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Lawyer, Baltimore Guy. Opinions my own and not my employer. @teddypasketty .bsky.social

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My rant: I’m a 52 year-old white guy who would, on paper, have no beef with what happened today or happened on January 6, or what has happened since the Supreme Court shut down ballot counting and put George W. Bush in power. All of it retains my power. But…
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And the next in line is you, and you, and you. Step by step. Slice by slice. I’m a 52 year-old white dude who, on paper, has no reason to fear. But I’m a lawyer. And a damned good one. And I’m scared as Hell.
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Ken Burns has a well-earned reputation as a documentarian and historian, but his greatest talent may be issuing the right historical documentary to coincide with the right moment that people need to watch it.
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Here’s the sad thing for me as a lawyer. I can never again view the Court as an institution for reasoned, independent, apolitical — at least quietly apolitical— judgment. Today the veil was ripped away, and willingly. Brazenly.
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I’ll add one final warning: To the extent you think the forces at work on January 6 and hard at work today in the Supreme Court are sated and not a threat, you are wrong. Dead wrong. In no point in history have those with power seceded power. They will not rest.
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The Court announced its decision, and in doing so loudly announced its open hostility to any interpretation of the Constitution that Is Not Theirs. Theirs. Not yours, not mine. Theirs. Their party’s, their party’s donors, their allies in the quest for more power.
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Let me repeat that, because it bears repeating. The President attempted a coup. Full stop. Think about that. The President attempted a coup. But, before those days, he did something almost as damaging.
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His party, led by Mitch McConnell, utterly subverted the Constitution’s advise and consent clause by denying Garland a vote. And then, when Ginsburg died, they rammed through Coney Barrett. And before that Kavanaugh, tainted and damaged.
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Today the Supreme Court, for the first time ever, chose to no longer recognize a right it conferred 50 years ago. It took away a right. For millions. I can see how we got here, but I never believed it could happen.
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So here we are. A nation where the laws are precisely what those in power say it is. And, brothers and sisters, that spells Doom upon our nation. It is as awful as you can imagine. One Justice today, in writing, openly invited cases to overturn a host of rights.
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So suddenly, after some really dirty fucking pool, we suddenly had a 6-3 majority comprised of some really ideological politicos. Not elected officials, but appointed, lifetime appointed, Justices.
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I think it was after Bush v. Gore, and then 9/11 and the war in Iraq — which had nothing to do with the attacks — that my foundation was truly shaken. We were a nation at war with people for no reason. We were a nation at war with itself over politics.
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I guess that’s why — and here’s the confession — I never got worked up about a Kennedy or O’Connor or Rehnquist. Or others. Because there was a lane they stayed in. Conservative? Sure. Agree with them? Rarely. But stare decisis meant something to them. They wouldn’t burn it down.
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I never thought that an authoritarian could Happen Here. And then in November 2016 I was proven wrong. I knew then that we were truly in a slide. And I hoped that my first intellectual love, the Law, would save us. It sort of did, but barely. The President tried a coup.
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I’ve been a lawyer 26 years. And today I’ve never felt more impotent in the belief that the Law is what saves us. I am consumed by the view that the Law will not. The currency is power, regardless of the barriers of institution and commonality. Those barriers are fine now.
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So after 2000 and 9/11 and Trump, where we are now is nowhere I thought we would be. Where the Supreme Court would *openly* (Thomas’s concurrence today) invite challenges to longstanding rights. And overturn one. Look, and this is fact:
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I’ll confess this: we have had majority Republican-appointed Justices before. Blackmun, who wrote Roe? Republican appointee. O’Connor and Kennedy. Same. I never fully agreed with them, but they kept the evolution of the Law in a lane. The Court was always more sensitive to change
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I grew up in a poor part of Ohio where large corporations came in and sold off jobs for the sake of profit. And I watched the powers that be decimate lives. For money. And I have never forgotten the families tossed aside for a dollar. So as I got older I became interested in law.
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That is no more. I’m sure people of color or of minority status would rightly tell me the Law has never been this way. And I see that. But I always believed that at its core the Law could be a sword for the oppressed, as well as a shield for the privileged. And that in the end…
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I am a man of the law. I became a non-sectarian cleric — a lawyer — in a time where that meant something. I was proud to be that. Because it meant fealty to a life outside of sway, and dedicated to reason. Regardless of party.
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Right would prevail. I still think — well, I hope — right will prevail. But boy howdy does that tunnel to the other side look long and dark and full of terrors.
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I came up truly believing that institutions would temper the basest instincts of our nature. I studied institutions of our nation, the three branches, and I made a life in law. I believed in checks and balances. We had bad Presidents, and good. Bad politicians, and good.
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@tonymdolan @davenewworld_2 Because he's the hero America deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we'll meme him. Because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian. A watchful protector. A Hooded Landscape Architect.
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@allisongeroi “By Entertainment Tonight. On New Years Eve. 1983 to 84.” Do not cross this man.
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@TiffRichElliott @BudrykZack Obama was the first President born under the same American flag he served as President under.
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How can you not be romantic about baseball?
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The new owner of the Orioles is at the Rooftop Deck bar. Earlier he bought a round for everyone at Pickles. The Orioles are winning 11-1 on Opening Day. And they have restocked the coolers and shortened lines. And Relish won. Pinch me. Fucking pinch me.
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@RexChapman Also, one thing that shut this guy up was “Okay, what does it mean to be libertarian?” Guy had no answer. You can press so easily on libertarians. They are like house cats: totally independent in attitude, yet relying on a support system they do not see nor could understand.
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We don’t learn enough about the Reconstruction era. Did you know the U.S. was divided into military districts? Or that Grant instituted the Department of Justice to go after KKK members, and was largely successful?
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Guys, GUYS!! I wore this out in Austin, Texas, today and had several people come up to me and *NOT* tell me they “loved The Wire,” but genuinely asked how we were doing after the bridge collapse. Like, genuinely supportive.
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It’s sad to know that as of today only Dan and Roz remain. RIP Richard Moll.
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I was asked by my girlfriend what I really enjoyed about today and I honestly responded, “This goes til October.” I *love* going to games. I just love the community, the sounds, the smells, all of it. I love this city so much, and the Orioles are a big part of it. #BirdLand
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@notcapnamerica I was born in 1970. I remember on TV we would have Flip Wilson — who I didn’t realize was a man until later — and Harvey Korman and Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari and Jamie Farr all dressing as women in prime time. No one cared. No one was groomed. No one gave a shit. No one.
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Well, if she isn’t found guilty in the first trial, then by Marilyn Mosby’s own reasoning we should try her four or five more times.
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@davenewworld_2 To think that he dropped immediately from $20 to $8 because Stephen King basically called him out in one tweet.
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I bought my Orioles flex membership four hours ago and I am pretty sure that $600 pushed the deal through.
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I swear to God I am not making this up: On Sunday, dejected, a friend asked how I felt and I said, “The only thing that’s gonna make this week better is if Angelos sells the team,” and we both laughed and now I’m sitting here trying to manifest winning Powerball numbers.
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@ErieNotEerie @notcapnamerica Not just red flags, but running an entire red flag factory that churns out red flags that he then sticks to his body until he looks like a fat tick.
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Let me give you the Gen X response, if you want it. Don’t want it? Whatever. Fuck off, old man.
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You millennial leftists who never lived one day under nuclear threat can now reflect upon your woke sky. You made quite a non-binary fuss to save the world from intercontinental ballistic tweets.
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@thatdaneshguy @davenewworld_2 Look, I’m a 52 year-old white man. And I’ve had it up to here with my fellow whiteys. We had it good, still have it good. All privilege flows our way. We ride a veritable gravy train. We don’t get pulled over, shot, detained. So to my unfortunate peers: WHY YOU SO PISSED???? FUC-
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@amfmpm I actually saw a print of “The Day the Clown Cried” as part of a business lawsuit. I think I’m one of about two dozen people to have seen it. My white whale is the original idea Warner Bros had for a Batman film: Bill Murray as Batman and Eddie Murphy as Robin. My dream.
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It’s a little telling that at least four of the current Justices are people whom, if you met them at a work happy hour or neighborhood barbecue, you’d come away thinking, “Oof. That person was off-putting and weird.”
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This is a still from the Pauly Shore vehicle, Encino Man. Both people in this pictures won Oscars for acting tonight.
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Baltimore: The smashburger at The Royal Blue is the best burger I’ve had in the city, hands down, and the best anywhere in recent memory. This place is amazing.
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@hiphopcnation @torylanez I’ve been a lawyer 27 years. Lawyer knows his client guilty af.
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I guarantee you if Larry Hogan gets elected to the Senate, Baltimore will see meager federal dollars come here. He’ll fight like hell to get another two lanes on a highway, though, with federal funds. Which the Baltimore/DC corridor doesn’t need. Terrible Governor for this city.
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@allhatnoplay @dieworkwear That a badly fitting jacket. It looks lumpy and loose and badly tailored.
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Last night watched “My Cousin Vinny” again. I’ve been a trial attorney 27 years. There’s a reason parts of that film is taught at the National Advocacy Center from time to time on the direct and cross-examinations of witnesses. It’s procedurally the most accurate film ever.
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@RufusTSuperfly I’ve been a trial lawyer 27 years. If I did this I would finish my summation and walk out and retire because I would be overwhelmed by embarrassment. You’d find me at the bar I bought a week later. “Hey, weren’t you the lawyer who…” “Nope.” “But…” “Nope. Always owned a bar.”
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No comprehensive history of American Punk Rock is complete if it leaves out Loretta Lynn’s 1975 song “The Pill.” A coal miner’s daughter from Appalachia singing about the freedom birth control gave her from her husband was hardcore.
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Cassidy Hutchinson very likely risked her life to give this testimony today. It’s hard to imagine the pressures brought to bear on her. That’s real courage.
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@Balkarzar @sparklinguncre1 @opheliay2k @os4muus @DaBluePittoo And all of this assumes a UN resolution would have fuckall impact.
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@maraleia @BudrykZack @Ben__Jamon But it does put into perspective, for me, just how easy it was for racism to be the original sin of this nation. The timeline from slavery, Reconstruction, the demise of Reconstruction, the rise of Jim Crow, and the modern civil rights era…it’s not that long.
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@IChotiner @Andrew_B_Bader Never has one man excelled so far at a career that he is patently unqualified for than Elliot Abrams. Never ever underestimate the power of being slightly charming at Georgetown cocktail parties. Unearned careers have been made over Gin & Tonics in high-priced brownstones.
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@notcapnamerica Nick Adams is a terrible name-dropper. Reminds me of another terrible name dropper, my friend, Tom Hanks.
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@charisboke @Muna_Mire I’m 51 and am having the time of my life. Old anxieties fall away. You find the people who matter and all the bullshit drama ends. You begin to learn truly not to give a fuck. You find relationships fewer, but deeper. Things sort by this point. You tend to care more about others.
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@G_S_Bhogal Chills every time I see this. Never forget what they took from this world.
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Tonight at the Monument Lighting in Baltimore, @KOPublicAffairs had a holiday party on their penthouse roof balcony and offices. Down below, on the street, people were pelted with ice cubes, including a baby. I went into the building, rode up, and guess what?
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Prague was beautiful, but Baltimore can be breathtaking, too.
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So, I’ve been drinking, and, you know, whatever. Let me just say this about the Supreme Court as it’s acting right now. It is *so transparently political.* The Court overturned Roe, and the backlash (rightfully) started. And what you have seen this term is one person, Roberts…
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What do you do when your girlfriend is going to the game wrapped in bandages from double carpal tunnel surgery? You get down to Poor Boys and get her a pair of socks and repurpose them.
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Godspeed to the most decent man to occupy the White House.
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@ulcmonastery As a minister of ULC for over 10 years, I’m a little dismayed at the number of people in this thread who jumped to wrong conclusions and took to pitchforks not knowing ULC’s history.
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So thanks to those parents/adults at the @KOPublicAffairs party in Mt. Vernon encouraging those kids. There’s an 18-month old with a nick on his forehead tonight thanks to you. You should be ashamed. Merry Christmas, assholes.
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I added some much needed audio to the exciting announcement of the newest neighborhood in Baltimore. It's Baltimore Peninnsula!
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Serious people would never have elected Mike Johnson as Speaker knowing every thing he ever said would be culled and displayed by the press and in every ad by Dems in 2024. No one vetted him. The GOP was desperate and it will lose them the House.
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In Baltimore, a bar that has been opened since 1972 closed a couple of weeks ago. They had extra booze and said fuck it and opened tonight and last night. Lots of friends and Baltimore family here. It was a real community hub. Sad. But also joyous. Here’s to you, Bertha’s.
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I’m Gen-X. A reason for the way we are: “Benson” ran 7 seasons. We loved Benson. Started as a butler, became Lt. Gov. over 7 seasons. 7. Last ep was him running for Governor against the current Governor, also beloved. Dad against dad. This is how the show ended:
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@RexChapman I go to bed every night knowing that Ted Cruz *legitimately* thinks he will be President one day. And he never ever will.
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Your occasional reminder that there is no textual evidence in the nursery rhyme whatsoever that Humpty Dumpty is an egg.
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Alex Jones is going to eat shit in the form of a jury verdict. And I hope the amount is enough to approximate justice, but he should be stripped of everything he owns for what he did to those suffering parents. Every goddamned penny now and the pennies to come. Utter garbage.
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@theashleyray @JamieHaDov The locker room talk back when the boys were coming up with the promotional plan for Steel Magnolias.
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I remember when that fool Wilson shouted “You lie!” at Obama. It was a major breach, and Biden gave him a look that was more disdain than anger. It shook Obama a little, for a second. Last night Biden appeared to *revel* in it a bit. He gave as good as he got. Scranton roots.
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@catzandcookiez @notcapnamerica And her response wasn’t ridicule. It was “if you don’t have a uterus, I don’t think you’ll get pregnant.” No judgment. She’s seen shit and probably sides with him.
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No competent lawyer would allow a client to slag off publicly on a judge, a judge’s clerk, the prosecutor, etc. the way Trump has done. It’s insane in a normal setting. So I’ve concluded he (1) has decided his best chance is to rally support so he can win and then do whatever 1/2
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Him: “Let me just play Devil’s Advocate for a moment.” Me: “….Okay.” Him: “It just seems to me at nine miles per hour that ship sort of turned towards the bridge and…” Me: [Walks out of the bar completely]
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The best part of the Mayor’s Holiday Parade was watching Mosby’s face fall when she was confronted by someone holding a “Free Keith Davis” sign.
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@catherinetinker @offbeatorbit JFC. I have two sons. Not only would I have never dragged either along, but I wouldn’t have gone. *Because I have two sons.* Outrageously irresponsible.
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@jordanbpeterson This beautiful apple.
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@Trail_Cams @whorevidal Checkmate, santathiests.
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@notcapnamerica That’s an incredibly lucky pitcher to take a headshot like this and walk off. That ball was doing at least 90 mph when it hit his noggin. Jesus.
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Clarence Thomas, putting it right out there, openly *advocating* for the Court to take up the right to contraception, the right to same-sex marriage, the right to privacy. The balls on this motherfucker. Didn’t mention Loving v. Virginia, though, did he?
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@ATRightMovies @nytimes “Diversity guarantees our cultural survival.” Hear hear.
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I apologize if I get strident, but I just finished an excellent biography on Nixon by Farrell, and reading the parts on Watergate in the current climate I actually laughed at how almost *trivial* it was, and how — in comparison — Nixon was goddamned near *honorable* in comparison
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I have been asked about 100 times what I think of the Dominion/Fox settlement. As a lawyer looking out for Dominion’s interest, you take $787.5 million and get that statement of milquetoast admission. That’s real money and there’s always litigation risk. As an American: Burn It.
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Serena Williams announcing her retirement from tennis probably didn’t make bigger news because 10 years from now she may come out of retirement and beat everyone again. She is, barring Mohammed Ali, the greatest single best athlete in the world. And she never got her due. Never.
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Organize and donate now, now, now. Because the dark clouds are not only looming, they are here. The shit these 6 will drop on all of us won’t stop for *decades* as currently constituted. Rights have never been taken away so blatantly until today. In fact, ever. Organize. Fight.
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@itsmegangraves It’s only harmful to people who “need hydration,” come on, what’s the big deal.
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He and his monster of a wife. Fuck both of them.
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Thirty years later, I still don’t know the name of this person, my big celebrity crush in my 20s.
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And here is the side by side comparison... Thanks for watching! #BreakingBad @Vince_Gilligan @BryanCranston @MoCa369
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“So shines a good deed in a weary world.” ~ Wm. Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
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@ycsm1n @offbeatorbit Also: it’s none of his business what his wife wants photographed.
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Baltimore peeps: the Nevermore Haunt at Old Town Mall is maybe the best haunted house I’ve been to, and I’ve been to a lot. Open next weekend if you missed it before Halloween.
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One more thing about the George Santos thing: his downfall won’t be about claiming to be Jew-Ish or gay or whatever, it’s going to be about money. He claimed to have little, and then a lot, and it’s all tied to sketchy stuff and Ponzi shit and I bet by 2024 he makes a plea deal.
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@joshtpm Regardless, if and when the Democrats gain enough votes, make it an act of Congress to eliminate the non-constitutional and almost purely performative debt ceiling for once and for all. Don’t threaten the economy with a gimmick that replaces genuine budget negotiations.
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I got one of the infamous Baltimore DPW Calendars in the mail! Oh happy day! (No October 22; November has 31 days).
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