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Not to repeat myself, but it really is thrilling to have seen Halperin fall so far and be fully and undeniably unmasked as a right wing shill, banished to a fringe network:

That's fascinating, given how much of a moralist Irna often was reported to have become later on re: stories about infidelity, offscreen behavior, etc. I thought the only example of an opposite reaction was her adoration of Kim, who she seemed to craft in her own fantasy image.

I really do not believe Manchin and Sinema are keen to be spotlit as blocking the Voting Rights Act.

SPOILER-ish leaked image from next week's finale (not too spoilery, but still):

Thread and article. This is why it's so important for Abrams, etc. to keep doing the work they're doing.

Beltway media are excitedly RTing a Maureen Dowd column (which I am not linking) punching down at any criticism of the press from the left, of course. They only react this way to critique from liberals, which has intensified considerably in the last five years, because they are conditioned to be deferential to the right and disdain/feel ashamed with the right's identification of them with the left. The fight raged all day on Twitter, but here's some commentary on Jon Ralston's haughty agreement with it.

Why did I think Guza wrote part of the Clay gaslighting Stacey story? Clay's dark Shakespearean monologues (right around this exact time, IIRC) during certainly seemed like Guza.

Oh, they will sooner or later.

It's The Hill (a GOP clickbait farm) quoting Manchin.

If it's the thing I saw where I said she was young a few weeks ago, I didn't consider any of that 'cross the line horrible'.

I think we're going to find Manchin and Sinema being dared to buck party votes soon enough. And I think they'll fold in time. I do not think they will switch, period. I do think they need to be pressured sooner, and will soon. I don't think we're done with the minimum wage, but I'm not surprised it's not happening this second. A lot of the far left online a) will never be satisfied with anyone not Bernie Sanders in office and b) do not have much bearing on the realities in the party outside Twitter, period. Last year proved that all the way through. Anything expecting this to all get handled in month 1 was in fantasyland.

I remember that episode from last summer. That was so bizarre, devoting what felt like half the episode to that old-timey troupe surrounded by the predominantly white cast. In 1993!

I think Robin Wright is the same way, and she's been more charitable in recent years on SB. There are certainly stuck-up, dismissive stars re: their time on soaps. But I think people are way too knee-jerk with Wright (who had a tough time and was young) and some others.

Oh how the turntables, etc.

The writer here wrote for Star, on FOX.

If I do find the pilot, I'll talk about it.