Greg Spradlin @spradlig@qoto.org

Too bad the 6 Trumpies don’t care and won’t listen

Via Kyle Griffin:

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson tells CBS she supports an "enforceable code" of ethics for #SCOTUS justices.

"A binding code of ethics is pretty standard for judges, and so I guess the question is, 'is the Supreme Court any different?'"

"I guess I have not seen a persuasive reason as to why the [Supreme] Court is different than the other courts."

Randomly emailing conservative parents associations and telling them we’re changing the beginning of moby dick to say Call me Cismale

"As of Monday, August 26, 2024, we can safely say that the NYTimes is an 'unserious newspaper.'

The NYT’s Monday edition included a guest essay by Rich Lowry entitled, Trump Can Win on Character. ...

When the Times opens its editorial pages to opinions that are objectively, demonstrably false and misleading, the Times should be viewed as approving of those opinions."

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#Trump #Republicans #NewYorkTimes #character #values #morality #principles
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https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/harris-walz-campaign-goes-on-offense

"Today, Rich Lowry, the editor of National Review (the flagship conservative magazine founded by William F. Buckley Jr.), published an article claiming that Donald Trump could win the 2024 election 'on character.'”

No, really."

~Tom Nichols

#Trump #NewYorkTimes #character

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/08/the-conservatives-who-sold-their-souls-for-trump/679623/

Great interview with @Mer__edith in @WIRED from @agreenberg talking @signalapp, #surveillance, #privacy and #sustainability

"Signal is a nonprofit because a for-profit structure leads to a scenario where one of my board members goes to Davos, talks to some guy, comes back excitedly telling me we need an AI strategy for profit. Or another one of my board members comes in, gets really nervous that our revenue model, whatever it is, isn’t bringing in something that meets our goals and says, “Well, maybe we can start collecting metadata. Maybe we can reduce the focus on privacy, because of course our primary objective function, as a traditional for-profit, is revenue and growth.” And privacy in an economy powered by surveillance will necessarily hamper those."

https://www.wired.com/story/meredith-whittaker-signal/

@RealJournalism Exactly so!!!

"Widen the race, make Trump have to pay to defend states like North Carolina or even Florida, states they seem to have never considered spending in, and he may very well abandon those states. At the same time, GOP funds on the ground will be tight, and downballot candidates will suffer in both funds for ads and GOTV and a lack of coat tails to ride."

#USPol

@coreytrina Yes. Another place to donate for down ballot races is via #MastodonBlueWave at https://secure.actblue.com/donate/mastodonbluewave.

@heidilifeldman
For Harris to do that, it's going to require a Democrat-majority House and Senate, and that means donating to those races, and if you can, phone-banking and canvassing.
The link below is for excellent strategic donating recommendations from activist Jessica Craven
https://docs.google.com/document/d/13pvzT4gB7FK7n0O_3p6_ymrBaSIlpB3YbkuZCjNXGKw/edit

Nuts and bolts of what we funding the #Harris campaign to do: This week Harris and #Walz are going on a bus tour through Georgia. “The campaign is investing heavily in the Peach State with more than 170 Democratic campaign staffers in 24 coordinated campaign offices across the state.” https://flip.it/8L-xdQ

Winning Georgia is going to take a massive effort. Let’s make sure the campaign has all the resources necessary. https://secure.actblue.com/donate/mastodon-for-harris

TL;DR: European iPhones now offer exciting features like third-party app stores and customizable default apps, thanks to advanced regulations. Users are left wishing for similar freedoms in other regions, especially with retro game emulators available in the EU. https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/24/24226946/iphone-eu-regulation-app-stores-fortnite #law #tech #legaltech ⚖️ 🤖 #autosum

JD Vance makes Ron DeSantis almost seem normal.

'It’s Tim Walz night!

And Mayor Pete might!

And Bill Clinton night no exclamation point."

~ Evan Hurst

#DNC #KamalaHarris #TimWalz #future #hope #joy
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https://www.wonkette.com/p/live-tim-walz-steals-nomination-from

Heather Cox Richardson puts her finger on a major theme running through commentary on the DNC this morning:

"After three days at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, I feel like I have seen the political future and its name is the Democratic Party."

#DNC #KamalaHarris #TimWalz #future #hope #joy
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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-21-2024

Still having a good laugh over the NY Times' insistence that the people shouting "We Love You Joe!" at the DNC convention last night were really saying they love the fact that Joe Biden isn't running again.

Their minds are simply unable to comprehend that people love Joe because he's a goddamn American hero and will one day be spoken of in the same breath as Washington, Lincoln, and FDR.

Struggling to give a f*ck, tbh…

Must be hard for their families but why do we need to be kept up to date on obscenely wealthy people being killed by the weather conditions their excessive gluttonous consumption helped cause?

Where’s the minute by minute coverage of the tens of millions killed by air pollution every year?

#Karma #ClimateBreakdown

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/08/20/mike-lynch-sicily-yacht-bayesian-italy/

🤞🏼 Vote!

Via Griffin:

Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball is shifting its rating of #NorthCarolina from leaning Republican to toss-up in the presidential race.

This is the first time the Crystal Ball has moved any state from the GOP column into too-close-to-call territory all cycle.

Inflation drops below 3 precent for the first time in years: “Did the U.S. beat inflation? Yes, yes, yes. I told you we were going to have a soft landing, and we’re going to have a soft landing. My policies are working, start writing that way, okay?” - President Biden

US Press: People still feel everything is awful. We don't know why.

Space lovers: #SpaceCadetsForHarris is happening Thursday, August 15, 5pm PT / 8pm ET! Speakers include Bill Nye, #NASA astronauts, #scifi film industry pros, and more. 🚀 https://www.spacecadets4harris.com/

If this were a pregnant white woman, there would be a firestorm of outrage coast to coast, even if she was armed and threatened the life of a police officer.

But an unarmed, pregnant Black woman only "suspected" of a petty thief, and posing no threat is put down like a dangerous animal.

This is not a few bad apples, or a police problem, it's the manufactured culture of #whiteness and the state-sponsored racial class system that cultivates and defends it.

Ohio Cop Charged with Murdering 21-Year-Old Pregnant Black Mother Ta’Kiya Young
#BlackMastodon #whiteTerrorism #Police #StateViolence
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/8/14/headlines/ohio_cop_charged_with_murdering_21_year_old_pregnant_black_mother_takiya_young