@EsotericCD In the summer you ate dinner and took off. Parents had only a vague idea of your whereabouts. It was a glorious time to be a kid.
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D.S. Sebastian Somebody Make It Stop
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D.S. Sebastian Somebody Make It Stop
@DSSebastian1
I’m only here because someone has to ramrod this hellsite and I’m, you know, a giver.
Scottsdale, AZ انضم Temmuz 2017
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The phrase "it's ten p.m., do you know where your children are?" was such a commonplace growing up that *even kids* would sometimes quote it at you - always after 10pm, of course.
Dr. Jebra Faushay@JebraFaushay
Gen X was so feral that the television had to remind parents to go find their kids at ten p.m.
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@greggnunziata Cameras in courtrooms and particularly in committee rooms are a terrible idea. In fact, cameras in any workplace are a terrible idea.
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This is a terrible idea.
Better idea: "Cameras out of the Committee Rooms Act."
Craig Caplan@CraigCaplan
Senate Judiciary Cmte votes today on the Cameras in the Courtroom Act, legislation requiring the U.S. Supreme Court to allow TV coverage of its sessions as well as the Sunshine in the Courtroom Act, which would allow photography & video inside federal appeals and district courts.
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"I have seen men I thought were serious receive a mere text message from the White House and squeal like a 4-year-old girl who has been presented with a real live unicorn on her birthday." By Kevin D. Williamson. 🙂 thedispatch.com/article/republ…
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@jarvis_best @damintoell Will has circled back into the fold today, because, you know, he’s…Will
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When you've lost Will Chamberlain
Will Chamberlain@willchamberlain
We have the text, the deal is absolutely terrible, there's no getting around it. The text gives Iranians huge, immediate financial benefits and protection for Hezbollah in exchange for opening the Strait - and nothing else. President Trump should renege.
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@SeanTrende I wonder if they will still serve them at approximately the temperature of the surface of the sun
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@JackPosobiec How do you get out of bed in the morning, man. I mean, is it really worth it to demean yourself this way? Is it money? Hard to fathom that anyone would have so little self-respect.
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BREAKING: President Trump's Iran deal to be formalized by a UN Security Council Resolution, with removing their uranium enrichment
That means he's got China, Russia, France, and Britain all on board
Obama was never able to do this
Only Trump pulled it off
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D.S. Sebastian Somebody Make It Stop أُعيد تغريده
Jack Goldsmith: "The President is Legally Barred from Waiving Iranian Sanctions as Pledged in the Iran MOU"
1. Federal law--namely, the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015--bars Donald Trump from immediately waiving sanctions against Iran.
2. Trump will probably violate the law and get away with it.
3. "It was unthinkable in 2015 that INARA would be deployed against a Republican president who sought in an agreement related to Iran’s nuclear program to waive sanctions against Iran. And before President Trump began his military action against Iran in February, it was unthinkable that he, a famous critic of the JCPOA, would be making such an agreement. But here we are."
Link to Executive Functions post in reply.
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@BlueBoxDave Breslin was one of the few members of the NY press who called Trump out as a phony gasbag from day one
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Pete Hamill on Breslin: “Jimmy had opinions, because he was a columnist, but they were always grounded in reporting, the kind of knowledge you can only get by talking to ordinary Americans, one at a time.”
One at a time, that is the genius Hamill sees here.
John Grange@JMGrange
@BlueBoxDave The "ordinary American", as you, an individual coastal, partisan, journalist, decides to define it. Not to be confused with what random samples of Americans actually think about anything. Stick to the cigarettes.
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Facts:
Obama didn’t get rid of the Iranian leadership, didn’t lay a finger on their military assets but trusted them with a deal worth billion$.
Trump got rid of the Iranian leadership, devastated their military and nuclear program and then started over with a diplomatic deal that will secure America’s future.
This is how it is done.
We’ve never had a President mixing military action and diplomacy so seamlessly.
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No deal is better than a bad deal. America out negotiated again. #Iran
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@asymmetricinfo Truth. Also, lived with roommates for years to save $$$. And I still like Ramen.
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Sorry I’m about to go all “old lady shakes fist at sky” but when I was starting out it was a normal expectation that even upper middle class kids who went to private school (me) would spend a number of years living on ramen and similar.
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Really interested in this diagnosis: axios.com/2026/06/17/dem…
“It's like, yeah, good job reading the polls that tell you that affordability is the number one issue. Do you understand why that is the case? It's because people can't f--king afford to eat, so of course that's their main issue," Lehrich told Axios”
It is obviously not the case that the majority of voters who chose JLG literally cannot f—cking eat. So why does that feel like a true statement to a Democratic strategist?
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@iowahawkblog @FactsAboutTexas Nailed it
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If you ran into a foreign soccer fan in Texas and they asked you for a “must see” itinerary, where would you send them? 🤠
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Look it’s gotta be Brunson or Messier. Eli took down a king and Jeter was an emperor with those 5 rings. But an NBA championship after 53 years and scoring 45 in the clincher? A Stanley Cup after 54 years, down 3-2 in the ECF and guaranteeing a win? That’s balls by Messier. But then to go and get the hat trick? Unreal.
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What a rotten deal we made with Iran. We get nothing (except laughter at our stupidity). They get everything, including delay and big cash!
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@jpodhoretz Perfect. Also, there is a non-zero chance that when the Oil company CEO’s met with Trump last week and told him inventories were tapped out he made them agree to lower gas prices close to pre-war levels in exchange for doing this so-called deal.
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This war was lost the second the decision was made to launch it. The only winning move was not to play it in the first place. Was there anyone in the room trying to explain this to Trump?
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@exjon By the way they could solve the reflecting pool algae thing by bringing in eight rando Scottsdale seniors as consultants.
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@greggnunziata The media has to take responsibility for enabling him to perpetuate the myth for fifty years. They knew the truth but he was good content and sold newspapers so they played along.
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The president has never been a good negotiator, in public or private life. He paid somebody to write a book for him, claiming he had expertise in negotiation. He has no record of successful negotiation, certainly not as president.
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@JonahDispatch @mikenelson586 Nice eyeliner though
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The next time you hear JD Vance casually accuse his critics of unpatriotically spreading misinformation, remember that he described the *accurate* descriptions of the MOU as Iranian propaganda. He says what he needs to say in the moment without regard for the truth — or decency.
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