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5 Jun, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Imagine there's no Republican Party, if you're going full fash from the "left" it's important to try: lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2021/06/imagin…
"I used to be a supporter of the Democrat Party but then Joe Biden demanded that statues of Lincoln and Jefferson be pulled down and said that the New Deal was a worthless bucket of shit, so I had to passive-aggressively support Trump"
Fox News is quite literally what makes this iteration of the Republican Party electorally viable despite the unpopularity of virtually its entire policy agenda vox.com/2019/3/4/18249…
Everything about this is insane, starting with the fact that if Americans held democratic elections for president Trump would have essentially no chance of winning

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29 May
The Salt Bae bill tweet reminds me to link to @hels's great post about the exclusive restaurant racket, where bad food is often an integral point of the experience [with Carbone, indeed, being an exception]: newyorker.com/culture/annals…
[Note to west coasters: if you're in it solely for the food, and have an extra car payment burning a hole in your pocket, the Carbone in Vegas is exceptionally good]
I am also reminded that Frank Bruni's permanent job in journalism should be to make fun of the atrocious and insanely expensive restaurant favored by a certain kind of Manhattan swell nytimes.com/2007/11/14/din…
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26 May
Amazon does not have anything like a monopoly in any of the areas Hawley cites, but claiming that acquiring a studio with a 1.1% share of the American market is monopolistic is...special: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_fil…
Amazon's power is a concern that should be dealt with by 1)making it easier to unionize and 2)better labor regulation. Hawley, needless to say, opposes these things. But he doesn't care about Amazon workers; he hates that Bezos hasn't turned the WaPo into the Daily Caller
And while Amazon specifically is generally good for *consumers*, certainly people getting ripped off by big corporations is a major concern! Hawley thinks that the CFPB should be...er, literally declared illegal: thepitchkc.com/josh-hawley-se…
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22 May
Neoconfederates have a stranglehold on the Supreme Court because an elite Dem didn't know when to quit, and other elite Dems have seen this and apparently think it worked out great
Also, the guy who went out of his way to leave circuit court vacancies open for Donald Trump KNOWING that his facilitation of Republican obstruction would not be reciprocated is the precise opposite of "indispensable"
In RBG's case, her resistance to calls to retire was at least understandable if not ultimately defensible given the barriers she faced and what she accomplished. But for replacement-level generic white guys like Breyer and Leahy to pull the same shit is even worse
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17 May
On the forthcoming end of reproductive freedom in much of America lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2021/05/on-the…
It won't be long before complacent pundits start talking about how Republican elites don't actually want Roe to be overruled. Alas, this conspiracy has never existed -- Roe's survival was a series of contingencies and flukes and the music just stopped vox.com/2019/5/15/1862…
Complacent strategy #2 will be to assert that if Roe is overruled even sub silentio Republicans will be screwed in 2022. But there's no reason to believe that -- national elections aren't referenda on abortion and the map is skewed heavily toward Republicans
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13 May
Telling the truth > engaging in empirically baseless eleven-dimensional psychological chess, so the new CDC announcement is good lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2021/05/cdc-sa…
It is it *possible* that the announcement will cause some not vaccinated people not to wear masks indoors when they otherwise would? Yes.
But you can also tell a just-so story -- with some data in support, even -- that being told they don't have to wear masks if they get vaccinated is a powerful incentive for vaccine-reluctant Republicans: nytimes.com/2021/05/04/ups…
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11 May
Oh hell yes Image
LOL. Although I'm glad AB & AC exists, in part because it makes clear that while the collaboration produced two absolute peaks of 21st century American popular culture, Isbell and the band ultimately needed to go their separate ways Image
And what the hell, if your worst album contains songs of the caliber of "Space City" and "Gravity's Gone" and "Wednesday," I guess you're "America's Greatest Rock n' Roll Band Unless Janet Comes Back to Sleater-Kinney To Make Things Interesting"
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