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Any day spent talking about Donald Trump is a day Republicans are losing.
Any day spent talking about Joe Biden is a day Democrats are losing.
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Senior Writer . Reaganite, Catholic, Mets fan, New Yorker, ex-lawyer. Opinions 100% my own, but you can share them. Not the ex-Cardinals broadcaster.
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Maybe have a little humility before you tell a working class person that it is the human right of a mentally ill drug addicted person wearing no pants to scream in their face and wildly gesticulate at them every other day while they try to get to work so they can feed their kids.
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I ride the subway a lot. Not a week goes by that a mentally ill person doesn't get on and terrorize the entire car—especially women, especially Asians. Usually the men just sit there and pretend it's not happening. It's a disgrace that working New Yorkers have to live like this.
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This approach didn't work in the 2000 primary. But does have a nice ring this time around.
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The John Adams miniseries got it right
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This is a losing if not totally lost battle, but I agree with Tom on this.
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Not so long ago, America had one "president as a time" and only the holder of the title used it, as is proper for a "presiding" officer. It's why the Senate president is only president on the podium. Calling all former presidents "president" is a mistake. /2
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A fair point: this is a liberal jury pool but not as NYC-centric as what the Manhattan DA draws from.
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Again it’s not a “Manhattan jury.” It’s a SDNY jury which includes Upstate counties. twitter.com/baseballcrank/…
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If you're a working journalist and insist on sending messages like this, you probably chose the wrong profession. twitter.com/conservmillen/
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I'm fine with the former. But it's obscene that the two things got the same sentence.
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Reminder that a Jan 6th protestor was sentenced to 10 years for assaulting an officer
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A BLM protestor was sentenced to 10 years for burning a man alive. The prosecutors begged the judge for leniency.
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This is Weekly World News levels of disconnected from reality. It's the inability to even comprehend that your opponents have ideas.
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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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We were all the way down the rabbit hole by this point.
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Happy #CincoDeMayo! The best taco bowls are made in Trump Tower Grill. I love Hispanics! facebook.com/DonaldTrump/po
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Somebody in this picture is probably in Congress by now.
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'The bombing begins in five minutes' — Reagan as Satan at an anti-war demonstration in Washington DC, April 1985.
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BREAKING: Harlan Crow and Clarence Thomas Once Conspired to Aid a Penniless Widow |
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Biden will.
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Age of current Dem presidential candidates on Election Day 2024:
Kennedy (70)
Williamson (72)
Biden (81)
You can't defeat the boomers, don't even try.
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It would be nice, now that all of these media outlets are reporting the NY gas ban, if some of the same outlets apologized for saying it was all a made up lie by culture war obsessed right wingers.
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I made my case about the composition of that Court & this one in a book review last year
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Part of the problem with badly-reasoned opinions is, even if you get the right answer, you may be laying the groundwork to get the next case wrong.
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Which goes a ways to illustrating why they did a poor job explaining the reasoning of that decision, as well as many others with far less defensible outcomes.
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Of the justices who decided Brown v Board, only one had been a judge:
Warren--Gov CA
Reed--DOJ SG
Black--US Sen AL
Frankfurter--Harvard Law, FDR WH
Douglas--SEC Chair
Jackson--US AG
Burton--US Sen OH, Mayor Cleveland
Clark--US AG
Minton--US Sen IN, Judge Seventh Circuit twitter.com/jmart/status/1…
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Translation: these candidates do not scare him in the slightest
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Trump wishing Vivek Ramaswamy well in his campaign, much like he did the same for Nikki Haley
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The rape trial isn't going well for Trump. and the problem isn't just the Manhattan jury.
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Nah, they're just figuring out how to press the button on the right while claiming they're the same button.
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It's fine not to release it, but only if this is done pursuant to a consistently-applied rule to never release mass shooter manifestos nationalreview.com/corner/if-you-
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There have been press reports that the authorities consider the manifesto to be “astronomically dangerous.” They may be unsettling and even dangerous, but the question is the right of the authorities to keep such evidence from the public and the press... jonathanturley.org/2023/05/05/nat
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Sad ending. Remember when we used to look forward to Harvey Day. Truly dominant in 2012-13. 2015 World Series ninth-inning failure wasn't his fault for staying in too long, ruined a wonderful outing.
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Some glaring holes in the Red Sox lineup at 1B, 2B & SS, plus Devers has been boom & bust, but unexpectedly strong performance from their OF (Yoshida, Verdugo, Duran, Duvall), DH (Turner) & C (Wong & McGuire). baseball-reference.com/teams/split.cg
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23 years ago today: the first Baseball Crank column on the web, on the Digital City website, arguing for a baseball rules change that took 20 years to get done
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In the yrs since my lil dust-up w , the large # of academics caught falsely adopting identities hugely favorable to their careers suggests professional status/tenure incentives are by far the dominant force, and quirky psychodramas in the aggregate irrelevant.
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Replying to @joshtpm @AliceFromQueens and @JamesSurowiecki
The idea that this is reducible to “get better jobs, win more awards” is ludicrous. These people abandon their own families to live lives of dishonesty that could be destroyed at any moment by someone asking a perceptive question.
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Third Amendment remains undefeated.
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Show us your constitutional knowledge! Let’s play #GuessTheAmendment. Can you figure out what amendment these emojis represent?
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So, they're gonna have the show written by...the books?
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‘THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER’ Season 2 will continue filming without the showrunners and any other writer-producers on set.
(Source: variety.com/2023/tv/news/r)
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MAGA online going full "the culture wars aren't a big deal" is not something anyone would have seen coming even a week ago.
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Today In 1993: Mr. T drops by the Milwaukee #Brewers broadcast booth just in time to watch Chicago #WhiteSox outfielder Bo Jackson throw out Dave Nilsson at the plate! #BoKnows #MLB #Baseball #History
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We used to be a country that kept lots of poisons in the house and took advice about them from Stone Age cartoon characters.
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concerned about your hand, plz get that checked out
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The Force is all around us. It’s you. It’s us. It’s this grassroots team. #MayThe4thBeWithYou
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Montgomery, to German negotiators: "If you do not agree to the surrender, then I will go on with the war & I will be delighted to do so." Almost as an afterthought, he adds: "All your soldiers and civilians may be killed."
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I've been waiting to see if he'd try this, as opposed to getting a federal court to enjoin the prosecution. I'm skeptical that prosecution for actions taken as a candidate for federal office qualifies for removal.
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Trump To Remove Criminal Prosecution To Federal Court. Unlike removal under the regular removal statute, removals under 28 U.S.C. § 1442 can be appealed. reason.com/volokh/2023/05
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