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Willard

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Language is a social art.

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LOGGING ON

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El Pavo del Viento's avatar El Pavo del Viento @dog-envier.bsky.social
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When people shoot you with a gun, believe them

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Lame: calling yourself president Cool: calling yourself presidente

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Will Lib Dems Eat the Leopard Eating Faces Party?

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How fitting - John Henry Newman "came to see Evangelicalism, with its emphasis on religious feeling and on the Reformation doctrine of justification by faith alone, as a Trojan horse for an undogmatic religious individualism that ignored the Church's role in the transmission of revealed truth [...]"

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Reskeet with a tweet you still think about

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Marjorie James Keenan's avatar Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com
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Mediocre me halfway.

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En Buen Ora's avatar En Buen Ora @enbuenora.bsky.social
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If democracy usually dies in darkness, isn’t it about time it dies in full daylight?

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John Kennedy's avatar John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social
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When an article says "some scientists think" then remember this: I, a scientist, once thought I could fit a whole orange in my mouth. I could, it turns out, get it in there, but I hadn't given sufficient thought to the reverse operation.

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ICYMI (i did): Between the gratuities case (Snyder v U.S.) and the homelessness case (Grants Pass v. Johnson) was this case where far right attorneys general blocked EPA rules limiting ozone pollution (Ohio v. EPA) saying EPA used a “dictatorial approach”: www.scotusblog.com/2024/06/supr...

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quote-skeets are part of the fun, they form the fabric of our collective mind block or mute the dunkers, or leave them to me

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Against extremity, let there be Such treaties as only time itself Can ratify, a bond and test Of sequential days, and like the full Moon slowly given to the night, A possession that is not to be possessed.

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Praises a friend there for the end she made And each of them becomes a heroine. The time is in love with endings. The time's Spoiled children threaten what they will do, And those they cannot shake by petulance They'll bribe out of their wits by show.

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Let there be treaties, bridges,
Chords under the hands, to be spanned
Sustained: extremity hates a given good
Or a good gained. That girl who took
Her life almost, then wrote a book
To exorcise and to exhibit the sin,

[...]

www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

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Sen. Gogurt taking notes on a criminal conspiracy's avatar Sen. Gogurt taking notes on a criminal conspiracy @ugarles.bsky.social
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the conservative theory of law in one headline

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"Jake Lahut is a politics reporter for The Daily Beast with a focus on Republican campaigns." checks out

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you would have fair chances to win it'd be memorable, but also implausible

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Chris Kluwe's avatar Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social
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- Tells the USPS not to deliver mail to Republicans anymore (ALL registered voting Republicans) - Tells the IRS to provide the general public with a list of the most pernicious tax evaders - Robs a Wells Fargo with a canvas bag covered in a dollar sign in order to “pay back the national debt”

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Parker's avatar Parker @jeffparker.bsky.social
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Regarding that NYT piece by Kristof, I'd like to remind that he tried to run for Governor here in Oregon but couldn't qualify to be on the ballot, before anyone thinks they should listen to his political strategizing

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as long as she (4) does not die we should be fine

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I've been listening to the 5-4 podcast for a while now, and if you ever want students to witness or investigate truly marvelous edifices of phony reasoning, the history of Supreme Court decisions would be a good place to start.

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We may be able to estimate truthfulness or fairness of that kind of argument by the sheer size of the paths that possibly lead to the inference being proposed. A series of more and more tenuous semantic slippages can only be interpreted as fairly poor craftmanship.

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Simon Donner's avatar Simon Donner @simondonner.bsky.social
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Oh Canada, you warmed by 2 degrees True human cause, not the sun's command...

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Jan Rosenow's avatar Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social
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What explains that some countries see a lot of heat pumps being installed whereas others lag behind? Key factor is the 'spark gap' - the ration of electricity to gas prices. I plotted heat pump sales per 1,000 households in 2023 against the spark gap. See the correlation?

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So during the next debate Joe could shoot teh Donald and SCOTUS would be cool with it?

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