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Internet and landline back up again, just in time to get the call that we're about to lose service again until Tuesday afternoon.
WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO TALK TO EACH OTHER!
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Don't worry - King Charles won't notice. Like his mother, he'll settle Sleazy Andy's lawsuits by cheque.
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Another day, another nepo baby get a primo job they've show precisely no aptitude for.
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders to give Republican State of the Union response theguardian.com/us-news/2023/f
Tell me without saying it that everyone at work hates you so much you've bribed your childhood imaginary friend to talk to you again.
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Kevin McCarthy, after Republicans vote to boot Ilhan Omar from Foreign Affairs Committee:
"This is a fundamentally different Congress. I have had Democrats telling me we are running it much better."
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How can you get on a Squid Game-themed reality show without having watched a single cruel, mean-spirited and downright reptilian minute of Squid Game?
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Contestants on the reality competition show Squid Game: The Challenge criticize Netflix for the series being "inhumane" and "rigged," with one participant saying, "It was just the cruelest, meanest thing I've ever been through."
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I know God did not put fat too many people on this Earth with the express purpose of enriching the company that holds the patent on my blood pressure meds, but there are days when its harder to believe than others.
I can actually believe the creator of "Superbad" doesn't know about "Lady Bird" because it was by, you know, a woman
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Seth Rogen throws down the gauntlet, says "no one’s made a good high school movie since" Superbad dlvr.it/Shr3ZT
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A reminder - because apparently this is something people mind bogglingly keep forgetting when discussing this issue - that hate speech reform was recommended by an expert royal commission set up in the wake of the worst mass murder in this country's modern history.
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I'd applaud this, but no woman of colour anywhere ever should have to do this in the face of racist and misogynistic disrespect and violence.
So don't fucking "yas queen" this my fellow men, my fellow white folks, my fellow Christians. SHUT IT DOWN. HARD AND FAST EVERY TIME.
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Can't wait for the next round of pompous virtue signaling direct at Iran regarding its treatment of progressive women who don't toe the correct ideological line.
I know Americans don't want to hear this, but in too much of the world you have a credibility gap of your own making.
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BREAKING: House Republicans have voted to oust Democratic Rep. lhan Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
The vote to remove the Somali-born Muslim lawmaker came after her past comments critical of Israel. apnews.com/article/ilhan-
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Cool, Look forward to the House Foreign Affairs Committee's next round of sanctimonious virtue-signaling at Iran over its treatment of women who don't toe the correct ideological line.
Remember, boys and girls, there's a not particularly fine line between speaking your truth as you lived it and assuming (wrongly) its a universal constant.
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Forty years ago, this show was called SCARECROW AND MRS. KING and while it was TV classic, it was a lot more fun than this trailer...
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James Cameron’s ‘True Lies’ is now a CBS TV show - check out the trailer: screencrush.com/true-lies-tv-t
In a world where MILF Manor and FBoy Island exist?
Not even close.
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Power Slap: is this the most stomach-churning reality TV show ever? theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2
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I know it will never happen, but I'll confidently predict this performative trolling would come to a screaming halt the day a thousand strapped black men pay a call on Kevin McCarthy with an AR-15 in one hand and their paperwork in the other.
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The MAGA Republicans in Congress have replaced their American flag lapel pins with AR-15 pins.
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George Schuyler, a conservative Black opponent of the Civil Rights Act who is in the AP curriculum, was a blistering critic of white society!
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the thing that becomes apparent when you study it with any seriousness is that black conservative and reactionary thinkers often have a diagnosis of american society not too different from that of their more egalitarian counterparts
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I should probably develop this point in a column because it is a) interesting and b) an opportunity to talk about the very rich and nuanced tradition of african american political thought
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the question sullivan should ask himself is why the african american political tradition is rich with with liberals, leftists, radicals and various stripe of egalitarian, and relatively bereft of reactionaries?
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It's worth reading this THREAD ... and considering how vast and wide the for-profit education industrial complex is, and highly vulnerable to political interference. Textbooks, for one e.g., rarely make non-industry headlines but account for around 26% of US publishing revenue.
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1. Yesterday, the @CollegeBoard released a watered-down version of its AP Black history course
The changes satisfied the criticisms of @RonDeSantisFL
@CollegeBoard insisted that it had nothing to do w/right-wing complaints
But the timeline it offered is NOT EXCULPATORY
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I have serious concerns that a member of the Senate Subcommittee on Communications, Media, and Broadband doesn't understand how a pretty basic commercial decision by a private business works.
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I have serious concerns about DirecTV’s decision to drop Newsmax. It’s time for answers.
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Aw, look at the Tory boofhead triggered by Australians exercising their legal rights to lawful public protest.
It would also be nice if the Speccie stops using big words like "desecrated" until you know what they mean, and can use them correctly in a sentence.
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'Catholic churches have been horribly desecrated by anti-Pell mobs.'
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So much cultural conservativism, particularly the declinist kind, is based on pure survivorship bias. Fiction is bad today, not like the old days? Yes, 90% of current fiction is crap. 90% of *everything* is crap. It always was.
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I've seen a lot of people calling "fake" and "stunt" on this.
I'll retort thus: Go look up what your average public school teacher makes in Florida. Then ask yourself what the tab is when you're defending felony charges while you're unemployed & can't get another teaching job,
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With all due disrespect, , you know why this isn't even slightly "hilarious" about this?
The naked contempt and disrespect shown to women of colour who dare to so much as raise an eyebrow on Capitol Hill by their white male colleagues. Every. Damn. Time.
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Rep. Guy Reschenthaler (R-Pa.) just kept stepping in it as he tried to get the California Democrat to condemn people admired by the former GOP president. huffpost.com/entry/maxine-w
THREAD. And, surprise!, judging from the replies it looks like the homophobic right-wing press is lightly laundering dishonest lobbyist shit-stirring. Again.
Funny how self-professed Christian conservatives forget the "Do not bear false witness" part of the Ten Commandments.
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Framing in article in the Times is absurd--includes the sentence, 'It is the first time a UK court is scrutinising the legality of imposing LGBT ideology on primary schools'.
No member of the school admin the 'devout Christian' alleges forced her kid to attend Pride is quoted
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Sorry to hear of the death of poet Linda Pastan. She’s written countless gems; this is one of my favorites, “To a Daughter Leaving Home.”
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I hope this arse-hat's employer is paying for its poor partner choices by a flood of clients securing legal representation elsewhere.
In a free market economy, its the only way some people ever learn the error of their ways.
OK, there's a few electorate MPs who are going list-only in this year's general election, so it would be really nice if pundits just normalized the idea that list MPs aren't kinda sorta second-raters.
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Stephen Adly Guirgis is one of my favorite playwrights so I was psyched when he dropped by the podcast. So so so good!
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James Gunn's Damien Wayne: Murder Twink is an actual thing? How could THAT possibly go horribly wrong... #DCUChapterOne
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Again, you don't have to carry any water for these individuals to note that the aftermath of "officer-involved fatality events" tend to play out VERY differently when the faces involved are white. No paid administrative leave or sealed and expunged disciplinary jackets here.
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Four of five Memphis officers charged with killing Tyre Nichols after violently beating him had infractions on their records from previous police work. apnews.com/article/crime-
This kind of quarter-witted boot-strapping "harden up, snowflakes" posturing when people responsible for the LIVES AND SAFETY OF CHILDREN DID THEIR DAMN JOBS is going to get people killed. Stop it.
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#Opinion We're teaching them that if it's a bit challenging outside, stay at home.
If you come across a few roadblocks on the pathway of life, step back and wait for someone to clear them away for you. Don't try and find a solution.
@Rachel_Smalley: bit.ly/3HQBoWN
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Never thought I'd say this, but credit where due...
SETH ROGAN IS ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY 100% CORRECT HERE. IF IT AIN'T BROKE... WELL, DON"T BREAK IT.
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Seth Rogen is shutting the door on a #FreaksAndGeeks revival: “I don’t think anyone would do it. It’s so rare that you do something in your career that is actually just viewed as good.” bit.ly/3RoBnMF
Which is really rather a shame, because #Pennyworth is set in an utterly bizarre Elseworld where Swinging London is ruled by jackbooted fascists, there's a civil war going on and The Queen (yes, that one) is a bit of a slapper and a crack shot.
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#HBOMax announced earlier today that it was not moving forward with a fourth season of Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman’s Butler. / #Batman #Pennyworth #BruceWayne #AlfredPennyworth #DCU bleedingcool.com/tv/pennyworth-
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Would this be the Church of England that wouldn't have been established in the first place if Henry VIII wasn't so desperate to ditch his wife's withered womb and slap a ring on a younger model who'd hopefully pop a (male) heir and a couple of spares out of the baby oven?
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Welby ‘would rather see C of E disestablished than split over same-sex marriage’ theguardian.com/world/2023/feb
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James Baldwin drew his last breath thirty-five years ago, and he's still got the number of every white-wing book-burning knowledge-hating mother-fraker
No wonder DeSantis and Co, want to make sure nobody ever knows his name.
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JAMES BALDWIN addresses the the University Of Cambridge during his epochal debate with William F. Buckley in 1965.
This is oratory and content of the very very highest order.
To listen is to learn.
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What is it with horror movies and cabins in the woods?
As M Night Shyamalan's KNOCK AT THE CABIN opens, takes us on a tour of those creaky, out-of-the-way places where anything can happen - but definitely won’t be good.
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'In the 90s, Procktor gets lost in the artworld's oblivion, alone and hopelessly addicted to alcohol, too anachronistically tied to a cultural scene long gone and forgotten...'
Figure In A Landscape: The Paintings Of Patrick Procktor
thequietus.com/articles/32544
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