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Helen Kennedy

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Twitter refugee. Newspapers 4 life. (Ex NY Daily News & Boston Herald.) NYC and North Fork. Fan of Sondheim and Venice. Aspiring watercolorist. Hoping sarcasm works out better over here.

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Steve Silberman's avatar Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social
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Thought experiment: Imagine if Obama, after claiming an election had been stolen from him and being convicted of 34 felonies, was granted immunity by SCOTUS justices who had taken undisclosed luxury trips on George Soros' dime. The fact that you can't even imagine this scenario tells you something.

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Mitchell Epner's avatar Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social
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For the same reason handlers of search & rescue dogs occasionally have volunteers put themselves in a position to be "found" alive in a grim disaster scene -- to keep up morale so that these dogs keep working -- I give you this screen shot from the BOP showing the current location of Steve Bannon.

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Helen Kennedy's avatar Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social
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I haven't turned my tv on since last Wednesday.

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Helen Kennedy's avatar Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social
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Yeah, I went into very skeptical. Nothing about it sounded appealing to me. But I wanted to listen to it because it was such a phenomenon. (Then I, too, was hooked.)

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Chuck Wendig's avatar Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social
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EUROPEAN ROBIN: a precious feather baby, a ruddy sky dumpling, a good friend, will help you find your keys, full of ice cream AMERICAN ROBIN: big, often wet, surly, has your wallet, killed a rat underneath the bird feeder to make an example to the other animals

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Helen Kennedy's avatar Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social
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You just sent me down a rabbit hole to identify the source of this image, which I'm very familiar with but whose origin I have never questioned. I'm still confused, frankly.

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Helen Kennedy's avatar Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social
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Yes. Sure. I've watched/listened to plenty of things I didn't care for just to see what the fuss was about. I've always thought curiosity was basic to the biz.

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Ian McKellen is focused on making a full recovery after an accident sidelined him from the stage two weeks ago, but says he will not return to the featured role of a production’s tour as he’d initially planned.

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Helen Kennedy's avatar Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social
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I'm so torn by those because I want one.

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Helen Kennedy's avatar Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social
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You'd think having the electorate learn a worm ate part of your brain and then died in there and was never removed would be the end of this. But no.

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Helen Kennedy's avatar Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social
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It's an album everyone in the world was talking about ceaselessly for actual years. It takes two hours to listen to it. I can't understand how you wouldn't at least be curious.

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Wildest story yet in France:

1. Far-right/RN candidate said he was dropping out.

2. Turns out: He lied! He filed last minute.

3. Left (in 3rd) had dropped out, then filed once RN said he was out. She tried to drop out again; but too late.

So 3 names remain. www.ouest-france.fr/elections/le...

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Matt Novak's avatar Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social
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One of those headlines that you see on a weathered newspaper before the camera pans out to reveal an apocalyptic wasteland

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Helen Kennedy's avatar Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social
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He has said he wanted the military to shoot protesters. John Roberts says that if re-elected, he can.

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Helen Kennedy's avatar Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social
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I remember laughing at Johnson when he said this about Trump's conviction on 34 felony counts: "I think that the Justices on the court – I know many of them personally – I think they are deeply concerned about that, as we are. So I think they'll set this straight."

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Helen Kennedy's avatar Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social
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"Well, when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal." - John Roberts.

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Helen Kennedy's avatar Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social
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Thank you! The key is to have a wide shot so you can see the opposing player lurking behind the oblivious keeper. I wish I could see a wider shot of that Robbie Keane one.

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I’m trying to figure out how to live in a world where John Bolton is dramatically more sensible than all 6 Republican Justices.

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Jacob T. Levy's avatar Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social
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A tale of two newspapers, and two very different decisions.

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Helen Kennedy's avatar Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social
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I seriously keep forgetting it's not real. Which is more a problem of me than the cover's.

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Helen Kennedy's avatar Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social
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I'll have to go look. I thought this was so funny.

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Helen Kennedy's avatar Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social
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This joke appeared for less than half a second

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So, basically, the ~30% who want unrestricted guns, and abortion banned in every circumstance, and who think the election was stolen, and who won't get vaccinated, and who want the ten commandments in schools, and who think the president is above the law, well, those ~30% run the country now.

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When we look back, today will feel more consequential than J6. Might not lend itself to dramatic footage, but it’s certainly been effective. Decades and billions led up to this day. I remember my mom talking about the John Birchers 50 years ago

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Helen Kennedy's avatar Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social
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I meant newsworthy turbulence, not the make of plane.

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Helen Kennedy's avatar Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social
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Reminder: Steve Bannon is spending his first night in prison tonight. Of 120.

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Gotta say, even my largely politics-is-not-for-me relatives on Facebook are having a fucking conniption over the SCOTUS ruling. My uncle posted "We left England because we don't want a King. Charles is an inbred." I'm not sure what one has to do with the other, but he's right.

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Radley Balko's avatar Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social
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Easy to lose sight of the significance here, but the sitting president just gave a speech condemning the Supreme Court for a ruling that expands presidential power. It’s also a president who stands to benefit from this ruling, given that his opponent is vowing to imprison him and his family.

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Steve Silberman's avatar Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social
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It's too bad the 2nd Amendment dudes who swore they'd be the undauntable defenders of our democracy against attack by a brutal monarch turned out to be too busy denouncing rainbow plushies at Target.

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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many things make me angry about the supreme court but one of the biggest things is just that none of those cowards in the gang of six will ever take real questions from the public

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Adam Bonin's avatar Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social
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Justice Jackson: the next time a President wants to fire his attorney general, he has options.

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