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Migration is beautiful.

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Ideally he'd also have unscripted interactions with regular voters late at night, like idk, maybe at a Waffle House or someplace

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From 2017: "Interactions with world leaders have left interpreters scratching their heads about how to communicate what Trump is trying to say, when his speech baffles even native English speakers."

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017...

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It says that the American experience involves committing oppression, ignoring oppression, and struggling against oppression, but sometimes the struggle is successful.

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Genuinely one of America's best patriotic songs.

(CW for domestic abuse and burning down the abuser's house.)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VPp...

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Larissa Kelly's avatar Larissa Kelly @larissakelly.bsky.social
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Asked him about it, and apparently it comes down to examining the shape of the tail (which this bird foiled by sitting at an angle). If the bird comes back and you see it straight on, the bottom of the Cooper's tail is supposed to be rounded, while the sharp-shinned hawk's is more squared off.

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My birder husband saw these pictures, recoiled with an audible hiss, and said "somewhere in the gray zone between Cooper's and sharp-shinned hawk, not touching this."

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The way the panic is spreading (and is being obsessively reinforced by the Times) reminds me of the run-up to the Iraq War. People very quickly deciding "this is a CRISIS that demands one specific response," and brushing off talk of complications or consequences.

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Larissa Kelly's avatar Larissa Kelly @larissakelly.bsky.social
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This is a pretty narrowly tailored recommendation, but anyone who liked SORRY TO BOTHER YOU should check out PROBLEMISTA (now streaming on Max). Featuring Tilda Swinton as a mostly metaphorical, sometimes literal hydra!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbsk...

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Also Monet's blurrier later works were probably influenced by his cataracts.

www.pbs.org/newshour/art...

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For anyone doing this: USPS prices are going up on July 14th. Postcard stamps are going up from 53¢ to 56¢, & regular stamps are going up by 5¢.

I think you can order them at the old prices from USPS until the 13th. USPS sells one variety of 'forever' postcard stamp: store.usps.com/store/produc...

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Larissa Kelly's avatar Larissa Kelly @larissakelly.bsky.social
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In theory, all of the angst about Biden's strength as a candidate is now moot. Why should the horse race matter when the president can legally keep power regardless of how the vote goes? (The answer, that Biden won't carry out a coup as Trump would, should be spelled out in every horse race story.)

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Ed Markey has introduced the Judiciary Act of 2023, which would add four more justices to the court.

So far it's co-sponsored by Tina Smith and Elizabeth Warren (and is supported by California senator-in-waiting Adam Schiff). I hope this now gets more momentum.

www.congress.gov/bill/118th-c...

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Larissa Kelly's avatar Larissa Kelly @larissakelly.bsky.social
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Yeah, the bill was originally the Judiciary Act of 2021 (and will probably become the Judiciary Act of 2025, because you're right that it won't get through a Republican-led House). But getting more Democratic leaders openly onboard would still be good, in the event that legislation becomes possible.

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Larissa Kelly's avatar Larissa Kelly @larissakelly.bsky.social
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Ed Markey has introduced the Judiciary Act of 2023, which would add four more justices to the court.

So far it's co-sponsored by Tina Smith and Elizabeth Warren (and is supported by California senator-in-waiting Adam Schiff). I hope this now gets more momentum.

www.congress.gov/bill/118th-c...

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Gavin Newsom is what happens when 180 pounds of ambition are poured into a suit and smeared with hair gel. No core values or political identity. Just tropism towards higher office, like an amoeba reaching out to engulf food.

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I've volunteered for political campaigns for literally 40 years. And one thing that's always helped when things look bleak is the knowledge that there is ALWAYS something practical you can do to help make things better -- whether through electoral politics or other kinds of service. For example...

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Larissa Kelly's avatar Larissa Kelly @larissakelly.bsky.social
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Thinking about this again after the Supreme Court said retroactive bribery is okay.

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Larissa Kelly's avatar Larissa Kelly @larissakelly.bsky.social
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Just finished Bring Up the Bodies, in which Mantel repeatedly uses the construction "he, Cromwell" (or occasionally "he, [some other name]"), which keeps the close-up narrative perspective while also adding some clarity. I found that stylistic choice a little jarring at first, but came to like it.

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If you find an out of copyright book on Google Books, that they have a scan of but aren't making fully available, use this form to ask them to release it:

support.google.com/websearch/an...

It's simple, gets results, and enriches the #PublicDomain

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Larissa Kelly's avatar Larissa Kelly @larissakelly.bsky.social
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@npr.org I love you, but stories about potential Trump VP picks are pretty pointless if the reporter never asks "so hey, how does this person feel about coups?"

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Larissa Kelly's avatar Larissa Kelly @larissakelly.bsky.social
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That estate is subject to SO MANY death duties, they had to diversify.

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Larissa Kelly's avatar Larissa Kelly @larissakelly.bsky.social
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Jonathan Harker shows Dracula a set of pictures taken with a Kodak camera. "The estate is called Carfax . . . I could not enter it, as I had not the key of the door leading to it from the house, but I have taken with my kodak views of it from various points."

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Brontësaurus. Ink & gouache on Strathmore grey toned paper, 151 x 147mm, 2014. Because this seems to be doing the rounds again elsewhere. Perhaps the only piece of mine to have gone mildly viral, shunted uncredited like an orphan from workhouse to workhouse across the Internet over the years. 🤓

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Larissa Kelly's avatar Larissa Kelly @larissakelly.bsky.social
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"Oooh," that hypothetical person would say. "This ad is surrounded by so much Brand Value."

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Advertisers love paying more once they learn their ads are being seen by fewer people.

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Larissa Kelly's avatar Larissa Kelly @larissakelly.bsky.social
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Hells yeah. Establishing international freedom of movement is one of the most important political projects of this century.

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Unpopular transit opinion: I miss the old wool BART seats. Was 80% of their mass made up of dust mites and dried milkshake spills? Probably! Still worth it to sit on a glorious soft train couch and loaf into San Francisco.

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I used to do research at a TINY Mexican government archive, where everyone got to know each other well. One day a fellow researcher brought in some candy. The archivist absolutely refused to take any - she felt that doing so would be corruption. I think about her whenever a new Thomas story breaks.

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Larissa Kelly's avatar Larissa Kelly @larissakelly.bsky.social
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The lettering on some of the Dallas Mavericks jerseys always gives me a brief moment of confusion, like, what is this Art Spiegelman-themed sports franchise

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Larissa Kelly's avatar Larissa Kelly @larissakelly.bsky.social
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This person will bring several interestingly-flavored sodas to the neighborhood council meetings, and always, always help to straighten up afterwards.

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Larissa Kelly's avatar Larissa Kelly @larissakelly.bsky.social
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Thinking about the wealth consultant for Succession, who pointed out that the super-rich usually don't wear coats (because they're always going directly from one climate-controlled environment to another).

x.com/variety/stat...

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Larissa Kelly's avatar Larissa Kelly @larissakelly.bsky.social
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If you keep lipsticks and nylons in it, is there any chance of fatal train accidents? Had some problems along those lines before. 😢

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Larissa Kelly's avatar Larissa Kelly @larissakelly.bsky.social
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But also . . . be selfish and give yourself a neighborhood that has enough density to support lots of walkable shops and fun entertainment venues and good restaurants and abundant public transportation.

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Ironic for someone who seemingly models himself on Heisenberg.

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Larissa Kelly's avatar Larissa Kelly @larissakelly.bsky.social
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Funny how someone can simultaneously have no convictions and also 34 of them.

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Larissa Kelly's avatar Larissa Kelly @larissakelly.bsky.social
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Yeah, sorry, I can see how that phrasing sounds unduly dismissive. For what it's worth, though, I don't think that one approach is necessarily "better" than the other - sometimes belief in one's own special purpose and in the possibility of transformative change is exactly what's needed.

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Larissa Kelly's avatar Larissa Kelly @larissakelly.bsky.social
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I can't find the original, but awhile back there was a tweet that said something along the lines of "Star Wars is the teenage fantasy of being the Chosen One; Star Trek is the adult fantasy of doing interesting, meaningful work with supportive bosses and coworkers you like and respect."

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