just a right quote mark hanging out there, naked

yeah, the sentence doesn't have a period at the end!

we have this zany idea that you should use quotation marks to indicate which parts of the text are being quoted from another source, and not put stuff that's a part of your writing and not being quoted in there, because that is confusing

does the question mark go inside if the quote wasn’t itself a question? if so, that’s pretty badly misleading. if not, why does the period behave differently?

there are a gazillion reasons why the punctuation should go outside the quotations marks and exactly one reason to put it inside and it’s “it looks nicer to me”

(generic “you” here tbc)

which at the level of municipal government I think is the right call, *especially* if you know that it’s now on you to prove that a left-wing approach works

if you paid even passing attention his campaign was always clearly signaling that their priority for appointments was administrative experience

is it their posture? but they’re all in different postures? and they’re all regular postures for reading comfortably?

I just think it’s a mistake to try to read anything into this about what the Dems were trying to do. there isn’t anything the Dems were trying to do, the Dems don’t actually exist

oh for sure!