emily

What’s even worse is that because Trump is such a threat we can’t even talk about Biden’s policies, good bad or horrible. This is a politics lacking in substance and man, it is a shame. We deserve better.

Treating this Fourth of July as America’s going out of business blowout sale 🇺🇸

Hahaha I got a graphic media label for a picture of Brian McBride and his bloody eyebrow in the 2006 World Cup

We used to be a country

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A dozen years ago I was cleaning beaches weekly, & thinking about hope vs despair. theflotsamdiaries.blogspot.com/2011/12/hope...

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I can't believe we, as a species, invented bread and cheese - two things that require multiple, complicated steps as well as microbe husbandry - and this is the best political system we've got

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A republic, if you can keep it.

joe biden is winning the tie (+ knot) game tonight so at least there's that

whoever let joe biden walk onto this stage like this is a traitor to america and should be treated as such

2 minutes in, this is the worst possible performance joe biden could be putting on, close the rolls now this election is over folks

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Today, on Juneteenth, if you are a descendant of a formerly enslaved person I invite you to take a moment to acknowledge, mourn, and cherish all it means. If you are a descendant of a people who benefited from slavery I invite you to explore what steps remain to address the legacy of that injustice.

I just really think that the juror who acted perfectly ethically in this situation should get to keep the $120k bag of cash, as a little treat. Incentivize good behavior! What's the FBI gonna do with it anyway!!

Anyway, I'm pretty excited for jury duty tomorrow

Juror in Feeding Our Future case excused after being offered bags of cash to acquit • Minnesota Reformerminnesotareformer.com A juror in the Feeding Our Future case was excused Monday morning after prosecutors said an unidentified individual went to the juror’s house on Sunday night and offered a bag containing $120,000 in c...

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The Massachusetts "millionaires tax" has vastly surpassed projections, bringing in more than $1.8 billion in revenue so far this fiscal year — with the prospect of a surplus of hundreds of millions of dollars to spend on transportation and education

State’s ‘millionaires tax’ has already generated $1.8 billion this year, blowing past state projections - The Boston Globewww.bostonglobe.com The estimated haul is already $800 million more than what Governor Maura Healey and state lawmakers planned to spend from its revenue in fiscal year 2024.

Team Debling

i just planted 50 plants in my new native shade garden and then a thunderstorm came, god is nature and she loves me

I am about halfway through the Idea of You and I am both delighted and deeply worried about the state of art/cultural criticism

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Throughout the morning, conservative justices have been citing infirmities in the criminal justice system writ large as reasons to give former presidents immunity, rather than things that ought to be fixed for everyone.

pretty bleak day

Listening to RED is a good reminder this week

taylor swift needs to stop putting aaron dessner in the basement and let him bejeweled.

taylor to joe alwyn

FLORENCE!!!!!!!!

i regret to inform everyone with the profound statements about beyonce's cover's lipizzan that *all* grey (what we usually call "white") horses start out dark and lighten to white with age.

I had no idea who I was cheering for tonight but I am a sucker for a defensive performance TEAM NIKA MUHL!!!!!!

I finished an 8th circuit brief and a MN Supreme Court brief today and my brain is so fried and why isn’t the new season of bridgerton out 😭😭😭

smarter people than me are going to write the articles on this with much more knowledge than me, but cowboy carter is obviously a work of genius. the willie nelson radio show structure! the linda martell interludes! beach boys interpolation!