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Advice from a Democratic Unicorn
Politico Picks,
In a state that twice backed Trump, John Bel Edwards made himself the placid alternative to hair-on-fire populism and won two terms in the governor’s mansion — can he do it again?
Mike Johnson’s Florida SNAP problem
The House GOP's push to overhaul the anti-hunger program would hit its own Hispanic-majority districts.
Don’t Forget to Polish the Legs This Christmas
Jezebel,
Every year, my mom hosts Christmas Eve at her house, with dozens of guests and pounds of food. It’s a big event and it’s a blast. If she’d chosen to exploit my young and wild escapades in order to turn us into reality television billionaires, I have no doubt her shindig could blow all the Kardashians’ Christmas… Read more...
House Republicans are inching toward trying to impeach Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas
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Why Are There So Many Guides to Holiday Hometown Hookups?
It’s a universal truth that there isn’t a whole lot to do in one’s hometown. There are, however, plenty of aggressively normal-looking people to do, and therein lies the crux of why the holidays in your hometown are the horniest time of the year. If you are one of those people who peaked in high school (my… Read more...
Biden signs defense policy bill, extending controversial spying program
The final version drops an even more contentious rollback of the Pentagon’s abortion travel policy.
Beeper’s Final Fixes and Government Investigations
mjtsai,
Juli Clover: On Reddit, the Beeper Mini team says that the Mac-based fix coming on December 20 stabilizes iMessage for Beeper Cloud and Mini, and it “works well” and “is very reliable.”[…]Beeper has been using its own Mac servers to provide that information to Apple, but that resulted in thousands of Beeper users having the […]
How to Control the World
Brandon Williams and Stephen Celis (2018, via Christian Tietze): While unconventional, we hope that it’s obvious that this solution of controlling dependencies is superior to the traditional solutions in use today. It also gives us an opportunity to reevaluate deep-seated beliefs we may have. We should continuously question our assumptions. In this case, we found […]