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Genius

*stares in historian*

If I had a band or a label, I would do a punk cover of "No More Kings" from Schoolhouse Rock. And then I would gather a bunch of people to write a whole album of next-generation Schoolhouse Rock songs, with songs about Social Security and Medicaid and NOAA. I am not kidding in the least.

one thing Congressional Democrats could be doing is using the franking privilege to send mailers out to every constituent informing them that an unelected organization without Congressional oversight has control of their social security information (which is in fact legal for them to do)

Want to go visit the national parks this year? Sorry. The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

I wish this weren't the case, but the reality is that Bill Kristol is now being a better ally than 99% of elected Dems

I wrote about the worst people in the world, charting the depths of their depravity and vastness of their incompetence, and offered some thoughts about the opportunity presented by their failure to acknowledge reality and their refusal to access any form of human virtue. www.the-reframe.com/the/

HOLY SHIT IT'S WORLD BABY 2 Coming soon, directly to the $2.99 bin near you!

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Happy Valentine's!

Roses are red They grow them in Fiji It's about time For another Luigi

He's ten years younger than me and looks at least ten years older

If I see "LGBQ" that'll be an insta-block

if there are any newspaper editors reading this, think of it like, the Saturday Night Massacre was considered the "Harvard administrator cited sources improperly in their college thesis" of the 1970s in terms of how big a scandal it was.

Feeling spicy might delete but I used to work with Chuck Schumer's eldest daughter, and when she was getting ready to go to Yale Law she was dissatisfied with her financial aid package so she made them do a three way call (at the office) with her and her dad to push for a better package

One thing Democratic leadership could do right now is to name an alternate HHS secretary--someone to provide ongoing public updates and health information. And do it for other departments too. Start showing voters what a Democratic government would look like--press conferences, speeches, all of it.

the contempt senate dems have for their own base that they would play act at obstruction while quietly greasing the wheels and then expect that to placate people angry about their inaction. just stage managed nonsense.

If we’re renaming bodies of water based on petty grievances, I propose that this be renamed the Kendrick Lamar passage.