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On the Latinx population, Trump is still doing much better with Latinos than Latinas. My mother this morning was ranting about how she hates the machismo of her culture (Mexican).

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There are many cases, he will readily admit, when he should have been much tougher, but he was too nice and compassionate to do what he really should have done.

Many people were saying he should have sent those babies to actual penitentiaries, instead of the fancy sleepaway camps he so thoughtfully built for them.

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I swear, opening the schools has turned every community into a superspreader hot zone. I watch the scores on covidactnow.org to see how everyone's doing, and not long after schools opened, everything took a turn for the crappy.

I still recommend making sure we're not Vitamin D deficient, as there is at least some scientific evidence that Vitamin D deficiencies track with the worst COVID-19 outcomes. Talk to a doctor for advice, or if you want to just do it, 4000 IU is an uncontroversially safe dose (the standard advice is that you need 600 IU a day, but if you're overcoming a deficiency, it makes sense to overshoot that).

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Yeah, I'm not sure that's not a long-haired dude, either.

NTTAWWT for people who are into dudes...

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I found out about Jacinda Ardern's big win in NZ on a Zoom call with college friends. My reaction got an unexpected belly-laugh from one of my pals.

"That just shows what a softball the coronavirus was for any competent national government. People really like it when you keep them from dying. It's one of their favorite things."

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It's from the movie We're the Millers.

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What does the Republican Party under Trump stand for? They don’t stand for small deficits. They don’t stand for the rule of law. They don’t stand for exporting democracy around the world. So they really stand for making Democrats upset. ...So it becomes this kind of identity politics where the identity is based not on who you are but on who you aren’t and who you make upset.

That's the very definition of reactionary. They're not conservatives. They're reactionaries. We have to start calling things what they are.

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Poll: Biden, Trump locked in tight race for Iowa - POLITICO

Cautiously optimistic.

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His makeup artist isn't even trying anymore. Damn! See that pasty line? I hate his stupid ugly face and his stupid ugly face supporters. I'm going to convince myself his MUA is one of us. Hence the clear lack of blending.

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There was nothing trump could have done to make the corona virus WORSE. He did absolutely nothing and declared a win and he has fought every kind of prevention or mitigation plan. His response is the equivalent of sticking his fingers in his ears screaming lalalala I can't hear you.

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Rich! Very strongly. The FF really needs some more adverbs.

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You folk are really funny.

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Wuhan is open, schools, stores, everything. Beijing has had 9 covid deaths, Shanghai 7. But tell me about how China did nothing to control the spread of the virus.https://www.newyorker.com/m...

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Our school board voted last week to reopen schools. This week the high school cancelled football because of covid, but apparently school board not as smart as football coaches.

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I cannot imagine a more powerful 10 SECOND message!

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when Trump “suspended all travel from China" It doesn't need to be said, does it, that he didn't suspend all travel, just Chinese people travelling from China and that specific vectors have been found of US citizens bringing the disease from China while "all travel was suspended"? No? Didn't think so. Just checking.

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