I'm just Jeff, your friend who cares
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I'm just Jeff, your friend who cares
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Attorney. Michigander turned North Carolinian. LGBT Affirming UCC Christian. FOT. He/Him.
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On a personal note, Nancy Pelosi's office granted me the opportunity to serve as a school year House Page in 2002 after I served the summer terms and didn't want to leave.

So I kind of owe her one of the most formative experiences of my life.
A great read from the Washington Post archives about how she first got into house leadership in a hot race for Minority Whip back in 2001. Even then, maybe especially then, she was a ruthlessly efficient political operator.

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The Making of Madam Whip
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I think many of the criticisms of her are valid, but damned if she wasn't the sharpest and most effective political operator of her generation from either party. What a career.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nancy Pelosi won't seek reelection, ending her storied career in the US House.
I know a South Carolina native son who is going to be looking for a job come next year. Big national profile, earnest Catholic boy. Might have some juice.
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Holy shit, how'd I miss this surprise new project drop from the Crutchfield sisters dropping last week, made alongside NC luminaries MJ Lenderman and Brad Cook no less?!?

Naturally, it absolutely rules and you should listen to it immediately.

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Lots of "Dick Cheney shot a guy" this morning, not near enough "Dick Cheney told Pat Leahy to fuck himself on the Senate floor". But good work overall, gang! Keep those posts coming.
Right? The guy held on for *so* long running on essentially a rechargable battery. He had to be plugged in at night!
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Wake up, Dick! I want you to see droves of New Yorkers voting in a Muslim socialist as mayor!

Dick?
Anyhow, it's far less than he deserved, but it is at least kind of funny that he spent his final months watching his wildest dreams of unitary executive power come true for a boorish pig man who openly dreams of putting his daughter behind bars.
I was an intern for Presidential Classroom during college, and Dick Cheney was a guest speaker one week.

I'll never forget how ... normal he was. A gruff grandpa, telling kids about being President of the Senate. There was, dare I say, warmth to him?

Made his evil all the more chilling to me.
Tonight is a few less wires (I think?) but adding in a CPAP mask to titrate the machine to the right levels. Taking a melatonin before getting hooked up in hopes I'll just conk out this time 🙏
Getting ready for round two of sleep study, trying not to think about feeling like this all night.
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The closest anyone had to having this kind of juice last year was Tim Walz, and for some reason we just stopped him from talking like this? Will baffle me forever.
Obama: They never miss a chance to scapegoat minorities and D.E.I. For every problem under the sun. You got a flat tire? D.E.I.. Wife mad at you? D.E.I..
I love that we have a Pope who, due to his time at Villanova, could go toe to toe with Philly Boy Roy.
I had this question for the entire run of Detroiters.

(also, as the parent of a very selective eater, I absolutely love this pitch and will remember it in working through food issues with him!)
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Kat Abugazeh’s campaign has crossed a threshold where the risk she’s taking is significant enough and the actions admirable enough I sorta am past caring if it’s a publicity stunt/brand building exercise or not, it’s still brave and worthy of respect.
Literally just talked to my cousin's kids last night on the phone, and they called me Uncle Jeff.

Hope those kids don't ever intend on running for office now!
Yeah, if Dickerson is out, CBS News is cooked.

Prayers up for CBS Sunday Morning as always, and Anthony Mason in particular.
dickerson is one of the best broadcast journalists in the game, and someone who would clearly be a real asset to a new leader interested in strengthening the network's journalism. but, of course, we know weiss isn't actually interested in journalism as such.
John Dickerson To Depart CBS News In First Major Talent Exit Under New Paramount Owners
John Dickerson, co-anchor of CBS Evening News who has been with the network since 2009, said that he is exiting at the end of this year.
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MY DUDE 🐂
(just setting a good example for my son to not be nervous, y'know)
Fall Festival at daycare, and OH SHIT LOOK WHO'S HERE.
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the through line of "got an accidental nazi tattoo while drunk" to "regularly takes shirt off at the bar" to "starts a senate campaign with no experience and no plan to address any of this" to "gets a terrible coverup overnight" is "total lack of judgment and impulse control"
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speaking for myself, being an ironic hipster is really symptomatic of the big problems in the world. "Oh that Nazi tattoo? That's a joke, I was in Croatia, a former Nazi puppet state, and I was drunk, I honestly didn't know it was a Nazi tattoo anyway, nothing means anything"