Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

In short, I come down firmly on all sides of the issue.

Don’t expect peaches from an apple tree.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

Ah, the different things are different argument.

After roe, women are no longer free.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

Come on, man.

Republicans don’t trust women.

When do the post office & the dmv weigh in on the wuhan virus?

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

Thanks for reminding me that Van Jones needs to be slapped.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

Innocent people don’t delay justice.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

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  2. 2.

    Lapassionara

    I am so glad for everyone affected that these children are now safe, as is their coach.

    Now, if our nation could care as much about the children separated at the border, maybe this pervasive sadness would lift from my heart.

  3. 3.

    Sam Dobermann

    @JPL: Beat me to it.
    Amazing how relieved I feel.

    Now lets find a cave Trump could fall into. Maybe a Florida sinkhole will get him.

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    Booger

    @Big R: @Wapiti: “Statistical lives” are people understood as part of a statistic; “Identified lives” are those same people seen as identifiable individuals. If you google ‘individual v. statistical’ there are lots of good examples, particularly using movies like “The Martian” as examples.

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    lowtechcyclist

    Chandra’s tweet needs an acronym-to-English translation. I don’t know what ACO is, but FFS = “for fuck’s sake” in my world. Doesn’t seem to fit the context, though.

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    p.a.

    That’s Stalin’s take on it, n’est-ce pas?: one death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.

    (Is this apocryphal? IDK)

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