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He seems copacetic about it in the extended comments. I am so far, far behind but I'll catch up (or jump ahead) sometime! "Death in the Outback" sounds fun.

I am glad Palmieri called her out. Jordan has been clashing with Jarvis and others online for days over her bias and roots.

Honestly though, as pointless as some of her recent stints are they're pretty benign. None of them are nearly as terrible as her original return in the mid-2000s. It's sometimes hard to remember now, but Guza had her holding Port Charles and thousands of lives for ransom over the monkey virus. That was horribly OOC for Holly (who I have no profound fondness for, I like Emma but I was always an Anna/Finola stan) and that same creative team spent years after bumbling around trying to make up for it with goofy comedy con artist hijinks designed to lighten the character up again without really addressing it, and I'm not sure they ever did. That being said, while I've always wanted Robert and Anna back together I know I am in the minority. And if it gets him away from Diane I am all for Robert and Holly reuniting yet again.

I mean I'm happy for Emma, but she's popped in many times in the last 20 and especially 10 years. She's a regular guest and that's great. I don't know why I open these headers expecting them to have finally bit the bullet on VM though, lol. I am surprised to hear she apparently ties into Lucky's return. I'm not sure if her and JJ have ever shared scenes, I don't think so.

Vance's fixations run deeper than I knew:

You know it's bad when Trey Gowdy comes off like a distinguished statesman.

I still don't think he's the right optic but I see @DRW50's point:

Foregoing 'go high' has borne fruit - creeps like Vivek wouldn't be pleading to talk policy otherwise. More WP (non-paywalled): Vance's rocky debut

Meanwhile: Walz at it again: This has worked tbh:

Not that good, lol. He was also messy BTS.

A solid piece from the Post re: How Kamala Harris took control of the Democratic Party (non-paywalled). An excerpt: Really a remarkable demonstration of party discipline and something that should be studied in future - in addition to what I'm sure will be more painful and ugly exposes about how other parties drove Joe out. This fortunately seems largely separate from that.

NBC's Sahil Kapur, who should know better, embarrasses himself on abortion in this tweet, gets ratioed to hell and is still trying to dig his way out a few hours later attempting to lamely parse his own words:

Note the dates of each poll (since last Sunday) and the dramatic shifts from Biden's polling against Trump to Harris. As I've said, Harris is gaining fast.

I just don't think there'll be that many of those staying away this time.

Usha Vance was a registered Dem until marrying JD Vance, and went on to clerk for (yes) Brett Kavanaugh. Their relationship at Yale was also prodded forward by infamous "Tiger Mom" and Kavanaugh booster Amy Chua.

I always liked Creech. I was disappointed to see her only briefly pop up on GH as an assassin during Guza II.

That's why you always run the URL for paywalled articles through archive.is.

He's a good guy, but I don't think Walz is photogenic or young enough. I think Kelly is solid enough, but I'd prefer Shapiro or Beshear.