Gavin Newsom spent the early months of Trump 2 having friendly chats with far-right extremists. He praised Steve Bannon shortly after he gave a literal Nazi salute.

Google "Newsom vetoes" for a long list of things he has fucked up for California. He's a snake and you shouldn't trust him.

That makes sense. There were things that didn't quite click but I was so dazzled by the things that did that I'd have struggled to put it into words

"I wish we had a more racially progressive president, like Woodrow Wilson," is not a thing I would have expected to be able to say ten years ago.

Did you write anything about that? I mean about the third act being a weak point. I'd be interested to read your perspective.

We can alternate verses with the battle hymn of the Republic. Which I just discovered Pete Seeger did, huh!

Someone asked on the woodworking subreddit how to make one and the universal response was "don't bother, that's going to cost an arm and a leg and be useless, just buy it and save yourself the time and money". Which was funny because they basically *never* say that

Drugs and extreme mental illness. Plus abuse/cults/trafficking (In that abusers often sever contact). Generally speaking though, I'd say it is pretty rare for a child who is functional and acting freely to do so for a bad reason.