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Shall packhorses,
And hollow pamper'd jades of Asia,
Which cannot go but thirty mile a-day,
Compare with Caesars, and with Cannibals,
And Trojan Greeks?

[Myself @Maxmyself96]

@marwood_lennox what? Arthur Guinness was either descended from the Magennises of Iveagh as he claimed or the Mac Artáin‘s of Ballynahinch, his father converted to Protestantism but that doesn’t make him Anglo

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@realLPBeria Ahriman would he really happy, so the net amount of joy in the world would increase

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@KamenPhanto @53gaDr3amca5t no because current spaceships and airplanes aren’t traveling for months or years

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Graham Platner: “The fact that Jeff Bezos exists and the fact that I know someone in Sullivan who works three jobs and pays 60% of her monthly income in rent, those two things are directly connected. There is no metric of hard work that justifies a billionaire when people in Eastern Maine work three jobs just to put food on the table”

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@its_hipolita @AriGlazier @souljagoyteller Lin Shu‘s translation contributed to both the 1910 Chinese revolution and to the Spring Willow Society’s first huaju play, not to mention its influence in Europe and Latin America

[Myself @Maxmyself96]

@ww_dasilva Islamic inheritance laws being insanely complicated is also what led to algebra being invented. There was no other use for it for like 300 years besides trying to divide up an estate where the daughter has two kids and there’s 2 half-brothers and a consanguinus sister

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@vlast_kotam

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@InkyP412269 @AnonymousLeftie 5 pillars is a political quietest who thinks all politics is sinful, bitching about him is like whining about Amish people.

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@Empty_America a lot of the online soyright are urbcons from Boswash or the left coast, who are basically just liberals who dislike black people. if you dumped them in North Dakota or Kentucky they'd probably shrivel up and die

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@jorfolle Is there something about Vietnam that makes their opps fall for the cult of the rifleman bs over and over again?

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@RashmanTheHorse I wish the 90’s bulls would come back

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@afgmeh “Citation in community note: Iran-International”

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@White_Janissary @mazing_Reach there’s basically no case of a black college graduate murdering his own family, the three most high profile cases of black family anihilators were like 2 ex-cons and a cult leader, meanwhile there are like 2 cases with white Harvard graduates.

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@PJ11819211 Did you read this psuedoerasmus blog post? https://t.co/Py045XbKjg

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@StarDrummerOW @edward861312 @boygrrI theres a los comales on 18th street in pilsen

[Nathan Bernard @nathanTbernard]

This is the GOP operative who NYT used as their primary Platner source without being able to corroborate her claims.

[Myself @Maxmyself96]

@Gaismair @number_pizza111 they were invited but happened to go to war against Yemen a year later for the Hanish islands, which caused their application to be vetoed

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@wideofthepost either she knew that it was a nazi tattoo and dated him anyway, or she didn’t know which means him not knowing is plausible too

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

It's kind of wild to find out that the Republican in the NYT story that says she had a toxic relationship with Graham Platner is Lyndsey Fifield. Having been in DC for too long, I know a decent number of people who know her quite well. For a long time she was the co-host of a podcast with her best friend Bethany Mandel, called Ladybrains, though she has also worked for multiple super PACs, the Chamber of Commerce, and the Heritage Foundation.

Some background, presented without judgment: In 2014, Fifield began work as digital director for American Action Network, a Republican Super PAC that oversees House races. The next year she became social media manager for the Heritage Foundation, where she stayed for the next seven years.

In 2022, she joined the Super PAC backing Nikki Haley for president, switching to the official campaign side the next year, and staying until the campaign flamed out. She now lists herself as a visiting fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum, a prominent dark money group that is best known for helping usher Brett Kavanaugh on to the Supreme Court and giving Susan Collins the talking points she needed to make her decisive speech in his favor.

The NYT breezed past all this, saying she was "a Virginia conservative who has worked for right-leaning groups and Republican campaigns."

In an interview for a news outlet called Red Alert Politics that named her to a “30 under 30” list back in 2016, she said that she wanted to “emulate the late conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart’s approach to online activism.” Breitbart, known for pushing the boundaries when it came to political combat, is perhaps best remembered for having exposed Anthony Weiner’s penchant for sending nudes to young girls, and for his work elevating James O’Keefe.

That she worked for Independent Women's Forum recently is even wilder since IWF played a critical role in Kavanaugh's confirmation and in persuading Collins to support it.

Heather Higgins, chair of IWF, laid out the group’s role in a talk several years ago. “We wrote a memo. It was used by a lot of members of the Senate and the House, Fox News, and elsewhere. Most important, Susan Collins told me that without that memo, she would not see how to support him,” Higgins said. “And if you look at the speech she gave on the Senate floor, it’s entirely the playing out and architecture of how we said to structure the argument — what to say and how to say it, which is just so gratifying. We’re watching TV and we’re like, ‘That’s ours! That’s ours!’”

Meanwhile, the timeline Fifield gives of their relationship is confusing, because during at least some of that time she was actually dating a different person, her longterm boyfriend who became her fiancee before she called off the wedding in 2018. We all know this because she and Mandel did a podcast episode on it that went mega-viral in Republican circles back then. Apparently this is the kind of thing the NYT thinks is important now, so I guess it requires more reporting. I'll report back.

Here is Heather Higgins celebrating IWF's role in getting Susan Collins to confirm Kavanaugh:

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@Logan_Tweets @mattyglesias average swing voter is an idiot who sees a black woman as more left-wing than a man regardless of race, therefore even if kamala is ideologically centrist that doesn't matter.