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NYTimes Bestselling Author of LADY JUSTICE: available now from @penguinpress @Slate Sr Editor, Amicus Host @MSNBC Contributor Dahlialith @mstdn .social

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Dahlia Lithwick
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Hey it’s paperback day for LJ. And if it tried to map out the blueprint women across the country proved the concept: ballot initiatives, Wisconsin Supreme Court, midterms. Fani Willis and KBJ. Buy it for a law student you love and tell them I say thanks!
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Justice Jackson explicitly reading the reports from the drafting of the 14 Amendment to explain that it was “not a race blind idea.” Extraordinary
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2.5 hours in. Kagan asks why nobody seems to care about originalism in this case
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Kavanaugh asking about precedent is reminding me that I am still capable of laughing out loud
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The real gut punch isn’t that Alito has dinner with donors to influence SCOTUS or that these donors get seats set aside by Justices for arguments. It’s that the ethics rules are “consulted” as if they were, say, a phone book or weather reports
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“Women are not without electoral or political power” Alito, J In Dobbs v Jackson. June 2022 “Hold my beer.” Nov. 2022
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Thomas apologists who say his critics are whining about trivial ethics violations because we don’t like how the legal landscape has changed don’t seem to understand. The “trivial ethics violations” are the explanation for why the legal landscape has changed.
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Not just a win for E Jean and her team. She put everything out there. But for the friends who believed her and testified at personal cost. It takes systems to subvert systems. Ours are not always visible but they are mighty.
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The way you’re feeling about the Suprrme Court today? Hang onto that. The 6 smash and grab justices are hoping the outrage jets off after the weekend.
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Amen
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Let me know when we can stop calling this an “ethics” scandal
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The Washington Post
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Exclusive: Conservative judicial activist Leonard Leo arranged for the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to be paid tens of thousands of dollars for consulting work nearly a decade ago, specifying that her name be left off billing paperwork.
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It’s so weird. Now the avoidance of flagrant lies, threats of violence and contempt for law and truth is a crabbed “silo?” I sort of prefer to think of it as “democracy “ but sure, I’m limited that way.
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Cooper: You have every right to be outraged today and angry and never watch this network again. But do you think staying in your silo and only listening to people you agree with is going to make that person go away?
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Gaslighting while your approval ratings burn. Not a great look.
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Good thing Fed Soc is just a neutral debate society or this would be a pretty brutal night
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KBJ asking a hypo about why a UNC legacy applicant can have his story and background honored while one whose family was not allowed to attend bc of race cannot be considered. Bound up in race.
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I spent five long years listening to Trump speeches so you wouldn’t have to. Now I don’t have to. Until and unless he’s commander in chief, he gets not a single penny from this participant in the attention economy …
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Stunning that given the choice between finally distancing themselves from a dangerous shambolic liar and upholding the need for vigilance in safeguarding national security the bulk of the GOP has opted to do… neither
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David Brooks sitting sadly at Newark Airport wondering how much Clarence Thomas his $78 could have bought….
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Hey @Twitter I’m pretty much only here for @MollyJongFast If I can’t see her tweets I may as well be gone. Free Molly or I’m out.
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Drop boxes. Safe enough for babies, too dangerous for your ballot.
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Rubio: There’s dangers involved with drop boxes. People need to think about it. Imagine if someone puts explosives…
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@shannonrwatts The second funniest is that he believes that folks who produce free content for him want to pay him for it….
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I am stunned. Kagan and Ashley Madison jokes. kKK costume jokes. Wtf
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Melissa Murray (@ProfMMurray on Threads 🧵)
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I'm going to need Justice Alito to stop joking about seeing "Black children in Ku Klux Klan costumes." Seriously, what am I listening to?
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@TwitterSupport Other accounts will be labeled “unofficial” “casual” and “cruisewear” …
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11 months
SCOTUS should just start publishing their opinions behind the paywalled WSJ opinion page. Then they could afford their own luxury travel.
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Bill Grueskin
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Whenever I’m asked to comment on a story, I send my response directly to the WSJ edit page, which is renowned for its unrelenting commitment to fairness and accuracy.
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It’s amazing that while the rest of us are forever crossing the line, there is seemingly no line for life tenured jurists….
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Is there anyone out there defending Justice Thomas’ conduct who hasn’t taken a yacht trip with him, or written and performed a love song to him, or paid for a Hallmark Christmas movie about his life? Didn’t think so.
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Really struck by number of times J Sotomayor made a point of centering potential discrimination on the basis of disability today.
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But please keep telling us Dobbs didn’t matter.
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Gabby Richards
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Ballot measures to protect abortion access and reproductive freedom are UNDEFEATED tonight. 5-0. The pundits were wrong. Abortion matters. Abortion motivated. Abortion won. #ElectionDay #ElectionNight #Election2022
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SCOTUS extends the mifepristone pause two more days. Or $2739.73 in Harlan Crow units
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Turtle bends knee. Film at 11
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Jill Colvin
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In remarkable turnaround, Mitch McConnell endorses Trump | AP News
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This is very last day of sleep away camp energy my dudes
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Because their idea of an “emergency” is rather different from ours
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Andrew Weissmann (weissmann11 on Threads)🌻
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Why on god's green earth did the S Ct not take the case earlier when the Special Counsel sought review directly from the District Court? They have really played into Trump's hands.
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Returning your uterus to the states so that they could return it to Lindsey Graham to control. Thanks Justice Alito!
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@michaelkarlik Or maybe just a mistake for the court to make illegitimate decisions?
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Saying that Kaitlan Collins did a better-than-totally inadequate job at a task that was wholly impossible is neither a defense of her or of CNN … just sayin.
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Joined by @mjs_DC this week to connect the dots on the Thomas-Koch-Bohemian Grove Bermuda Triangle of ethics. Spoiler: dots not hard to connect.
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@rickhasen It begins
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The scales fall off our eyes. But there are more scales underneath somehow? With @mjs_DC on SCOTUS immunity argument
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Who could have guessed that these laboratories of democracy were in fact Fedsoc meth labs?
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Aaron Blake
7 months
ProPublica: Clarence Thomas secretly participated in donor events for the Koch network, which has brought cases before the Supreme Court
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@RoArquette @shannonrwatts @adidas What is it they say about fascism? It happens slowly and then quickly?
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So much leopards eating so much faces for so many days. It’s all so totally unexpected.
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Um. Yes
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Kyle Griffin
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Flashback: During her confirmation hearing in 2020, Amy Coney Barrett refused to rule out criminalizing IVF.
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Saw @MarkHamill is now following me and pitched a new book cover to @penguinpress
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While it’s true Roberts has deplored wild politicization at the court, he’s also used his vote to quietly wildly politicize the Court. He’s not just the victim. He’s also the steady architect here.
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@Miriam2626 Guy who knows nothing explains in depth how much nothing he knows.
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I am losing my mind. Thank you Christine Baranski, @thegoodfight , and to @jendeaderick for sharing this clip
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We can it seems normalize everything
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Jennifer Truth Over Phony Balance Rubin 🇺🇦🇮🇱
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Press not much interested in ex-president calling to execute former chief of staff? Where are the professionals, the adults with news judgment and a sense of responsibility? I don't see them.
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In which @judgeluttig explains that Moore v Harper is very good for democracy and Very Bad for Donald J Trump.
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This weeks Amicus? Yeah. Won’t suck
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@conor64 The cases are part of it. The campaigns to seat justices and prevent others from having hearings, the fake doctrines cooked up and peddled in amicus briefs, it’s all follow the $ stuff
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Upsetment guy wanted to put himself in charge of DOJ. It’s upsetmenting to even contemplate…
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Ron Filipkowski
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Jeffrey Clark, who should be at the top of the indictment list, reacts to news that 50 Trump officials received DOJ subpoenas: “All of this makes me angry .. It seems like they won’t stop .. This is really causing a lot of upsetment in the country.”
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Preach
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Bill Kristol
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"If one asked me to what do I think one must principally attribute the singular prosperity and growing force of this people, I would answer that it is to the superiority of its women." -- Tocqueville, Democracy in America
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This is gutting and infuriating
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Charlotte Alter
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In post-Dobbs America, some girls can travel hours to get an abortion; some can't. This is the story of one of them. She was raped. The nearest abortion was nine hours away. Now, she's a mom. Soon, she'll start seventh grade.
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Donald Trump is arriving at the courthouse in a motorcade via private plane because he’s doing this for YOU….
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The ongoing debate over adult supervision for the defendant is giving me life today
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Brandi Buchman
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Judge Chutkan: you mean live tweeting? Windom, in a reference to Trump's Mar-A-Lago troubles: " I mean taking a photo of it, any of it. He's shown a desire to hold onto materials he should not."
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Orange dog catches car
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Melissa Murray (@ProfMMurray on Threads 🧵)
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Said the guy who created this hellscape.
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This was amazing
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Mark Joseph Stern
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A pretty extraordinary moment: Solicitor General Prelogar points out that men are wildly overrepresented among the Supreme Court bar, and that this "gross disparity" could signal to women that becoming a Supreme Court litigator is not "a path that's open to me."
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Now let him enforce it
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Kagan just laid out the plot
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Mark Joseph Stern
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Justice Kagan runs through the Supreme Court’s recent assaults on the Voting Rights Act then asks the Alabama solicitor general: If you succeed in blowing up the VRA’s ban on dilution of minority votes, what’s left of the law?
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Traveling the galaxy looking for a way to get @MarkHamill a copy of LADY JUSTICE: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America. Where's Obi-Wan when you need him?
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frankly amazing that the strongest characterization of Jan 6, 2021 “riot/criminal” came from Trumps own lawyer….
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Gen Prelogar mentions the fact that the absence of female oral advocates suggests to women that the path is not open to them. Damn.
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Had a little medical stuff today that included a bit of this. The staff at @lenoxhill in Greenwich from admin folks to the nurses to the technicians and docs? Heroes. They’ve lived COVID for two plus years I’ve had it 18 hours. But they show up like warriors every day. Thank u
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This is @MuellerSheWrote modeling graciousness and generosity to absolutely everyone she knows tonight. This is how we should all move through the world of Stupid Twitter (TM) just now. Xo
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Mueller, She Wrote
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And of course, the brilliant @Dahlialithwick who I had the honor of meeting at one of my first live shows in Brooklyn at the @BellHouseNY and her bestseller #LadyJustice
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Dahlia Lithwick
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And I’m in touch with young activists and voters who are done with gun lobbyists and influence peddlers who are dunk on death and violence. Thank you for making clear which team you will show up for.
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Governor Glenn Youngkin
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Our hearts break with the community of Chesapeake this morning. I remain in contact with law enforcement officials throughout this morning and have made available any resources as this investigation moves forward. Heinous acts of violence have no place in our communities.
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Dahlia Lithwick
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I found the words to make Lady Justice a reality, and yet I am a little speechless right now. Thank you to everyone who made this happen!
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penguinpress
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🎉🎉We are celebrating!! 🎉🎉 #LadyJustice by @Dahlialithwick is an INSTANT New York Times Bestseller!!!
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Hilarious, check. Unfailingly kind, also check. Also one of the most scrupulously prepared and nimble interviewers. Big sigh.
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Adam Parkhomenko
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Trevor Noah announces he will be leaving The Daily Show after seven incredible years. An incredible human. I can’t wait to see what big things he does next.
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“Forgiveness, it has been said, means giving up our hopes for a better past.” ― Alan A. Lew, This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared: The Days of Awe as a Journey of Transformation Have a meaningful Yom Kippur to those observing
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With @NicolleDWallace and some young’s who follow me around trying to parse the lawpocalypse on MSNBC. Nobody more generous with her time. Thank you.
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@AWeissmann_ My brain just fell out my ears
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Dahlia Lithwick
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Ignore it and you lose
@orensegal
Oren Segal
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Hate in America: Yesterday, the head of an antisemitic and white supremacist group (and his supporters) dropped banners over the 405 in Los Angeles. One banner read, "Kanye is right about the Jews.”
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My son is insisting that I celebrate paperback week with an updated sh*t post for @MarkHamill who generously allowed us to harass him over the hardcover release. Thank you for all you do.
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The one and only @karaswisher
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Katy Tur Reports
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"We're in a long, long episode of Jackass" @karaswisher talks about Elon Musk's controversial management of Twitter and what's next for the site.
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Thank you @NicolleDWallace for letting us dive deep on the deregulatory tsunami this represents
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Deadline White House
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"This is the death penalty for the administrative state. I mean this is really as consequential... as Brown v. Board or Roe v. Wade in terms of this decades-long process of dismantling government's ability" - @Dahlialithwick w/ @NicolleDWallace
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It’s. Not. Just. Trump.
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Jocelyn Benson
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Hundreds of candidates on the ballot won’t acknowledge the truth about the 2020 election. This is why election lies continue - not b/c there is any truth to them, but b/c weak candidates lack the courage to tell the truth to those they seek to serve.
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@imillhiser The body has a way of shutting this crap down …
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