mikevago.bsky.social
English teacher, writer for The A.V. Club and Subjectmedia.org, author of The Planets Are Very, Very, Very Far Away (Best Middle Grade Science Book 2023).
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Walton was endorsed by Gillibrand, Schumer, Rep. Bowman, AOC, and too many local Dems to list here. Democrats lined up behind Walton; Republicans got Brown on the ballot, donated heavily to his campaign, and ultmately put kept him in office.
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It's actually worse than that. Brown didn't get the SUNY job, he resigned to be CEO of an Off-Track Betting company.
But it's also completely dishonest to say the Dems did "EVERYTHING" to get him elected. The Dem-led Board of Elections sued to keep Brown off the ballot, a MAGA judge put him on;
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Harris wasn't perfect, she was better than Trump, and there was no magical third thing that was going to happen.
That's how it fucking works. There's this Sesame Street-level concept of "better" and "worse" and if you understand that, it was a very fucking easy choice to make.
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"Far right winger" Are you even listening to yourself with this nonsense? I voted for someone who supported a ceasefire and Palestinian statehood over someone who's currently letting Bibi start a regional war.
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I didn’t know you worked for an ass company, but I’m glad you ended up at a fancy one!
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Sure, we're paving over the Rose Garden, but we have two very attractive metal poles!
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What this narrative conveniently ignores is that this regression on trans rights is the result of a decade long political strategy by the far right funded to the tune of over billion dollars. I'm not making this up, they literally wrote this exact strategy down in 2015. Every aspect of it.
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"Their lips met and she tasted glue, the key ingredient in the pizza he had made earlier. "
"His manhood felt weighty in her hands—15 pounds, the same weight as every dog."
"He had never dated a woman whose name started with K before, apart from Kirsten, Kayla, Kylie, and Kim, which start with K."
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Is it bad that I also want to defund NPR, just for a completely different set of reasons?
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Let's not put too fine a point on it: Glorious Leader surrendered to the Taliban after 20 years. Shouldn't exactly fill anyone with confidence regarding the Four Seasons Total Landscaping Administration's plans for Iran.
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Can you and your colleagues in Congress finally acknowledge that ICE is a criminal organization and need to be abolished?
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You've spent the entire day in my mentions making increasingly despereate arguments, and now you've degenerated into insults. Time to hang it up.
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And *that’s* how Abby became Secretary of Housing.
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I believe it was George Washington who said the tree of Liberty must constantly be refreshed by sleepy sleepy night nights.
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I would argue that “the solution to Republicans committing lots of crimes is for Democrats to also commit lots of crimes” is also an unsophisticated view of politics.
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I’m stating to think the @nytimes.com shouldn’t have worked so hard to put an incomplete sociopath into power.