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Minnesotan HS teacher, Chelsea football fan, liberal. Please don’t take my name off the door.
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Every. Single. Time I watch K Hepburn and Grant in Bringing Up Baby I am flummoxed as to why it is not more heavily promoted to younger viewers. Want young folks to appreciate B&W movies? Promote those that translate to now! The lead performances are absolutely modern, as is the pace of dialogue

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Recommended very highly

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How in the world is Ndidi still on the pitch. That’s a straight red for a reckless challenge if there ever was one

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Our lives don’t have to be so damned difficult and exhausting! We are the wealthiest, most powerful country in history. We can & should make ordinary Americans’ lives better. Reliable food. Decent education. Retirement! This is potential energy waiting to be unleashed - if the Dems have courage /e

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Ordinary Americans are tired of this ‘trickle down’ shit. As the ACA has shown, Government can be a force for good - to make ordinary Americans’ lives easier. This is the antithesis of late-stage Reaganism - and authoritarians fear this 8/

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! It’s like administrators claiming to “right-size” a budget, meaning there will be more work below while they award themselves bonuses. The corporate bullshit has infected every institution 7/

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Ordinary Americans actually believe in the Constitution, flawed as it is. The authoritarians certainly do not. The language is clear, though! We know what it means! The authoritarians have to invent and invert meaning to achieve their ends 6/

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But it’s been ordinary Americans - not ensconced in well-remunerated positions - who have held the authoritarians in check. Look at the grand juries who indicted the rich and powerful as well as the ordinary insurrectionists. 5/

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Look at the Supreme Court - a majority of whom unquestionably lied under oath, invented Constitutional interpretations out of nothing, and failed their duty to enforce black-letter law 4/

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American elites have failed at every turn in battling an openly, proudly authoritarian political movement. Though this is most noticeable in our legacy media, it is most profoundly evident in Elite Law. 3/

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Remember, Harris was given unequivocal and immediate credibility because of the swell of campaign contributions from ordinary Americans (much to the chagrin of our punditocracy) 2/

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Regardless of the election results (but especially if it’s a Democratic sweep), I hope the Dem domestic policy leaders recognize an unassailable fact: the rise of ordinary Americans against the spent force of Reaganism 1/

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