Lee M

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Family guy, Marylander, friend to an opinionated Chihuahua mix; sometimes tweets as @thinking_reed

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I'm old enough to remember a media that in 1992 treated the defining story of the whole RNC as being the terrifying extremism of Pat Buchanan, who was not the nominee or VP nominee but GHWB's defeated rival. And that was for a level of extremism that Trump or Vance tweet out before breakfast.

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when people say stuff like "you really can just straight up ignore all mainstream media," it's worth asking what vested interest they might have in you doing that. e.g., allred's for-profit schools have been in the news lately for allegations of predatory lending: www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

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Terrify your friends and loved ones by promising to put them in an Amazon Prime Decorative Cremation Urn

Netflix Glen Powell vehicles ranked: - The Hit Man - Set It Up - Anyone But You

Single-handedly trying to prove horseshoe theory

man, Dennis Kuchinich is a piece of *shit*

"Your political strategy pales in comparison to mine: spending hours on a niche social media platform trying to bully Jamelle Bouie into quitting his job"

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We also need to rediscover the wisdom of the ancients (pizza, Chinese and Indian were popular delivery pre-pandemic because they keep pretty well, stop ordering French Fries to your house for the love of God)

One of the things that gets lost in the arguments about delivery is that it got normalized durning the pandemic as a way for restaurants to survive and now it's a pretty extreme luxury service. Also it makes your food worse.

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Wake up, babe, new age gap discourse just dropped

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For reasons I do not understand, most of the mainstream press reported that Trump “softened” the gop position on abortion based on a platform that declares abortion should be illegal in all 50 states www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Stop Soft-Pedaling the GOP’s Extreme Positionswww.theatlantic.com The party’s platform on abortion and LGBTQ rights is just as radical as ever.

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Thankful to Past Lee who scheduled today's annual wellness appointment with my PCP at the office near one of my favorite bookstores and coffee shops

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For truly, the Right Whale’s mouth would accommodate a couple of whist-tables, and comfortably seat all the players.

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I expected this to be tragic but it is somehow way more tragic than I expected

Benji Gregory dead at 46: ALF star died in car alongside service dogwww.dailymail.co.uk Former child star Benji Gregory has died aged 46.

You might not like it but this is what peak performance looks like

Thought this was a pretty good conversation between Ezra Klein and Jamelle Bouie. I identify with Bouie's agnosticism: every available path here carries significant risk! www.nytimes.com/2024/07/09/o...

Opinion | ‘The Real Danger Within the Democratic Party of a Fundamental Crack-Up’www.nytimes.com The Times Opinion columnist Jamelle Bouie walks through the risks of a brokered convention.

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The "should Biden drop out" controversy is so great because it makes for maximum anxiety, speculation, and conflict -- none of which could conceivably influence the outcome. This is the kind of moment liberals live for.

Gut-wrenching story by the daughter of novelist Alice Munro about her stepfather's sexual abuse and how her mother did less than nothing about it www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

My stepfather sexually abused me when I was a child. My mother, Alice Munro, chose to stay with himwww.thestar.com In the shadow of my mother, a literary icon, my family and I have hidden a secret for decades. It’s time to tell my story.

Reminder: It feels really good to see the far right lose an election

Enjoyed this "lay theology" by the eminent sociologist of religion

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Say what you will about the various Democratic party actors in the fight over whether Biden stays on the ticket, but I can understand all of their behavior much better than I can the journalists who are trying to write their way into the camps

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Hate it when non-philosophers criticise a particular philosopher for their obscurity and dullness. I mean, they’re normally right, but you have to study for years before you’re entitled to say so.

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Thanks largely to Biden and the Democratic party there is now a kind of global race to get to the mass, chear carbon-free energy. We're going to hit peak global emissions (fingers crossed) this year or next. We're deploying solar at a level that blowing away every single prediction.

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Far-right chud in NYT: "They went about the ordinary business of life - laboring, raising children, worshipping their creator - untroubled by futile expectations of change." Medieval commoners: "I would rather the king and all kings were dead than that my son should be hurt on his little finger."

More anti-democratic thoughts from 2018 the NYT allowed this writer to exclude from his current piece. Delivered with an air of detached irony, as if he miiight be joking or exaggerating. But is he?

From a Simpsons Facebook group my wife belongs to

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BAD NEWS: Lee Greenwood saw his shadow. We’re going to have 6 more days of fireworks.

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I love that they had this reference art ready to go in case they needed a scene where ET runs into his ex and has to keep up a brave face when she tells him she's engaged now

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982): Character concept illustration by Carlo Rambaldi

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I always cut the plastic soda rings for sea turtles even though they probably wouldn't give me the time of day.

Don't tell the conservatives but Clue is woke now