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It’s a little disturbing that 29% support “mistakenly detaining legal residents”
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This is Monsieur Mallah erasure
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Also it’s time for a change. Every nominee since 2000 has been a current or former senator.
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As dusk goes down today,
Nothing gold can stay
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“This isn’t argument, it’s just contradiction.
No it isn’t.”
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The Power of Gay
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Silver Age Saturn Girl was a sociopath.
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“It profits a man nothing to gain the whole world if he should lose his soul… but for Wales Richard?”
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RoboTaxiDriverCop
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Speaking as a family law mediator, I think it would be really good for everyone getting married to spend half an hour researching what happens in a divorce. You’re taking on hundreds of binding legal obligations.
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But it’s an amazing premise for a series on FX.
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I think it’s unusual to offer such incentives to deceased applicants.
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Yeah I was not prepared for that. I don’t think I ever cried at a movie in my whole life before my son was born (except maybe possibly when they locked up Dumbo’s mom). After my son was born:
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My brother was active in the Democrats Abroad in the UK for years, and they do amazing work. A lot of expats are pretty aggressively tuned out of US politics so it’s a never-ending battle
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They kind of give the game away when they juxtapose her “plans” with his “promises.” One is subjected to real critiques while the other gets a passing grade just for writing his name on the test book.
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I think Bloomberg demonstrated if you have money you can run without caring in the least about either party
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Republicans seem pretty intent on rehabbing hated criminal ex-leaders too tbh
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Is Elliot Spitzer unavailable?
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And the current police who, let’s be honest, are also committing a bunch of crimes.
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Has anyone tried to quantify how this plays out as Republicans become more reliant on low-propensity voters?
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This would be a good time to flood NE-02 with mailers about Republicans trying to take their vote away.
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Even more so if they can abolish birthright citizenship. You’d have to prove not only that you were born here but also that your parents were born here (or naturalized) and their parents and so on back to 1789 presumably.
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In any other context, if you propose raising taxes on corporations by a fraction of a cent, conservatives scream that it will all get passed on to hardworking Americans. But tariffs are magically exempt from all economic laws.
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When I saw Hadestown on Broadway with my brother I really, really wanted to yell “She’s behind you” to Orpheus at the end
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I remember a version of this in the 80s/90s gay community, where a lot of activists were vocally against gay marriage on the grounds that it was assimilationist. Then, as now, the solution is to let individuals pursue happiness as they see it.
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As an alternative, you can accept that in a large pluralist democracy there will often be majorities who hold positions that you consider “wrong,” and try to optimize progress within those constraints.
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Does that mean Kamala can deport the entire population of Florida and start over?
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Biden should also appoint an Attorney General. No idea what Merrick Garland is doing with his time.
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We need some kind of preventative detention for crimes against humanity.
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Loomer? I barely know ‘er
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Oh yeah!
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“Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness. Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?”
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We are about two news cycles away from “Kamala is an AI-generated hologram”
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We should have federally operated reproductive health centers in every state. State laws don’t apply to federal enclaves.
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Because his glasses had lenses made from his Kryptonian rocket ship, which made them super-hypnosis glasses
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The WGBS logo reminded me of the period when Clark Kent was a TV news anchor and they did a story explaining that viewers did not realize Clark was Superman even after seeing him every night because Clark was unconsciously hypnotizing everyone through the screen.
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This is not the biggest problem, but I get irritated every time someone quotes Vance saying Pete Buttigieg doesn’t have children without pointing out that PETE BUTTIGIEG HAS TWO CHILDREN. Vance is very intentionally trying to erase gay people’s children, and there is no good reason to help him.
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Josh and I are the same age, and I think there’s also some 1980s conditioning, where certain types of attacks feel like they’re devastating but younger voters shrug.
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The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman illustrates this nicely
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*Portuguese has a weird extra “u.” I only know this because I misspelled it in a headline while interning for a newspaper in 1989 to my eternal shame.
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50/50 chance the 2028 nominee is Don Jr.
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I worked with a lawyer once who came to work in costume on Halloween and had to attend an emergency injunction hearing dressed as a geisha (PS she was not Japanese)