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Melico

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Apparently stuck with this boring portmanteau handle until I can reconstitute my Twitter following. Extremely online and leftist but not an extremely online leftist. You will see lots of photos of my cat and dogs. She/her

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amdiamanti's avatar amdiamanti @amdiamanti.bsky.social
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OK but if Warner is worried about Biden losing (or Trump winning), where’s he been? He’s been more vocal about the threat of Tik Tok than the threat of Trump. He’s willing to go to the extraordinary measure of pushing out the Dem candidate last minute, but court expansion was too drastic for him.

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Dan Cerinthedark's avatar Dan Cerinthedark @etbeeegood.bsky.social
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every time you stop making sense David Byrne’s suit grows 2 sizes

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Seth Trueger's avatar Seth Trueger @mdaware.org
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incidentally I am an emergency physician and I use a walker

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Abigail Nussbaum's avatar Abigail Nussbaum @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social
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Me: look, it's been 45 years, and Star Wars has never been able to articulate what the dark side is and why it's so seductive. Maybe it's time to stop trying? The Acolyte: meet first sith lord Manny Jacinto, with absolutely ripped arms and occasional (implied) nudity. Me:

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Gary Legum's avatar Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social
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This level of societal anxiety was every day of Trump's presidency for four straight years, and it says nothing good about our most prominent journalists that they are jonesing for it like heroin junkies going through withdrawal.

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Melico 's avatar Melico @melico.bsky.social
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And there would be zero chance of whatever crazy evil things Trump says would get any attention.

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Trump doesn't want to remind people that he is also old, decrepit, and (more) often incoherent

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Daniel Gilmore's avatar Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social
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I have watched people online for the last 3.5 years find any excuse they could to take clips of Kamala Harris and present them out of context in order to make her seem dumb, vapid, and out of her depth. The idea that the NYTs eye of sauron wouldnt immediately glom onto that to amplify is laughable.

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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"I cannot overstate how little he wanted to talk about it" yeah because he's not a freak, imagine just being there living your life and suddenly Joanne's in your face screaming a pop quiz at you about "penised women"

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Philip Bump's avatar Philip Bump @pbump.com
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Good day to be someone who recently argued that the contested convention commentary is often driven by self-importance.

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Proof of Burden's avatar Proof of Burden @proofofburden.bsky.social
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You know the dementia knowers are out in force because they are claiming dementia wouldn't impact your ability to read a teleprompter

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Philip Bump's avatar Philip Bump @pbump.com
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The reason pundits like the contested convention thing is that it plays to their vanities: what if the smart people made a meritocratic decision about who’s best? This is driven, in part, by being mostly isolated from negative reactions to their opinions over the years.

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Melico 's avatar Melico @melico.bsky.social
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Also it's just exciting for them to write West Wing fan fic when reality is ugly and boring.

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I have low blood pressure so I have to be really careful about heat, even in the shower

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Miranda Yaver's avatar Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social
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Also, they seem to delusionally think it’s a good idea to give up a Democratic Senate seat in a red state when control of the Senate is very much at stake.

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Melico 's avatar Melico @melico.bsky.social
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I once fainted from being out in the sun and heat all day in New Orleans when I was 20.

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Especially since Trump's job at the debate was convincing normies that he isn't actually a crazy criminal weirdo and he definitely failed at that.

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Grudgie the Whale's avatar Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social
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It’s still just wild the media is obsessed with the mental acuity of one candidate and it’s not the one that wants to nuke hurricanes and inject sunlight into people to cure COVID.

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The Fig Economy's avatar The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social
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lol I love watching what people believe the DNC to be.

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Patrick Fessenbecker's avatar Patrick Fessenbecker @pfessenbecker.bsky.social
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Don't be fooled by the bland headline, Jamelle absolutely bodies Bret Stephens in this conversation. A representative bit:

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Christopher Federico's avatar Christopher Federico @cmfederico.bsky.social
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just let Bouie run the entire fucking NYT

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Lord Businessman II 's avatar Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social
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"Why does Biden look and sound fine when his campaign is shooting him on film the day after and didn't when it was the news hand of David Zaslav's company?" has its own answer if you just think about it a little bit

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Melico 's avatar Melico @melico.bsky.social
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Hope your girl feels all better soon. ❤️

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That's awesome! My cat is going through the exact same thing and this makes me hopeful for a less-bad outcome from his ultrasound Friday.

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CREW's avatar CREW @crew.bsky.social
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BREAKING: The Office of Congressional Ethics just found there is "substantial reason to believe" that Rep. Ronny Jackson converted campaign funds to personal use or his campaign spent funds that were not attributable to bona fide campaign or political purposes.

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Paul Duane's avatar Paul Duane @paulduane.bsky.social
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Spoke to a friend who worked on a recent Nicolas Cage movie in a senior capacity and was very very happy to discover that he’s a consummate pro who works harder than anyone else, all the time, and is lovely to the crew. I needed that.

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Benjamin Dreyer's avatar Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.bsky.social
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Oh, well, my heart goes out to... ...THE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS HE KILLED THROUGH AGGRESSIVE, GLEEFUL NEGLECT.

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Melico 's avatar Melico @melico.bsky.social
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Connecticut is the worst for this, the whole coastline is privately owned. At least here in northeast MA, you can take the train to most coastal towns and we have some little free townie beaches.

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Screamer Jim's avatar Screamer Jim @screamerjim.bsky.social
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I try not to think to much about morons who say sports aren’t political, and players should “stick to dribbling” etc, but Reggie Jackson gave an extended panel answer at the Negro Leagues celebration yesterday about how awful it was to play in Birmingham, with all of its racism, and it’s everything

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Melico 's avatar Melico @melico.bsky.social
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Or if people didn't demean caring and sincerity as cringe

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Aaron Rupar's avatar Aaron Rupar @atrupar.bsky.social
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Trump calls for business leaders to be fired if they don’t support him. Pretty fash!

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Melico 's avatar Melico @melico.bsky.social
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IDK, I think they deleted a lot of comments. He also might have written an angry piece about on his blog at the time, so much of that era of blogosphere is lost to time

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Melico 's avatar Melico @melico.bsky.social
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His own if I remember correctly

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Melico 's avatar Melico @melico.bsky.social
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An absolute classic. Also his flameout in the comments of the-toast.net/2015/05/12/b...
And further proof that every vaguely left-of-center personality who turns out to be a poisonous asshole was shitty to women years before everyone else caught on.

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Kevin M. Kruse's avatar Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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Freddie deBoer once tweeted something like “Was Social Security incremental? Was the Civil Rights Act? Medicare?” To which I responded “yes, yes, and yes” and started to explain how each of those landmark laws came about and were expanded … but he blocked me after the first tweet.

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ryan cooper's avatar ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com
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one handy property of the Savvy School of journalism is you don’t have to know what the fuck you are talking about on anything

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Faine Greenwood's avatar Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social
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oh my fucking god

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Phil Lewis's avatar Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social
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From my colleague Molly Redden: “Weeks before she struck down the federal mask mandate in spring 2022, U.S. District Judge Mizelle attended an all-expenses-paid retreat where a conservative group gave her a crash course in the niche legal theory propping up her opinion.”

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Melico 's avatar Melico @melico.bsky.social
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I really don't get why the people who believe this theory are also more likely to be anti mask or anti vaxx.

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