Damian Long

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Really distressing news from the Supreme Court. What kind of a country are we wishing on ourselves?

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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas voted to keep Trump's Jan. 6 insurrection records hidden. Now, texts show that his wife, Ginni Thomas, played an active role in the insurrection.

SIGN THE PETITION: Justice Thomas must resign or be impeached! https://t.co/c4fIUfuwMN

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@JoyceCarolOates Just did this with my tenth grade honors students last week. Endlessly unfolding poem.

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I haven't seen Stephen Miller in a while. He left too, right? (He's not hiding in a utility closet somewhere?)

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"I know more about wind than you do." No doubt.

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JOE, DON'T CHECK YOUR WATCH...CLASSIC POPPY BUSH MISTAKE...

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Please, please keep repeating that ridiculous Abraham Lincoln line.

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https://t.co/u7xPzY0gHA

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Lovers of the English language: can you actually HAVE a "rigged witch hunt"? Doesn't it have to be one or the other? Asking for an orange friend.

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The new GOP talking point that we have "fix those countries" that the immigrants are coming from is to this debate what "better mental health initiatives" is to the gun debate. Both obvious. Both hazy and detail-free. Both a way to avoid the more immediate problem.

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On the one hand, what DeNiro did was highly inappropriate, tarnished an otherwise classy telecast, and--most crucially--threatened to drive back into battle lines more conservative viewers who might be willing to find positions of compromise. On the other hand, ahhhhhhhhhh.

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Do you ever fall through a social media rabbit hole into a world of MAGA hats, Kincaid-style portraits of a handsome Trump showered in divine grace, misogynistic Hillary-as-harpy memes, and photos of semiautomatic weapons held by grimacing men? No, I mean...me either.

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Well, it didn't take long for Trump supporters to assemble a talking point to defend Roseanne: "We're ALL descended from apes...that's what she meant!" Unreal. They've cut their teeth (daily) explaining away Trump's bile. Is this self-deception or disingenuousness?

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People who voted for Trump don't get to be offended by a little coarse political humor from a comedian. Sorry. Your guy set a new low for vitriolic libel, and he's making an ugly travesty of his office. He and his flunkies can withstand a few cutting jokes.

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I'm a person of color, too...if that color is "tapioca."

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It's so telling to see the cynical, mean-spirited, small-minded attacks that have been unleashed on the adolescents who are speaking with passion and integrity to (essentially) beg for their lives as they stand up to the gun lobby. "You at the barricade listen to this..."

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You don't get to push your cart through the crowded grocery store remarking to anyone who will listen that people "go crazy" by rushing out to shop right before a snowstorm because...well...you're here too.

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A treat: getting to see the play of emotions on John Cornyn's face at that meeting and imagining the corresponding inner monologue, in which he realized that the mad king whom he has made endless ethical compromises to prop up was not brain-farting the way he wanted him to.

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The glass-half-empty side of me is dismayed that 650,436 cast a vote to install in the U.S. Senate a man who has said the things this one has and possibly done the things he's accused of doing. Still, a win is a win. Now crawl back under your rock, you evil slug of a man.

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Great: a bump stock. Another stupid thing I never wanted to know the name of. And apparently, they're "legal and inexpensive."