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Edward Casaubon in the streets, Will Ladislaw in the sheets.


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when i’m really high i do actually see that Snoopy is a beagle

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They’re not teardrops, they’re acorns. For every druid I killed

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Baby, if the sexting's good I'll add you to my dental and vision coverage

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Though I hear their helpless cries I eat

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SeaTea's avatar SeaTea @tierno158.bsky.social
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I guess it's safe to assume that neither of these women are a porn star that Lord Feltersnatch banged because she looked like his daughter and then racked up 32 felonies trying to buy her silence because he was already dealing with bragging about pussy grabbing.

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I just attended a Florida Gulf Coast wedding. It was easy to pick out the bride. She had a clean Guy Harvey fishing shirt on.

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Yeah, that happened last on the US Supreme Court about 220 years ago. 😒

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Brendel's avatar Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social
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Feeling despair at the world and something that no bullshit made me feel a little better was giving ten bucks to support someone’s work on Patreon. Not that it’s a big deal but being able to go “oh I like this, I want more of this in the world” made me feel like I had .00000001% control of things.

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SeaTea's avatar SeaTea @tierno158.bsky.social
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Fireworks hate having their pictures taken.

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SeaTea's avatar SeaTea @tierno158.bsky.social
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When I was in grade school my teachers told me that in America anybody can be the President. I thought they were being aspirational. I didn't realize they were pointing to a inherent flaw in the system.

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Happy Independence Day. Nearly 250 years ago our forefathers fought for our right to post blurry fireworks photos on Instagram all week long.

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SeaTea's avatar SeaTea @tierno158.bsky.social
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The only thing more limitless than the Universe is Temu's digital advertising budget.

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SeaTea's avatar SeaTea @tierno158.bsky.social
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What Conservative Judges say: I respect settled law. Stare Decisis is a bedrock legal principle. Judges must not legislate. What they mean: I get a tingly feeling in my naughty parts just thinking about overturning precedent. Reversing a decision by Brennan & Douglas is like a double nut job.

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I usually don't make a big deal over Independence Day but I'm celebrating this year as it may be the last one.

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Before the Diet of Worms in 1521 worms were all fat roly poly little bastards.

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Thomas Zimmer's avatar Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social
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That’s, ultimately, what worries me most about all of this - what I’ve been trying to emphasize in my writing about “Project 2025”: Too many people think a second Trump term would “just” be more of the same. They haven’t been paying attention. It would be something very different.

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Thomas Zimmer's avatar Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social
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Back in power, the radical Right could count on a reactionary supermajority on the Supreme Court - something they didn’t have during Trump’s first term. Today’s disastrous, truly extreme immunity ruling should be an urgent reminder of what an absolute game-changer that is. 2/

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Thomas Zimmer's avatar Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social
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An argument I’ve been trying to make about “Project 2025”: A second Trump term would be worse not only because the radical Right would be better prepared, but also because they would be operating under much more favorable circumstances. With a much more extreme Supreme Court, for instance. 1/

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SeaTea's avatar SeaTea @tierno158.bsky.social
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I find reading much more fun now without deadlines.

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SeaTea's avatar SeaTea @tierno158.bsky.social
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I am reading a new biography of French essayist and thinker Michel de Montaigne.* They just referred to the death of a person "inebriated and surrounded by wenches" and just learning this is a possibile way to go out cheered me up. (*Yes, this is why I'm always surrounded by all the hot babes.)

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SeaTea's avatar SeaTea @tierno158.bsky.social
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Never let it be said that I don’t take full advantage of modern technological advancements to benefit the expansion of human knowledge.

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These “both parties are the same” idiots need to shut the fuck up and read some history. But they won’t. And they won’t. And even if they did their idiotic and dangerous smugness would continue unabated. 🤬

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SeaTea's avatar SeaTea @tierno158.bsky.social
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For some odd reason people look to me to be calm and sensible in times of crisis. This is a horrible mistake on their part.

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Cognitive Dissonance:  Me believing in the non-violence teachings of Mahatma Gandhi yet wanting to slap everybody who says “Things can’t possibly get any worse.”

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“Back off, Pardner this isn’t my first societal collapse.” 

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Chicken Little was an optimist. 😡

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SeaTea's avatar SeaTea @tierno158.bsky.social
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I say this with a heavy heart and after considerable deliberate thought and with the greatest amount of optimism that I can possibly muster: We are so fucked. So terribly fucked. 

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Thomas Zimmer's avatar Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social
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Two immediate thoughts: - Presidents have been able to get away with *a lot*, so to some extent, this codifies the (very, very bad!) status quo - BUT ALSO: To officially codify presidential immunity in this way, with reference to this specific situation (an attempted coup!) is utterly terrifying

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Walter Shapiro's avatar Walter Shapiro @mrwaltershapiro.bsky.social
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Another day in which I better stay away from sharp objects and open windows.

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Paul Waldman 's avatar Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social
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Pretty clear that the Federalist Society project to take over the courts for the far right is the most successful and consequential political effort in history. Only took them a few decades. Meanwhile, Dems are like "Let's not be hasty, blue slips serve an important function in preserving comity."

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SeaTea's avatar SeaTea @tierno158.bsky.social
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2/2 Because if he knew that he may one day face liability for breaking the law, he might not be as bold and fearless as we would like him to be. That is the majority’s message today. With fear for our democracy, I dissent.”

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Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor Dissent in Immunity ruling. 1/2 “Let the President violate the law, let him exploit the trappings of his office for personal gain, let him use his official power for evil ends…

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The US Supreme Court ruled today 6-3 that Beer Halls have no immunity from being putched.

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Thomas Zimmer's avatar Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social
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To be very clear: I am not criticizing “the Left,” which doesn’t exist as a monolithic bloc. My issue is with this specific camp, and as much as they like to pretend they do, they really don’t represent “the Left.” In fact, they hate lefties who disagree with them at least as much as “the Libs.”

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Thomas Zimmer's avatar Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social
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The problem is that their devotion to this anti-liberal struggle has led them to propagating positions that are completely untethered from what is happening on the Right – sophistry in defense of a premise that is utterly at odds with empirical evidence.
 
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To them, the fascism talk is intended to make people flock to the liberal cause; to expand power by using tyrannophobia as a way of entrenching liberal rule. It’s all just liberal dishonesty, self-exculpation, and self-aggrandizement that needs to be opposed aggressively.

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Thomas Zimmer's avatar Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social
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In their view, Liberals are using the “fascism” bogeyman as a way to distract from their own culpability; to discipline the Left into accepting a popular front under liberal leadership; to reinvigorate the (neo-) liberal project by conjuring fears of the ultimate evil.

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Thomas Zimmer's avatar Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social
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That’s also why this camp of leftwing intellectuals is stubbornly refusing to engage seriously with the fascism argument and the radicalizing tendencies on the Right. Their overriding concern is a political struggle against what they believe is the real enemy: The (neo-) liberal elites.

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Thomas Zimmer's avatar Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social
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I wrote about a this particular camp of prominent leftwing academics who are allowing their singular, disdain-driven focus on (neo-) liberalism to completely distort their perspective on the Right and on politics in general:
 
thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/the-anti-l...

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SeaTea's avatar SeaTea @tierno158.bsky.social
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I do amaze myself sometimes, my friend. 😉

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James Damron 's avatar James Damron @runswindows95.bsky.social
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"I'm still punk" I sigh as I fill my pill boxes, and yes, I even add a Flintstones Vitamin because I'm still growing.

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SeaTea's avatar SeaTea @tierno158.bsky.social
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I’ll have you know that my Instagram posts are very popular with beautiful women named Miya. 😎

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SeaTea's avatar SeaTea @tierno158.bsky.social
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You say "sleepwalking through life" like that's a bad thing.

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I'm a frugal SOB but I usually leave things that involve water and electricity to the pros.

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SeaTea's avatar SeaTea @tierno158.bsky.social
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Instead of automatically picking up the phone and calling a Plumber you can simply watch a few YouTube How-To videos and talk to the guys stocking the Home Depot shelves and do $20-$30,000 worth of water damage on your own. 🫣

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