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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare. - Spinoza, “Ethics”

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Everything about their faction - from whining about “political correctness” & “cancel culture,” to their policy proposals, to their media diet, to their choice of figurehead - is based on an apparent belief that the single most important human right is the right to be a proud & unrepentant asshole.

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Elmo Muskmelon, Mark Robinson in NC, & countless lesser lights in the MAGA universe get closer every day to outright, unambiguous, & specific calls for deadly political violence.

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kentropic's avatar kentropic @kentropic.bsky.social
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Our post-literate age: attempted collective self-government via memes & vibes. How’s that workin’ out for us so far?

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kentropic's avatar kentropic @kentropic.bsky.social
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Japanese knotweed?

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Oh yeah, these are going on the stop signs in the neighborhood

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Brooke Binkowski's avatar Brooke Binkowski @brooklynmarie.bsky.social
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I wrote this years ago for a week just like this one

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kentropic's avatar kentropic @kentropic.bsky.social
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“If casting a ballot is merely expressive,…” - no, that’s not what voting is. Somebody needs to get this dumbass into a Civics 101 class, stat. I swear, the old Gray Lady seems bound & determined to put Doug J Balloon out of business by just stealing all his best riffs.

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Ana Marie Cox's avatar Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social
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I don’t want to generalize too much but the place I see the most hope right now is from those that have been fighting the hardest for the longest time. Extended doomerism can be a luxury not afforded to those who have the most to lose.

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kentropic's avatar kentropic @kentropic.bsky.social
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Hope they stay in Harper’s Ferry - that’s where it all went down.

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kentropic's avatar kentropic @kentropic.bsky.social
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Bless you for all the sweat & tears you invest in taking a long look around at the world, & reporting back to the rest of us what you see. We’ve forgotten why the 4th estate is essential for democracy. No better odds than a coin toss now whether either the press or free representative gov’t survive.

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kentropic's avatar kentropic @kentropic.bsky.social
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Political discourse IS a lot like sports talk radio these days, for good or ill. Sharp observation.

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United Farm Workers's avatar United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social
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Remember as you enjoy your #July4 BBQ that people are working in dangerous heat to provide the food you enjoy.

Tomorrow's projected high temperatures are:

Bakersfield CA 111°
Fresno CA 112°
Coachella CA 116°
Yuma AZ 113°

#WeFeedYou

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kentropic's avatar kentropic @kentropic.bsky.social
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Where “press their own agendas” = “wet their own beaks” or “grease their own palms.”

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kentropic's avatar kentropic @kentropic.bsky.social
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“What I am is I am” - Popeye the sailorcrank

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kentropic's avatar kentropic @kentropic.bsky.social
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As Umberto Eco saw years ago, the in-group must be simultaneously righteous & mighty AND constantly victimized; the enemy both all-powerful oppressors AND weak, degenerate sub-humans. It’s a rhetorical perpetual motion machine.

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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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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa 's avatar Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social
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And for those of us who have only known authoritarianism’s succour through supine legislatures, & a pliant judiciary, what SCOTUS decision enables in US is a familiar experience. The West talks of history’s lessons. We can speak to lived experience, negotiated daily, of absolute power’s violence.

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kentropic's avatar kentropic @kentropic.bsky.social
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“The obvious, logical path out of the mess President Biden created with his disastrous debate performance is for him to bow out with honor and endorse his young, vigorous and talented vice president to stand in his stead.” Hard to argue with that. Nobody in the world better qualified right now.

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kentropic's avatar kentropic @kentropic.bsky.social
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Love your voice, your energy, & *especially* your point of view!

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kentropic's avatar kentropic @kentropic.bsky.social
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I would absolutely pay good money to see *former prosecutor* VP Harris tear convicted felon & notorious bullshit firehose DJTrump to tiny quivering shreds in the next scheduled debate, Sept. 10. Except of course the whiny chickenshit baby-man will find a lame excuse to weasel out of it, like always.

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kentropic's avatar kentropic @kentropic.bsky.social
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And they double as plague masks! Right on time when the next H5N1 variant makes the leap to airborne human transmission.

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“…and that’s when they kicked me out of the bar, for some reason. Expelliarmus, indeed!”

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The incomparable @hcrichardson.bsky.social on yesterday's judicial coup d'etat. Even the case caption -- "Donald J. Trump v. United States" -- spells out the situation clearly.

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kentropic's avatar kentropic @kentropic.bsky.social
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Somebody should tell Joe to get out of the policy weeds & keep reminding people what a lying, thieving fraud Trump has been proved to be, in plain language. Trump’s slippery loudmouth carny barker Elmer Gantry act is obvious & insulting. Call him on it, repeatedly.

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Gabe Ortíz's avatar Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social
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When Trump demonizes immigrants as takers and “not human beings,” he’s talking about ppl like my mom. She worked for years as a domestic worker to support our family. Classes at night for a while. She’s my hero. My mom isn’t “poisoning the blood” of America. She is the American story.

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These media spectacles aren’t for getting tangled in policy weeds - even if they’re proof of success. Too many of us voters respond too easily to visceral dopamine & adrenaline hits. Somebody needs to give Joe a green light to call Trump the lying, thieving, rapist criminal motherfucker that he is.

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Joanne Freeman's avatar Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social
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Trump asked: will you accept the election and say that political violence is unacceptable? Why should I have to say that? I've said it before. Pelosi was to blame for January 6.

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kentropic's avatar kentropic @kentropic.bsky.social
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Too true. I hope I’m wrong, but my 1st comment on this shitshow to my wife was: “we’re fucked.” Trump is just a firehose of bullshit. Shocking.

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kentropic's avatar kentropic @kentropic.bsky.social
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Horror is exactly the vague queasy feeling about this event that I didn’t recognize before - thanks for seeing & naming it

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kentropic's avatar kentropic @kentropic.bsky.social
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Bring on the Brawndo - it’s got electrolytes!

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kentropic's avatar kentropic @kentropic.bsky.social
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Almost as if vaccines work. Imagine that! They’re not always perfect protection - except when they are.

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Apoorva Mandavilli's avatar Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social
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Breaking: All Americans ages 6 months and older should receive one of the new Covid-19 vaccines when they become available this fall, scientific advisers to the CDC said on Thursday.

www.nytimes.com/2024/06/27/h...

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Phil Lewis's avatar Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social
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After month of public outcry, NYC libraries to get budget funding back — and reopen on Sundays

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kentropic's avatar kentropic @kentropic.bsky.social
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The best way to develop your own voice is to read widely & voraciously - all the time, all forms & genres, including (especially) poetry. The best bits will stick in your writer’s ear, gradually informing & shaping your own language choices.

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kentropic's avatar kentropic @kentropic.bsky.social
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You can do whatever you want with your property, until the HOA thinks your planned neon eggplant exterior with acid green trim might somehow diminish THEIR property values. It’s kinda the real estate equivalent of “your right to swing your fists around ends at the tips of their noses.”

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kentropic's avatar kentropic @kentropic.bsky.social
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Stu Ball’s “Hiker’s Guide to Oahu” was my weekend Bible when I lived there in the ‘90s. Pu’u Manamana, FTW! The views from the ridge behind Ka’a’awa were incredible….

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merritt k's avatar merritt k @merrittk.com
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we live in an age in which we have near limitless storage for data. unfortunately at this time we must erase all works of culture to make room for the infinite sea of machine slop

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Ed Burmila's avatar Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social
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Glenn Reynolds voice from 2007: "Read the whole thing"

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kentropic's avatar kentropic @kentropic.bsky.social
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Sad indeed. Sounds like he’s aware enough to vaguely sense the fundamental emptiness of his chosen path, but not enough to make any changes. Like having a soul itch that he can never scratch - a hungry ghost. Hell on earth.

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kentropic's avatar kentropic @kentropic.bsky.social
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Because Busch Light is s comPLETEly different thing than the hated & notoriously well-ventilated Bud Light….

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