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O.T. Ford
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O.T. Ford
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Rationalist, generalist, analyst — so, I apply reason to analysis of things in general. If it matters: PhD, geography (world culture/politics), UCLA.
Midwest Inscrit le Ocak 2010
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A brazen abuse of power & an insult to democracy.
47% of VA voted Trump. They will now get just 9% of the seats.
52% of VA voters voted Harris. Now they get 91% of the seats.
(By comparison, in TX, 56% voted Trump; GOP gets 79% of the seats.)
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VA Gov. Spanberger (D) laughs, smiles, and signs the redistricting bill that will disenfranchise about 48% of Republican-leaning voters by packing them into one district. It proposes a 10-1 Democratic advantage. Great stuff, Virginia.
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An FBI affidavit admits that an ICE agent shot a man while he was fleeing from 10 feet away, not--as DHS claimed--while the agent was being beaten with a shovel.
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@Carlos_TheDwarf @mattyglesias Do people really not understand the filibuster, or how little time there has been with a filibuster-proof majority?
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@mattyglesias I wish there had been some point in time when Democrats controlled both houses of congress and the presidency so they could pass this law that they very sincerely believe is necessary.
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First look at Menelaus in Christopher Nolan’s ‘THE ODYSSEY’
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Weird that Rubio is Secretary of State AND National Security Advisor, but he only learns about planned Witkoff meetings from ... Ukrainians.
Christopher Miller@ChristopherJM
“Late last month, days after the Geneva talks, Witkoff arranged a meeting with Ukrainian officials in Florida. Rubio became aware of the planned session only when the Ukrainians asked his team about it, according to a U.S. official and a person familiar with the incident. A senior administration official said: ‘It is so clear that Rubio has been cut out of this. He should be the guy leading all of this.’”
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@kajakallas Actually, let’s leave the Danes out of this, too. Greenlanders don’t need Mom and Dad to decide for them.
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We continue to stand in solidarity with Denmark and Greenland.
Greenland is an autonomous territory in the Kingdom of Denmark. Any changes to that status are for Greenlanders and Danes alone to decide.
We expect all our partners to respect their sovereignty and territorial integrity and to abide by their international commitments, enshrined inter alia in the United Nations Charter and the North Atlantic Treaty.
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@olivertraldi But Obama and Clinton/Bush/Trump are the same generation only in conventional terms. He’s fifteen years younger.
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I have an old theory about this which I called the generational theory of the presidency. Some generations (or even years) see a series of presidents and some get skipped entirely. Note that many recent losers were adjacent: Kerry 1943, Romney 1947, Hillary 1947, Gore 1948
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1997: the President of the United States was born in 1946. 2007: the President of the United States was born in 1946. 2017: the President of the United States was born in 1946. 2027: the President of the United States was born in 1946.
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@Avik @CaitlinPacific If you throw in with Trump, you are not classically liberal. FFS.
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@CaitlinPacific He hasn’t changed his mind—he’s been consistent on this throughout his political career. And he has been classically liberal the whole way through as well.
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So Vivek Ramaswamy has finally come up with a sane, classically liberal point of view - on something that directly affects him.
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@CHSommers But they’ve only managed/remembered to edit it in one place. The rest of the site still says “Kennedy Center”.
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🚨Note name change on Kennedy Center Website. More evidence that he has lost his mind. kennedy-center.org
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@BlueBoxDave You have a point about not giving academics a special voice, but she almost certainly did not pay for her degree.
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“Historian here…” Ok. Let me explain something. You paid a lot of money for some pieces of paper that get you published in journals that nobody reads, but it is the American people, not you, who should decide how our history is celebrated. You’re just another citizen in this.
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@CathyYoung63 @JillFilipovic Yeah, or more directly, praising Europeans for ending the European slave trade.
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@JillFilipovic There's an argument that he contributed to postwar reconciliation & end to bloodshed by encouraging surrender.
But that's a bit like praising a home invader/hostage taker b/c he surrendered when the cops came instead of getting the family killed in a shootout.
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Here is what I genuinely do not understand about the Robert E. Lee discourse. I get admiring people who did terrible things but still made great contributions to the nation (Thomas Jefferson). I do not get wanting to laud someone who did terrible things AND their most famous contribution to the nation was leading a war that ripped the nation apart, killed hundreds of thousands of Americans, and was waged in defense of an objective evil. Like what exactly did Robert E. Lee do that was GOOD and worthy of America celebrating? He tried to destroy the country in defense of slavery!
And don't give me "he was brave" or "he was a skilled military man" ok so were lots of members of the Imperial Japanese Army but we aren't erecting statues of them in America.
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@MattWalshBlog Nothing honorable about what Lee did. He left the US Army to wage war against it, for slavery.
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Nobody knows who “Barbara Rose Johns” is. Robert E Lee was about a million times more historically significant. He was also a million times more honorable and courageous than all of the politicians applauding in this video.
Breaking911@Breaking911
U.S. Capitol replaces Robert E. Lee statue with statue honoring civil rights icon Barbara Rose Johns
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@briannalyman2 Wow, it’s like you personally founded Hartford yourself.
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11th-great grandfather came on the Mayflower
10th-great grandfather founded Hartford
7th- great grandfather served in the 3rd Massachusetts Provincial Congress alongside Sam Adams/Hancock.
6th great granduncles served as minutemen in Lex & Concord
Proud Heritage American
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@MattWalshBlog He impressively killed a bunch of US soldiers for slavery. Got it.
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Robert E Lee’s win at Chancellorsville is more impressive than anything “Barbara Rose Johns” ever did in her entire life
Jane Coaston 🏔️@janecoaston
Notably, unlike Robert E. Lee, Barbara Rose Johns actually won something.
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@marvel_updat3s Dear gods, there are other X-Men characters. But I guess they’re just going to live with the Fox X-Men? Like, in the prime universe?
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A solo ‘WOLVERINE’ movie starring Hugh Jackman is reportedly in development at Marvel Studios.
(Via: MyTimeToShineHello)
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@LofflerScott He was 11-2 this year. Do you not understand how teams end up in the World Series? Is it a lottery or something?
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Clayton Kershaw has pitched a total of .1 innings combined the last two World Series and walks away with two rings. Talk about getting an A on the group project without contributing.
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@mattyglesias Man, I am -not- going to that person’s house. No, thank you.
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@EWErickson It’s actually because most Republican politicians and their voters have gone insane and support the absolute stupidest people they can find.
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The arrogance of the Biden administration’s health department is the reason that Robert F Kennedy Jr. is now in charge of it.
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