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Caroline Abbott

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Lawyer: not muzzled, and on a very long leash. Sent to time out for squandering time by the decade. OK to CA to OK to CA to OK to CA. Staying put. linktr.ee/carolineabbott

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I can't decide whether to plant a shrub in recognition of the late Sen. Jim Inhofe's contributions or just to send cut flowers to the memorial.

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A motorcyclist died today in Death Valley, CA, where the air temperature reached 128 degrees F. Las Vegas hit 120 degrees F. We are cooking the life out of our planet and ourselves.

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President Biden: [lists numerous achievements during his term; describes recent events, activities, and in-progress projects; identifies goals for potential second term] Stphanopoulos: Why won't you undergo a test to see if you can memorize something like "Person-Woman-Man-TV-Camera?"

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The American president who helped Britain survive so that The Economist could exist today would have something to say.

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Wimbledon is showing a tribute to retiring tennis champion Andy Murray and the background music is... a choral version of Radiohead's "Creep." Why? Good grief, WHY?

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I wish I could see the wastebaskets full of Justice Thomas's discards as he labored to diagram a legal sentence in such a way that a device that enables a semi-automatic gun to be converted to a machine capable of firing 400-800 rounds per minute isn't a machine gun.

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It wasn't being used otherwise.

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Trump took the oath of office, and then stashed it with other documents in a Mar-a-lago bathroom. It's the president's new prerogative to do with the oath whatever the president wants.

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I'm not at all eager to bet my life on a jet, a drug, an implantable medical device, or safe food or anything where federal agency safety expertise has been jettisoned in favor of the opinion of a judge weighing amicus briefs to find the one that supports the position of the judge's supporters.

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Just read a post suggesting that Troi's empathy is just an ability to hear the episode's background music when someone is speaking. This is now my personal canon.

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Upside: Freed from the burdens of business-limiting regulations, the caravan's improvements will cause the heating system to fill the interior with CO.

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I'd be fine with the SCOTUS majority for this decision to sleep under bridges.

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If there's anything left of justice once SCOTUS is finished shredding it, the January 6th rioters will find themselves homeless and arrested for being in a public place.

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We’re fighting to restore access to more than 500,000 books in court on Friday. You can show your support in a number of ways - learn more: blog.archive.org/2024/06/26/w...

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Thank you. These are difficult times. I read some of your posts and knew that your thoughtfulness would be valuable.

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"And everything's been sold American No place to go and brother, no place to stay Everyone's been sold American Just let that golden Greyhound roll your soul away" ... and Greyhound is owned by Germans now, Kinky. We'll miss you.

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News to me: The heritage uniforms worn today by the SF Giants honor their predecessor West Coast Negro League ball club, the San Francisco Sea Lions. The uniforms have a bear, rather than a sea lion, mascot because they were bought from the defunct semi-pro San Francisco Cubs team.

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Rich people sow the seeds of future problems when they ship adolescents off to boarding schools. Not always, of course, but sending troubled youth away at their most precarious developmental age can catalyze tragedy.
uk.news.yahoo.com/clarence-tho...

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So cool that even Jim Inhofe, earlier in his political career, supported building a monorail in Tulsa, OK. Back in 1984, as mayor, he even worried about automobiles adding to air pollution and environmental problems. As senator he changed his mind, but back then... www.oklahoman.com/story/news/1...

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General Bonespurs is grateful for those who selflessly sacrificed their lives in war.

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If I don't get these pop tab chain mail bloomers hemmed within the next 30 minutes, I won't make it to the Met Gala.

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This election's "Um, all of them, any of them that have been in front of me over all these years." Not even discussed: Equating children with tyrants. From a self-described "children's pastor." Advice to Noem's editor: Don't go to the gravel pit.

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Whining to Dr. Phil that she was "cancelled" four years ago -- and reminding everyone why -- elevates her to Queen Karen, the Arthur Anderson of Accountability.

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Is anyone hearing the cicadas singing yet? Here's a short animation about this year's broods. 🧪www.nytimes.com/video/science/100000009443205/our-reporter-on-the-cicada-lifecycle.html

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Meanwhile, Ron DeSantis continues to push his authoritarian goal of making Florida a Free Mock-It state. I'm surprised he didn't tie this diabolical scheme to sell lab-created protein to George Soros.

You WILL eat beef.

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Ohhh, my. You're right about that.

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I'm so grateful that you're here adding light! Thanks!

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Apparently she thinks that "big black SUVs" are exempt from traffic stops. Uber and mafia drivers would be happy with that rule.

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That's nothing. I had a friend in the '60s who had conversations with Nietzsche, until old Friedrich took over all my friend's more organic programming and completely inhabited him. He dressed, talked, and otherwise WAS Nietzsche, at least until he was involuntarily hospitalized.

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Today's episode of "Cooking with Psychics":

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Corey Lewandowski dodged a bullet when Kristi Noem didn't attack the stories about their alleged affair by saying, "This dog don't hunt."

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Kristi Noem: Sociopath, or simply stupid?

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I just watched an episode of the most recent incarnation of Law & Order. The writing was terrible -- the producers must have plea bargained for lesser sentences.

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Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch are *that close* to endorsing the Divine Right of Presidents, not caring that a fully immune President-for-Life Trump would be an argument supporting the death of god or at least atheism.

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Sometimes the slyest wits do the heavy lifting of lightening the load.

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Icing on the cake! Happy birthday!

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It's time to reflect upon what "Sooner" means in OK state's nickname, "The Sooner State." You remember -- people who crossed the borders illegally to claim land.

Boomer Sooner, indeed. (BTW, the melody for that OU song was stolen from Yale. You're doing fine, Oklahoma.)

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I think -- but I can't be sure -- that the announcers for the Masters golf tournament just praised the composer of the music that's been played all afternoon. Unfortunately, the background music was so loud that it drowned out the words.

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Oh, man, that portal's been open for decades. A member named Accountability Burns used to sell MarsGrams at coffee hour during the 1970s, guaranteed to get your message to the people on the red planet.

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