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@motorresx "We really appreciate everything you do for the University, but actually, we didn't even notice who was missing during the strike, so we need you to tell us so we can retaliate against you." Um, no.

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@piper4missouri Us: Can we at least get good healthcare for pre-natal, labor/delivery, and post-partum? Them: Nah, that's socialist. Our grandmothers just had their babies at home and went right back to the kitchen, you can too.

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@DaniOliver @emptywheel We need a better way to measure and count all the long-term disability, so people understand it's not just "how many died," but also "how many lives completely upended by months of severe illness with no clear end in sight." I know several other long-termers, really rough.

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@deenoonandraws @BetoORourke @JulianCastro Can one of your staffers connect with this Uvalde resident? She deserves better answers and has an important perspective and voice.

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@lawofruby @Morning_Joe I'm watching the impending collision of: 1. You can't kick me off the ballot without a criminal conviction. and 2. You can't hold a criminal trial because I'm on the ballot.

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@kylegriffin1 It seems like the judge could, as part of a gag order penalty, remove the special set-up area. "We worked hard to accommodate you, you abused the privilege, it's over. You can use the courthouse steps/public sidewalk alongside everyone else with opinions."

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@OurShallowState His courthouse steps / hallway rants during breaks in the NY trial are going to be . . . interesting, in a scary sort of way.

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@salstrange This is true of most of the social media posts blaming Biden for not having done something that the writer is certain Biden can just wave a wand and do.

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@mousdrvr I hope every ticketed person tells the judge, "My religion commands me to feed the poor and the hungry." It's much more embedded in most religious traditions than, say, not making gay wedding cakes.

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@johnpavlovitz I used to get huffy at people who offered me their seat on the bus, like "Do I really look that old and decrepit?" Then I realized they were doing what their mama and grandma taught them, and changed to "I'm good, but thanks for offering." Now I'm glad for the seat.

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@OurShallowState The Helsinki transcript or translator's notes too?

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@jitendersehra21 He'll have plenty of opportunity, because his criminal trial in Manhattan is set to begin on March 25, and he'll have to be there all day every day and wants to campaign every evening but can't go very far.

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@OurShallowState There's a really Shakespearean drama here, comparable to Lear or Macbeth or Richard III, fascinating to watch -- if only we weren't all bit players whose lives are affected by it.

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@Sandoo1 @chavelaque The one exception: if you are eligible to vote, but you're in the wrong polling place. In many states, a provisional ballot will not pass muster in that situation and your vote won't count. If you're told that, go to the right polling place instead.

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3 years

@yashar My father was a friend (high school classmate, I think?) of Abel Meeropol, in the same left-wing circles. He gave piano lessons to Michael when the boys were young, as part of the village caring for them after their parents were executed. Well done, @CBSThisMorning .

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@knoxmulder @MollyJongFast As an election worker I distinguish between negligent and intentional no-masks. We had a lady come in who was mortified to discover she hadn't brought one with her -- and gladly put on one we gave her from our supply box. That's different from "Not gonna, you can't make me!"

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@plmanseau Henry VIII blundering into a Protestant revolution b/c he wanted a male heir and the 20-year-old who caught his fancy had to be his lawful wife for that to work but the Pope wouldn't let him divorce/annul Wife #1 ?

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@houstonisdwatch Does that include sick leave? Or does the district want teachers to be in the classroom with Covid, flu, norovirus, or whatever else?

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@JoshuaPotash Here's another one:

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FYI: We’re blocked by Elon Musk. So much for being “committed” to free speech.

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@IsabellaRosner How could our Friend Preserved Fish not make the list?

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7 months

@ccmrose Tip: Since 9/11 and anthrax scares, snail mail gets opened at a secure facility before delivery, causing something like a two-week delay. If you want a message there now, use postcards, calls, or electronic messaging via the contact form on their office website.

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@saracentury Another answer: it's a myth that in the past all marriages lasted. My grandmother (b. 1899) was divorced twice before age 34. Many people separated without legal divorce, or never legally married. The genealogy books slide past those and elders don't talk about them.

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@StacyStClair I hope the victims' families move quickly to get a court order putting every dime into an escrow account for a potential civil verdict.

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@WhiteHouse My insurance company says you need a doctor's order first. Are they allowed to do that under the new rule? It seems like a total waste of already-scarce physician time and a major barrier for those without a regular doctor.

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@Bakari_Sellers Tax preparer's tip: If you declare a business loss too many years in a row, the IRS can declare you a "hobby" that isn't trying to make a profit. So it's useful to show a small taxable profit every once in a while, so you pass through the computerized algorithm screening.

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@CathyMcG2 @theconnorlynch @bradheath A therapist would be more useful in this situation, actually.

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@bethany_bruner Local reporting stays on the story, gets the scoop, gets national attention -- well done!

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@ConnorMEwing The flip side: Being able to join an event from my desk, and leave easily if it doesn't work, makes it easier to dip into something I otherwise wouldn't -- and at least half the time, it turns out to be excellent and/or useful.

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@eyelessgame @pervocracy @BrandyLJensen I spent three years arguing with the IRS, who kept telling me I was misreporting my own name on my tax form and needed to file amended returns. Turns out their software kept reverting to my spouse's surname, even on the Schedule C for my business.

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@JoyceWhiteVance That DC grand jury (and DC US Attorneys' Office) is clearly not messing around. Good work.

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@vlocarmen @Harvard Trying to imagine the mindset as someone painstakingly kept these "specimens" in order to donate them, like people doing taxidermy on quail or a black bear. And then a museum director saying "Sure, we'd love to have that collection. For science." Just gut-wrenching.

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@gzr3625 @MacFarlaneNews The judge has taken note of that insincerity, and footnoted it in another case -- reluctant to give out another similarly light sentence based solely on in-court expressions of remorse. "Law-abiding" means she still doesn't understand the charges against her for 1/6.

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@TPBlue4 @Victorshi2020 @MuellerSheWrote He's been held in custody (jail) without bail on the state charges of attempted murder since his arrest at the scene, and now there's a federal indictment on top of that. He won't see the outside for a very long time.

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@SquireForYou Ooh, this would make a great exam question for a medical ethics course. "Discuss."

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@OurShallowState I'm curious whether the judge has raised any of this with counsel, in chambers or at a sidebar and off the record. It's such unusual behavior, hard to envision another 4-6 weeks of trial without it somehow coming up.

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@eorden There's that story of a guy who threw a screaming fit at the airline check-in. The agent didn't react. Next passenger: Wow, I can't believe you kept your cool with that guy. Agent, smiling: "What he doesn't know yet: he's going to Boise, but his bags are tagged for Bangkok."

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@MacFarlaneNews Happy to see my Rep @davidcicilline showing leadership here. Thank you!

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@KatiePhang I was yesterday years old when I learned that this whole strange hearing process was invented in 1916, when the Senate had to consider the first-ever Jewish nominee to the Court, Louis Brandeis.

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@_Kelvin_wise_ @elizabethlgr In the older abortion laws, yes -- "when necessary to preserve the life or health of the mother." But the new round of absolutist hard-line laws have no exceptions. None.

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@cbouzy @PreetBharara SDNY USAtty seems like a pretty obvious career path to AG in the next Administration -- just saying. Especially for someone who cleans up well for TV, can explain legal stuff to non-lawyers while smiling, and gets 77-yr-old moms crushing on him.

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@TheRealHoarse Back in the day, you would think carrying an official lectern out of the Capitol would trigger some sort of immediate police response? I mean, did he just walk down the street with it to wherever his car was parked? Without anyone stopping him?

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@michaelharriot How many will be summoned by mysterious Facebook posts to patrol polling sites, to challenge voters who look illegitimate or something? (And who is behind the Facebook organizing for Kenosha? Surely FB knows or can figure it out.)

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@JoyceWhiteVance Update on the RI attack on @JenRourke29 : The off-duty cop has withdrawn as a candidate for state Senate, has been suspended by @ProvidenceRIPD , and will likely face assault charges.

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@Eddie_Stephens_ My understanding is that churches (+ other charities) can say "Go vote!" as long as they don't say for whom, and can advocate on issues like "abolish capital punishment." It's only the direct candidate electioneering that's prohibited. IRS enforcement is next to nil, however.

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@mahtowin1 @sdmalt96 It's no more a political statement than a very expensive tailored three-piece suit with cufflinks is a political statement (which it is, not neutral at all). And "People who look like you don't belong in this space" is as political as it gets.

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@marceelias So he's seeking to invalidate and nullify his own re-election? Huh. Weird. Or is this another "please certify everything except the Presidential results because the rest of the ballot was just fine" as in the Federal case?

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@BougieBlackGurl A woman lawyer friend took to answering, "Sorry, I don't know how, they didn't teach that in law school."

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@OurShallowState Is anyone producing full transcripts of any these rallies? I don't have the stomach to listen to him at all, but reading a transcript would be enlightening, entertaining, and/or terrifying.

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@TheRealHoarse In my view, anyone who would agree to have his (and it will be "his") name put forward under these circumstances should be instantly disqualified and forever shamed.

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@OurShallowState I'm sure they do. Defense lawyers always want their clients to not mouth off in public during the trial. Standard instructions, along with "tuck in your shirt and say yessir/ma'am to the judge." And doubly so for this client.

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@VeryBadLlama Key piece: People *have* to be allowed/encourage to stay home when sick (or with sick child), without losing pay, getting penalized, or getting shamed by the teacher or anyone else.

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@DrJasonJohnson That photograph is from March *2019,* not this year. It shouldn't be used to illustrate stories about the current situation.

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@OurShallowState The other remedy for our anxiety: Do something to create the future we prefer. Write postcards, hold signs, donate $ if you can, spread positive messages on this site about POTUS and VP, volunteer for local candidates. Help someone register to vote. Talk up early voting.

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@dvorahlandsman I stopped at a highway rest area last year and saw a police/ambulance presence near a truck. Turned out that rest area had so many ODs that the McDonald's manager got trained and supplied with Narcan, so he could rush out and administer it while his staff call 911. Lifesaving.

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@jacremes My understanding is that the Geneva Convention was developed precisely out of a post-WWII consensus that these bombings of civilian populations were reprehensible (on both sides) and must never happen again.

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@lawofruby Is an unsworn "Declaration" even admissible into the case file? I wouldn't think so, even if the clerk docketed it. Either bring your witness in under oath and subject to cross-examination, or forget it.

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@lawofruby "How come you confided in several of your close supportive friends but not to the police or the hostile press?" may not be the attack-line he apparently thinks it is.

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@JessEpsten @cvspharmacy I suspect it was just one employee and contrary to company policy, given there's the "no thank you" option on the registration form. I'd call and ask to speak to the pharmacy manager, and ask if it's company policy.

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@trai_all It's not just EU food regs; it's heavy government subsidies to farms to grow high-quality healthy food in ways that preserve the ecosystem. One Irish woman told me her dad makes most of his profit from the tree-planting incentive payments. US subsidizes chemicals/soy/corn.

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@jentaub If he wants to open the door to evidence of *his* past history. . . which is at least more relevant.

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@LAHeffernan I've been waiting for the ACLU, AAUP, etc. to challenge this whole onslaught in court. Has anyone taken that on, and if not, why not? If this isn't a First Amendment violation (as well as 4th Am.), I don't know what would be.

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@NBPT_John As Jack Smith has pointed out in filings, he's also repeatedly declared elections fraudulent, rigged, and illegitimate long before they've taken place -- and is already doing so for 2024. Either his team is planning the frauds -- or it's a deliberate prep for future plots.

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@ashishkjha We need an all-out campaign to get the Feds to make rapid tests widely available -- now -- free, to every household. It's awful to have people paying $15 a pop at pharmacies (if they're in stock), and even worse to have to wait until you can find an open test site.

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@jm_beatty Classic Quaker (passive-aggressive) response to this sort of thing: "Friend, thee is giving me more advice than I require."

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@J_Hurstman @hugolowell @AmoneyResists That's basically what the judge did. She gave them until Friday to file a "supplement." DOJ doesn't have to respond until they get formally notified, and "we heard it on TV" doesn't count.

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@ZekeJMiller The sailors under his command know who was trying to protect them -- and who wasn't. This won't age well.

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@eorden "Because I'm the judge and I said so, that's why."

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@AsteadWesley Quite a few are loaners. Keith Ellison used Thomas Jefferson's copy of the Koran, on loan from @librarycongress . Kamala is using Thurgood Marshall's Bible, on loan from his family. There's biological kin, and then there are giants on whose shoulders we know we are standing.

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@IRAP It sounds more complicated than that. Here's the US Government explanation of what's happening:

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@lhkuroda Makes sense, and thank you for posting this. Pres. Martin Van Buren also came from Dutch-speaking New York and spoke Dutch as his first language (the only US President so far to start with a language other than English).

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@JRubinBlogger I continue to push back on the entire narrative of "It will be up to SCOTUS to decide the election." No. It's up to the voters. It should *never* be up to the Court. The attempt to force it into the Court is itself an outrage revealing how shattered & abnormal things are.

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@Taniel You mean it's not a serious bona fide political party, and probably doesn't consist of anyone other than himself and his publicist? Shocking!

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@DearSplenda The abject terror (c. 1870s) that if girls studied -- especially math, science, and difficult languages like Latin/Greek/Hebrew -- it would do such irreparable damage to their reproductive organs that they'd be forever incapable of bearing children.

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@marceelias Agreed. I went to law school right after Watergate, when professional ethics became a required subject that we all took seriously. Somehow that's gotten lost, and enforcement is way too lax. I hope a lot of complaints are pending and will produce results.

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@jd_schnepf At least there are fewer of " . . .and my devoted wife who turned my illegible scrawls into a neatly typed manuscript, after doing all the cooking and cleaning and wrangling our seven children into bed." At least I hope so.

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@HC_Richardson For Jews, the ". . . or else" is always worse than the worst that people could imagine in advance.

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@joshmich @ScienceMagazine Before the US can undertake testing people without symptoms, it first needs capacity to test every person *with* symptoms, not just those in ICUs or with foreign travel history. I know medical personnel with symptoms who can't qualify for testing, very dangerous.

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@OurShallowState He's a quasi-incumbent. Just imagine if Biden got barely over 50% in say NV, with two governors each pulling about 20%. The media would treat it as a fatal disaster for Biden.

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@jamesjonesesq "Let the white girl be co-valedictorian, for fairness"?

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@AbbeyNormal20 @ethanclynne Colonial Williamsburg teaches the slavery part, actually. And not just during Black History Month.

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@TheNewsHam @newrepublic Sorry, if you don't look at your credit card bills closely enough to notice $4-5 million per year in suspicious charges, my sympathy is quite limited.

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@rparloff Sure -- just like I (rather optimistically) refer to "my first book." Have I written a second one? Not yet. Still hopeful. The judges have been consistent in calling him "Mr. Trump." I wish they'd order that for pleadings as well.

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@lawofruby As an old lawyer, can I just say how refreshing it is to have a case like this argued by three women advocates, to a Court with four women Justices? In the '60s-70s cases, there was at most one woman advocate, and an all-male Court making the crucial decisions.

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@montes_narayana Many do not, ever. Many states and districts require one year of US history for high school graduation, and everything else is elective and most kids don't bother. (I'm a historian, and couldn't get my kids to take more than that one year.) No geography either. It's awful.

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@kionnemcghee There is a Federal court order in place as of this afternoon requiring them to turn over all ballots to FL elections officials by Tuesday, no matter what it takes. This may well be part of that compliance operation. Hope so!

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@j_remy_green This case is poster child for: If you don't do appellate work regularly, all the time, don't try winging it on the most high-profile case ever. It's like getting a retired GP to do your quadruple bypass surgery. Don't. Bring in a specialist. (But now it's too late.)

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@JenAFifield Follow @marceelias and @DemocracyDocket for updates. This is not going unchallenged.

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@tribelaw Please do a lot more reading on Puerto Rico and rethink this. Most of its residents don't want statehood. (And if it were a state, its Senators would likely be right-wing.) If you don't know where to start, follow @Deoliver47 who retweets a solid selection of PR news.

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@ashishkjha I asked my mother last week about when the polio vaccine came out, and we got it in school (she was teaching 1st grade). She said parents were terrified of polio; everyone knew some child who'd been in an iron lung or was walking with heavy leg braces + crutches.

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@HoarseWisperer I've read there are Strategic Defense warehouses holding millions of pallets of PPE -- not understanding why those haven't been emptied onto trucks two weeks ago for distribution all over the country. Have they fired all the people who remembered the "Open Sesame" incantation?

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@Phil_Lewis_ So you can't mention Oxford commas? Or phonics? I still remember an 11th grade US History class on whether Americans were ready for independence in 1776. We had a UK exchange student in the class, who immediately said, "Of course not!" Lively debate ensued.

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@AnnieLowrey It's a recipe for my grandparents' generation, when Grampa went off to live with his lady friend (or just disappeared), but never divorced Granny. Or for people never marrying at all, so they can separate when they need to. Or for people lying about adultery to get a divorce.

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@what_eats_owls @Kisha890 Happens regularly in criminal trials -- you need a unanimous jury to convict, and if you only get 7-5, there's no conviction. There are many decisions that aren't by straight majority rule, and good reasons for it. Pure democracy was never how this was designed.

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@ReOpenChris @RonFilipkowski He's not running as a Democrat. Wasn't on the Democratic primary ballot. (Nor should he be, since all his support and money comes from the far right.)

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Betsy Cazden

@Betsy_Cazden

4 years

@ZerlinaMaxwell I like this advice piece by two Australian virologists who describe their work as "facts, data, info, expert opinion and a reasonable, occasionally grumpy, voice."

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Betsy Cazden

@Betsy_Cazden

3 years

@ChristoSilvia @ashishkjha Resist the popular pressure that "we don't need no stinking masks!" Masks reduce transmission of all potential variants, plus flu and other respiratory viruses. So does enhanced ventilation and avoiding crowded spaces.

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Betsy Cazden

@Betsy_Cazden

3 years

@loggins__ @adambonin Wait til someone tells them about the millions that the British government paid to West Indies plantation owners when slavery was ended there in the 1830s. There's now a searchable database at @ucl of who got how much, and it's a Who's Who of elite Britain.

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Betsy Cazden

@Betsy_Cazden

4 years

@chadhayesmd As the parent of one of those front-line residents, I'm hoping that when the dust settles, for every shift worked during this pandemic they'll get a chunk knocked off their student loan balances. Plus some compensatory time off, a pay bonus, free massages, and a puppy if wanted.

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Betsy Cazden

@Betsy_Cazden

4 months

@emptywheel I wonder if the indictment's been sitting there sealed for a while, but they kept it sealed until he came into the US (so he wouldn't cancel his trip). The arraignment should clarify that.

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Betsy Cazden

@Betsy_Cazden

11 months

@Fritschner Question: Does the Speech and Debate Clause protect members of Congress from being sued for defamation and invasion of privacy by private citizens who they defame and blast scurrilous stolen pictures of all over the internet and TV?

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