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This exchange between @JeffreyToobin and Rick Santorum tonight is 2018:

JT: So Rick, isn't it the case ... He's promised to appoint judges that will overturn Roe V Wade, here comes... soon-to-be Justice Kavanaugh -- /1
Donald Trump could hang on the ceilings having sex with anybody he likes. As long as he gets Roe v Wade overturned, you don't care, right?

RS: Weeeeell... [the voters knew] and now they assess his performance as president... And most conservatives are very happy. /2
JT: So all that talk about character -- it's all nonsense. You don't care about character. You just care about winning.

RS: Excuse me. It's disturbing to me. I don't like it. It's reprehensible.

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No really, some genius has a line of meal replacement products called Soylent.

... At least there isn't a green one, I guess?
Oh, but don't worry -- it includes genetically engineered products!
Agh you may as well eat styrofoam, it's about as natural
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I spent 55 hrs rewatching Battlestar Galactica this wk, & had deeper thoughts on AI/nature of consciousness/why we think of the divine, resistance techniques/guerrilla warfare, civil-military relations, representative govt/social stratification -- than I get from year of TV news
The spinoff needed (cc @RonDMoore) is how the idea of God evolved in the centurions, & what happened to them. The whole series should be without speech, as the centurions are.
Would be a good way to upend ideas re science, faith, human, machine, & battle over development of AI.
Also, this, again, x1000

I started watching the last ep without tissues and with cats on me, and that was a big mistake.

@edwardjolmos + @MaryMcDonnell10, thank you for your portrayal of my favorite TV romance, ever

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I'm rewatching Battlestar Galactica because man vs machine vs the unexplainable is pretty much the philosophy we need right now.
The exchange at the beginning between the military and civilian leaders re: the inherent evil vs benefit of networked computers/AI = 2018
Adama, as if speaking to 2018 tech companies: "When we fought the cylons, we did it to save ourselves from extinction. But we never answered the question why. Why are we as a people worth saving? ... We refuse to accept the responsibility for anything that we've done...
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Get your Kavanaugh confirmation hearing updates here. #day2

c-span.org/event/?449705/…
Lindsey Graham: If there were a challenge to Roe v. Wade, would you listen to both sides?

Kavanaugh: I always listen to both sides, senator.

Sure, that settles it.
Kavanaugh seems to think that saying "the Ginsburg rule" magically gets him off the hook.

Yes, RBG said no hints, no forecasts, no previews during her confirmation hearing.

But she didn't dodge legitimate questions about settled precedent by claiming they were "hypothetical."
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Gather round, friends as we settle into Day Two of Kavanaugh confirmation hearings!

Senators are milling about judiciary and things should be starting soon
Grassley gavels the room to order and wishes everyone a good morning.

Reminder: no good mornings for Grassley
Grassley says Democratic Senators interrupted proceedings 63 times and protesters were escorted out about 70 times.

Protesters start speaking over Grassley now. Sounds like a disability rights activist
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Harris, Klobuchar, and Blumenthal immediately object to the fact that they just received 42,000 pages of documents about Kavanaugh. Ask for hearing to be postponed.

Chairman Grassley just talks over them and continues his introduction.
Chuck Grassley says Corey Booker is taking advantage of his "decency and integrity." Very weird.
Sheldon Whitehouse makes a good point. The committee is being denied 100,000 documents on the basis of "executive privilege" but no one has actually asserted executive privilege.

It's just a letter from Kavanaugh's friend Bill on his law firm's stationary.
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Trump: Day 590
-153rd Day at Trump Golf Club
-196th Day at Trump Property
-Failing to Bring Back American Jobs
-Sons Spend $200k on Secret Service
-Names Donald Palmer to Fed EAC
-Christie Funneled $500M into AMI
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Day 695 since Donald Trump admitted to sexual assault — yet he’s still in the Oval Office
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Day 547 of NO EVIDENCE produced by Trump that his phones were tapped by Obama.

The FISA warrant Trump referenced targeted Carter Page. #TrumpLies
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Prepared Floor Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa

Chairman, Senate Judiciary Committee

On the President’s Forthcoming Supreme Court Nomination

@drawandstrike @ThomasWictor @TheChiIIum @HNIJohnMiller @jihadaeon1 @rising_serpent @_ImperatorRex_ @Debradelai
Tonight, the Pres. will announce his nominee for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the US to fill the vacancy created by Justice Kennedy’s recent retirement. Justice Kennedy left an important legacy of more than three decades on the Supreme Court.
grassley.senate.gov/news/news-rele…
I voted for his confirmation thirty years ago. Justice Kennedy demonstrated his deep commitment to our constitutional liberties. It’s no surprise that some of his greatest opinions defended free speech and religious liberty.
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Susan Collins is on two Sunday news shows, @ThisWeekABC and @CNNSotu. She will obviously be pressed on her views on Roe when it comes to Trump's upcoming nominee. (1/6)
She will almost certainly claim that she considers Roe a "precedent" and she wants a "judge who respects precedent." She may also add she considers Roe "settled law." (2/6)
This is word salad. Donald Trump told us OVER AND OVER AGAIN during the campaign he would only appoint judges who would overturn Roe v. Wade. We should believe him. (3/6)
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