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Too Much Joy/Wonderlick singer, Freeform CEO (but not THAT Freeform, Shadowhunters fans)

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  1. 9 hours ago

    I think this person just answered my question:

    Replying to @Popehat
    The funny thing about yelling 'white supremacist!' in a public square is to watch who starts looking around at the people around them and who looks up like their number just got called at the DMV.
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  2. 10 hours ago

    Why? What causes a reaction that strikes me as so illogical and, frankly, childish? I want to understand. But I’m seriously at a loss.

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  3. 10 hours ago

    I do not understand this reaction, but apparently ~40% of the country has it. Stating problems we need to solve is heard as divisive name-calling.

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  4. 10 hours ago

    I’m retweeting this in curiosity, not outrage, because it’s such a weird, sad, but instructive reaction to Biden’s speech: merely MENTIONING racism is taken as a personal insult.

    It’s an odd way to seek national unity: call a significant portion of the American public white supremacists, racists, and nativists. Welcome to the Biden presidency. My latest
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  5. 12 hours ago

    I’m glad we got back to Earth-1 today, but now I’m sad for all our alternate selves on Earth-2, where the coup succeeded.

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    13 hours ago

    Awww this is just nice

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  7. 13 hours ago

    A lot of expected good things happened today, and I'm VERY glad about them. But watching Amanda Gorman become a star in 5 minutes was unexpected, and made me even happier.

    I AM ON THE FLOOR MY BOOKS ARE #1 & #2 ON AMAZON AFTER 1 DAY! Thank you so much to everyone for supporting me and my words. As Yeats put it: "For words alone are certain good: Sing, then"
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  8. 17 hours ago

    I don't usually do this twice, but it's a busy, celebratory day, and 5 Star Songs will be finishing on Monday, so I'm gonna re-up today's post for anyone who missed it earlier:

    Otis Redding's “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay” is so great that listening to it almost hurts, because it makes me wonder what further wonders he would have created if he'd lived.
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  9. 21 hours ago

    This is great.

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  10. 22 hours ago

    My wife is currently wandering from room to room with a lit batch of sage. That plus Biden's speech definitely feels cleansing.

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  11. 23 hours ago

    Otis Redding's “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay” is so great that listening to it almost hurts, because it makes me wonder what further wonders he would have created if he'd lived.

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  12. Jan 19

    Now on to a new episode featuring Merry Clayton, who's introduced as "singer, stylist, and swinger." The '70s were something else.

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  13. Jan 19

    The sleeveless look

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  14. Jan 19

    (Poets seem to get equal billing with singers on Soul!, which is its own kind of amazing)

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  15. Jan 19

    I'm watching a sleeveless Al Green sing "Tired of Being Alone" live (not lip synching) on an old episode of Soul! and it's all kinds of amazing.

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  16. Jan 19

    I take it for granted the Trump supporters who didn't mind his lying would be livid if/when a Democrat does the same. This is a fascinating, depressing piece

    I wrote a personal piece about what it was like to spend four years fact checking every word from Donald Trump:
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  17. Jan 19

    Read the whole thing.

    This man's whole life is in shambles because he got mad at Seth Meyers and Barack Obama roasting him. Could've just been grifting in peace for the rest of his life. Whole family hated. Ruined his teen son's life. Just incredible.
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  18. Jan 19

    This is both interesting and good. Viewing people with different political views as illegitimate (or as inhuman monsters) is the problem we need to solve, so I welcome all conservatives/Republicans who support democracy, even when their candidates lose elections.

    In an interesting move, backs this new package. “Senate Republicans must make a choice: Do they stand for democracy or are they the new Jim Crow caucus?” tells me. This suggests possibility of new pro-democracy center right:
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  19. Jan 19

    "Tangled Up in Blue," probably my favorite Dylan song, for reasons both inside and outside the song, as explained at some length below:

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  20. Jan 18

    The latter can appeal to those of different faiths, as well as non-believers. The former, not so much, as conservatives freaking out about "Sharia law" should recognize.

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