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25 Apr, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Does pushing nonsense like having KY, LA, and KS as Tier 2 states for the Dems get your followers to donate to your Patreon, or are you actually that stupid?
LOL at this grifter thinking Chuck Grassley's long tenure would be a liability.
When you have no understanding whatsoever of how American politics works.
She just is not very bright.

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24 Apr
Finished my homework with the best Avengers movie, by which I mean "Captain America: Civil War."
It says "Captain America," but it's an Avengers in all but name. "Avengers 2.5" as I like to call it. I like "Age of Ultron" best of the four "official" Avengers movies, but if you count "Civil War" it's the best and it's not close. Also the best Captain American movie.
"Civil War" strikes the right balance between the comic book goofiness of "First Avenger" and the seriousness of "Winter Soldier." It's serious without being heavy. And it manages to keep all its plates spinning despite having so much on them, which is no mean feat.
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23 Apr
"Republicans are favored to win control of one or both chambers of Congress because Joe Biden is president of the United States."

That's the short of it. For the long if it, you'll have to read the whole thing. A midterm preview. My latest for @ArcDigi. arcdigital.media/p/the-gop-is-f…
Tl;dr - It would take something screwy or unusual for Republicans not to win the House next year. They're likely to win the Senate, too, but Democrats' odds there aren't terrible. Which doesn't mean they're great, but they're not as bad as the House. arcdigital.media/p/the-gop-is-f…
I go with the conventional wisdom about the 2022 midterm. But there's a reason it's the conventional wisdom. Next year will follow the rule; it won't be an exception. arcdigital.media/p/the-gop-is-f…
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23 Apr
"Interiors" (1978) reminded me of "Hannah and her Sisters" (1986), but in the way Louis Bonaparte reminded Marx of Napoleon: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.
"Interiors" was Woody Allen's attempt to make a Bergmanesque film. On that score it doesn't succeed. It has the brittleness but lacks the clinical incisiveness of the master. So it's an expérience manquée. But an interesting one nonetheless.
The main flaw is that the second half of the movie undoes the first half. The minute Maureen Stapleton shows up, you understand perfectly well why E. G. Marshall wants out from all these neurotic women. Of course he'd pick her over Geraldine Page. But that makes it too easy.
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22 Apr
Finally set up the new printer I bought a few weeks ago to replace the old one, which suddenly started outputting everything as though it were set to "super toner saver." I think the print drum finally gave up the ghost after fifteen years. Auto-duplex printing is the bomb.
Now that I have a new printer, I can start printing journal articles again. But removing these stupid stamps from every page of a 35-page article is super annoying. Image
I printed my dissertation on the old printer. It served me well. But I am very happy to have a printer that prints on both sides automatically. No longer must I worry that I put the blank sides into the printer the right way so they'd get printed on.
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22 Apr
The sad Jayapal pic on this story about progressives in Congress realizing fantasies like DC statehood, HR 1, court-packing, and gun control aren't getting through the Senate is like a very juicy cherry on top of a really delicious sundae. H/t @LPDonovan. politico.com/news/2021/04/2…
"The underlying problem for progressives: Most of their big-ticket proposals are several votes — or in some cases many more — away from unifying the Senate's 50 Democratic caucus members, and others divide the House's slim Democratic majority."

That dastardly Mitch McConnell!
"That frustration is unlikely to abate. Nearly 100 days into Biden’s tenure, many House Democrats — who've already spent two years since they took back the majority watching the Senate squash their priorities — are getting impatient."

You hate to see it. politico.com/news/2021/04/2…
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22 Apr
The last SCOTUS opinion of the day is another technical one, this time in a case about what sorts of financial penalties the Federal Trade Commission can seek. ACB writes for a unanimous court that it can't pursue "equitable monetary relief such as restitution or disgorgement."
ACB getting saddled with this yawner of a case is the SCOTUS equivalent of hazing.
No big cases today: no Obamacare, no gay adoption, etc. And some big arguments next week coming up, too, particularly the donor disclosure one.
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