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Have a nice weekend David.

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The Kanala-Walz video works because they genuinely like and enjoy each other. It's easy to see them having this conversation on AF2 when nobody is filming and they're just chatting away. Yes, they're hitting campaign themes (it's an ad!) but it's unforced and natural and I just like listening to these people. A huge contrast from their opponents.

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Very pleased to see Sarah Cooper back in action doing her tRump takeoffs...Cooper's rendition of tRump's "inject bleach", "strong light" news conference was an all-time fav, and I still laugh watching it...brava!

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FFS, an important fact must be reported full stop. That the news media have a problem with the concept—which they obviously do—says everything about how the continuously fail the nation and world.

How the fact was discovered may be itself a story, but no more than a secondary.

And of course compare that to 2016.

As for Kamala: that name sticks it to Trump in a way Harris doesn’t and can’t. So I’ve been committed to Kamala since almost the start.

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Kamala Harris will present a detailed policy statement on economic issues today in NC...probable NYT take:

"How the Harris economic proposals could spell trouble for Democrats"

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Sarasota Herald-Tribune: New College of Florida tosses hundreds of library books, empties gender diversity library.

This is chilling. We are not talking a public library, a high school library or a grade school library, this is a College Library and presumably no one under the age of 17 would have any access. This is purely censorship for the sake of censorship and it is just wrong.

On the "sting" operation, I too have reservations about this kind of reporting, the various completely dishonest Veritas reports were disgusting. Not because of the "sting" but because the audio was heavily edited rather than being presented in its entirety. If these folks are willing to share the whole thing in its entirety I am good with it.

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DeSantis fascism has a long run ahead of it...eff Florida.

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I think it’s important to always remember that these people are not Christians or Christian Nationalists at all, but rather Christian Nihilists, which means Christians without the loving way of Christ in the world. They should always be reminded of this I think, and have their noses consistently rubbed in it . Just a thought.

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They're Fundamentalists. Fundamentalism is its own religion, whether it masquerades as "christian," "jewish," "muslim," or "hindu."

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"I’ve written before about my reservations about the difficulty of where to draw the ethical lines around these kinds of reporting tactics ..."

I say Go for it. The Right does it in their sleep, it's not illegal, and the police do it all the time.

Plus it's up to the interviewee to vet the interviewer.

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