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True. There's one scenario where he doesn't get one of those three and wins, but he also gets New Mexico along with OH/NC/FL/AZ/NV ... which seems unlikely considering he's 13 points down there.

 

I am endlessly fascinated with New Mexico’s sanity put against the stark raving madness of neighboring Arizona.

 

Old white people (snowbird retirees) in AZ. Not so much in NM.

 

Andropov those ballots early, Biden supporters.

 

feeling good enough to write all of my own tweets including this one which i totally wrote myself

 

more babies are aborted after birth than there are people dying if the flu and yet life goes on

 

Good essay here.

“There are in history what you could call ‘plastic hours,’” the philosopher Gershom Scholem once said. “Namely, crucial moments when it is possible to act. If you move then, something happens.” In such moments, an ossified social order suddenly turns pliable, prolonged stasis gives way to motion, and people dare to hope. Plastic hours are rare. They require the right alignment of public opinion, political power, and events—usually a crisis. They depend on social mobilization and leadership. They can come and go unnoticed or wasted. Nothing happens unless you move.

Are we living in a plastic hour? It feels that way.

Beneath the dreary furor of the partisan wars, most Americans agree on fundamental issues facing the country. Large majorities say that government should ensure some form of universal health care, that it should do more to mitigate global warming, that the rich should pay higher taxes, that racial inequality is a significant problem, that workers should have the right to join unions, that immigrants are a good thing for American life, that the federal government is plagued by corruption. These majorities have remained strong for years. The readiness, the demand for action, is new.​

America’s Plastic Hour Is Upon Us — The Atlantic

“The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of the future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.” (This quote is actually from elsewhere, but it fits.)

 

That is a hoot!

 

A low Barr indeed.