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1) In law, the word "due" refers to an obligation or requirement. 2) If those 8MM people are subject to our legal jurisdiction, then they are; if not, then not - you can't have it both ways. Do you want to say they're not? I mean, on TV and all?

In loving memory of my very dear 6-foot-7-inch Republican senator friend In memory of Alan Simpson, who died this morning

You know, I used to be a Republican. I guess nowadays I'm a lot like that cow they mention at the end.
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Elon Musk Has Wanted the Government Shutdown Sources tell WIRED that Elon Musk has wanted a government shutdown in part because it would potentially make it easier to eliminate the jobs of hundreds of thousands of federal workers.

No, Chuck Schumer isn't stupid.
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The NYT, WaPo, LAT, CNN, etc etc have shifted to the right. Fox & the Post et al have always been hard right. Twitter & Meta are controlled by right wingers. On a daily basis, millions of Americans - probably the majority - see nothing but sanitized, accomodationist, right wing coverage of Trump.

Speaking as someone who's in the process of grading 57 critiques of peer-reviewed empirical research articles, if I never read the word "delves" again in my life I will die happy.

If people are curious: secretary.columbia.edu/directory

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20: Joy and Woe are Woven Fine - Wm. Blake

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19: Water - Ralph Waldo Emerson.
"Elegantly destroy."
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I'm a Social Democrat.
This isn't the first time I've been told this, but last time it was a charming German woman, not a Buzzfeed-adjacent quiz.

Voting for the Mayor Who Promised to Blow Up the City Doesn’t Mean I Approve of the Mayor Blowing Up the City It’s so easy to label people these days. From the way folks have been talking, you’d think everyone falls into two buckets: those who voted against...

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Trump Is Nero While Washington Burns ‘Trump’s message is that being his ally serves no purpose, because he will not defend you.’

“Washington has become the court of Nero,” Senator Claude Malhuret declared before the French Parliament this week. His speech, whose dark urgency and stark rhetorical force made it a social-media sensation, has been translated and adapted by The Atlantic:

Well, you haven't met my mother.

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18: French Horn - Jane Hirschfeld
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Me to the guest conductor, as he comes to ask the horn section why we're all changing seats:
Yeah, we're missing a soloist, so I'm gonna fuck it up for you, okay?
He [blinking]: O - kay?

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17: Address to the Devil - Robert Burns
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How to Reverse Declining History Major Enrollment Numbers, Which Are All the Faculty’s Fault How to Reverse Declining History Major Enrollment Numbers, Which Are All the Faculty's Fault

"A strategic plan from the Vice Chancellor of Student Enrollment and Faculty Shaming."

Listen to the Years Flying on JSTOR Loureine Aber, Listen to the Years Flying, Poetry, Vol. 23, No. 6 (Mar., 1924), pp. 303-304

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16: Listen to the Years Flying - Loureine Aber

(n.b. - note this facsimile continues on 2nd page.
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We went from "this could be okay" to "raise chickens in your yard and convert your Roth to canned goods" in five weeks.

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The ABA rejects efforts to undermine the courts and the legal profession Three weeks ago, the American Bar Association spoke to you about values that guide us. We called upon every lawyer to insist that the government adhere to four major principles of law that have guided...

Wow, the Bar Association is pissed.
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Resources for Loss: “Death Is Nothing At All” by Henry Scott Holland, contributed by Bobby Degeratu (2022) Death is nothing at all.It does not count.I have only slipped away into the next room.Nothing has happened.Everything remains exactly as it was.I am I, and you are you,and the old life that we ...

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15: Death is Nothing at All - Henry Scott Holland

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Handed the teller a $20, told her to give me a roll of quarters and, shrugging, "whatever else is in the drawer."

It wasn't until much later that I was abruptly grateful she'd simply handed me a $10 bill along with the quarters, rather than pushing the silent alarm.

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14: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening - Robert Frost

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All of my activities are sensitive.

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13: My Sad Self - Allan Ginsberg

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12: Freedom - Langston Hughes

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Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

The Weary Blues Droning a drowsy syncopated tune,

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11: The Weary Blues - Langston Hughes

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