frh.bsky.social
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I believe this is less of a test than one might think assuming the Supremes don’t stay the order. The order itself is almost self executing. If federalization is void, then the California adjutant general resumes command of the Guard from the Northern Command and can order withdrawal from LA.
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This is why I deleted my ActBlue account. Not one penny until Schumer is replaced and messaging gets serious.
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That’s the worst thing about this platform - whether it’s real fatalists or bots designed to drive fatalism, who knows? But it’s as unpleasant as bare feet on an airplane.
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I was thinking the same thing.
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Sincere sympathy, good travel luck, and hope your bird handles your absence well. The post re it sensing your mood and chirping brought home how wonderful companion animals are.
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Shame you missed the French Open final, but otherwise a great choice.
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The reason I am here is the rage level is lowest and the thought level is highest among available platforms. Though I am interested in trying sez.us if its sign-up function gets straightened out.
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Disagree. I think the user experience is degrading due to both too many “all is lost - lol” lefties and more Trump-adjacent bots. Easier to have a good faith interesting interaction on here a few weeks ago. But it’s still better than being force fed Quotations from Chairman Musk on Twitter!
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The first one - the video where they referenced cement bricks and the gate - showed cinder blocks; the second was the stock bricks.
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“Cement bricks” (aka cinderblocks) even heavier and not in the least throwable. I hauled one to mark a turtle egg nest last weekend and it was both heavy and awkward.
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As with every group there are good folk and bad apples among vets. Far more of the good folk - vets believe in something bigger than themselves and put their lives on the line, for low pay, in support of those ideals. They have this liberal’s admiration and gratitude, and always have had it.
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Likewise.
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Why doesn’t she just lie as usual and say he’s not in them?
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I will watch. FWIW though I am not a West Pointer myself (bad eyes, flat feet, and asthma - couldn’t overcome all 3) a lot of family members are, and I firmly believe that people like you and them who understand Duty Honor Country will play a big role in helping us save the day.
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Pray for RFK’s soul, and pray that he comes to his son in a dream and talks some sense into him.
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A lot went off the rails that day. Had RFK lived, I think he had the ability to synthesize conservative and liberal views to be a uniter and a great president. And he would have been a positive role model and might have kept his son from going crazy and destroying American science and medicine. 2/3
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Soviet behavior
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And accurate.
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Listen to her appearance on Fast Politics. Can’t get past scripted talking points. Had high hopes - no more.
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He’s panicking over his version of BBB running into trouble and trying to change the subject. Don’t let him. Deal with the other three through the courts, ignore his “Biden investigation” (or what about into a discussion of his mental decomposition), and keep the pressure on how horrid the bill is.
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Great piece. I am disappointed with her, Whitmer, and Jocelyn Benson. All addicted to consultant-speak. I want authentic fighters - more liberal preferred, but will take authentic centrist fighters!
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That’s one way to appeal to the 65+ demo!
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Thanks for correction. My wife is the native Portuguese speaker and I didn’t check with her before speaking - my bad.
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Portuguese “x” might work — think it would be pronounced as a gravelly “sh” sound like it is in “Teixeira.” But I would rather listen to community leaders and try to use whatever terminology they use.
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I remember a Guindon cartoon during the football losing streak where a dad was telling his kid (in pop Warner uniform) “if you’re playing like that because you want to go to Macalester, you better forget it!”
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Excellent! Used to live down the street from Mac, and given the people from there I knew this is right in character. Well done.
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Let’s hope that the pro-democracy Poles are quick with ads tying ICE (or Bergen-Belsen) Barbie with her endorsed candidate. All the abusive s*** her department is doing in the US and Rl Salvador will resonate in a country where secret police terror was a thing within living memory. Kiss of death!
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Hope you’re right
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Once he realizes he will finish 7th in the Dem primary. He and Slotkin are using the same consultant - inauthentic expletives to try to appear tough.
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So this is just a gigantic midlife crisis among guys who have more money than sense, and so much money that they have delusions of grandeur and the money to buy friends. Great…
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Heart of Atlanta! Everything old is new again, so expect to hear that old “compensated involuntary servitude is still involuntary servitude” refrain in the future.
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A. The subway’s fine. Rode it a few days ago and the biggest threat was some of the musicians in Times Square Station (and that’s only to my hearing).
B. If it is dirty or there’s crime, extra money can be used for cleaning/maintenance and/or transit police presence.
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All within a couple years of each other.
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You’re right. And the dilemma about how to respond - I think it contributed to the environment where mandatory reporter laws were passed and people felt freer to call adults out for mistreating kids. But like so much 10000 maniacs music, it was such a mismatch between poppy music and serious lyrics.
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Of a piece with “what’s the matter here” by 10,000 maniacs. Still remember how hard that song hit when I first realized what it was about. Both great pieces of music and social commentary.
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Please - don’t buy into the cover-up terminology. He was old, his staff compensated for it by reducing his workload (as did previous staffs - Ike second term, Nixon drinking era, Reagan on occasion), but Biden tried to do more than his capacities last June and fell flat, then withdrew. No cover-up.
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People who don’t have military ties. There are a lot of them, and most of them mean well, so I don’t hold it against them. It’s something I personally don’t do because of my background, but I do tell people I hope their long weekends are good.
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What gets to me about pundits like you is that when republicans lie or say things in bad faith you default to taking them at their word. Fighting bad faith is hard enough without also having to push back on people who can’t seem to call bad faith and propaganda by its real name.
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I keep remembering The Illusion of Victory by Thomas Fleming, plus my mom’s stories of living under suspicion in a small German immigrant town in Iowa, and remembering we were here before, under Wilson, who was in many ways a less uncouth and smarter Trump.
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He’s definitely at or above Wilson’s level of racism.
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I doubt that was incompetence, or accidental.
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You mean gas station sushi. Day old.
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Has her Barbie twin Alina Habba released charging documents on Rep McIver yet? Haven’t seen anything but the press release.
And am amused that Habba’s predecessor as US Attorney in NJ is representing Rep McIver (Paul Fishman).
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Hey! Don’t say that about the 1990 South Dakota Snow Queen!
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I know which one I believe. The one who worked her way up from a working class background to teach at Harvard Law.
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Has a grand jury indicted? Has there been a sworn information? Or is this just an announcement to mask her walk-back on Baraka?
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He is an idiot. He ought to offer a resolution to approve. Put the republicans on the record supporting the grift. Ds can oppose and use the floor to do an extended expose of Trump corruption.
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Oh FFS. The House is in the process of destroying American health care and hurting millions of people, Trump is sucking up to billionaires and about to try to give Ukraine to Putin, Trump has accepted a bribe from the Emiratis, he’s unable to stop Netanyahu’a war crimes, yet this is the cover story?
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That’s my big fear - that he won’t get the respect he has earned with a live of public service well-lived.
He is going to have to go overseas for treatment because they have killed so much research here.