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I look at it this way: if Biden is on deaths door, hey, President Kamala Harris!

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They really need an edit feature here

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Just remember, the current national anthem was chosen to drum up support for war, and replaced an older anthem, "Hail Columbia", which the politicians felt was not in the right tone for conflict. I call it a downgrade.

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They're not wrong...

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juno. stump ($190/$250)'s avatar juno. stump ($190/$250) @juno.bsky.social
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have you all heard of THE RADIUM GIRLS? if you haven’t, go look that up because any post i try to do won’t be enough and will get suppressed. come back when you’re done looking up THE RADIUM GIRLS okay. you done? cool. okay so Clarence Thomas wants to get rid of OSHA

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Nathaniel Downes 's avatar Nathaniel Downes @downix.bsky.social
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"Meesa think dat somehow Palpatine haz return-ed."

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Per Congress, the population hasn't changed since the 1920's, as that is the last time they increased their seats, as required per the Constitution.

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He also only saw any of them across a hanger bay, for a few seconds, just after having killed Obi Wan.

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Linda Holmes's avatar Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social
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When I worked in Minnesota in the legislature, there were bills every year to legalize fireworks. And there would be hearings. And people would be like, “Pfft, who testifies against this? Busybody neighbors?” The actual answer was firefighters and doctors, mostly. Especially eye doctors.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) 's avatar Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social
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Here it comes. The next part of the ongoing and accelerating coup. if the democrats try to replace Biden the republicans will not allow that person to appear on the ballots. We are in a coup this is not politics.

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Sarah Parcak, Book Writing Madness 's avatar Sarah Parcak, Book Writing Madness @indyfromspace.bsky.social
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If I'm going to survive a global pandemic and a recession and we are running headfirst into fucking fascism then goddamn it, I want a DECADE of decadence and hedonism first

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His line "I speak" is the one fragment of this plot which remained. So, why was he brought along on Tattooine? As a translator. Why was he for the negotiations with Boss Nass? Translation. His whole character was to be the "original C-3P0", inspiring Anakin to empower the Droid he was building.

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Absolutely not. Lucas' main flaw is the inability to stop tweaking. Having looked over the earlier treatments for the prequels, he revised them to the point that key elements were lost in the process. For example; originally only JarJar could speak the human language, with the other aliens not.

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I would not let Abrams anywhere near the script.

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"Lawsuits are slow, they are complicated, they are often decided on arbitrary technicalities or total nonsense, and being so costly they are hideously biased toward the rich and well-connected." prospect.org/justice/amer...

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I have held for years that Hinkle was a fool. The Ukranian war sadly proved me right.

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🎶 do you want to build a robot? 🎶's avatar 🎶 do you want to build a robot? 🎶 @ephemeriis.social
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Bubblegum Crisis hits different these days...

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Sean Howe's avatar Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social
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Jerry Siegel, co-creator of Superman, 61, at his clerking job in Los Angeles, 1975

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Angry Staff Officer's avatar Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social
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Right about now, in 1863, came one of my favorite moments of the Battle of Gettysburg. Division commander Maj Gen Alex Hays, of Pittsburgh, seeing that his division had smashed the rebel attack, kissed his aide-de-camp, grabbed a reb flag, mounted his horse, and rode his line dragging it behind him

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jesse's avatar jesse @jesseltaylor.bsky.social
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entirely unclear why the founders set up a system where the congress could remove someone from the office of the presidency for conduct that was absolutely, unquestionably and at all times legal

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Jonathan Cohn 's avatar Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social
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Everything wrong in the world is the fault of the British Empire when you think about it.

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Nathaniel Downes 's avatar Nathaniel Downes @downix.bsky.social
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Without downloading new pics, what is it like dating you?

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It looks nice, but has a lifespan of only 20-30 years. They built them using heavy amounts of laminated board construction, which delaminates after two decades and will just fall apart.

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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The nephew is currently devastated and his life is over he will never experience joy again because his father sent a text saying he was trying to buy him a piranha for his birthday and then sent a correction 3 min later that it was actually pinata

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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"As an Indian don't you support Rishi Sunak" I very much do I think he is a crown jewel of England and therefore should be kept locked in the Tower of London and only taken out once a year for public display

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Because they don't want to be seen as "divisive"

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This decision doesn't even make any god damned sense.

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Elle's avatar Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social
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so great that Europe's doing this again with the diseases

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One big poly family

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Not to elaborate, but if you think Democrats are the only ones who will be targeted, you really need to get out more.

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Josh Dobbin's avatar Josh Dobbin @joshdobbin.bsky.social
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My plan to destroy the Tesla fleet:

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e.w. niedermeyer's avatar e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.io
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this would absolutely work on Teslas, because they don't have radar or lidar to bounce off the picture of the tunnel in order to confirm that it is in fact extremely solid

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Micah's avatar Micah @rincewind.run
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brought the four year old to a public splash pad this afternoon and he had a blast and so did every other kid there anyway sometimes I think about the people who filled in or drained public pools rather than allow them to be used by kids of a different race and just how fucking evil that is

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Nathaniel Downes 's avatar Nathaniel Downes @downix.bsky.social
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Ah, gotcha now. We are now on the same page.

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Are you truly prepared to "keep him out of the white house" for eternity? Every election year, doing more of the same because the system is broken, and those you vote for taking your vote as validation to keep the broken system. Does this feel viable?

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Al Yankovic's avatar Al Yankovic @alyankovic.bsky.social
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UHF in 4K is out TODAY from our good friends at Shout! Factory

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Covid infections are growing in nearly all states -- with the sharpest increases in the West, according to CDC data. The FLiRT and LB.1 variants are most common.

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Uyghur life expectancy is higher than most US demographic groups, with only white women and Asians of both genders being higher. Probably not a good example to use.

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Bruno J. Navarro's avatar Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social
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She won a Pulitzer for exposing how the country's poorest state spent federal welfare money. Now she might go to jail. "The rabbit's got the gun now," said a lawyer for former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, who is trying to force reporter Anna Wolfe to reveal her sources.

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