23, 2024 10:38

Fraudulent Failson Judgement: JD Vance "Ain't From Here" https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/07/23/fraudulent-failson-judgement-jd-vance-aint-from-here/

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Published: July 22, 2024 23:28

When I wake up tomorrow there'll be a Venn Diagram for Kamala Harris app, no? Make it so.

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Published: July 22, 2024 14:55

And it pisses the shit out of NYT and WaPo. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: July 22, 2024 13:07

In his endorsement of Kamala, Andy Beshear calls out JD Vance. https://youtu.be/G90EKMslHmA?feature=shared

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Published: July 22, 2024 11:27

What's the polite way of saying that JD Vance is gleefully running as a white trash DEI candidate, without adopting the slur against Applachia that he monetized?

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Published: July 22, 2024 11:19

Biden's Timing: Undercutting Bibi https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/07/22/bidens-timing-undercutting-bibi/

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Published: July 22, 2024 00:09

Not a VP candidate (like Josh Shapiro, Roy Cooper, and Mark Kelly, who all endorsed) or a potential rival (like Newsom and Whitmer, along with Shapiro), but nevertheless one of the more amusing endorsements.

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Published: July 21, 2024 18:35

Note: Kamala has had prominent campaign events with Roy Cooper, Josh Shapiro, and Buttigieg since the debate.

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Published: July 21, 2024 18:31

Big Gretch SEEMS to imply she's not running.

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Published: July 21, 2024 15:29

Imagine Thiel teaming up with a hypothetical VP Vance to police women's menstrual cycles. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: July 21, 2024 12:37

Since Leaving Butler, Trump Has Foregone the Best Medical Care and Is Withholding CT Scan Results https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/07/21/since-butler-trump-has-foregone-competent-medical-care-and-is-withholding-ct-scan-results/

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Published: July 20, 2024 23:31

And then I sexually assaulted the nanny. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: July 20, 2024 20:17

AKA a billionaire is forgoing competent medical care after a shooting attempt. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: July 20, 2024 18:11

Will Peter Baker Exhibit the Same Tenacity about Medical Records on the Trump Shooting as He Did a Parkinson's Conspiracy Theory?…

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Published: July 20, 2024 16:43

Over on Xitter, Jesse Singal is bothered that I called out Peter Baker's hypocrisy and cowardice about demanding medical records.

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Published: July 20, 2024 15:31

My favorite part abt the Failson convincing Dad to pick Vance is that 1) he's dumb as a stick, and 2) he convinced Dad that the Deep State would have Rubio take him out, apparently not remotely concerned that Vance's handlers are FAR more likely to demand…

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Published: July 20, 2024 09:55

It increasingly appears this was a garden variety American school shooter who chose a higher profile target. Since none of the other school shootings get focus -- Trump himself has told people to move on from such things and his allies call them set-ups…