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"M.A.G.A."? Be specific. I grew up near a major city with people of all ethnicities, incomes, & perspectives. We communicated & learned from our differences. There was respect & consideration for one another. THAT was great. The US is its diversity. If you hate diversity, you don't love the US.

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Hey @mailfence.com folks…I've had trouble accessing my email all day. What's the story with the North American server?

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“in America the law is king. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be king; and there ought to be no other.” Common sense, indeed.

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My latest for Express-News. Reporting by Liz Teitz.

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Musically I'm on a Sam Fender kick. It's good stuff… curious how I never heard of this guy before this month.

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Season 2 of The West Wing might be the strongest single season of TV I've ever seen. Twenty-five years later the whole thing holds up. It starts strong, it ends strong. Twenty-two solid episodes, not a weak one in the bunch. Aaron Sorkin is incredible.

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Getting artificial dye out of the food isn't the worst thing in the world. It's not worth an assault on the safety and efficacy of vaccines or an attack on the capability of people on the spectrum. I'm just saying…not the worst thing.

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Listening to my five year-old daughter singing "We Will Rock You" while getting dressed in her room is giving me the smiles this morning.

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“Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.” -The Great Gatsby.

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The Mack truck assembly plant in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley is laying off 250 to 350 people due to “market uncertainty.” I’m willing to bet those guys weren’t Harris voters.

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Abrego Garcia wasn’t deported. He was kidnapped. He’s not in a prison. He’s in a 💀 camp. He was denied his right to due process and everyone in the U.S., including those without legal status, have constitutional rights to due process under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments. 1/

submitted 53 days ago • 32 comments

New season of Black Mirror is on Netflix and the episode Eulogy with Paul Giamatti (in an AMAZING performance) is easily my very favorite segment of the entire series run. Credited writers: Charlie Brooker and Ella Road. A beautiful use of science fiction to tell a really heartbreaking story.

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I'm reading The Great Gatsby for the 4th time in my life. I read it in high school, again in my 20s, a third time ten years ago, and now again in middle age. Tom Buchanan gets more awful with each reading and I'm seeing more interesting details emerge this time. Nick remains elusive to me.

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I can't remember where I saw this but somewhere this morning I read: "Deleting pages from a government website isn't really any different than burning books." And I can't stop thinking about that.

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This morning I referred to someone as the "Teddy Savalas of Capricorn One" and now I need to schedule that colonoscopy. (…because I'm old).

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A lot of people were liberated from their money today.

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MAGA obsession with Hungary and yet no one’s coined the phrase MAGA-yar yet.

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They are disappearing people off the streets They are disappearing people off the streets They are disappearing people off the streets They are disappearing people off the streets They are disappearing people off the streets

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If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

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On a meta-level, one of the many horrifying things about this story is that the Atlantic had no reasonable option other than to release the Signal messages at this point. They should have been able to go to the Inspector General! Or the FBI! Or Congress!

submitted 74 days ago • 30 comments

Yesterday I became a subscriber to @theatlantic.com. It’s an excellent publication doing quality journalism. Support journalism!

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I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.

submitted 76 days ago • 3113 comments

While it’s inspiring to see people peaceful protesting policies and actions they see as unjust, I have to wonder: where were they on Election day? Is this easier than voting?

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Why are people horrified by Idaho’s proposal to make the firing squad their method of execution but not horrified by the death penalty overall? The death penalty is barbaric.

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I'll be on a panel at #NICAR25 next Saturday March 8 at 11:30 in Grand Portage Ballroom 4. The panel is titled "Covering transportation with data and docs." I'll be there to talk about exploring the short-term planning document known as the TIP to find regional transportation stories. Join us!

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It's the bots sending me unsolicited direct messages, yes?

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This morning's Letters from Berlin was quite moving. You're an excellent writer @luisaweiss.bsky.social

submitted 117 days ago • 1 comment

My only Superbowl comment is this: If it costs $8 million for a 30-second ad spot, and the thing you're advertising is a faith that emphasizes feeding the poor, then wouldn't that money be better spent ACTUALLY doing that? Beautiful ad with a good message that still really bugs me.

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Ought to be required reading.

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