BuergersandFries
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BuergersandFries
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Husband; father; aging jock/nerd combo; legal aid/public defense; maybe a little cool (ok, not really); pro-Kindness, pro-experts, pro-diversity. Personal account. Views = my own.
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“This is how the president talks every day: in rambling, broken thoughts veering from petty yet grandiose grievances to paranoid conspiracies and fantasies dredged up from the gutters of the racist internet.” defector.com/what-do-you-...
What Do You Do About A Declining President? | Defector
Welcome to Margin of Error, a politics column from Tom Scocca, editor of the Indignity newsletter. On Wednesday, President Donald Trump sat down for a public meeting with Cyril Ramaphosa, the presiden...
defector.com
May 23, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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The Republican budget bill takes food from the poor to fund additional Pentagon spending and a massive tax cut for the rich. It is not "populist." It is the latest in a package of policies that will make you pay more for less.

My take on the budget bill: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/republican...
Republicans want you to pay more for less
Donald Trump's policies are punishing the poor, rewarding the rich, inflating prices, and shrinking revenues. And for what?
www.gelliottmorris.com
May 23, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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You morons I’m taking a *public* bribe
lol “getting a GIFT, FREE OF CHARGE,” yeah that’s the problem my guy
May 12, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.
April 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Also I hope we're all on this same page

EVERYONE needs to be brought out of that El Salvadorian hell hole

they were ALL wrongfully deported.

I mean it's good to focus on 'And this guy was here legally and not ever a gang member AND they're Venezuelan'

but NO ONE should've been sent there
April 4, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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Our relationship status impacts our toughness!

When researchers delivered a painful shock to a couple...

“The better someone felt about their marriage, the smaller their fearful brain activation.”

Belonging allows us to handle difficult challenges:
thegrowtheq.com/how-belongin...
How Belonging Makes the Difficult Seem Manageable: Why We Are Wired to Share the Load
Imagine for a moment that you are sitting in a chair at the center of a room, with dozens of your peers surrounding you. All eyes are on you, as the boss-man standing across the way begins to speak. “...
thegrowtheq.com
February 5, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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High school and youth sports are so valuable because they get at our basic psychological needs:
-We belong
-We can make progress
-We can have an impact

It's not about achievements. It's having a space to challenge ourselves in a healthy way.

Don't ruin sports, parents!
January 2, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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A publicly-funded study of the venomous saliva of the Gila monster is exactly the kind of silly sounding basic science John McCain and Tom Coburn used to rail about in the Senate, but it changed the course of medicine pretty substantially in the last 20y. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
December 21, 2024 at 3:51 PM