Seth Masket

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I wrote back in June that Trump is essentially attempting a Little Rock 1957 deployment only this time for white people, and he just tweeted it out
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Second prize is two dinners with Trudie & Sting

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Does he think fishing boats are just wealthy guys going out for the day to drink beer and catch a marlin?

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I grew up in LA and was taught to take my dishes to the sink. It's a shame that world is gone.

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Like half of LA is broke screenwriters and probably 5-10% of them are good, which is a lot of talented people willing to work cheap! And still the sub-prestige level of TV writing is such garbage.

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"Species" may be a precedent

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I'm watching "Zero Day" on Netflix and I can't remember ever before seeing so many very talented and successful actors delivering such stupid performances in a project not directed by George Lucas

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Oh no not la policia

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Thank goodness, Spotify will finally recommend music to me

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But they are highly qualified in that they were made to feel bad for their choices one time at previous institutions

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Olivia Messer

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I kind of can’t believe this Bari Weiss quote is even real, and yet www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

“I know that there are some people in this room who don’t believe that my marriage should have been legal … and that’s ok. Because we’re all Americans who want lower taxes.”

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It violates federal law

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Putting Johnny Fontaine in that new war picture at the demand of the Corleones will definitely help restore the power of the Screen Actors Guild

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"We cannot set a precedent where the party in power uses police force to indict its political opponents."
-Vivek Ramaswamy, 2023

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Which is the passive part?

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A student told me about this but I had to confirm myself: when you call the White House Comment Line (202-456-1111), there's a recording of Karoline Leavitt blaming Democrats for the shutdown because of their love for illegal immigrants.

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Oh I thought it was disfigured and unusable

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I very much enjoyed the new Downton Abbey film, but some medical retcons keep nagging me: Thomas apparently grew back the hand he lost in the Great War, and Patmore invented artificial lenses after her cataract surgery

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The NYT Daily profile of Russ Vought is basically, “Can you imagine a pious conservative Christian man becoming an advocate for defunding the welfare state and befriending Donald Trump?!? The mind boggles!”

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Oh hell yes. From @juliaazari.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/goodpoli...

But the main coalition-building point still stands: “politics is for power,” Klein insists in these interviews (presumably quoting political scientist Eitan Hersh). True enough! But power also exists within coalitions. And in contemporary US political parties, the rules over things like who has veto power over presidential nominations are increasingly loose and constantly being renegotiated formally. Asking core groups within the Democratic party – African Americans, LGBTQ Americans – to take a backseat because some other groups are pivotal for the coalition is asking a lot. This arrangement has implications for who will drive the agenda of that coalition.

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China doesn’t understand that only the US’s actions in a trade war are valid

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Famously woke Richard Nixon

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Radical left economic terrorists depriving Claire’s of business by piercing ears at home

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Clinton’s deplorables, Romney’s 47%, Obama’s bitter clingers - these quotes were saying the same thing: there are some we’ll never reach, and others who deserve our empathy and attention. We’ve decided, wrongly, that those are death to campaigns.