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17 Mar, 6 tweets, 1 min read

https://twitter.com/repbobgood/status/1372250408278757386

love to be represented by a guy with no interest in representing the district or doing much of anything, really

https://twitter.com/repbobgood/status/1372250408278757386

bob bad, tbh

bribing members of congress with spending to help their districts — or even on pet projects — is good. it helps make politics concrete, and connects elections to outcomes.

bring back pork, imo

https://twitter.com/hangleyjr/status/1372260740829175811

absolutely. yes there will be lawmakers who use earmarks to reward donors and supporters, but there will also be lawmakers who use them to actively help their districts, bringing home funds for needed projects and infrastructure.

https://twitter.com/hangleyjr/status/1372260740829175811

gotta make the House great again, i think. expand it. bring back earmarks. improve “in house” research and policymaking. more (and better paid) staff.

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18 Mar

we’re watching MANK tonight and my immediate thought is that the lighting is bad

i’m not comparing the lighting to color films, i’m comparing the lighting to the films MANK is trying to invoke. even something as dark and shadowy as RAW DEAL (1948) which takes place mostly indoors, has bright highlights

okay, here’s the thing. i am actually totally for a movie that tries to emulate the look and rhythms of a film from the late 1930s and early 1940s. but if you’re going to do it, do it! it is distracting to me, for example, that the editing rhythms are still very modern.

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18 Mar

using my laptop as a laptop for the first time in forever (i'm usually either on my ipad or i have it plugged in to a monitor w/ a separate keyboard and mouse) and i keep trying to touch the screen like a maniac.

my brain just completely rejects the idea that i cannot touch the screen to open up a notification or swipe to a different application

also! the aspect ratio of laptop screens is ridiculous. too much horizontal space!

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18 Mar

i am listening to sen. warnock’s floor speech and it is really something

“america is a land where possibility is borne of democracy” c-span.org/video/?c495233…

also very tickled to hear him speak of waycross, ga, where a large part of my family is from

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16 Mar

https://twitter.com/lindsaywise/status/1371831601370427395

“if you try to pass legislation i’ll make it so you can’t pas legislation!”

https://twitter.com/lindsaywise/status/1371831601370427395

why would anyone take this seriously?

https://twitter.com/jakesherman/status/1371832237294039065

this is less a threat than it sounds like. mcconnell is essentially threatening to saddle his caucus with the most unpopular items in its agenda, which gets to how the filibuster is advantageous to the party that wants to hold power without doing anything.

https://twitter.com/jakesherman/status/1371832237294039065

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14 Mar

this might be one of the single best action sequences in any american film of the 1990s?

why do i love this scene so much? joey pants the goat

ugh hugo weaving is so good in this

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12 Mar

rubio’s support here basically seems like a one-off for this particular group of workers against this particular company news.yahoo.com/marco-rubio-si…

this does not sound like someone who believes labor needs a greater share of economic and political power.

https://twitter.com/marcorubio/status/1370157143593205762

“unrelated pension bailout” is how rubio describes a provision that would save retirement funds for millions of the workers rubio claims to support

https://twitter.com/marcorubio/status/1370157143593205762

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