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John Kohlstrand

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Writer. Editor. Former newspaper journalist. Former Ohio Statehouse employee. Born and raised in South Detroit. Ay ziggy zoomba.

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It looks like an homage to an old World Football League team.

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@bskyttrpg.bsky.social listancestries

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@bskyttrpg.bsky.social list ancestries

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“Why would I go into a Famous Footwear?” he insists.

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Our dog Pancake is male, but he insists he had nothing to do with it.

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Thanks! I've been looking at Ohio's 1834 ban a bit, and it all happened very fast. A petition arrived apparently seeking a ban. A committee of three physicians (men, of course) put the ban into another a bill regulating medicine in Ohio, and it passed within a week without much debate.

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Sounds like an interesting course! Do you have suggested reading on the motivations for the first state abortion bans in the 1820s and 1830s?

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Akron wept.

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The English Beet

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I guess you beat me by … reading my mind and anticipating my moves? We didn’t have psychics in my D&D games.

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@bskyttrpg.bsky.social stats

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Doh!

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@bskyttrpg.bsky.social duel @dirtgirl.wifeguy.online 5

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Weak sauce, @nytimes.com.

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So, this seems embarrassing. What say you, @nytimes.com?

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July 4th Parade, Tule Lake Internment Camp, 1943.

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I'm a street walking beagle with a heart full of napalm.

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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i think akhil amar reed captures something very important, which is that the roberts court rewrote article ii, which explicitly states that a president can be held criminally liable after impeachment (and which has long been understood to mean that he can be held liable after leaving office)

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Seth Masket's avatar Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social
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Bill Clinton must feel like a real schmuck for doing that plea bargain

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Adam Serwer's avatar Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social
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The Supreme Court’s ruling putting presidents above the law must be understood not simply as a grant of immunity for past crimes, but an enthusiastic endorsement of those he will commit if given the chance. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Philip Bump's avatar Philip Bump @pbump.com
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The immunity decision was upside down, fretting about the indictment of Trump as a harbinger of future threats to the presidency instead of recognizing Trump's actions as a past and current one.
Gift link: wapo.st/4bquy5M

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John Dellaporta's avatar John Dellaporta @johndellaporta.bsky.social
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A few years ago, Jon Lovett floated a theory that media treats Democrats like protagonists - to be challenged, accounted, and forced to be behave in growth-oriented ways - while the GOP are treated like antagonists - immutable, expected to disrupt, thematic obstacles. Thinking about that a lot.

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Paul Rosenberg's avatar Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social
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Bribery isn't actually a thing, the bribery court explains.

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If you see this, post a picture you took at sunset.

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Micah's avatar Micah @rincewind.run
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also “I unconditionally love my drug addict fuckup son” is one of Biden’s best attributes and every time they try to tie him to something nefarious around Hunter it just ends up highlighting that fact

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I’m old enough to remember when the Ohio attorney general claimed to be tough on crime.

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Christy, Butlerian Jihadist's avatar Christy, Butlerian Jihadist @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social
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The timeline right now looks like an Ewok party after the Death Star exploded

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Thank you. Some national media haven't done a great job of covering this.

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Let us know how the William Henry Harrison talk goes.

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Greg Sargent's avatar Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social
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When Republicans help Trump evade gag order to attack his trial as illegitimate, they're not just "showing loyalty" or angling for VP. They're saying that their allegiance is to Trump over our institutions/rule of law itself. Say it that way.

New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1816...

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You mean EDT I imagine, given that this will happen in June.

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jd vance believes in nothing. nothing at all. he is an empty shell of man motivated solely and exclusively by a desire to amass as much power as possible. he'll do and say anything if it means he can exercise his will over other people. a genuinely dangerous man.

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