Barbara Genova

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Pen name of a writer active between 2021 and 2024.

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do people even know what Parkinson's looks like or are we just throwing shit at the wall here

Breaking News: A Parkinson’s expert visited the White House eight times in eight months from last summer through this spring, according to official visitor logs. The administration has said that President Biden has no signs of the disease.

Parkinson’s Expert Visited the White House Eight Times in Eight Monthswww.nytimes.com The White House has said that President Biden has no signs of the disease and that there has been no reason to update the most recent testing, conducted in February.

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who knows how often i'll actually publish these, but here's a thing i've been working on. it's too long, i am not a professional writer (at least not this way) but i thought he was fun to talk to. hopefully it's fun to read. plenty of playlists to be found on the site, too.

Leo | Tattooergolikehellmachine.com I’ve tried to do other normal-ish kinds of jobs, and I was very, very bad at them.

Apparently Marine Le Pen's most ardent supporters were ready to celebrate with flags and party favors, with some TV crews present for the occasion, and when the news came in the TV crews started clapping. Flags were quickly put down. (just reported by local news, sounds like a gag, but still...)

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In the week following the debate the New York Times ran 192 stories about Biden's performance and six about Project 2025. x.com/Will_Bunch/s...

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For the people who don’t have time, here’s your Readers Digest version. You’re welcome.

The OPINIONS AND POLLS FROM THE U.S. cycle is a daily occurrence in another continent and I'm running out of fresh ways to say "it's gonna be OPINION AND POLLS until November".

Pretty happy with never having developed any para-social attachment to any artist in many years. Granted, I just happened to be around when a few old friends got caught up in it, and "it" looked like "an intensity" in search of a human object to latch on to.

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Don Zeko

one of the most dishonest things people in my profession do is pretend as if “the story” and “the narrative” isn’t something they have direct control over

Ah, I see we couldn't quietly celebrate a rare Labour W, of course.

WELL OKAY THEN.

I tried to read the article out loud to Pa Genova and I gave up after the second divorce details, so that's before the gnarly alleged Murder-Cousin he tripled down on defending long after the facts, to the point he wrote an entire book about the case shifting the blame on two teenage kids.

article dropped which included both 1) a picture of him eating a roast dog carcass and 2) a credible allegation of him groping the babysitter

I hate the "let's run Michelle Obama as a hypothetical candidate in some poll" thing so much, because it reliably gets picked up as a legitimate news item, thereby kicking up yet another "... is Michelle running?" cycle. For God's sake, just put The Rock in those "what if" polls, watch what happens.

Man if there was ever a better example of why you should be taking polling of a head to head matchup with Trump with a grain of salt...

another Summer, another season of "your girl ends up streaming WH press briefings from an unreliable wi-fi connection outdoors", now where's the cat.

"picture of a barbecued dog" = campaign ender, in different times, i think.

Steve Bannon begins serving 4-month sentence in federal prison for defying congressional subpoena edition.cnn.com/2024/07/01/p...

Steve Bannon begins serving 4-month sentence in federal prison for defying congressional subpoena | CNN Politicsedition.cnn.com Steve Bannon, a former Donald Trump White House strategist, reported to a federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut, on Monday to begin a four-month sentence for defying a congressional subpoena.

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anyway, is everyone good and mad now? fucking stay that way for the next five months, there will be more aggressions and indignities and insults to come. staying mad as hell about it is how we won in 2020 and it's how we'll win in 2024.

Demented televangelist preaching in the background of "MaXXXine" or me trying to wade through French electoral mores: you deciiiiide.

Okay, I typed the sentence "they have runoff for EVERYTHING" in a private message to a friend, time to log off already.

ah, those far more innocent times such as 2012, when "Mitt Romney knew immediately that his oped in the New York Times entitled “Let Detroit Go Bankrupt” would cause him trouble politically." www.politico.com/story/2013/1...

Book: Obama mulled Clinton as VPwww.politico.com Details from “Double Down: Game Change 2012."

“Why didn’t you idiots nominate Johnny Unbeatable? You should vote for Johnny Unbeatable.” www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2017/12/ball...

The Ballad of Johnny Unbeatable - Lawyers, Guns & Moneywww.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com I keep meaning to respond to Ezra’s “HILLARY CLEARED THE FIELD” piece, which is the best of its genre and not very convincing even so. (TL, DR: 1)no such theory can coherently explain why O’Malley doe...

ah yes, the habitual situation I get myself in, where technically there is a movie theater nearby, yet the projector's broken / they're screening Minions 4 for the next several months / both.

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Every day I wonder more if I’m the only person who remembers absolutely anything about 1968. You actively want a convention, IN CHICAGO, with chaos in the streets because of foreign policy decisions and a contested convention? What the fuck are you thinking?

YES THAT WORKED SO WELL AND DID NOT AT ALL THROW THE PARTY INTO A DIVISIVE NOMINATION CONTEST AND LOST ELECTION THAT WOULD HAUNT IT FOR THE NEXT HALF CENTURY

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🏳️‍⚧️ The Josie Zone

I’m sorry but I have the disease that makes you think of MANHUNTER (1986) all the time

I had a lawyer acquaintance blab about the single most delicate case he was handling at the time, and he did it over breakfast, unprompted, in public.

yes. people love to tell me things, to an extent I can scarcely convey

Italy had a BIPOLAR PRESIDENT who cheerfully, loudly went off his meds in the early '90s and the only reason why the nation was spared the collective trauma is "the Internet wasn't a thing back then".

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Last month, Russell Brand visited Jordan Peterson's podcast for “The Evolution of Theology.” Which, given these two figures, had to focus on topics like the unreligious impulsivity of gay people and why slaves should “just not be slaves.” www.conspirituality.net/episodes/bri...

Brief: Jordan Peterson Teaches Russell Brand Theology — Conspiritualitywww.conspirituality.net Last month, Russell Brand visited Jordan Peterson's podcast for “The Evolution of Theology.” Which, given these two figures, had to focus on topics like the unreligious impulsivity of gay people and...

My boy enjoys biting me once a week, out of the blue, no reason other than telling me, "lady, I have SOME TEETH here".

It's not that they are really BITEY-bitey. It's just that without an adult cat to let them know what the limits are, they can sometimes go too far without intending to hurt anyone. A human carer can only teach them so much.

anyway,

anyway, as a bilingual person, my biggest contribution to whatever discourse you've got going today would be "rigore è quando arbitro fischia".

Me every time a handsome politician of any gender enters public consciousness.