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9 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read
I confess I'm confused by Graham and Pence's apparent attempts to thread a needle that, as far as I can tell, doesn't exist. Trump extremists engage in splitting; they don't "give you credit" for resisting impeachment (or the 25th Amendment) once you've resisted Trump in any way.
Maybe they're still banking on the existence of a soft middle somewhere? Or are simply attempting to lower the temperature of the anger against them since appeasement of that kind clearly, uh, works.
I was going to say that Hawley and Cruz are, by contrast, making a clear (and contemptible) strategic choice. But then I remembered Cruz's Last Honest Republican act at the 2016 RNC which he clearly hoped would inscribe him in history as the one guy who DIDN'T endorse Trump, lol
Don't get me wrong; I have great faith in American amnesia. We pardon offenders through oblivion. But Cruz is really stress-testing that dirty Band-Aid by making his bids for History by running LOUDLY from one end of the thing to its perfect opposite in the span of only 4 years.

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I get the longing--I even share it--but the naivete is annoying. Online pundits should know (and factor in) that social media as a "public square" where "good faith debate" happens is a thing of the past. Disagreement here happens through trolling, sea-lioning, ratios, dunks.
Bad faith is the condition of the modern internet, and shitposting is the lingua franca of the online world. And not just online: A troll is president. Trolling won. Perhaps we can agree that these platforms aren't suited to the earnest exchange of big ideas.
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Just randomly picked up forty or so old issues of the Nation from the 20s and 30s and are just sitting down with them and there’s so much, wow
The answer to this turned out to be my god, yes
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She spent the '60s running SHA out of her apartment, teaching DIY abortion classes and publishing The List--a kind of Yelp of ok doctors--and trying to get arrested so unjust laws would be exposed. She's 90 now. I got to profile her. Meet Pat Maginnis. slate.com/human-interest…
Here she is in 1963, handing out leaflets about abortion when it was still a crime to disseminate info about it. "I feel great indignation as a woman to think that women have to subject themselves to second-rate medical care for a safe, surgical procedure"
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really wish somebody had done a poll like this before a lot of good outlets fired their writers to pivot to video no one seems to want
only the 1% wants it! the jokes, they write themselves
FWIW, as if to drive home the uselessness of stats reporting from social media orgs, I have no idea what to make of Twitter's own stats when it comes to this here poll. It says 2,746 people have voted as of this posting (7:16 PST), but when I click on "View Tweet," it says 1,245.
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