Senior Legal Correspondent @FDRLST, Of Counsel @NCLALegal, ~25 yrs 7thCir law clerk, former full-time univ. faculty, Catholic conservative, wife to DH/mom to DS
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Margot Cleveland retweeted
This is still one of the funniest local news clips ever! I remember watching this live and I was crying! 😂
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If you have a refrigerator with food, you are rich enough to be afraid of socialism.
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God. Country. Notre Dame.
Today, we take time to recognize those across our nation who have answered the call to serve. We honor their service, remember their sacrifices, and thank them for their enduring commitment to protecting our freedoms.
#VeteransDay
ALT An American flag waves in front of the Golden Dome at the University of Notre Dame under a partly cloudy sky.
Margot Cleveland retweeted
So this is a thing that happened that we're uh hearing the first of..
NEW: DHS confirms to @FoxNews that a suspect arrested on a Newark to New Orleans United flight last night for allegedly storming the cockpit and claiming to have a bomb, leading to United putting out a hijack alert for the plane, is a 2x previously deported Honduran illegal alien.
Rony Alexander Gomez-Alberto was arrested by the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s office once the flight landed at MSY (New Orleans airport) and he has been charged with felony bomb threat, terroristic threats, and disorderly conduct.
Per DHS - Gomez-Alberto crossed the Texas border illegally in 2011 and was deported, then illegally re-entered through the New Mexico border in 2014 and was deported a second time. He illegally re-entered the country a third time in 2019, was arrested by Border Patrol, but was released from custody after an immigration judge ordered his release.
He is currently being held without bond by law enforcement in Louisiana.
Margot Cleveland retweeted
I graduated from IU with $57,000 in student loans. Worked my ass off through college to put myself in a position to get a job with my degree. Interned at Letterman in NYC (unpaid) my senior year where I slept on a guy's couch for 4 months and worked at ABC Sports on the weekend logging college football games for $200 and free food. When I finally graduated, I landed a gig back at Letterman answering phones for $600 a week while also working the weekends at ABC Sports for the same $200 and free food. Spent the next two years working my way up from receptionist to writers assistant and then finally became a writer thanks to Dave publicly making it happen during rehearsal of a bit I wrote for Biff Henderson called "Accountants Say The Darndest Things."
I did all of this while still paying off my student loans however I could.
In my experience over the last three decades, most people either don't want to work hard enough to actually pay off what they borrowed or would rather just give up and cry about life not being fair.
Newsflash - it's not.
Now tell your cousin to go work his ass off too and make it happen.
CAN WE PLEASE STOP ACTING LIKE STUDENT LOANS ARE JUST A MATTER OF PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY?
My cousin graduated with $52,000 in student debt. He did what everyone told him to do.
Study hard. Get a degree. Find a decent job. Build a future.
He got the degree.
His first job paid $46,000 a year.
His student loan payment was $450 a month that's $5,400 every year going toward education before rent, groceries, transportation, taxes, or savings. And here's the part that bothers me.
The degree was supposed to improve his earning potential over his lifetime. It wasn't supposed to guarantee that his first job would make him wealthy.
But why does someone have to begin their adult life with a financial obligation that can follow them for years before they've even had a chance to build an emergency fund?
Yes, education can be a worthwhile investment. Yes, loan terms matter. And no, not every degree or borrowing decision has the same outcome but an investment can be valuable and still place an enormous burden on the person financing it.
We celebrate graduates for getting their qualifications.
We rarely talk about how long some of them spend paying for the privilege of earning those qualifications.
If education is the path to a better financial future, why does the starting line come with so much debt?
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Mayor -- any comment on Lebanese consul Ibrahim Charara praising the 1983 Hezbollah attack on the Marine barracks in Beirut, and him being declared persona non grata over it?
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Notre Dame just upgraded game day forever. These LED wristbands are going to make the stadium look like a concert every single snap. Other schools are already behind
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The stock market, Wednesday: finally, the uncertainty of the elections is over!
The stock market, Thursday: crap, the Democrats are gonna destroy the tech sector, aren't they?
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Who would have guessed that 9/11 was just the start of a domestic political movement?
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Thank you, Michigan. The best is still yet to come and serving you has been the honor of a lifetime. 🇺🇸
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Last night, Idaho became one of the only red states in the nation to defeat a radical abortion until birth constitutional amendment. Prop 1 is dead. On a night when not a lot went right for the conservative movement, Idaho stood tall in defense of our values.
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"Abdul El-Sayed was the easiest litmus test imaginable for anyone who claims to have actual standards"
Yep, and every single one of them failed the test.
It’s fine to believe that being anti-Trump justifies supporting every Democrat imaginable, but just don’t pretend it’s a principled stand to demand higher standards for Republicans while applying zero standards for Dems.
Abdul El-Sayed was the easiest litmus test imaginable for anyone who claims to have actual standards that aren’t just based on partisan hackery. He’s a radical extremist. He surrounds himself with the most hateful and extreme people imaginable. That’s also his support base. These are people he chooses to promote and associate with because he agrees with them. His own past positions and statements back that up.
Again, you can justify it however you want. Say that having a Dem in that seat is more important than opposing such radicalism on the left. But stop gaslighting people by pretending there are any principles that apply here other than being anti-Republican.
Margot Cleveland retweeted
It’s fine to believe that being anti-Trump justifies supporting every Democrat imaginable, but just don’t pretend it’s a principled stand to demand higher standards for Republicans while applying zero standards for Dems.
Abdul El-Sayed was the easiest litmus test imaginable for anyone who claims to have actual standards that aren’t just based on partisan hackery. He’s a radical extremist. He surrounds himself with the most hateful and extreme people imaginable. That’s also his support base. These are people he chooses to promote and associate with because he agrees with them. His own past positions and statements back that up.
Again, you can justify it however you want. Say that having a Dem in that seat is more important than opposing such radicalism on the left. But stop gaslighting people by pretending there are any principles that apply here other than being anti-Republican.
Margot Cleveland retweeted
wait, AES defended his former campaign worker trying to poison Jewish people?!?
Asked about the indictment, @AbdulElSayed defended the perpetrators: “It's a lot more about what you're advocating for that gets you indicted or not indicted, rather than what you did.”
Sure.
When asked about the one who worked for him, the campaign story/dates changed 3 times.
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The affordability and heckin’ healthcare is almost here gang just gotta settle some scores first
