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Matt Salomone

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Associate dean, Bartlett College of Science & Math, Bridgewater State University. Views mine. ¹Best known for other work. 📍 Plymouth, MA


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I hope you flushed 10 to 15 times

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They heard "the revolution will not be televised" and said "that's OK, I'll wait for the clips on YouTube"

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Is it weird that I'm not surprised Biden would "seriously weigh" this possibility? Because I see him as an empathetic, unselfish person who would take criticism to heart?

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And about the only thing those people have in common is that each are self-described Christians

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I think it's wild that within the same month, two very different public figures taught the world two Italian slurs they use against queer people 🤔

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Remember to take your bald eagle out of the freezer so it can be fully thawed for July 4

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Presidential candidate who the far-right members of the Supreme Court just placed above the law tells voters how he will exercise his new powers.

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Yep. Incipient political violence needs to be part of the political calculus now.

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"Republicans claim Joe Biden is a tyrant and a dictator, yet they explicitly grant him dictatorial powers, confident that he will not use them!"

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Then when wintertime rolls around, all the gorillas simply freeze to death!

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Every 2020 Trump voter who says "idk! I just liked his policies!" needs to be specifically confronted with what he has promised his *next* set of policies will be

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They're more afraid of us than we are of them

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Well-meaning low-engagement Republicans be like

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Yeah, which are entirely located in cities that conservatives have abandoned because they're "far too dangerous to visit, are you crazy bro??"

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Jimmy Kleinsasser!

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"But doctor... I *am* the chief justice"

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Just realized that this also happened during the presidency that followed Trump's

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*pounding the table rhythmically* BOJO SCOBY! BOJO SCOBY! BOJO SCOBY!

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See? She *is* relatable!

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correct and: part of the reason we're in the situation we're in, and why it's taking some people by surprise, is it's not sunk in for many that no matter what happens in the white house, these guys will retain a base of power. they are operating under an apocalyptic paradigm that justifies anything

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Screw Canada, if this trend continues I’m moving to Québec

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More is true, sadly

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"Don't worry, if the president imprisons his political enemies, you can still get a writ of habeas corpus." "But to prove that's why you've been imprisoned requires proof of..." "Presidential motive!" "And under Trump v US, presidential motive is..." "Inadmissible!"

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if your instinct is "calm down, surely this is an exaggeration," allow me to assure you that it's really not

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it says a great deal that roberts has time in his majority opinion to mock the dissents for their "tone of chilling doom" but can't actually manage to rebut this hypo. because he can't

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“The dissent is indulging in extreme hypotheticals” says the justice in a case of a president trying to use fraud and force to overturn an election

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Who would then get the Merrick Garland welcome

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I suppose if this ridiculousness results in guys trading in their coal-rolling F-450s for Cybertrucks, it makes Elon an unlikely environmentalist hero 🤪

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The idea that rich suburban Reddit guys weighing their vehicle purchases based on "amount of lib-triggering" have an EV option remains so funny to me

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All those state Secretary of State elections in 2020 and 2022 look pretty important now

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At least they wrote a story about it

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Somehow the solution to Lucas’ feeble and ham-handed political commentary was to make our political system even dumber to the point that Lucas looked smart

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This guy must have been GREAT at those magic-eye posters

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This must have been a Tyrion Lannister-esque ploy to see exactly whose ridiculous suggestions to the press are getting published

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"And yet your posts contribute to the current political moment! Curious!" /s

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Couldn't have happened to a more melted guy

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He exudes an impressive infallibility

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The entire genre of dancehall (more or less) came about when a reggae producer repurposed a "rock" beat he accidentally discovered on a casio kid's toy keyboard. People recently discovered the long-anonymous Japanese woman who programmed the beat was in fact a huge reggae fan and scholar.

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Luckily, when we hear the excuse "we were just following orders" there's nothing horrific that comes to mind.

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Between this and Snoop Dogg boosting the US national track team, all our old-school faves are on the Olympics hype wagon

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It is hard to make a man learn from history when his paycheck depends on him repeating it

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Nightmare fuel

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Two heartbeats away from a Mike Johnson presidency is far better than one *shudder*

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Media: "Let's speak truth to power!" ... "Wait, not THAT power!"

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