Dust is the best one: to cover in dust (like sugar on a pastry) or to remove dust from (like a bookshelf).

Also a noun.

Man, I’d be thrilled if everyone was so tepid about these top Democrats instead of insisting on their continued occupation of public office being the only thing standing between us and fascism…

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You’re absolutely right, the results were murky with all the third party interference. Seems only fair we have a re-do. USA v Britain. Mano a mano, no seconds.

Time for round two! Wouldn’t want to run out of animals, after all.

pick your battles.

No worries, I have. I choose trans rights, simple as.

The solicitor, who was fined and issued six penalty points after she was

As an American, penalty points on a driving license is a nice idea, but makes me thing the ref judge blows a whistle and cards the defendant.

Isn’t some degree of familiarity necessary for all initialisms? NIMBY doesn’t give any hints about its meaning either.

Welp, time for me to learn: How do I set the roof pitch to 17° without a protractor?

It’s said you can know someone by the company they keep, and God hasn’t yet seen fit to rid himself (or the rest of us) of those that claim and debase His name.

Until such time, I’m fine without.

Bah! Use a particular state if you know it. Otherwise American serves as well as European.

…and people who want to hide in the shadows, there’s no reason to do that when you’re buying a vacuum off me and want to come to my home to pick it up.

As a buyer of random trash, I really don’t want anyone to know more than they have to. The only identifying details about me should be “paid $13.65 for a set of glittery plastic tableware.” In whatever ledger you keep for those sort of things.

I got a promotional text message from a store I bought a single repair component from once in a state I never visited. It made me irrationally upset. I would not accuse you of such, but every action to verify someone’s “personhood” means that marketing types have that much more access to try to sell me junk.

No of course not. Things are what they are.

The Democrats’ long-term planning skills are not in question here, but they must recognize that they cannot enact those long-term plans without access to the levers of power- and that short term concessions must be made to that end.

As for voters: we all wish they thought more and weren’t constantly led around by the nose, but both facts and feelings are part of their individual calculus for support. Obama was carried in on feelings of hope which vibed with the zeitgeist. Trump came in on a presentation of a strong figure (that we know to be false) that complements the uncertainty about the future that Obama left behind when hope kinda petered out over his term.

The feelings in this case are critical because we know politicos cannot possibly keep all their (sometimes contradictory) campaign promises and they cannot voice their position on every issue. So it falls to the voters to suss out what priorities and allegiances the politician has and how they will respond to any given event.

Inflation has largely been controlled during that period, but real wages have stagnated since at least the housing crisis of '08. It doesn’t make a lick of difference how well inflation is managed to the poors when buying power is lost.

Pandemic (and even prior) economic malaise is not the fault nor legacy of the Democrats necessarily, but political cynicism bites both ways, and is a lot harder to overcome when the party tells you economic factors are looking up and asks you to wait it out for an uncertain boom in the future.

Yes, Republican (esp. MAGA) policies and mentalities make that promised economic future dicier, but they deliver a feeling of doing something.

For realz, I’m not a Democrat! I just vote for them in primaries and general elections and defend them when those mean ol’ leftists come around.

The Democratic party may be a big tent party with values of varying progressive pedigree, but the adage of lying with dogs and getting fleas applies.

Just say zoombastic like a normal person.

The Star Wars IP is still pretty new for them, so this might be more akin to surveying the media landscape to find where to drill down deeper. They will cut back, but only when they have identified a profitable and concrete course forward.

I like watching the grackles go about their morning routine, but I rarely see true crows where I’m at.

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Is this a Korean War poster?