Kevin J. Maroney, he/him

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A dilettante in the old sense.
"We are all us."-Greg Stafford
"It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting."--Stoppard

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Ouch

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Here's some fashy tears for your Sunday.

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“The rabbits got the gun now” coming from a lawyer for a crooked Governor going after a newspaper writer is such a telling comment about how much we’ve let powerful people cast themselves as victims and it goes from this to Elon to Trump and everywhere else

Mississippi is the poorest state in the US. Even though the state gets federal welfare funds, it is difficult to get welfare. The money was all getting stolen, and they got away with it. Now the journalists who exposed the story are facing a lawsuit and jail. www.nbcnews.com/investigatio...

She exposed how the nation's poorest state spent federal welfare money. Now she might go to jail.www.nbcnews.com "The rabbit's got the gun now," said a lawyer for former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, who is trying to force reporter Anna Wolfe to reveal her sources.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

A lot of the emo bands from the early 2000s like My Chemical Romance, and Taking Back Sunday grew up around but not in NYC. This is mostly because of Mayor Rudi Gulianis successful efforts to regulate against the nightlife scene. The kids needed music and found it just outside the city.

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But that’s what will happen if people follow your plan. That’s it. There’s no null space in history we hang out in while you gut the Dems. If they’re not in power, the GOP is. Even if (if!) your plan works, we’re looking at 20-30 years of right wing Christian national governance. Right?

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"If the left allows it to be" is a code phrase that means "If we get fed up and start murdering you, it's your fault." There is no amount of submission and supplication they will accept as sufficient to meet their bar. The Heritage Foundation wants to murder Americans.

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

#EvergreenTweet

No media organization, university, or government entity should platform or host this man or the Heritage Foundation ever again.

People aren't happy with Biden stumbling through his overly complex answers. They fricking *hate* Trump's deranged farrago of violent lies.

All is not lost. Don’t act like all is lost.

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Well this is grim

Connections Puzzle #392 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 I did not solve the purple--100% ignorance of the subject matter.

It is shocking how much value is jammed into this bundle. Any individual volume of the Cults of Runequest series, or the Glorantha Sourcebook, are easily worth $25 each, and the Guide to Glorantha is worth multiples of that. Simply the most enchanted world in fantasy literature.

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I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

if you’re waiting for everyone around you to wake up, you’ll wait forever. this is how the people grinding our bones to make their bread WANT you to be. paralyzed, alienated & purposeless

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Organizers got enough signatures to put a measure protecting abortion on the ballot in Arkansas. In *Arkansas*. They had *no national support*. Ignore the pundits melting down over not being treated as Very Special Boys. Dobbs has fundamentally changed elections. Everything they know is wrong.

Arkansas abortion rights groups collect enough signatures to advance ballot measurewww.nbcnews.com A measure to enshrine abortion rights in the ruby red state’s constitution is now one step closer to making the November ballot — but major obstacles remain.

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You’ll never guess which of the two candidates is a convicted rapist.

what

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a funny thing Biden could do, unitary-executive-authority-wise is just order GSA to stop cutting paychecks to a bunch of Republican judges and law clerks for a while.

Connections Puzzle #391 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Green stumped me for a long time and I didn't solve purple.

Wordle 1,112 3/6* 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Par, and I beat the bot on a coin-flip.

Connections Puzzle #390 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Very straightforward. I did solve the last group.

Interesting thread about the debate fallout from @fawfulfan.bsky.social over on The Other Place that hasn't been ported here yet.

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Crazy to me that anyone is having a conversation about whether Biden should step aside and not which of the Roberts Gang of Six should be under federal investigation tomorrow.

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In fact, the national media covered it so little that the Left spent the next NEARLY A DECADE pretending like Hillary never campaigned in Wisconsin! Like, literally never even set foot in the state.

In 2016, Hillary Clinton gave a speech in Wisconsin about the importance of the Supreme Court. She warned that 2016 was "make or break" for the court—and the country. National media—focused on her emails and Trump's antics—barely covered the speech. www.thenation.com/article/arch...

Hillary Clinton Just Delivered the Strongest Speech of Her Campaign—and the Media Barely Noticedwww.thenation.com Nothing sums up the high-drama, low-substance nature of 2016 race coverage more than the underplaying of a serious speech about the Supreme Court.

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"They're just fearmongering about Project 2025," brought to you by the people behind "They're just fearmongering about a coup" and "they're just fearmongering about abortion bans"

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One thing I think people forget is how relentlessly *stupid* every day of the Trump administration was. He doesn’t need to do a big elaborate complicated conspiracy, he can just (e.g.) email a list of every U.S. agent in the field to Putin and say it’s to own the libs, and *that* will have immunity.

"The root problem appears to be that we can't get the people who want problems to give us permission to fix the problems, and we can't get the people who claim to want to fix the problems to stop asking those people for permission." --A.R. Moxon ( @juliusgoat.bsky.social )

One of the things that sucks about actually being able to “do your own research” is how I’m constantly being shown the ways that my patients, people I care about, or in this case all American children, are suffering horribly from easily preventable problems that I am still unable to solve in any way

When little kids don’t have stable housing, it can affect their health laterwww.npr.org Researchers following a group of American children for decades found that even short periods of housing instability increased the chances of poor mental and physical health years later.

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Jan 6 was one of the worst days of my life as an American citizen. July 1st was, too. No one is coming to help. We are the help.

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And here's the thing, a lot of people esp white people will say stupid shit like that could never happen because they think standards blah blah blah There's nothing Trump is incapable of except compassion and empathy and he's been OUT HERE TELLING YOU HE WANTS TO KILL HIS LONG ENEMIES LIST. Also

Sotomayor's dissent is chilling: "When [the president]...orders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune. Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune, immune."

Wordle 1,111 3/6* ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Birdie. Second guess was bad in principle but paid off.

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Anyway congratulations to the Tories on absolutely eating shit. You've worked so hard for this

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IMO this is a straight-up ageist and ableist image, no?

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David M. Perry

Maybe There will be some explanation that people have the wrong guy when they’ve looked up his voting record. I don’t know. I’ll go back to my general statement That opinion pages should not be printing falsifiable bullshit. That should not be the job.