Alice Overton Chambers

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Cold

"some."

In my mind, The United States has always been a nation of two possibilities. One is that promise in the Declaration, that dream we struggle to make reality, the one where we stumble and fall but pick ourselves back up and dust ourselves off and try again. The one that has actualized itself in

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Coach,couch... it's all the same.

Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone.

But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.

I’m really struggling to imagine Congress without Rep Jasmine Crockett next year. We need more fighters, not fewer.

Mariners
Dave Nehaus
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Boys will be boys.

In the basement of the Hotel Monaco in downtown Seattle at a financial crimes conference.

Following a white man to war because you disliked the sound of a black woman laughing will go down in American history as one of the dumbest acts of self-sabotage ever.

Everything the Ellison family could own if Paramount buys Warner Bros:

Paramount+
CBS
CNN
Showtime
HBO
Warner Bros
TNT
TBS
MTV
DC Studios
Nickelodeon
Comedy Central
Cartoon Network
And more...

This is a rotten deal that the Trump regime has rubber stamped.

State AGs must step in and block it.

I think we need to take a step back and acknowledge the absurdity of House Republicans targeting their Epstein investigation on HILLARY CLINTON (who says she never met him!) while ignoring DONALD TRUMP (who Epstein described as his best friend!)

These are not serious people or good faith actors.

Block the Paramount/Warner Bros deal, Dems in California.

Play hardball.

How did we go from the breakup of Ma Bell in the 80's to this happy horseshit?

Lie after lie after lie.

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The best: The Voyage Home
The worst: The Motion Picture
(Too much like Space 1999)

What a shame we bothered.

Let’s hope he isn’t the designated survivor tonight.

when the justice department reveals itself to be untrustworthy, then surprise! the courts no longer trust the justice department:

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Time to queue The Muppet Show.

tweet from lisa desjardins reporting SOTU might be up to 3 hours long

It’s both funny and cosmically correct that the U.S. men’s hockey chodes will have to sit through 2+ hours of rambling from their addled little king while the U.S. Women’s team gets to skip the speech and party with Flavor Flav in Vegas

Joint session of the House and Senate? Hell of a locker room.
Just another pedestrian sausage fest.

Boycott the State of the Union Trump doesn’t deserve our attention

I’m not going to watch the State of the Union address Tuesday night. I urge you not to, either. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-fate-of-the-dis-union

Takes me back to Christmas break in. The mid 80's listening to The American Top 40 top 100 songs countdown on New Year's Eve.
One tiny 🧵 in the tapestry.

The Salvation Army band played...

Maybe she is on tour with Bruce Springsteen?

Sonny!