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The geography of Los Angeles is basically a chronology of successive thefts, displacements, and swindles, many of them for the specific benefit of people with the last name Chandler.
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Even so, my dad - whose parents protested the stadium's construction when the neighborhood was razed - still refers to it exclusively as Chavez Ravine to this day.
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The Black Label of Courage
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One opening at DoD once Pete Hegseth comes into the office on Monday
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A retrospective on Wein's time at DC is one of the projects I intend to check off my list as a comics journalist before my days are through.
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Listen, I’ve got bad news about voting for the foreseeable future
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This is like at the end of a Seinfeld episode when all the plot lines come together
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Hold up you’re telling me the tariff situation is responsible for this
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They’ll stop being our leaders when we stop treating them as our leaders. We can do better, and we have.
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Not mutually exclusive options
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In fairness, I guess that means it was good camo
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His inauguration was frozen out, he never gets to throw a party
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As theatrical performance goes, maybe they should have been more welcoming to gay voters.
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The Republicans did do a conspiracy. It was called "buying the entire media," it took 40 years, it worked perfectly, and now they never have to hide anything they're doing again.
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Elon rigged the voting machines to almost exactly match the findings of pre-election polls in each state, which I guess he also rigged at great expense
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NYT is the most infuriating propaganda rag, because Sulzberger doesn't even want us to think he's getting something out of the regime. He just really likes being an asshole.
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"RFK Embraces Literally the Same Bullshit Thucydides Rolled His Eyes At"
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Terrifying and increasingly unsurprising, and always the same side doing the killing.
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"Many people are saying" followed by obviously partisan anonymous sources also describes most actual Washington journalism, to be fair
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Yes. Extremely targeted political assassination to strip Democrats of control of government. It gives the House to Republicans, and brings the Senate into a tie.
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anyway, the country didn't take the white supremacist underground seriously after oklahoma city and now a bunch of tim mcveigh's run the country
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Noting for the record that "partners" in this case doesn't specify government or otherwise.
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I like that song because it's a whole little twist-ending sci-fi novella in the space of two verses.
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William Shirer remembered in his memoir that in Berlin, when news came down that the war had started in 1939, the dominant mood was quotidian indifference. Fascism had bred too much bored obedience to create true enthusiasm anymore.
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Schools. Soccer matches. Airport arrival gates.
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Somehow he's still bothering to make financial disclosures? Almost more bizarre that this is one of the handful of laws we're still deciding exist.
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Many such cases, alas.
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Lot of people with American accents going to be living under assumed names in Argentina during the 2040's, one imagines
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Absolutely, and American Jews had famously well-funded and well-organized settlement organizations to aid newly-arriving immigrants, some of which still hang on in barely-recognizable form.
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When things run smoothly, they can get back to ordering subordinates to put on masks and kidnap children out of schools and day care centers while parents cry in front of cameras. What a fantastic career to pursue, great life choices.
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More than anything, I imagine ICE administrators enjoy the weekly and reliably contradictory guidance on priorities and restrictions while trying to meet unfathomably high quotas and periodically getting shrieked at by Stephen Miller
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Really hate for something to come along and kill the vibes
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Well, really, how could he have anticipated that business owners and factory farmers would turn out be Republicans
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With the corollary that only the leftists online are getting radicalized online! One thing that I think it going to be unpleasant here is when it becomes clear how much rank and file liberalism still looks a lot more like 2017 than bluesky thinks.
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Hey, it's me, I'm the secret police for the liberal protest movement. You can find me because I'll have a "My Name Is" sticker and a blue beanie
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Keister kepi
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Awfully optimistic timeline.
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Lord I want to be in that number...
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Not that I've seen at this point, but fingers must remain very crossed for the foreseeable future.