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The flannel dunce.

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Thank you both for your support

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I would like to be excluded from this comparison.

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Really and truly one of the weirdest movies we've watched, but I also thought the ep was good and I appreciate the kind words.

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Seems more like a prequel to the original but it's his script, so.

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Yeah I think broadly the idea is to get rich enough to be untouchable.

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Sen. Gogurt taking notes on a criminal conspiracy's avatar Sen. Gogurt taking notes on a criminal conspiracy @ugarles.bsky.social
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the conservative theory of law in one headline

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Yeah I can't really argue with this part of it.

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David_j_roth's avatar David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social
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I keep coming back to "all this for literally Donald Trump," but it fits. There's not some more competent aspiring autocrat who'd somehow "earn" or "win" this. This is how it has always gone: feckless/evil elites attaching themselves to the sociopath they believe will get them where they want to go.

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I was worried you would....go bonkers.

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Mr. Am I Being Detained 's avatar Mr. Am I Being Detained @gonebabygone.bsky.social
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Remembering how people would share Scalia dissents and be like “I disagree with his politics but he has a way with words!!” and they all read like if a school shooter wrote A Confederacy of Dunces

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He was a huge guy and that's a very loose uniform. There is like a quarter-mile of fabric in play here.

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I am glad that we're all focused on the right stuff.

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David_j_roth's avatar David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social
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I encourage you to take an abundance mindset on this. It's a langoustine.

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David_j_roth's avatar David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social
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This is the through-line for me, in all those Alliance Defending Freedom cases where a notional future inconvenience to some bigot overturns settled law and in this Trump ruling. The mere possibility of repercussions against any favored group outweighs all the rights everyone else currently has.

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Palestinian writer Moh Telbani at @flaminghydra.com wrote about life in Egypt after fleeing Gaza with his wife and kids

My piece (in the same issue) is a Cruise Ship Essay.

These are free to read. Please support independent journalism and subscribe to Flaming Hydra

flaminghydra.com/issue-105/

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The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter 's avatar The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter @swolecialism.bsky.social
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a thing to remember, in all of this horror, is that these are not the actions of a political party that is confident it represents the will of the people, and who is currently out of power and enslaved to a deeply flawed avatar. the struggle is not over and they have not won

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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all of this for donald fucking trump of all people

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David_j_roth's avatar David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social
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Sending a bunch of based realtors and off-duty cops into the Capitol building to murder the speaker of the house, in my official capacity of President of the United States.

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If you start waking your wife up in that scene, you'll be ready for the Guns Guns Guns bit.

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She probably hasn't entered REM sleep yet and I honestly can't chance it.

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David_j_roth's avatar David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social
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Waking my wife out of REM sleep because the scene in Robocop where Kurtwood Smith says "oooh, guns guns GUNS" is airing on Showtime. She loves it when I do this. "Thanks for telling me when the good Kurtwood Smith shit is on," she always says.

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A bit that has really stayed with me was when Gabe Delahaye used to describe celebrities saying dumb shit as (say) Evangeline Lilly "breaking their legendary silence" on some issue or other.

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Just at the most basic level it is really unhealthy to have to thought about Donald Trump as much as everyone in America has over the last nine or so years. Spending a decade of my life thinking about a super boring, super shitty crook and all the bad stuff he's doing or might do. It's embarrassing.

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I want to read the one written by "Abraham Nexus."

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Tom McAllister 's avatar Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social
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this newspaper headline is the 1930 version of encountering an incomprehensible trending story about some Twitch streamer with 4 million followers

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Lots of Mets Fan Royalty involved in this anecdote.

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Wow this process sounds pretty.....inconvenient.

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Jay Willis's avatar Jay Willis @jaywillis.bsky.social
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One pretty clear dynamic on display this week is whose legal interests the Supreme Court cares about (corrupt politicians, hedge fund fraudsters, literal January 6 rioters) and whose it doesn’t (poor people) ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/grant...

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David_j_roth's avatar David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social
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Getting "the zoomies" in the club. Everyone watches bemusedly as I sprint back and forth with my tongue flopping out of my mouth in the most undignified way imaginable.

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It would be harrowing to see my actual day/how I act laid out in print like this. "Roth is generally 'active, drinking, and reading posts' between 11pm-130am, although his own work is erratic in quality."

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David_j_roth's avatar David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social
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I have no doubt that he talked about it at parties for years beforehand. That sounds like something John Milius would do.

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It had never occurred to me that this guy had other jobs before he showed up fully formed on Fox looking like a damn Tom Tomorrow cartoon.

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A decently funny and extremely foreseeable outcome here is that Biden does not step down, and in three months the Times endorses the guy they just said must leave the race for the good of the nation, for the good of the nation.

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Democracy hangs in the balance and that is why the Democratic primary winner must step aside for a caretaker candidate selected by Thomas Friedman

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lol hell yeah. A blessed sentence.

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Randy Quaid is absolutely not up to getting through a full convention without making everyone really uncomfortable. I wish him luck, though.

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Time For Him To Escape From New York Time For Them To Hunt For Red October Time For Us To Support The Girls Time For Something To Give, Which It's Gotta Time For There To Be Blood

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"The freakout about Biden's performance was built on a paradox: What made his weak showing so appalling was that the other candidate on the stage was so obviously worse." defector.com/debate-losers

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The new Hallmark Podcast episode podcast is about an extremely throwback-y treacly/perverse 2023 movie with one of the jankiest titles we've ever encountered. It's time for you to come home to "Time For Her To Come Home For Christmas." podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

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