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Assume that this is the last 24 hours where American democracy exists.

What are you going to do with it?
A story: my best friend died unexpectedly in 2006 of a brain aneurysm at 37. For a week thereafter, a huge group of her friends descended on her and her hub’s home en masse.

Our drink of choice was her fave, Lagavulin.

Fight back until you can’t.

And then: honor what’s lost.
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Elizabeth C. McLaughlin
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I mean, I know in every case I ever tried, the jury foreperson always checked in the with the defendant and said, "So when do you want to be acquitted? How does next Wednesday sound? Good?"

And then the judge was like, "you know, I just can't intervene in this. Wednesday it is."
*checked in with* I'm tired.
And, you know, the defense counsel moved to hold the whole trial with no documents and no witnesses, and the judge was like, SURE!
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Elizabeth C. McLaughlin
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Fifteen minutes before Brexit, the US Senate just voted to cover up the crimes of this President, which will lead to his acquittal.

The end of checks and balances, and therefore American democracy, installs a dictator, at nearly the exact moment the UK flushes its future.
And not to put too fine a point on this: the impact of this on global security, climate change, the international economy, and the future of humanity will be altered forever by the course of events that have taken place today.

It's nothing short of horrifying.
(And I'm taking a break until I can string a sentence together correctly again.)
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Elizabeth C. McLaughlin
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Today is just shite everywhere.

Someone post a GIF that'll cheer me up.
Some of you know me waaaaaaay too well. LOL.
I honor those of you who recall my hardcore Keanu phase. And puppies.
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