Not even Chotiner can defeat a pollster. 'The vibes are bad but this is unprecedented but also it looks bad but anything could happen still certain predictions being made are useless but other predictions aren't and also the problem is limited to Biden, I think'
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And Lillian Hellman was a shit about it.
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Well let's see what the courts say first...
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Well luckily you just started a road trip!
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New NYT game just dropped.
Next comes Why I Won't Dote.
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I knew this story but not about the doc. What Dugas provided was epidemiologically invaluable, but if his family tried to set the record straight it would discourage others from disclosing. I don't know if that's the reason for their stoicism on this, but god is it heartbreaking. Thanks for sharing.
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My god what's next, Twix?
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Happy Fourth, but not the British children
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That's not George Washington
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This is the most insane article. The FBI finding cut is just the tip of the iceberg. They want to cut IVF funding for troops? Prohibit funding for Ukraine?
If the FBI can't be the favored secret police of the state, who can?
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The best 4th of July tradition
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Per every single response above this one, your analysis is clearly correct
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"you're not American why do you care about the 4th of July" mate I'm Indian, any day someone got the Brits to fuck off back to their country is a national holiday for me
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"I turned to my husband and said, 'Oh, boy, that's a little suggestive, isn't it?' And my husband said, 'You got it, honey.' " βon first seeing the famous "train in a tunnel" ending of North by Northwest
Happy 100th birthday, Eva Marie Saint.
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Happy birthday to American #astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868-1921) who set the scale of our Universe. π‘π§ͺππ©π»βπ¬#histsci In her day, women scientists were regularly hired to do menial chores. She was hired to count images on photographic plates as a "computer". In studying these plates, in 1908 π§΅1/
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Jokes on you I don't even have a dog
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I mentioned the spinelessness of Chief Justice John Roberts on @strictscrutiny.bsky.social last week, and I haven't been able to get it out of my head. So, I wrote about it today at
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It's time for some game theory
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As far as I can tell just about all the post debate polls moved within the margin of error. I'm supposed to freak out about that? Do you know how many other real things I have to freak out about just today?
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Thank you!
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This is one of the coolest things we've done in a while.
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Okay, BUT, have you ever known a cop to sleep on the job?
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Pretty sure that was Trotsky
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Well they save all the Trump articles for the Style section, obviously
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As the article notes, it went from the Roberts Court straight to the Thomas Court thanks to Trump. The real victim? Samuel Alito, the Washington Generals of power mad conservatives Justices.
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"As an Indian, let me tell you about guys like Rishi Sunak..."
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Where has he said this!?
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You may not have to wonder for long
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"He looks qualified to me"
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We know what impunity looks like. Itβs law enforcement.
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Trump v US, 1-0
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"It will be interesting to see what, if anything, this lawsuit uncovers."
WTF, Eugene Volokh?
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"PROBABLY not"?
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He had a brief but amusing cameo in the last season of Sex Education.
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I would say it is rich for Doggett, at 77, to be saying this, but being 77 doesn't even put him in the top 20 oldest members of the House oh God
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Surely you mean 4/
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But also on brand!
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"Look, it was a real a boom time for Nazis, what can I tell you. Luckily after 2024 we never elected another Nazi again"
"Not funny, Mom"
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Speaking as a semanticist, it's wild to me that they are phrasing it in terms of whether an *act* is characterized as "official", when what they seem to actually be talking about is whether there exists a *description* of the act that can be characterized as "official".
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He was, undoubtedly, knowingly lying at the time
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Real complex feelings about the fact the best guarantor of the continuing legality of my interracial marriage is Clarence fucking Thomas
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I love people who do what they can, where they are, within their capacity. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
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Yeah, this has to be the angle they'll argue, right?
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A solid "well actually..."
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"I'm just a simple country assassin, but it seems to me..."
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"POTUS to SCOTUS: Drop Dead"
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Which, to be fair, has always been important
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Your only option is to run for President
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Treat every objection as reasonable, throw things to legislatures, problem solved. (The problem is democracy.)
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