How can they say they're using "every available lever" to keep her with a straight face if they are rejecting an actual solution that will keep her?

Ah of course, deliberate *and* inexact.

Yes, they're like loquacious squirrels chittering in advance of the marauding winter, casting their gazes about like Mowgli craning for his lost caretakers, oblivious to the fruitful copiety of nuts scattered all around their lithesome legs.

First the northern lights, now on-time Amtrak? Surely the apocalypse is nigh!

I would even argue that the unfurled link/preview box looks pretty on Bluesky. I enjoy seeing them!

If you have an NYRB subscription, make sure you check out Fintan O'Toole's comprehensive and eloquent review, which hits a lot of the same points you make about the Democrats' messaging mistakes.

www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

I haven't read the Nuzzi doc thing but I am here for this allegory! Not an ur-text for me because it's meant as a send-up. Those four would totally go MAGA, with Richard as the ineffective and tortured moderate who'd end up as a political prisoner.

Part 218 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg dnd

Ceramic hedgehog dated to the Neolithic period found at the Hamin archaeological site near Shebotu Town in Inner Mongolia, China

Re-reading really really long books is one of my favorite things!