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Cheryl Rofer

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Retired nuclear scientist. Worked in Estonia, Kazakhstan, and Los Alamos. Posting on nuclear issues, war, nature, science, and women's issues. Also cats. She/her. Blogs at Nuclear Diner and Lawyers, Guns & Money Banner photo is a Bullock's Oriole.

Cheryl Rofer's avatar Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social
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Good night y'all. Fortunately, tomorrow is the weekend. The best thing today came just before I came back to the desktop to post. All three kitties were playing a game together with a piece they had removed from furniture. Each one had it and passed it on to the others. Smart kitties!

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@brooklynmarie.bsky.social

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I just added you. My very scientific method for enumerating all the folks I know who aren't freaking out is when I see them posting. I know there are more I've left out. Hopefully we can add some in the next few days who've changed their minds.

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And the indubitable @faineg.bsky.social !

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Absolutely true!

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Cheryl Rofer's avatar Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social
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Yes, the LGM commentariat is almost united. I was serious about what I said about breathing into a paper bag earlier.

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I am surprisingly optimistic. If we can damp down this panic, we can win.

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Nunsense & Shenunigans 's avatar Nunsense & Shenunigans @annaleehq.bsky.social
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I’ve been more than patient with everyone’s freak out. I too am concerned but I’m fully behind Biden-Harris and won’t say one word to jeopardize their/our win. If, from this point on, you continue to call for him to step down, I will mute or block. We don’t have time for foolishness. There

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Catherine Frieman's avatar Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social
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are we allowed to observe that a meaningful proportion of the Biden Old pundit freakout is white men getting up in their feelings about aging and losing their virility?

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Gregg Gonsalves's avatar Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social
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You know what? Go on about Biden's age and debate performance. Me? I'll focus on the existential threat that Donald Trump and his minions represent. We all have limited time and energy. Do you really want to spend July and August talking about Biden's infirmity? Do you really think this is helping?

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Eileen Clancy's avatar Eileen Clancy @clancyny.bsky.social
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Another post from the thread of video and images of picketers in front of Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s house today.

Their actions are pure speech like law textbooks discuss.
tweet:
x.com/LiteraryMous...

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It is partly the light, but I think he is getting darker.

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Rosemary Joyce's avatar Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social
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This. Projections of fears about family is shaping a lot of reactions.

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Quinta Jurecic's avatar Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social
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my takeaway from a lot of this—substantive "what should the dems do" questions aside because I have no idea—is that people are incredibly weird about aging and disability

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Cheryl Rofer's avatar Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social
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You are on my not-freaking-out list for when I get back to my desktop.

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She is the same color Luca was when he came home with me. But he is definitely orange now. Tan?

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You are concluding a lot from limited evidence.

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I just listed you as a non-freaker-out. Sorry I missed you in the early rounds.

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Charlie Thomas's avatar Charlie Thomas @cthomasjamh.bsky.social
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So if that’s the state of play, seems the best thing to do is not panic, support your candidate, see how well we can ride out the Times being shitheads, throw bombs at the Trump Campaign, and see how that massive ad buy advantage looks with Dobbs and 2025 on every channel.

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I am going to go play with the kittens for a while.

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Nunsense & Shenunigans 's avatar Nunsense & Shenunigans @annaleehq.bsky.social
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I’m like a flying instructor I freak out with the side of my face that’s facing the window. The half that the passenger/flight student sees is perfectly chill. I’m landing this plane no matter what!!! We. Are. Not. Crashing. The. Plane. Because. Of. Hysteria.

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Nunsense & Shenunigans 's avatar Nunsense & Shenunigans @annaleehq.bsky.social
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It’s important to drown out doom & gloom and loser talk with positive, visible support. Bumper stickers, lawn signs, and shirts all create buzz and vibes of being on a winning campaign. Don’t underestimate the bandwagon effect. I have my eye on this baseball shirt. Bravo, Jules! When I order

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Kevin M. Kruse's avatar Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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BREAKING: Aides report that Biden is increasingly showing signs of Irishness

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Cheryl Rofer's avatar Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social
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So: 1. Biden drops out 2. ??? 3. Success Jim, I admire you. But this is not strategy, it's underpants gnomes. Biden's performance at the debate was terrible. But you don't know why that was, and neither do I. Let's try to understand the situation before we jump off a cliff.

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Director, Basque Space Program's avatar Director, Basque Space Program @scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz
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Biden being old is baked in and always has been. The party had plenty of opportunities to dump him 14 months ago. Doing this now, in response to a media narrative, makes them look like venal, craven fools

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Joanne Freeman's avatar Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social
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The press told one story for weeks and weeks: BIDEN OLD. Now, they’re reaping the conclusion. “See? We told you! Biden old.”Based on a debate performance and weeks of “preparation” for this story. Whatever happens next should be based solely on facts and analysis, not panicky “opinions.”

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Stephen Schwartz's avatar Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social
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“This is the moment where prime ministers say the reality of the job dawns on them, and that may be a reason why it keeps being done in this way.” — James Strong, Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary, University of London

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