The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity (WB Yeats)
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Please politicize my death if I'm killed by one of the following:
- Climate change
- Mass shooting
- COVID
- Cops
- Insulin rationing
- Armed vigilantes
Or any combination thereof. List to be updated as circumstances warrant.
On this day in 1964, production began on the original pilot episode, "The Cage." Which makes this the 60th anniversary of Star Trek going woke.
ALT Majel Barrett as the first officer of the USS Enterprise, Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock, and...I don't know, Shermie from "Peanuts?"
We're distracting ourselves with an imported murder mystery series called "Sarcastic Coppers"
(I've just been informed it's actually "Van Der Valk" but there's no way I'll remember that)
There are plenty of fundamentalist theocracies in the Middle East, maybe try one of those
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The baby we were raising when W won a second term just voted blue in Wisconsin, don't tell me Dems can't play the long game
Wisdom from the generation that drove around without seat belts, smoked in doctor's offices, and built schools out of lead and asbestos
If this happens democracy is still dead, it's just going to take a little longer to fall down
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Let's make sure none of the people behind this ever get to be the Secretary of Health and Human Services again
If you're actually sick of celebrities inserting themselves into politics, prove it by not voting for the celebrity
What I love about the conservative replies to this post is they are about 60% "We are not that prudish" and 90% performatively prudish (there's a lot of overlap)
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SNOWPIERCER (dir. Bong Joon Ho, 2013)
It also saps and impurifies our precious bodily fluids
On January 20, the Trump White House will advise all U.S. water systems to remove fluoride from public water. Fluoride is an industrial waste associated with arthritis, bone fractures, bone cancer, IQ loss, neurodevelopmental disorders, and thyroid disease. President @realDonaldTrump and First Lady @MELANIATRUMP want to Make America Healthy Again. @michaelpconnett
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At about this time every year I look up at the rapidly darkening sky and think, "So this is what it will look like at 5:30 tomorrow."
I suppose it's somewhat to their credit that Republicans have dropped the "bring dignity back to the White House" angle
If we all start listening right now we can finish just in time to decide who to vote for
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Here's some TV-related tweets I thought of during the year I was off Twitter. Sorry if someone else already did these and I missed them. Like I said, I was off Twitter. 🧵
Finally, the only chef cameo I want to see on The Bear S4 is J.K. Simmons' character from "Up in the Air."