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@dwilliamesq

attorney, Terry Pratchett fan, subscriber to the Sam Vimes boots theory of inequality.

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DW@dwilliamesq· 16d

Stacker Pentecost from Pacific Rim cancelling the apocalypse.

DW@dwilliamesq· 17d

You *think*? This is something you can google in literally five seconds.

Google summary confirming senate staff cannot vote for an absent Senator, and that floor proxies are strictly prohibited.

DW@dwilliamesq· 20d

He was specifically asked about her.

Dasha Burns: So I talked to, former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene on this podcast in April, and it’s kinda remarkable how similar some of your positions are. Like she also has condemned AIPAC’s influence in politics, called for no more US taxpayer dollars to Israel, said that the cost of health insurance needs to go down. Do you think you could build this new coalition with people like MTG?

Abdul El-Sayed: Look, she said a lot of things I disagree with, too. I’ll just say this, that I wouldn’t be surprised, right...when you ask me about why the establishment elite Democrats are so worried about me, it’s because there are a lot of people who listen to her who are going to vote for me in the general election. They are not afraid I’m going to lose. They’re afraid I’m going to win. And at the end of the day, we get so polarized about D versus R or red versus blue that we forget that when you talk about the things that people actually care about, you can win elections. You can do that in uncommon ways. But too often, the Democratic Party is more interested in continuing to take money from its corporate and special interest donors than it is in speaking conventional truth.

It should be an obvious thing that everybody agrees with that we should keep our money here. It should be an obvious thing that everybody agrees with that people shouldn’t go into medical debt in the richest, most powerful country in the world. The fact that MTG agrees with those points should not be all that uncommon ‘cause they’re just like obvious things to say. And the fact that neither party is willing to say that is a reflection of the amount of money both parties take from the corporations and the special interests who in effect buy them off to be able to say that.

DW@dwilliamesq· 21d

It should be an obvious thing that everybody agrees with that we should keep our money here. It should be an obvious thing that everybody agrees with that people shouldn’t go into medical debt in the richest, most powerful country in the world. The fact that MTG agrees with those points should not be all that uncommon ‘cause they’re just like obvious things to say. And the fact that neither party is willing to say that is a reflection of the amount of money both parties take from the corporations and the special interests who in effect buy them off to be able to do that.

DW@dwilliamesq· 22d

Order Granting Motion for Temporary Restraining Order

DW@dwilliamesq· 23d

No.

Chart showing NJ is a national top ten producer of multiple fruits and vegetables.

DW@dwilliamesq· Jul 12

I’m sad. Not for him, but for the rest of us because of what he did. And also for who he could have been. He saw Trump for what he was in 2016 but he sold out everything for power. In another life, he could have done so much good. Like maybe if McCain had survived in office until 2021.

“People try to analyze Lindsey through the prism of the manifest inconsistencies that exist between things he used to believe and what he’s doing now,“ Schmidt says. “The way to understand him is to look at what’s consistent. And essentially what he is in American politics is what, in the aquatic world, would be a pilotfish: a smaller fish that hovers about a larger predator, like a shark, living off of its detritus. That’s Lindsey. And when he swim around the McCain shark, broadly view as a virtuous and good shark, Lindsey took on the patina of virtue. But wherever the apex shark is, you find the Lindsey fish hovering about, and Trump‘s the newest shark in the sea. Lindsey has a real draw to power – Lindsey found it unattainable on his own merits.

DW@dwilliamesq· Jul 4

O, let America be America again—
The land that never has been yet—
and yet must be—the land where every man is free.
The land that’s mine—the poor man’s, Indian’s, Negro’s, ME—
Who made America,
Whose sweat and blood, whose faith and pain,
Whose hand at the foundry, whose plow in the rain,
Must bring back our mighty dream again.

Sure, call me any ugly name you choose—
The steel of freedom does not stain.
From those who live like leeches on the people’s lives,
We must take back our land again.
America!

O, yes,
I say it plain,
America was never America to me,
And yet I swear this oath—
America will be!

Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death,
The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and and lies,
We, the people, must redeem
The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers.
The mountains and the endless plain—
All, all the stretch of these great green states—
and make America again!

DW@dwilliamesq· Jun 1

I have not read what he is citing but inc are you were interested, here’s what he said.

The guy cites 22 USC 8603 and 22 USC chapter 93.

DW@dwilliamesq· May 19

It’s the Principles of ‘64 I’m more interested in.

DW@dwilliamesq· May 18

Jim Downey (“Jeff Epstein the New York financier?!” Meme)

DW@dwilliamesq· May 17

I know writers who use subtext and they’re all cowards.

DW@dwilliamesq· May 17

Unfortunately there are a whole bunch of morons on the “left” trying to be wreckers. Fortunately, I think she is smarter than them.

Post-Left Watch:

Brianna Joy Gray: I know many, you know, people on the left who would happily vote for Tucker Carlson before AOC. I’m frustrated by that dynamic because I, you know, I don’t want Tucker Carlson to be President. I also can’t see myself damaging my own credibility by telling someone to vote for AOC.”

DW@dwilliamesq· May 11

So quiet.

50501: The People’s Movement: On May 16th, join civil and voting rights groups in a National day of Action in Montgomery, Alabama.

DW@dwilliamesq· Apr 30

No.

Politico headline
“Chuck Schumer gets his preferred candidate, Janet Mills, in crowded Maine Senate race”

Subheadline: “Schumer had been aggressively recruiting Mills to challenge Republican Susan Collins”

DW@dwilliamesq· Apr 24

Oof. I’ve had that experience. I am NOT complaining about my current boss because he’s great, but the closest thing to it that he does is that it’s impossible to channel him properly. What I mean is, when there are edge cases or hard questions, I try to think about how he would want to handle it.

DW@dwilliamesq· Apr 15

DW@dwilliamesq· Apr 10

Also I have to share this now.

Picard and Data, flanked by security, in First Contact, armed with phased rifles, pointing them at the camera: “We just want Guna and Riker back.”

GUIKER (who is exactly what you think), armed with their own phaser rifle: “I’m not goin out like that punk, Tuvix.”

DW@dwilliamesq· Apr 10

Confederate battle flag. “Show me the real Confederate flag.”

White flag of surrender. “I said the real Confederate flag.

A pile of ashes. General Sherman says “Perfection.”

DW@dwilliamesq· Apr 8

Duart Castle. It’s the historic castle of Clan Maclean on the Isle of Mull, and it’s up on a crag with a view of the Sound of Mull and the Scottish mainland. I like to imagine some Maclean ancestor of mine looking out from it and thinking “yeah, this place rules.”