asta

@asta

Words, words, more words. Some pictures. I remember when this place was all fun.

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    This bonkers VF story quotes Ezra Cohen-Watnick describing plot to install Kash Patel as director of CIA: "The idea was to put Kash in as the deputy, which doesn’t require Senate approval, and then to fire Gina the next day." via

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    I...don’t blame them? I want that vaccine bad. BUT ALSO DON’T DO THIS!!!

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    Jan 20

    Senate Dem Elizabeth Warren rips McConnell push to get guarantee from Dems to keep filibuster intact: “McConnell was fine getting rid of the filibuster to a Supreme Court nominee for a lifetime appointment.”

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    Jan 20

    it feels like having a sound system blaring at you on full blast for years and then suddenly cutting out. there’s phantom music in our heads. we can’t process things at normal volume yet. our ears are ringing with the last four years in all this relative silence.

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    Jan 21

    OK just to be clear: if I say "we must crack down on serial killers" and you say "why are you launching this thinly veiled personal attack on me" I'm gonna have questions

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    SMH was falsely accused of stealing a bagpack at was held in Rikers for three years & wound up committing suicide 2 years after his harrowing experience—-meanwhile she gets to go home to parents.

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    Jan 21

    Impeachment is on. Pelosi: 'You don't say to a president "do whatever you want in the last month of your administration. You're gonna get a get out jail card free." Because people think you should make nice nice and forget, people died here on January 6th.'

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    Jan 20

    ... she is now on the Local Board of Supervisors that overseas legislation for leisure facilities in her county. A county which includes ’s National Golf Club. it’s just another little thing that’s made my day.

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    Jan 20

    PBS Newshour has also created a lesson plan to teach “The Hill We Climb” by — I hope it is taught for years to come.

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    Jan 20

    If anyone says "Given the last few years, are there any things that still make you proud to be British?" I have to reply, "It's a dwindling list, but Nigella Lawson calmly choosing Bitter Orange Tart on the day Trump leaves office would be one of them."

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    Jan 20

    Amanda Gorman, 22 years old. The nations first youth poet laureate. When I spoke to her back in October, she joked that she's a 60 year old woman in a 16 year old body. Wise. She is indeed wise.

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    Jan 20

    "But while democracy can be periodically delayed, It can never be permanently defeated. In this truth, in this faith we trust. For while we have our eyes on the future, History has its eyes on us."

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    Jan 20

    What an amazing poem in this moment.

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  15. Jan 20

    There's a lot of Evita in that version of the US national anthem

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    Jan 20

    All the speculation about the letter has had me thinking of how the president signed the guest book at Yad Vashem when he visited in 2017. "So Amazing + Will never forget!"

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    Jan 18

    The ice crop is good. Mr S Mitchner was filling his Ice house last week with blocks as clear as crystal, you could see the time on your watch through pieces two feet thick. Hantsport Jan 18 1901

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    Jan 16

    Think about it. The Trumps will have lived in Washington DC for four years without ever once going to a local restaurant, shop, school, park or organization. It’s almost impossible to imagine that level of disconnect to other humans.

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