Steve Eldridge

Lost Our Way

My #SongOfTheWeek is Lost Our Way by Fighting Gravity.

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Perfection

This is our fucking country

Don't Worry Baby

My #SongOfTheWeek is Billy Joel’s live cover of Don’t Worry Baby by The Beach Boys.

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Come on, guys.
Call. Your. Father.

Make Smog Great Again!

Multiple airports refuse to play Kristi Noem video that blames Democrats for government shutdown | CNN Several major US airports - including Las Vegas’ Harry Reid International, Portland International, Seattle-Tacoma International, and three in New York - are refusing to play a video of Secretary of Ho...

The party of limited government wants to use its governmental power to shout its brand messaging at you everywhere all the time.

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The 30th

My #SongOfTheWeek is The 30th by Billie Eilish.

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“Whether the women like it or not.” Promises made, promises kept.

Financial disclosure gaps, questionable gifts cloud Earle-Sears’ bid for governor • Virginia Mercury Virginia Republican gubernatorial nominee Winsome Earle-Sears built her political brand on transparency and accountability. But a closer look at her public filings reveals a pattern of omissions and i...

Any chance national media reports actual corruption as breathlessly as they report corny jokes? Any calls for her to drop out of the race on account of her . . . actual corruption?

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It’s almost as if drag queens maybe aren’t the problem maybe. And that the actual problem is . . .

My #SongOfTheWeek is Little Angel by Robert Kerr and Willie Byrn.

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Maybe we shouldn’t stunt cast the Oval Office from now on?

Lots of attorneys catching reprimands from the bar for submitting shitty and inaccurate AI-generated briefs to the court. Since we’re demonstrably not evolved enough to handle social media, ought we be fucking with around with this?

This is a personal fave. Still cracks me up every time!

It’s a competitive field, too!

When We Were Writers

My #SongOfTheWeek is When We Were Writers by the Indigo Girls.

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Hegseth’s surprise gathering of top military brass is to deliver speech on ‘warrior ethos,’ sources say | CNN Politics Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s surprise gathering of hundreds of generals and admirals in Virginia next week is being called so he can describe the administration’s reinvention of the Department ...

I’ll likewise be addressing the football team on the topics of toughness and grit in my capacity as a guy who’s drank beers in a football stadium

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Morrissey breaks with Democrats, backs GOP’s John Reid for lieutenant governor • Virginia Mercury John Reid, the Republican nominee for lieutenant governor, on Tuesday launched Democrats for John Reid, a coalition of Virginia Democrats publicly lining up behind his candidacy — a twist that promise...

Career POS endorsing a career POS is the kind of poetry Republicans like because it rhymes.

“And in 2014 . . . he was convicted on a misdemeanor charge stemming from allegations of an inappropriate relationship with a 17-year old receptionist in his law office.”

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Oxford Comma

My #SongOfTheWeek is Oxford Comma by the Vampire Weekend.

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Your healthcare shouldn’t be publicly traded

My #SongOfTheWeek is All Over You by the Pat McGee Band.

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Try Me

My #SongOfTheWeek is Try Me by O.A.R..

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Yeah.

Good 'food.' Fast. We can debate all day about what equal footing looks like. But the surest test to see if privilege might exist in our lives is to ask, “would I trade places with that person?"

“We can put fish stickers on our cars, we can spend all day sitting beside giant crosses . . . But until we stop comparing where we think others should sit compared to where we sit at God’s table, we will never see the Kindom of God.”

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Handbags And Gladrags

My #SongOfTheWeek is Handbags and Gladrags by Chase.

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“I am an Army of One (-dering why I enlisted to pick up litter in Northwest DC).”

Good thread. Put your eye on it.

This is the most horrifying part.

No Expectations Sara Melson · Safe and Sound · Song · 2016

My #SongOfTheWeek is No Expectations by Sara Melson.

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more of this pls