So that story that Maggie Habermann was tweeting out earlier, a couple of things in that I find very positive signs: Donald Trump still has people around him telling him no, and he's letting that stop him.
I have said many times over the years that in my estimation Donald Trump is not at his most dangerous when he's cornered and wounded, but when he's feeling large and in charge. He's a bully and a coward. The more he can get away with, the more he'll try to get away with.
81 million people or so teamed up to tell him no and then a significant number of those people danced in the streets in what was possibly the largest spontaneous celebration in the history of the country, after the votes were counted and the outcome was clear.
There is no line he wouldn't cross and no limit he wouldn't exceed and no rule he wouldn't break and no depth he wouldn't sink to... if he felt like he'd get away with it. If he felt invincible. If he felt powerful.

I don't think he feels powerful right now.
His lawyers are failing him, his allies are abandoning him, his enablers are talking about Biden's cabinet and pushing back on what he sees as his only paths forward.
I'm not in a position to tell you he's not going to find it in himself to make any desperate gambles when it sinks all the way in that he's sunk. He *needs* the win, he *needs* the office and its powers and protections.
But I think he's very much in a position of sulking and licking his wounds and hoping that someone else will fix it for him, and I hope and pray that he stays that way until he's all the way out the door.

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Thing that jumped out to me in this is that she wants people to know that Shkreli's "villainous persona is a mask"... listen, somebody who is being a dick on purpose and is aware that they're doing it is *worse*, not *better*, than someone who is just sort of like that.
Like, can we just put that to rest? I remember when the defense of Milo Yiannopoulos was "Oh, but he doesn't actually believe the awful things he says, he only acts this way to make a name for himself" and again that is worse, not better.
If you vote for racist people with racist policies because they benefit you but you want everybody to know you don't have a racist bone in your body: congratulations, you have told the world that you know better and you did it anyway. You're worse than an avowed racist.
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It speaks to the need to step away from the tools from time to time.
Like, obviously there can be a very toxic culture where people feel like they have to be "on" even when they're off, but creative work sometimes means ideas strike you when you're not working.
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When I'm writing and I'm 100% in the zone, I like a full-sized keyboard because I can basically let the words pour out of my fingers at the speed of thought.

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My strongest single thought in response to watching the first episode of new The Stand adaptation is: these people seriously edited Yeats?
I guess Starkey might have been trying to get to what he saw as the really important bit and so he skipped through a bit of the really well-known lines to make sure he didn't collapse before he got to the rough beast.
Also I'm pretty sure it was canonical that he didn't know how to pronounce the name but I can understand J.K. Simmons and/or the showrunners not wanting to say "Yeets" in the present year.
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Today's weird thing on Twitter is a handful of Trump worshippers mistaking a joke interaction between actual Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey (whom they see as a corrupt traitor) and Dionne Warwick wherein he said she's the CEO of Twitter as a sign that he's been ousted by Q's "patriots".
Dorsey is one of those people they are *always* predicting is about to be arrested and sent to Guantanamo Bay to face a military tribunal, if he's not already there already.
They've spent literal actual years at this point waiting for anything at all to happen to any of their high-value targets and so they're quick to jump on just about anything as a sign that their faith is being rewarded, or was secretly already rewarded.
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