Don't erode your formidable legacy as a first in many ways @SenFeinstein. Time to go.
I wonder if any other country struggles as much to both gently ease elderly people out of positions of power, and in so doing have that change be one of celebration, not humiliation.
Anyone who has elderly parents knows that they age, particularly mentally, very differently. For some it's a gentle slope, for others a cliff, for maybe most, an irregular downward staircase full of plateaus.

And we need to address this in the overall, as well as in DiFi's case.
As someone for whom the Anita Hill/Year of the woman moment was galvanizing post college, I have a lot of respect for DiFi. Her politics are not mine. But she had to go where no woman had gone before.

She could exhibit another form of trailblazing now.

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10 Dec
I think though, pertinent to @JaneMayerNYer's piece today, that endorsement was received (perhaps accurately?) as a fissure between the Bernie Dems and the liberals/centrists. And maybe, party leaders should have been more explicit about the age factor, where appropriate.
it was talked about on the DL, and there was "page turning" rhetoric, but perhaps because the Bernie/Hillary fissure was so fresh, and nowhere more keenly felt than in CA, it was cast as a race between those proxies. That didn't help @kdeleon's (uphill) case.
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8 Dec
if i'm going to "have" to subscribe to a bunch of network streaming services or newsletters can't somebody just figure out a way for us to bundle what we want into one place?

life is exhausting and atomized enough as it is
all we've all wanted for like 30 years is to pay a reasonable-->outrageous amount for the things we want, without all the shit we don't want (looking at you, ESPN), in an easily organized hub. But now i have 700 cable channels, six+ streaming services, and its a nightmare.
I shouldn't have to pay for ESPN, just as fans of ESPN shouldn't have to pay for my HGTV addiction.

And, while I'm on a rant, the Prime Video interface is straight up trash.
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8 Dec
After 10 months, finally got my movie club to watch All That Jazz, which Kubrick called the greatest movie he'd ever seen when it came out, and I think is a masterpiece, and @Criterion makes it almost impossible to see. No streaming, they even meter ordering DVDs!
We couldn't think of any other autobiographical movie that was both so searingly insightful, and self-indulgent, and...there's just nothing like it.
Anyway, why @Criterion didn't open up streaming at least while Fosse/Verdon was first playing...I'd be really fascinated to hear what is happening around this film.

Some kind of rights issue? Estate issue?
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6 Dec
Today, San Francisco has a thriving outdoor restaurant scene. And we’re putting it into deep freeze for a month. I hope the science supports this and it works.
We eat a lot of takeout even pre pandemic, but we’re going back to our protocol of April, doing whatever we can to support the neighborhood spots we most love/feel are key to fabric of area.
As with everything in this mess, it feels like responsible restaurants and diners are being punished for the actions of the irresponsible.
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4 Dec
.@kieraevebutler has done fantastic reporting on exactly the infiltration of mom's groups by Qanon and antivaxxers, weeks ago.
Here's a big piece from @kieraevebutler on how mom's groups are being infiltrated by Qanon and antivaxxers: motherjones.com/politics/2020/…
And here's a piece by @alibreland on the same phenomena, but on Zuckerberg's other cesspool, Instagram: motherjones.com/politics/2020/…
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3 Dec
This is really cool if depressing for how long I'll have to wait. Interestingly it assumes that kids will be vaccinated before adults w/o risk factors (including jobs) even though there's no approval vaccine for kids...yet. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
Evidently, I'm pretty close to the back of the line, which I'm fine with (rationally, anyway).
A parallel analysis would be how long before those at the end of the line can be comforted by the fact that we're approaching herd immunity if all those ahead of you get it.

70% of US pop is ~heard immunity. And also right around when I'd get it. (if this analysis holds)
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