if you’re looking for something to listen to today try my new podcast with on the political and military hollywood thrillers of the 1990s
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“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/lib
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really interesting how the republican line on this is “some people should be above the law”
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If they can do it to a former President, imagine what they can do to you.
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yep. i’m kind of a broken record on this but trump was a major celebrity with a popular network television show and a decades-old persona as “affable but ruthless businessman.”
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trump couldn't have won without intense personal charisma and defection from unpopular gop orthodoxy, I'm sure these pretenders, who can do neither, will do great
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yeah the hardcore MAGA voters eat it up but Trump did not win with hardcore MAGA voters alone
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the thing about desantis that i think is overlooked when discussing his national potential is that he is a genuine crank, and a humorless one at that
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impossible to take someone named “buck sexton” seriously
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Buck Sexton on Fox: "They are sending a message now to President Trump and to his supporters that THEY WILL COME FOR YOU if you stand against the machine. This is a chilling moment in the country's history."
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Imagine how much corrupt, illegal stuff somebody has to do as a rich white dude in the United States to have the FBI come after you - it’s like start an opioid epidemic, poison an entire city, try a coup level of stuff
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striking although not surprising that police “training” here has less to do with investigations or community relations and more to do with how to inflict violence on other people
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Great, the police department of a major American city is having Eddie Gallagher train its officers
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Many Democrats in Congress are thinking about supporting Biden's call for 100,000 more cops, so long as they get billions more for "training." It's vital to understand that the for-profit world of police "training" is one of the most ugly, extremist corners of our society.
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Great, the police department of a major American city is having Eddie Gallagher train its officers
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A note about "banana republics."
Yes, corrupt regimes politicize prosecutions. But corrupt regimes also permit powerful people to break the law with impunity.
If the legal and evidentiary grounds for a search exist, then even a former president *should* be searched.
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Police used text messages to investigate a miscarriage and are now charging a 17 year old as an adult for getting an abortion.
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Former President Trump says Mar-a-Lago has been "occupied by a large group of FBI agents" in "unannounced raid."
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Michael Jai White is probably the most talented action star that’s not a blockbuster name.
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Niggas don’t talk enough about how fye my boy Michael Jai White was. He was the black Jackie Chan basically
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completely out-of-touch with reality. studies have shown direct connections between unfair police stops and lifelong psychological trauma ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P
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I'd love to ask some of these people saying "unless you're a criminal, you have no reason to worry" what they think of stop-and-frisk laws or no-knock warrants (I'd much rather be unfairly frisked than unfairly audited) 4/
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The History of Malls as Sites of Racism and Surveillance
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writing a predator movie where you finally see the predator home planet and it’s like a richard scarry town where there are predators riding to work in little apple cars and shit
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Me (seeing the picture on the left): Wow, this pic is really making the rounds on Conservative Twitter. Wonder why they never include a link.
Me (after five seconds of googling): Oh. That's why.
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Left Anchor fans: Have you listened to the most recent episode?
It features Serious Eats cereal reviewer (who I am told moonlights as a New York Times columnist) discussing Dobbs, Joe Manchin, and the Andrew Yang's Forward Party.
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want to hear myself and dissect one of the most buck wild movies of the 1990s? listen to our latest episode on the wesley snipes/sean connery film “Rising Sun”
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This is sort of a master class in how CRT panic pieces operate. (1) Find some cringy jargon-laden passages in supplemental materials for educators, and conflate this with curriculum for students, as though teachers are banging on about white supremacy in math class.
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Woke math? How critical race theory found its way into math curriculum via @JJ_Poff @washexaminer Critical race theorists are changing the conversation from ‘how can we help children succeed’ to ‘America is oppressive.’ All the while failing our children. washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-amer
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Cities don’t exist for you to have a place to park your car.
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This is doomer rhetoric divorced from the substance of the bill and the real-world political programming needed to build power and get better legislation.
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I love how people on this site are saying “grow up!” and “RePuBS BAd DemS gOoD!” because Im wondering if big money may have possibly turned this bill into empty theater like it has every other single piece of legislation for the past 30 years.
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definitely edward g. robinson
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which classic hollywood actor do you wish you could have seen on hot ones? my answer is katharine hepburn, of course.
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People make twitter so exhausting. Everything isn’t a think piece. Sometimes mfs just being random
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Mitt Romney has shown real political courage the past few years. He broke with his party over Trump, marched in support of BLM, and thinks climate change is real…
… and yet, like every other Republican, he voted against the Democrats’ climate bill. An unserious party.
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The climate portion of BBB:
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What is this show called? Hot ones, correct. There is no heat to these wings. No flavor, no brio, nothing at all. Do you think me infirm? Incapable of handling spice? My boy, I respect your interviewing skills enough to try this bomb of yours, but so far these are an affront.
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rip orson welles I wish u could’ve gone on Hot Ones
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The entire point of this podcast is that we are putting these movies in their cultural and political context. We say so right at the beginning.
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People pay a huge premium to live in walkable, lively communities. The 4 essential ingredients: slow/low car streets, nearby shops, apts, transit.
Fun fact: NYC has 20k surface parking lots. 100s of 1 story buildings. And a freeway circling Manhattan. That’s a ton of housing.
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It Finally Happened: @aarmlovi and I saw one of the fabled long lines to tour a NYC rental. 3BR/1BA in Williamsburg, no dishwasher or washer-dryer, 24” range, $3,950. Good location.
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[parental advisory warning]
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Big Vote-a-rama energy with @SenSanders on the steps of the Senate, as the Senate enters hour 13.
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can she even get renominated at this point? i know she has presidential ambitions but those are obviously delusional.
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sinema’s open contempt for her voters and brazen devotion to private equity is kind of breathtaking, even by the standards of the senate
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I’m told that Sinema is feeling positive about a Thune amendment that would carve out private equity subsidiaries from the 15% corporate minimum tax.
Manchin doesn’t want it in the bill, kicking off discussions between him, Thune and Sinema on changes
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love our fun, self-effacing, moderate republican governor
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BREAKING: The Youngkin administration is now attempting to ban the mention of homosexuality in all Virginia schools- using an outdated and unconstitutional section of code to define "sexually explicit content" to bypass the General Assembly.
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The US Tax code is 6,871 pages long (not counting the hundreds more Democrats are currently trying to add)
“Just comply with the law” isn’t a reasonable response. twitter.com/RNCResearch/st…
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Best Sunday listening: Check out this episode of 5-4 (). discusses the epic nonchalance of the Democratic Party toward the right-wing SCOTUS and what can be done about it. fivefourpod.com/episodes/wtf-a
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can you imagine the hell that would break loose — the mob rule!!! — if all it took to pass something into law were winning majorities in the house and senate, as well as winning the white house, over two consecutive election cycles?
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