Justice Correspondent: @thenation Alignment: Neutral Good. Str:12 Dex:8 Con:15 Int:13 Wis:10 Char:14 Class: Paladin. Strong Against: Republicans.

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Gwyneth Paltrow’s vagina-scented candle has reportedly exploded in a UK woman’s home: “I’ve never seen anything like it. The whole thing was ablaze and it was too hot to touch. There was an inferno in the room.” (nypost.com/2021/01/18/gwynet…)
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Elie Mystal retweeted
Watching @ElieNYC answer questions on @cspanwj is a master class in brilliance and restraint ✊🏿 He's running circles around callers with humor and facts no matter how crazy the questions
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Elie Mystal retweeted
Reminder: Trump hasn’t been removed from office because McConnell has refused to call the Senate back into session
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At some point, I might need to write a whole thing about why the South African Constitution is better than ours.
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This is my favorite article right now.
The percentage of American voters who still support Trump is already vastly greater than the percentage of Germans that supported Hitler during his rise to power. bit.ly/3sxvYq2
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My first MLK Day as a *professional* I went into work, as an associate at Debevoise and Plimpton. I would have liked to take the day off, but we had work. Around the office that day, I noticed that most of the black people were also at work that day (there weren't many of us)...
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Later in the day, I stopped by the office of one Black woman older associate I was friendly with. I wryly said "hell of a 'holiday' for us." She said that she tried to work *every* MLK day. She told me:...
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"The way I look at it, people fought so I'd have the opportunity to work at a place like this. Working on this day, of all days, is a way I can honor that." What I do is objectively unimportant. But going on @cspanwj to fight with Republicans today, of all days, was a privilege.
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These calls are already wild. I’m in the cirituak green room and just heard a guy say “the so-called slaves, I mean I guess they were slaves.”
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