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My name is Jamelle Bouie. columnist. Co-host of . Upgrade your grey matter, ‘cuz one day it may matter.
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In Arkansas, they're trying to make ballot initiatives HARDER in order to head off popular liberal issues.
In Louisiana, they're trying to make recall petitions EASIER, the better to weaken/replace the Black mayor of New Orleans.
No consistency beyond partisanship.
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kind of can’t believe how much OUTBREAK falls apart in the last act
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this movie is two-thirds a compelling medical thriller and one-third the stupidest action film i’ve ever seen
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republicans are like if you have an abortion you're a murderer how could you end a life when we needed it to work a graveyard shift while working with caustic chemicals?
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i grew up in a gun-owning home and i find this stuff incredibly freaking weird
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THIS is last year's Christmas card from Tennessee Rep. Andy Ogles, a Republican who represents the district that Covenant School is in in Nashville. #tnleg
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Part of the fundamental asymmetry between left and right in America can be summed up in the fact that a single donor will happily subsidize Rod Dreher’s entire career while liberal donors let publications like this die
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Holy shit.
Texas Observer, legendary crusading liberal magazine, is closing and laying off its staff texastribune.org/2023/03/26/tex via @TexasTribune
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The Second Amendment killed three innocent children today. How many more have to die? How much longer are we just going to shrug at death.
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Me in the middle of the club while John Wick kills 40 men beside me
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i can just imagine the screenwriter asking "how can we impress upon audiences that this virus is bad news?"
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So our next movie is OUTBREAK and having just started it, I had completely forgotten about the absolutely insane opening that has Donald Sutherland ordering the immediate destruction of an entire U.S barracks in Vietnam
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So our next movie is OUTBREAK and having just started it, I had completely forgotten about the absolutely insane opening that has Donald Sutherland ordering the immediate destruction of an entire U.S barracks in Vietnam
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you put this in a movie and it is an instant five stars for me
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I love any movie where a character is relegated to a basement and yells "They knew, they knew the whole time!"
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"document thriller" is my name for movies where the plot is driven by document-based investigations, you "All the President's Mens" and "Spotlights" and the like
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we can rest assured that republicans will change the law to make sure this kind of thing is legal
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A 13-year-old who was burned with caustic chemicals while working for Packers Sanitation Services in Nebraska told investigators the accident occurred during a shift that lasted from 11 p.m. to 5 or 7 a.m., a direct violation of multiple federal laws. nyti.ms/40iDdCn
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i have been watching/rewatching documentaries and movies about the war on terror and the CIA's torture program and let me say that THE REPORT is way underrated. a great document thriller with a terrific performance from adam driver
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feckless republican elites refused to cut trump loose when they had a chance and now he’s going to stomp all over them again
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. @ShelbyTalcott reports from Trump’s Waco rally, which embodied everything his GOP critics said would cost him the nomination. So far, he’s winning anyway. semafor.com/article/03/27/
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“parents’ rights” amounts to a state-sanctioned heckler’s veto
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Let me rewrite this for you:
"Professionals whose average salary ranks 48th in the nation rushed to earn $3000 by taking a propaganda course written by Hillsdale College to help pay their homeowners insurance."
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In just 3 months, the Florida Seal of Excellence Endorsement program already has more than 34,000 teachers signed up to learn how they can equip the next generation of leaders to be better citizens with a comprehensive understanding of the foundations of the American republic.
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“…command staff advised officers that they should ‘approach every car with the mindset to be ready to kill everybody in the car,’ the suit says.”
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a photo i especially like from last year’s work trip out to honolulu
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This is a terrible, incalculable loss
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I nearly lost my mind trying to pin down the source for this claim (which is untrue btw) resnikoff.substack.com/p/what-housing
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In New York City, tens of thousands of housing units have simply been taken off the market by landlords affected by rent-control rules.
Estimates have suggested there are at least 4 times as many abandoned housing units in NYC as homeless people living there.
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“Screw the goddamn passengers! What the hell did they expect for their lousy 35 cents - to live forever?”
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every time i watch this movie i am struck by how incredibly well-paced it is
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this movie, which is one of my all time favorites, also has my other favorite actor from this era, marty balsam
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watching the recent restoration of THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE and let me say that i love walter matthau. one of my favorite actors. incredible that a tall, gangly guy who looked like an old man his whole life was a legit star
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For context on symbolic significance of Waco to White Power movement, highly recommend Bring the War Home by and doc Oklahoma City, directed by Barak Goodman. I taught both this week and students reported being stunned by what they learned.
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the flipside is the stuff i buy tends to hold its value pretty well so it all does well on the resale market
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no one ask me how much money i have spent on cameras and lenses
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the thing that annoys me about style-related convos is ppl assume anyone who wears something above Walmart must be Bill Gates. Meanwhile, they spend $$$ on BBQ grills, guns, audio equipment, tricking out a car, etc and that's OK bc it's a masculine area of interest
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biz markie’s “bennie and the jets”
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What's a popular song where you consider the live version to be the definitive/better version?
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photographing some lenses to sell an somehow took this one that feels very 2001
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If the Internet Archive is taken down it will be akin to the burning of the library of Alexandria. There is content on that website that will never be accessible to humanity ever again if the site is taken down.
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“Conservatives pushing these child labor bills say they’re necessary bc companies are having trouble finding workers in a tight labor market. Rather than making jobs safer or better-paid, they’ve decided to exploit kids. Conservatism in a nutshell, really.”
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