ramsahead.bsky.social
Attorney, lapsed classicist, serial The Sopranos re-watcher
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I want to put up billboards all over the country that just say "MILLENNIALS ARE 40"
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I grew up hearing about terrorists blowing up buses and murdering civilians in the name of the Second Intifada. I don't at all think Zohran would incite violence against Jews, but the term intifada has horrible connotations for many of us
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I grew up hearing about terrorists blowing up buses and murdering civilians in the name of the Second Intifada. I don't at all think Zohran would incite violence against Jews, but the term intifada has horrible connotations for many of us
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Well, he did defend it on The Bulwark when asked about it. Maybe you think it's irrelevant but it's a thing that happened
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I ranked Zohran 2 after Lander and am enthusiastically voting for him. But it's disingenuous to say it's just because he's Muslim. I didn't appreciate the "Global Intifada" stuff and a lot of progressive Jews quietly did not, too.
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"Wall Street" lives in the suburbs or Upper East Side and works in Midtown. FiDi is a lot of condos with young professionals paying crazy high rents
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Lander won one of the ritziest parts of Brooklyn Heights too (little purple patch by the river). Dark blue is ultra Orthodox but not Hasidic Jews.
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Yeah but then you don't get to feel superior for being smarter and more cynical than most, and where's the fun in that?
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It's sadly a common thing even among progressive judges to say, "well, he's already in custody, what's another week if it means getting it exactly right"
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it turns me more into the Joker every time I'm reminded that Democrats fundamentally do not understand the political damage that long-term investigations do. Benghazi, Hillary's emails, Burisma...these all seeped into independent voters' minds because the GOP kept hammering
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Roger Taney-ass bitch
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there are approximately 2 million military personnel (including reservists). if even 10% defect, and I believe it would be a much higher percentage, that's 200K trained rebel forces. and that's also not accounting for losing people who know how to work the tech
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I really thought that the IRA had firmly pushed a lot of "green" manufacturing into squarely dull, nonpartisan territory. But then no one ever went broke betting on the capriciousness and stupidity of the MAGA movement.
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we meet Fridays under the Brooklyn Bridge, the password is sic semper tyrannis
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the corruption cases don't get talked about quite as much, but they're such a kick in the teeth not only to the judges, but the prosecutors who spend years building cases only to have the rug pulled out from under them
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would've been nice if the Democrats had made any noise about emoluments during his first term
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I am constantly telling my cool Brooklyn friends that white ladies aged 65+ are running circles around any leftist org when it comes to anti fascist resistance
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Not only that, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries would have given their members permission to vote for it.
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I get why people are uncomfortable admitting this, but a big part of why the George Floyd protests were so well attended is that it was an excuse to be outside and around your community during the pandemic
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I sleep in a big bed with my wife
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The crazy thing is, all of these "powerful" business leaders would still be fabulously wealthy even if they spoke out and got fired because of it. Soft
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One of the great moments in the show is when Tony and Carm get pulled over and Carm says, "shouldn't you be out catching real criminals?" As she sits next to a serial murderer and destroyer of small businesses
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Yeah, individual intervention isn't effective and it's very risky. You need a community to band together like in Lincoln Heights
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We're going to have to bribe international students to come here in the future, and even then I can't say I'd take the deal vs studying somewhere else. Awful
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offer thirty-minute counseling appointments and maybe, if students are lucky, allow them to hold a candlelight vigil.
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the problem with chaotically shutting off funding without rhyme or reason is there's no reason to comply with threats. if the outcome is the same anyway, may as well do what's popular with your own voters
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They're like ISIS. they come in on pickup trucks with lots of guns, do a ton of damage and inflict unimaginable cruelty, but they won't be able to hold territory
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Occam's Razor at this point is that Schumer secretly likes a lot of what Trump is doing, or doesn't really mind it.
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Yes, but on the flip side, imagine what we could accomplish if we could get the 70% to work together
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let's be real, Richard Nixon would be a marxist by MAGA standard. he created the EPA and promoted the Family Assistance Plan
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Area Man Attempts to Shut Gate After Horse Has Left Barn
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I'm begging a senior district judge in one of these cases, someone with career capital to spend, to send the Marshals after a White House official for contempt of court. Make the crisis visible for the public.
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yeah. you can design around an authoritarian President, a compliant Supreme Court, and a feckless Congress, but not all three at once.
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it's blatantly self-interested because they have the skills to personally do very well for themselves in the old order, but few of them have the juice to thrive in the moment we're in. I can count on one hand the number of Congressional Dems who can throw a punch.
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Exhibit 3000 in Democrats gaslighting their voters by telling us we're in an unprecedented constitutional crisis, but acting like everything is fine and normal.
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feels like the best approach would be to assume it absolutely can work and it's the job of Democratic politicians to slam them on it every chance they get. then again, maybe going after SS is one of the rare areas you really don't want to get in the way of them making a mistake.
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I no longer even believe they believe it's persuasive. I think politicians and their staffers are simply running on autopilot and don't know how to do anything else, and if they let people see there's another way of doing things they can't adapt to, they lose all the perks of office.
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would be really handy right now to have a press corps that can grill GOP senators from agricultural states on this statement
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This is a huge problem with Congressional Democrats is that so many of them are steeped in a political culture of caution and not acting unless you know exactly how something will turn out. And that is not what the current political moment demands.
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at least the fear that Trump would just let the Biden recovery run on cruise control and get all the credit isn't coming to pass!