True story. When I was three, our apartment had a telephone with the base attached to the wall in the kitchen. The receiver was connected to the base with a long curly cord that allowed you to bring the phone with you as you walked around the kitchen or into another room.
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So, one day, a babysitter came to watch me so my mother could do something. Who knows what. But no one was in the apartment but me and the babysitter. Probably my father was working at the emergency room and my big brother was at school.
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At some point I got very hungry. But the babysitter was on the telephone. It seemed endless. I wanted lunch. I think she was ignoring me so. That wouldn’t do.
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💟 A person’s sense of justice comes from a variety of sources including faith traditions and secular education. Being Catholic, Baptist, Evangelical Christian, Muslim, Jewish, other faith, agnostic or atheist doesn’t disqualify a person from or qualify them for public office
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When it comes to judicial nominees, generally speaking I look at their written opinions and other public statements to predict how they might decide important cases.
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Therefore, I do not support Amy Coney Barrett. However, there is no nominee put forward by Donald Trump who I would support. Ruth Bader Ginsburg should not be replaced until the inauguration.
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"But instead of organizing around a political solution to the Republican politicization of the courts, some Democrats remain stuck on the old rules of engagement."
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"Some Democrats remain hopeful that Republicans can be shamed into doing the right thing as if the party that steps over 200,000 dead bodies to carry Trump’s golf bags is capable of feeling shame."
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The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN, is the agency within the Treasury Department charged with combating money laundering, terrorist financing, and other financial crimes. . What it does not do is force the banks to shut the money laundering down.”
“The networks through which dirty money traverse the world have become vital arteries of the global economy. They enable a shadow financial system so wide-ranging and so unchecked that it has become inextricable from the so-called legitimate economy.”
“You don’t get to be an ally of the LGBTQ community and leave large chunks of the community out. . .We have an amateur fascist in the White House who has LGBTQ folks squarely in his crosshairs” @bjoewolf on @amjoyshow with @CapehartJ
Next panel with @CapehartJ on the future of the Republican Party, including a discussion of Stuart Stevens’ new book. I’m curious what @RadioFreeTom will say. @MSNBC
🔥 As former and current Republicans, “we all have a sentimental attachment to the Republican Party. We all loved ‘Old Yeller.’ But at some point you have to take Old Yeller behind the barn and put him down.” — @RadioFreeTom