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Joshua J. Friedman@joshuajfriedman.com |
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Freelance writer and editor. Formerly of The Atlantic, Boston Review. Copy chief at Columbia Magazine.
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Cait
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So what are we cooking tomorrow for the Fourth of July? Our menu: -hot dogs with sauteed sauerkraut & onions -canned baked beans -Ina Garten's French potato salad -Smitten Kitchen corn salad with chile & lime -SK strawberry & black pepper cocktails -peach pie from the farm stand
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Joshua J. Friedman
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Yes!! Everyone needs to start reading an organizing syllabus
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Memento Morty đ
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yo, can we all just take a moment to appreciate these sandwiches I made with prosciutto, fresh mozzarella, and pesto? đ€
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Joshua J. Friedman
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Whew. A summerâs day in sandwich form.
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Sarah J. Jackson
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(5/?) âOur culture â the media, the educational system â tries to crowd out of our political consciousness everything except who will be elected president and who will be on the Supreme Court, as if these are the most important decisions we make. They are not.â
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Sarah J. Jackson
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(4/?) âThe courts have never been on the side of justice, only moving a few degrees one way or the other, unless pushed by the people. Those words engraved in the marble of the Supreme Court, âEqual Justice Before the Law,â have always been a sham.â
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Sarah J. Jackson
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(3/?) âThis is not to say that we should ignore the courts or the electoral campaigns. It can be useful to get one person rather than another on the Supreme Court, or in the presidency, or in Congress. The courts, win or lose, can be used to dramatize issues.â
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Sarah J. Jackson
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(2/?) âThe rights of working people, of women, of Black people have not depended on decisions of the courts. Like other branches of the political system, the courts have recognized these rights only after citizens have engaged in direct action powerful enough to win these rights for themselves.â
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Joshua J. Friedman
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Thank you, Sarah, you are the best
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Joshua J. Friedman
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The inspiration you need! đ§”
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Joshua J. Friedman
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It's true! People are feeling so sad and hopeless right now. I think the SCOTUS immunity decision deepened everyone's sense that even the courts won't provide the small bit of protection they did when Trump was in office. But that was never our only tool, or even the best one.
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Sarah J. Jackson
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Very weird to have people in my mentions talking about pograms as if they are a fact of the near future and not something we can almost certainly stop if we get it together.
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Sarah J. Jackson
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You all werenât joking when I got back on here yesterday. People have really gone full throttle on âthe campsâ discourse on here, as opposed to considering the âwhen we fight we winâ discourse and as a social movements person I am a little gagged, in the worst way.
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Greg Pak
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I recommend taking five to ten minutes to put your US rep, US senators, and state and local elected officials into your phone contacts so you can instantly call them whenever you get mad, which will be every day from now until we die.
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vanta greige
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AI was so much more interesting when it didn't exist
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Joshua J. Friedman
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Not a sports person generally, so not sure if that's a net win or net loss
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(I would also never criticize, e.g., someone who is pregnant or might get pregnant for moving away from a state that criminalizes abortion. But I think it's callous and shortsighted to simply write off states that do this and the people who live there.)
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Joshua J. Friedman
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Aw, hi, Belmont! Former Merrimack Valley here
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Joshua J. Friedman
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Yes. I'm chiefly criticizing people who loudly disparage and dismiss large swaths of the country without showing any sense of understanding of or sympathy for the good people who live there.
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Joshua J. Friedman
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Absolutely. It is entirely different to be forced to leave a place because you are personally vulnerable and persecuted vs. evangelizing for abandoning others out of convenience from a position of relative strength.
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Joshua J. Friedman
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Though for the record, I grew up in Massachusetts! So #notall etc.
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Sarah J. Jackson
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Wasnât going to wade into discourse on here again yet but let me just say, the jokes and threats (or whatever they are) from U.S. folks of relative privilege about leaving the country give away a lot of how people locate themselves, or rather donât, in relation to neighbors and community.
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Joshua J. Friedman
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That's before you even get to the political-tactical foolishness of writing off the substantial population of left-leaning people in every place that might form the basis of a future majority!
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It's the most hollow, selfish sort of individualism that presumes that all the people and places around you are fungible and that you have no obligations to anyone but your nuclear family and that no one else should either.
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Joshua J. Friedman
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Absolutely, and the same arguments (and underlying psychology) apply to all the people casually arguing for people to flee "red states" for "blue states"
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Joshua J. Friedman
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Yes! Iâve been associating these two events as well
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That's begging for a fried egg!
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Joshua J. Friedman
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Ooooooo, howâs the price of housing
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Joshua J. Friedman
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Oh, thatâs terrific!
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You poor thing! Does it not usually get that hot in the summer there? Itâs not too late to buy a $300 window unit! Theyâd deliver it! Just a thought, though
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Joshua J. Friedman
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Too hot! Do you not have air conditioning? Hoping you feel better very very soon
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Joshua J. Friedman
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I'm so glad!
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Joshua J. Friedman
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I know who I'm going to ask first
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Joshua J. Friedman
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If you love archival ephemera (especially if you have an interest in Aotearoa/NZ, but even if you don't), you should be following the wonderful @postnatodepression.bsky.social
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Protest and Survive
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Penguin feather muff and collarette set, ca. 1870-1900. Several New Zealand-based 'feather furriers' specialised in the pelts of seabirds, including James Constantine, a Dunedin taxidermist, and the Liardets, who ran a feather furriery in Wellington. Ref RI.W2011.3082 Te Hikoi Museum.
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JJ
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JUST THUMIN AROUND
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Joshua J. Friedman
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Since we're sharing, I have a soft spot for my 1837 "hard-times token"âor, as one coin-collecting site calls them, "the original meme." Minted privately during a depression, they convey a happy mix of humor and spite. The tortoise is the US economy, the jackass Andrew Jackson.
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Mondo Mascots
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Kuronyon, a cat with a hard hat, is the mascot for Kurobe Dam, Japanâs tallest dam.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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these people do not intend to ever lose power again
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Joshua J. Friedman
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lol we all sent it to you at the same moment
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A weird interview with Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez: Biden is going to lose, but also he canât step down
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Joshua J. Friedman
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I KNEW it
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Look at you, trying to take food out of the mouths of the FormicaÂź heirs
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đ« đ
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Betsy Sneller
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My toddler (22 months) figured out that if she wants mama *and* daddy to play with her at the same time, she just has to ask for âfamilyâ [flÊmi] and we melt đ„ș
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Chuck Wendig
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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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Joshua J. Friedman
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OMG, Ashley, heaven!
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Ashley Fairbanks
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Waffles went swimming with his bros today.
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