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Stop Calling Me Frank

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Workin’ up a fever in a one-horse town. Somerville-based garage-punk-pub-rock on a Rum Bar Records. The music stuff is the band’s; the politics, academic crotchets, and low-effort posts are mine.


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biden if he was based

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Brendel's avatar Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social
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Joe Biden there’s one way to shut up the New York Times

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Jonathan Cohn 's avatar Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social
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I wonder if the folks in the DNC who pushed for an early debate did so because they wanted this out early. But I may be attributing too much competence.

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Mr. Am I Being Detained 's avatar Mr. Am I Being Detained @gonebabygone.bsky.social
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RIP Robert Towne, this is still one of the most chilling summaries of the nature of greed I’ve ever encountered in fiction

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Stop Calling Me Frank's avatar Stop Calling Me Frank @stopcallingmefrank.bsky.social
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Keep it down: I’m till trying to visualize world peace.

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Willy’s Wonderlando's avatar Willy’s Wonderlando @landopoe.bsky.social
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Don’t forget to leave apricot brandy out for Quint tonight.

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Sen. Gogurt taking notes on a criminal conspiracy's avatar Sen. Gogurt taking notes on a criminal conspiracy @ugarles.bsky.social
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the conservative theory of law in one headline

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Branden McEuen's avatar Branden McEuen @bmceuen.bsky.social
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“Don’t make us be violent” is literally the preferred gaslighting strategy of abusers

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Ed Burmila's avatar Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social
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The electoral problem has become, as the IRA gloated to Thatcher, that the GOP only needs to get lucky once and the Democrats need to be lucky forever. Either they’re going to do something about the court - now, not eventually - or we will simply play iterations of this game until the GOP wins.

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Steve Silberman's avatar Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social
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This is one of the most dystopian signs I've ever seen. Republicans are quickly turning this country into an unrecognizable freakshow.

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Stop Calling Me Frank's avatar Stop Calling Me Frank @stopcallingmefrank.bsky.social
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I’ll let you know. It’s always a delicate operation, with radioactive aftereffects.

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Stop Calling Me Frank's avatar Stop Calling Me Frank @stopcallingmefrank.bsky.social
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Spending the week with MAGA family and I gotta say: FOX NEWS is so good at the shitty stuff it does—more refined, subtle, and insidious without losing its power as a sledgehammer.

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Big Fat Bartolo's Colon's avatar Big Fat Bartolo's Colon @graweman.bsky.social
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I had always hoped that to end democracy a power-hungry monster would have to accomplish 1 actual thing first, but I guess borrowing beyond your means and being racist are more in line with American values

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David_j_roth's avatar David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social
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I keep coming back to "all this for literally Donald Trump," but it fits. There's not some more competent aspiring autocrat who'd somehow "earn" or "win" this. This is how it has always gone: feckless/evil elites attaching themselves to the sociopath they believe will get them where they want to go.

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A rough beast slouching toward Bethlehem to be born? In this economy?

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TrumpWatch's avatar TrumpWatch @trumpwatch.skyfleet.blue
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Doug Burgum says there was a 'smooth transition' in 2021, even after Jan. 6 Capitol riot - USA TODAY

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mr. cannoli's avatar mr. cannoli @boner.ink
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at disneyland telling random kids this is all bullshit

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Thanks for mentioning that. I found both that article, and the one the OP was referring to. No one should listen to the NYT or Douchehat.

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Matthew Dessem's avatar Matthew Dessem @matthewdessem.bsky.social
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You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.

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Molly Knight's avatar Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social
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Area op-ed columnist who thinks Taylor Swift is a bad role model because she’s 34 and unmarried with no kids also thinks Kevin Spacey deserves another chance:

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Death will not release you!𓅽's avatar Death will not release you!𓅽 @7leaguebootdisk.bsky.social
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Frankly, it could be argued that overturning Chevron is worse than Roe, because with virtually no regulations left, you can be freely poisoned by corporate America.

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir)'s avatar Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone
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it's fucked up that in the united states there are so many jobs that require tips to make a living wage. like baristas and supreme court justices

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John Dellaporta's avatar John Dellaporta @johndellaporta.bsky.social
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A few years ago, Jon Lovett floated a theory that media treats Democrats like protagonists - to be challenged, accounted, and forced to be behave in growth-oriented ways - while the GOP are treated like antagonists - immutable, expected to disrupt, thematic obstacles. Thinking about that a lot.

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky”'s avatar pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social
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Now THIS is the Joe Biden I like to see! Welcome back, Mr President 🫡

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Make no mistake, Clarence Thomas SOLD his vote on the Chevron doctrine. He was strongly in favor of it, even authoring a decision reinforcing it in 2005. Then he got $4 million in gifts from corporate interests who wanted Chevron gone. And now Thomas did a 180 to kill it.

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Squire Boone's avatar Squire Boone @isomorphism.net
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The correct response to Chevron being overturned is for every single environmental group to start filing millions of lawsuits, right now, today, arguing that various regulatory decisions didn't go far enough. Absolutely flood the zone.

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Ada Hatelace's avatar Ada Hatelace @draftinghermit.bsky.social
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Happy Fucking Furious Friday to all those who are celebrating with me ☺️🔪

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Luke O'Neil's avatar Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social
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I found a wet vhs tape in the woods behind the old church cemetery and snuck it into the house so my dad wouldn’t see it and it was this debate. Then my family died.

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David_j_roth's avatar David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social
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I don't want some egghead bureaucrat telling me whether there's poison in the water I drink. Ideally I'd want that decided by a 29yo judge who went to a "biblical law school" and does not believe dinosaurs existed, and then to have that decision reaffirmed six years later by the Supreme Court.

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Kieran Healy's avatar Kieran Healy @kjhealy.bsky.social
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Overturning Chevron is going to usher in an era where self-taught judicial expertise in technical areas such as chemistry, statistics, mechanical engineering, biology, geomorphology, epidemiology, mathematics, and many other fields will once more be able to shine forth as it did in the Middle Ages.

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Stop Calling Me Frank's avatar Stop Calling Me Frank @stopcallingmefrank.bsky.social
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They must “move on,” as homeless Jo must in Dickens’s Bleak House:

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Emily Farris's avatar Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social
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SCOTUS majority governing philosophy: the administrative state is only constitutional when it is harassing vulnerable people.

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maura quint's avatar maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social
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without exaggeration, this is the worst thing I have ever seen in the political world and I was a child in Pennsylvania when Budd Dwyer held office

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Benjamin Dreyer's avatar Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.bsky.social
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Happy birthday, Mel Brooks!

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Adam Kotsko 's avatar Adam Kotsko @adamkotsko.bsky.social
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The last time I watched debates was 2012, and I stopped because it was just too stressful. That first Obama-Romney debate was so upsetting because it seemed like Obama didn't even care! And ironically, Biden saved the day with his performance in the VP debate!

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Vikram Bath's avatar Vikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social
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“Biden: look, the fact is, we can’t… we don’t… look. Here’s the deal. And this is no foolin Trump: there are ten billion guatemalans attacking the lincoln memorial right now“

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Me, after avoiding the debate, but checking in here to see how it’s going.

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Krabappel Roan 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar Krabappel Roan 🏳️‍⚧️ @skeiser.bsky.social
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Donald Trump won two club titles at the Donald Trump Wins or Else Open.

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Plain old Nolan “Jon Wolter” Void's avatar Plain old Nolan “Jon Wolter” Void @wolter.bsky.social
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I know these are two different things, but I just imagined Leonard Cohen spending his last few years getting really into chiptunes, an idea which tickled me pink.

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