Dave Bluestone

A decade ago, a speechwriter for American politicians wrote a speech an Israeli politician and asked for an interview from him for his magazine.

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Today, federal paramilitary rounding people based on their race.

(I think we've got bigger problems)

She would have been US attorney but for JD Vance putting on a show for Trump. Now she’s the judge.

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Today's hit on the shakedown dart board: Trucks

Dunning-Kruger effect personified.

Every new attack on our freedoms makes me feel like “Give me that baby you warthog from hell.”

Protect the power of the purse.

The biggest problem with social media is everyone’s ability to be an idiot and everyday people’s inability to figure out who is an idiot for complicated issues.

YouTube video by LoVetta Jenkins (Chatty Passenger) James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni "A Conversation". Full Broadcast Video

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This is how you get regimes like in Syria where they were torturing their own citizens simply for wanting democracy.

People who are dumb, untrained, or sociopaths are given the power to do violence on behalf of the government. They are their own little kings, bullies on the powerless.

The modern version of Saddam's big meeting.

Pete gets it, the good, meaningful stuff underlying the ritual and tradition.

a united states park police car is parked on the tarmac ALT: a united states park police car is parked on the tarmac

Me Ne Frego.

It’s the serious person in the room penalty.

At this point, they’d do better having Ossoff ride around the rotunda on a horse yelling shut er down for the circus that has become Congress. You wanted a clown show, well here it is.

But not the power of the purse.

If Congress shuts down and stops working, how will we be able to tell?

Why not just get some buses to bring back to the people Gov. Abbott sent up?

Or would that not be enough of a show?

Must be terrifying to see dogs playing at the beach.

Actually, it's literally beautiful.

As if that corner on a Sunday afternoon was going to be a flashpoint.

Looks like a worse case than that of Ham Sandwich.

Nuanced and make sense. Follow up question:

With a president who is very adept at branding and a society lacking the attention span to remember more than a catchy, single word, how would you label in one word what we are experiencing now?

Seems like this explains why an above porch light doesn’t drawn moths, but the lights next to your front door do.

What a weird-ass Rapture. Only the Constitution disappeared.

Hahahahaha

Hahahaha. That was exactly what I first thought even before reading your text.

We Have To Ask Young Men For Something Or they will give us something else

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100% right.

Thank you for writing this.

Imagine 10% of Americans being willing to listen to long enough to appreciate what they are saying.

a man in a hat is singing into a microphone and saying do you remember the 21st night of september . ALT: a man in a hat is singing into a microphone and saying do you remember the 21st night of september .

DO YA REMEMBER !!!

“It is due process, and due process alone, that allows you to demonstrate that you are a citizen. Without it, the masked men in the black vans can simply claim that you are a foreign terrorist and disappear you.”