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exactly one Jan 6th protestor received proportionate punishment and she received it on Jan 6th

By the end of my English Major, I reckoned it was about studying the way language creates meaning within a text and what implications that had for communication in life.

A martini is ice-cold gin. You drink it because the world is crumbling and you want to feel wonderful.

It kind of bugs me that all the baseball teams have little league-approved hand dances for when they get on base and little dolls they get to play with in the dugout after a home run. Quit fun-washing baseball

The money is in the rush, not the gold

upstairs indeed

This post is about a book you should read

Pictures of white surfaces

This is a good book of poems, and you should buy a copy while the idea is fresh in your mind.

Massachusetts contains multitudes

Exactly right. Our job is to communicate to the wealthy aristocracy that has sprung up in our country that a 90% top marginal tax rate is their most pleasant option going forward. The pikes hunger for heads.

Code for show; spec for dough.

Thirty-nine dollars? Man, they made us stop counting votes so we could have George W. Bush and now they've neutered the Voting Rights Act, and you're on about thirty-nine dollars?

This is absolutely true

"It's too expensive to move out, so we're just going to split up and keep living together" is a tough needle to thread.

This is how almost every movie with an anti-war reputation is a pro-war movie. War porn is not anti-war, no matter how bad it turns out for the characters

Great book. Seconded

Chief Justice John Roberts should be impeached and removed from the Supreme Court.

The book mentioned below, "Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship," takes a very interesting look at the simmering stew of laws, practices, and sovereignty from which our current situation descended. You should read it.

This, from my representative in congress, is nice, but there have been fifteen months of gleeful lawlessness from the executive branch, and Representative Panetta has been essentially silent about impeachment.

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when is the surgery?

I really think South Koreans were on to something with their president and we really need to look into following suit.

This Luxembourg-based firm is engaged in a corrupt effort to curry favor with the US government, and, in the future, they should find it nearly impossible to do business in the United States

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The pikes hunger for heads

If you see this, you might want to post a picture from whatever device you're using, with no explanation

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I do think that those lawyers and law professors who tried to fabricate a historical or legal case against birthright citizenship should be socially and professionally ostracized for their shocking cynicism and intellectual dishonesty as well as for their bald hostility to pluralist American values.

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I'm in joke hell. I'm in joke hell

This is a long, thoughtful, and valuable thread; it's well worth reading

I saw a snake cross the driveway, and, let me tell you, however fast you think a snake can go is not as fast as a snake can go

The link in this post is to a phenomenally detailed story of loss in Death Valley which illustrates very clearly the ways in which a series of small decisions, which may seem low-stakes at the time, can lead to death in the desert.

the best posts have six words, or else nine

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If you like weather, there is a really interesting discussion in the livestream mentioned below about atmospheric thermodynamics. Do you want to know about the relationship between latent heat and sensible heat? Watch the show...

All the things they told me in the '80s about why Soviet Russia was a hellscape of oppression are happening in the United States today.

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A Talking Points Memo subscription is well worth the money it costs. Even if you, like me, do not read everything posted on the site, it will be there when you need it. When big things are happening fast, Talking Points Memo has the people and the time to report clearly and thoroughly...

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