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Engineer. Political Junkie. Trying to make a difference one life at a time.

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@atrupar Why are these guys sooooo stupid? It just….. are they performative or they are really this stupid? “Except for democrats and Ossoff”. Assholes!

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@wkrish Congratulations guys! Let me get a copy and read.

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@AnupKaphle They even carry "Rango Ko Masu". How about that!

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@NormOrnstein Then why watch them? There are other outlets you could be watching.

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@atrupar My guess is he must be giving TFG a blowjob once a week.

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@AnupKaphle Happy new year!

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Talk about classic definition of Uncle Tom. I guess we should say Uncle Tim.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Tim Scott says Johnson's Great Society was harder to survive than slavery

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I am not hopeful.

[Margaret Sullivan @Sulliview]

Don’t make me get more serious about this

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And it is primarily due to the media coverage like Meet the Press. I thought things will change after Todd, I guess it is not and getting worse. I fear for our country and democracy.

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

Biden and Trump are old, and it's fine to say so, but the sheer volume of Old Biden content reflects that we're barreling toward a rematch between one guy whose depravity is very old news and another whose superpower is not making much news, and that's a genuine crisis for takes

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

Biden and Trump are old, and it's fine to say so, but the sheer volume of Old Biden content reflects that we're barreling toward a rematch between one guy whose depravity is very old news and another whose superpower is not making much news, and that's a genuine crisis for takes

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

This is a beautiful letter from Fiona Apple explaining to her fans why she must postpone a concert date.

I am impressed at the way she was instantly able to make the decision to choose love over her career. Indeed, the world needs more of this.

Enjoy the story...

“It's 6pm on Friday, and I'm writing to a few thousand friends I have not met yet. I'm writing to ask them to change our plans and meet a little while later.

Here's the thing.

I have a dog, Janet, and she's been ill for about 2 years now, as a tumor has been idling in her chest, growing ever so slowly. She's almost 14 years old now. I got her when she was 4 months old. I was 21 then — an adult, officially — and she was my kid.

She is a pitbull, and was found in Echo Park, with a rope around her neck, and bites all over her ears and face.

She was the one the dogfighters use to puff up the confidence of the contenders.

She's almost 14 and I've never seen her start a fight, or bite, or even growl, so I can understand why they chose her for that awful role. She's a pacifist.

Janet has been the most consistent relationship of my adult life, and that is just a fact. We've lived in numerous houses, and joined a few makeshift families, but it's always really been just the two of us.

She slept in bed with me, her head on the pillow, and she accepted my hysterical, tearful face into her chest, with her paws around me, every time I was heartbroken, or spirit-broken, or just lost, and as years went by, she let me take the role of her child, as I fell asleep, with her chin resting above my head.

She was under the piano when I wrote songs, barked any time I tried to record anything, and she was in the studio with me, all the time we recorded the last album.

The last time I came back from tour, she was spry as ever, and she's used to me being gone for a few weeks, every 6 or 7 years.

She has Addison's Disease, which makes it more dangerous for her to travel, since she needs regular injections of Cortisol, because she reacts to stress and excitement without the physiological tools which keep most of us from literally panicking to death.

Despite all this, she's effortlessly joyful & playful, and only stopped acting like a puppy about 3 years ago. She is my best friend, and my mother, and my daughter, my benefactor, and she's the one who taught me what love is.

I can't come to South America. Not now. When I got back from the last leg of the US tour, there was a big, big difference.

She doesn't even want to go for walks anymore.

I know that she's not sad about aging or dying.

Animals have a survival instinct, but a sense of mortality and vanity, they do not. That's why they are so much more present than people.

But I know she is coming close to the time where she will stop being a dog, and start instead to be part of everything. She'll be in the wind, and in the soil, and the snow, and in me, wherever I go.

I just can't leave her now, please understand. If I go away again, I'm afraid she'll die and I won't have the honor of singing her to sleep, of escorting her out.
Sometimes it takes me 20 minutes just to decide what socks to wear to bed.

But this decision is instant.

These are the choices we make, which define us. I will not be the woman who puts her career ahead of love & friendship.

I am the woman who stays home, baking Tilapia for my dearest, oldest friend. And helps her be comfortable and comforted and safe and important.

I need to do my damnedest, to be there for that.

Because it will be the most beautiful, the most intense, the most enriching experience of life I've ever known.

When she dies.

So I am staying home, and I am listening to her snore and wheeze, and I am revelling in the swampiest, most awful breath that ever emanated from an angel. And I'm asking for your blessing.
I'll be seeing you.

Love,
Fiona”

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Yes. It maybe liberal leaning. But they don't lie to you. Over and over again. And they don't allow liars to lie to you. That is the difference. Hope they will continue to do well.

[The Daily Beast @thedailybeast]

The stars aligned for MSNBC as Hillary Clinton was already scheduled to appear with star host Rachel Maddow, thus allowing viewers to see the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee react in real-time to the indictment of the man who wanted to “lock her up.”
https://t.co/bsyDijaTB7

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Perfect timing!

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

good timing!

[Monica Lewinsky (she/her) @MonicaLewinsky]

where are my gummies?!?

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@DougJBalloon these guys never fail!

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I am amazed why anybody takes these guys seriously!!!

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Kevin McCarthy: "Stop using taxpayer money to do their own wokeism. A military cannot defend themselves if you train them in woke. We don't want Disneyland to train our military."

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Chef! You are funny!

[Chef José Andrés 🕊️🥘🍳 @chefjoseandres]

I want everyone to know that you should not be afraid of your local “Chef” We are not planning to do an insurrection and March towards the Capital…we plan just on cooking and serve you dinner….😎

[Michael Harriot @michaelharriot]

Y’all wanna hear the TRUE story of Nikki Haley?

A thread

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John
That may be the case. But what is so disappointing is to see CNN reporters running around asking these idiots what they think rather than finding out from adults in the White House.

[John Harwood @JohnJHarwood]

reminder:

if this happens, it will have been completely unnecessary - a crisis created out of thin air by the House Republican caucus

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

A farmers market in deep blue Brighton, NY might seem like a strange place to meet Trump supporters. But over the clatter of an amplified puppet show, you can hear whispers that Biden is the reason the coffee infused maple syrup is $18 a bottle