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msbellows

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Twitter diaspora. Agamemnon sucks: we do the fighting, he gets the girls. (Oregonian. Mediator/lawyer/writer; bylines in The Guardian, Alternet, HuffPost/OffTheBus, more.)

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JuliusGoat, to random
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Bracing myself now for the slew of “yes but if the LEFT had control and the Supreme Court was protecting peoples’ rights instead of stripping them away, and preventing corruption instead of enabling it, the OTHER side would be just as angry” takes.

msbellows,
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@JuliusGoat
The Left: "Let's protect and respect everybody!"

The Right: "Let's kill everybody!"

Thanos: [acts as mediator, finds a compromise]

Gif of Thanos from the Marvel film Infinity War, saying, "It's a small price to pay for salvation."

msquebanh, to Bloomscrolling
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& in full bloom 🥰

msbellows,
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@Gurre @msquebanh @deepmud I, too, know one edible and one utterly toxic mushroom, and need to spend hours making spore prints and poring through books to ID any others.

msbellows,
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@Gurre @msquebanh @deepmud (To make it worse: the one mushroom I know is safe and will happily harvest and cook and know how to cook etc. is the oyster, which is delicious a.f. but also is basically the Chicken McNuggets of mushrooms.)

msbellows, to random
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Everything old is new again.

Back in 2006, I started my first blog, VichyDems, and immediately began using it to organize grassroots opposition to the confirmation of Samuel Alito. Specifically, I (and then others, esp. Bob Fertik) began tracking which Dem senators supported the filibuster against his nomination; which ones were leaning towards selling out and voting for cloture out of a misplaced sense of comity and institutionalism (the 'Vichies"); and which were on the fence. We published game plans, target lists, talking points, and contact info. SIX DAYS after starting the blog, we were getting thousands of views and had inspired tens of thousands of calls urging key senators to support the filibuster.

It failed, of course. The filibuster failed, and Auto was confirmed 75-25. But we definitely got one senator (Clinton) to outright reverse her position, from opposing to supporting the filibuster; persuaded some undecideds; and (so far as I can tell) demonstrated for the first time ever that the Internet could be used for political organizing. (And it launched my political writing career.)

And we were RIGHT, of course. 's treason flag and Dobbs and today's decision upholding racial gerrymandering and etc and etc prove we were right, and every fucking Vichy Dem senator who didn't support the filibuster was wrong.

My posts about Alito back then remain an interesting and relevant read, and include some very familiar names, including Biden: https://vichydems.blogspot.com/2006/01/

msbellows,
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Alito has a flag, so fuck him, I have a flag too: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/22nd_United_States_Colored_Infantry_Regiment

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