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"I would prefer not to."
An Ithaca expat in DC. A manuscript-editing, clarinetting political junkie. TPM member since 2016.
An Ithaca expat in DC. A manuscript-editing, clarinetting political junkie. TPM member since 2016.
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The semicolon is not like airplane glue, as is the period. It is like Astroglide or K-Y Jelly. It oozes you into the next thought without friction. Without discomfort.
geneweingarten.substack.com/p/a-semi-ser...
geneweingarten.substack.com/p/a-semi-ser...
A Semi-Serious Column
Hello.
geneweingarten.substack.com
June 30, 2025 at 4:46 PM
The semicolon is not like airplane glue, as is the period. It is like Astroglide or K-Y Jelly. It oozes you into the next thought without friction. Without discomfort.
geneweingarten.substack.com/p/a-semi-ser...
geneweingarten.substack.com/p/a-semi-ser...
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“On Jan. 6, when Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell asked — BEGGED — Trump to send the National Guard, he wouldn’t do it. When our government was TRULY under attack — the first attack on our gov’t from within since the Civil War — he wouldn’t do it.”
— Keith Edwards
— Keith Edwards
June 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
“On Jan. 6, when Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell asked — BEGGED — Trump to send the National Guard, he wouldn’t do it. When our government was TRULY under attack — the first attack on our gov’t from within since the Civil War — he wouldn’t do it.”
— Keith Edwards
— Keith Edwards
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I cannot stress how much this is life-saving care.
if you are a cis woman, imagine being forced to take testosterone. You grow a beard, your voice lowers, etc.
if you are a cis man, imagine being forced to take estrogen and growing breasts, etc.
Sounds kinda horrifying, right? Yeah! It is!
if you are a cis woman, imagine being forced to take testosterone. You grow a beard, your voice lowers, etc.
if you are a cis man, imagine being forced to take estrogen and growing breasts, etc.
Sounds kinda horrifying, right? Yeah! It is!
HOLY SHIT. The ban on any federal funding gender-affirming care includes stripping ACA plans of covering it as the essential care it is.
I have an ACA plan. I live in a blue state, but I am about to lose access to treatments I need.
We told you this was coming
www.advocate.com/politics/ant...
I have an ACA plan. I live in a blue state, but I am about to lose access to treatments I need.
We told you this was coming
www.advocate.com/politics/ant...
BREAKING: Republicans pass ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ stripping transgender Americans of health care
The Human Rights Campaign called the bill "cruel."
www.advocate.com
May 22, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I cannot stress how much this is life-saving care.
if you are a cis woman, imagine being forced to take testosterone. You grow a beard, your voice lowers, etc.
if you are a cis man, imagine being forced to take estrogen and growing breasts, etc.
Sounds kinda horrifying, right? Yeah! It is!
if you are a cis woman, imagine being forced to take testosterone. You grow a beard, your voice lowers, etc.
if you are a cis man, imagine being forced to take estrogen and growing breasts, etc.
Sounds kinda horrifying, right? Yeah! It is!
Trump continues down his stupid path of destruction.
Trump fires director of U.S. Copyright Office, sources say
Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter was appointed to the post by now former Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, who herself was fired by President Trump earlier this week.
www.cbsnews.com
May 11, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Trump continues down his stupid path of destruction.
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Dr. Hayden has been such a transformative and inspiring Librarian for the past decade. If you haven't had the privilege to spend time with LC staff, you may not realize what a sea change she brought to our national library. One of the all-time greats. A huge loss for millions and millions.
BREAKING: President Donald Trump abruptly fires Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden.
The dismissal was disclosed in statements from three top House Democrats and confirmed by a separate person familiar with the matter.
The dismissal was disclosed in statements from three top House Democrats and confirmed by a separate person familiar with the matter.
President Donald Trump fires Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden
President Donald Trump has abruptly fired Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden as the White House continues to purge the federal government of those perceived to oppose the president and his agenda.
bit.ly
May 9, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Dr. Hayden has been such a transformative and inspiring Librarian for the past decade. If you haven't had the privilege to spend time with LC staff, you may not realize what a sea change she brought to our national library. One of the all-time greats. A huge loss for millions and millions.
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Running the math in my head on which Fox host is gonna get the gig.
BREAKING: President Trump just fired our nation's Librarian. My statement here:
May 9, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Running the math in my head on which Fox host is gonna get the gig.
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I just have a hard time choking this down from an outlet that just cannot stop telling us how great Ronald Reagan was
"We have the government we deserve. The American age is over. And it ended because the American people were no longer worthy of it."
The American Age Is Over
Emergency Triad: The United States commits imperial suicide.
www.thebulwark.com
April 5, 2025 at 11:23 PM
I just have a hard time choking this down from an outlet that just cannot stop telling us how great Ronald Reagan was
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by Nate re: farmers' Trump-vote regret
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Historical ignorance destroys farms.
“the Republicans have always been for the American farmer,” said Carlson, a longtime Republican and Trump supporter.”
Uh, no. It was the Democrats who passed New Deal legislation aimed specifically at helping farmers.
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Historical ignorance destroys farms.
“the Republicans have always been for the American farmer,” said Carlson, a longtime Republican and Trump supporter.”
Uh, no. It was the Democrats who passed New Deal legislation aimed specifically at helping farmers.
The Great Depression, the Family Farm and the New Deal
www.iowapbs.org
March 23, 2025 at 6:30 PM
by Nate re: farmers' Trump-vote regret
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Historical ignorance destroys farms.
“the Republicans have always been for the American farmer,” said Carlson, a longtime Republican and Trump supporter.”
Uh, no. It was the Democrats who passed New Deal legislation aimed specifically at helping farmers.
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Historical ignorance destroys farms.
“the Republicans have always been for the American farmer,” said Carlson, a longtime Republican and Trump supporter.”
Uh, no. It was the Democrats who passed New Deal legislation aimed specifically at helping farmers.
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My god.
March 23, 2025 at 6:33 PM
My god.
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A friend drove two hours today for her breast cancer chemotherapy only to learn it was canceled due to NIH cuts. Clinical trial ended midstream. No treatment, no restart, no plan, no information. Her bro-in-law's chemo was also canceled.
March 20, 2025 at 8:24 PM
A friend drove two hours today for her breast cancer chemotherapy only to learn it was canceled due to NIH cuts. Clinical trial ended midstream. No treatment, no restart, no plan, no information. Her bro-in-law's chemo was also canceled.
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i am going to keep coming back to this piece i think. trump is fighting a retribution campaign against the entire american people. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/o...
Opinion | Trump Promised Retribution. Turns Out He Had a Very Big Target in Mind.
It is hard to describe the president’s first month and a half in office as something other than a retribution campaign against the American people.
www.nytimes.com
March 20, 2025 at 8:50 PM
i am going to keep coming back to this piece i think. trump is fighting a retribution campaign against the entire american people. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/o...
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If only they had let him be a painter... I mean musician
March 20, 2025 at 2:29 AM
If only they had let him be a painter... I mean musician
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Whenever I hear people "moderates" talk about being in-between 2 "extremes", it really bothers me. Because I don't see it that way. I feel like everybody is falling victim to misinformation on a massive scale. The American left is not "extreme" at all.
March 19, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Whenever I hear people "moderates" talk about being in-between 2 "extremes", it really bothers me. Because I don't see it that way. I feel like everybody is falling victim to misinformation on a massive scale. The American left is not "extreme" at all.
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you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
March 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
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A Supreme Court Justice who rules that President Biden can’t forgive student loan debt without an act of Congress, and rules that President Trump and Not An Official Position Musk can cancel any Congressionally-enacted spending they personally dislike, that Justice clearly isn’t ruling based on law.
March 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
A Supreme Court Justice who rules that President Biden can’t forgive student loan debt without an act of Congress, and rules that President Trump and Not An Official Position Musk can cancel any Congressionally-enacted spending they personally dislike, that Justice clearly isn’t ruling based on law.
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Everyone knows what happened here. Trump can only exist around people he can causally humiliate. Guys lie JD and Rubio. He wanted to do a ritual humiliation of Zelensky and Ukraine but Zelensky wouldn’t accept that and so Trump reacted like a stung bitch.
February 28, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Everyone knows what happened here. Trump can only exist around people he can causally humiliate. Guys lie JD and Rubio. He wanted to do a ritual humiliation of Zelensky and Ukraine but Zelensky wouldn’t accept that and so Trump reacted like a stung bitch.
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A message from Zelensky through his actions. Honor and dignity. Some things can only be surrendered. They can't be taken away.
February 28, 2025 at 6:35 PM
A message from Zelensky through his actions. Honor and dignity. Some things can only be surrendered. They can't be taken away.
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"Maybe something like yours. Maybe something better."
My god, he went full Bette Davis.
My god, he went full Bette Davis.
GLENN: Why don't you wear a suit? You're at the highest level in this country's office & you refuse to wear a suit. A lot of Americans have problems with you not respecting the office.
ZELENSKYY: I will wear a costume after this war will finish. Maybe something like yours. Maybe something better.
ZELENSKYY: I will wear a costume after this war will finish. Maybe something like yours. Maybe something better.
February 28, 2025 at 7:12 PM
"Maybe something like yours. Maybe something better."
My god, he went full Bette Davis.
My god, he went full Bette Davis.
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No, the meeting did not go badly for Ukraine. It exposed in the most undeniable, unequivocal way possible the pro-Putin commitments of the president and vice president. That was information Americans and allies needed to have clear before them.
February 28, 2025 at 5:57 PM
No, the meeting did not go badly for Ukraine. It exposed in the most undeniable, unequivocal way possible the pro-Putin commitments of the president and vice president. That was information Americans and allies needed to have clear before them.
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One reason self-imagined lefties are nuts to attack Ryleigh Cooper is bc that's what Russ Vought wants.
Another is that her story, told locally, is the quickest way to educate people what government really is.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/28/r...
Another is that her story, told locally, is the quickest way to educate people what government really is.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/28/r...
Russ Vought Got His Trauma - But Not the Villains He Imagined - emptywheel
Russ Vought set out to make people like Ryleigh Cooper villains. Thus far, firings of government workers around the country have instead made the functions of government visible, and cherished.
www.emptywheel.net
February 28, 2025 at 3:17 PM
One reason self-imagined lefties are nuts to attack Ryleigh Cooper is bc that's what Russ Vought wants.
Another is that her story, told locally, is the quickest way to educate people what government really is.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/28/r...
Another is that her story, told locally, is the quickest way to educate people what government really is.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/28/r...
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trying to be fewer obnoxious about correcting people's grammar
July 5, 2024 at 7:32 PM
trying to be fewer obnoxious about correcting people's grammar
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I see they started with the copyeditors.
![Screenshot of a Trump EO, white text on a dark blue background, which reads “PRESIDENTIAL ACTIONS: COMMENCING THE REDUCTION OF THE FEDERAL BUREAUCRACY
ECEXUTIVE [sic] ORDER
February 19, 2025](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nf66nltcbiomd5u3fpj4b42v/bafkreig4bvxsokots2k35tfvdighlp7skvmsqgdhtkvvf532eppn3bqg6a@jpeg)
February 20, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I see they started with the copyeditors.