Lou Katz @lou@entropyservice.com

So I hope, and if I were the praying kind, pray that the Biden campaign is looking at these questions closely and frankly, and makes an informed decision quickly enough to maximize the chances that Trump is defeated. I wish I had the data and analytical capability that they have access to, but I realize I don't. That's frustrating, but it's also reality.

My opinion is that Biden should do whatever maximizes the chances that Trump is kept out of the White House, because I *do* know quite a bit about about Trump and his plans for that office. He is a fascist monster, who has promised "retribution" and has a track record that amply proves where he stands. This is not a close call.

Should Biden drop out based on his debate performance? I don't know. Answering that sensibly requires two things that are not currently publicly known:

- The actual state of Biden's health, with an informed prognosis.

- If he's fit (see above, I don't know), the political landscape, based on highly granular polling data and informed analysis.

I'm neither an MD nor a political analyst, and I've neither examined Biden nor have access to the kinds of political data that campaigns use.

@washingtonpost has no opinion pieces asking why a convicted felon, adjudicated rapist and fraudster whose election will lead to the implementation of Project 2025 and a Christian theocracy should withdraw.

Yet they have FIVE opinion pieces on Biden’s candidacy. It is infuriating what the national media chooses *not* to cover or emphasize.

#Election2024 #democracy #vote

"So – just to be clear, the Supreme Court wants nothing to be regulated except for women's and girl's bodies?"

Jena Friedman

it's fucked up that in the united states there are so many jobs that require tips to make a living wage. like baristas and supreme court justices

Publishers want to control public libraries, or outlaw them.

Here's how they demonstrated pure bad faith in a working group that is trying to accommodate a host of interests -- including readers and researchers.

https://www.libraryfutures.net/post/niso-cdl-statement

h/t @maria

Anyone who calls for Biden to drop out now but did not call for Trump to drop out when he was convicted of 34 felony counts is a quisling, a collaborator, and a traitor to America.

In days, the Supreme (Rulers) Court will issue a decision on whether presidents have immunity from crimes their commit in office. Here's my bet on the outcome:

They want right wing Republicans to have immunity, but not Democrats. So they'll kick it back to the lower courts, and then decide after the election based on their blatantly plain preferences. (Law? What's that?)

Big Journalism unsurprisingly botched the meaning of the Supreme Court's wiping out of the Chevron precedent. Two excellent small outlets -- @thenation and Talking Points Memo -- -- understood the staggering truth:

First, it's an unprecedented power grab by the court, taking authority away from the other two branches.

Second, it's designed to cripple regulation that makes our lives safer.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/chevron-deference-supreme-court-power-grab/

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme-court-chevron-overrule-agency

I would be much more comfortable with the Times' obvious anti-Biden stance if the organization would simply come out of the closet and acknowledge what it is doing: transmitting a world view through its journalism.

It is possible -- indeed IMO essential -- for journalists to be activists on some issues.

I wish the Times' activism would be directed toward saving democracy, and by extension freedom of speech.

That's not what the org is doing, which is the most disheartening part of this.

worldbuilding a dystopian future where Earth is divided into six numbered regions, and seeing how long it takes people to realize they’re DVD regions

Seems inescapable now -- in the wake of the New York Times' campaign, on both the editorial and news pages, to discredit Biden in every way -- that the institution has abandoned even the pretense of honest journalism.

Yes, Biden stunk up the joint in Atlanta, and his performance raised some legitimate questions.

But the Times continues to relentlessly normalize Trump's metastasizing evil. This is a choice. The bosses made that choice, and the journalists gladly went along.

Immeasurably sad.

Joe Biden has to hurry up and commit fraud, rape, espionage, and insurrection quickly so The New York Times will think he's fit to stay in the race.

Ex-GOP voter tells CNN she'd 'rather vote for the corpse of Biden than Trump's lying face' https://www.rawstory.com/biden-corpse-trump-lying-face/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

CyberDumpster

Make no mistake — The Supreme Court just laid the groundwork to eliminate mifepristone.

Their decision today to kill the Chevron doctrine means judges can now overrule federal agencies as much as they want.

Including the FDA.

Judges now get to decide which drugs are safe.

It's tempting to say that the second most significant outcome of the debate was its confirmation that Big Journalism's political coverage -- with a few honorable individual exceptions -- has learned almost nothing from its horrendous failures of the past.

It's worse than that, though.

When the top story remains Biden's terrible fumbling, with broad indifference to the torrent of sewage that came out of Trump's mouth, let's face it.

Journalism is failing again, but on purpose this time.