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feet of clay. Daniel 2:33
Sic semper tyrannis
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"I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute, where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be Catholic) how to act" www.npr.org/2007/12/05/1...
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Small area, yes. Israel's other missile defenses intercepted many of Iran's long range missiles. www.bbc.com/news/world-m...
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David Brooks?
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The youngest of them were born before 1925, they're all dead.
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This is legitimately one of those wild moments in economic history you read about where idiots with a half-baked understanding of how systems work impose an ideologically rigid framework and destroy everything because they're dumber than a rock
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"she's literally a 26 year old palestinian woman" so we know her politics is essentialist. Essentialism will lead you to many errors of perception, and to a dark kind of politics.
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Like Justin Amash? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_...
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Intermediate hosts were covered here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Given the Fort Knox thing the impulses are mercantile. The rationale is zero sum more is better. It's thought, just degraded.
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COVID obscured that Trump 1 pushed the country to the brink of recession, it will be harder for Trump to escape blame a second time. Hopefully.
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J-Street opposes the Netanyahu government of Israel, they always have. Read this from last week. jstreet.org/press-releas...
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That article shows that Sanders' problem persists to this day. Here is what happened in 2020, read carefully about local leaders: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ins...
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Rallying with tokens is not how you connect with the Democratic party’s black voters. Bernie declined to work with local Black leaders because "identity politics" interferes with his message to the white working class. thehill.com/homenews/cam...
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Nwanevu is a real person, he is not imaginary.
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NYT & WaPo retain their agenda setting power, local radio is even more politically important, the incentives of online media remain the same as Limbaugh era incentives. Most importantly, media consumers have not changed as much as we might hope. The structures and incentives remain.
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There are ways to shift media coverage and change perceptions, Bill Clinton was very good at it. Most Democrats don't have the stomach for it.
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Check out this politician. www.randomhousebooks.com/event/an-eve...
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I use Josh's tally. talkingpointsmemo.com/senate-clotu...