My mom was back home and doing ok with rehab after a fall this summer when she started sleeping a lot and talking to my dead cousin. A nurse came and said she suspected an infection. So we called an ambulance and sirened to the hospital. Alas, she had an infection, but also at least two strokes. 😭
“Pretty much all I remember from 2013 to 2017 is drunkenly stumbling back to my dorm with Halloween face paint running down my cheeks.” — Ally Biederman
Mom, we don’t have a moment to spare. I’m asking—no, BEGGING—for you to chip in ASAP. If every parent reading this email contributes just $197.50 by midnight, we can defend the shirt I just bought from being returned this November.
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1. More news today in a case I have been covering for nearly a decade (and the reason some of you first followed me).
A California appeals court today unanimously upheld former actor and militant Scientologist Danny Masterson’s two rape convictions, leaving his sentence of 30 years to life intact.
A Brazilian Supreme Court justice has ordered a police investigation into alleged ties between a donor network co-founded by JD Vance and the presidential campaign of Flávio Bolsonaro in the run-up to Sunday's election.
“This is an awful man, waving a book he hasn't read, in front of a church he doesn't attend, invoking laws he doesn't understand, against fellow Americans he sees as enemies.”
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"Witt acknowledged that Patel launched the probe one day after a speech Trump gave in July complaining about alleged interference in U.S. elections by American intelligence and law enforcement officials."
i'm tempted to say that vance has some kind of charisma — it is why he is so talented at attracting elite supporters — but then i remember that video of him trying to order donuts
It’s interesting because by definition politicians have to have a level of charisma; beyond winning elections, they also need it (ostensibly lol) to do their jobs in negotiating legislation across the aisle (again, lol these days) and yet! So many elected officials — Vance, for example — have none.
yeah, one of the imho clear lessons of the obama/trump back-to-back is that political charisma can come from anywhere and that you dismiss politicians that connect with people at your peril www.politico.com/newsletters/...
Jon Stewart: "If you don’t think you’re better than us, then what are you doing? Doesn’t elite mean good? Not only do I want an elite president, I want someone embarrassingly superior to me. Someone who speaks 16 languages and sleeps two hours a night hanging upside down in a chamber they designed."
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