mjosaphd.bsky.social
Political and historical sociologist writing about culture, democracy, and comparative politics (Ph.D., University of Chicago). Publishes "Grounded," a free weekly 'zine on Substack. https://maryjaneosa.substack.com/
#exPostNews (Still sad about this.)
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So I guess we can just steal Nick Clegg’s house without permission and tell him buying it would “kill” our bank account.
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Or as Tim Miller more accurately names him, “Howard Nutlick.”
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Oh, yeah— and dumber.
“We” (i.e., a minority of Americans holding power) have self-inflicted this harm.
The deets:
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Dont get me started…
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Vibes
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Highly recommend the book Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr. An owl such as this is a prominent character in the book. Moved me to tears
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😂
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Have the police interviewed Vance yet? He was the last person to see him alive 🤔. Just asking questions …
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Juan Carlos Lopez Gomez will be held in jail for the next 48 hours because he is under an ICE hold. Again, he is a U.S. citizen born in Georgia.
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His bad qualities are infinite.
I hope you have some cute kids around to play with. Or a cat. Feline playfullness, though -- not a for sure thing.
And I said *cute* kids ;-)
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Love these islands. We spent some time on Achill Is. Breathtaking beauty.
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JFC
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OMG are we lucky! Remember Bruce Rauner? Blago? Sure am glad we're farther down the queue.
It amazes me that JB can be funny and down to earth, considering he's a super rich guy.
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I think it's time to come up with a better definition of "God."
da Vinci painted that Old Guy in the Sky on the ceiling in the early16th C and that's when a lot of human thinking about the Infinite stopped.
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Too bad. Further studies CANCELLED.
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They're not a government. They're a future RICO case. The biggest criminal racketeering enterprise in American history.
Hope there'll be real prosecutors left alive to work on the case. Yeah, and we'll need a new Department of Justice. It will have to be called something else. Ideas?
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Of course they did
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Wild. And creepy
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JFC
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Still … ick
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I've been inside. It's incredible. Out of my price range, though.
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I'm watching the bond market. Not breathing easy yet.
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Is that the Powhatan building?
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Berlatsky discusses the overlap in his essay. Tl;dr it has to do with convergence of interests. And specific cases of where the ideological & economic interests diverge
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Depends in how you define “in charge”