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Oct 3Liked by Jack Mirkinson, Caitlin Schneider

Thank you for this, Caitlin. Grasping for likeminded and despairing others indeed.

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My wife has wanted to leave the country for some time. It's very difficult to argue that she's incorrect in that impulse. In related news, it's very difficult not to feel incredibly sad these days.

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Quick reminder that the out-of-towner who strangled Jordan Neely a year and half ago wasn’t a cop; he was just a rando with a lantern jaw who the entire right-wing media wanted to fuck. (He’s probably doing underwear modeling in _Human Events_ as we speak.)

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(Apologies if the crudeness is tone-deaf. But no really this is how I remember the story, aside from the fact that I was like half a mile away when it happened.)

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No I think that’s very real

Like the extent to which Jordan Neeley’s killer was just a guy and every right wing figure as well as Reasonable Centrist was like yeah that guy rules I’d do that was shocking if not surprising

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Long Island: they’re not sending their best!

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It was so gross.

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20 years before that I was almost 18 and got my selective service registration card in the mail while in the background sabres were furiously rattling at the USSR. I'd recently had a long chat with an older acquaintance who'd burned his Vietnam draft card almost 20 years before that.

Telling our stories is pretty much all we can do, so thank you for yours.

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Well said. 💔

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