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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 9h

I think Democrats may have finally found their Trump (derogatory? I think? Unclear)

Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 9h

Got to be honest, that was the most interesting and gripping interview with a Democratic politician I've seen at least since Barack Obama was a candidate

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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 9h

Kristi Noem gazing sadly at the vacant site of Multnomah Greyhound Park racetrack, realizing her quarry has escaped her once again

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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 9h

The other hilarious thing is that it didn't even work -- Trump lost! Which says more about the unique weirdness of 2020 than it does about the strategy, I think. They're right to try it again.

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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 10h

Gender is a *huge* part of why that set fixated on the hyper-virile Kennedys as their avatar figures. See Garry Wills for further reference.

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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 12h

Albert Woolson, the last surviving veteran of the Union army in the Civil War, lived long enough to hear Elvis’s debut lp

Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.social · 12h

A man who witnessed the Lincoln assassination lived until 1956 and could have theoretically listened to the first album by Harry Belafonte, who in turn lived long enough to hear "WAP"

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 15h

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 13h

Cunningly camouflaged as Bears fans

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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 13h

Frescoed that camel, boss, real giraffe-like just like you asked

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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 14h

Oh, what Charles I and Louis XVI would have given for a Chuck Schumer in their lives.

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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 14h

Hold on: the president is illegally using his tariff slush fund to pay for a bipartisan social program, but *not* using it to pay his security forces running a domestic invasion? Bush league dictatorship. Caligula shit. Embarrassing.

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 16h

these clowns aren’t even talking to each other at this point

Republican leaders clash on emergency troop pay vote

Some lawmakers want to move standalone legislation to deliver military paychecks amid the shutdown.

www.politico.com

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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 15h

Also that they have (successfully) made the average voter-consumer incapable of telling the difference between a news report and some dude shouting online.

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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 16h

I think what's more likely to happen is that the government officially reopens, but it doesn't matter: Trump has already established that he has sole control over spending and withholding. Congressional appropriations are just kabuki theater from now on. I think most of Congress is okay with that.

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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 16h

Okay, but, does anyone actually even have standing to sue over it? I don't think the Supreme Court would allow anyone to contest it. It's a clear case where they'd say it's a political question for Congress to deal with -- and they wouldn't be wrong!

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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 18h

Sterling reporting based on typing quotes from a thing that the reporter just watched on TV with the rest of us.

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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 18h

I'm sure Taylor has written at least one song that fans will have to obligatorily sing during the second half of college basketball games someday

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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 18h

Neil Diamond of our time

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