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Danny Adams
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Writer, librarian, archivist, all-around keeper of books held onto against darkness. Principiis obsta et respice finem.
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Danny Adams @madwriter.bsky.social · Apr 3
"It is well established that the Fifth Amendment entitles aliens to due process of law in deportation proceedings." - Justice Antonin Scalia, Reno v. Flores
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Danny Adams @madwriter.bsky.social · 1d
South Carolina just quarantined 153 unvaccinated kids for 21 days after a measles outbreak. Minnesota has 118 under quarantine.

MAGAs are blaming the outbreaks on the illegal immigrants that they also say Trump is keeping out.
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Danny Adams @madwriter.bsky.social · 1d
I wonder how many MAGAs fighting so hard to keep Columbus Day know that it was created by FDR.
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Danny Adams @madwriter.bsky.social · 1d
I wonder how my home state of Virginia's Republican candidate for governor feels about trying so hard to be aligned with Trump while Trump himself has now twice declined to endorse her.

I can't imagine why he wouldn't even though I'm staring at the problem.
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Danny Adams @madwriter.bsky.social · 1d
I once did an anti-|Dedication. :)
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Danny Adams @madwriter.bsky.social · 1d
My middle-aged brain: I often can't remember what I had for lunch yesterday, but I can still remember the phone number of one of my best friends in elementary school despite the fact that he moved away over 40 years ago.
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Danny Adams @madwriter.bsky.social · 1d
(Local government office says it'll be closed for Indigenous People's Day)

Local Business: It's Columbus Day and always will be!

Me: Are you closed for Columbus Day?

LB: We will be open our normal business hours.

Me: So you don't really care about Columbus either, then?

LB: ...
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Danny Adams @madwriter.bsky.social · 7d
If Jay Jones was a Republican, then Republicans would be scrambling to defend his texts by saying "He was just joking, you libs don't have a sense of humor".
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Danny Adams @madwriter.bsky.social · 8d
I suspect this is the same as him saying nobody cared about Epstein because what he did was so "long" ago.
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Danny Adams @madwriter.bsky.social · 8d
It's almost like he's figuring out that money doesn't quite buy everything.
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Danny Adams @madwriter.bsky.social · 8d
I celebrated the start of Banned Books Week today by shooting past my budget at the Roanoke County, VA Public Library's annual Fall book sale.
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Danny Adams @madwriter.bsky.social · 9d
For the lefthand picture I usually use "Pro-Fa".
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Danny Adams @madwriter.bsky.social · 9d
What, did he frown at Hegseth too much during the Quantico speech?

www.militarytimes.com/news/your-mi...
Hegseth fires Navy chief of staff
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired the Navy chief of staff in a sudden shakeup following the confirmation this week of a new Navy Under Secretary.
www.militarytimes.com
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Danny Adams @madwriter.bsky.social · 9d
Well, we know where the Navy's Chief of Staff isn't now.
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Danny Adams @madwriter.bsky.social · 9d
"...And we define 'legitimate'."
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Danny Adams @madwriter.bsky.social · 9d
I've always figured the constant claims of "We have to do X because of illegal immigrants" is because they know that without that lie their actions would been seen for how abhorrent they really are and meet a whole lot more resistance.
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Danny Adams @madwriter.bsky.social · 9d
My brand of middle-aged non-fogeyness is that I keep finding new music I think is really good, but then later can't remember who performed it.
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Danny Adams @madwriter.bsky.social · 9d
My stock answer these days to when a fogey says about a celebrity "I have no idea who so-and-so is" is to reply that this was someone they once told to get off their lawn.
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Danny Adams @madwriter.bsky.social · 9d
"I'm in favor of anything that shuts down the government."

-Rush Limbaugh, when the Blizzard of '93 shut down Washington D.C.
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Danny Adams @madwriter.bsky.social · 13d
Not to mention how many people reply "We're a republic, not a democracy".
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Danny Adams @madwriter.bsky.social · 13d
He did seem a little het up about the idea of being "manhandled".
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Danny Adams @madwriter.bsky.social · 13d
With signing bonuses of $50K, it's pretty obvious that some folks joining ICE were in it for the money. I guess we'll see how many are willing to keep at it for free.
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Danny Adams @madwriter.bsky.social · 14d
Well boys, it looks like Hegseth doesn't want you in the real army after all.
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Danny Adams @madwriter.bsky.social · 14d
If there's anything we're learning already from this government shutdown, it's that Mike Johnson isn't anywhere near as cunning and crafty as Mitch McConnell.
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Danny Adams @madwriter.bsky.social · 14d
"We didn't go to all that trouble to eliminate government watchdogs and inspectors general just so you could ask us difficult questions."
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Danny Adams @madwriter.bsky.social · 14d
Translation: We're so weak that the minority party can bulldoze us.
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