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Marcus Lupo
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Anachronistic, black and white, medium format film, documentary photographer.
Very enjoyable.
This is awesome: a "WKRP in Cincinnati" fan created a three-hour Johnny Fever radio block, by using clips from the TV show and dropping in the full songs on his intros and outros, plus commercials and Les Nessman news breaks.
WKRP: Johnny Fever
www.awphooey.com
August 16, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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I, like many of you, have been contemplating our predicament since election night.

We are in a losing war for our democracy and I'm not sure we collectively know who our true adversary is.

It's not the voting blocks...white women, Latinos, Gen X. It's not MAGA. It's not even Trump.

🧵
November 11, 2024 at 12:35 PM
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We are so far past the point where regular nominations will fix the Court. Thomas and Alito likely will retire and be replaced by 30-something FedSoc judges who will still be on the bench when my undergrads become eligible for Social Security.
Lisa Needham captures all my fears here, including: "We truly have no sense of the lengths the GOP will go to in order to remain in control of the courts." Sotomayor retiring won't fix minority rule or #SCOTUS ethics. Dems must champion term limits & expansion. open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...
Dems roll the dice with another SCOTUS seat
What could possibly go wrong?
open.substack.com
November 12, 2024 at 11:21 AM
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Reminder that "mandates" are a social construction, not some empirical fact about election results www.brendan-nyhan.com/blog/2008/10...
November 10, 2024 at 10:58 PM
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Trump's victory wasn't a landslide by any definition, and you should be skeptical of the political project of anyone who describes it as such.
A 1.5% popular vote win--or as it'd be called anywhere else, a win--will put his margin at #50 among all 55 presidential elections in which the popular vote winner became president.

And his electoral college margin is #43 among all 60 presidential elections.

Not a landslide victory.
November 10, 2024 at 11:00 PM
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Here's VP Harris' new ad on Trump's insult of Detroit.

"Our whole country will end up being like Detroit if she's your president."

He should be so goddamn lucky.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPgQ...
Like Detroit | Harris-Walz 2024
YouTube video by Kamala Harris
www.youtube.com
October 11, 2024 at 6:36 PM
Went out last night to see the Perseus meteor shower and received a bonus.
August 13, 2024 at 8:53 AM
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This isn't a partisan or ideological take. The parties are profoundly asymmetric. Doesn't matter if you are a liberal or conservative. It's just true.
October 4, 2023 at 1:29 AM