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May 6 • 4 tweets • 1 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
As a lifelong Kentuckian my ability to appreciate or just *feel* how the rest of the country perceives the #KentuckyDerby is utterly non-existent. It’s not the Super Bowl. It’s not just reality TV. It’s a thing unto its own. I can’t force myself to have perspective.
Does the ordinary American tune in and do a double-take when they say there are 150,000 people there and those people are dressed for the Hunger Games, and having what appears to be a better time than the viewer has ever had in their life?
It’s problematic and cool and Hunter S. Thompson changed the trajectory of writing with it and there are troubling plantation images and honestly good, clean, fun celebrated by Kentucky ex-pats around the world (as I did) and good god y’all
If you’ve read this far I’ll tell you I only wrote the above to give myself permission to say I MET SECRETARIAT in his stall at stud - just me, his groom and my friend - and was given a lock of his hair and he absolutely fecking knew Who He Was.

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May 5
Taylor Swift In Nashville
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1/ “Dearest Mother: We have found ourselves unintentionally but I‘m afraid irrevocably in the heart of what will become a place of chaos and perhaps loss. There is an eery and undefinable calm now, but reports arrive that we are Image
2/ soon to be besieged from all sides by uniformed, undisciplined but motivated battalions of her people. Roller bags already occupy the overwhelmed streets and sound like brightly-colored caissons against the broken and rough pavement.
3/ Mechanized vehicles of two wheels appear over the horizon, ridden often unsteadily but inexorably toward us. For every one that falls, three take her place. Larger carriers loudly patrol the streets, pedaled with a ferocity that makes one tremble.
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May 2
1/ The Democratic Party and its elected officials generally failed Kentucky for decades, with some exceptions. But, my god. The Republican debate tonight confirmed that quite possibly the several people in the entire state least qualified to be Governor want the job.
2/ The Democrats failed and underperformed and got fat and lazy and were just not very good, usually. But these @KYGOP fools are cowardly, stupid or - worse - smart but immoral, untalented, comically insipid, broken creatures who will actively harm people to get and keep the job.
3/ Among those who study this field Quarles was described as ”at least someone who is possibly normal and not a junior varsity Fascist“ and then here he was tonight, refusing to recognize the legitimacy of the Presidential election. The #kygop is not a serious organization.
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Sep 5, 2022
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[Note: A little longer, with social media-level legal commentary] [I‘m no @dancanon or @JoeDunman, also. I’m Dimestore Dan, or Jukebox Joe, if you will]

I’ve practiced criminal law for nearly 40 years. In that time I’ve read countless opinions.
The Constitution’s safeguards are frequently insufficient to pardon or excuse my client‘s conduct. But those safeguards exist, and matter. We have a right to, as citizens, expect that certain fundamental Constitutional principals protect us all. Among these has always been
from the very beginning, that we have no kings. That no one, even a President or ex-President, is above the law. I‘ve studied Judge Cannon’s opinion as if it were my own case, because, in a sense, it is. It is all of ours. Donald Trump, a citizen already credibly accused in
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Jul 8, 2022
1/ A good portion of Kentucky citizens don‘t have clean drinking water tonight. Do like 3 minutes of research then come back here. From what is your pride in the Democratic Party? From what is your pride in the Republican Party (I know, that’s nearly a trick question).
2/ Ancient - literally “ancient” - civilizations in North and South America made sure one thing was guaranteed. Clean drinking water.

I won’t even ask ”how far have we come“? The question is, have we gone backwards?

When you get home from work tomorrow,
3/ after having driven 20 minutes in your large truck to a job that, best case scenario, helps take care of others in your community who are suffering from more or less having spent a lifetime doing what you did today,
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May 26, 2022
1/ No reasonable person with a spouse and 2 children, falling to earth* in 2022, would choose to live in the United States of America. This is sad. Sadder? Most Americans can‘t imagine this is true. As a result, it keeps getting worse.

*I mean, David Bowie come on but anyway
2/ Imma stop you right there. I‘m a veteran. The son of a proud immigrant who defended the US and democracy itself in WWII. I was the chief law enforcement officer in Kentucky‘s largest city. Save your “libtard/communist/whatever” frightened Christo-Fascist bullshit.
3/ I graduated from Notre Dame and have a 13 golf handicap and will take all of your money. I’ve forgotten more about basketball than you will ever know. I was raised in an Eastern Kentucky steel town and will defend my friends to the death.
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May 25, 2022
1/ I remember being in the 4th grade. You do, too. I remember many thngs in specific detail that happened in that classroom.

All of those children sat there, the shooter having locked the door and turned to them, knowing, after the first child died, they would die, too.
2/ The word “literally” is overused. The money @LeaderMcConnell and others take from the @NRA is, as that phrase is understood, quite literally blood money.

He’s an accomplice to the murder of those children, the ones who sat, probably frozen in fear, waiting their turn to die.
3/ The United States has more guns than citizens. Today my political cartoon had to be removed by @courierjournal from its social media because of beyond reasonable and civil attacks from extremists. Don‘t say we are a “divided” nation. That suggests moral equivalence.
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