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Media critic, news junkie, reader, writer and grammar nerd. Member of the semi-colon appreciation society, but anti-Oxford comma. PAO. US Army OIF Veteran. Posts are clearly my own.
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Democrats should have protested by all dressing in Handmaid's Tale garments - including the men.
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Guess I just imagined all those British Soldiers in Baghdad with me, then.
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Last night my dad, who is retiring next month, told me that potentially losing my job as a Fed "might bring about a good change for you." I'm going to respond in kind when he doesn't get his social security and say, "Maybe it will be a good change and bring new opportunities for you."
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The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis details that replacing the NOAA with a private industry front-facing organization (Accuweather) was the intent of the administration the first time. I would be unsurprised if they don't realize that AccuWeather cannot do the same backend work the NOAA does.
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"Low-income" means the GOP doesn't care.
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Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the effort, but that is a MSNBC anchor talking over coverage of the press conference to an audience that is already aware of the duplicity. When actual reporters in the room regularly fact-check her real-time, it will be a real win.
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BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
It's Walmart, the prices are dropping, not the standards!
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RWs say shit like, "I choose violence," and their extremists salivate when talking about a civil war, but they forget that some liberals own firearms--even small arsenals--and some of those same liberals are GWOT vets who served in actual, no-shit combat and are comfortable with violence, too.
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Alternatively, since you can't really determine if a fetus will have a large or small reproductive cell until around the 12th week, he's established that there is no fetal personhood until then.
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I think he will leave office, but not until he has milked it dry, secured his own freedom from consequences and gets to hand-pick a successor (and enjoys all the ring kissing that comes south the process).
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I was in 1st grade. My mom couldn't take the day off to pick me up, so the daycare my sister went to had someone come by and get unaccompanied students. I stayed there until my mom got off work and picked us up. Then we never talked about it.
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Sometimes on the metro on the way to work, I'll look around and wonder, "What did people do 40, 50 years ago on this thing? No phones to work or doomscroll, no headphones? Did they just...sit and stare?" 😬
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Gee, if only there were programs designed to train and provide skilled tech workers from red states in declining industries.
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It needed an oil change, but I'd been procrastinating on doing it until I finally decided to take it in instead of doing it myself. Driving to Autozone, I passed a Chevy dealership, which made me think, "Do I really want to get an oil change on this car..." 6 hours later I had a truck I loved.
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I actually have a precedent for buying a new vehicle instead of getting routine maintenance. I had a Nissan Rogue that I hated, made even worse by the fact I traded the Xterra I loved in for it.
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Not like it's ever stopped anyone, but claiming to represent the US, direct foreign policy and potentially undermine the current administration while still a private citizen is a violation of the Logan Act.