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Writer, professor of English, lover of subterranean resistance movements, labor activism, travel, bookstores, kitchen table conversations, reproductive rights, and media that depicts middle-aged women as sexy and intellectual. All opinions mine alone.
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The Gestapo
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(Also: this almost makes up for the fact that I was too cheap to pay the exorbitant fee to see Vanya despite my love for forever-hot-priest-from-Fleabag Andrew Scott).
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This would be a good note for Israel, too.
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As a therapist friend said: "Bad for the world, good for business."
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80s sitcoms, silent film vamps, the Jewish American novel, repro rights, current rage-spiral about the decimated of higher ed (I pretty much talk and think about this every day, all day anyway)
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Thanks! I appreciate your resistance, too.
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me in the national security team group chat
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The only thing I quibble with here: this presumes that Hegseth will be smart enough to take Goldberg off the text chain now!
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What deck is this? A 19th century Gothic one? Beautiful! I have a Weimar Berlin deck I love.
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Or Leona Helmsley...?
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Or, maybe Trump will try to get him extradited to the U.S. so he can give him a cabinet position.
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Or just until the baby is born...
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Peekaboo Putin. Amazing!
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I understand. I feel embarrassed, too.
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Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn get my vote, as well as all the senators and congresspeople who did not push to officially impeach Trump after Jan 6th.