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If I were to sum up my advice to the Democratic party leadership about how to defeat Trumpism, it would be to set aside policy for now and focus instead on articulating a vision of what American society should look like and what role the US should play in a rapidly changing world today.
I don't know what Mr. Grunstein's health insurance situation is, but the current legislative fight is a policy fight, and a lot of us have real skin in the game! You have to be able to both articulate a vision and fight for policy -- when the rubber meets the road, they're the same damn thing.
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Do I ever feel this -- satisfying my desire for both desiring and desire itself is a constant challenge. There are days when I can barely discern between the two.
It needs to be emphasized that this paragraph is about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
November 18, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Do I ever feel this -- satisfying my desire for both desiring and desire itself is a constant challenge. There are days when I can barely discern between the two.
Thanksgiving approaches. I am thankful at my age that I have no more racist uncles.
November 18, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Thanksgiving approaches. I am thankful at my age that I have no more racist uncles.
Do I ever feel this -- satisfying my desire for both desiring and desire itself is a constant challenge. There are days when I can barely discern between the two.
It needs to be emphasized that this paragraph is about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
November 18, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Do I ever feel this -- satisfying my desire for both desiring and desire itself is a constant challenge. There are days when I can barely discern between the two.
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“I just had to ask: If there’s no worm, does the early bird go hungry? Meanwhile, across town, Samantha was dealing with a different sort of worm of her own.”
November 17, 2025 at 2:47 PM
“I just had to ask: If there’s no worm, does the early bird go hungry? Meanwhile, across town, Samantha was dealing with a different sort of worm of her own.”
Watching The Beast in Me on Netflix. It gives me no pleasure to say I'm not sure if I can hang in there with another show dominated by Claire Danes' face acting.
November 17, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Watching The Beast in Me on Netflix. It gives me no pleasure to say I'm not sure if I can hang in there with another show dominated by Claire Danes' face acting.
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MICHAEL PENIX: I'm a son of God
BIJAN ROBINSON: All glory to God
DRAKE LONDON: If you make one more remark about how many touchdowns I had Sunday in a loss I will be forced to kill you
BIJAN ROBINSON: All glory to God
DRAKE LONDON: If you make one more remark about how many touchdowns I had Sunday in a loss I will be forced to kill you
November 12, 2025 at 10:53 PM
MICHAEL PENIX: I'm a son of God
BIJAN ROBINSON: All glory to God
DRAKE LONDON: If you make one more remark about how many touchdowns I had Sunday in a loss I will be forced to kill you
BIJAN ROBINSON: All glory to God
DRAKE LONDON: If you make one more remark about how many touchdowns I had Sunday in a loss I will be forced to kill you
No false Arches worshipped here (Go Dawgs)
November 15, 2025 at 4:34 PM
No false Arches worshipped here (Go Dawgs)
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Goodness me, I stayed up late reading and it’s already Partially Muscled Skeleton Screaming by the Perimeter Fence Day. Hope you’ve all been good this year!
November 14, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Goodness me, I stayed up late reading and it’s already Partially Muscled Skeleton Screaming by the Perimeter Fence Day. Hope you’ve all been good this year!
With The Lowdown giving Reservation Dogs and Plur1bus giving Better Call Saul, I'm hoping for something soon that gives What We Do in the Shadows....
November 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM
With The Lowdown giving Reservation Dogs and Plur1bus giving Better Call Saul, I'm hoping for something soon that gives What We Do in the Shadows....
The debate as I remember it was not so much about getting signed for art you were doing well and that hewed to an original or at least recognizable vision -- that was great news to all but the most miserable. It was about dumbing down your output from art to product in order to produce that result.
Except that "selling out" did indeed mean getting paid for things you didn't like doing, and telling yourself that because the money let you sometimes do things you did like it was okay.
November 13, 2025 at 7:12 PM
The debate as I remember it was not so much about getting signed for art you were doing well and that hewed to an original or at least recognizable vision -- that was great news to all but the most miserable. It was about dumbing down your output from art to product in order to produce that result.
If you want to know what an indepedent arthouse theater hitting on all cylinders looks like, check out today's offerings from @taraatlanta.bsky.social . What a lineup!
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November 13, 2025 at 1:42 PM
If you want to know what an indepedent arthouse theater hitting on all cylinders looks like, check out today's offerings from @taraatlanta.bsky.social . What a lineup!
1 Epstein/Trump leak = 1 backlash atrocity... so, please somebody, just leak the whole thing at once.
November 12, 2025 at 3:24 PM
1 Epstein/Trump leak = 1 backlash atrocity... so, please somebody, just leak the whole thing at once.
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this is literally never not accurate
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
this is literally never not accurate
Elementary school music class, 1977. We're playing hangman, whoever guesses the song title takes their turn at the chalkboard with a new song. I get one right, then go to the front of the class and begin drawing out the spaces for the next title. (1/x)
November 10, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Elementary school music class, 1977. We're playing hangman, whoever guesses the song title takes their turn at the chalkboard with a new song. I get one right, then go to the front of the class and begin drawing out the spaces for the next title. (1/x)
I just don't get it, I truly don't.
@ossoff.senate.gov If you cave I will be bitterly, bitterly disappointed and angry. Also broke. Where is the support for actual small businesspeople, the kind politicians always blow smoke about protecting?
I'm one of the 20 million, and it was to my immense surprise a few weeks ago when the Dem strategy of prioritizing protecting the subsidies was met here with widespread derision that doing so was overly wonky and out of touch, so....
November 10, 2025 at 12:58 AM
I just don't get it, I truly don't.
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Help me call Ossoff. I can feed my neighbor, I can’t pay their cancer care alone.
(And if he folds I swear I will primary the man myself if I must)
(And if he folds I swear I will primary the man myself if I must)
So, listen, call Schumer’s office no matter where you live, no matter if you’re registered to vote. Leave a voicemail that says if Senate Dems cave without an ACA premiums fix, you will never vote for or donate to another Senate Democrat as long as he is Leader
Call them:
Schumer (NY)
202 224-6542
Booker (NJ)
202 224-3224
King (ME)
202 224-5344
Hassan (NH)
202 224-3324
Durbin (IL)
202 224-2152
Ossoff (GA)
202 224-3521
Shaheen (NH)
202 224-2841
Gillibrand (NY)
202 224-4451
Masto (NV)
202 224-3542
Warner (VA)
202 224-2023
Fetterman (PA)
No Point
Schumer (NY)
202 224-6542
Booker (NJ)
202 224-3224
King (ME)
202 224-5344
Hassan (NH)
202 224-3324
Durbin (IL)
202 224-2152
Ossoff (GA)
202 224-3521
Shaheen (NH)
202 224-2841
Gillibrand (NY)
202 224-4451
Masto (NV)
202 224-3542
Warner (VA)
202 224-2023
Fetterman (PA)
No Point
November 9, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Help me call Ossoff. I can feed my neighbor, I can’t pay their cancer care alone.
(And if he folds I swear I will primary the man myself if I must)
(And if he folds I swear I will primary the man myself if I must)
@warnock.senate.gov go talk some sense to @ossoff.senate.gov , the fix is fixin' to be in.
November 9, 2025 at 10:56 PM
@warnock.senate.gov go talk some sense to @ossoff.senate.gov , the fix is fixin' to be in.
@ossoff.senate.gov If you cave I will be bitterly, bitterly disappointed and angry. Also broke. Where is the support for actual small businesspeople, the kind politicians always blow smoke about protecting?
I'm one of the 20 million, and it was to my immense surprise a few weeks ago when the Dem strategy of prioritizing protecting the subsidies was met here with widespread derision that doing so was overly wonky and out of touch, so....
Republicans are explicitly saying they will deny food to 40+ million unless Democrats agree to end healthcare insurance for 20+ million.
November 9, 2025 at 10:52 PM
@ossoff.senate.gov If you cave I will be bitterly, bitterly disappointed and angry. Also broke. Where is the support for actual small businesspeople, the kind politicians always blow smoke about protecting?
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A thread about an incident from last weekend that I'll call "Lucky I'm a White Guy (Chapter 7,412)"
I took a car trip last week to some cities I'd either never visited or spent much time in (the epic trail from my Decatur, GA home -- Montgomery, Biloxi, Houston, Austin, New Orleans, then back home)
I took a car trip last week to some cities I'd either never visited or spent much time in (the epic trail from my Decatur, GA home -- Montgomery, Biloxi, Houston, Austin, New Orleans, then back home)
November 8, 2025 at 9:44 AM
A thread about an incident from last weekend that I'll call "Lucky I'm a White Guy (Chapter 7,412)"
I took a car trip last week to some cities I'd either never visited or spent much time in (the epic trail from my Decatur, GA home -- Montgomery, Biloxi, Houston, Austin, New Orleans, then back home)
I took a car trip last week to some cities I'd either never visited or spent much time in (the epic trail from my Decatur, GA home -- Montgomery, Biloxi, Houston, Austin, New Orleans, then back home)
A thread about an incident from last weekend that I'll call "Lucky I'm a White Guy (Chapter 7,412)"
I took a car trip last week to some cities I'd either never visited or spent much time in (the epic trail from my Decatur, GA home -- Montgomery, Biloxi, Houston, Austin, New Orleans, then back home)
I took a car trip last week to some cities I'd either never visited or spent much time in (the epic trail from my Decatur, GA home -- Montgomery, Biloxi, Houston, Austin, New Orleans, then back home)
November 8, 2025 at 9:44 AM
A thread about an incident from last weekend that I'll call "Lucky I'm a White Guy (Chapter 7,412)"
I took a car trip last week to some cities I'd either never visited or spent much time in (the epic trail from my Decatur, GA home -- Montgomery, Biloxi, Houston, Austin, New Orleans, then back home)
I took a car trip last week to some cities I'd either never visited or spent much time in (the epic trail from my Decatur, GA home -- Montgomery, Biloxi, Houston, Austin, New Orleans, then back home)
If your Edgerton's Joel
The fun will be total
If your Egerton's Taron
You'd best bewarin'
The fun will be total
If your Egerton's Taron
You'd best bewarin'
November 6, 2025 at 9:47 PM
If your Edgerton's Joel
The fun will be total
If your Egerton's Taron
You'd best bewarin'
The fun will be total
If your Egerton's Taron
You'd best bewarin'
The women who have been my superiors were all mission-focused, never bullshitted, and gave no indication they were amenable to gladhanding. That meant I knew my job performance was all that mattered. "Workplace" here seems code to me for all that other stuff.
as a thought exercise for everyone reading ross douthat's latest missive in the NYT, i want you to think about sending an email to your entire company with the subject line "Did Women Ruin the Workplace?", then think about the over/under on the number of minutes/hours you would still be employed
November 6, 2025 at 3:31 PM
The women who have been my superiors were all mission-focused, never bullshitted, and gave no indication they were amenable to gladhanding. That meant I knew my job performance was all that mattered. "Workplace" here seems code to me for all that other stuff.
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Tim Echols lost reelection for Georgia Public Service Commission because voters think he works for the power company instead of the public. He just sent an email to his supporters saying he’s going to go on vacation for the remainder of his term. Public service indeed.
Shoutout to @tiamitchell.com for flagging this email from the now out-going, veteran Georgia utility regulator Tim Echols, who announced in an email he is leaving the Public Service Commission immediately and taking a sabbatical
November 5, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Tim Echols lost reelection for Georgia Public Service Commission because voters think he works for the power company instead of the public. He just sent an email to his supporters saying he’s going to go on vacation for the remainder of his term. Public service indeed.
Atlantic never not gonna Atlantic
November 5, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Atlantic never not gonna Atlantic