Agent W 💙💛 🟢

Connor W. | Proud Democrat | Episcopalian | Washingtonian | 23 | He/him | Alt account: @AgentWsAlt

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You’re not a true Hillary stan if you don’t still have your Madam President 2016 sticker up likw my parents do!

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@yavinfourbarber No, Padmé is there.

[Perpetual Situation Monitor @LiberalHegemony]

MAGA’s core ideology is based on supreme hatred of their fellow Americans, borne out of an unearned sense of entitlement, and fear cultivated by their right wing echo chamber.

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@Kerrcarr01 He says in this very episode, “They’re back. The Empire,” when he sees Moff Gideon’s cruiser, meaning he knows they’ve been defeated.

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Obi-Wan Kenobi met an alien. 😱😱😱

[VeggieBLT 🌽 Corn @VeggieBLT]

I FUCKING HATE DEX'S DINER WHY IS THERE A RETRO 50'S STYLE DINER IN MY SPACE OPERA WHY DOES HE HAVE THAT AWFUL MUSTACHE WHY DOES HE KNOW ABOUT KAMINO AND CLONES WHY DOES HIS WAITRESS HAVE A BROOKLYN ACCENT THIS IS THE ONLY GODDAMN TIME THIS CULTURAL STYLE SHOWS UP IN STAR WARS

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@neeratanden @bariweiss And someone who loved money more than she loved her own wife.

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@TNOQuoProQuid Unironically if they just called it He-Man it would be doing notably better (although still not great).

[Dylan Byers @DylanByers]

New statement from Scott Pelley:

There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes.

The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58thseason, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS.

“60” has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.

The waste is heartbreaking.

Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.

For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.

At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.

I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.

Scott Pelley

[Elijah Wood @elijahwood]

For the first time yesterday, I experienced the new @alamodrafthouse QR code ordering system and I can tell you it’s truly awful. Rather than making ordering food and drink more efficient, it actually adds steps to the process AND if you want to order additional items during the film you HAVE to open your phone. No, your cute reference to that irony in your How To Alamo video doesn’t negate how ridiculous this is. Please don’t cut corners with your staff and revert back to physical menus and order cards.

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@SCentralized ??? 😭😭😭

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@Kerrcarr01 I like how Solo synthesized both of these by having the exact number be a slight exaggeration of a true event.

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LMAO.

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@VADave649 With McCain?!

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@richard_normal Leia wasn’t Luke’s sister when TESB started development but I am quite confident Lucas had already decided that was the case by the film’s end. They literally communicate through the Force during the climax. So I think that line was probably added after that decision was made.

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@EFFEXWH0RE Maybe.

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@Envi1466 The vast majority of Protestants are not Arians.

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@hrguerra The movie also clearly portrays him as being wrong here, although to be fair, many of its own fans also miss that somehow.

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@blink182Dem I suppose the precise wording used here would make venomous correct because it mentions the snake. If it had said, “to smell poisonous to ward off predators,” I think that would be correct, but talking about the kind of snake makes venomous correct, you’re right, my bad.

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@blink182Dem “Venomous” means the toxin is in its own bite, to be used against prey. “Poisonous” means the toxin is in the organism itself and poisons those who eat it, to ward off predators.